In a poem of this type, a man buries his sister and the child born through their incestuous union, who are respectively emblematized as a sheath and a knife.
In a poem of this type, a man buries his sister and the child born through their incestuous union, who are respectively emblematized as a sheath and a knife. One of these poems, in which the abandonment of a slain knight by his hawk, hounds, and mistress enables two scavenger birds to make an easy meal of his corpse, is considered a cynical reply to another titled "The Three Ravens." Harvard's first Professor of English, Francis J. Child, catalogued 305 of these poems; Child No. 58 describes "the (*) new moon, with the old moon in her arms," an ill omen quoted as the epigraph to Coleridge's "Dejection: An Ode." A diplomatic mission returning from Norway is killed in a shipwreck in one of these poems. Sir Walter Scott compiled a set of these poems popular along the Anglo-Scottish border. For 10 points, "Sir Patrick Spens" is an example of what traditional British poems, that were set to music?
In a poem of this type, a man buries his sister and the child born through their incestuous union, who are respectively emblematized as a sheath and a knife.
ballads [or folk songs; prompt on songs] 