Bibliography - Irish Melodies-1, 1816

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Short Title Irish Melodies-1, 1816 
Title Irish Melodies, Songs and Sacred Songs 
Pages 176 
Publisher Thomas, Moses 
Location MWA/0AoA/0WC/MWA Cat Dated Books 
Date 1816 
Place Philadelphia 
Data Place MWA Dated Books 
Comments  
First Line Page Verses
Go where glory waits thee (fl)  5-6 
Remember the glories of Brien the brave (fl)  7-8 
Erin! the tear and the smile in thine eyes (fl) 
Harp that once through Tara's halls, The (fl)  10 
Oh! breathe not his name, let it sleep in the shade (fl)  11 
When he who adores thee, has left but the name (fl)  12 
Fly not yet, 'tis just the hour (fl)  13-14 
Oh! think not my spirits are always as light (fl)  15 
Though the last glimpse of Erin with sorrow I see (fl)  16 
Rich and rare were the gems she wore (fl)  17-18 
As a beam o'er the face of the waters may glow (fl)  19 
There is not in the wide world a valley so sweet (fl)  20 
O haste and leave this sacred isle (fl)  21-22 
Take back the virgin page (fl)  23-24 
How dear to me the hour when day-light dies (fl)  25 
When in death I shall calm recline (fl)  26 
How oft has the Benshee cried (fl)  27-28 
We may roam through this world, like a child at a feast (fl)  29-30 
Oh weep for the hour (fl)  31 
Let Erin remember the days of old (fl)  32-33 
Silent, oh Moyle! be the roar of thy water (fl)  34 
Come send round the wine, and leave points of belief (fl)  35 
Sublime was the warning which liberty spoke (fl)  36-37 
Believe me, if all those endearing young charms (fl)  38 
Like the bright lamp that lay in Kildare's holy shrine (fl)  39-40 
Drink to her, who long (fl)  41-42 
Oh! blame not the bard if he fly to the bow'rs (fl)  43-45 
While gazing on the moon's light (fl)  46-47 
When day-light was yet sleeping under the billow (fl)  48-49 
By the hope within us springing (fl)  50-51 
Night clos'd around the conqueror's way (fl)  52 
Oh! 'tis sweet to think, that, where er'e we rove (fl)  53-54 
Through grief and through danger, thy smile hath cheer'd my way (fl)  55-56 
When through life unblest we rove (fl)  57-58 
It is not the tear at this moment shed (fl)  59 
'Tis believ'd that this Harp which I now wake for thee (fl)  60-61 
Oh! the days are gone, when beauty bright (fl)  62-63 
Though dark are our sorrows, to day we'll forget them (fl)  64-65 
Weep on, weep on, your hour is past (fl)  66-67 
Lesbia hath a beaming eye (fl)  68-69 
I saw thy form in youthful prime (fl)  70-71 
She is far from the land, where her young hero sleeps (fl)  72 
By that lake, whose gloomy shore (fl)  73-74 
Nay, tell me not, dear, that the goblet drowns (fl)  75-76 
Avenging and bright fell the swift sword of Erin (fl)  77-78 
What the bee is to the flowret (fl)  79-80 
Here we dwell in holiest bowers (fl)  81 
This life is all chequer'd with pleasures and woes (fl)  82-83 
Through Erin's Isle, To sport awhile (fl)  84-85 
At the mid hour of night, when stars are weeping, I fly (fl)  86 
'Tis the last rose of summer (fl)  87-88 
One bumper at parting---though many (fl)  89-90 
Young May moon is beaming, love, The (fl)  91 
Minstrel-boy to the war is gone, The (fl)  92 
Valley lay smiling before me, The (fl)  93-95 
Oh! had we some bright little isle of our own (fl)  96 
Farewell! but whenever you welcome the hour (fl)  97-98 
Oh! doubt me not---the season (fl)  99-100 
You remember Ellen, our hamlet's pride (fl)  101-102 
I'd mourn the hopes that leave me (fl)  103-104 
Come o'er the sea (fl)  105-106 
Has sorrow thy young days shaded (fl)  107-108 
No, not more welcome the fairy numbers (fl)  109 
When first I met thee, warm and young (fl)  110-112 
While History's Muse the memorial was keeping (fl)  113-114 
Time I've lost in wooing, The (fl)  115-116 
Oh! where's the slave so lowly (fl)  117-118 
Come, rest in this bosom, my own stricken deer! (fl)  119 
'Tis gone, and for ever, the light we saw breaking (fl)  120-121 
I saw from the beach, when the morning was shining (fl)  122 
Fill the bumper fair! (fl)  123-125 
Dear Harp of my country! in darkness I found thee (fl)  126-127 
When wearied wretches sink to sleep (fl)  131 
Beam of tranquility smil'd in the west, A (fl)  [132-133] 
They made her a grave, too cold and damp (fl)  134-135 
I do confess, in many a sigh (fl)  136-137 
When I lov'd you, I can't but allow (fl)  138 
Well---peace to thy heart, though another's it be (fl)  139-140 
When freshly blows the northern gale (fl)  141-142 
Alone by the Schuylkill a wanderer rov'd (fl)  143-144 
Thy song has taught my heart to feel (fl)  145 
Hush'd is the voice of Judah's mirth (fl)  149-150 
Arrayed in clouds of golden light (fl)  151 
Fallen is thy throne, O Israel! (fl)  152-154 
Go, let me weep! there's bliss in tears (fl)  155-156 
Thou art, O God! the life and light (fl)  157-158 
Oh! Thou who dry'st the mourner's tear (fl)  159-160 
This world is all a fleeting show (fl)  161 
Were not the sinful Mary's tears (fl)  162-163 
Weep not for those, whom the veil of the tomb (fl)  164-165 
Sound the loud timbrel o'er Egypt's dark sea! (fl)  166 
Who is the maid my spirit seeks (fl)  167-168 
Bird, let loose in Eastern skies, The (fl)  169 
Turf shall be my fragrant shrine, The (fl)  170-171 
Come not,, oh Lord! in the dread robe of splendour (fl)  172 
As down in the sunless retreats of the ocean (fl)  173 
But who shall see the glorious day (fl)  174 
Almighty God! when round thy shrine (fl)  175 
Oh fair! Oh purest! be thou the dove (fl)  176 
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