Broadside Ballads Online

Imprint Names:  Ryle, A.

Imprint Locations:  London

Date  between 1838 and 1859

Imprint: A. Ryle, 2 & 3, Monmouth Court, Seven Dials

1st Ballad - Roud Number: 1200

Title: The female smuggler

First Line: Come, attend awhile, and you soon shall hea[r]

Themes:  Smuggling ,  Transvestism

2nd Ballad - Roud Number: V442

Title: Kitty of the Clyde

First Line: A boat danced on Clyde's bonny stream

Authors:  Dibdin, Charles, 1768-1833

Imprint Names:  Catnach, J.

Imprint Locations:  London

Date  between 1813 and 1838

Imprint: Printed by J. Catnach, 2, & 3, Monmouth-court, 7 Dials

1st Ballad - Roud Number: V16423

Title: Ruddy Aurora

First Line: When ruddy Aurora awakens the day

2nd Ballad - Roud Number: V3743

Title: The legacy

First Line: When in death I shall calm recline

Authors:  Moore, Thomas, 1779-1852

Themes:  Death

3rd Ballad - Roud Number: 8634

Title: At setting day and rising morn

First Line: At setting day and rising morn

4th Ballad - Roud Number: V5485

Title: The wolf

First Line: At the peaceful midnight hour

5th Ballad - Roud Number: V1160

Title: Maidens fair, of love beware

First Line: Love they say is quite delightful

6th Ballad - Roud Number: V6366

Title: Say, where shall we meet, love

First Line: Say, where shall we meet, love

7th Ballad - Roud Number: 2614

Title: Rest! warrior, rest

First Line: He comes from the wars, from the red field of fight

Themes:  Soldiers

8th Ballad - Roud Number: 23189

Title: Wilt thou say, &c

First Line: Wilt thou say farewell love

9th Ballad - Roud Number: 1304

Title: The beggar girl

First Line: Over the mountains & over the moor

Authors:  Chandler, John W.

Themes:  Beggars

10th Ballad

Title: The pitcher

First Line: Oh! where are you going so fast pretty maid

11th Ballad - Roud Number: 13783

Title: Harry Bluff

First Line: Harry Bluff when a boy left his friends and his home

Themes:  Sailors

12th Ballad - Roud Number: V9852

Title: Edwin and Ella

First Line: See, beneath yon bower of roses

13th Ballad - Roud Number: 1696

Title: The devil and Mike

First Line: Oh, 'twas on a dusky eve

14th Ballad - Roud Number: 7758

Title: Billy Barlow

First Line: O when I was born, says old mother Goose

15th Ballad - Roud Number: V11671

Title: A wish

First Line: Mine be a cot beside a hill

16th Ballad - Roud Number: V442

Title: Kitty of the Clyde

First Line: A boat danced on Clyde'[s] bonny stream

Authors:  Dibdin, Charles, 1768-1833

17th Ballad - Roud Number: 6747

Title: Time is on the wing

First Line: Strew, strew, with roses