Bibliography - Irish Melodies-3, 1816

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Short Title Irish Melodies-3, 1816 
Title Irish Melodies 
Pages 92 
Publisher Cooper, W. 
Location MWA/0AoA/0WC/MWA Cat Dated Bks 
Date 1816 
Place Washington 
Data Place MWA Dated Bks 
Comments  
First Line Page Verses
Go where glory waits thee (fl)  3-4 
Remember the glories of Brien the brave (fl)  4-5 
Erin! the tear and the smile in thine eyes (fl) 
Harp that once through Tara's halls, The (fl)  6-7 
Oh! breathe not his name, let it sleep in the shade (fl) 
When he who adores thee, has left but the name (fl) 
Fly not yet, 'tis just the hour (fl)  8-9 
Oh! think not my spirits are always as light (fl)  9-10 
Though the last glimpse of Erin with sorrow I see (fl)  11 
Rich and rare were the gems she wore (fl)  12-13 
As a beam o'er the face of the waters may glow (fl)  13 
There is not in the wide world a valley so sweet (fl)  14 
O haste and leave this sacred isle (fl)  15 
Take back the virgin page (fl)  16-17 
How dear to me the hour when day-light dies (fl)  17 
When in death I shall calm recline (fl)  18 
How oft has the Benshee cried (fl)  19-20 
We may roam through this world, like a child at a feast (fl)  20-21 
Oh weep for the hour (fl)  21-22 
Let Erin remember the days of old (fl)  22-24 
Silent, oh Moyle! be the roar of thy water (fl)  24-25 
Come send round the wine, and leave points of belief (fl)  25-26 
Sublime was the warning which liberty spoke (fl)  26-27 
Believe me, if all those endearing young charms (fl)  27-28 
Like the bright lamp that lay in Kildare's holy shrine (fl)  28-29 
Drink to her, who long (fl)  29-30 
Oh! blame not the bard if he fly to the bow'rs (fl)  31-33 
While gazing on the moon's light (fl)  33-34 
When day-light was yet sleeping under the billow (fl)  34-35 
By the hope within us springing (fl)  36-37 
Night clos'd around the conqueror's way (fl)  37 
Oh! 'tis sweet to think, that, where er'e we rove (fl)  38-39 
Through grief and through danger, thy smile hath cheer'd my way (fl)  39-40 
When through life unblest we rove (fl)  40-41 
It is not the tear at this moment shed (fl)  41-42 
'Tis believ'd that this Harp which I now wake for thee (fl)  42-43 
Oh! the days are gone, when beauty bright (fl)  43-44 
Though dark are our sorrows, to day we'll forget them (fl)  45-46 
Weep on, weep on, your hour is past (fl)  46-47 
Lesbia hath a beaming eye (fl)  47-49 
I saw thy form in youthful prime (fl)  49-50 
She is far from the land, where her young hero sleeps (fl)  50 
By that lake, whose gloomy shore (fl)  51-52 
Nay, tell me not, dear, that the goblet drowns (fl)  52-53 
Avenging and bright fell the swift sword of Erin (fl)  54-55 
What the bee is to the flowret (fl)  56-57 
Here we dwell in holiest bowers (fl)  57-58 
This life is all chequer'd with pleasures and woes (fl)  58-59 
Through Erin's Isle, To sport awhile (fl)  59-60 
At the mid hour of night, when stars are weeping, I fly (fl)  60-61 
'Tis the last rose of summer (fl)  61-62 
One bumper at parting---though many (fl)  62-63 
Young May moon is beaming, love, The (fl)  64 
Minstrel-boy to the war is gone, The (fl)  64-65 
Valley lay smiling before me, The (fl)  65-67 
Oh! had we some bright little isle of our own (fl)  67-68 
Farewell! but whenever you welcome the hour (fl)  68-69 
Oh! doubt me not---the season (fl)  69-70 
You remember Ellen, our hamlet's pride (fl)  70-71 
I'd mourn the hopes that leave me (fl)  71-72 
Come o'er the sea (fl)  73-74 
Has sorrow thy young days shaded (fl)  74-75 
No, not more welcome the fairy numbers (fl)  76 
When first I met thee, warm and young (fl)  76-78 
While History's Muse the memorial was keeping (fl)  78-79 
Time I've lost in wooing, The (fl)  79-80 
Oh! where's the slave so lowly (fl)  81 
Come, rest in this bosom, my own stricken deer! (fl)  82 
'Tis gone, and for ever, the light we saw breaking (fl)  82-83 
I saw from the beach, when the morning was shining (fl)  84 
Fill the bumper fair! (fl)  85-86 
Dear Harp of my country! in darkness I found thee (fl)  87 
Chieftain to the Highlands Bound, A (fl)  89-91 
Too late I staid, forgive the crime (fl)  91-92 
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