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

by Unknown

• [ROBERT MACKAY (ROB DONN),] [309]
• • [The song of winter,] [311]
  • [Dirge for Ian Macechan,] [315]
  • [The song of the forsaken drover,] [315]
  • [Isabel Mackay—the maid alone,] [318]
  • [Evan's Elegy,] [321]
• [DOUGAL BUCHANAN,] [322]
• • [A clagionn—the skull,] [326]
  • [Am bruadar—the dream,] [330]
• [DUNCAN MACINTYRE,] [334]
• • [Mairi bhān ōg (Mary, the young, the fair-haired),] [335]
  • [Bendourain, the Otter Mount,] [336]
  • [The bard to his musket,] [347]
• [JOHN MACODRUM,] [351]
• • [Oran na h-aois (the song of age),] [352]
• [NORMAN MACLEOD (TORMAID BAN),] [355]
• • [Caberfae,] [357]
• [GLOSSARY,] [363]

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Volume II.

CONTENTS.

• [JAMES HOGG,] [1]
• • [Donald Macdonald,] [48]
  • [Flora Macdonald's farewell,] [50]
  • [Bonnie Prince Charlie,] [51]
  • [The skylark,] [52]
  • [Caledonia,] [53]
  • [O Jeanie, there 's naething to fear ye,] [54]
  • [When the kye comes hame,] [55]
  • [The women folk,] [58]
  • [M'Lean's welcome,] [59]
  • [Charlie is my darling,] [61]
  • [Love is like a dizziness,] [62]
  • [O weel befa' the maiden gay,] [64]
  • [The flowers of Scotland,] [66]
  • [Lass, an' ye lo'e me, tell me now,] [67]
  • [Pull away, jolly boys,] [69]
  • [O, saw ye this sweet bonnie lassie o' mine?] [70]
  • [The auld Highlandman,] [71]
  • [Ah, Peggy, since thou 'rt gane away,] [72]
  • [Gang to the brakens wi' me,] [74]
  • [Lock the door, Lariston,] [75]
  • [I hae naebody now,] [77]
  • [The moon was a-waning,] [78]
  • [Good night, and joy,] [79]
• [JAMES MUIRHEAD, D.D.,] [81]
• • [Bess the gawkie,] [82]
• [MRS AGNES LYON,] [84]
• • [Neil Gow's farewell to whisky,] [86]
  • [See the winter clouds around,] [87]
  • [Within the towers of ancient Glammis,] [88]
  • [My son George's departure,] [90]
• [ROBERT LOCHORE,] [91]
• • [Now, Jenny lass,] [92]
  • [Marriage, and the care o't,] [94]
  • [Mary's twa lovers,] [95]
  • [The forlorn shepherd,] [96]
• [JOHN ROBERTSON,] [98]
• • [The toom meal pock,] [99]
• [ALEXANDER BALFOUR,] [101]
• • [The bonnie lass o' Leven water,] [104]
  • [Slighted love,] [105]
• [GEORGE MACINDOE,] [106]
• • [Cheese and whisky,] [108]
  • [The burn trout,] [109]
• [ALEXANDER DOUGLAS,] [110]
• • [Fife, an' a' the land about it,] [112]
• [WILLIAM M'LAREN,] [114]
• • [Now summer shines with gaudy pride,] [116]
  • [And dost thou speak sincere, my love?] [116]
  • [Say not the bard has turn'd old,] [117]
• [HAMILTON PAUL,] [120]
• • [Helen Gray,] [128]
  • [The bonnie lass of Barr,] [129]
• [ROBERT TANNAHILL,] [131]
• • [Jessie, the flower o' Dumblane,] [136]
  • [Loudon's bonnie woods and braes,] [137]
  • [The lass of Arranteenie,] [139]
  • [Yon burn side,] [140]
  • [The braes o' Gleniffer,] [141]
  • [Through Crockston Castle's lanely wa's,] [142]
  • [The braes o' Balquhither,] [143]
  • [Gloomy winter 's now awa',] [145]
  • [O! are ye sleeping, Maggie?] [146]
  • [Now winter, wi' his cloudy brow,] [147]
  • [The dear Highland laddie, O,] [148]
  • [The midges dance aboon the burn,] [149]
  • [Barrochan Jean,] [150]
  • [O, row thee in my Highland plaid,] [151]
  • [Bonnie wood of Craigie lea,] [153]
  • [Good night, and joy,] [154]
• [HENRY DUNCAN, D.D.,] [156]
• • [Curling song,] [161]
  • [On the green sward,] [163]
  • [The Ruthwell volunteers,] [164]
  • [Exiled far from scenes of pleasure,] [165]
  • [The roof of straw,] [166]
  • [Thou kens't, Mary Hay,] [167]
• [ROBERT ALLAN,] [169]
• • [Blink over the burn, my sweet Betty,] [171]
  • [Come awa, hie awa,] [171]
  • [On thee, Eliza, dwell my thoughts,] [173]
  • [To a linnet,] [174]
  • [The primrose is bonnie in spring,] [174]
  • [The bonnie lass o' Woodhouselee,] [175]
  • [The sun is setting on sweet Glengarry, ] [176]
  • [Her hair was like the Cromla mist,] [177]
  • [O leeze me on the bonnie lass,] [178]
  • [Queen Mary's escape from Lochleven Castle,] [179]
  • [When Charlie to the Highlands came,] [180]
  • [Lord Ronald came to his lady's bower,] [181]
  • [The lovely maid of Ormadale,] [183]
  • [A lassie cam' to our gate,] [184]
  • [The thistle and the rose,] [186]
  • [The Covenanter's lament,] [187]
  • [Bonnie lassie,] [188]
• [ANDREW MERCER,] [189]
• • [The hour of love,] [190]
• [JOHN LEYDEN, M.D.,] [191]
• • [Ode to the evening star,] [196]
  • [The return after absence,] [197]
  • [Lament for Rama,] [197]
• [JAMES SCADLOCK,] [199]
• • [Along by Levern stream so clear,] [201]
  • [Hark, hark, the skylark singing,] [202]
  • [October winds,] [203]
• [SIR ALEXANDER BOSWELL, BART.,] [204]
• • [Jenny's bawbee,] [208]
  • [Jenny dang the weaver,] [210]
  • [The lass o' Isla,] [211]
  • [Taste life's glad moments,] [212]
  • [Good night, and joy be wi' ye a',] [214]
  • [Old and new times,] [215]
  • [Bannocks o' barley meal,] [216]
• [WILLIAM GILLESPIE,] [218]
• • [The Highlander,] [220]
  • [Ellen,] [221]
• [THOMAS MOUNSEY CUNNINGHAM,] [223]
• • [Adown the burnie's flowery bank,] [227]
  • [The hills o' Gallowa',] [227]
  • [The braes o' Ballahun,] [229]
  • [The unco grave,] [230]
  • [Julia's grave,] [231]
  • [Fareweel, ye streams,] [232]
• [JOHN STRUTHERS,] [235]
• • [Admiring Nature's simple charms,] [239]
  • [Oh, bonnie buds yon birchen tree,] [240]
• [RICHARD GALL,] [241]
• • [How sweet is the scene,] [243]
  • [Captain O'Kain,] [243]
  • [My only jo and dearie, O, ] [244]
  • [The bonnie blink o' Mary's e'e,] [245]
  • [The braes o' Drumlee,] [246]
  • [I winna gang back to my mammy again,] [248]
  • [The bard,] [249]
  • [Louisa in Lochaber,] [249]
  • [The hazlewood witch,] [250]
  • [Farewell to Ayrshire,] [251]
• [GEORGE SCOTT,] [253]
• • [The flower of the Tyne,] [254]
• [THOMAS CAMPBELL, ] [255]
• • [Ye mariners of England,] [262]
  • [Glenara,] [263]
  • [The wounded hussar,] [264]
  • [Battle of the Baltic,] [265]
  • [Men of England,] [268]
• [MRS G. G. RICHARDSON, ] [269]
• • [The fairy dance,] [273]
  • [Summer morning,] [274]
  • [There 's music in the flowing tide,] [275]
  • [Ah! faded is that lovely broom,] [276]
• [THOMAS BROWN, M.D.,] [278]
• • [Consolation of altered fortunes,] [281]
  • [The faithless mourner,] [282]
  • [The lute,] [283]
• [WILLIAM CHALMERS, ] [285]
• • [Sing on,] [286]
  • [The Lomond braes,] [287]
• [JOSEPH TRAIN,] [288]
• • [My doggie,] [293]
  • [Blooming Jessie,] [295]
  • [Old Scotia,] [296]
• [ROBERT JAMIESON,] [297]
• • [My wife 's a winsome wee thing,] [299]
  • [Go to him, then, if thou can'st go,] [300]
• [WALTER WATSON,] [302]
• • [My Jockie 's far awa,] [304]
  • [Maggie an' me,] [305]
  • [Sit down, my cronie,] [306]
  • [Braes o' Bedlay,] [307]
  • [Jessie,] [308]
• [WILLIAM LAIDLAW,] [310]
• • [Lucy's flittin',] [314]
  • [Her bonnie black e'e,] [316]
  • [Alake for the lassie,] [317]

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METRICAL TRANSLATIONS FROM THE MODERN GAELIC MINSTRELSY.

• [ALEXANDER MACDONALD,] [321]
• • [The lion of Macdonald,] [323]
  • [The brown dairy-maiden,] [327]
  • [The praise of Morag,] [329]
  • [News of Prince Charles,] [335]
• [JOHN ROY STUART,] [340]
• • [Lament for Lady Macintosh,] [341]
  • [The day of Culloden,] [343]
• [JOHN MORRISON,] [346]
• • [My beauty dark,] [347]
• [ROBERT MACKAY,] [349]
• • [The Highlander's home sickness,] [349]
• [GLOSSARY,] [350]

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Volume III.