"Binnorie," or "The Two Sisters," is a ballad on an old theme popular in Scandinavia as well as in this country. There have been many versions of it. Rimbault published it from a broadside dated 1656. The version here given is Sir Walter Scott's, from his "Minstrelsy of the Scottish Border," with a few touches from other versions given in Professor Francis James Child's noble edition of "The English and Scottish Popular Ballads," which, when complete, will be the chief storehouse of our ballad lore.英文原著 · 《A Bundle of Ballads》
"The Children in the Wood" was entered in the books of the Stationers' Company on the 15th of October 1595 to Thomas Millington as, "for his Copie vnder th[e h]andes of bothe the wardens a ballad intituled, The Norfolk gent his will and Testament and how he Commytted the keepinge of his Children to his owne brother whoe delte moste wickedly with them and howe God plagued him for it." It was printed as a black-letter ballad in 167O. Addison wrote a paper on it in "The Spectator" (No. 85), praising it as "one of the darling songs of the common people."英文原著 · 《A Bundle of Ballads》
"The Bailiff's Daughter of Islington," or "True Love Requited," is a ballad in Pepys's collection, now in the Bodleian. The Islington of the Ballad is supposed to be an Islington in Norfolk.英文原著 · 《A Bundle of Ballads》
Thirty years have passed, like a watch in the night, since the earlier of the two sets of verses here reprinted, Ballades in Blue China, was published. At first there were but twenty-two Ballades; ten more were added later. They appeared in a little white vellum wrapper, with a little blue Chinese singer copied from a porcelain jar; and the frontispiece was a little design by an etcher now famous.英文原著 · 《Ballads in Blue China and Verses and Translations》
A good ballade is almost as rare as a good sonnet, but a middling ballade is almost as easily written as the majority of sonnets. Either form readily becomes mechanical, cheap and facile. I have heard Mr. George Meredith improvise a sonnet, a Petrarchian sonnet, obedient to the rules, without pen and paper. He spoke 'and the numbers came'; he sonneted as easily as a living poet, in his Eton days, improvised Latin elegiacs and Greek hexameters.英文原著 · 《Ballads in Blue China and Verses and Translations》
The Ballade of the Tweed, and the Rhymes a la Mode, were dedicated to the dearest of kinsmen, a cricketer and angler. The Ballade of Roulette was inscribed to R. R., a gallant veteran of the Indian Mutiny, a leader of Light Horse, whose father was a friend of Sir Walter Scott. He was himself a Borderer, in whose defeats on the green field of Roulette I often shared, long, long ago.英文原著 · 《Ballads in Blue China and Verses and Translations》
Can I talk to you, before you start performing an acoustic ballad about strippers with moles?美剧 · 《2 Broke Girls》
Yeah, Axe took out his lute and played 'em a hypnotic old folk ballad.美剧 · 《Billions》
Right? I think this might even class up "The Ballad of the Uncircumcised Man." Um, Phoebe...美剧 · 《Friends》
It’s our 20th anniversary, so today at the school fair, a band called the Dad Beats is gonna surprise Claire with a power love ballad.美剧 · 《Modern Family》