XXXII Ballades in Blue China [1885]

By Andrew Lang

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• Language: English
• Publisher: Good Press
• Release date: Dec 6, 2019
• ISBN: 4064066233372

Andrew Lang

Andrew Lang (March, 31, 1844 – July 20, 1912) was a Scottish writer and literary critic who is best known as a collector of folk and fairy tales. Lang’s academic interests extended beyond the literary and he was a noted contributor to the fields of anthropology, folklore, psychical research, history, and classic scholarship, as well as the inspiration for the University of St. Andrew’s Andrew Lang Lectures. A prolific author, Lang published more than 100 works during his career, including twelve fairy books, in which he compiled folk and fairy tales from around the world. Lang’s Lilac Fairy and Red Fairy books are credited with influencing J. R. R. Tolkien, who commented on the importance of fairy stories in the modern world in his 1939 Andrew Lang Lecture “On Fairy-Stories.”

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Andrew Lang

XXXII Ballades in Blue China [1885]

Published by Good Press, 2022

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BALLADE TO THEOCRITUS, IN WINTER.

BALLADE OF CLEOPATRA’S NEEDLE.

BALLADE OF ROULETTE.

BALLADE OF SLEEP.

BALLADE OF THE MIDNIGHT FOREST.

BALLADE OF THE TWEED.

BALLADE OF THE BOOK-HUNTER.

BALLADE OF THE VOYAGE TO CYTHERA.

BALLADE OF THE SUMMER TERM.

BALLADE OF THE MUSE.

BALLADE AGAINST THE JESUITS.

BALLADE OF DEAD CITIES.

BALLADE OF THE ROYAL GAME OF GOLF.

DOUBLE BALLADE OF PRIMITIVE MAN.

BALLADE OF AUTUMN.

BALLADE OF TRUE WISDOM.

BALLADE OF WORLDLY WEALTH.

BALLADE OF LIFE.

BALLADE OF BLUE CHINA.

BALLADE OF DEAD LADIES.

VILLON’S BALLADE OF GOOD COUNSEL, TO HIS FRIENDS OF EVIL LIFE.

BALLADE OF RABBITS AND HARES.

VALENTINE IN FORM OF BALLADE.

BALLADE OF OLD PLAYS.

BALLADE OF HIS BOOKS.

BALLADE OF ÆSTHETIC ADJECTIVES.

BALLADE OF THE PLEASED BARD.

BALLADE FOR A BABY.

BALLADE AMOUREUSE.

BALLADE OF QUEEN ANNE.

BALLADE OF BLIND LOVE.

BALLADE OF HIS CHOICE OF A SEPULCHRE.

DIZAIN.

VERSES AND TRANSLATIONS.

A PORTRAIT OF 1783.

THE MOON’S MINION.

IN ITHACA.

HOMER.

THE BURIAL OF MOLIÈRE.

BION.

SPRING.

BEFORE THE SNOW.

VILLANELLE.

THE MYSTERY OF QUEEN PERSEPHONE.

STOKER BILL.

NATURAL THEOLOGY.

THE ODYSSEY.

IDEAL.

BALLADE TO THEOCRITUS, IN WINTER.

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ἐσορῶν τὰν Σικελὰν ἐς ἅλα.

Id. viii. 56.

Ah! leave the smoke, the wealth, the roar

Of London, and the bustling street,

For still, by the Sicilian shore,

The murmur of the Muse is sweet.

Still, still, the suns of summer greet

The mountain-grave of Helikê,

And shepherds still their songs repeat

Where breaks the blue Sicilian sea.

What though they worship Pan no more,

That guarded once the shepherd’s seat,

They chatter of their rustic lore,

They watch the wind among the wheat:

Cicalas chirp, the young lambs bleat,

Where whispers pine to cypress tree;

They count the waves that idly beat

Where breaks the blue Sicilian sea.

Theocritus! thou canst restore

The pleasant years, and over-fleet;

With thee we live as men of yore,

We rest where running waters meet:

And then we turn unwilling feet

And seek the world—so must it be—

We may not linger in the heat

Where breaks the blue Sicilian sea!

ENVOY.

Master,—when rain, and snow, and sleet

And northern winds are wild, to thee

We come, we rest in thy retreat,

Where breaks the blue Sicilian sea!

BALLADE OF CLEOPATRA’S NEEDLE.

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Ye giant shades of

Ra

and

Tum

,

Ye ghosts of gods Egyptian,

If murmurs of our planet come

To exiles in the precincts wan

Where, fetish or Olympian,

To help or harm