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

Peace be upon their banners, vol. v., 224.
Phœbus, wi' gowden crest, leaves ocean's heaving breast, vol. v., 51.
Preserve us a' what shall we do, vol. ii., 99.
Put off, put off, and row with speed, vol. ii., 179.

Quoth Rab to Kate, My sonsy clear, vol. ii., 94.

Raise high the battle-song, vol. iii., 131.
Red gleams the sun on yon hill tap, vol. i., 55.
Reft the charm of the social shell, vol. iii., 276.
Removed from vain fashion, vol. iv., 80.
Returning Spring, with gladsome ray, vol. i., 169.
Rise, little star, vol. vi., [224].
Rise, my love! the moon unclouded, vol. iv., 149.
Rise, rise, Lowland and Highlandman, vol. iv., 115.
Rise, Romans, rise at last, vol. vi., [216].
Rising o'er the heaving billow, vol. v., 29.
Robin is my ain gudeman, vol. i. 205.
Roy's wife of Aldivalloch, vol. i., 52.

Saw ye Johnnie comin', quo' she, vol. i. 145.
Saw ye my Annie, vol. iv., 121.
Saw ye nae my Peggie, vol. i., 208.
Say wilt thou, Leila, when alone, vol. vi., [40].
Scenes of woe and scenes of pleasure, vol. ii., 251.
Scotia's thistle guards the grave, vol. iv., 50.
Scotland, thy mountains, thy valleys, and fountains, vol. vi., [33].
See the moon o'er cloudless Jura, vol. iii., 196.
See the winter clouds around, vol. ii., 87.
Send a horse to the water, ye 'll no mak him drink, vol. i., 219.
Shadows of glory, the twilight is parting, vol. vi., [139].
Shall I leave thee, thou land to my infancy dear, vol. iii, 99.
She died, as die the roses, vol. vi., [256].
She died in beauty, like a rose, vol. iv., 177.
She 's aff and awa, like the lang simmer day, vol. iv., 124.
She 's gane to dwall in heaven, my lassie, vol. iii., 9.
She was mine when the leaves of the forest were green, vol. iii., 116.
She was Naebody's bairn, she was Naebody's bairn, vol. v., 200.
Should my numbers essay to enliven a lay, vol. i., 352.
Sing a' ye bards wi' loud acclaim, vol. iii., 139.
Sing not to me of sunny shores, vol. vi., [155].
Sing on, fairy Devon, vol. vi., [104].
Sing on, thou little bird, vol. ii., 286.
Sister Jeanie, haste, we 'll go, vol. v., 166.
Soldier, rest! thy warfare 's o'er, vol. i., 294.
Songs of my native land, vol. i., 220.
Star of descending night, vol. iv., 92.
Stay, proud bird of the shore, vol. iv., 141.
St Leonard's hill was lightsome land, vol. i., 228.
Sublime is Scotia's mountain land, vol. vi., [169].
Summer ocean, vol. vi., [61].
Surrounded wi' bent and wi' heather, vol. i., 265.
Sweet bard of Ettrick's glen, vol. iv., 75.
Sweet 's the gloamin's dusky gloom, vol. vi., [94].
Sweet 's the dew-deck'd rose in June, vol. iv., 101.
Sweetly shines the sun on auld Edinbro' toun, vol. iv., 239.
Sweet summer now is by, vol. iv., 275.
Sweet the rising mountains, red with heather bells, vol. vi., [254].

Talk not of temples—there is one, vol. iii., 152.
Taste life's glad moments, ii., 212.
Tell me, Jessie, tell me why? vol. i., 122.
Tell me, dear! in mercy speak, vol. vi., [131].
The auld meal mill, oh! the auld meal mill, vol. v., 230.
The bard strikes his harp the wild valleys among, vol. ii., 249.
The bard strikes his harp the wild woods among, vol. v., 50.
The beacons blazed, the banners flew, vol. v., 38.
The best o' joys maun hae an end, vol. i., 209.
The blackbird's hymn is sweet, vol. iv., 145.
The bonnie, bonnie bairn, sits pokin' in the ase, vol. v., 201.
The bonnie rowan bush, vol. iv., 231.
The bonniest lass in a' the warld, vol. i., 201.
The breath o' spring is gratefu', vol. v., 143.
The bride she is winsome and bonnie, vol. i., 148.
The bucket, the bucket, the bucket for me, vol. iv., 223.
The cantie spring scarce reared her head, vol. iii., 52.
The cranreuch's on my head, vol. vi., [107].
The dark gray o' gloamin', vol. iv., 243.
The dawn is breaking, but lonesome and eerie, vol. iii., 274.
The daylight was dying, the twilight was dreary, vol. vi., [72].
The dreary reign of winter's past, vol. v., 55.
The e'e o' the dawn, Eliza, vol. iv., 146.
The fairies are dancing, how nimbly they bound, vol. ii., 273.
The favouring wind pipes aloft in the shrouds, vol. vi., [26].
The fields, the streams, the skies, are fair, vol. v., 267.
The gathering clans 'mong Scotia's glens, vol. iv., 52.
The gloamin' star was showerin', vol. vi., [106].
The gloom of dark despondency, vol. vi., [193].
The gloomy days are gone, vol. v., 218.
The golden smile of morning, vol. vi., [122].
The gowan glitters on the sward, vol. i., 143.
The happy days of yore, vol. vi., [156].
The harvest morn breaks, vol. iv., 266.
The hawk whoops on high, and keen, keen from yon cliff, vol. i., 168.
The heath this night must be my bed, vol. i., 297.
The Highland hills, there are songs of mirth, vol. vi., [168].
The ingle cheek is bleezin' bricht, vol. v., 235.
Their nest was in the leafy bush, vol. i., 206.
The king is on his throne, wi' his sceptre an' his croon, vol. v., 216.
The laird o' Cockpen, he 's proud and he 's great, vol. i., 198.
The lake is at rest, love, vol. iv., 85.
The land I lo'e, the land I lo'e, vol. iv., 215.
The lark has left the evening cloud, vol. iii., 10.
The last gleam o' sunset in ocean was sinkin', vol. iii., 221.
The lily of the vale is sweet, vol. v., 35.
The little comer 's coming, the comer o'er the sea, vol. v., 132.
The loved of early days, vol. iv., 179.
The love-sick maid, the love-sick maid, vol. iv., 93.
The maidens are smiling in rocky Glencoe, vol. vi., [130].
The maid is at the altar kneeling, vol. iv., 160.
The maid who wove the rosy wreath, vol. iv., 96.
The midges dance aboon the burn, vol. ii., 149.
The mitherless lammie ne'er miss'd its ain mammie, vol. i., 231.
The moon hung o'er the gay greenwood, vol. iv., 140.
The moon shone in fits, vol. ii., 221.
The moon was a waning, vol. ii., 78.
The mother with her blooming child, vol. v., 172.
The music of the night, vol. iii., 217.
The music o' the year is hush'd, vol. ii., 161.
The neighbours a' they wonder how, vol. ii., 293.
The night winds Eolian breezes, vol. iv., 265.
The noble otter hill, vol. i., 337.
The oak is Britain's pride, vol. v., 223.
The parting kiss, the soft embrace, vol. iii., 90.
The primrose is bonnie in spring, vol. iii., 174.
There are moments when my spirit wanders back to other years, vol. vi., [209].
There grew in bonnie Scotland, vol. ii., 186.
There grows a bonnie brier-bush in our kail-yard, vol. i., 215.
There is a bonnie blushing flower, vol. v., 256.
There is a concert in the trees, vol. iv., 208.
There is a pang for every heart, vol. iii., 148.
There is music in the storm, love, vol. vi., [180].
There lived a lass in Inverness, vol. iii., 14.
There lives a lassie i' the braes, vol. i., 24.
There lives a young lassie, vol. iv., 116.
There 's a thrill of emotion, half painful, half sweet, vol. iii., 222.
There 's cauld kail in Aberdeen, vol. i., 48.
There 's cauld kail in Aberdeen, vol. i., 210.
There 's high and low, there 's rich and poor, vol. i., 194.
There 's meikle bliss in ae fond kiss, vol. vi., [128].
There 's mony a flower beside the rose, vol. iv., 188.
There 's music in the flowing tide, there 's music in the air, vol. ii., 275.
There 's music in a mother's voice, vol. vi., [51].
There 's nae covenant noo, lassie, vol. ii., 187.
There 's nae hame like the hame o' youth, vol. iv., 228.
There 's nae love like early love, vol. iii., 185.
There 's nane may ever guess or trow my bonnie lassie's name, vol. v., 206.
There 's some can be happy and bide whar they are, vol. vi., [163].
There was a musician wha play'd a good stick, vol. i., 271.
The rosebud blushing to the morn, vol. ii., 105.
The Rover o' Lochryan, he 's gane, vol. v., 64.
The Scotch blue bell, vol. v., 233.
The season comes when first we met, vol. i., 43.
The sea, the deep, deep sea, vol. iii., 218.
The shadows of evening fall silent around, vol. vi., [146].
The sky in beauty arch'd, vol. iv., 154.
The skylark sings his matin lay, vol. vi., [63].
The soldier waves the shining sword, the shepherd-boy his crook; vol. v., 68.
The spring comes back to woo the earth, vol. v., 156.
The storm grew faint as daylight tinged, vol. iv., 212.
The summer comes wi' rosy wreaths, vol. vi., [36].
The sun blinks sweetly on yon shaw, vol. ii., 175.
The sun-down had mantled Ben Nevis with night vol. iv., 287.
The sun hadna peep'd frae behint the dark billow, vol. iii., 129.
The sun has gane down o'er the lofty Ben Lomond, vol. ii., 136.
The sun is setting on sweet Glengarry, vol. ii., 176.
The sun is sunk, the day is done, vol. i., 133.
The sun sets in night, and the stars shun the day, vol. i., 41.
The sunny days are come, my love, vol. vi., [172].
The sweets o' the simmer invite us to wander, vol. ii., 305.
The tears I shed must ever fall, vol. i., 168.
The tempest is raging, vol. iii., 151.
The troops were all embarked on board, vol. i., 115.
The weary sun 's gane down the west, vol. ii., 154.
The widow is feckless, the widow 's alane, vol. v., 200.
The wild rose blooms in Drummond woods, vol. iv., 236.
The women are a' gane wud, vol. i., 227.
The year is wearing to an end, vol. ii., 79.
They 're stepping off, the friends I knew, vol. vi., [45].
They speak o' wiles in woman's smiles, vol. iii., 122.
They tell me first and early love, vol. vi., [73].
They tell me o' a land whar the sky is ever clear, vol. vi., [212].
Thou bonnie wood o' Craigie Lee, vol. ii., 153.
Thou cauld gloomy Feberwar, vol. iii., 164.
Thou dark stream slow wending thy deep rocky way, vol. v., 114.
Thou gentle and kind one, vol. v., 128.
Thou hast left me, dear Dermot, to cross the wide sea, vol. iv., 107.
Thou hast sworn by thy God, my Jeanie, vol. iii., 17.
Though all fair was that bosom heaving white, vol. iv., 67.
Though fair blooms the rose in gay Anglia's bowers, vol. iv., 217.
Though long the wanderer may depart, vol. vi., [225].
Though richer swains thy love pursue, vol. i., 134.
Though siller Tweed rin o'er the Lea, vol. ii., 104.
Though the winter of age wreathes her snow on his head, vol. ii., 117.
Though this wild brain is aching, vol. iv., 155.
Thou ken'st, Mary Hay, that I lo'e thee weel, vol. ii., 167.
Thou morn full of beauty, vol. v., 140.
Through Crockstoun Castle's lanely wa's, vol. ii., 144.
Thus sang the minstrel Cormack, his anguish to beguile, vol. iii., 275.
Thy cheek is o' the rose's hue, vol. ii., 244.
Thy queenly hand, Victoria, vol. v., 264.
Thy wily eyes, my darling, vol. iv., 292.
'Tis finish'd, they 've died for their forefathers' land, vol. iv., 153.
'Tis haena ye heard, man, o' Barrochan Jean, vol. ii., 150.
'Tis not the rose upon the cheek, vol. iii., 60.
'Tis sair to dream o' them we like, vol. iii., 266.
'Tis sweet wi' blithesome heart to stray, vol. v., 186.
'Tis the fa' o' the leaf, and the cauld winds are blawing, vol. v., 258.
'Tis the first rose o' summer that opes to my view, vol. iii., 264.
'Tis Yule! 'tis Yule! all eyes are bright, vol. vi., [65].
Together, dearest, we have play'd, vol. v., 22.
To live in cities, and to join, vol. v., 245.
Touch once more a sober measure, vol. iii., 178.
To Scotland's ancient realm, vol. v., 272.
To wander lang in foreign lands, vol. iii., 210.
True love is water'd aye wi' tears, vol. i., 233.
Trust not these seas again, vol. vi., [232].
Tuck, tuck, feer—from the green and growing leaves, vol. vi., [76].
'Twas a balmy summer gloamin', vol. vi., [158].
'Twas on a Monday morning, vol. ii., 61.
'Twas on a simmer afternoon, vol. i., 213.
'Twas summer, and softly the breezes were blowing, vol. i., 72.
'Twas when December's dark'ning scowl the face of heaven o'ercast, vol. vi., [239].
'Twas when the wan leaf frae the birk-tree was fa'in', vol. ii., 314.

Up with the dawn, ye sons of toil, vol. vi., [142].

Waken, lords and ladies gay, vol. i., 304.
Walkin' out ae mornin' early, vol. iii., 24.
Warlike chieftains now assembled, vol. v., 40.
Weep away, heart, weep away, vol. vi., [59].
Weep not over poet's wrong, vol. vi., [69].
Welcome, pretty little stranger, vol. i., 257.
We 'll meet beside the dusky glen on yon burn-side, vol. ii., 140.
We 'll meet yet again, my loved fair one, when o'er us, vol. iv., 53.
We part, yet wherefore should I weep, vol. v., 105.
Were I a doughty cavalier, vol. v., 127.
Were I but able to rehearse, vol. i., 17.
We were baith neebor bairns, thegither we play'd, vol. vi., [185].
Wha 'll buy caller herrin', vol. i, 195.
Whan Jamie first woo'd me he was but a youth, vol. iii., 25.
Whare hae ye been a' day, vol. i., 83.
What ails my heart—what dims my e'e? vol. v., 253.
What ails ye, my lassie, my dawtie, my ain? vol. vi., [78].
What are the flowers of Scotland, vol. ii., 66.
What fond, delicious ecstasy does early love impart, vol. vi., [85].
What makes this hour a day to me? vol. v., 33.
What though ye hae nor kith nor kin, vol. v., 238.
What 's this vain world to me, vol. i., 236.
What wakes the poet's lyre, vol. iv., 91.
When a' ither bairnies are hush'd to their hame, vol. iii., 123.
When autumn comes and heather bells, vol. iv., 132.
When Charlie to the Highlands came, vol. ii., 180.
When cities of old days, vol. iv., 156.
When first I cam' to be a man, vol. i., 13.
When fops and fools together prate, vol. i., 31.
When friendship, love, and truth abound, vol. i., 253.
When hope lies dead within the heart, vol. i., 45.
When I began the world first, vol. i., 33.
When I look far down on the valley below me, vol. iv., 169.
When I think on the lads and the land I hae left, vol. v., 66.
When I think on the sweet smiles o' my lassie, vol. ii., 307.
When I was a miller in Fife, vol. iii., 92.
When Katie was scarce out nineteen, vol. i., 157.
When loud the horn is sounding, vol. vi., [63].
When merry hearts were gay, vol. i., 92.
When my flocks upon the heathy hill are lyin' a' at rest, vol. iv., 49.
When others are boasting 'bout fetes and parades, vol. v., 153.
When rosy day far in the west has vanish'd frae the scene, vol. v., 151.
When sets the sun o'er Lomond's height, vol. ii., 183.
When shall we meet again, vol. iv., 81.
When the bee has left the blossom, vol. v., 73.
When the fair one and the dear one, vol. ii., 190.
When the glen all is still save the stream of the fountain, vol. iv., 58.
When the lark is in the air, vol. iii., 158.
When the maid of my heart, with the dark rolling eye, vol. iv., 270.
When the morning's first ray saw the mighty in arms, vol. iv., 79.
When the sheep are in the fauld, vol. i., 64.
When the star of the morning is set, vol. iv., 66.
When the sun gaes down, vol. v., 109.
When thy smile was still clouded, vol. ii., 282.
When we meet again, Lisette, vol. vi., [190].
When white was my owrelay, vol. i., 134.
When winter winds forget to blaw, vol. i., 268.
Where Manor's stream rins blithe an' clear, vol. iii., 262.
Where shall the lover rest, vol. i., 292.
Where the faded flower shall freshen, vol. vi., [230].
Where windin' Tarf, by broomy knowes, vol. iii., 67.
While beaux and belles parade the street, vol. iv., 213.
While the dawn on the mountain was misty and gray, vol. i., 303.
Why does the day whose date is brief, vol. iii., 202.
Why gaze on that pale face, vol. vi., [161].
Why is my spirit sad, vol. vi., [41].
Why tarries my love, vol. i., 68.
Wi' a hundred pipers an' a', an a', vol. i., 226.
Wifie, come hame, vol. v., 203.
Wi' heart sincere I love thee, Bell, vol. iii., 54.
Will ye gang o'er the lea rig, vol. i., 202.
Will ye go to the Highlands, my Mary, vol. iii., 66.
Will you go to the woodlands with me, with me, vol. v., 180.
Winter's cauld and cheerless blast, vol. v., 196.
With a breezy burst of singing, vol. v., 285.
With drooping heart he turn'd away, vol. vi., [218].
Within the towers of ancient Glammis, vol. ii., 88.
With laughter swimming in thine eye, vol. iii., 88.
With lofty song we love to cheer, vol. v., 23.
Would that I were where wild woods wave, vol. iv., 68.
Would you be young again? vol. i., 235.

Ye briery bields, where roses blaw, vol. ii., 231.
Ye daisied glens and briery braes, vol. iii., 208.
Ye dark, rugged rocks that recline o'er the deep, vol. i., 179.
Ye hameless glens and waving woods, vol. vi., [151].
Ye have cross'd o'er the wave from the glades where I roved, vol. vi., [195].
Ye ken whaur yon wee burnie, love, vol. v., 148.
Ye mariners of England, vol. ii., 262.
Ye mauna be proud, although ye be great, vol. v., 205.
Ye needna be courtin' at me, auld man, vol. iv., 222.
Yes, the shades we must leave which my childhood has haunted, vol. ii., 281.
Yestreen, as I strayed on the banks o' the Clyde, vol. iii., 187.
Yestreen, on Cample's bonnie flood, vol. v., 21.
Ye swains wha are touch'd wi' saft sympathy's feelin', vol. ii., 96.
Ye 've seen the blooming rosy brier, vol. iv., 249.
Yon old temple pile, where the moon dimly flashes, vol. v., 174.
Young Donald, dearer loved than life, vol. iv., 113.
Young Love once woo'd a budding rose, vol. vi., [64]
Young Randal was a bonnie lad when he gaed awa, vol. v., 126.
Your foes are at hand, and the brand that they wield, vol. v., 84.
You 've surely heard of famous Neil, vol, ii., 86.