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Title

Christmas stories : Ballads and other poems : Tales / by William Makepeace Thackeray ; with the original illustrations.

Author

Thackeray, William Makepeace, 1811-1863

Publication

Boston : Houghton Mifflin, c1889.

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Description

xv, 524 p. : ill.; 21 cm.

Series Statement

• Complete works ; 20
• Thackeray, William Makepeace, 1811-1863. Works. 1889. Houghton, Mifflin (Illustrated library ed.) ; 20.

Subject

• Christmas stories, English
• Ballads, English
• Folk songs, English

Processing Action (note)

• committed to retain

Contents

• Christmas stories: Mrs. Perkins's ball; Our street; Dr. Birch and his young friends; The Kickleburys on the Rhine; The rose and the ring, or The history of Prince Giglio and Prince Bulbo -- Ballads: The chronicle of the drum; Abd-el-Kader at Toulon, or, the caged hawk; The king of Brentford's testament; The white squall; Peg of Limavaddy; May-day ode; The ballad of Bouillabaisse; The mahogany tree; The yankee volunteers; The pen and the album; Mrs. Katherine's lantern; Lucy's birthday; The cane-bottom'd chair; Piscator and Piscatrix; The rose upon my balcony; Ronsard to his mistress; At the church gate; The age of wisdom; Sorrows of Werther; A doe in the city; The last of May; Ah, bleak and barren was the moor; Song of the violet; Fairy days; Pocahontas; From Pocahontas -- Love-songs made easy: What makes my heart to thrill and glow?; The Gahzul, or oriental love-song; My Nora; To Mary; Serenade; The minaret bells; Come to the greenwood tree --^
• Five German ditties: A tragic story; The chaplet; The king on the tower; On a very old woman; A credo -- Four imitations of Beranger: Le roi d'Yvetot; Le grenier; Roger-Bontemps -- Imitation of Horace: To his serving boy -- 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 Pimlico pavilion; The crystal palace; Molony's lament; Mr. Molony's account of the ball given to the Nepaulese ambassador by the peninsular and oriental company; 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 of the protestant conspriacy to take the pope's live; The lamentable ballad of the foundling of shoreditch; The organ boy's appeal; Little Billee; The end of the play; Vanitas vanitatum -- Earlier poems: Louis Philippe; Mr. Braham; N.M. Rothschild, esq.; A. Bunn; Petrus Laureus; Love in fetters; Daddy, I'm hungry; The idler -- Tales: Elizabeth Brownrigge; Sultan Stork; Little spitz, a lenten anecdote; The professor; Miss Lowe; Bluebeard's ghost.

OCLC

• 34142579
• SCSB-10607986

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Harvard Library