Bibliography - Sky Lark, 1795

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Short Title Sky Lark, 1795 
Title Sky Lark, The 
Pages 228 
Publisher Thomas, Isaah, Jun 
Location AoA 
Date 1795 
Place Worcester 
Data Place AoA: E29517 
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On Richmond Hill, there live's a lass [sic]  11 
On the green sedgy banks of the sweet winding Tay  12 
Shepherds I have lost my love  13 
Dusky night rides down the sky, The  13-14 
No glory I covet, no riches I want  15 
'Twas on the morn of sweet May day  16-17 
I've kiss'd and I've prattled with fifty fair maids  17-18 
When Delia on the plain appears  18-19 
Adieu! ye verdant lawns and bowers  19 
Why heaves my fond bosom, ah! what can it mean?  20 
Women all tell me I'm false to my lass, The  20-22 
Some how my spindle I mislaid  22 
Beauteous starling late I saw, A  23-24 
O'er the vine covered hills and gay regions of France  24-26  10 
Trust not man for he'll deceive you  26 
Trust not woman she'll beguile you  26-27 
Rose that weeps with morning dew, The  27 
When I had scarcely told sixteen  28 
As on yon village lawn I stray'd  29 
Nae mair, ye bonny lasses gay  30 
Morning dew that wets the rose, The  31 
When first on the plain I began to appear  31-32 
Oft as on Thame's banks I stray  32-33 
There was a maiden in our town  33-35 
Dear is my little native vale  35 
Young Teddy is an Irish lad  36 
Come, sailors, be filling the can  37 
Could you to battle march away  38 
When the summer smiling bids the hillls  39 
When gentle love first fir'd my breast  40 
If your lovers, maids, forsake you  41 
Alas! the battle's lost and won  41-42 
Comely swain, why fit'st thou so?  42-43 
Were I oblig'd to beg my bread  43-44 
Spanking Jack was so comely, so pleasant, so jolly  44-46 
By a murmuring stream a fair shepherdess lay  46-47 
Guardian angels now protect me  48 
How happy a state does the miller possess  49-50 
Cobler there was, and he liv'd in a stall, A  50-52 
When Damon languish'd at my feet  52 
Wealthy fool, with gold in store, The  53 
Busy, curious thristy fly  53-54 
Adieu, ye jovial youths, who join  54-55 
I envy not the proud their wealth  55-56 
Spring was advancing, and birds were beginning, The  56-58 
I envy not the mighty great  58 
In good King Charle's golden days [sic]  59-60 
Cease, rude Boreas blust'ring railer!  61-63 
Since ev'ry charm on earth combin'd  63-64 
Echoing horn calls the sportsmen abroad, The  64-65 
Jacky Bull, when bound for France  65 
Banish sorrow grief and folly  66 
I Delia's beauties would disclose  67-68 
Hyla's the sweetest maid on earth  69 
Fields were green, the hills were gay, The  70 
Say, little foolish, fluttering thing  71 
Was I a shepherd's maid to keep  71 
In a mouldering cave, where the wretched retreat  72-73 
Friendship to every willing mind  73-74 
Says Plato why should man be vain?  75 
From the man that I love, though my heart I disguise  76 
Silver moon's enamour'd beam, The  77-78 
Believe my sighs, my tears, my dear  78 
Her sheep had in clusters crept close to a grove  79-80 
How stands the glass around?  80-81 
Ye virgins attend  81-82 
From the brook and the willow forsaking the plain  83 
Beneath a green grove, a lovely young swain  84-85 
As passing by a shady grove  85-86 
As bringing home, the other day  86-87 
O Nightingale! best poet of the grove!  87-88 
Farewell ye greenfields and sweet groves  88-89 
As Colinet and Phoebe sat  89-90 
Tho' youth and beauty grace the fair  91-92 
Sweet Betsy now employs my pen  92-93 
My temples with clusters of grapes I'll entwine  94-95 
Go! tuneful bird, that glads the skies  95 
Well met, jolly fellows, well met  96 
I dreamt I saw a piteous sight  97-98 
O'er desert plains and rushy meers  98-99 
I sigh and lament me in vain  99-100 
Lovely nymph! O cease to grieve me  100 
Lovely nymph now cease to languish  101 
How imperfect is expression  102 
For various purpose serves the fan  103 
Smiling morn, the breathing spring, The  103-105 
'Twas early on a holiday  105-107 
There was a frog liv'd in a well  107-109  24 
Let school masters puzzle their brain  109-110 
For a shape, and a bloom, and a mein  111 
Ah! fashion, wherefore dost thou still  112 
Dear Clora, let's love, while, in soft wanton gales  113-114 
See ruddy Aurora begins to appear  114-115 
When I comes to town with a load of hay  115-117 
When duty call'd, I sail'd away  117-118 
Charming village maid, The  118-119 
No more I'll court the town bred fair  119-120 
Eliza, once in prospect fair  120-121 
Hark! hark! o'er the plains what glad tumults we hear?  122-123 
Little Muses come and cry  124 
What's a poet, Sir? you, Sir? no Sir?  124-125 
My banks are furnish'd with bees  125-126 
Contented I am, and contented I'll be  126-128 
Dear heart! what a terrible life am I led!  128   
Ye fair possess'd of ev'ry charm  129 
Now's the time for mirth and glee  130 
Let rakes and libertines, resign'd  131 
Sweet Poll of Plymouth was my dear  131-132 
Last time I came o'er the moor, The  132-134 
When I was a young one, what girl was like me?  134-135 
Let poets praise the flow'ry mead  135-136 
Jolly mortals, fill your glasses  136-137 
When blushes dy'd the cheek of morn  137-138 
Music, how pow'rful is thy charm!  138-139 
Gallants attend, and hear a friend  139-143  22 
To hear a sweet goldfinch's sonnet  143-144 
Look, dear ma'am, I'm quite the thing  144-145 
How bright are the joys of the table  145-146 
While the lads of the village shall merrily, ah!  146-147 
Such beauties in view I  147-148 
In choice of a husband we widows are nice  148-149 
While some do love full bowls of quaff  149-150 
Lord! what care I for mam or dad?  150-151 
Of all the pretty flowers  151-152 
Sailor's life's a life of woe, A  152-154 
No care beyond the morrow!  154 
I thought our quarrels ended  155 
Three years a sailor's life I led  156 
Across the downs this morning  157-158   
Let shepherd lads and maids advance  158-159 
Leave, neighbours, your work, and to sport and to play  159-160 
All in the Downs the fleet was moor'd  161-162 
One morning, very early, one morning in the spring  163-164 
Topsail shivers in the wind, The  164-165 
Come now, all ye social pow'rs  165-166 
When trees did bud, and fields were green  167-168   
Once the Gods of the Greeks, at ambosial feast  168-171  16 
In hist'ries of heathens, by which tutors train us  171-174  11 
Cupid sent on a message one evening by Venus  174-176 
Now we're free from college rules  177-178 
Let us laugh at the common distinctions of state  179-180 
One evening Good Humour took Wit as hs guest  181-183 
Papilio the rich, in the hurry of love  183-185 
I've seen the smiling of fortune beguiling  185-186 
As Jamie gay gang'd blith his way  186-187 
Ye beauties, or such as would be fam'd  188-189 
Mon chere amie, let not despair  189 
Adieu, ye streams that gently flowing  190-191 
Sweet nightingale! queen of the spray  191 
With gloomy clouds of dismal dread  191-194  13 
To fly, like bird, from grove to grove  195-196 
In Eden Grove there dwells a maid  196-197 
By a whirlwind methought I through Aether was hurl'd  198-200  12 
Come care curing mirth  200-202  10 
O'er moorlands and mountains, rude, barren and bare  202-203 
For ages on ages by tyranny bound  203-204 
I'll sing you a song, and I'll sing all about it  205-207 
On Mira's toilet there was lain  207 
How happy is the man  208 
How blest is the bachelor's life  209-211 
Though grandeur flies my humble roof  211-212 
Ye dear pretty ladies  212-213 
Now Joan, we are married---and now let me say  214-215 
Flora at her talk one day  216 
Sportive swain, with graceful pride, The  217-218 
When Chloe try'd her virgin fires  218-219 
Unfold, Father Time, thy long records unfold  219-220 
Rose Tree in full bearing, A  221 
Does pity give, tho' Fate denies  221-222 
Distress me with those tears no more  222-223 
Shepherd of fortune possest, The  223-225  16 
Let meaner bards in rapt'rous strain  225-227 
Dame Liberty has fled to Gall  227-228 
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