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Short Title Melodies by Moore, 1818 
Title Melodies, Songs and Sacred Songs, By Thomas Moore 
Pages 232 
Publisher Carey. M. 
Location MWA, PPL/0AoA/Rdx MF 44894 
Date 1818 
Place Philadelphia 
Data Place Rdx S44894 
Comments  
First Line Page Verses
Faintly as tolls the evening chime (fl)  19 
Oh Lady fair where art thou roamimg? (fl)  20  10 
Can I again that look recall (fl)  21 
Take back the sigh, thy lips of art (fl)  21-22 
Oh! had I leisure to sigh and mourn (fl)  22-23 
Sweet seducer, ever smiling! (fl)  23 
Fly from the world, oh, Bessy to me (fl)  23-24 
Here's the Bow'r she lov'd so much (fl)  24-25 
Good night, good night, and is it so? (fl)  25-26 
Friend of my Soul! this goblet sip (fl)  26-27 
Now let the warrior plume his steed (fl)  27 
When time who steals our years away (fl)  28-29 
Cease, oh! cease to tempt my tender heart to love (fl)  29-30 
'Twas a new feeling, something more (fl)  30 
Wreath you wove, wreath you wove, The (fl)  30-31 
Oh! why should the girl of my soul be in tears (fl)  31-32 
Beam of morning, trembling, The (fl)  32 
Young Love found a Dial once in a dark shade (fl)  33   
Sweetest Love, I'll not forget thee (fl)  34 
Holy be the Pilgrim's sleep (fl)  35-36 
Thou hast sent me a flowery band (fl)  36-37 
Could'st thou look as dear as when (fl)  37 
Young rose which I gave thee, so dewy and bright, The (fl)  38 
Our white sail caught the ev'ning ray (fl)  38-39 
Pain and sorrow shall vanish before us (fl)  39-40 
When 'midst the gay I meet (fl)  40-41 
Fanny was in the grove (fl)  41-42 
Oh! remember the time in La mancha's shades (fl)  42-43 
Away with this pouting and sadness (fl)  43-44 
Spirit of joy! thy altar lies (fl)  45 
Tho' sacred the tie that our country entwineth (fl)  46 
Song, that lightens the languid way, The (fl)  46-47 
Says Sammy, the tailor, to me (fl)  47-48 
When Leila touch'd the lute (fl)  49 
Young love liv'd once in a humble shed (fl)  49-50 
Robert Rumble, a poet of lyric renown (fl)  50-52 
To sigh, yet feel no pain (fl)  52-53 
Come lads, life's a whirligig (fl)  53-54 
Dear aunt! in the olden time of love (fl)  54-55 
When Charles was deceiv'd by the maid he loved (fl)  55-56 
Mr. Orator Puff had two tones in his voice (fl)  56-58 
Here is the lip that betray'd (fl)  58 
When life looks lone and dreary (fl)  59 
Lottery, a lottery, A (fl)  59-61 
Girl, dost thou know me? (fl)  62 
Though sacred the tie that our country entwineth (fl)  62-63 
Will you come to the bow'r I have shaded for you? (fl)  63-64 
Does the harp of Rosa slumber? (fl)  64-65   
Have you not seen the timid tear (fl)  65 
Oh! nothing in life can sadden us (fl)  66-67 
If I swear by that eye, you'll allow (fl)  67-68 
Where is the nymph, whose azure eye (fl)  68-69 
Mary, I believ'd thee true (fl)  69-70 
Why does azure deck the sky? (fl)  70 
Take back the sigh, thy lips of art (fl)  71 
Come, take the harp---'tis vain to muse (fl)  71-72 
Merrily every bosom boundeth (fl)  73-74 
Scene was more beautiful far to my eye, The (fl)  74-75 
Love, my Mary, dwells with thee (fl)  75-76 
I knew by the smoke, that so gracefully curl'd (fl)  76-77 
Spirit there is, whose fragrant sigh, A (fl)  77-79 
Tell me not of joys above (fl)  79-80 
I know where the wing'd visions dwell (fl)  80-81 
Come hither, come hither---by night or by day (fl)  81-83 
There's a bliss beyond all that the minstrel has told (fl)  83 
Fly to the desert, fly with me (fl)  83-85  11 
From Chindara'a warbling fount I come (fl)  85-87 
There's a bower of roses by Bendemmer's stream (fl)  88 
One morn a Peri at the gate (fl)  89-90 
Farewell---farewell to thee, Araby's daughter (fl)  90-93  10 
When wearied wretches sink to sleep (fl)  93 
Beam of tranquility smil'd in the west, A (fl)  94-95 
They made her grave, too cold and damp (fl)  95-97 
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 
Go where glory waits thee (fl)  103-104 
Remember the glories of Brien the brave (fl)  105-106 
Erin! the tear and the smile in thine eyes (fl)  107 
Harp that once though Tara's halls, The (fl)  107-108 
Oh! breathe not his name, let it sleep in the shade (fl)  108-109 
When he who adores thee, has left but the name (fl)  109 
Fly not yet, 'tis just the hour (fl)  110-111 
Oh! think not my spirits are always as light (fl)  111-112 
Though the last glimpse of Erin with sorrow I see (fl)  113 
Rich and rare were the gems she wore (fl)  114-115 
As a beam o'er the face of the waters may glow (fl)  115-116 
There is not in the wide world a valley so sweet (fl)  116-117 
Oh haste and leave this sacred isle (fl)  118-119 
Take back the virgin page (fl)  119-120 
How dear to me the hour when day-light dies (fl)  121 
When in death I shall calm recline (fl)  121-122 
How oft has the Benshee cried (fl)  123-124 
We may roam through this world, like a child at a feast (fl)  124-126 
Oh weep for the hour (fl)  126-127 
Let Erin remember the days of old (fl)  127-129 
Silent, oh Moyle! be the roar of thy water (fl)  129-130 
Come send round the wine, and leave points of belief (fl)  131 
Sublime was the warning which liberty spoke (fl)  132-133 
Believe me, if all those endearing young charms (fl)  134 
Like the bright lamp that lay in Kildare's holy shrine (fl)  135-136 
Drink to her, who long (fl)  136-138 
Oh! blame not the bard if he fly to the bow'rs (fl)  138-141 
While gazing on the moon's light (fl)  141-142 
When day-light was yet sleeping under the billow (fl)  143-144 
By the hope within us springing (fl)  144-145   
Night clos'd around the conqueror's way (fl)  146 
Oh! 'tis sweet to think, that where e'er we rove (fl)  147-148 
Through grief and through danger, thy smile hath cheer'd my way (fl)  149-150 
When through life unblest we rove (fl)  150-151 
It is not the tear at this moment shed (fl)  151-152 
'Tis believ'd that this Harp which I now wake for thee (fl)  152-153 
Oh! the days are gone, when beauty bright (fl)  154-155 
Though dark are our sorrows, to-day we'll forget them (fl)  155-157 
Weep on, weep on, your hour is past (fl)  157-158 
Lesbia hath a beaming eye (fl)  159-160 
I saw thy form in youthful prime (fl)  160-161 
She is far from the land, where her young hero sleeps (fl)  162 
By that lake, whose gloomy shore (fl)  163-164 
Nay, tell me not, dear, that the goblet drowns (fl)  165-166 
Avenging and bright fell the swift sword of Erin (fl)  166-168 
What the bee is to the flow'ret (fl)  168-169 
Here we dwell in holiest bowers (fl)  170 
This life is all chequer'd with pleasures and woes (fl)  171-172 
Through Erin's isle (fl)  172-174 
At the mid hour of night, when stars are weeping, I fly (fl)  174-175 
'Tis the last rose of summer (fl)  175-176 
One bumper at parting---though many (fl)  176-178 
Young may moon is beaming, love, The (fl)  178-179 
Minstrel-boy to the war is gone, The (fl)  179-180 
Valley lay smiling before me, The (fl)  180-182 
Oh! we had some bright little isle of our own (fl)  183-184 
Farewell! but whenever you welcome the hour (fl)  184-185 
Oh! doubt me not---the season (fl)  186 
You remember Ellen, our hamlet's pride (fl)  187-188 
I'd mourn the hopes that leave me (fl)  188-189 
Come o'er the sea (fl)  190-191 
Has sorrow thy young days shaded (fl)  191-193 
No, not more welcome the fairy numbers (fl)  193-194 
When first I met thee, warm and young (fl)  194-196 
While History's Muse the memorial was keeping (fl)  196-198 
Time I've lost in wooing, The (fl)  198-199 
Oh! Where's the slave, so lowly (fl)  200 
Come, rest in this bosom, my own stricken deer! (fl)  201 
'Tis gone, and for ever, the light we saw breaking (fl)  202-203 
I saw from the beach, when the morning was shining (fl)  203-204 
Fill the bumper fair! (fl)  205-207 
Dear Harp of my country! in darkness I found thee (fl)  207-208 
Alone on the Schuylkill a wanderer rov'd (fl)  209-210 
Thy song has taught my heart to feel (fl)  211 
Hush'd is the voice of Judah's mirth--- (fl)  213-214 
Array'd in clouds of golden light (fl)  214 
Fallen is thy throne, Oh Israel! (fl)  215-216 
Go, let me weep! there's bliss in tears (fl)  217 
Thou art, Oh God! the life and light (fl)  218-219 
Oh! Thou who dry'st the mourner's tear (fl)  219-220 
This world is all a fleeting show (fl)  220-221 
Were not the sinful Mary's tears (fl)  221-222 
Weep not for those, whom the veil of the tomb (fl)  222-223 
Sound the loud timbrel o'er Egypt's dark sea! (fl)  223-224 
Who is the maid my spirit seeks (fl)  225 
Bird, let loose in Eastern skies, The (fl)  226 
Turf shall be my fragrant shrine, The (fl)  226-228 
Come not,, Oh Lord! in the dread robe of splendour (fl)  228-229 
As down in the sunless retreats of the ocean (fl)  229 
But who shall see the glorious day (fl)  230 
Almighty God! when round thy shrine (fl)  231 
Oh fair! Oh purest! be thou the dove (fl)  232 
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