The Modern Scottish Minstrel, Volumes 1-6. / The Songs of Scotland of the Past Half Century

by Unknown

CONTENTS.

• [FRANCIS BENNOCH,] [1]
  • [Truth and honour,] [7]
  • [Our ship,] [8]
  • [Auld Peter Macgowan,] [10]
  • [The flower of Keir,] [11]
  • [Constancy,] [12]
  • [My bonnie wee wifie,] [13]
  • [The bonnie bird,] [14]
  • [Come when the dawn,] [15]
  • [Good-morrow,] [16]
  • [Oh, wae's my life], [17]
  • [Hey, my bonnie wee lassie,] [18]
  • [Bessie,] [20]
  • [Courtship,] [21]
  • [Together,] [22]
  • [Florence Nightingale,] [23]

• [JOSEPH MACGREGOR,] [25]
  • [Laddie, oh! leave me,] [25]
  • [How blythely the pipe,] [26]

• [WILLIAM DUNBAR, D.D.,] [28]
  • [The maid of Islay,] [29]

• [WILLIAM JERDAN,] [30]
  • [The wee bird's song,] [32]
  • [What makes this hour?] [33]

• [ALEXANDER BALD,] [34]
  • [The lily of the vale,] [35]
  • [How sweet are the blushes of morn,] [35]

• [GEORGE WILSON,] [37]
  • [Mild as the morning,] [37]
  • [The beacons blazed,] [38]
  • [The rendezvous,] [40]

• [JOHN YOUNGER,] [42]
  • [Ilka blade o' grass gets its ain drap o' dew,] [43]
  • [The month of June,] [44]

• [JOHN BURTT,] [46]
  • [O'er the mist-shrouded cliffs,] [47]
  • [O! lassie I lo'e dearest,] [47]

• [CHARLES JAMES FINLAYSON,] [49]
  • [The bard strikes his harp,] [50]
  • [Phœbus, wi' gowden crest,] [51]
  • [Oh, my love 's bonnie,] [52]

• [WILLIAM DOBIE,] [54]
  • [The dreary reign of winter's past,] [55]

• [ROBERT HENDRY, M.D.,] [57]
  • [Oh, let na gang yon bonnie lassie,] [58]

• [HEW AINSLIE,] [60]
  • [The hameward sang,] [61]
  • [Dowie in the hint o' hairst,] [62]
  • [On wi' the tartan,] [63]
  • [The rover o' Lochryan,] [64]
  • [The last look o' hame,] [65]
  • [The lads an' the land far awa',] [66]
  • [My bonnie wee Bell,] [67]

• [WILLIAM THOMSON,] [68]
  • [The maiden to her reaping-hook,] [68]

• [ALEXANDER SMART,] [71]
  • [When the bee has left the blossom,] [73]
  • [Oh, leave me not,] [74]
  • [Never despair,] [75]

• [JOHN DUNLOP,] [77]
  • [The year that 's awa',] [78]
  • [Oh, dinna ask me,] [78]
  • [Love flies the haunts of pomp and power,] [79]
  • [War,] [80]

• [WILLIAM BLAIR,] [82]
  • [The Highland maid,] [82]
  • [The Neapolitan war-song,] [84]

• [ARCHIBALD MACKAY,] [85]
  • [Our auld Scots sangs,] [85]
  • [My laddie lies low,] [87]
  • [Jouk and let the jaw gae by,] [88]
  • [Victorious be again, boys,] [89]

• [WILLIAM AIR FOSTER,] [91]
  • [Fareweel to Scotia,] [91]
  • [The falcon's flight,] [92]
  • [The salmon run,] [94]

• [CHARLES MARSHALL,] [97]
  • [The blessing on the wark,] [98]
  • [Jewel of a lad,] [99]
  • [Twilight joys,] [100]

• [WILLIAM WILSON,] [102]
  • [Oh, blessing on her starlike een,] [102]
  • [Oh! blessing on thee, land,] [104]
  • [The faithless,] [105]
  • [My soul is ever with thee,] [106]
  • [Auld Johnny Graham,] [107]
  • [Jean Linn,] [108]
  • [Bonnie Mary,] [109]

• [MRS MARY MACARTHUR,] [111]
  • [The missionary,] [111]

• [JOHN RAMSAY,] [114]
  • [Farewell to Craufurdland,] [114]

• [JAMES PARKER,] [116]
  • [The mariner's song,] [116]
  • [Her lip is o' the rose's hue,] [117]

• [JOHN HUNTER,] [119]
  • [The bower o' Clyde,] [119]
  • [Mary,] [122]
  • [In distant years,] [123]

• [ROBERT CHAMBERS,] [124]
  • [Young Randal,] [126]
  • [The ladye that I love,] [127]
  • [Thou gentle and kind one,] [128]
  • [Lament for the old Highland warriors,] [129]

• [THOMAS AIRD,] [131]
  • [The swallow,] [132]
  • [Genius,] [133]

• [ROBERT WHITE,] [136]
  • [My native land,] [137]
  • [A shepherd's life,] [138]
  • [Her I love best,] [140]
  • [The knight's return,] [141]
  • [The bonnie Redesdale lassie,] [143]
  • [The mountaineer's death,] [144]

• [WILLIAM CAMERON,] [146]
  • [Sweet Jessie o' the dell,] [146]
  • [Meet me on the gowan lea,] [147]
  • [Morag's fairy glen,] [148]
  • [Oh! dinna cross the burn, Willie,] [150]

• [ALEXANDER TAIT,] [151]
  • [E'ening's dewy hour,] [151]

• [CHARLES FLEMING,] [153]
  • [Watty M'Neil,] [153]

• [WILLIAM FERGUSON,] [155]
  • [I'll tend thy bower, my bonnie May,] [155]
  • [Wooing song,] [156]
  • [I'm wandering wide,] [158]

• [THOMAS DICK,] [160]
  • [How early I woo'd thee,] [160]

• [HUGH MILLER,] [161]
  • [Sister Jeanie, haste, we 'll go,] [166]
  • [Oh, softly sighs the westlin' breeze,] [167]

• [ALEXANDER MACANSH,] [171]
  • [The mother and child,] [172]
  • [Change,] [173]
  • [The tomb of the Bruce,] [174]

• [JAMES PRINGLE,] [176]
  • [The ploughman,] [176]

• [WILLIAM ANDERSON,] [178]
  • [Woodland song,] [180]
  • [The wells o' Weary,] [181]
  • [I'm naebody noo,] [182]
  • [I canna sleep,] [183]

• [WILLIAM M. HETHERINGTON, D.D., LL.D.,] [185]
  • ['Tis sweet wi' blythesome heart to stray,] [186]
  • [Oh, sweet is the blossom,] [187]

• [THOMAS WATSON,] [189]
  • [The squire o' low degree,] [189]

• [JAMES MACDONALD,] [192]
  • [Bonnie Aggie Lang,] [193]
  • [The pride o' the glen,] [194]
  • [Mary,] [196]

• [JAMES BALLANTINE,] [198]
  • [Naebody's bairn,] [200]
  • [Castles in the air,] [201]
  • [Ilka blade o' grass keps its ain drap o' dew,] [202]
  • [Wifie, come hame,] [203]
  • [The birdie sure to sing is aye the gorbel o' the nest,] [204]
  • [Creep afore ye gang,] [205]
  • [Ae guid turn deserves anither,] [205]
  • [The nameless lassie,] [206]
  • [Bonnie Bonaly,] [207]
  • [Saft is the blink o' thine e'e, lassie,] [208]
  • [The mair that ye work, aye the mair will ye win,] [209]
  • [The widow,] [209]

• [MISS ELIZA A. H. OGILVY,] [211]
  • [Craig Elachie,] [212]

• [JOHN FINLAY,] [215]
  • [The noble Scottish game,] [216]
  • [The merry bowling-green,] [218]

• [THOMAS TOD STODDART,] [220]
  • [Angling song,] [221]
  • [Let ither anglers,] [222]
  • [The British oak,] [223]
  • [Peace in war,] [224]

• [ALEXANDER MACLAGAN,] [226]
  • [Curling song,] [229]
  • [The auld meal mill,] [230]
  • [The thistle,] [232]
  • [The Scotch blue bell,] [233]
  • [The rockin',] [235]
  • [The widow,] [237]
  • [The Highland plaid,] [238]
  • [The flower o' Glencoe,] [239]

• [MRS JANE C. SIMPSON,] [241]
  • [Gentleness,] [242]
  • [He loved her for her merry eye,] [244]
  • [Life and death,] [245]
  • [Good-night,] [246]

• [ANDREW PARK,] [248]
  • [Hurrah for the Highlands,] [249]
  • [Old Scotland, I love thee!] [250]
  • [Flowers of summer,] [251]
  • [Home of my fathers,] [252]
  • [What ails my heart?] [253]
  • [Away to the Highlands,] [254]
  • [I'm away,] [255]
  • [There is a bonnie, blushing flower,] [256]
  • [The maid of Glencoe,] [257]

• [MARION PAUL AIRD,] [258]
  • [The fa' o' the leaf,] [258]
  • [The auld kirkyard,] [260]
  • [Far, far away,] [261]

• [WILLIAM SINCLAIR,] [263]
  • [The royal Breadalbane oak,] [264]
  • [Evening,] [265]
  • [Mary,] [266]
  • [Absence,] [267]
  • [Is not the earth,] [269]
  • [Oh! love the soldier's daughter dear!] [270]
  • [The battle of Stirling,] [272]

• [WILLIAM MILLER,] [274]
  • [Ye cowe a',] [274]

• [ALEXANDER HUME,] [276]
  • [My ain dear Nell,] [276]
  • [The pairtin',] [278]

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METRICAL TRANSLATIONS FROM THE MODERN GAELIC MINSTRELSY.

• [JOHN MACDONALD, D.D.,] [281]
  • [The missionary of St Kilda,] [282]

• [DUNCAN KENNEDY,] [284]
  • [The return of peace,] [285]

• [ALLAN M'DOUGALL,] [287]
  • [The song of the carline,] [288]

• [KENNETH MACKENZIE,] [290]
  • [The song of the kilt,] [290]

• [JOHN CAMPBELL,] [292]
  • [The storm blast,] [293]

• [JAMES M'GREGOR, D.D.,] [294]
  • [Light in the Highlands,] [295]

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