Broadside Ballads Online

from the Bodleian Libraries


Imprint Names:
Imprint Locations:
Date
    between 1863 and 1885
Notes:

Harding B 11(3598) is another edition.

Series Identifier:

297

Other printings:

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Viewing: Firth c.20(80)

1st Ballad

Title: Song of the haymakers

First Line: The noontide is hot and our foreheads are brown

Themes:  Agricultural laborers

2nd Ballad - Roud Number: V799

Title: Charming little woman, oh!

First Line: What is man's comfort in this life?

Themes:  Women

Illustration

IconClass Codes:
41A3611: Spire (of tower on house or building)
47I141: Reaping, picking, mowing ~ harvest
47I1(+21): Agriculture (+ men (labourers))
25I22: Prospect of village, silhouette of village
47I15(SCYTHE): Agricultural implements: scythe
47C55: Sharpening, grinding (industrial processes)


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