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Larry Hammer ([personal profile] larryhammer) wrote in [community profile] yuletide2023-10-13 02:58 pm
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Poems and Ballads in the 2023 Tagset

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).

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