Poem Genre / Form: Ballad and Narrative verse

1. A tale of grief I must unfold

First Line:: A tale of grief I must unfold
Last Line:: Of this great duke of Buckingham
DMI number:: 37020

2. All gentlemen and yeomen good

First Line:: All gentlemen and yeomen good
Last Line:: The like was never known
DMI number:: 36986

3. After our royal king

First Line:: After our royal king
Last Line:: As you shall plainly read
DMI number:: 36972

4. All you that delight for to spend some time

First Line:: All you that delight for to spend some time
Last Line:: And how Little John went a begging
DMI number:: 37001

5. As zung auror with chrystal hail

First Line:: As zung auror with chrystal hail
Last Line:: Quaireir I gang or ryde
Author:: William Dunbar (Absolute)
DMI number:: 10858

6. Bold Robin Hood ranging the forest all round

First Line:: Bold Robin Hood ranging the forest all round
Last Line:: Can do the like of thee
DMI number:: 37004

7. Bright was the morn the landscape gay

First Line:: Bright was the morn the landscape gay
Last Line:: Their grave with tears bedew
Author:: J Robertson (Absolute)
DMI number:: 37073

8. Child Waters in his stable stood

First Line:: Child Waters in his stable stood
Last Line:: Shall be upon one day
Author:: Jael Henrietta Pye [nee Mendez; other married name Campbell] (Absolute)
DMI number:: 37064

9. Come all you brave gallants and listen a while

First Line:: Come all you brave gallants and listen a while
Last Line:: So Robin went laughing away
DMI number:: 36982

10. Come light and listen you gentlemen all

First Line:: Come light and listen you gentlemen all
Last Line:: To be of his yeomanry
DMI number:: 36998

11. Come listen awhile you gentlemen all

First Line:: Come listen awhile you gentlemen all
Last Line:: And war may give place unto love
DMI number:: 36988

12. Cursed with a conscious feeling mind

First Line:: Cursed with a conscious feeling mind
Last Line:: God cannot be unjust
Author:: J Robertson (Absolute)
DMI number:: 37074

13. Dark was the night and wild the storm

First Line:: Dark was the night and wild the storm
Last Line:: All worthy of their name
DMI number:: 33068

14. Far in the windings of the vale

First Line:: Far in the windings of the vale
Last Line:: She shivering sighed and died
Author:: David Mallet (Absolute)
DMI number:: 24570

15. Frae Dunideir as I cam throuch

First Line:: Frae Dunideir as I cam throuch
Last Line:: The brim battil of the Harlaw
DMI number:: 10857

16. For daring feats of rustic sport

First Line:: For daring feats of rustic sport
Last Line:: By every eye in Aram's vale
Author:: Thomas Pearson (Absolute)
DMI number:: 32728

17. From forth the church all blithesome gay

First Line:: From forth the church all blithesome gay
Last Line:: And all his future days were woe
Author:: J Robertson (Absolute)
DMI number:: 37075

18. From the ocean emerged bright Phoebus's ray

First Line:: From the ocean emerged bright Phoebus's ray
Last Line:: And defied the power of England's king to alter their laws
Author:: G Wilson (Absolute)
DMI number:: 37009

19. Gold taken from the king's harbingers

First Line:: Gold taken from the king's harbingers
Last Line:: That gold will serve thee and me
DMI number:: 36990

20. Good nature and courtesy sisters I ween

First Line:: Good nature and courtesy sisters I ween
Last Line:: And slapt the door full in their faces
DMI number:: 33549

21. In summer time when leaves grow green

First Line:: In summer time when leaves grow green
Last Line:: Where they shall live in peace and rest
DMI number:: 36993

22. In summer time when leaves grow green

First Line:: In summer time when leaves grow green
Last Line:: Could make him yield before
DMI number:: 36987

23. In elder times there was of yore

First Line:: In elder times there was of yore
Last Line:: Will all be merry together
DMI number:: 36960

24. In Nottingham there lived a jolly tanner

First Line:: In Nottingham there lived a jolly tanner
Last Line:: Of Robin Hood Arthur and John
DMI number:: 36984

25. In Wakefield there lives a jolly pinder

First Line:: In Wakefield there lives a jolly pinder
Last Line:: As my master doth by me
DMI number:: 36980

26. John Gilpin was a citizen

First Line:: John Gilpin was a citizen
Last Line:: May I be there to see
Author:: William Cowper (Absolute)
DMI number:: 30597

27. Lithe and listen gentlemen

First Line:: Lithe and listen gentlemen
Last Line:: Good John of the Scales Ile come to thee
DMI number:: 37463

28. Lithe and listen gentlemen

First Line:: Lithe and listen gentlemen
Last Line:: I bring my lands in jeopardy
DMI number:: 38577

29. I'll tell thee Dick where I have been

First Line:: I'll tell thee Dick where I have been
Last Line:: With Bridget and with Nell
Author:: Sir John Suckling (Absolute)
DMI number:: 3797

30. Kind gentlemen will you be silent a while

First Line:: Kind gentlemen will you be silent a while
Last Line:: And sing them in merry Sherwood
DMI number:: 36976

31. King Arthur lives in merry Carleile

First Line:: King Arthur lives in merry Carleile
Last Line:: And hee be a gentle knighte
DMI number:: 37486

32. King Richard hearing of the pranks

First Line:: King Richard hearing of the pranks
Last Line:: And now he's there again
DMI number:: 37005

33. Kinge Arthur liues in merry Carleile

First Line:: Kinge Arthur liues in merry Carleile
Last Line:: To sr Gawaine & his lady gay
DMI number:: 38657

34. Now Robin Hood Will Scarlet and Little John

First Line:: Now Robin Hood Will Scarlet and Little John
Last Line:: And so I bid you good night
DMI number:: 36999

35. O see you not yon bonny steed

First Line:: O see you not yon bonny steed
Last Line:: And breathed her soul away
DMI number:: 37080

36. Of all the scottish northern chiefs

First Line:: Of all the scottish northern chiefs
Last Line:: And sunk to endless rest
Author:: Michael Bruce (Absolute)
DMI number:: 30159

37. On Carron's side the primrose pale

First Line:: On Carron's side the primrose pale
Last Line:: She saw and sunk to rise no more
Author:: John Langhorne (Absolute)
DMI number:: 37736

38. Outrageous did the loud wind blow

First Line:: Outrageous did the loud wind blow
Last Line:: She sighed her troubled soul
Author:: Edward Jerningham (Absolute)
DMI number:: 37071

39. On Morven's hills where valour rose

First Line:: On Morven's hills where valour rose
Last Line:: She spoke and died away
Author:: John Tait (Absolute)
DMI number:: 37063

40. On Trinitye Mondaye in the morne

First Line:: On Trinitye Mondaye in the morne
Last Line:: Hee never more was seene on molde
DMI number:: 37488

41. Once I was a lively lad

First Line:: Once I was a lively lad
Last Line:: Ever that breathed our valley's air
Author:: Mr. Ball (Absolute)
DMI number:: 37076

42. One parting kiss my Ethelende

First Line:: One parting kiss my Ethelende
Last Line:: And life's warm spirit fled
DMI number:: 37066

43. Robin Hood was a tall young man

First Line:: Robin Hood was a tall young man
Last Line:: And they buried them all on a row
DMI number:: 36979

44. Saw ye the thane of mickle pride

First Line:: Saw ye the thane of mickle pride
Last Line:: Seems to the traveller like a man
DMI number:: 36926

45. See my son my Offa dies

First Line:: See my son my Offa dies
Last Line:: Record that Mordrid poured the lays
Author:: Mr. Ball (Absolute)
DMI number:: 37077

46. Some they will talk of bold Robin Hood

First Line:: Some they will talk of bold Robin Hood
Last Line:: And glad he could so get away
DMI number:: 37003

47. The feathered songster Chaunticleer

First Line:: The feathered songster Chaunticleer
Last Line:: In heaven God's mercy sing
Author:: Thomas Rowlie (Absolute)
DMI number:: 37019

48. The fifteenth day of July

First Line:: The fifteenth day of July
Last Line:: Of brave lord Willoughbey
DMI number:: 37349

49. The king's cursed keepers aiming at reward

First Line:: The king's cursed keepers aiming at reward
Last Line:: The truth unto the world was after brought
DMI number:: 37012

50. The noble earl of Salisbury

First Line:: The noble earl of Salisbury
Last Line:: This knighthood still is held
DMI number:: 37014

51. The north east wind did briskly blow

First Line:: The north east wind did briskly blow
Last Line:: Her hapless fate scape you
Author:: James Grainger (Absolute)
DMI number:: 31253

52. There's some will talk of lords and knights

First Line:: There's some will talk of lords and knights
Last Line:: And drank themselves good friends
DMI number:: 36996

53. There was a young and valiant knight

First Line:: There was a young and valiant knight
Last Line:: Beneath them all is care
Author:: Hannah More (Absolute)
DMI number:: 37737

54. Thursday in the morn the ides of May

First Line:: Thursday in the morn the ides of May
Last Line:: Let us drink to every English tar
DMI number:: 37048

55. To yon dark grove Alisia flew

First Line:: To yon dark grove Alisia flew
Last Line:: She with a groan expired
Author:: Edward Jerningham (Absolute)
DMI number:: 37072

56. Twas at the goose pye feast for Downham won

First Line:: Twas at the goose pye feast for Downham won
Last Line:: None but their friends shall taste the pye
DMI number:: 31956

57. Tom and Will were shepherds swains

First Line:: Tom and Will were shepherds swains
Last Line:: Let them go shake their ears
Author:: Sidney Godolphin (Absolute)
DMI number:: 4839

58. Tom and Will were shepherds twain

First Line:: Tom and Will were shepherds twain
Last Line:: Let them go shake their ears
Author:: Sidney Godolphin (Absolute)
DMI number:: 41888

59. Wat Tyler is from Dartford gone

First Line:: Wat Tyler is from Dartford gone
Last Line:: And after followed joyful peace
DMI number:: 37015

60. When as the duke of Normandy

First Line:: When as the duke of Normandy
Last Line:: Did of duke William gain
DMI number:: 36969

61. When as the sheriff of Nottingham

First Line:: When as the sheriff of Nottingham
Last Line:: Of honest Robin Hood
DMI number:: 37006

62. When Flora 'gins to decke the fields

First Line:: When Flora 'gins to decke the fields
Last Line:: And was his uncle's heir
DMI number:: 37635

63. When Phoebus had melted the sickles of ice

First Line:: When Phoebus had melted the sickles of ice
Last Line:: They'd conquer or die by his side
DMI number:: 37002

64. When Robin Hood and his merry men all

First Line:: When Robin Hood and his merry men all
Last Line:: As it was upon his grave
DMI number:: 37007

65. When Isabella fair England's queen

First Line:: When Isabella fair England's queen
Last Line:: And keep ourselves in credit still
DMI number:: 37010

66. You parents whose affections fond

First Line:: You parents whose affections fond
Last Line:: To his most royal obsequy
DMI number:: 36973

67. Young Damon was the blithest lad

First Line:: Young Damon was the blithest lad
Last Line:: For Damon was not there
DMI number:: 37067

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1. A tale of grief I must unfold

2. All gentlemen and yeomen good

3. After our royal king

4. All you that delight for to spend some time

5. As zung auror with chrystal hail

6. Bold Robin Hood ranging the forest all round

7. Bright was the morn the landscape gay

8. Child Waters in his stable stood

9. Come all you brave gallants and listen a while

10. Come light and listen you gentlemen all

11. Come listen awhile you gentlemen all

12. Cursed with a conscious feeling mind

13. Dark was the night and wild the storm

14. Far in the windings of the vale

15. Frae Dunideir as I cam throuch

16. For daring feats of rustic sport

17. From forth the church all blithesome gay

18. From the ocean emerged bright Phoebus's ray

19. Gold taken from the king's harbingers

20. Good nature and courtesy sisters I ween

21. In summer time when leaves grow green

22. In summer time when leaves grow green

23. In elder times there was of yore

24. In Nottingham there lived a jolly tanner

25. In Wakefield there lives a jolly pinder

26. John Gilpin was a citizen

27. Lithe and listen gentlemen

28. Lithe and listen gentlemen

29. I'll tell thee Dick where I have been

30. Kind gentlemen will you be silent a while

31. King Arthur lives in merry Carleile

32. King Richard hearing of the pranks

33. Kinge Arthur liues in merry Carleile

34. Now Robin Hood Will Scarlet and Little John

35. O see you not yon bonny steed

36. Of all the scottish northern chiefs

37. On Carron's side the primrose pale

38. Outrageous did the loud wind blow

39. On Morven's hills where valour rose

40. On Trinitye Mondaye in the morne

41. Once I was a lively lad

42. One parting kiss my Ethelende

43. Robin Hood was a tall young man

44. Saw ye the thane of mickle pride

45. See my son my Offa dies

46. Some they will talk of bold Robin Hood

47. The feathered songster Chaunticleer

48. The fifteenth day of July

49. The king's cursed keepers aiming at reward

50. The noble earl of Salisbury

51. The north east wind did briskly blow

52. There's some will talk of lords and knights

53. There was a young and valiant knight

54. Thursday in the morn the ides of May

55. To yon dark grove Alisia flew

56. Twas at the goose pye feast for Downham won

57. Tom and Will were shepherds swains

58. Tom and Will were shepherds twain

59. Wat Tyler is from Dartford gone

60. When as the duke of Normandy

61. When as the sheriff of Nottingham

62. When Flora 'gins to decke the fields

63. When Phoebus had melted the sickles of ice

64. When Robin Hood and his merry men all

65. When Isabella fair England's queen

66. You parents whose affections fond

67. Young Damon was the blithest lad