Story-Telling Ballads

STORY-TELLING BALLADS

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BRAVE HEARTS AND PROUD

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LAYS O’ FAËRIE

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LAYS O’ WONDER

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MERRY GESTES PART I—WHEREIN KING ALFRED FIGHTS FOR HIS DINNER PART II—WHEREIN KING ALFRED BECOMES A SHEPHERD PART III—WHEREIN KING ALFRED BURNS THE CAKES PART IV—WHEREIN KING ALFRED BLOWS HIS BUGLE-HORN SAD GESTES

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PRETTY MAYS AND KNIGHTS SO BOLD

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FOR HALLOWEEN AND MIDSUMMER EVE

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ALL UNDER THE GREENWOOD TREE

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O’ PILGRIMAGE AND SOULS SO STRONG

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SUGGESTIONS FOR TEACHERS AND LEADERS OF POETRY HOURS PROGRAMME FOR A YEAR OF BALLAD-READING AND STUDY GLOSSARY AND INDEXES

THE LIFT GREW DARK, AND THE WIND BLEW LOUD, AND GURLY GREW THE SEA (page 5)

STORY-TELLING BALLADS

SELECTED AND ARRANGED FOR STORY-TELLING AND READING ALOUD AND FOR THE BOYS’ AND GIRLS’ OWN READING

FRANCES JENKINS OLCOTT

BOSTON AND NEW YORK HOUGHTON MIFFLIN COMPANY The Riverside Press Cambridge 1920

The Riverside Press

CAMBRIDGE . MASSACHUSETTS U . S . A

TO MY SISTER

VIRGINIA OLCOTT