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a song (or poem) that tells a story- her latest album is a collection of love ballads.
ballads = songs that tells a story
- ...write a ballad of this dream.Shakespeare, William -- A Midsummer Night's Dream
- As the Knight sang the last words of the ballad, he ...Lewis Carroll -- Through the Looking-Glass
- For as long as I remember, especially when in a good mood, he sang this Mexican ballad that I never could figure out the words to.Victor Martinez -- Parrot in the Oven
- This is a merry ballad;William Shakespeare -- The Winter's Tale
- The old ballad which tells of their fight says...McSpadden, J. Walker -- Robin Hood
- The common folk held him dear, and his memory is still green in ballad and tradition.Twain, Mark -- A Tramp Abroad
- Thanks to this change of position, he was able to listen to the ballad with far less embarrassment than before.Dostoyevsky, Fyodor -- The Idiot
- A good ballad draws my ear and heart whilst I listen, as much as an epic has done before.Emerson, Ralph Waldo -- Essays, First Series
- "This speech is longer than a marcher ballad, and I don't think he's stopped for breath."George R.R. Martin -- A Feast For Crows
- Old poems, ballads, books he had read many times over, gave greater pleasure than ever.David McCullough -- John Adams
- Hour after hour of ballads, love songs, mountain airs.Suzanne Collins -- Mockingjay
- Il y a longtemps queje t'aime jamais je ne t'oublierai—it's the old French ballad I used to sing to Alec and Isabelle.Cassandra Clare -- City of Ashes
- The next number was a slow ballad in which a woman sang about her lover on death row.Nicholas Evans -- The Horse Whisperer
- Theresa had always loved her music, but when Linda later walked to the microphone to perform a dreamy ballad, Theresa nonetheless began to cry.Nicholas Sparks -- Message in a Bottle
- But, like Jenny in the ballad....Louisa May Alcott -- Little Women
- Ben turns on the radio finally and finds a rock station with ballads we can sing along to.John Green -- Paper Towns
- And then privily he wrote unto her letters and ballads of the most goodliest that were used in those days.Thomas Malory -- Le Morte D'Arthur, Volume I
- This progress you will see easily in that old English ballad TURPIN HERO which begins in the first person and ends in the third person.James Joyce -- A Portrait of the Artist as a Young Man
- A lay for your eyes, a ballad for your lips, a duet to your breasts.George R.R. Martin -- A Storm of Swords
ballad = a song that tells a story
ballad = a song that tells a story
ballad = a song (or poem) that tells a story