Bibliography - American Songster, 1803

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Short Title American Songster, 1803 
Title American Songster, The 
Pages 204 
Publisher Campbell, Samuel 
Location RPB/0AoA/Rdx MF 3676 
Date 1803 
Place New-York 
Data Place Rdx S03676 
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Hail godlike Washington! (fl)  1-4  13 
Music, how pow'rful is thy charm! (fl)  4-5 
Smiling morn, the breathing spring, The (fl)  5-6 
Gallants attend, and hear a friend (fl)  6-9  22 
Will ye go to the ew-bughts, Marion (fl)  9-10 
On Etrick banks, in a summer's night (fl)  10-11 
Shepherds I have lost my love (fl)  11-12 
Dusky night rides down the sky, The (fl)  12-13 
Once more I'll tune the vocal shell (fl)  13-14 
Leave, neighbours, your work, and to sport and to play (fl)  14-15 
Ye fair married dames, who so often deplore (fl)  15-16 
To arms! ye brave mortals, to arms! (fl)  16   
By a murmuring stream a fair shepherdess lay (fl)  16-17 
At Totterdown-hill there dwelt an old pair (fl)  18 
All in the Downs the fleet was moor'd (fl)  19-20 
One morning very early, one morning in the spring (fl)  20-21 
Guardian angels now protect me (fl)  21-22 
Somehow my spindle I mislaid (fl)  22-23 
When lav'rocks sweet. and yellow broom (fl)  23 
Encompass'd in an angel's frame (fl)  23-24 
What beauties does Flora disclose? (fl)  24-25 
How blest has my time been? what joys have I known (fl)  26 
'Twas when the seas were roaring (fl)  26-28 
A courting I went to my love (fl)  28 
Topsail shivers in the wind, The (fl)  28-29 
Pride of all nature was sweet Willy O, The (fl)  29-30 
As bringing home the other day (fl)  30-31   
Come, now, all ye social pow'rs (fl)  31-32 
How happy a state does the miller possess (fl)  32-33 
When trees did bud, and fields were green (fl)  33-34 
One day I heard Mary say, How shall I leave thee? (fl)  34 
Cobler ther was, and he liv'd in a stall, A (fl)  35-36 
When Damon languish'd at my feet (fl)  36 
Wealthy fool with gold in store, The (fl)  36-37 
Merry may the maid be (fl)  37-38 
My days have been so wondrous free (fl)  38-39 
I've seen the smiling of fortune beguiling (fl)  39-40 
As Jamie Gay gang'd blyth his way (fl)  40-41 
I am a blade both free and easy (fl)  41-42 
My Peggy is a young thing (fl)  42-43 
Lawland lads think they are fine, The (fl)  43-44 
How blyth ilk morn was I to see (fl)  44-45 
When innocence and beauty meet (fl)  45-46 
Come live with me, and be my love (fl)  46-47 
Busy, curious, thirsty fly (fl)  47 
Adieu, ye jovial youths who join (fl)  47-48 
I envy not the proud their wealth (fl)  48 
In infancy our days were blest (fl)  49 
Spring was advancing, and birds were beginning, The (fl)  49-51 
I envy not the mighty great (fl)  51 
No glory I covet, no riches I want (fl)  51-52 
'Twas on the morn of sweet May day (fl)  52-53 
Sure a lass in her bloom, at the age of nineteen (fl)  53-54 
Let the tempest of war (fl)  54-55 
My name's Ted Blarney I'll be bound (fl)  55 
I once was a maiden as fresh as a rose (fl)  55-56 
In good king Charles's golden days (fl)  56-58 
Cease, rude Boreas, blust'ring railer! (fl)  58-60 
Gently stir and blow the fire (fl)  60 
When first this humble roof I knew (fl)  61 
When war's alarms entic'd my Willy from me (fl)  61-62 
Since ev'ry charm on earth combin'd (fl)  62 
When summer comes, the swains on Tweed (fl)  62-63 
Down the bourne and thro' the mead (fl)  63-64 
As you mean to set sail for the land of delight (fl)  64-65 
At the sign of the horse old Spintext of course (fl)  65-67  16 
Echoing horn calls the sportsmen abroad, The (fl)  67-68 
O the days when I was young (fl)  68-69 
Wand'ring sailor ploughs the main, The (fl)  69 
Here's to the maid of bashful fifteen (fl)  70 
In Jacky Bull, when bound from France (fl)  70-71 
Amo amas (fl)  71-72 
Sun from the east tips the mountains with gold, The (fl)  72-73 
How imperfect is expression (fl)  73-74 
Come, come my jolly lads (fl)  74 
'Twas I learn'd a pretty song in France (fl)  75-76 
I've kiss'd and I've pratted with fifty fair maids (fl)  76 
Return, enraptur'd hours (fl)  77 
Since Kathleen has prov'd so untrue (fl)  77-78 
Dear Kathleen, you, no doubt (fl)  78-79 
When Delia on the plain appears (fl)  79 
Why Collin, must your Laura mourn [sic] (fl)  80 
From the brook and the willow forsaking the plain (fl)  80-81 
Why heaves my fond bosom, Ah! what can it mean (fl)  81 
O'er desart plains and rushy meers [sic] (fl)  81-82 
Adieu! ye verdant lawns and bow'rs (fl)  82 
Beneath a green grove, a lovely swain (fl)  83 
As passing by a shady grove (fl)  84 
I sigh and lament me in vain (fl)  84-85 
And did you not hear of a jolly young waterman (fl)  85-86 
Let grave divines preach up dull rules (fl)  86-87 
Adieu, ye groves, adieu ye plains! (fl)  87-88 
Ye sons of Mars, attend (fl)  88-89 
In a mouldring cave, where the wretched retreat (fl)  89-90 
There was an old man, and though 'tis not common (fl)  90-91 
Women all tell me I'm false to my lass, The (fl)  91-92 
Friendship to every willing mind (fl)  93-94 
Says Plato why should man be vain? (fl)  94 
Since love is the plan (fl)  95 
Lovely nymph now cease to languish (fl)  95-96 
Banish sorrow grief and folly (fl)  96-97 
I delia's beauties would disclose (fl)  97-98 
No shepherdess of all the plain (fl)  99 
I sing the beauties that adorn (fl)  99-100 
Hyla's the sweetest maid on earth (fl)  100 
Let the gay ones and great (fl)  101 
Last Valentine's day when bright phoebus shone clear (fl)  101-102 
Ye sportsmen draw near, and ye sportswomen too (fl)  102-103 
Fields were green, the hills were gay, The (fl)  103-104 
Were I as poor as wretch can be (fl)  104 
All on the pleasant banks of Tweed (fl)  104-105 
Lord! Sir, you seem mighty uneasy (fl)  105 
Say, little foolish, fluttering thing (fl)  106 
My Jockey is the blithest lad (fl)  106-107 
Was I a shepherd's maid, to keep (fl)  107 
My shepherd is gone away o'er the plain (fl)  107-108 
From the man that I love, though my heart I disguise (fl)  108-109 
Maidens, let your lovers languish (fl)  109 
I'll sing of my lover all night and all gday (fl)  109-110 
As my cow I was milking just now in the vale (fl)  110-111 
From morning till night, and wherever I go (fl)  111-112 
Lord, what care I for mam and dad? (fl)  112 
Tho' prudence may press me (fl)  113   
When the sheep are in the fauld, and a' the kye at hame (fl)  113-114 
Summer it was smiling, nature round was gay, The (fl)  114-116 
'Twas in the dead of the night, soon after Jamie wed (fl)  116-117 
When first my dear Laddie gade to the green hill (fl)  117-118 
Silver moon's enamour'd beam, The (fl)  118-119 
That Jenny's my friend, my delight and my pride (fl)  119-120 
Believe my sighs, my tears, my dear (fl)  120 
Let the tempest of war (fl)  120-121 
As down on Banna's banks I stray'd (fl)  121-122 
Wherever, I'm going, and all the day long (fl)  122-123 
Sweet Sensibility! to every charm (fl)  123-124 
Of all the fine things that the gay celebrate (fl)  124 
Her sheep had in clusters crept close to a grove (fl)  125 
How stands the glass around? (fl)  126 
Ye virgins attend (fl)  126-127 
Oh! the days when I was young! (fl)  127-128 
Come, ye party jangling swains (fl)  128-129 
My temples with clusters of grapes I'll entwine (fl)  129-130 
See the conquering hero comes (fl)  132 
What a charming thing's a battle! (fl)  130-131 
Master I have, and I am his man, A (fl)  131-132 
Hark! hark! sweet lass, the trumpet sounds (fl)  132 
Go, tuneful bird, that glad'st the skies (fl)  133 
I dreamt I saw a piteous sight (fl)  133-134   
How oft, beneath yon artless bow'r (fl)  134-135 
Eliza, once in propect fair (fl)  135-16 
Your ancient bards, like rustic swains (fl)  136-138 
Cease, tyrant of my flaming bosom, cease (fl)  138 
When hope endears a lover's pain (fl)  139 
When swallows lay their eggs in snow (fl)  139 
As in the glowing noon of day (fl)  139-140 
What is a poet, Sir? you, Sir? no Sir! (fl)  140 
Hark! hark! o'er the plains what glad tumults we hear! (fl)  141-142 
Well met, jolly fellows, well met (fl)  142 
Oh! what pleasures will abound (fl)  143   
Since you mean to hire for service (fl)  143 
Man who in his breast contains, The (fl)  143-144 
Little muses come and cry (fl)  144   
Behold on the brow the leaves play in the breeze (fl)  145-146 
My banks are all furnish'd with bees (fl)  146-147 
Thou soft flowing Avon! by thy silver stream (fl)  147-148 
Teach me, ye nine, to sing of tea (fl)  148 
Farewell, the smoaky town, adieu (fl)  148-149 
Few years ago, in the days of my Grannum, A (fl)  149-150 
As Jockey was trudging the meadows so gay (fl)  150-151 
As t'other day milking I sat in the vale (fl)  151 
By the gayly circling glass (fl)  152 
Come bustle, bustle, drink about (fl)  152-153 
From Scotia's land he came (fl)  153-154 
Contented I am, and contented I'll be (fl)  154 
Dear heart! what a terrible life I am led! (fl)  155-156 
How happy were my days till now! (fl)  156 
Genteel is my Damon, engaging his air (fl)  156-157 
In my pleasant native plains (fl)  157 
When a youth commences love (fl)  158-159 
Ye fair possess'd of ev'ry charm (fl)  159 
Young Colin once courted Myrtilla the prude (fl)  159-160 
I winna marry ony mon but Sandy o'er the lee (fl)  160-161 
Love's a gentle, gen'rous passion (fl)  161 
Now's the time for mirth and glee (fl)  162 
When Flora o'er the garden stray'd (fl)  162-163 
Let rakes and libertines, resign'd (fl)  163 
One morning young Roger accosted me thus (fl)  164 
O Sandy, why leav'st thy Nelly to mourn? (fl)  165 
Sweet Poll of Plymouth was my dear (fl)  165-166 
Card invites, in crowds we fly, The (fl)  166-167 
Says Damon to Phillis, suppose my fond eyes (fl)  167 
Last time I came o'er the moor, The (fl)  168-169 
That I might not be plagu'd with the nonsense of men (fl)  169-170 
Was Nanny but a rural maid (fl)  170 
Water parted from the sea (fl)  171 
Well, well, sap no more (fl)  171 
When I was a young one, what girl was like me? (fl)  171-172 
With tuneful pipe and merry glee (fl)  172-173 
You tell me I'm handsome, (I know not how true) (fl)  173-174 
You've sure forgot, dear mother mine (fl)  174 
Let poets praise the flow'ry mead (fl)  175 
Ye Sylvan pow'rs that rule the plain (fl)  175-177 
'Twas at the break of day we spy'd (fl)  177-178 
Patie is a lover gay (fl)  178-179 
Sweet scented beau, and a simpering young cit, A (fl)  179 
Jolly mortals, fill your glasses (fl)  179-180 
When once I with Phillida stray'd (fl)  180-181   
When blushes dyed the cheek of morn (fl)  181-182 
In all mankind's promiscuous race (fl)  182   
At the close of the day when the hamlet is still (fl)  183-184 
'Twas thus, by the glare of false science betray'd (fl)  184   
When I wake with painful brow (fl)  185-186 
When hated morning's light (fl)  186-187 
Fair Hebe I left with a cautious design (fl)  187 
Adieu! the verdant lawns and bow'rs (fl)  188 
My sweet pretty Mog, you're as soft as a bog (fl)  188-189 
My dearest life, were thou my wife (fl)  189-190 
Amidst a rosy bank of flowers (fl)  190=191 
Now pleasure unbounded resounds o'er the plains (fl)  191 
Thou rising sun whose gladsome ray (fl)  191-192 
He that will not merry merry be (fl)  192-193   
Do you hear, dear brother sportsmen, the sound of the horn (fl)  193-194 
As I was ganging o'er the lee (fl)  194-195 
My bonny sailor's won my mind (fl)  195 
Leave kindred and friends sweet Betty (fl)  196 
Young Thyrsis, the pride of the plain (fl)  196-197 
Vain sorrows and cares shall no longer molest (fl)  197-198 
In the woodbines pleasing shade (fl)  198 
How sweetly the merry bells ring (fl)  199 
O'er moorlands and mountains rude, barren, and bare (fl)  200-201 
Distress me with those tears no more (fl)  201 
Choice of three lovers I have, to be sure (fl)  202 
There was a jolly miller once liv'd on the river Dee (fl)  202-203 
Blow high blow low, let tempests tear (fl)  203-204 
How happy's he, whoe'er he be (fl)  204 
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