IN THIS ISSUE: November 2009

Poetry Magazine

Poems by James Schuyler; a portfolio of new work by 2009 Ruth Lilly Poetry Fellows Eric Ekstrand, Chloë Honum, Joseph Spece, Jeffrey Schultz, and Malachi Black; translations of Gottfried Benn by Michael Hofmann; “The Poet Takes a Walk” featuring Peter Cole, Kay Ryan, W.S. Di Piero, and others.

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There are 104 Ballad poems

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“A peanut sat on a railroad track ...”
By Anonymous

A Ballad of Baseball Burdens
By Franklin Pierce Adams

A Ballad of Burdens
By Algernon Charles Swinburne

A Ballad of Death
By Algernon Charles Swinburne

A Ballad of François Villon, Prince of All Ballad-Makers
By Algernon Charles Swinburne

from A Ballad Upon A Wedding
By Sir John Suckling

A Ballad: The Lake of the Dismal Swamp
By Thomas Moore

A Leak in the Dike
By Phoebe Cary

A Red, Red Rose
By Robert Burns

An Excelente Balade of Charitie
By Thomas Chatterton

And If I Did, What Then?
By George Gascoigne

Annabel Lee
By Edgar Allan Poe

Ballad of a Hanged Man
By George Elliott Clarke

Ballad of Birmingham
By Dudley Randall

Ballad of John Cable and Three Gentlemen
By W. S. Merwin

Ballad of the Dream That Was Not Dreamed
By A. M. Klein

Ballade of Modest Confession
By Hilaire Belloc

Bernal Hill First appeared in Poetry
By Randall Mann

Ca' the Yowes to the Knowes
By Robert Burns

Carentan O Carentan
By Louis Simpson

Casey at the Bat
By Ernest Lawrence Thayer

Champs d’Honneur
By Ernest M. Hemingway

Comin thro' the Rye
By Robert Burns

Confessions
By Robert Browning

Danny
By J. M. Synge

Don't Worry if Your Job Is Small
By Anonymous

Highland Mary
By Robert Burns

How We Were Introduced
By Zbigniew Herbert

I Love to Do My Homework
By Anonymous

If I Were an Elephant
By N. M. Bodecker

Incident
By Countee Cullen

It was a' for our Rightful King
By Robert Burns

Jabberwocky
By Lewis Carroll

January 22nd, Missolonghi
By Lord Byron (George Gordon)

John Henry
By Anonymous

La Belle Dame sans Merci: A Ballad
By John Keats

Last May a Braw Wooer
By Robert Burns

Little Robin Redbreast
By Anonymous

Lullaby of the Onion
By Miguel Hernández

Magic First appeared in Poetry
By Louis Untermeyer

Mary Morison
By Robert Burns

Meg Merrilies
By John Keats

Memorabilia
By Robert Browning

Mr. Nobody
By Anonymous

On the Funeral of Charles the First at Night, in St. George’s Chapel, Windsor
By William Lisle Bowles

Opera Bouffe First appeared in Poetry
By Philip Gross

Playing Dead First appeared in Poetry
By Andrew Hudgins

Prospice
By Robert Browning

Pumberly Pott’s Unpredictable Niece
By Jack Prelutsky

Riddle Song
By Anonymous

Sadie and Maud
By Gwendolyn Brooks

Saturday’s Child
By Countee Cullen

See It Through
By Edgar Albert Guest

Similar Cases
By Charlotte Anna Perkins Gilman

Sing a Song of Sixpence
By Anonymous

Sing me a Song of a Lad that is Gone
By Robert Louis Stevenson

Sir Humphrey Gilbert
By Henry Wadsworth Longfellow

Skipper Ireson’s Ride
By John Greenleaf Whittier

So We'll Go no More a Roving
By Lord Byron (George Gordon)

Sober Song
By Barton Sutter

Song of Three Smiles
By W. S. Merwin

Sylvester’s Dying Bed First appeared in Poetry
By Langston Hughes

Tam Glen
By Robert Burns

The Ballad of Blasphemous Bill
By Robert W. Service

The Ballad of God-Makers
By G. K. Chesterton

The Ballad of Nat Turner
By Robert E. Hayden

The Ballad of Othello Clemence
By George Elliott Clarke

The Ballad of Reading Gaol
By Oscar Wilde

The Ballad of Rudolph Reed
By Gwendolyn Brooks

The Ballad of Sally in our Alley
By Henry Carey

The Ballad of the Children of the Czar
By Delmore Schwartz

The Bear Hunt
By Abraham Lincoln

The Best Game the Fairies Play
By Rose Fyleman

The Birth of John Henry
By Melvin B. Tolson

The Cap and Bells
By William Butler Yeats

The Cremation of Sam McGee
By Robert W. Service

The Epitaph in Form of a Ballad which Villon Made for Himself and his Comrades, Expecting to be Hanged along with Them
By Algernon Charles Swinburne

The Flat-Hunter’s Way
By Franklin Pierce Adams

The Foggy, Foggy Blue
By Delmore Schwartz

The Haunted Oak
By Paul Laurence Dunbar

The Highwayman
By Alfred Noyes

The Holy Fair
By Robert Burns

The Hunting of the Snark
By Lewis Carroll

The Lady's Yes
By Elizabeth Barrett Browning

The Listeners
By Walter De La Mare

The Lover: A Ballad
By Lady Mary Wortley Montagu

The Man Who Married Magdalene
By Louis Simpson

The Owl and the Pussy-Cat
By Edward Lear

The Rolling English Road
By G. K. Chesterton

The Shooting of Dan McGrew
By Robert W. Service

The Skeleton in Armor
By Henry Wadsworth Longfellow

The Song of the Wreck
By Charles Dickens

The Spider and the Fly
By Mary Howitt

The Step Mother
By Susanna Moodie

The Wreck of the Hesperus
By Henry Wadsworth Longfellow

To -- -- --. Ulalume: A Ballad
By Edgar Allan Poe

To One Unknown First appeared in Poetry
By Helen Dudley

Up-Hill
By Christina Rossetti

What the Birds Said
By John Greenleaf Whittier

Yarrow Revisited
By William Wordsworth

Yarrow Unvisited
By William Wordsworth

Yarrow Visited. September, 1814
By William Wordsworth

Ye Flowery Banks (Bonie Doon)
By Robert Burns

Youth and Art
By Robert Browning