Word Finder - ballad

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A kind of narrative poem, adapted for recitation or singing; especially, a sentimental or romantic poem in short stanzas.

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The poet composed a ballad praising the heroic exploits of the fallen commander.

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A slow romantic song.

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On Friday nights, the roller rink had a time-block called "Lovers' Lap" when they played nothing but ballads on the overhead speakers.

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To make mention of in ballads.

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To compose or sing ballads.

The ballad supplied him with the outline of a simple and striking plot.

In 1898 he published his powerful Ballad of Reading Gaol.

Ballad of a thin man can never get tiresome.

Southey made the incident the subject of his ballad of "The Inchcape Rock."

The knights lost heavily, but Donald did not plunder Aberdeen (see Elspeth's ballad of Harlaw, in The Antiquary).

It is first mentioned in a very ancient Pali ballad preserved in the Sutta Nipata (verse 583).

Hopkinson's ballad is an imaginative expansion of the actual facts.

His ballad, The Battle of the Kegs (1778), was long exceedingly popular.

The tower is without bells, and the tradition that a ship bearing a peal hither was wrecked within sight of the harbour, and that the lost bells may still be heard to toll beneath the waves, has been made famous by a ballad of the Cornish poet Robert Stephen Hawker, vicar of Moorwinstow.

Lou Watts takes the lead vocal in a lovely rendition of the old Scottish ballad ' Two Crows '.

One of these, a ceramic jug, has a ballad, ' The Greenwich Pensioner ' printed on its sides.

It 's an understated, slow-paced ballad with a pleasant melody, and some lovely acoustic guitar refrains.

He next turned to French literature, and to the early English drama and ballad literature.

Ravensheugh Castle, on the shore to the west of the town, is the Ravenscraig of Sir Walter Scott's ballad of "Rosabelle."

The best specimen of this work, of which the outstanding characteristics are sheer whimsicality and topsy-turvy humour, is The Ballad of Kynd Kittok.

From 925 to 975 all the chronicles are very fragmentary; a few obits, three or four poems, among them the famous ballad on the battle of Brunanburh, make up the meagre tale of their common materials, which each has tried to supplement in its own way.

Alhama was taken by the Spanish marquis of Cadiz in 1482; and its fall is celebrated in an ancient ballad, Ay de mi, Alhama, which Byron translated into English.

Livingstone and Crichton, previously foes, invited him and his brother to dine with the child king in Edinburgh castle, and there served to him " the black dinner " bewailed in a fragment of an early ballad.

The tale of royal treachery in his capture is popular; the best authorities for it seem to be the synoptic versions of a ballad and of the fabulous chronicler, Pitscottie.

The Tell story is first found in a ballad the first nine stanzas of which (containing the story) were certainly written before 1 474.

As a ballad poet, Schiller's popularity has been hardly less great than as a dramatist; the bold and simple outline, the terse dramatic characterization appealed directly to the popular mind, which did not let itself be disturbed by the often artificial and rhetorical tone into which the poet falls.

Women hold spinning-parties at which the leader begins a ballad, and each in turn contributes a verse.

Then there is an engraving in Stumpf's chronicle (1548), and, finally, the celebrated one by Hans Rudolf Manuel (1551), which follows the chronicle of 1476 rather than the ballad.

In his splendid ballad, The Death of Skarphedinn, and in his beautiful series of songs describing a voyage through some of the most picturesque parts of Iceland, he is entirely original; but in his love-songs, beautiful as many of them are, a strong foreign influence can be observed.

Notwithstanding his vices and his lack of all solid capacity, there is no reason to suppose that Napper Tandy was dishonest or insincere; and the manner in which his name was introduced in the well-known ballad, "The Wearing of the Green," proves that he succeeded in impressing the popular imagination of the rebel party in Ireland.

It is written in ballad form, and portions of it are still sung by itinerant bards throughout north-western India and Rajputana.

Dagoberts victories over Samo, king of the Slays along the Elbe, and his subjugation of the Bretons and the Basques, maintained the prestige of the Frankish empire; while the luxury of his court, his taste for the fine arts (ministered to by his treasurer Eloi i), his numerous achievements in architectureespecially the abbey of St Denis, burial-place of the kings of Francethe brilliance and the power of the churchmen who surrounded him and his revision of the Salic law, ensured for his reign, in spite of the failure of his plans for unity, a fame celebrated in folksong and ballad.

Certain of his poems, moreover, - for example, " To Mary," " The Receipt of my Mother's Portrait," and the ballad " On the Loss of the Royal George," - will, it may safely be affirmed, continue to be familiar to each successive generation in a way that pertains to few things in literature.

He bore a great reputation for conviviality, and wrote a humorous Latin version of the popular ballad A soldier and a sailor, A tinker and a tailor, &c.

The poignant ballad had Chip Taylor beckoning a young lady from the audience called Florence.

It's an understated, slow-paced ballad with a pleasant melody, and some lovely acoustic guitar refrains.

The sweet ballad is so typical of the sounds played at the end of northern soul all-nighters.

Bert adds the asperity of his Scottish voice to a lilting, traditional ballad called " House Carpenter " .

In 1897, at Berneval, Oscar Wilde wrote The ballad of Reading Jail.

The title track is the album's strongest - a pleasing, wistful ballad accompanied by echoing guitars and drums.

On the other hand, broadside ballad printers do not seem to have been noted for their observation of social niceties.

I remember him once singing a snatch from the bothy ballad The Dying Ploughboy.

The bluesy ballad of a Balladeer shows the experience he's gathered along the road to here.

From piano ballad to funk to heavy hard rock.

For various reasons I've just spent a while researching the history of the famous folk ballad Matty Groves.

An index of names holds entries for all authors and performers named on the ballad broadsides.

Double click on the ballad icon on the NT desktop to start the program.

All The Promises â An unconventional QUEENSRYCHE ballad, this acoustic driven duet is, as Bernard Matthews might say, beautiful.

My Life Story's dying notes were from the final encore of the moving ballad ' Angel ' .

James Macmillan's ' Ballad ' adds modern piano figurations to an authentic-sounding vocal line and gets a compelling performance from James.

Vocally ' Alexandria ' is something of a ballad, with soft repeating flute motif supplying the backdrop.

The semi-acoustic bounce of eponymous track rattlebox slips lightly into the chiming country tinged ballad that ends the first set.

Itinerant bands bang and blow their loudest; organ boys grind monotonously; ballad singers or flying stationers make roaring proclamations of their wares.

The ten rhythms (including waltz, ballad, rock, Latin) can be combined to create more variety.

Toute la lyre, his latest legacy to the world, would be enough, though no other evidence were left, to show that the author was one of the very greatest among poets and among men; unsurpassed in sublimity of spirit, in spontaneity of utterance, in variety of power, and in perfection of workmanship; infinite and profound beyond all reach of praise at once in thought and in sympathy, in perception and in passion; master of all the simplest as of all the subtlest melodies or symphonies of song that ever found expression in a Border ballad or a Pythian ode.