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Short Title Vocal Muse, 1792 
Title Vocal Muse, The 
Pages 168 
Publisher Livingston 
Location 18th c. MF, 16080 #3 
Date 1792 
Place Philadelphia 
Data Place 18th c. 16080, 03 
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Where two tall elms their verdant boughs entwined  1-4   
Go, lovely rose! 
How pleas'd within my native bowers  5-6 
In airy dreams soft fancy flies 
Water parted from the sea  6-7 
Ask you who is singing here  7-8 
When Werter fair Charlotte beheld 
One kind kiss before we part 
Go, gentle zephyr! go and bear  9-10 
Hope whisper'd a flattering tale  10 
Not the soft sighs of vernal gales  11 
Ye swains, when radiant beauty moves  11-12 
Some women take delight in dress  12-13 
Sweet Echo, sweetest nymph, that liv'st unseen  13 
Encompass'd in an angel's frame  23-24 
From place to place, forlorn I go  15 
Thou soft-flowing Avon, by thy silver stream  15-16 
It rains, it rains, my fair  16-17  13 
When first I saw thee graceful move  18 
Come, dear Amanda, quit the town  18-19 
Hush ev'ry breeze, let nothing move  19 
Come thou lovely peace of mind  19-20 
By the side of a grove, at the foot of a hill  20-21 
Woman, thoughtless, giddy creature  21 
Ma chere amie, my charming fair  21-22 
When Delia on the plain appears  22-23 
Love's a pain that works our woe  23 
Deign, tuneful nine, to aid my lay  23-24 
O Memory! thou fond deceiver  24 
Vain is the thin disguise of art  25 
Return enraptur'd hours  25-26 
Perhaps it is not love, said I  26-27 
Quickly, Delia, learn my passion  27 
Awake, my love, with genial ray  27-28 
If in that breast, so good, so pure  28 
Shepherd, of fortune possest, The  28-30 
Amidst a bank of rosy flowers  30-31 
Nymphs I hate, who wan and pale  31-32 
When clouds that angel face deform  32 
From her, alas! whose smile was love  32-33 
Dawn of hope my soul revives, A  33 
Under the green-wood tree  34 
Whoe'er with curious eye has rang'd  34-35 
For ever, fortune! wilt thou prove  35-36 
How happy was my morn of love  36 
I told my nymph, I told her true  37 
How oft, Louisa, hast thou said  37-38 
'Twas near a thicket's calm retreat  38-39 
What virgin or shepherd in valley or grove  39-40 
In infancy our hopes and fears  40 
On Richmond Hill there lives a lass  40-41 
From glaring shew and giddy noise  41 
In the garden of love, as the garden of Flora  41-42 
Why sleeps the thunder in the skies  42 
From thee, Eliza, I must go  42-43 
In the world's crooked path where I've been  43 
See, I languish! see I faint!  43-44 
With truth on her lips she my infancy form'd  44 
Ah! tell me no more, my dear girl, with a sigh  44-45 
Thy fatal shafts unerring move  45 
Corydon beneath a willow  46 
Who can suspect sweet Marian's faith  46-47 
Beauty and wit, illustrious maid  47 
Streamlet that flow'd round her cot, The  48 
Oh! had I been by fate decreed  48-49 
Gentle airs sweet joys impart  49 
My fair one's like the roseate morn  49-50 
Say---what kind of revenge shall I take?  50 
O thou! whose love-inspiring air  50-51 
This cold flinty heart it is you who have warm'd!  51 
Say, my dear maid, can nought express  52 
Child of the summer, charming rose!  52-53 
Sweet inmate--sensibility!  53 
Dans votre lit, my Fanny say  53-54 
Love's a gentle, gen'rous, passion  54 
Fragrant lily of the vale, The  54-55 
Truth from thy radiant throne look down  55 
Come, dear Pastora, come away!  56-57 
Shepherds, shepherds, hither come!  57 
My time, O ye Muses! was happily spent  58-59 
Under friendship's calmer form  59 
Far on the sands the low retiring tide  60 
Vain phantom Hope---delusive cheat!  60-61 
Drink to me only with thine eyes  61 
Say, lovely maid, with down-cast eye  61-62 
Ere love did first my thoughts employ  62-63 
How happy was each gliding hour  63 
Charming Clarinda, every note  63-64 
By my sighs you may discover  64 
No more from fair to fair I'll rove  64-65 
When first upon your tender cheek  65-66 
Gentle shepherds, tell a stranger  66 
Ah! Delia see the fatal hour  66-67 
Primroses deck the banks green side  67-68 
How sweet is the blush of the morn  68-69 
Ye virgin pow'rs, defend my heart  69 
From the light down that mocks the gale  69-70 
When William at eve meets me down at the stile  70 
Sweet are the banks when spring perfumes  70-71 
Conflict's o'er, my love adieu, The  71-72 
Art thou fled, Elvira, say  72-73 
Oh! tell me, memory, no more  73 
Soft zephyr, on thy balmy wing  73-74 
Where Thames's silver currents glide  74-75 
For me my fair a wreath has wove  75 
One morning by the early dawn  75-76 
Charms which blooming beauty shews, The  77 
O clear that cruel doubting brow  77-78 
Hence, far hence, corroding care  78 
Eliza! once in prospect fair  79-80 
Wherefore bid me cease to sigh?  80 
Go, tuneful bird, that glads the skies  80-81 
Ye balmy gales, that gently blow  81 
By love too long depriv'd of rest  81-82 
Little wand'rer, ah forbear!  82-83 
Mein liebster freund, my dearest friend  83 
When hope endears a lover's pain  84 
Her sheep had in clusters crept close to a grove  84-85 
Whilst I with love's persuasive charms  85-86 
Young Colin having much to say  86-87 
In my pleasant native plains  87 
Adieu ye groves, ye meadows fair  88 
How imperfect is expression  88-89 
Look, lovely maid, on yonder flow'r  89-90  10 
Sun was sinking in the West, The  91 
Soft breathing, the zephyrs awaken the grove  92 
When gentle Celia first I knew  92-93 
Lone bird of eve, whose liquid throat  93-94 
Prythee, muse, indite my song  94-95 
Ah! seek to know, what place detains  95 
Moon had climb'd the highest hill, The  95-96 
Smiling morn, the breathing spring, The  96-97 
Ma bien Aimee, why is that face  97 
Where rural cots appear to sight  97-98 
Let all your boast of wealth and love  98-99 
Among the swains upon the green  99-100 
Know ye men that female lovers  100 
Delia's smile is wealth to me  100-101 
Zephyr, come, thou playful minion  101 
No more in field or shady grove  101-102 
Waft to her ear, kind gentle breeze  102 
Graces, virgins, fam'd of old, The  102-103 
Gentle winds, ah! cease to murmur  103-104 
Rise, ye fav'rites of the Muses  104 
Her mouth, which a smile  105 
In the morn as I walk thro' the mead  105-106 
Why will you plague me with your pain?  106-107 
Sweetest flow'rs are doom'd to fade  107 
Tell me thou soul of her I love!  107-108 
Raise your voices, what a pother  108-109 
No nymph that trips the verdant plain  109-110 
My fond shepherds of late were so blest  110 
Ah! why should love with tyrant sway  111 
Hark! hark! 'tis a voice from the tomb!  111-112 
'Midst silent shades and pearling streams  112 
O Nancy, wilt thou go with me  113 
Aletta, lovely girl, farewell!  114 
Each beauty does Flora disclose  114-115 
How can I forget the fond hour  116 
When first I knew young Sandy's face  116-117 
Come live with me, and be my love  117-118 
If all the world and love were young  118-119 
Why, cruel creature, why so bent  119 
Cold blew the wind---no gleam of light  119-120 
No glory I covet, no riches I want  120-121 
What wakes this new pain in my breast  121 
Ah! come Eliza, lovely maid  122 
Say, Mira, why is gentle love  122 
Humid seat of soft affection  122-123 
A courting I went to my love  123-124 
Emma, should I your tears regard  124 
How oft at the dawn of the day  124-125 
Our grotto was the sweetest place  125 
Fields now are looking so gay, The  125-126 
See down Maria's blushing cheek  126-127 
Ah, gentle zephyr! ah! if e'er  127 
Mama has often mention'd love  127 
His shafts, the terror of the skies  128 
Farewell, forever, charming fair  128 
Dare a timid youth confess  128-129 
Come Fancy! thou who canst regain  129-130 
Swains and the virgins so gay, The  130 
How oft, Maria, hast thou said  130-131 
My love, the pride of hill and plain  131 
Dying thrush young Edwin found, A  132 
Soft the gales of ardent love  132-133 
How gaily flourishes the rose  133 
Ere I beheld Eliza's form  134 
Tho' the Muses ne'er smile by the light of the sun  134-135 
Blest flower, that for my swain I chose  135 
As on yon village lawn I stray'd  135-136 
Queen of the garden! O how oft  136 
There's something in kissing, I cannot tell why  137 
Men are ugly, clumsy creatures  137 
To pity's mild breast shall the sigh  138 
Mon coeur, adieu! adieu my heart!  138 
How blest were my days, O ye swains!  138-139 
Sprightly eye, the rosy cheek, The  139-140 
Ah! why do silently grieve  140-141 
Repel those pensive sighs  141 
Enraptur'd I gaze when my Delia is by  142 
Yet awhile, sweet sleep, deceive me  142 
Kiss that he gave, when he left me behind, The  143   
I envy not the mighty great  143-144 
Beneath a weeping willow's shade  144 
When innocence and beauty meet  144-145 
Ye halcyon hours adieu!  145-146 
When love hath charm'd the virgin's ear  146 
As I was walking one morning in May  146-147 
Possest of ev'ry grace of form  147-148 
My love is gone to sea  148-149 
Come, peace of mind, delightful guest!  149-150 
Rouse Florella! angel sleeping!  150-151 
Silver rain, the pearly dew, The  151 
Shepherds, I have lost my love  151-152 
My days have been so wond'rous free  152-153 
Oh! soft remembrance, airy sprite  153 
One night when all the village slept  153-154 
You gave me last week a young linnet  154 
Unkown to affliction till urg'd by extremes  155 
Thyrsis, a young and am'rous swain  155-156 
Nor on beds of fading flowers  156 
Traveller benighted and lost, The  157 
When thy beauty appears  157-158 
At the close of the day, when the hamlet is still  158 
Young Strephon, pride of yonder plain  159 
Virtue, soft balm of every woe  159-160 
Hence to the plains, my helpless flocks  160 
Vainly now ye strive to charm me  160 
In spring, my dear shepherds. your flow'rets are gay  161 
Tho' misfortunes oppress me  161-162 
Thro' groves sequester'd, dark, and still  162 
No pastime, no sport can with hunting compare  163 
Hark! hark! the joy-inspiring horn  163-164 
Ye sportsmen draw near and ye sportswomen too  164-165 
Sweet scented beau and a simp'ring young cit, A  165-166 
Hunters are up and the ruddy fac'd morn, The  166 
Twins of Latona, so kind to my boon, The  167 
How sweet in the woodlands  167-168 
Bright Phoebus has mounted the chariot of day  168 
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