18 books like Cowboy Songs and Other Frontier Ballads

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Robin Hood; a collection of all the ancient poems, songs, and ballads Ritson, Joseph · 1795 · ★ 5.0 · 270p · ≈ 9h · Demanding The POETRY & DRAMA collection includes books from the British Library digitised by Microsoft. The books reflect the complex and changing role of literature in society, ranging from Bardic poetry to Victorian verse. Containing many classic works from important dramatists and poets, this collection has something for every lover of the stage and verse. Shares: Ballads, English Folk songs, English Ballads, Songs and Music

A Collection of Ballads Andrew Lang · 1897 · 225p · ≈ 7h · Challenging This is a song book. When the learned first gave serious attention to popular ballads, from the time of Percy to that of Scott, they laboured under certain disabilities. The Comparative Method was scarcely understood, and was little practised. Editors were content to study the ballads of their own countryside, or, at most, of Great Britain. Teutonic and Northern parallels to our ballads were… Shares: Ballads, English Folk songs, English Ballads, Poetry

Cabbages and Kings O. Henry · 1904 · 319p · ≈ 10h · Challenging They will tell you in Anchuria, that President Miraflores, of that volatile republic, died by his own hand in the coast town of Coralio; that he had reached thus far in flight from the inconveniences of an imminent revolution; and that one hundred thousand dollars, government funds, which he carried with him in an American leather valise as a souvenir of his tempestuous administration, was never… Shares: English Folk songs, English Ballads, Texts

Jacobite Relics Of Scotland James Hogg · 1819 · 490p · ≈ 16h · Challenging Shares: Songs and Music, Texts, Poetry

Cattle Brands Andy Adams · 1906 · 176p · ≈ 5h · Challenging From the book:It was a wet, bad year on the Old Western Trail. From Red River north and all along was herd after herd waterbound by high water in the rivers. Our outfit lay over nearly a week on the South Canadian, but we were not alone, for there were five other herds waiting for the river to go down. This river had tumbled over her banks for several days, and the driftwood that was coming down… Shares: Cowboys, Frontier and pioneer life

Crooked trails Frederic Remington · 1898 · 150p · ≈ 5h · Challenging In "Crooked Trails," Frederic Remington masterfully captures the vivid landscape of the American West, intertwining the narratives of frontier life with lush, impressionistic descriptions that reflect his artistic background. This collection of essays and sketches offers a nuanced portrayal of the struggles and triumphs of those who inhabited the rugged terrain during a transformative period in… Shares: Cowboys, Frontier and pioneer life

Rhymes a la Mode Andrew Lang · 1885 · 38p · ≈ 1h · Challenging Book digitized by Google from the library of Oxford University and uploaded to the Internet Archive by user tpb. Shares: English Ballads, Poetry

The Book of American Negro Poetry James Weldon Johnson · 1922 · ★ 4.2 · 298p · ≈ 9h · Challenging A landmark anthology of forty poets that brought serious attention to writers such as Countee Cullen and Langston Hughes. Shares: Folk songs, American poetry, Poetry

The Barrack-Room Ballads of Rudyard Kipling Rudyard Kipling · 1892 · 80p · ≈ 2h · Challenging For the modern reader of Kipling's Barrack-Room Ballads - among the most enduringly popular poems ever published in England - some explanation of their contemporary expressions and allusions and their military context is necessary if he is to appreciate them in their full glory. John Whitehead, critic and biographer who himself served with the Indian Army in Burma, has provided this in full… Shares: Ballads, Poetry

The literature of England George Benjamin Woods · 1936 · 1215p · ≈ 40h · Challenging This book presents an extensive compilation of all of the most important works of English Romantic literature. Virtually every important Romantic writer is covered, including William Blake, Robert Burns, Lord Byron and many, many more. Shares: Collections, History and criticism

Wolfville Folks Alfred Henry Lewis · 1902 · 311p · ≈ 10h · Challenging This is a western story book. Which 'f you-all is out to hear of Injuns, son', observed the Old Cattleman, doubtfully, 'the best I can do is shet my eyes an' push along regyardless, like a cayouse in a storm of snow. But I don't guarantee no facts; none whatever; I never does bend myse'f to severe study of savages, an' what notions I packs concernin' 'em is the casual frootes of what I accidental… Shares: Cowboys, Frontier and pioneer life

Biochemists' Songbook Harold Baum · 1982 · 106p · ≈ 3h · Moderate Shares: Songs and Music, Poetry

The Poems of Emily Dickinson Volume II Emily Dickinson · 1890 · ★ 4.3 · 256p · ≈ 8h · Challenging Emily Dickinson lived as a recluse in Amherst, Massachusetts, dedicating herself to writing a "letter to the world" - the 1,775 poems left unpublished at her death in 1886. Today Dickinson stands in the front rank of American poets. This Modern Library edition presents the more than four hundred poems that were published between Dickinson's death and 1900. They express her concepts of life and… Shares: Collections, American poetry, Poetry

Spoon River Anthology Edgar Lee Masters · 1914 · ★ 4.0 · 306p · ≈ 10h · Challenging In Spoon River Anthology, the American poet Edgar Lee Masters (1869–1950) created a series of compelling free-verse monologues in which former citizens of a mythical Midwestern town speak touchingly from the grave of the thwarted hopes and dream of their lives. First published in book form in 1915, the Anthology was the crowning achievement of Masters' career as a poet, and a work that would… Shares: Collections, American poetry, Poetry

The ballad of the white horse Gilbert Keith Chesterton · 1911 · ★ 4.3 · 92p · ≈ 3h · Challenging Of great limbs gone to chaos, A great face turned to night - Why bend above a shapeless shroud Seeking in such archaic cloud Sight of strong lords and light? Shares: English Ballads, Poetry

Drum-taps Walt Whitman · 1865 · 158p · ≈ 5h · Challenging "Walt Whitman worked as a nurse in an army hospital during the Civil War and published Drum-Taps, his war poems, as the war was coming to an end. Later, the book came out in an expanded form, including 'When Lilacs Last in the Dooryard Bloom'd,' Whitman's passionate elegy for Lincoln. The most moving and enduring poetry to emerge from America's most tragic conflict, Drum-Taps also helped to… Shares: American poetry, Poetry

Lonesome Land Bertha Muzzy Bower · 1912 · 200p · ≈ 6h · Challenging Valeria had come to Montana to marry a cowboy named Manley, expecting a future full of companionship and bracing freedom, lodges with great fireplaces and bearskin rugs, manageable cattle and sleek horses, and dazzling sunrises. If Val had known what was really waiting for her, she simply wouldn't have gotten off the train. Oh, the country was impressive, but it could be cruel in winter and… Shares: Cowboys, Frontier and pioneer life

Poems Francis Thompson · 1893 · ★ 5.0 · 328p · ≈ 10h · Challenging It is a poetry book. Francis Thompson, a poet of high thinking, 'of celestial vision', and of imaginings that found literary images of answering splendour, died in London in the winter of 1907. His life—always a fragile one—doubtless owed its prolongation to 'man's unconquerable mind', in him so invincible through all vicissitude that he seemed to add a new significance to Wordsworth's phrase. To… Shares: Collections, Poetry

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