Poems and Ballads in the 2023 Tagset

[larryhammer]

Here’s a list of all poems (including ballads and traditional songs) in the 2023 tagset, with links to texts as best I can find, and a notation of original language if not English. Please let me know of any additions or corrections.


The Aeneid - Virgil [Latin]

Curragh of Kildare (Traditional Song)

Goblin Market - Christina Rossetti

The Handsome Cabin Boy (Traditional Song)

Hey Diddle Diddle (Nursery Rhyme)

Lady Isabel and the Elf Knight (Traditional Ballad)

Long John Moore | Long John Old John and Jackie North (Traditional Ballad)

Lyke-Wake Dirge (Traditional Song)

Hymn to Hermes - Homer [Ancient Greek]

The Odyssey - Homer [Ancient Greek]

Ramayana - Valmiki [Sanskrit]

Tam Lin - Anonymous (Song)

Tristan and Iseut - Béroul (alt1, alt2, alt3) [Norman French]

The Waste Land - T. S. Eliot

Wulf and Eadwacer [Old English] (original, modern English translation one, two, three)

木蘭辭 | Mùlán Shī | Ballad of Mulan [Classical Chinese]

ETA: BTW, poets in the tagset include Du Fu & Li He (both in Tang Dynasty RPF), and Goethe (in 19th CE German Literature RPF).

Comments

[sheliak]

One other traditional ballad:

Long John Moore | Long John Old John and Jackie North (Traditional Ballad)
https://mudcat.org/@displaysong.cfm?SongID=3695
https://mainlynorfolk.info/ewan.maccoll/songs/langjohnnymore.html

[larryhammer]

Added. Thanks!

[meretricula]

The Aeneid is originally in Latin, and while I certainly do not advise reading the whole thing on a computer screen, it's available for free (in Latin and various English translations) via the Perseus Project. I linked the Dryden translation but you can load the others in the same page for comparison.

Likewise the Iliad and the Odyssey.

[larryhammer]

Thanks for the links -- I was hurrying to get the post up, and hadn't gotten to tracking down good ones for those. Agreed that using Perseus is generally a decent idea.