The Jolly Beggar The Jolly Beggar The Jolly Beggar also known as The Gaberlunzieman is Child ballad 279. The song's chorus inspired lines in Lord Byron's poem "So, we'll go no more a roving." A beggar comes over the hills one day, and knocks on the door of a local farmer and asks for a roof for the night. Curiously, he will not accept a bed in the barn, but wishes only to sleep by the kitchen fire. Late at night, the farmer's daughter comes down to lock the kitchen door. The beggar and daughter exchange words, and fall in love. They sleep
Epistolary poem separate exchanges of paired epistles, one each from a heroic lover to his absent beloved and from the heroine in return. A number of epistolary poems were published as separate works in England during the so-called "Long Eighteenth Century", i.e., about 1688 - 1815. Examples of epistolary poems include: Epistolary poem An epistolary poem, also called a verse letter or letter poem, is a poem in the form of an epistle or letter. Epistolary poems date at least as early as the Roman poet Ovid (43 BC – 17 or 18 AD), who wrote the "Heroides" ("The Heroines") or "Epistulae