Meanings of little ballad in English

He is pouring twenty years, twenty well-spent years, into a tawdry little ballad.

And that little ballad spoke, according to that judgment, as sensual and irrational at once.

Can you compose music for this little ballad?

Then she began to sing a sweet little ballad which she had learned soon after her mother's death.

But instead, she gave the little ballad, 'And bring my love again, for he lies among the moors.'

She hummed the tune of a little ballad to herself, and sat down on the first convenient piece of fallen masonry.

Besides his tune, very pleasing and appropriate music has been written to the little ballad of the broken wing by Geo.

Lady Minto felt very deeply the parting with her dearly-loved child, and after the wedding she sent her the following little ballad:

I trust that, in adapting the words of the following little ballad to a well-known English air, I have committed no unpardonable larceny.

So Buck romps off on his joyous mission, singing a little ballad that goes: "To hell with the man that works!"

Seated at the piano is Marguerite, who is singing a quaint little ballad for the benefit of a company of children gathered at her feet.

And then, amid the pause which followed, Sophie Tarne began a plaintive little ballad in a sweet, tremulous voice, which gathered strength as she proceeded.

Her little ballads, though the same that she had always sung, yet breathed a more tender spirit.

'Sing some little ballad, darling,' quoth Mr. Leaver.

'Will you' sing that little ballad over again, Miss Allen?' asked Mrs. Cameron, gravely seating herself.

A poor Irish lad, so pitted by smallpox that boys made sport of him, earned his living by writing little ballads for street musicians.