The Quaver; Or, Songster's Pocket Companion, Etc

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The Booksellers, 1858 - 512 pages
 

Contents

A song to the Oak the brave old Oak
19
We mettwas in a crowd
25
Behold how brightly breaks the morning
29
When the glowworm gilds the elfin bower
31
Sweet is life when love directs us
37
Comfort damsel why that sigh 341
38
With a helmet on his brow
39
My names Edward Morgan I live at Llangollen
43
Sweet eyes sweet eyes how beautiful ye are
44
Hail to thee England blest isle of the ocean
45
When a boy Harry Bluff left his friends and his home
46
Drink to me only with thine eyes
47
March to the battlefield
49
He that will not merry merry be
51
Away with melancholy
52
My own blue bell my pretty blue bell
57
How sweet at close of silent eve
58
Adieu adieumy native shore
60
Why how now Madam Flirt comic
61
O tis love tis love tis love
62
Theres a light in her laughing eye
69
Some love to roam oer the dark sea foam
70
Dame Durden kept five serving girls
74
Oh turn those dear dear eyes away
75
Tis the last rose of summer
77
Hurrah oer Hounslow Heath to roam
79
Since the first dawn of reason that beamd on my mind
83
A hermit that dwells in these solitudes crossd me
84
Murphy hath a weather eye comic
86
In the day when we went gipsying
88
Begone dull care I prythee begone from une
91
A very little man very how came you so comic
94
Far over land far over wave 54
95
Should auld acquaintance be forgot
97
Hail smiling morn that tips the hills with gold 21
100
Believe me if all those endearing young charms
101
Thine am I my faithful fair 161
102
My Highland home where tempests blow
103
Strike up strike up strike up Scottish minstrels c
105
Heres a health to all good lasses
107
Bound prentice to a waterman I learnd a bit to row
109
Oh wilt thou leave my fathers halls 20
111
In the downhill of life when I find Im declining
112
What should fire a Britons heart
113
At the peaceful midnight hour
114
By the margin of fair Zurichs waters
116
How gladly how merrily we ride along the sea
117
parted from Erin heart broken to leave thee
119
Merry is the name of sweetheart sounded
121
The sea was bright and the bark rode well
125
A glass is good and a lass is good
127
The morn was fairthe skies were clear
132
And has she then faild in her truth
133
Meet me by moonlight alone
134
Old Englands emblem is the rose
135
Hark the bonnie Christ Church bells
137
Ive wanderd through that Indian land
138
A tale I tell now without any flam comic
139
Time cannot change my love for thee 159
141
The soldier knows that every hall 123
147
you neer hear of a jolly young waterman
148
Ye mariners of England
149
Oh bring me wine bright source of mirth
151
Fly care to the winds thus I blow thee away
153
It is not for thine eye of blue
155
Bright Chanticleer proclaims the dawn
158
Should danger eer approach our coast
160
As pensive Chloe walkd alone
161
On a Suskehannah raft I cum up de bay comic
164
He comes from the wars from the red field of fight
167
The British tar no peril knows 131
169
Britannias name from age to age
170
Hes gone and I shall never see
173
So warmly we met and so fondly we parted
176
A landlady of France she lovd an officer c comic
177
love to see the flowing bowl
180
Mynheer Vandunck though he never got drunk
183
When angry uations rush to arms
184
Willie Wastle dwelt on Tweed
206
You ask me the life of a Tar
208
When the rosebud of summer its beauties bestowing
214
That heavenly voice that heavenly voice
216
She never blamd him never
219
A curious tale I now will disclose comic
229
will leave the battlefield
231
Ive rovd afar thro summer climes
233
Fill the bowl with streams of pleasure
235
My sister dear oer this rude cheek 903
238
Young Jemmys ganging after me
240
See the rosy morn appearing
241
Why fair maid in every feature
245
If a body meet a body comin thro the ye
247
A famous man was Robin Hood
251
When first he wood and won my love
252
Say can a maidens heart refuse
254
And are you sure the news is true?
259
In my cottage near a wood
261
Boid Robin Hood was a forester good 993
263
Yes Im in love I feel it now
266
Says Ella to her love Remember
270
a heart for falsehood framed
271
Ye banks and braes and streams around
272
And has she discharged the sweet youth comic
273
Forget theein my banquet hall 66
274
My beating heart with rapture glows
278
came from ole Kentucky comic
279
O Scotia tho I grieve to part
281
When laid on a mothers fond breast
285
Alas the battles lost and won
287
Ive been roaming Ive been roaming
288
saw a village maiden stray
295
Ah why did I gather this delicate flower
296
O cruel vas my parents that fored my love c comic
298
See the course throngd with gazers the sports are begun
301
Ive been shopping Ive been shopping comic
303
Forget me notforget me not
308
Stranger didst thou ever prove
312
Think on that look of humid ray
313
am the laughingstock of all comic 509
315
Flow on thou shining river
318
When shall we three meet again
321
You ask me sweet maid if my vows are sincere
325
How oft without or help or guide
328
Oh Londons the town
329
lockd up all my treasure
334
Ye topers all drink to the soul
335
Oh father had a jolly knack comic 832
337
When in death I shall calm recline
341
love the hills my native hills
343
Of all the girls that are so smart
349
Youve of a Putney party heard comic
351
From distant climes a Troubadour
354
How happy could I be with either
359
Saint Patrick was a gentleman he came of c comic
363
My mother pretends for a wife Im too young comic
365
wish I were where Helen lies
367
His white plume oer the mountain streams
368
Sweet hope thou art a sovereign balm
369
In thee I bear so dear a part
373
He was famd for deeds of arms
375
Oh twine a wreath of evergreen
378
Hark tis the Indian drum
381
Bid me discourse I will enchant thine ear 3 8
382
Beggars Lament The 432
388
Hoherlinden
394
How to Cure a Cough
401
Eliza
404
Land of my Birth The
409
Felon The
423
Napoleon at the Kremlin 407
428
Paddy and the Bear
436
Field of Waterloo The 389
441
Seven Ages of Woman The 302
446
Grave Stones The
453
Come listen to a whimmy chant comic 201
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