Bibliography - Irish Melodies, 1817

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Short Title Irish Melodies, 1817 
Title Irish Melodies 
Pages 144 
Publisher Reynolds, J. P. 
Location MWA/0AoA/Rdx MF 41472 
Date 1817 
Place Salem, N. Y. 
Data Place Rdx S41472 
Comments  
First Line Page Verses
Go where glory waits thee (fl)  3-4 
Remember the glories of Brien, the brave (fl)  4-6 
Erin! the tear and the smile in thine eyes (fl) 
Harp that once through Tara's halls, The (fl) 
Oh! breathe not his name, let it sleep in the shade (fl)  7-8 
When he who adores thee, has left but the name (fl) 
Fly not yet, 'tis just the hour (fl)  9-10 
Oh! think not my spirits are always as light (fl)  10-11 
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)  13-14 
There is not in the wide world a valley so sweet (fl)  14-15 
Oh! haste and leave this sacred isle (fl)  15-16 
Take back the virgin page (fl)  17-18 
How dear to me the hour, when day-light dies (fl)  18 
When in death I shall calm recline (fl)  18-19 
How oft has the Benshee cried (fl)  20-21 
We may roam through this world, like a child at a feast (fl)  21-22 
Oh! weep for the hour (fl)  22-23 
Let Erin remember the days of old (fl)  23-25 
Silent, O Moyle! be the roar of thy water (fl)  25-26 
Come send round the wine, and leave points of belief (fl)  27 
Sublime was the warning which liberty spoke (fl)  27-29 
Believe me, if all those endearing young charms (fl)  29 
Like the bright lamp that lay in Kildare's holy shrine (fl)  30-31 
Drink to her, who long (fl)  31-32 
Oh! blame not the bard, if he fly to the bow'rs (fl)  32-34 
While gazing on the moon's light (fl)  35-36 
When day-light was yet sleeping under the billow (fl)  36-37 
By the hope within us springing (fl)  37-38 
Night clos'd around the conqueror's way (fl)  39 
Oh! 'tis sweet to think, that, where e're we rove (fl)  39-40 
Through grief and through danger, thy smile hath cheer'd my way (fl)  41-42 
When through life unblest we rove (fl)  42-43 
It is not the tear at this moment shed (fl)  43-44 
'Tis believ'd that this Harp which I now wake for thee (fl)  44-45 
Oh! the days are gone, when beauty bright (fl)  45-46 
Though dark are our sorrows, to day we'll forget them (fl)  46-48 
Weep on, weep on, your hour is past (fl)  48-49 
Lesbia hath a beaming eye (fl)  49-50 
I saw thy form in youthful prime (fl)  51 
She is far from the land, where her young hero sleeps (fl)  52 
By that Lake, whose gloomy shore (fl)  53-54 
Nay, tell me not, dear, that the goblet drowns (fl)  54-55 
Avenging and bright fell the swift sword of Erin (fl)  56-57 
What the bee is to the flowret (fl)  57-58 
Here we dwell in holiest bowers (fl)  59 
Through Erin's Isle (fl)  60-61 
At the mid hour of night, when stars are weeping, I fly (fl)  61-62 
'Tis the last rose of summer (fl)  62-63 
One bumper at parting---though many (fl)  63-64 
Young may moon is beaming, love, The (fl)  65 
Minstrel boy to the war is gone, The (fl)  66 
Valley lay smiling before me, The (fl)  66-68 
Oh! we had some bright little isle of our own (fl)  68-69 
Farewell! but whenever you welcome the hour (fl)  69-70 
This life is all chequer'd with pleasures and woes (fl)  71-72 
Oh! doubt me not; the season (fl)  72-73 
You remember Ellen, our hamlet's pride (fl)  73-74 
I'd mourn the hopes that leave me (fl)  74-75 
Come o'er the sea (fl)  75-76 
Has sorrow thy young days shaded (fl)  77-78 
No, not more welcome the fairy numbers (fl)  78-79 
When first I met thee, warm and young (fl)  79-80 
While history's muse the memorial was keeping (fl)  81-82 
Time I've lost in wooing, The (fl)  82-83 
Oh! where's the slave, so lowly (fl)  84 
Come, rest in this bosom, my own stricken deer! (fl)  85 
I saw from the beach, when the morning was shining (fl)  85-86 
Fill the bumper fair! (fl)  86-88 
'Tis gone, and for ever, the light we saw breaking (fl)  88-89 
Dear Harp of my country, in darkness I found thee (fl)  89-90 
Hush'd is the voice of Judah's mirth (fl)  91-92 
Array'd in clouds of golden light (fl)  92 
Sound the loud timbrel o'er Egypt's dark sea! (fl)  92-93 
Fallen is thy throne, oh Israel! (fl)  93-95 
Go, let me weep! there's bliss in tears (fl)  95-96 
Thou art, Oh God! the life and light (fl)  96-97 
Oh! Thou who dry'st the mourner's tear (fl)  97-98 
This world is all a fleeting show (fl)  98-99 
Were not the sinful Mary's tears (fl)  99-100 
Weep not for those, whom the veil of the tomb (fl)  100-101 
When wearied wretches sink to sleep (fl)  103 
Beam of tranquillity smil'd in the west, A (fl)  103-104 
They made her grave, too cold and damp (fl)  105-106 
I do confess, in many a sigh (fl)  107-108 
When I lov'd you, I can't but allow (fl)  108 
Well---peace to thy heart, though another's it be (fl)  108-110 
When freshly blows the northern gale (fl)  110-111 
Alone by the Schuylkill a wanderer rov'd (fl)  112-113 
Thy song has taught my heart to feel (fl)  113-114 
When, casting many a look behind (fl)  114-115 
Sweet seducer, ever smiling (fl)  115-116 
In vain we fondly strive to trace (fl)  116-118   
Oh! woman, if by simple wile (fl)  118 
There lies a shell beneath the waves (fl)  119-124   
Though late the word of friendship came (fl)  124-129   
From rise of morn, till set of sun (fl)  129-131   
'Twas in the Summer time, so sweet (fl)  131-133  13 
My love and I, the other day (fl)  133-134 
'Twas a new feeling---something more (fl)  134-135 
Come, take the harp---'tis vain to muse (fl)  135-136 
No, ne'er did the wave in its element steep (fl)  136-137 
Yes, if 'twere and common love (fl)  137-138 
Take back the sigh, thy lips of art (fl)  139 
When the heart's feeling (fl)  139-140 
When time was entwining the garland of years (fl)  140 
Chloris, I swear by all I ever swore (fl)  140   
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