Bibliography - Modern Apollo, 1811

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Short Title Modern Apollo, 1811 
Title Modern Apollo 
Pages 144 
Publisher Humphreys, J. & A. Y. 
Location Newberry, Clements C2 1811 MO 
Date [1811] 
Place [Philadelphia] 
Data Place ClementsC2 1811 MO 
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Little cupid one day o'er a myrtle bough stray'd (fl)   
Glasses sparkle on the board, The (fl)  10   
Oh what is the matter with thee, my poor heart (fl)  11   
Young Henry was as brave a youth (fl)  11   
Waves may cancel every trace, The (fl)  12   
Thine I am, my faithful fair (fl)  12   
War, that for a space did fail, The (fl)  13   
We'll breathe not a kiss to the tell-tale air (fl)  13   
When in death I shall calm recline (fl)  14   
My father was once a great marchant (fl)  15   
Far, far from me my lover flies (fl)  17   
There is not in this wide world a vally so sweet [sic] (fl)  17   
Oh did you not hear of Kate Kearney (fl)  18   
We meet no more! oh, think on me (fl)  18   
George Barnwell stood at the shop door (fl)  19   
Ere around the huge oak (fl)  21   
From the white blosson'd sloe my dear Chloe (fl)  21   
Ah, who is that whose thrilling tones (fl)  22   
You gentlemen of England (fl)  23   
Ye sons of Columbia the trumpet of Fame (fl)  23   
Begone, dull care (fl)  24   
Whiten'd breakers lash'd the shore, The (fl)  25   
Triumphant, victorious, be Britons, my boys (fl)  25   
Ask'st thou how long my love shall stay? (fl)  26   
Mrs. Waddle was a widow, and made no little gain (fl)  27   
They tell us that Venus arose from the sea (fl)  28   
Heart that animates the brave, The (fl)  29   
When Steerwell heard me first impart (fl)  29   
Hark to yonder milkmaid singing (fl)  31   
I'll bind the rose, that sweetly blushes (fl)  31   
At the front of a cottage with woodbine grown o'er (fl)  32   
To England's towers of oak farewell (fl)  32   
Fair Sally, once the village pride (fl)  33   
Swain to his love went a wooing, A (fl)  34   
Good night, good night, and is it so (fl)  35   
Day was closed, the moon shone bright, The (fl)  35   
O when I was a little boy (fl)  36   
While I hang on your bosom, distracted to lose you (fl)  37   
Boat danced on Clyde's bonny stream, A (fl)  38   
Ah! had I but two little wings (fl)  39   
I've oft been ask'd by prosing souls (fl)  40   
When Vulcan forged the bolts of Jove (fl)  40   
Thy bosom, sweet maiden, is pure as the snow (fl)  42   
Tom Starboard was a lover true (fl)  43   
How blest the moments when first smiled the maid (fl)  44   
Downy cheek, so soft, so fair, The (fl)  44   
Ah, little blind boy! much too often you prove us (fl)  45   
He was famed for deeds of arms (fl)  45   
Here's the bower she loved so much (fl)  46   
For foreign climes to cross the sea (fl)  47   
No cheering sun beam's friendly ray (fl)  47   
Two real lovers with one heart (fl)  48   
Young Lobski said to his ugly wife (fl)  49   
Once tired of life (fl)  50   
Once on a time a pert young ape (fl)  51   
Youth took a wife, A (fl)  52   
Said a smile to a tear (fl)  53   
How sweet are the flowers that grow by yon fountain (fl)  54   
I'll to Court, among all the nobility (fl)  55   
I wander'd once at break of day (fl)  56   
Will you come to the bower I have shaded for you (fl)  56   
I have a heart, a little heart (fl)  57   
Frog he would a wooing go, A (fl)  58   
Cobler I am, and my name is Dick Awl, A (fl)  60   
Sly Reynard sneak'd out of a farmer's hen-roost (fl)  61   
Old Flam was a lawyer so grim (fl)  62   
Oh! roses are sweet on the beds where they grow (fl)  63   
Paddy Shannon, high mounted on his trotting little poney (fl)  64   
Tell, soldier, tell, and mark you tell me truly (fl)  65   
Landlady of France she loved an officer, 'tis said, A (fl)  66   
When first I was married to Kitty O'Conner (fl)  67   
Mistress Runnington wore a wig (fl)  68   
Did you ne'er hear a tale, how a lad in the vale (fl)  69   
In Chester town a man there dwelt (fl)  70   
Mary once had lovers two (fl)  72   
Wilt thou be mine, fair Caroline? (fl)  72   
Thimble's scolding wife lay dead (fl)  73   
Last week I took a wife (fl)  74   
How I love to laugh! (fl)  75   
In the famed town of Cadiz (fl)  75   
Last night the dogs did bark (fl)  76   
Dogs had ceased to bark, The (fl)  77   
Southerly wind and a cloudy sky, A (fl)  78   
Playhouse of liquor, 'tis found, A (fl)  80   
One night, 'twas at sea, in the midst of a storm (fl)  81   
You all have heard of crook-back'd Dick (fl)  82   
O have you not heard of a story (fl)  84   
Hero's life I sing, A (fl)  86   
William and Jonathan came to town together (fl)  89   
Fashion's all fiddle-de-dee (fl)  90   
Come, none of your nonsense, I'm not to be had (fl)  91   
There was an ancient fair, loved a nate young man (fl)  93   
Och, the top of the morning to Katty my jewel (fl)  94   
When first a little Smouchy, no higher than as that (fl)  94   
As bea[u]tiful Kitty one morning was tripping (fl)  95   
Spruce Mr. Clarke, The (fl)  96   
Should e'er the fortune be my lot (fl)  99   
Who'll serve the King? cried the serjeant aloud (fl)  100   
Young Humphry lived in Drury lane (fl)  101   
In England they tell us (fl)  102   
O what a dainty fine thing is the girl I love (fl)  102   
When wise man cleaveth to woman's side (fl)  103   
Rose of the valley in spring time was gay, The (fl)  105   
When I was a very little fellow (fl)  105   
Streamlet that flow'd round her cot, The (fl)  107   
When I came on the world without notice or name (fl)  107   
Warlike cymbals clashing sound, The (fl)  108   
Sea was rough, the clouds were dark, The (fl)  108   
To know which was the smartest girl, three goddesses one day (fl)  109   
Fly not yet, 'tis just the hour (fl)  110   
Go where glory waits thee (fl)  111   
Night before the battle's rage, The (fl)  112   
Your Molly has never been false she declares (fl)  112   
You've heard of one General MacBeth (fl)  113   
Och, love is the soul of a neat Irishman (fl)  115   
Come tell me, says Rosa, as kissing and kiss'd (fl)  116   
Tell her I'll love her while the clouds drop rain (fl)  117   
Of wine, of rosy wine a round (fl)  118   
Sweet is the woodbine's fragrant twine (fl)  118   
Poor joe the Marine at Portsmouth well known (fl)  119   
Stay, sweet enchanter of the grove (fl)  119   
Old Abou Casam of Bagdad city (fl)  120   
Roy's wife of Alldivaloch (fl)  122   
With hapless fears and breaking heart (fl)  122   
I forgot what Sterne says in his chapter of noses (fl)  123   
Arrah, come, sons of Erin, I'll give youa song (fl)  124   
My feyther put me to the school (fl)  125   
Deserted by the waning moon (fl)  127   
Twas one morn, when the wind from the northward blew keenly (fl)  128   
Around the face of blue-eyed Sue (fl)  130   
O what a story the papers have been telling us (fl)  130   
My merry gentle people pray (fl)  133   
You've heard of a frog in an opera hat (fl)  133   
My father he left me a snug little cot (fl)  134   
Parent oak its stately head, The (fl)  137   
To her I love O waft that sigh (fl)  137   
Oh sing, sweet bird, from that lovely strain (fl)  138   
Should e'er I brave the foaming seas (fl)  138   
[Deep as] the fountain of this beating heart (fl)  139   
Ploughman makes the furrows, The (fl)  139   
My heart with love is beating (fl)  140   
When order in this land commenced (fl)  141   
Just like love is yonder rose (fl)  143   
Let me not waste my sighs away (fl)  142   
Over port, pipe, or snuff-box there's always some wight (fl)  143   
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