The Ballad of Reading Gaol ( Oscar Wilde). The Ballad of Moll Magee ( William Butler Yeats). 
The Ballad of East and West ( Rudyard Kipling). A Ballad of Boding (Christina Rossetti). A Ballad of Burdens (Algernon Charles Swinburne). 
The Ballad of the Dark Ladie (Samuel Taylor Coleridge). John Barleycorn: A Ballad ( Robert Burns). Here are some famous examples of ballads in poetry: These literary ballads became crossroads between the oral tradition of folk ballads and modern narrative poems in ballad form. But even as stand-alone verses, BARRACK-ROOM BALLADS is a strong keeper.Though ballads began in folk-song form, many Romantic and Victorian poets adopted this literary device in the 18th and 19th centuries. You will profit from some historical context on the 19th Century British Raj in India, also from a glossary of Hindustani or Anglo-Indian phrases as mauled by common soldiers and from a map or two as well. *** Other things being equal, buy a scholarly edition of BARRACK-ROOM BALLADS. (1) "Tommy": "We aren't no thin red 'eroes, nor we aren't no blackguards too,/ But single men in barricks, most remarkable like you" - (2) "Gunga Din": "'E'll be squattin' on the coals/Givin' drink to poor damned souls,/An' I'll get a swig in hell from Gunga Din!" - (3) "The Widow at Windsor" - (4) "Mandalay": "Ship me somewheres east of Suez, where the best is like the worst,/Where there aren't no Ten Commandments an' a man can raise a thirst" - (5) "Gentlemen-Rankers": "We're poor little lambs who've lost our way,/Baa! Baa! Baa!/We're little black sheep who've gone astray,/ Baa-aa-aa!/Gentlemen-rankers out on the spree,/Damned from here to Eternity,/God ha' mercy on such as we,/Baa! Yah! Bah!" - (6) "Cholera Camp": "We've got to die somewhere - some way - some'ow -/We might as well begin to do it now!. ***A half dozen of the ballads are still recited or sung today. 
The points of view expressed usually come from rankers and non-coms in barracks in cantonments, from little people who put in their six years soldiering abroad for Queen Victoria and then go home to England, Ireland, Wales or Scotland. *** These are soldier stories, Tommy stories, British GI in India Thomas Adkins stories. Rudyard Kipling's two-part (1892, 1896) BARRACK-ROOM BALLADS is holding up as a good read more than a century after its 38 poems first appeared in book form.
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