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The first page of Ulalume, as the poem first appeared in the American Review in 1847 "Ulalume" (/ ˈ uː l ə l uː m /) is a poem written by Edgar Allan Poe in 1847. Much like a few of Poe's other poems (such as "The Raven", "Annabel Lee", and "Lenore"), "Ulalume" focuses on the narrator's loss of his beloved due to her death.
The Jolly Beggar (Roud 118, Child 279), also known as The Gaberlunzieman, The Ragged Beggarman or simply The Beggar Man, is a traditional Scottish folk ballad. The song's chorus inspired lines in Lord Byron 's poem " So, we'll go no more a roving ".
"The Sweet Trinity" (Roud 122, Child 286), also known as "The Golden Vanity" or "The Golden Willow Tree", is an English folk song or sea shanty.The first surviving version, about 1635, was "Sir Walter Raleigh Sailing In The Lowlands (Shewing how the famous Ship called the Sweet Trinity was taken by a false Gally & how it was again restored by the craft of a little Sea-boy, who sunk the Gally)".
The ballad concerns a draper called John Gilpin who rides a runaway horse. Cowper heard the story from Lady Anna Austen at a time of severe depression, and it cheered him up so much that he put it into verse. [2] The poem was published anonymously in the Public Advertiser in 1782, and then published with The Task in 1785. [3]
In most variants the narrator is a friend or parent who meets the song's dying subject; in other variants the narrator is the one dying. The 1960 Folkways Records album also titled The Unfortunate Rake features 20 different variations of the ballad. The liner notes of this album claim that A L Lloyd is singing a nineteenth century broadsheet ...
The song is derived from Homer's Odyssey, interpreted through the 17th century English folk ballad tradition, and tells the story of a prospective suitor who asks a woman if she will marry him. [1] She replies that she cannot because she is betrothed to John Riley, who has gone away over the seas.
The ballad tells of a man who has gone off to fight, but only his horse returns. The name differs across variants. Several names have been suggested as the inspiration of the ballad: Archibald or James Campbell, in the Battle of Glenlivet , or Sir John Campbell of Calder, who was murdered.
"Sweet Polly Oliver" is an English broadside ballad (Roud #367), traceable from 1840 or earlier. It is also known as "Pretty Polly Oliver" and has several variant sets of lyrics, set to a single anonymous melody. It is one of the best known of a number of folk songs describing women disguising themselves as men to join the army to be with their ...