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

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[Contents of Volume V.]

[Contents of Volume VI.]

[Index of First Lines]

[Index of Authors]

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Volume I.

CONTENTS.

• [JOHN SKINNER,] [1]
• • [Tullochgorum,] [11]
  • [John o' Badenyon,] [13]
  • [The ewie wi' the crookit horn,] [17]
  • [O! why should old age so much wound us?] [20]
  • [Still in the wrong,] [22]
  • [Lizzy Liberty,] [24]
  • [The stipendless parson,] [28]
  • [The man of Ross,] [31]
  • [A song on the times,] [33]
• [WILLIAM CAMERON,] [35]
• • [As o'er the Highland hills I hied,] [37]
• [MRS JOHN HUNTER,] [39]
• • [The Indian death-song,] [41]
  • [My mother bids me bind my hair,] [41]
  • [The flowers of the forest,] [42]
  • [The season comes when first we met,] [43]
  • [Oh, tuneful voice! I still deplore,] [44]
  • [Dear to my heart as life's warm stream,] [44]
  • [The lot of thousands,] [45]
• [ALEXANDER, DUKE OF GORDON,] [46]
• • [Cauld kail in Aberdeen,] [48]
• [MRS GRANT OF CARRON,] [50]
• • [Roy's wife of Aldivalloch,] [52]
• [ROBERT COUPER, M.D.,] [53]
• • [Kinrara,] [55]
  • [The sheeling,] [55]
  • [The ewe-bughts, Marion,] [56]
• [LADY ANNE BARNARD,] [58]
• • [Auld Robin Gray,] [64]
  • [" " Part II.,] [65]
  • [Why tarries my love?] [68]
• [JOHN TAIT,] [70]
• • [The banks of the Dee,] [72]
• [HECTOR MACNEILL,] [73]
• • [Mary of Castlecary,] [82]
  • [My boy, Tammy,] [83]
  • [Oh, tell me how for to woo,] [85]
  • [Lassie wi' the gowden hair,] [87]
  • [Come under my plaidie,] [89]
  • [I lo'ed ne'er a laddie but ane,] [90]
  • [Donald and Flora,] [92]
  • [My luve's in Germany,] [95]
  • [Dinna think, bonnie lassie,] [96]
• [MRS GRANT OF LAGGAN,] [99]
• • [Oh, where, tell me where?] [104]
  • [Oh, my love, leave me not,] [106]
• [JOHN MAYNE,] [107]
• • [Logan braes,] [110]
  • [Helen of Kirkconnel,] [111]
  • [The winter sat lang,] [113]
  • [My Johnnie,] [114]
  • [The troops were embarked,] [115]
• [JOHN HAMILTON,] [117]
• • [The rantin' Highlandman, ] [118]
  • [Up in the mornin' early,] [119]
  • [Go to Berwick, Johnnie,] [121]
  • [Miss Forbes' farewell to Banff,] [121]
  • [Tell me, Jessie, tell me why?] [122]
  • [The hawthorn,] [123]
  • [Oh, blaw, ye westlin' winds!] [124]
• [JOANNA BAILLIE,] [126]
• • [The maid of Llanwellyn,] [132]
  • [Good night, good night!] [133]
  • [Though richer swains thy love pursue,] [134]
  • [Poverty parts good companie,] [134]
  • [Fy, let us a' to the wedding,] [136]
  • [Hooly and fairly,] [139]
  • [The weary pund o' tow,] [141]
  • [The wee pickle tow,] [142]
  • [The gowan glitters on the sward,] [143]
  • [Saw ye Johnnie comin'?] [145]
  • [It fell on a morning,] [146]
  • [Woo'd, and married, and a',] [148]
• [WILLIAM DUDGEON,] [151]
• • [Up among yon cliffy rocks,] [152]
• [WILLIAM REID,] [153]
• • [The lea rig,] [154]
  • [John Anderson, my jo (a continuation), ] [155]
  • [Fair, modest flower,] [157]
  • [Kate o' Gowrie,] [157]
  • [Upon the banks o' flowing Clyde,] [159]
• [ALEXANDER CAMPBELL,] [161]
• • [Now winter's wind sweeps,] [165]
  • [The hawk whoops on high,] [166]
• [MRS DUGALD STEWART,] [167]
• • [The tears I shed must ever fall,] [168]
  • [ Returning spring, with gladsome ray,] [169]
• [ALEXANDER WILSON,] [172]
• • [Connel and Flora,] [179]
  • [Matilda,] [179]
  • [Auchtertool,] [182]
• [CAROLINA, BARONESS NAIRN,] [184]
• • [The ploughman,] [194]
  • [Caller herrin',] [195]
  • [The land o' the leal,] [196]
  • [The Laird o' Cockpen,] [198]
  • [Her home she is leaving,] [200]
  • [The bonniest lass in a' the warld,] [201]
  • [My ain kind dearie, O!] [202]
  • [He 's lifeless amang the rude billows,] [202]
  • [Joy of my earliest days,] [203]
  • [Oh, weel's me on my ain man,] [204]
  • [Kind Robin lo'es me] [205]
  • [Kitty Reid's house,] [205]
  • [The robin's nest,] [206]
  • [Saw ye nae my Peggy?] [208]
  • [Gude nicht, and joy be wi' ye a'!] [209]
  • [Cauld kail in Aberdeen,] [210]
  • [He 's ower the hills that I lo'e weel,] [211]
  • [The lass o' Gowrie,] [213]
  • [There grows a bonnie brier bush,] [215]
  • [John Tod,] [216]
  • [Will ye no come back again?] [218]
  • [Jamie the laird,] [219]
  • [Songs of my native land,] [220]
  • [Castell Gloom,] [221]
  • [Bonnie Gascon Ha',] [223]
  • [The auld house,] [224]
  • [The hundred pipers,] [226]
  • [The women are a' gane wud,] [227]
  • [Jeanie Deans,] [228]
  • [The heiress,] [230]
  • [The mitherless lammie,] [231]
  • [The attainted Scottish nobles,] [232]
  • [True love is watered aye wi' tears,] [233]
  • [Ah, little did my mother think,] [234]
  • [Would you be young again?] [235]
  • [Rest is not here,] [236]
  • [Here's to them that are gane,] [237]
  • [Farewell, O farewell!] [238]
  • [The dead who have died in the Lord,] [239]
• [JAMES NICOL,] [240]
• • [Blaw saftly, ye breezes,] [242]
  • [By yon hoarse murmurin' stream,] [242]
  • [Haluckit Meg,] [244]
  • [My dear little lassie,] [246]
• [JAMES MONTGOMERY,] [247]
• • ["Friendship, love, and truth,"] [253]
  • [The Swiss cowherd's song in a foreign land,] [254]
  • [German war-song,] [254]
  • [Via Crucis, via Lucis,] [255]
  • [Verses to a robin-redbreast,] [257]
  • [Slavery that was,] [258]
• [ANDREW SCOTT,] [260]
• • [Rural content, or the muirland farmer,] [263]
  • [Symon and Janet,] [265]
  • [Coquet water,] [268]
  • [The young maid's wish for peace,] [269]
  • [The fiddler's widow,] [271]
  • [Lament for the death of an Irish chief,] [272]
  • [The departure of summer,] [273]
• [SIR WALTER SCOTT, BART.,] [275]
• • [It was an English ladye bright,] [289]
  • [Lochinvar,] [290]
  • [Where shall the lover rest,] [292]
  • [Soldier, rest! thy warfare o'er,] [294]
  • [Hail to the chief who in triumph advances,] [295]
  • [The heath this night must be my bed,] [297]
  • [The imprisoned huntsman,] [298]
  • [He is gone on the mountain,] [299]
  • [A weary lot is thine, fair maid,] [300]
  • [Allen-a-Dale,] [300]
  • [The cypress wreath,] [302]
  • [The cavalier,] [303]
  • [Hunting song,] [304]
  • [Oh, say not, my love, with that mortified air,] [305]

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METRICAL TRANSLATIONS FROM THE MODERN GAELIC MINSTRELSY.