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Short Title Songs for the Parlour, 1818 
Title Songs for the Parlour 
Pages 123 
Publisher Babcock & Son, J. 
Location RPB MF FH B6 03085.14, MH Rdx 45762 
Date 1818 
Place New Haven 
Data Place RPB MF FH B6 03085.14 
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From thee Eliza I must, go (fl) 
Day is departed and round from the clouds, The (fl) 
Alone to the banks of the dark rolling Danube (fl)  3-4 
Sea was calm, the sky serene, The (fl)  4-5 
Moon had clim'd the highest hill, The (fl)  5-6 
Columbia! Columbia! to glory arise (fl)  6-8 
Sun sets at night, and the stars shun the day, The (fl)  8-9 
As down on Banna's bank I stray'd (fl)  9-11 
'Twas on the morn of sweet May day (fl)  11-13 
Returning home across the plain (fl)  13-14 
'Twas near a thicket's calm retreat (fl)  14-15 
O'er my toil wither'd limbs sickly langours are shed (fl)  15 
Sun when arising, bespangles the dew, The (fl)  16 
Wealthy fool, with gold in store, The (fl)  17 
Ye ling'ring winds that feebly blow (fl)  17-18 
On the point of a rock jutting o'er the green ocean (fl)  19 
Blessing unknown to ambition and pride, A (fl)  19-20 
Oh! say from thy bosom why heaves the soft sigh (fl)  20-21 
Though tender and young, yet my eye-sight is gone (fl)  21-22 
Go gentle sigh to ease my breast (fl)  22 
There is not in the wide world a valley so sweet (fl)  23 
If the stock of our bliss is in strangers hands vested (fl)  24 
Stay, lady---stay for mercy's sake (fl)  25-26  10 
How sweet is love when virtue guides (fl)  26-27 
In storms, when clouds obscure the sky (fl)  27-28 
On Afric's wide plains, where the Lion now roaring (fl)  28-30 
When I trace back the scenes of my juvenile days (fl)  30-31 
What though the blooming, genial year (fl)  31-32 
When young Strephon came to woo me (fl)  32-33 
Jane was fair and Henry brave (fl)  33 
Last night the dogs did bark (fl)  33-34 
O how it soothes the woe worn heart (fl)  34-35 
Strew, Virgins, the cypress o'er Washington's bier (fl)  35-36 
Oh! think not my spirits are always so light (fl)  36-37 
Awake, my muse, with sprightliest lay (fl)  37-39 
'Twas in that season of the year (fl)  39-40 
From Roslin Castle's echoing walls (fl)  40-41 
Says Plato, why should man be vain (fl)  41-42 
I envy not the proud their wealth (fl)  42-43 
Beneath a green grove, a lovely [young] swain (fl)  43-44 
Leave, neighbours, your work, and to sport and to play (fl)  44-45 
No more I'll court the town bred fair (fl)  45-46 
For Mary who feels not a tender concern? (fl)  46-47 
Though pure are the joys that from melody flow (fl)  47-48 
Tell me, where's the vi'let fled (fl)  48-49 
Lord! what care I for mam or dad (fl)  50 
Tell, soldier, tell! and mark, you tell me truly (fl)  51-52  10 
Adown a green valley there liv'd an old maid (fl)  52-53 
When first a little smouchy no higher than as that (fl)  53-55 
I've often been where poets say (fl)  55-56 
When Charley did his love confess (fl)  56-57 
Young Allan rode slowly across the green heath (fl)  57-58 
Ask'st thou how long my love shall stay (fl)  58 
Dearest girl, I long have lov'd you (fl)  59-60 
Jack and I were both messmates a long time at sea (fl)  60-61 
Sir Go-to-bed Ninny, a wooing would go (fl)  62 
Young Johhn Mac Clean, loved Jenny Mac Griggor (fl)  62-63 
Oh, thou upon whose bosom dear (fl)  63-64 
There was an ancient fair, O, she lov'd a nate young man (fl)  65-66 
At the front of a cottage with woodbine grown o'er (fl)  66-67 
Adown a dark alley I courted a maid (fl)  67-68 
Spruce Mr. Clark, The (fl)  68-69 
Maiden sure there was, she was ugly, old, and tough, A (fl)  70-71 
O! when I was christen'd 'twas on a fair day (fl)  72 
One April morn, while dew-drops hung (fl)  73 
Matchless is the girl I love (fl)  74 
Simple country milkmaid, I came to town to hire, A (fl)  74-76 
There was a gay man-milliner, his name was Tommy Twist (fl)  76-78 
Deep in a vale a cottage stood (fl)  78-79 
When Johnny Gubbins courted me, no girl so pleas'd as I (fl)  79 
Sir Jerry Go-Nimble was lame of a leg (fl)  80-82 
In our cottage that peeps from the skirts of the wood (fl)  82-83 
Young Roger is a bonny lad (fl)  83-84 
There was an Irish lad (fl)  84-85 
Mister Po was a man of great riches and fame (fl)  86-87 
To Mary's sad story, give ear, gentle stranger (fl)  87-88 
As a beam o'er the face of the waters may glow (fl)  88-89 
Oh! hush the soft sigh, maid, and dry the sweet tear (fl)  89 
As beautiful Kitty, one morning was tripping (fl)  90 
What beauties does Flora disclose (fl)  90-92 
It was the charming month of May (fl)  92-93 
In April when primroses paint the sweet plain (fl)  93-94 
Smiling morn, the breathing spring, The (fl)  94-95 
Why Molly, my girl, do you whimper and sob (fl)  95-97 
How hard the fate o' womankind (fl)  97-98 
When first I ken'd young Sandy's face (fl)  98-99 
O! say can you see, by the dawn's early light (fl)  100-102 
Cobler liv'd at York, A (fl)  102-103 
'Tis the last rose of summer left blooming alone (fl)  103-104 
Returning from a fair, one eve (fl)  104-105 
Trumpet sounds, my country calls, The (fl)  105-106 
O! when shall I visit the land of my birth (fl)  106-107 
At the close of the day, when the hamlet is still (fl)  107-109 
Dear Nancy I've sailed the world all around (fl)  109 
Ye virgins attend, believe me your friend (fl)  110-111 
Rose Tree in full bearing, A (fl)  111-113 
As you mean to set sail for the land of delight (fl)  113-114 
Dame Nature one day in a comical mood (fl)  114-117 
Return enraptur'd hours (fl)  117-118 
Fields were green, the hills were gay, The (fl)  118-119 
I married a wife, who cares says I (fl)  119-120 
Lo! the pride of the village is dead (fl)  121 
'Twas summer, and softly the breezes were blowing (fl)  122-123 
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