Sentence examples for wrote a ballad from inspiring English sources

(Ms. Vollers finds a smitten granny who wrote a ballad about him).

She wrote a ballad called "The Burglar of Babylon" about a young man she saw being chased by the police through the favela's noisome alleyways.

Robert Calvert wrote a ballad about him in 1985: "They said Ned Ludd was an idiot boy/ That all he could do was wreck and destroy," the song begins.

That summer Dylan wrote a ballad championing boxer Rubin "Hurricane" Carter, imprisoned for a triple murder in Paterson, New Jersey, in 1966.

She wrote a ballad in the 1920s lamenting the death of a 22-year-old vagrant who was beaten to death in a labor camp, titled "Martin Tabert of North Dakota is Walking Florida Now".

Federal Hill is often cited as the inspiration for Judge Rowan's cousin Stephen Foster, who wrote a ballad called "My Old Kentucky Home," now the official Kentucky state song.

But behind the rough exterior, he is the kind of person who would write a ballad for Missy, his dog.

Not everything he did was good, but the art of songwriting, the art of writing a ballad – he's got it down pat".

Working on Indian affairs by day and attending the House of Commons in the evenings, he nevertheless found time to write a ballad, "The Armada," as well as eight literary and historical essays for The Edinburgh Review.

Something rotten in Reading If Oscar Wilde were alive now, he might write a Ballad of Reading East, in which "some grow mad and all grow bad", because something is poisoning the political atmosphere in that constituency.

Who else could write a ballad from the point of view of a Styrofoam cooler ("I'm a cheap, spent shell / and a biohazard / grind me up then mail me away / maybe transmogrified / I'll be satisfied"), let alone grant that cooler dignity?