Ballads and Poems Illustrating English History

AD 61 'Boadicea' W. Cowper; 1020 'King Canute' W. M. Thackeray; 1120 'He never smiled again' Mrs Hemans; 1120 'King John and the Abbot of Canterbury' Trad. ballad; 1265 'Lament for Simon de Montfort' Tr. by G. Ellis; 1265 'Robin Hood and the three squires' Trad. ballad; 'Bold Robin' T. L. Peacock; 1346 'Durham field' Trad. ballad; 1388 'Chevy Chase' Trad. ballad; 1411 'The battle of Harlaw' Trad. ballad; 1415 'The Agincourt song' Contemporary poem; 1415 'King Henry V's conquest of France' Trad. ballad; 1415 'Agincourt' M. Drayton; 1480 'The rose of England' Trad. ballad; 1511 'Sir Andrew Barton' Trad. ballad; 1513 'Flodden Field' Trad. ballad; 1513 'Edinburgh after Flodden' W. E. Aytoun; 1530 'Dick o' the cow' Trad. ballad; 1568 'Earl Bothwell' Trad. ballad; 1569 'The rising in the North' Trad. ballad; 1584 'Mary Ambree' Trad. ballad; 1586 'Brave Lord Willoughby' Anon.; 1588 'The Armada' Lord Macaulay; 1588 'The defeat of the Spanish Armada' Anon.; 1595 'The fame of Sir Francis Drake' Anon.; 1605 'Captain Ward and the Rainbow' Trad. ballad; 1643 'When the king enjoys his own again' M. Parker; 1644 'Sir Nicholas at Marston Moor' W. M. Praed; 1645 'The Battle of Naseby' Lord Macaulay; 1648 'On the Lord General Fairfax' John Milton; 1650 'Cromwell's return from Ireland' A. Marvell; 1652 'To Cromwell' John Milton; 1666 'The fire of London' John Dryden; 1688 'The song of the western man' R. S. Hawker; 1689 'The burial march of Dundee' W. E. Aytoun; 1702 'Admiral Benbow' Anon.; 1704 'After Blenheim' R. Southey; 1720 'The vicar of Bray' Anon.; 1773 'The Boston tea-party' O. W. Holmes; 1782 'The loss of the Royal George' W. Cowper; 1801 The battle of the Baltic' T. Campbell; 1805 The happy warrior' W. Wordsworth; 1807 'Ye mariners of England' T. Campbell; 1809 'The burial of Sir John Moore' Charles Wolfe; 1815 'Waterloo' Lord Byron; 1815 'England's dead' Mrs Hemans; 1837 'Victoria's tears' Mrs Browning; 1852 'Ode on the death of the Duke of Wellington' Lord Tennyson; 1854 'The charge of the Light Brigade' Lord Tennyson; Notes.