Bibliography - Songs for Ladies, 1820

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Short Title Songs for Ladies, 1820 
Title Songs for Ladies 
Pages 160 
Publisher Babcock, John, & Son, and Babcock, S. & W. R. 
Location MH 
Date 1820 
Place New-Haven & Charleston 
Data Place MH 25254.12.21* 
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Scene was more beautiful far to my eye, The (fl)  1-2 
Day is departed, and round from the cloud, The (fl)  2-3 
Alone to the banks of the dark rolling Danube (fl)  3-4 
There is not in the wide world a valley so sweet (fl)  4-5 
As a beam o'er the face of the waters may glow (fl) 
From thee, Eliza, I must go (fl)  5-6 
Sea was calm, the sky serene, The (fl)  6-7 
As down on Banna's banks I stray'd (fl)  7-9 
Ye lingering winds that feebly blow (fl)  9-10 
On the point of a rock jutting o'er the green ocean (fl)  10-11 
Sun when arising, bespangles the dew, The (fl)  11-12 
Tho tender and young, yet my eyesight is gone (fl)  12-13 
Oh! The days are gone, when beauty bright (fl)  13-14 
Oh! Say, from thy bosom why heaves the soft sigh (fl)  14 
Moon was beaming silver birght, The (fl)  15-16 
Oh! Think not my spirits are always as light (fl)  16-17 
Why does azure deck the sky? (fl)  17-18 
Sun has gane down o'er the lofty Benlomond, The (fl)  18-19 
'Twas autumn, and round me the leaves were descending (fl)  19-20 
Go gentle sigh to ease my breast (fl)  20-21 
When the warrior returns from the battle afar (fl)  21-23 
Here mark a poor desolate maid (fl)  23 
Columbia how bright is the fresh blooming wreath (fl)  24-25 
What's this dull town to me? (fl)  25-26 
O, fair rose of morning, the sun in mild splendour (fl)  26 
Blessing unknown to ambition and pride, A (fl)  26-27 
'Twas on the morn of sweet May-day (fl)  27-29 
Loudon's bonny woods and braes (fl)  29-30 
O'er highlands and lowlands to chase the fleet deer (fl)  30-31 
Irishman carries his heart in his hand, An (fl)  31-32 
In a little blue garment, all ragged and torn (fl)  32-33 
Swift fly the hours, when in youth's happy days (fl)  33-34 
Merrily each bosom boundeth (fl)  34-35 
Come tell me, blue-ey'd stranger (fl)  35-36 
'Twas in that season of the year (fl)  36-37 
From Roslin Castle's echoing walls (fl)  37-38 
Go where glory waits thee (fl)  38-39 
Whenever a lad, that's good humour'd and free (fl)  39-40 
If the stock of our bliss is in stranger's hands vested (fl)  40-41 
O dear to my soul are thy scenes, lovely vale (fl)  41 
If thou wilt gang wi' me awa' (fl)  42 
Now wilt thou gang wi me, my lass? (fl)  42-43 
Mary, why thus waste thy youth-time in sorrow! (fl)  43-44 
Though pure are the joys that from melody flow (fl)  44 
Oh! Did you not hear of Kate Kearney (fl)  44-45 
O yes, I have seen this Kate Kearney (fl)  45-46 
Oh! 'tis sweet to think, that where e'er we rove (fl)  46-47 
Oh! Roses are sweet on the beds where they grow (fl)  47 
Tuneful lav'rocks cheer the grove, The (fl)  48 
My Cecil's heart is full of love (fl)  48-49 
Fairest maid on Devon's banks! (fl)  49 
When I trace back the scenes of my juvenile days (fl)  50 
Strew, virgins, the cypress o'er Washington's bier (fl)  51 
For Mary who feels not a tender concern! (fl)  51-52 
O whistle and I'll come to you, my lad (fl)  52-53 
What can a young lassie, what should a young lassie (fl)  53-54 
'Tis the last rose of summer (fl)  54 
Tell me, where's the vi'let fled (fl)  55-56 
Lord, what care I for mam or dad (fl)  56-57 
When Charley did his love confess (fl)  57-58 
I have a green purse, and a wee pickle gowd (fl)  58-59 
Lass that would know how to manage a man (fl)  59-60 
Young Allan rode slowly across the green heath (fl)  60-61 
'Tis I have seven braw new gowns (fl)  61-62 
Dearest girl, I long have lov'd you (fl)  63-64 
Why mourn ye, why mourn ye those flowers around (fl)  64-65 
You Philander woo'd me lang (fl)  66-67 
Frozen streets in moonshine glitter, The (fl)  67-68 
Oh, thou upon whose bosom dear (fl)  69-70 
Tar's a jolly tar, that can hand, reef, and steer, The (fl)  70-71 
Jockey said to Jenny, Jenny wilt thou do't (fl)  72 
In our cottage that peeps from the skirts of the wood (fl)  72-73 
I am a brisk young lively lass (fl)  73-75 
Mr. Po was a man of great riches and fame (fl)  75-76 
It was the charming month of May (fl)  76-77 
When Johnny Gubbins courted me, no girl so pleas'd as I (fl)  77 
To Mary's sad story, give ear, gentle stranger (fl)  78 
In April when primroses paint the sweet plain (fl)  78-79 
Returning from the fair one eve (fl)  79-80 
How hard the fate o' womankind (fl)  80-81 
O! When shall I visit the land of my birth (fl)  81-82 
Trees seem to fade as yon dear spot I'm viewing, The (fl)  82-83 
Smiling morn, the breathing spring, The (fl)  83-84 
When lovers are too daring grown (fl)  84-85 
With ceaseless care we court our charms (fl)  85-87 
When first I ken'd young Sandy's face (fl)  87-88 
Ye virgins attend, believe me your friend (fl)  88-89 
Fields were green, the hills were gay, The (fl)  89-90 
Down the burn and thro' the mead (fl)  90-91 
But are you sure the news is true? (fl)  91-92 
Blow cheerful, ye winds, till my Henry returns (fl)  93 
My bonny sailor won my mind! (fl)  93-94 
Topsail shimers in the wind, The (fl)  94-95 
I ne'er on that lip for a minute have gaz'd (fl)  95-96 
If a kiss be delightful, so tempting my lips (fl)  96 
To her daughter t'other day (fl)  97 
Young Johnny Mac Clean lov'd Jenny Mac Griggor (fl)  97-98 
What can a woman poor thing, do? (fl)  98-99 
'Twas on the beach, as sailors tell (fl)  99-100 
When Robin dress'd out in his holyday clothes (fl)  100-101 
My seventeenth year scarce over, blythe Damon a wooing came (fl)  101-102 
One morning, o'er the meadow green (fl)  102-103   
Bonny Charley, hie thee frae' me (fl)  103-104 
Wilt thou say farewell love, and from Rose part (fl)  104-105 
Keen and cold is the blast loudly whistling around (fl)  105-106 
Oh! Think not the maid upon whom you scorn (fl)  106-107 
Oh heard ye yon pibrach sound sad in the gale (fl)  107-108 
Let topers drain the flowing bowl (fl)  108-109 
My bonny brave lad has forsaken the plain (fl)  109-110 
There's something in kissing, I cannot tell why (fl)  110 
True-hearted was he, the swain of the Yarrow (fl)  111 
Why should the sailor take a wife (fl)  111-113 
Tell me ye maids, have you seen (fl)  113-114 
Sure woman's to be pitied (fl)  114-115 
Oh, young Lochinvar is come out of the west (fl)  115-117 
Young Roger is a bonny lad (fl)  117-118 
Ploughman whistles o'er the furrow, The (fl)  118-119 
Guardian angels now protect me (fl)  119-120 
When I was a pert little miss in my teens (fl)  120-121 
One evening of late young Colin I met (fl)  121-122 
Bonnie Lassie, will ye go, will ye go, will ye go (fl)  122-123 
When lav'rocs sweet and yellow broom (fl)  123-124 
Lowland lads think they are fine, The (fl)  124-125   
Holy be the Pilgrim's sleep (fl)  125-126 
Oh, lady fair, where art thou roaming? (fl)  126-127  10 
Will you gang o'er the lee rig (fl)  127-128 
Dearest youth, why thus away (fl)  129 
Oh! Send Me Lewis Gordon Hame (fl)  129-130 
Gentle maid of whom I sing, The (fl)  130-131 
Sure a lass in her bloom at the age of nineteen (fl)  131-132 
When Charles was deceiv'd by the maid he loved (fl)  132-133 
I saw thy form in youthful pride (fl)  133-134 
She is far from the land, where her hero sleeps (fl)  134-135 
Here's the bower she lov'd so much (fl)  135-136 
When time who steals our years away (fl)  136-137 
Maiden lov'd a sailor, his name was fickle Will, A (fl)  137-138 
When 'midst the gay I meet (fl)  138-139 
Nay, tell me not, dear, that the goblet drowns (fl)  139-140 
One night the north wind loud did blow (fl)  140-141 
When the winter wind whistles along the wild moor (fl)  141 
Matchless is the girl I love (fl)  142 
Young Jemmie came adown the glen (fl)  142-143 
Wind it blows cold, I am wet with the rain, The (fl)  143-144 
Could'st thou look as dear as when (fl)  144 
When first you courted me, I own (fl)  145 
In Glasgow town my mither dwells (fl)  145-146 
Roy's wife of Aldivalloch (fl)  146-147 
When first I met thee, warm and young (fl)  147-148 
O! Logie of Buchan O! Logie the laird (fl)  149 
I knew by the smoke that so gracefully curl'd (fl)  150 
What virgin or shepherd in valley or grove (fl)  150-151 
O wae to the warriors! They cause me to moan (fl)  151-152 
Hence from me, ye senseless toys (fl)  153-154 
We'll breathe not a kiss to the tell-tale air (fl)  154 
From deep-mourning Wallabout, hark the loud pealing (fl)  73   
Hero may perish his country to save, The (fl)  77   
Oh! Hudson side is green again (fl)  77   
Young Henry was as brave a youth (fl)  78   
Oh! there is, down in yonder vale (fl)  78   
Oh, Scotia! frae thy streams an' braes (fl)  79   
Together let us range the fields (fl)  79   
Oh! rose are sweet on the beds where they grow (fl)  80   
My Mary! in that time of the year (fl)  80   
To liberty's enraptur'd sight (fl)  81   
Shout is gone forth, hark the deep-singing hound, The (fl)  82   
Now mounted---so ho---away let us go (fl)  82   
My darling, says Pat, to his spouse on his lap (fl)  83   
Adown a green valley there liv'd an old maid (fl)  83   
Paddy Shannon high mounted on his trotting little pony (fl)  83   
War, that for a space did fail, The (fl)  84   
Our country is our ship, d'ye see (fl)  84   
In storms, when clouds obscure the sky (fl)  85   
Peaceful slum'bring on the ocean (fl)  85   
Mary, why thus waste thy youth-time in sorrow (fl)  86   
Drink to me only with thine eyes (fl)  86   
Saw ye my wee thing! Saw ye mine ain thing (fl)  87   
Twas night, and the farmer, his fire-side near (fl)  88   
Meadows look cheerful, the birds sweetly sing, The (fl)  88   
You've heard of a frog in an opera hat (fl)  89   
Here lies Thomas Huddlestone. Reader don't smile (fl)  89   
Where shall the lover rest (fl)  90   
Go where glory waits thee (fl)  91   
Not a drum was heard, nor a funeral note (fl)  92   
Spotless maid is like the blooming rose, The (fl)  92   
As pensive one night in my garret I sat (fl)  93   
When the rose-bud of summer its beauties bestowing (fl)  93   
Oh! did you not hear of Kate Kearney (fl)  94   
Oh! yes, I have seen this Kate Kearney (fl)  94   
Look neighbours, look (fl)  95   
Young Lobski said to his ugly wife (fl)  95   
Woman, the Grecian sage defines (fl)  96   
Dusky night rides down the sky, The (fl)  96   
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