Bibliography - Diamond English Sentimental, 1812

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Short Title Diamond English Sentimental, 1812 
Title Diamond Songster, The 
Pages 70 
Publisher Lucas, Jun'r, F. 
Location DLC/0AoA/DLC PR1187.I5 [62 songs: Lowens] 
Date 1812 
Place Baltimore 
Data Place Rdx S25267 
Comments Several versions, with different songs in each [Lowens 413, 414, 415, 416, 417, 418] MWA Catalog has S25267, 2 v. MP 25267. 
First Line Page Verses
Adieu to the village delights (fl)  3-4 
Deep in a vale a cottage stood (fl)  4-5 
Why does azure deck the sky? (fl) 
Hope told a flatt'ring tale (fl) 
I knew by the smoke that so gracefully curl'd (fl)  6-7 
Ah! sigh not for love, if you wish not to know (fl)  7-8 
Rose had been wash'd, just wash'd in a show'r, The (fl)  8-9 
Far retir'd from noise and smoke (fl)  10-11 
Oh! why should the girl of my soul be in tears (fl)  11-12 
Down in the valley the sun setting clearly (fl)  12-13 
To a shady retreat fair Eliza I trac'd (fl)  13 
Oh, take me to your arms my love, for keen the wind doth blow (fl)  14 
I have parks, I have grounds, I have deer, I have hounds (fl)  15 
Soft as yon silver ray, that sleeps (fl)  16 
All in the Downs the fleet was moor'd (fl)  16-19 
In the down-hill of life, when I find I'm declining (fl)  19-21 
Fly not yet! 'tis just the hour (fl)  21-22 
Said a smile to a tear (fl)  22 
Says Plato, why should man be vain (fl)  23-24 
Just like love is yonder rose (fl)  24-25 
Rose tree in full bearing, A (fl)  25 
I have a silent sorrow (fl)  26 
Deserted by the waning moon (fl)  26-27 
Drink to me only with thine eyes (fl)  27-28 
In the dead of the night when with labour opprest (fl)  28-29 
Blow, blow, thou winter's wind! (fl)  29 
I sing a maid of Lodi (fl)  30 
Come live with me, and be my love (fl)  31 
I am a brisk young lively lass (fl)  32-33 
Come haste to the wedding, ye friends and ye neighbours (fl)  33-34 
It was a winter's evening, and fast come down the snow (fl)  35-36 
Blest as th' immortal gods is he (fl)  36-37 
Ah, how sweet it is to love! (fl)  37-38 
Shall I, wasting in despair (fl)  38-39 
What is beauty, but a flow'r (fl)  39-40 
How stands the glass around? (fl)  40-41 
When Steerwell heard me first impart (fl)  41-43 
[I] wander'd once at break of day (fl)  43-44 
Oh! why dost thou shiver and shake, Gaffer Gray (fl)  44-46 
Silver moon that shines so bright, The (fl)  46-47 
Sigh no more ladies (fl)  47 
Ah, who is that whose thrilling tones (fl)  48 
Take, oh take those lips away (fl)  49 
Tho' my eyes, dearest Anna, to others will stray (fl)  49-50 
As pensive one night in my garret I sat (fl)  50-52 
Life let us cherish (fl)  46-47 
Wealthy fool with gold in store, The (fl)  53-54 
Thou rising sun whose gladsome ray (fl)  54-55 
Dear sir, this brown jug that now foams with mild ale (fl)  55-56 
Dear is my little native vale (fl)  56-57 
Friendship's a noble generous flame (fl)  57-58 
Hard is the fate of him who loves (fl)  58-59 
When Sappho tuned the raptured strain (fl)  59-60 
Night o'er the world her curtain hung (fl)  60-61 
Have you not seen the timid tear (fl)  61 
Faintly as rolls the evening chime (fl)  61-62 
When first this humble roof I knew (fl)  62-63 
When the rosy morn appearing (fl)  63 
How imperfect is expression (fl)  64 
Here a sheer hulk, lies poor Tom Bowling (fl)  65 
Alone to the banks of the dark rolling Danube (fl)  66-67 
'Twas on the twenty first of June (fl)  67-68 
Why, fair maid, in every feature (fl)  69 
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