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Historical & Legendary Ballads & Songs

By Walter Thornbury. Illustrated by J. Whistler, F. Walker, John Tenniel, J. D. Watson, W. Small, F. Sandys, G. J. Pinwell, T. Morten, M. J. Lawless, and many others
Thornbury, Walter (1828-1876)

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Norse Battle-Song.
  
How Thor went to Fish for the Midgard Serpent.
  
An Old Danish Ballad Re-sung.
  
The Labours of Thor.
  
A Dorsetshire Legend.
  
The Death of King Warwolf.
  
The Two Norse Kings.
  
The Gibbet Tree.
  
The Hammermen of Old.
  
The Wiltshire Cairn.
  
The Norseman's Serf.
  
The Dying Viking.
  
A Legend of the Red Sea.
  
The Death of Rufus.
  
The Dedication of the Cathedral.
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The Legend of the Prince's Plume.
  
The Great West Window.
  
The Monk and the Water Spirit.
  
The Dead Bride.
  
The Legend of St. Vitus.
  
Guido's Model.
  
The Apparitor of the Secret Tribunal.
  
The Ride of Nostradamus.
  
The Jester's Passing Bell.
  
The Lady Witch.
  
The Cavalier's Escape.
  
The Legend of the Lockharts.
  
The Old Cathedral Organist.
  
The Court Historian.
  
The Night after Culloden.
  
The Statue in the Market-place.
  
The Pompadour.
  
Swift and the Mohawks.
  
Dr. Johnson's Penance.
  
Charles Lamb and the Chimney-sweeps.
  
The Death of Winkelreid.
  
The Phantom Ships.
  
The Pipers' Match.
  
John of Padua.
  
Tintoretto.
  
How Lady Blanche Arundel held Wardour for King Charles.
  
The Witches' Ride.
  
The Last Witch-Burning.
  
The Young Queen-Wife.
  
A Hindoo Legend.
  
A Dream of the East.
  
The Vizier's Parrot.
  
The Chase of the Siren.
  
The Madman of Corinth.
  
The Cumæan Sibyl.
  
The Avatar of Zeus.
  
Hylas.
  
Pan Vinctus—Pan Victor.
  
The Search of Ceres for Proserpine.
  
The Boy Martyr.
  
A Tartar Foray.
  
The Wood Echo
  
Baucis and Philemon.
  
In my Gondola.
  
A Christmas Scene at Rome.
  
Lady Mabel's Lovers.
  
German Hussar Songs.
  
The Return of the Bear-Hunters.
  
The Death of th' Owd Squire.
  
The Three Statues of Ægina.
  
Warlock Woods.
  
Dutch Pictures.
  
A Lie.
  
A Rifle Duel in Arkansas.
  
The Year's Twelve Children.
  
The Wreck off Calais.
  
Basking.
  
The Blackbird's Song.
  
The Private Burying-Place.
  
Tædium Vitæ.
  
Castle Clare.
  
Shells.
  
The Birth of Song.
  
Sitting in the Sun.
  
An Autumn Evening.
  
Easter Sunday in the Country.
  
Dewfall.
  
The Great Enchanter.
  
An old Ballad Re-written.
  
All Alone!
  
The Grub Street Poet's Vision.
  
In Clover.
  
My own Miniature.
  
Faces in the Fire.
  
“Left his Home.”
  
The Skeleton.
  
The Angler's Song.
  
The Philosopher of the Garden.
  
Love's Calendar.
  
Sea-side Hexameters.
  
Temple Bar.
  
Autumn Pictures.
  
Our Village at Daybreak.
  
Friend Robin.
  
Smith of Maudlin.
  
Silver-Shoe.
  
Primrose Time and Snow Time.
  
The Bells of Avignon.
  
The Old World and the New.
  
Dayrise and Sunset.
  
Snow Crystals.
  
Five Lessons from old Schoolmaster Nature.
  
The Good People.
  
The Alderman's Funeral.
  
The Jester's Moral.
  
Trust in God.
  
Summer Idleness.
  
The Epicurean's Garden.
  
The Gamekeeper.
  
The Poor Man's Heritage.
  
The Parting of the Swallow.
  
The Bird's Promise.
  
The Miller.
  
The Harvest Dance.
  
The Cuckoo.
  
The Hidden Roses.
  
“Consule Planco.”
  
Shooting for the Silver Cup.
  
The Miller's Meadow.
  
Two Country Houses.
  
The Passing Cloud.
  
Under the Cliffs.
  
The Usurper and his Fate.
  
Sea-View.
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Napoleon Ballads.
  
Christmas in the Workhouse.
  
Land in Sight! Home at Last!
  
Death of Oberon.
  
The Black Coach.
  
Sir John Chandos at Charente.
  
The Sextons' Supper.
  
Chivalry.
  
The Tramp's Song.
  
The Inundation.
  
The Twelve Brothers.
  
Bacchus and the Water Thieves.
  
The Unpaid Musician.
  
The Birth of Gunpowder.
  
Hope.
  
The Mine Spirit.
  
The Departure of Crassus.
  
The Battle Painter.
  
The Falconer's Rant.
  
The Antwerp Image-Breakers.
  
“Time brings Roses.”
  
The Father of the Regiment.
  
The Fountain Spirit.
  
Twilight in a Tudor Ruin.
  
The Eve of the Laird's Funeral.
  
Clytè.
  
The Country Church.
  
The Pilgrim's Departure.
  
An Adventure of Rob Roy's.
  
Friend or Foe?
  
A Day-Dream on the Rhine.
  
Wolsey's Last Interview with the King.
  
The Dying Seneschal.
  
The Last of the Sirens.

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“Time brings Roses.”

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GERMAN PROVERB.

Thorns and thistles in my path.—
“Well, you sowed them!” Blabo proses.
Proverb, like a sword flash out—
“Time brings roses.”
Gall and wormwood for my drink.—
“Well, you brewed it!” Bufo glozes.
Proverb, be my targe and dart—
“Time brings roses.”
Fortune? Yes, a house of cards:
Care Hope's mortgage soon forecloses.
Blessed proverb! cheer my heart—
“Time brings roses.”
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