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

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CONTENTS.

• [ALLAN CUNNINGHAM,] [1]
• • [She 's gane to dwall in heaven,] [9]
  • [The lovely lass of Preston mill,] [10]
  • [Gane were but the winter cauld,] [12]
  • [It's hame, and it's hame,] [13]
  • [The lovely lass of Inverness,] [14]
  • [A wet sheet and a flowing sea,] [15]
  • [The bonnie bark,] [16]
  • [Thou hast sworn by thy God, my Jeanie,] [17]
  • [Young Eliza,] [19]
  • [Lovely woman,] [20]
• [EBENEZER PICKEN,] [22]
• • [Peggie wi' the glancin' e'e,] [24]
  • [Woo me again,] [25]
• [STUART LEWIS,] [27]
• • [Lanark mills,] [30]
  • [O'er the muir,] [31]
• [DAVID DRUMMOND,] [34]
• • [The bonnie lass o' Levenside,] [36]
• [JAMES AFFLECK,] [38]
• • [How blest were the days,] [39]
• [JAMES STIRRAT,] [40]
• • [Henry,] [41]
  • [Mary,] [42]
• [JOHN GRIEVE,] [43]
• • [Culloden; or, Lochiel's Farewell,] [46]
  • [Lovely Mary,] [48]
  • [Her blue rollin' e'e,] [48]
• [CHARLES GRAY,] [50]
• • [Maggie Lauder,] [52]
  • [Charlie is my darling,] [53]
  • [The black-e'ed lassie,] [54]
  • [Grim winter was howlin',] [55]
• [JOHN FINLAY,] [57]
• • [O! come with me,] [59]
  • ['Tis not the rose upon the cheek,] [60]
  • [I heard the evening linnet's voice,] [61]
  • [Oh! dear were the joys,] [62]
• [WILLIAM NICHOLSON,] [63]
• • [The braes of Galloway,] [65]
  • [The hills of the Highlands,] [66]
  • [The banks of Tarf,] [67]
  • [O! will ye go to yon burn-side?] [68]
• [ALEXANDER RODGER,] [71]
• • [Sweet Bet of Aberdeen,] [73]
  • [Behave yoursel' before folk,] [74]
  • [Lovely maiden,] [76]
  • [The peasant's fireside,] [78]
  • [Ah, no! I cannot say "Farewell,"] [79]
• [JOHN WILSON,] [81]
• • [Mary Gray's song,] [86]
  • [The three seasons of love,] [88]
  • [Prayer to Sleep, ] [90]
• [DAVID WEBSTER, ] [91]
• • [Tak it, man; tak it,] [92]
  • [Oh, sweet were the hours,] [94]
  • [Pate Birnie,] [95]
• [WILLIAM PARK,] [97]
• • [The patriot's song,] [99]
• [THOMAS PRINGLE,] [102]
• • [Farewell to bonnie Teviotdale,] [106]
  • [The exile's lament,] [107]
  • [Love and solitude,] [108]
  • [Come awa', come awa',] [109]
  • [Dearest love, believe me,] [110]
• [WILLIAM KNOX,] [112]
• • [The dear Land o' Cakes,] [114]
  • [The lament,] [116]
  • [To Mary,] [116]
• [WILLIAM THOM,] [118]
• • [Jeanie's grave,] [121]
  • [They speak o' wiles,] [122]
  • [The mitherless bairn,] [123]
  • [The lass o' Kintore,] [124]
  • [My hameless ha',] [125]
• [WILLIAM GLEN,] [126]
• • [Waes me for Prince Charlie!] [128]
  • [Mary of sweet Aberfoyle,] [129]
  • [The battle-song,] [131]
  • [The maid of Oronsey,] [134]
  • [Jess M'Lean,] [136]
  • [How eerily, how drearily,] [137]
  • [The battle of Vittoria,] [139]
  • [Blink over the burn, sweet Betty,] [140]
  • [Fareweel to Aberfoyle,] [141]
• [DAVID VEDDER,] [143]
• • [Jeanie's welcome hame,] [146]
  • [I neither got promise of siller,] [147]
  • [There is a pang for every heart,] [148]
  • [The first of May,] [149]
  • [Song of the Scottish exile,] [150]
  • [The tempest is raging,] [151]
  • [The temple of nature,] [152]
• [JOHN M'DIARMID,] [155]
• • [Nithside,] [158]
  • [Evening,] [159]
• [PETER BUCHAN,] [162]
• • [Thou gloomy Feberwar,] [164]
• [WILLIAM FINLAY,] [166]
• • [The breaking heart,] [167]
  • [The auld emigrant's fareweel to Scotland,] [167]
  • [O'er mountain and valley,] [169]
• [JOHN GIBSON LOCKHART,] [171]
• • [Broadswords of Scotland,] [177]
  • [Captain Paton's lament,] [178]
  • [Canadian boat-song,] [183]
• [THOMAS MATHERS,] [184]
• • [Early love,] [185]
• [JAMES BROWN,] [186]
• • [My Peggy's far away,] [187]
  • [Love brought me a bough,] [188]
  • [How 's a' wi' ye,] [189]
  • [Oh! sair I feel the witching power,] [192]
• [DANIEL WEIR,] [194]
• • [See the moon,] [196]
  • [Love is timid,] [196]
  • [Raven's stream,] [197]
  • [Oh! our childhood's once delightful hours,] [198]
  • [Could we but look beyond our sphere,] [199]
  • [In the morning of life,] [200]
  • [On the death of a promising child,] [201]
  • [The dying hour,] [202]
  • [The midnight wind,] [203]
• [ROBERT DAVIDSON,] [206]
• • [Farewell to Caledonia,] [207]
  • [On visiting the scenes of early days,] [208]
  • [To wander lang in foreign lands,] [210]
• [PETER ROGER,] [212]
• • [Lovely Jean,] [214]
• [JOHN MALCOLM,] [215]
• • [The music of the night,] [217]
  • [The sea,] [218]
• [ERSKINE CONOLLY,] [220]
• • [Mary Macneil,] [221]
  • [There 's a thrill of emotion,] [222]
• [GEORGE MENZIES,] [223]
• • [The braes of Auchinblae,] [224]
  • [Fare thee weel,] [225]
• [JOHN SIM,] [226]
• • [Nae mair we 'll meet,] [227]
  • [Bonnie Peggy,] [227]
  • [Now, Mary, now the struggle 's o'er,] [229]
• [WILLIAM MOTHERWELL,] [230]
• • [Jeanie Morrison,] [233]
  • [Wearie's Well,] [236]
  • [Wae be to the orders,] [238]
  • [The midnight wind,] [239]
  • [He is gone! he is gone!] [240]
• [DAVID MACBETH MOIR,] [242]
• • [Casa Wappy,] [245]
  • [Farewell, our fathers' land,] [249]
  • [Heigh ho,] [250]
• [ROBERT FRASER,] [252]
• • [Oh, I lo'ed my lassie weel,] [253]
• [JAMES HISLOP,] [254]
• • [The Cameronian's dream,] [257]
  • [How sweet the dewy bell is spread,] [259]
• [ROBERT GILFILLAN,] [261]
• • [Manor braes,] [262]
  • [Fare thee well,] [263]
  • [The first rose of summer,] [264]
  • [The exile's song,] [264]
  • [The happy days o' youth,] [266]
  • ['Tis sair to dream,] [267]

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METRICAL TRANSLATIONS FROM THE MODERN GAELIC MINSTRELSY.

• [WILLIAM ROSS,] [271]
• • [The Highland May,] [272]
  • [The Celt and the stranger,] [274]
  • [Cormac's cure,] [274]
  • [The last lay of love,] [276]
• [LACHLAN MACVURICH,] [279]
• • [The exile of Cluny,] [280]
• [JAMES M'LAGGAN,] [282]
• • [Song of the royal Highland regiment,] [284]
• [GLOSSARY,] [287]

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Volume IV.

CONTENTS.

• [HENRY SCOTT RIDDELL,] [1]
• • [The wild glen sae green,] [49]
  • [Scotia's thistle,] [50]
  • [The land of gallant hearts,] [51]
  • [The yellow locks o' Charlie,] [52]
  • [We 'll meet yet again,] [53]
  • [Our ain native land,] [54]
  • [The Grecian war-song,] [56]
  • [Flora's lament,] [57]
  • [When the glen all is still,] [58]
  • [Scotland yet,] [58]
  • [The minstrel's grave,] [60]
  • [My own land and loved one,] [61]
  • [The bower of the wild,] [62]
  • [The crook and plaid,] [63]
  • [The minstrel's bower,] [65]
  • [When the star of the morning,] [66]
  • [Though all fair was that bosom,] [67]
  • [Would that I were where wild-woods wave,] [68]
  • [O tell me what sound,] [69]
  • [Our Mary,] [70]
• [MRS MARGARET M. INGLIS,] [73]
• • [Sweet bard of Ettrick's Glen,] [75]
  • [Young Jamie, ] [76]
  • [Charlie's bonnet's down, laddie,] [77]
  • [Heard ye the bagpipe?] [78]
  • [Bruce's address,] [79]
  • [Removed from vain fashion,] [80]
  • [When shall we meet again?] [81]
• [JAMES KING,] [83]
• • [The lake is at rest,] [85]
  • [Life 's like the dew,] [86]
• [ISOBEL PAGAN,] [88]
• • [Ca' the yowes to the knowes,] [89]
• [JOHN MITCHELL,] [90]
• • [Beauty,] [91]
  • [To the evening star,] [92]
  • [O waft me to the fairy clime,] [92]
  • [The love-sick maid,] [93]
• [ALEXANDER JAMIESON,] [95]
• • [The maid who wove,] [96]
  • [A sigh and a smile,] [97]
• [JOHN GOLDIE,] [98]
• • [And can thy bosom,] [100]
  • [Sweet 's the dew,] [101]
• [ROBERT POLLOK,] [103]
• • [The African maid,] [105]
• [J. C. DENOVAN,] [106]
• • [Oh! Dermot, dear loved one,] [107]
• [JOHN IMLAH,] [108]
• • [Kathleen,] [109]
  • [Hielan' heather,] [110]
  • [Farewell to Scotland,] [111]
  • [The rose of Seaton Vale,] [112]
  • [Katherine and Donald,] [113]
  • [Guid nicht, and joy be wi' you a',] [114]
  • [The gathering,] [115]
  • [Mary,] [116]
  • [Oh! gin I were where Gadie rins,] [117]
• [JOHN TWEEDIE,] [120]
• • [Saw ye my Annie?] [121]
• [THOMAS ATKINSON,] [122]
• • [Mary Shearer,] [124]
• [WILLIAM GARDINER,] [126]
• • [Oh! Scotland's hills for me,] [127]
• [ROBERT HOGG,] [129]
• • [Queen of fairy's song,] [131]
  • [When autumn comes,] [132]
  • [Bonnie Peggie, O!] [133]
  • [A wish burst,] [133]
  • [I love the merry moonlight,] [135]
  • [Oh, what are the chains of love made of?] [136]
• [JOHN WRIGHT,] [137]
• • [An autumnal cloud,] [139]
  • [The maiden fair,] [140]
  • [The old blighted thorn,] [141]
  • [The wrecked mariner,] [141]
• [JOSEPH GRANT,] [143]
• • [The blackbird's hymn is sweet,] [145]
  • [Love's adieu,] [146]
• [DUGALD MOORE,] [147]
• • [Rise, my love,] [149]
  • [Julia,] [150]
  • [Lucy's grave,] [152]
  • [The forgotten brave,] [153]
  • [The first ship,] [154]
  • [Weep not,] [155]
  • [To the Clyde,] [156]
• [REV. T. G. TORRY ANDERSON,] [158]
• • [The Araby maid,] [160]
  • [The maiden's vow,] [160]
  • [I love the sea,] [162]
• [GEORGE ALLAN,] [163]
• • [Is your war-pipe asleep?] [166]
  • [I will think of thee yet,] [167]
  • [Lassie, dear lassie,] [168]
  • [When I look far down on the valley below me,] [169]
  • [I will wake my harp when the shades of even,] [170]
• [THOMAS BRYDSON,] [172]
• • [All lovely and bright,] [173]
• [CHARLES DOYNE SILLERY,] [174]
• • [She died in beauty,] [177]
  • [The Scottish blue bells,] [177]
• [ROBERT MILLER,] [179]
• • [Where are they?] [179]
  • [Lay of the hopeless,] [180]
• [ALEXANDER HUME,] [182]
• • [My wee, wee wife,] [187]
  • [O, poverty!] [187]
  • [Nanny,] [188]
  • [My Bessie,] [189]
  • [Menie Hay,] [190]
  • [I 've wander'd on the sunny hill,] [192]
  • [Oh! years hae come,] [193]
  • [My mountain hame,] [194]
• [THOMAS SMIBERT,] [195]
• • [The Scottish widow's lament,] [197]
  • [The hero of St. John D'Acre,] [199]
  • [Oh! bonnie are the howes,] [200]
  • [Oh! say na you maun gang awa,] [201]
• [JOHN BETHUNE,] [203]
• • [Withered flowers,] [207]
  • [A spring song,] [208]
• [ALLAN STEWART,] [211]
• • [The sea boy,] [212]
  • [Menie Lorn,] [213]
  • [The young soldier,] [214]
  • [The land I love,] [215]
• [ROBERT L. MALONE,] [216]
• • [The thistle of Scotland,] [217]
  • [Hame is aye hamely,] [218]
• [PETER STILL,] [220]
• • [Jeanie's lament,] [221]
  • [Ye needna be courtin' at me,] [222]
  • [The bucket for me,] [223]
• [ROBERT NICOLL,] [225]
• • [Ordé Braes,] [228]
  • [The Muir o' Gorse and Broom,] [229]
  • [The bonnie Hieland hills,] [230]
  • [The bonnie rowan bush,] [231]
  • [Bonnie Bessie Lee,] [233]
• [ARCHIBALD STIRLING IRVING,] [235]
• • [The wild rose blooms,] [236]
• [ALEXANDER A. RITCHIE,] [237]
• • [The Wells o' Wearie,] [239]
• [ALEXANDER LAING,] [241]
• • [Ae happy hour,] [243]
  • [Lass gin ye wad lo'e me,] [244]
  • [Lass of Logie,] [245]
  • [My ain wife,] [246]
  • [The maid o' Montrose,] [247]
  • [Jean of Aberdeen,] [249]
  • [The hopeless exile,] [250]
  • [Glen-na-H'Albyn,] [250]
• [ALEXANDER CARLILE,] [252]
• • [Wha 's at the window,] [253]
  • [My brothers are the stately trees,] [254]
  • [The Vale of Killean,] [255]
• [JOHN NEVAY,] [257]
• • [The emigrant's love- letter,] [259]
• [THOMAS LYLE,] [261]
• • [Kelvin Grove,] [264]
  • [The trysting hour,] [265]
  • [Harvest song,] [266]
• [JAMES HOME,] [267]
• • [Mary Steel,] [268]
  • [Oh, hast thou forgotten?] [269]
  • [The maid of my heart,] [270]
  • [Song of the emigrant,] [271]
  • [This lassie o' mine,] [272]
• [JAMES TELFER,] [273]
• • [Oh, will ye walk the wood wi' me?] [273]
  • [I maun gae over the sea,] [275]

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