Bibliography - Irish Melodies-2, 1816

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Short Title Irish Melodies-2, 1816 
Title Irish Melodies, Songs and Sacred Songs 
Pages 184 
Publisher Hall, Harrison 
Location PHi/0AoA 
Date 1816 
Place Philadelphia 
Data Place Rdx S38279 
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First Line Page Verses
Go where glory waits thee (fl)  9-11 
Remember the glories of Brien the brave (fl)  12-13 
Erin! the tear and the smile in thine eyes (fl)  14 
Harp that once through Tara's halls, The (fl)  15 
Oh! breathe not his name, let it sleep in the shade (fl)  16 
When he who adores thee, has left but the name (fl)  17 
Fly not yet, 'tis just the hour (fl)  18-19 
Oh! think not my spirits are always as light (fl)  20-21 
Though the last glimpse of Erin with sorrow I see (fl)  22-23 
Rich and rare were the gems she wore (fl)  24-25 
As a beam o'er the face of the waters may glow (fl)  26 
There is not in the wide world a valley so sweet (fl)  27-28 
Oh haste and leave this sacred isle (fl)  29-30 
Take back the virgin page (fl)  31-32 
How dear to me the hour when day-light dies (fl)  33 
When in death I shall calm recline (fl)  34-35 
How oft has the Benshee cried (fl)  36-37 
We may roam through this world, like a child at a feast (fl)  38-39 
Oh weep for the hour (fl)  40-41 
Let Erin remember the days of old (fl)  42-44 
Silent, oh Moyle! be the roar of thy water (fl)  45-46 
Come send round the wine, and leave points of belief (fl)  47 
Sublime was the warning which liberty spoke (fl)  48-49 
Believe me, if all those endearing young charms (fl)  50 
Like the bright lamp that lay in Kildare's shrine (fl)  51-52 
Drink to her, who long (fl)  53-54 
Oh! blame not the bard if he fly to the bow'rs (fl)  55-57 
While gazing on the moon's light (fl)  58-59 
When day-light was yet sleeping under the billow (fl)  60 
By the hope within us springing (fl)  62-63 
Night clos'd around the conqueror's way (fl)  64 
Oh! 'tis sweet to think, that, where e'er we rove (fl)  65-66 
Through grief and through danger, thy smile hath cheer'd my way (fl)  67-68 
When through life unblest we rove (fl)  69-70 
It is not the tear at this moment shed (fl)  71 
'Tis believ'd that this Harp which I now wake for thee (fl)  72-73 
Oh! the days are gone, when beauty bright (fl)  74-75 
Though dark are our sorrows, to day we'll forget them (fl)  76-78 
Weep on, weep on, your hour is past (fl)  79-80 
Lesbia hath a beaming eye (fl)  81-82 
I saw thy form in youthful prime (fl)  83-84 
She is far from the land, where her young hero sleeps (fl)  85-86 
By that lake, whose gloomy shore (fl)  87-89 
Nay, tell me not, dear, that the goblet drowns (fl)  90-91 
Avenging and bright fell the swift sword of Erin (fl)  92-94 
What the bee is to the flowret (fl)  95-96 
Here we dwell in holiest bowers (fl)  97-98 
This life is all chequer'd with pleasures and woes (fl)  99-100 
Through Erin's Isle (fl)  101-102 
At the mid hour of night, when stars are weeping, I fly (fl)  103-104 
'Tis the last rose of summer (fl)  105-106 
One bumper at parting---though many (fl)  107-108 
Young May moon is beaming, love, The (fl)  109-110 
Minstrel-boy to the war is gone, The (fl)  111 
Valley lay smiling before me, The (fl)  112-114 
Oh! had we some bright little isle of our own (fl)  115 
Farewell! but whenever you welcome the hour (fl)  116-117 
Oh! doubt me not---the season (fl)  118-119 
You remember Ellen, our hamlet's pride (fl)  120-121 
I'd mourn the hopes that leave me (fl)  122-123 
Come o'er the sea (fl)  124-125 
Has sorrow thy young days shaded (fl)  126-128 
No, not more welcome the fairy numbers (fl)  129 
When first I met thee, warm and young (fl)  130-132 
While History's Muse the memorial was keeping (fl)  133-134 
Time I've lost in wooing, The (fl)  135-136 
Oh! where's the slave so lowly (fl)  137-138 
Come, rest in this bosom, my own stricken deer! (fl)  139 
'Tis gone, and for ever, the light we saw breaking (fl)  140-141 
I saw from the beach, when the morning was shining (fl)  142-143 
Fill the bumper fair! (fl)  144-146 
Dear Harp of my country! in darkness I found thee (fl)  147-149 
Hush'd is the voice of Judah's mirth--- (fl)  151-152 
Array'd in clouds of golden light (fl)  153 
Sound the loud timbrel o'er Egypt's dark sea! (fl)  154 
Fallen is thy throne, oh Israel! (fl)  155-156 
Go, let me weep! there's bliss in tears (fl)  157-158 
Thou art, Oh God! the life and light (fl)  159-160 
Oh! Thou who dry'st the mourner's tear (fl)  161-162 
This world is all a fleeting show (fl)  163 
Were not the sinful Mary's tears (fl)  164 
Weep not for those, whom the veil of the tomb (fl)  165-166 
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 fread robe of splendour (fl)  172-173 
As down in the sunless retreats of the ocean (fl)  174 
Almighty God! when round thy shrine (fl)  175-176 
But who shall see the glorious day (fl)  177-178 
Oh fairest! oh purest! be thou the dove (fl)  179 
'Tis night! Judea's woes have ceas'd (fl)  180 
Yes, grief will have way---but the fast falling tear (fl)  181-184  14 
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