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Brewer's: Balls
The three golden balls. The emblem of St. Nicholas, who is said to have given three purses of gold to three virgin sisters to enable them to marry. As the cognisance of the Medici family…Brewer's: Bombastus
The family name of Aureolus Paracelsus (1493-1541). He is said to have kept a small devil prisoner in the pommel of his sword. Bombastus kept a devil's bird Shut in the pommel of his sword…Brewer's: Nut-brown Maid
Henry, Lord Clifford, first Earl of Cumberland, and Lady Margaret Percy, his wife, are the originals of this ballad. Lord Clifford had a miserly father and ill-natured step-mother, so he…Brewer's: Molly Mog
This celebrated beauty was an innkeeper's daughter, at Oakingham, Berks. She was the toast of all the gay sparks, in the former half of the eighteenth century, and died in 1766, at an…Coleridge: "Christabel" and "Kubla Khan"
"The Ancient Mariner""France: an Ode""Christabel" and "Kubla Khan" "Christabel" and "Kubla Khan" were first printed in 1816, in a pamphlet along with "The Pains of Sleep," a sort of…Walt Whitman: By the Roadside
By the RoadsideA Boston Ballad [1854]Europe [The 72d and 73d Years of These States]A Hand-MirrorGodsGermsThoughtsWhen I Heard the Learn'd AstronomerPerfectionsO Me! O Life!To a PresidentI Sit…Great Days in Harlem
The birth of the Harlem Renaissance by Beth Rowen & Borgna Brunner Zora Neale Hurston, 1935 The orig. manuscript of Hughes's Ballad of Booker T. Related Links…Schubert, Franz Peter
(Encyclopedia) Schubert, Franz PeterSchubert, Franz Peterfränts pāˈtər sh&oomacr;ˈbərt [key], 1797–1828, Austrian composer, one of the most gifted musicians of the 19th cent. His symphonic works…Poems and Songs of Robert Burns: The Five Carlins
by Robert Burns Epistle To Dr. BlacklockElection Ballad For Westerha'The Five Carlins An Election Ballad. Tune-"Chevy Chase." There was five Carlins in the South,…Coleridge: At Nether Stowey
The BeginningsThe Rest of the StoryAt Nether Stowey The Stowey period was the blossoming time of Coleridge's genius. All the poems in this volume except the last four, and besides these "…Trending
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