Add to ORKGBallad of lover's tragedy. Josephine loves a sailor (beneath her social station, through a childhood playmate). Her father discovers them together and shoots them. They die and are eternally inseparable.Mercer, 172, 227; Leach, 1965: 326; Peacock, 1965: 701, 703
A sailor marries one of the two girls he impregnated and the other\u27s ghost kills him.https://egro...
The narrator meets a young woman by the riverside one night. Her father wanted to shoot her lover, a...
The heroine's mother gave her one thousand pounds to send O'Reilley to America to escape her father'...
Cruel father attempts to shoot his daughter's sailor lover. The girl rushes to her lover's arms and ...
The narrator sees a young woman weeping: her lover, John O'Reilly, is at sea. Her father wanted to k...
Lovers are discovered by girl's father, who shoots and kills them.Mercer: Leach, p. 326; Peacock, p....
Sailor returns to find his true love married to a house carpenter. By promises of money and luxury h...
A sailor kills his wife and unborn child, sets sail, and is killed by her ghost.https://egrove.olemi...
Sailor dies at sea. Shipmates bring a letter to his true love in which he says he hopes they will me...
Sailor promised to return to his true love, Phoebe, after he serves his time at sea. She dies while ...
Woman is forced to marry someone other than her true love Johnny Doyle. Her pain is so great that sh...
The narrator fell in love with Sally Munro. He sent her a love letter via a friend, but the friend d...
Girl is forced to leave house by her cruel aunt when she falls in love with a sailor. She goes to h...
A man and a woman meet and fall in love. The man is poor whereas the woman is the daughter of a rich...
Father's oppostion forces lovers to leave and die in shipwreck.Laws M8, ABBB, '83; Mercer: Leach, 58...
A sailor marries one of the two girls he impregnated and the other\u27s ghost kills him.https://egro...
The narrator meets a young woman by the riverside one night. Her father wanted to shoot her lover, a...
The heroine's mother gave her one thousand pounds to send O'Reilley to America to escape her father'...
Cruel father attempts to shoot his daughter's sailor lover. The girl rushes to her lover's arms and ...
The narrator sees a young woman weeping: her lover, John O'Reilly, is at sea. Her father wanted to k...
Lovers are discovered by girl's father, who shoots and kills them.Mercer: Leach, p. 326; Peacock, p....
Sailor returns to find his true love married to a house carpenter. By promises of money and luxury h...
A sailor kills his wife and unborn child, sets sail, and is killed by her ghost.https://egrove.olemi...
Sailor dies at sea. Shipmates bring a letter to his true love in which he says he hopes they will me...
Sailor promised to return to his true love, Phoebe, after he serves his time at sea. She dies while ...
Woman is forced to marry someone other than her true love Johnny Doyle. Her pain is so great that sh...
The narrator fell in love with Sally Munro. He sent her a love letter via a friend, but the friend d...
Girl is forced to leave house by her cruel aunt when she falls in love with a sailor. She goes to h...
A man and a woman meet and fall in love. The man is poor whereas the woman is the daughter of a rich...
Father's oppostion forces lovers to leave and die in shipwreck.Laws M8, ABBB, '83; Mercer: Leach, 58...
A sailor marries one of the two girls he impregnated and the other\u27s ghost kills him.https://egro...
The narrator meets a young woman by the riverside one night. Her father wanted to shoot her lover, a...
The heroine's mother gave her one thousand pounds to send O'Reilley to America to escape her father'...