First lines: Come all ye lads of learning, and young men of degree, / I hope you will peruse a while and lend an ear to me.

Ballads, English--Ireland | Ireland--Social life and customs--19th century | Feminine beauty (Aesthetics)

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First lines: Your slaves to Cupid that are all stupid, / And quite delirious I'm all aware. Printed: Dublin: [John F.] Nugent.

Ballads, English--Ireland | Ireland--Social life and customs--19th century | Feminine beauty (Aesthetics)

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First lines: My name it is Jenny, my age is 16, / My father's a farmer, & dwells on the Green.Printed: Cork: [Catherine] Haly.

Ballads, English--Ireland | Ireland--Social life and customs--19th century | Feminine beauty (Aesthetics)

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First lines: I being young and airy, / To rambling I took my way.

Ballads, English--Ireland | Ireland--Social life and customs--19th century | Feminine beauty (Aesthetics)

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First lines: O lovely Mary Donnelly it's you I love the best ! / If fifty girls were round you I'd hardly see the rest. Printed: Dublin: [Walter] Birmingham.

Ballads, English--Ireland | Ireland--Social life and customs--19th century | Feminine beauty (Aesthetics)

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First lines: One morning on my rambles I espied a charming fair, / As she sat milking all alone down by a pleasant shade.

Ballads, English--Ireland | Ireland--Social life and customs--19th century | Feminine beauty (Aesthetics)

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First lines: When in sweet Erin's shady groves, / And gay romantle bowors [sic].

Ballads, English--Ireland | Ireland--Social life and customs--19th century | Feminine beauty (Aesthetics)

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First lines: In Baltinglass, there lives a lass, / Most beautiful and fair.

Baltinglass (Ireland) | Ballads, English--Ireland | Ireland--Social life and customs--19th century

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First lines: It being on a summer's morn / All in the month of May.

Ballads, English--Ireland | Ireland--Social life and customs--19th century | Feminine beauty (Aesthetics)

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First lines: One morning very early / A strange thought came into my head.Printed: Dublin: [John F.] Nugent.

Ballads, English--Ireland | Ireland--Social life and customs--19th century | Feminine beauty (Aesthetics)

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