Logan's Run

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Novel Triology

Scans of 19th Century Scottish Broadsides, with Murder Ballads

Broadside entitled 'Ann Semple's Confession'
Broadside ballad entitled 'Billy Pattison'
Broadside ballad entitled 'The Confession of James Bryce'
Broadside entitled 'Confessions made by William Burke'
Broadside entitled 'Elegiac Lines On the Tragical Murder of Poor Daft Jamie
Broadside entitled 'Elegie'
Broadside entitled 'Elegie'
Broadside ballad concerning the execution of Captain Thomas Green for piracy and murder
Broadside ballad entitled 'The Fate of Johnny Johnson'
Broadside ballad entitled 'Hare's Dream!'
Broadside ballad entitled 'Jamie Wilson's Mother's Dream'
Broadside entitled 'A Lament for Dr Pritchard's Children'
Broadside entitled 'Lament of Macfarlane, Blackwood and Young'
Broadside entitled 'The Lament of Mr Taylor'
Broadside entitled 'Lament of Peter Mclean, now lying under the Sentence of Death'
Broadside entitled 'Lamentation of Elizabeth Banks'
Broadside entitled 'Lamentation of Mary Braid'
Broadside entitled 'Lamentations As of John Thomson & David Dobie'
Broadside entitled 'The Lamentations of McFarlane, Blackwood and Young
Broadside ballad entitled 'The Last Words of James Mackpherson Murderer'
Broadside entitled 'Lines On The Gilmerton Murder'
Broadside ballad entitled 'Lines Supposed to have Been Written by Mrs Wilson, Daft Jamie's Mother'
Broadside ballad entitled 'Margaret Bell's Lament'
Broadside entitled 'Margaret Dickson's Penetential Confession'
Broadside ballad entitled 'McGorran's Lament'
Broadside entitled 'Murder of Betsy Smith'
Broadside ballad entitled 'The Murder of Maria Marten'
Broadside ballad entitled 'The Recent Murders'
Broadside entitled 'Robert Stirrat's'
Broadside entitled 'The Sorrowful Lamentation'
Broadside entitled 'The Vision'
Broadside ballad entitled 'Widow MacFarlane's Lamentation for Her Son'
Broadside ballad entitled 'William Burke.--A New Song'
Broadside ballad entitled 'William Burke's Confession'
Broadside ballad entitled 'William Burke's Murders in the Westport'
Broadside ballads entitled 'William Burke's Murders in the Westport' and 'Late Murders. A New Song'

Jean Genet, Poems Online

The Prisoner Condemned to Death
Funeral March
The Galley
The Parade
Love Song
The Fisherman of Suquet
Dialogue Between the Sun And the Moon

Francois Villon - Poetry in Translation

See Also: Société François Villon

Ballad Of The Gibbet
Les Regrets De La Belle Hëaulmiere
Rondel
The Ballad Of The Ladies Of Yore
Abor Amorris
To Death Of His Lady
The Debate Between Villon And His Heart
Ballade
Le Testament: Ballade: ‘Item: Donne A Ma Povre Mere’
Ballade: Epistre
Ballade: Du Concours De Blois
Le Testament: Ballade: Pour Robert d’Estouteville
Le Testament: Epitaph et Rondeau
Le Testament: Ballade: A S’amye
Rondeau

Five Translations

A Ballad of Francois Villon
Ballads from Francois Villon

Three Translations by Dante Gabriel Rossetti
I. The Ballad of Dead Ladies

II. To Death, of His Lady
III. His Mother's Service to Our Lady

Ten Translations by Charles Swinburne
I. The Complaint of The Fair Armouress
II. A Double Ballad of Good Counsel
III. Fragment on Death
IV. Ballad of The Lords of Old Times
V. Ballad of The Women of Paris
VI. Ballad Written for a Bridegroom
VII. Ballad against the Enemies of France
VIII. The Dispute of the Heart and Body of Francois Villon
IX. Epistle in Form of a Ballad to His Friends
X. The Epitaph in Form of a Ballad

Seven Translations by John Payne

I. Ballad of Old-Time Lords
II. The Doctrine of The Fair Helm-Maker to The  Light O' Loves
III. Seemly Lesson of Villon to The  Good-for-Noughts
IV. Ballad of Good Doctrine to Those of Ill Life
V. Ballad Crying All Folk Mercy
VI. Ballad, by Way of Ending
VII. Epitaph

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Jobelin ballade 5
Jobelin ballade 4
Jobelin ballade 3
Jobelin ballade 2
Jobelin ballade

To Death Of His Lady 

Death, of thee do I make my moan, / Who hadst my lady away from me,

Rondel 

Goodbye! the tears are in my eyes; / Farewell, farewell, my prettiest;

Ballad Of The Gibbet 

Brothers and men that shall after us be, / Let not your hearts be hard

Abor Amorris 

I have a tree, a graft of Love, / That in my heart has taken root;

The Debate Between Villon And His Heart

Who's that I hear?—It's me—Who?—Your heart / Hanging on by the thinnest

The Ballad Of The Ladies Of Yore 

Tell me now in what hidden way is / Lady Flora the lovely Roman?
Les Regrets De La Belle Hëaulmiere 

ADVIS m'est que j'oy regreter / La belle qui fut hëaulmiere,

Ballade 

I know flies in milk / I know the man by his clothe
Ballade: Du Concours De Blois

I’m dying of thirst beside the fountain, / Hot as fire, and with chatte

Le Testament: Ballade: ‘Item: Donne A Ma Povre Mere’ 

This I give to my poor mother / As a prayer now, to our Mistress

Ballade: Epistre

Have pity now, have pity now on me, / If you at least would, friends of

Le Testament: Ballade: Pour Robert d’Estouteville 

At dawn of day, when falcon shakes his wing, / Mainly from pleasure,

Le Testament: Epitaph et Rondeau 

Epitaph / Here there lies, and sleeps in the grave,

Rondeau 

Oh, grant him now eternal peace, / Lord, and everlasting light,

Le Testament: Ballade: A S’amye 

 False beauty that costs me so dear, / Rough indeed, a hypocrite sweet

Victorian Gallows Ballads

Source.

Mary Arnold, The Female Monster
Former prostitute uses carnivorous beetles to blind her own infant child. Hopes to increase its value as a tool for begging, but wins only prison and transportation.

The Execution of Nathaniel Mobbs
Drunken bully cuts his wife's throat in a fit of jealous rage. Bungles his own suicide attempt, and lives long enough to be hanged at Newgate.

Mrs Dyer, The Old Baby-Farmer
Reading woman takes in illegitimate babies for cash. Strangles 40 or more, then dumps their bodies in the Thames.

The Gallows Child
Nine-year old boy is condemned to death for stealing six handkerchiefs from an Oxford Street shop. Shopkeeper had paid five shillings each for them.

The Life and Trial of Palmer
Boozy, gambling doctor poisons family and friends to clear his debts. Hanged at Stafford Gaol, but survives as footnote in the Sherlock Holmes stories.

The Silent Grove
Young man gets his girlfriend pregnant, then kills both her and the baby to avoid responsibility. One of many Bloody Miller/ Berkshire Tragedy variants - a combination of which eventually became Knoxville Girl.

The Liverpool Lodger
Evil lodger slaughters family and robs them. Victims include pregnant mother and two very young boys.

The Unnatural Murder
Disguised sailor returns home to his parents, hoping to surprise them with his new-found wealth. They mistake him for a stranger, kill him, and steal his gold.

Murder at Westmill
Nine-year-old boy brutally murders his infant sister. Mother driven mad by the crime.

Streams of Crimson Blood
Burglar breaks into rich old couple's house and kills them both.

The Murdered Maid
Poverty-stricken yokels kill lodger for her savings. But it's really their own daughter.

Cruel Lizzie Vickers
Housekeeper bullies her way into elderly employer's will then beats him to death for the £1,000 involved. That's the ballad's version, but the Old Bailey jury found her not guilty.