Ballads. William Makepeace Thackeray

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       JOLLY JACK.

       IMITATION OF HORACE.

       AD MINISTRAM.

       OLD FRIENDS WITH NEW FACES.

       THE KNIGHTLY GUERDON.*

       THE ALMACK'S ADIEU.

       WHEN THE GLOOM IS ON THE GLEN.

       THE RED FLAG.

       DEAR JACK.

       COMMANDERS OF THE FAITHFUL.

       WHEN MOONLIKE ORE THE HAZURE SEAS.

       KING CANUTE.

       FRIAR'S SONG.

       ATRA CURA.

       REQUIESCAT.

       LINES UPON MY SISTER'S PORTRAIT.

       THE LEGEND OF ST. SOPHIA OF KIOFF.

       TITMARSH'S CARMEN LILLIENSE.

       THE WILLOW-TREE.

       THE WILLOW-TREE.

       LYRA HIBERNICA

       THE PIMLICO PAVILION.

       THE CRYSTAL PALACE.

       MOLONY'S LAMENT.

       MR. MOLONY'S ACCOUNT OF THE BALL.

       THE BATTLE OF LIMERICK.

       LARRY O'TOOLE.

       THE ROSE OF FLORA.

       THE LAST IRISH GRIEVANCE.

       THE BALLADS OF POLICEMAN X.

       THE WOLFE NEW BALLAD OF JANE RONEY AND MARY BROWN.

       THE THREE CHRISTMAS WAITS.

       LINES ON A LATE HOSPICIOUS EWENT.*

       THE BALLAD OF ELIZA DAVIS.

       DAMAGES, TWO HUNDRED POUNDS.

       THE KNIGHT AND THE LADY.

       JACOB HOMNIUM'S HOSS.

       THE SPECULATORS.

       A WOEFUL NEW BALLAD

       THE LAMENTABLE BALLAD OF THE FOUNDLING OF SHOREDITCH.

       THE ORGAN-BOY'S APPEAL.

       LITTLE BILLEE.*

       THE END OF THE PLAY.

       VANITAS VANITATUM.

       Table of Contents

      PART I.

      At Paris, hard by the Maine barriers,

       Whoever will choose to repair,

       Midst a dozen of wooden-legged warriors

       May haply fall in with old Pierre.

       On the sunshiny bench of a tavern

       He sits and he prates of old wars,

       And moistens his pipe of tobacco

       With a drink that is named after Mars.

       The beer makes his tongue run the quicker,

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