Bibliography - Irish Melodies, 1818

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Short Title Irish Melodies, 1818 
Title Irish Melodies, Songs and Sacred Songs 
Pages 121 
Publisher Goodrich, A. T., & Co. 
Location MWA, MdBP/0AoA/Rdx MF 44891 
Date 1818 
Place New-York 
Data Place Rdx S44891 
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First Line Page Verses
Go where Glory waits thee (fl)  9-10 
Remember the glories of Brien the brave (fl)  10-12 
Erin! the tear and the smile in thine eyes (fl)  12 
Harp that once though Tara's halls, The (fl)  12-13 
Oh! breathe not his name, let it sleep in the shade (fl)  13 
When he who adores thee, has left but the name (fl)  14 
Fly not yet, 'tis just the hour (fl)  14-15 
Oh! think not my spirits are always as light (fl)  16 
Though the last glimpse of Erin with sorrow I see (fl)  17 
Rich and rare were the gems she wore (fl)  18-19 
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 
Oh haste and leave this sacred isle (fl)  21-22 
Take back the virgin page (fl)  22-23 
How dear to me the hour when day-light dies (fl)  24 
When in death I shall calm recline (fl)  24-25 
How oft has the Benshee cried (fl)  25-26 
We may roam through this world, like a child at a feast (fl)  27-28 
Oh, weep for the hour (fl)  28-29 
Let Erin remember the days of old (fl)  29-31 
Silent, oh Moyle! be the roar of thy water (fl)  31-32 
Come send round the wine, and leave points of belief (fl)  32 
Sublime was the warning which liberty spoke (fl)  33-34 
Believe me, if all those endearing young charms (fl)  34 
Like the bright lamp that lay in Kildare's holy shrine (fl)  35-36 
Drink to her, who long (fl)  36-37 
Oh! blame not the bard if he fly to the bow'rs (fl)  37-39 
While gazing on the moon's light (fl)  39-41 
When day-light was yet sleeping under the billow (fl)  41-42 
By the hope within us springing (fl)  42-43 
Night clos'd around the conqueror's way (fl)  43-44 
Oh! 'tis sweet to think, that where e'er we rove (fl)  44-45 
Through grief and through danger, thy smile hath cheer'd my way (fl)  45-46 
When through life unblest we rove (fl)  47 
It is not the tear at this moment shed (fl)  48 
'Tis believ'd that this Harp which I now wake for thee (fl)  48-49 
Oh! the days are gone, when beauty bright (fl)  49-50 
Though dark are our sorrows, to-day we'll forget them (fl)  51-52 
Weep on, weep on, your hour is past (fl)  52-53 
Lesbia hath a beaming eye (fl)  53-55 
I saw thy form in youthful prime (fl)  55-56 
She is far from the land, where her young hero sleeps (fl)  56-57 
By that lake, whose gloomy shore (fl)  57-58 
Nay, tell me not, dear, that the goblet drowns (fl)  59-60 
Avenging and bright fell the swift sword of Erin (fl)  60-61 
What the bee is to the flow'ret (fl)  62 
Here we dwell in holiest bowers (fl)  63 
This life is all chequer'd with pleasures and woes (fl)  64 
Through Erin's isle (fl)  65-66 
At the mid hour of night, when stars are weeping, I fly (fl)  66-67 
'Tis the last rose of summer (fl)  67-68 
One bumper at parting---though many (fl)  68-69 
Young May moon is beaming, love, The (fl)  70 
Minstrel-boy to the war is gone, The (fl)  71 
Valley lay smiling before me, The (fl)  71-73 
Oh! had we some bright little isle of our own (fl)  73-74 
Farewell! but whenever you welcome the hour (fl)  74-75 
Oh! doubt me not---the season (fl)  75-76 
You remember Ellen, our hamlet's pride (fl)  76-77 
I'd mourn the hopes that leave me (fl)  77-78 
Come o'er the sea (fl)  79-80 
Has sorrow thy young days shaded (fl)  80-81 
No, not more welcome the fairy numbers (fl)  81-82 
When first I met thee, warm and young (fl)  82-84 
While History's Muse the memorial was keeping (fl)  84-85 
Time I've lost in wooing, The (fl)  85-86 
Oh! where's the slave so lowly (fl)  87 
Come, rest in this bosom, my own stricken deer! (fl)  88 
'Tis gone, and for ever, the light we saw breaking (fl)  88-89 
I saw from the beach, when the morning was shining (fl)  89-90 
Fill the bumper fair! (fl)  90-92 
Dear Harp of my country! in darkness I found thee (fl)  92-93 
When wearied wretches sink to sleep (fl)  94 
Beam of tranquillity smil'd in the west, A (fl)  94-95 
They made her grave, too cold and damp (fl)  96-97 
I do confess, in many a sigh (fl)  97-98 
When I lov'd you, I can't but allow (fl)  99 
Well---peace to thy heart, though another's it be (fl)  99-101 
When freshly blows the northern gale (fl)  101-102 
Alone on the Schuylkill a wanderer rov'd (fl)  102-104 
Thy song has taught my heart to feel (fl)  104 
Hush'd is the voice of Judah's mirth--- (fl)  105 
Array'd in clouds of golden light (fl)  106 
Fallen is thy throne, O Israel! (fl)  106-108 
Go, let me weep! there's bliss in tears (fl)  108-109 
Thou art, Oh God! the life and light (fl)  109-110 
Oh! Thou who dry'st the mourner's tear (fl)  110-111 
This world is all a fleeting show (fl)  111-112 
Were not the sinful Mary's tears (fl)  112-113 
Weep not for those, whom the veil of the tomb (fl)  113-114 
Sound the loud timbrel o'er Egypt's dark sea! (fl)  114-115 
Who is the maid my spirit seeks (fl)  115 
Bird, let loose in Eastern skies, The (fl)  116 
Turf shall be my fragrant shrine, The (fl)  115-117 
Come not,, oh Lord! in the dread robe of splendour (fl)  118 
As down in the sunless retreats of the ocean (fl)  118-119 
But who shall see the glorious day (fl)  119-120 
Almighty God! when round thy shrine (fl)  120-121 
Oh fair! Oh purest! be thou the dove (fl)  121 
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