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Short Title Songster's Companion, 1815 
Title Songster's Companion, The 
Pages 312 
Publisher  
Location DLC*, MB, MH, RPB, MWA/AoA 
Date 1815 
Place Brattleborough, Vt. 
Data Place AoA S35980 
Comments RPB catalog says it is different from MWA/AoA copy, "Not in Lowens." Both AoA/MWA and RPB copies have last page signature "Rhode Island American." Appear to match. 
First Line Page Verses
Ah! soldiers of Britain! your merciless doings (fl)  13-14 
There came to the beach a poor exile of Erin (fl)  16-17 
At the close of the day, when the Hamlet is still (fl)  18-19 
In the dead of the night, when with labor oppress'd (fl)  19-20 
Columbia! Columbia! to glory arise (fl)  20-22 
Alone to the banks of the dark-rolling Danube (fl)  22-23 
Bright Phoebus has mounted the chariot of day (fl)  23 
Come buy of poor Mary, primroses I sell (fl)  23-24 
Kiss that he gave me when he left me behind, The (fl)  24 
Bright chanticleer proclaims the dawn (fl)  25 
Begone, dull Care, I pray thee begone from me (fl)  26 
Come, messmates, fill the flowing can (fl)  26-27 
Contented I am, and contented I'll be (fl)  27-29  11 
In the first book of Job that I now mean to quote (fl)  29-33  14 
And bearing up to gain the port (fl)  30 
Why Moses, why Aaron, my boys I'm glad that I've met with you here (fl)  30 
I've kiss'd and I've prattled with fifty fair maids (fl)  31 
I sigh! and lament me in vain, these walls can but echo my moan (fl)  31 
Cease rude Boreas Blustering railer (fl)  31-32 
Oh! dear, what can the matter be (fl)  32 
Tho' far beyond the mountains that look so distant here (fl)  33 
'Twas within a mile of Edinburgh town (fl)  34 
When first from Kilkenny, as fresh as a daisy (fl)  34-35 
Down the burn and thro' the mead (fl)  35-36 
Shepherds I have lost my love (fl)  36-37 
As Cupid in a garden stray'd (fl)  37 
As down on Banna's banks I stray'd (fl)  38-39 
Adieu, a heart warm, fond adieu (fl)  39-40 
Adieu, adieu, my only life (fl)  41 
Blithe Sandy is a bonny boy (fl)  42 
O Fortune how strangely thy gifts are awarded (fl)  43-44 
Twins of Latona, so kind to my boon, The (fl)  44-45 
'Twas on the morn of sweet May day (fl)  45-46 
It was summer so softly the breezes were blowing (fl)  46-47 
This world is a stage, where all men engage (fl)  47-49  10 
Whilst in peaceful quarters lying (fl)  49-52  11 
Young Willy woo'd me long in vain (fl)  52 
Busy, curious, thirsty fly (fl)  53 
Faint and weary the way-worn traveller (fl)  53 
Oh! think on my fate, once I freedom enjoy'd (fl)  54 
O Sandy, why leav'st thy Nelly to mourn (fl)  54-55 
Oh! the moment was sad when my love and I parted (fl)  55-56 
On the green sedgy banks of the sweet winding Tay (fl)  56-57 
Cold blew the wind, no gleam of light (fl)  57-58 
O Logie of Buchan, O Logie the Laird (fl)  58-59 
Cease, ye fountains, cease to murmur (fl)  59-60 
In the world's crooked paths where I've been (fl)  60 
Ye sons of Columbia, who bravely have fought (fl)  61-63 
My name d' ye see's Tom Tough, I've seen a little service (fl)  63-65 
Tho' Bacchus may boast of his care killing bowl (fl)  65-66 
When bidden to the wake or fair (fl)  66 
What a charming thing's a battle! (fl)  67 
Echoing horn calls the sportsmen abroad, The (fl)  67-68 
Life's like a ship in constant motion (fl)  68-69 
Far remov'd from noise and smoke (fl)  69-70 
Friendship to every willing mind (fl)  70-71 
Stay Lady---stay for mercy's sake (fl)  72 
All in the Downs the fleet was moored (fl)  73-74 
Adieu, adieu, my only life (fl)  74-75 
Ben Backstay loved the gentle Anna (fl)  75-76 
Could you to battle march away (fl)  76-77 
Cease, rude Boreas, blustering railer (fl)  77-80 
Dear Nancy, I've sailed the world all around (fl)  80-81 
For Columbia, when with favoring gale (fl)  81-82 
Here, a sheer hulk, lies Tom Bowling (fl)  82 
It was over the mountain and over the moor (fl)  83 
I that once was a ploughman, a sailor am now (fl)  83-85 
I've seen the smiling of fortune beguiling (fl)  85 
Let Masonry from pole to pole (fl)  86 
Peaceful slumbering on the ocean (fl)  86-87 
Push about the brisk bowl, 'twill enliven the heart (fl)  87-88 
Says Plato---why should man be vain (fl)  88-89 
'Twas in the pleasant month of May (fl)  89-90 
Sun sets at night and the stars shun the day, The (fl)  90-91 
Thou soft flowing Avon, by thy silver stream (fl)  91 
'Tis said we vent'rers die hard, when we leave shore (fl)  91-93 
When I was a young one, what girl was like me (fl)  93-94 
Why fair maid, in ev'ry feature (fl)  94-95 
Were I oblig'd to beg my bread (fl)  95-96 
Why should our joys transform to pain? (fl)  96-98  10 
Why should we at our lot repine (fl)  98-99 
John Bull for pastime took a prance (fl)  99-100 
I am lately return'd from the ocean (fl)  100-103 
On Primrose Hill there liv'd a lass (fl)  103-104 
Sweet country life is delightful and charming, A (fl)  105 
John Anderson, my Jo, John, when we were first acquaint (fl)  105-106 
Little thinks the townsman's wife (fl)  107 
Of all the girls that are so smart (fl)  107-109 
Songs of shepherds in rustical roundelays (fl)  109-111 
Wealthy fool with gold in store, The (fl)  111 
Attention pray give, while of hobbies I sing (fl)  112-113 
To my muse give attention, and deem it not a mystery (fl)  113-115  11 
In the praise of Queen Bess lofty strains have been sung, sir (fl)  115-117  10 
Ah Delia see the fatal hour (fl)  117-118 
Leander on the bay (fl)  119-120 
Gallants, attend, and hear a friend (fl)  121-124  22 
Giles Scroggins courted Molly Brown (fl)  124 
Anacreon they say was a jolly old blade (fl)  125 
Fresh and strong the breeze was blowing (fl)  126 
Forbear my friends, forbear and ask no more (fl)  126-128  12 
Her sheep had in clusters crept close by the grove (fl)  128-129 
Oh! say simple maid, have you form'd any notion (fl)  129-130 
Poll, dang' it, how d' ye do? (fl)  130-131 
See now the blust'ring Boreras blows (fl)  131-134 
Tho' oft we meet severe distress (fl)  134-135 
'Twas Saturday night, the twinkling stars (fl)  135-136 
'Twas when the seas were roaring (fl)  137-138 
To Bachelor's hall we good fellows invite (fl)  138-139 
When my fortune does frown (fl)  139-140 
Come now all ye social pow'rs (fl)  140-141 
Who has e'er been in London, that overgrown place (fl)  142-143  11 
Well there is in the west country, A (fl)  143-145  13 
To Anacreon in heaven where he sat in full glee (fl)  145-147 
I'm lonesome since I cross'd the hill (fl)  147-148 
Assist me ye lads, who have hearts void of guile (fl)  148-149 
In a little blue garment all ragged and torn (fl)  149-150 
My seventeenth year scarce over (fl)  150-152 
Rebecca was the fairest maid (fl)  152-153 
When "Friendship, Love, and Truth" abound (fl)  153-154 
Ere around the huge oak that o'ershadows yon mill (fl)  154-155 
If pity, sweet maid, ever dwelt in thy breast (fl)  155 
Tho' muses ne'er smile by the light of the sun (fl)  155-156 
Hence, fell discontent and its murmuring train (fl)  156-157 
Trees seem to fade as yon dear spot I'm viewing, The (fl)  157-158 
'Twas in the ev'ning of a wintry day (fl)  158-159 
In April, when primroses paint the sweet plain (fl)  159 
Too late for redress, but too soon for my ease (fl)  160 
While I hang on your bosom, distracted to loose you (fl)  160-161 
My mam is no more, and my dad's in his grave (fl)  161 
Spring time returns, and clothes the green plains, The (fl)  161-162 
I'm a poor little orphan, ah! pity me, pray (fl)  162-163 
When first I slipp'd my leading strings to please her little Poll (fl)  163-164 
Now driving thro' Highgate I stop't a good while in't (fl)  164-165 
Dear sir, this brown jug that now foams with mild ale (fl)  165-166 
Oh the hours I have past in the arms of my dear (fl)  166 
Ye sons of Columbia, O hail the great day (fl)  166-168 
Alexis, how artless a lover! (fl)  168-169 
Come, poet, come thy song rehearse (fl)  169-170 
Western sky was purpled o'er, The (fl)  170-171 
In the down-hill of life, when I find I'm declining (fl)  171-172 
Ye sons of Hibernia, who snug on dry land (fl)  172-175  12 
Moment comes on which we sever, The (fl)  175-176 
Oh! see that form that faintly gleams (fl)  176 
Dying thrush young Edwy found, A (fl)  176-177 
Of Leinster, fam'd for maidens fair (fl)  177-179  18 
Street was a Ruin, and Night's horrid glare, The (fl)  180-181 
I love but I dare not say who (fl)  181 
Sweet to the morning traveller (fl)  181-182 
Well, here I am, and what of that? (fl)  182-183 
Let care be a stranger to each jolly soul (fl)  183-184 
When I first went to school it was all my delight (fl)  184-186 
Sup of good whiskey will make you glad, A (fl)  186-187 
Prey to tender anguish, A (fl)  187-189 
Last night the dogs did bark (fl)  189 
Away with melancholy (fl)  190 
Rose had been wash'd, lately wash'd in a show'r, The (fl)  190-191 
Down in the valley the sun setting clearly (fl)  191 
Passing bell was heard to toll, The (fl)  191-193 
Now Robin, says she, since thou art my son (fl)  193-194 
Behold! Behold! with generous hand (fl)  195-196 
Brave sons of Columbia your triumph behold! (fl)  196-198 
When vent'rous o'er th' Atlantic main (fl)  198-199 
Sailor's life's a life of woe, A (fl)  199-201 
Day is departed and round from the cloud, The (fl)  201-202 
Streamlet that flow'd round her cot, The (fl)  202 
When first this humble roof I knew (fl)  202-203 
Pomp of courts and pride of kings, The (fl)  203 
When stranded on some desart coast (fl)  204 
Ye vile swinish herd in the sty of taxation (fl)  204-206  12 
Nor drunk, nor yet sober, but brother to both (fl)  207-208 
Fame, let thy trumpet sound (fl)  208-209 
Fairest flow'rets bring, The (fl)  209-210 
In a chariot of light from the regions of day (fl)  210-211 
How sweet, charming nymph, was that soft melting sigh (fl)  211-212 
Sigh of the west-wind breath'd gratefully by (fl)  212-213 
Man bare of cash, and deserted by hope, A (fl)  213 
What! the Girl I adore, by another embraced? (fl)  213-214 
Heath this night must be my bed, The (fl)  214 
While women, like soft music's charms (fl)  215-216 
There was a bonny blade (fl)  216-217 
When lovely woman stoops to folly (fl)  217-218 
Leave party disputes, your attention I pray (fl)  218-219 
Tobacco's but an Indian weed (fl)  219 
Now, Joan, we are married---and now let me say (fl)  219-220 
One evening alone in the grove (fl)  221 
Oh! lady fair, where art thou roamimg? (fl)  221-222  10 
Faintly as tolls. the ev'ning chime (fl)  222-223 
It was a friar of orders grey (fl)  223-224 
I sing the maid of Lodi (fl)  224-225 
Deep in love, yes! 'tis love (fl)  225-226 
Who is it that rides thro' the forest so fast (fl)  226-227 
In a cottage enbosm'd within a deep shade (fl)  227-228 
In times so long past, though I still am but young (fl)  229   
What, is there ill news, you're so sad, Robin Gray (fl)  229-230 
When business calls or friends invite me (fl)  230-231 
Give me a kiss before you go (fl)  231-232 
Farewell, farewell, my native land (fl)  232-234  19 
They made her a grave, too cold and damp (fl)  235-236 
I knew by the smoke that so gracefully curl'd (fl)  236-237 
Says Richard to Thomas. (and seem's half afraid) (fl)  237-238 
Oh! woman, if by simple wile (fl)  238 
Dark is the night, and deep and low'ring (fl)  239-243  12 
When the party commences, all starch'd and all glum (fl)  243-246 
Give Isaac the nymph, who no beauty can boast (fl)  246-247 
And wherefore do the poor complain? (fl)  247-248  12 
Why, sweet Affection, hast thou power (fl)  248-249 
No plate had John and Joan to hoard (fl)  249-250 
Loud, loud blows the wind on the moor (fl)  250-251 
See how, beneath the moonbeam's smile (fl)  252 
Broom bloom'd so fresh and so fair, The (fl)  252-253 
With careless care we court our charms (fl)  253-254 
Sea was calm, the sky serene, The (fl)  254-255 
Friendship, thou charmer of the mind (fl)  255-256 
How sweet is love when virtue guides (fl)  256 
Moon had clim'b the highest hill, The [sic] (fl)  256-257 
Ye ling'ring winds that feebly blow (fl)  257-258 
Soft blew the gale near yon bank side (fl)  258-259 
Here wanton gales perfume the glade (fl)  259-260 
See down Eliza's blushing cheek (fl)  260 
Sun when arising, bespangles the dew, The (fl)  261 
What virgin or shepherd in valley or grove (fl)  262 
For me my fair a wreath has wove (fl)  263-264 
I have a silent sorrow here (fl)  264 
My heart from my bosom would fly (fl)  264-265 
From place to place I travers'd long (fl)  265-266 
Braes were bonny, Yarrow stream, The (fl)  266-267 
Here's a box for your toilet, dear maid (fl)  268 
How sweet to the heart is the thought of to-morrow (fl)   
Since then I'm doom'd this sad reverse to prove (fl)  270 
I envy not the proud their wealth (fl)  270-271 
Keen blew the blast, the night unkind (fl)  271 
Where new mown hay on winding Tay (fl)  272 
Round love's elysian bowers (fl)  273 
When pensive I thought of my love (fl)  273-274 
Sacred boon of favorite heaven (fl)  274 
My friends all declare that my time is mispent (fl)  274-275 
Why are we fond of toil and care (fl)  275-276 
Come, come, lovely girl, let us stray (fl)  276 
Friend of my soul this goblet sip (fl)  277 
Let the great man his treasure possessing (fl)  277-278 
Was it because her face was fair (fl)  279 
Near yonder Cot upon the Moor (fl)  279-280 
In slumbers of midnight the sailor-boy lay (fl)  280-282  14 
Of their Chloes and Phillises poets may prate (fl)  282-283 
On Linden, when the sun was low (fl)  283-284 
Where Schuykill o'er his rocky bed (fl)  285-286 
I scorn, dearest Chloe, your charge to deny (fl)  286 
Where the light cannot pierce, in a grove of tall trees (fl)  286-287 
Oh! had it been my happy lot (fl)  287 
How bright was my youth's early dawn! (fl)  287-288 
Sweet Lady; look not thus again (fl)  288-289 
Will you, my love! The moon is high (fl)  289-290 
Now my Laura, I must leave thee (fl)  290-291 
Where is now the smile that lighten'd (fl)  291-292 
Let some in grog place their delight (fl)  292-293 
Youth to me a wooing came, A (fl)  294 
To the city I've bid an adieu! (fl)  294-296  14 
Britannia's gallant streamers (fl)  297-299 
No more of your blathering nonsense (fl)  299-301 
O! freemen! raise a joyous strain! (fl)  301-302 
Columbia's banner rides thy flood (fl)  302-303 
Sir George Prevost with all his host (fl)  303-307  14 
Columbia's shores are wild and wide (fl)  307-309 
O'er Huron's wave the sun was low (fl)  309-311  14 
Fill to the brave. who contend in the field (fl)  311-312 
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