T.W.H. CROSLAND
NOTE
INDEX OF FIRST LINES
INDEX OF AUTHORS
SONGS AND BALLADS
MY SWETE SWETYNG
THINKING LORD VAUX When all is done and said, In the end thus
THE FALLING OUT OF FAITHFUL FRIENDS RICHARD EDWARDES In going
THE LOVER'S LUTE SIR THOMAS WYATT Blame not my Lute! for he
THE PASSIONATE SHEPHERD TO HIS LOVE CHRISTOPER MARLOWE Come
JOLLY GOOD ALE AND OLD JOHN STILL I cannot eat but little meat,
PHILLIDA AND CORYDON NICHOLAS BRETON In the merry month of May,
SPRING THOMAS NASH Spring, the sweet Spring, is the year's
MY MIND TO ME A KINGDOM IS SIR EDWARD DYER
DEATH THE LEVELLER JAMES SHIRLEY The glories of our blood and
YE LITTLE BIRDS THAT SIT AND SING THOMAS HEYWOOD Ye little
PACK CLOUDS, AWAY
SLEEP BEAUMONT AND FLETCHER Come, Sleep, and with thy sweet
SONG TO PAN
ASPATIA'S SONG
BEAUTY CLEAR AND FAIR JOHN FLETCHER Beauty clear and fair,
LET THE BELLS RING, AND LET THE BOYS SING
WEEP NO MORE
PAN
GOD LYAEUS
A BATTLE-SONG
MY LADY GREENSLEEVES ANONYMOUS Alas! my love, you do me wrong
MY TRUE LOVE SIR PHILIP SIDNEY My true love hath my heart, and
DIRGE JOHN WEBSTER Call for the robin-redbreast and the wren,
THE SHROUDING
CONTENT THOMAS DEKKER Art thou poor, yet hast thou golden
TROLL THE BOWL
SIR PATRICK SPENS ANONYMOUS The king sits in Dunfermline toun,
THE BEGGAR'S DAUGHTER OF BEDNALL-GREEN
THE BABES IN THE WOOD
ROBIN HOOD AND THE PINDER OF WAKEFIELD
THE NUT-BROWN MAID
SIR HUGH OF LINCOLN
THE GYPSY COUNTESS
THERE WERE THREE LADIES
THE HEIR OF LINNE
THE OLD AND YOUNG COURTIER
THE WINNING OF CALES
THE BAILIFF'S DAUGHTER OF ISLINGTON
CHEVY CHASE
THE BATTLE OF AGINCOURT MICHAEL DRAYTON Fair stood the wind for
SONG OF THE ENGLISH BOWMEN ANONYMOUS
WINTER WILLIAM SHAKESPEARE When icicles hang by the wall, And
INGRATITUDE
FIDELE
UNDER THE GREENWOOD TREE
SYLVIA
SONG
A SEA DIRGE
OPHELIA'S SONG
WHEN DAISIES PIED
IT WAS A LOVER
SWEET AND TWENTY
MUSIC
THE PEDLAR
SOLDIER'S SONG
DOUBT NOT
ARIEL
SIGH NO MORE, LADIES
THE SWEET O' THE YEAR
HARK! HARK! THE LARK!
OVER HILL, OVER DALE
ONE IN TEN
PUCK
LULLABY
SONG (2)
CHERRY-RIPE THOMAS CAMPION There is a garden in her face, Where
LAURA
COME, CHEERFUL DAY
FOLLOW THY FAIR SUN
TO CELIA BEN JONSON Drink to me only with thine eyes, And I
SONG FROM 'CYNTHIA'S REVELS'
THE SWEET NEGLECT
THE WEAVER'S SONG ANONYMOUS When Hercules did use to spin, And
THE HONEST FELLOW
ROBIN GOODFELLOW
TIME'S ALTERATION
SHALL I, WASTING IN DESPAIR GEORGE WITHER Shall I, wasting in
I LOVED A LASS, A FAIR ONE
CHRISTMAS
ASK ME NO MORE THOMAS CAREW Ask me no more where Jove bestows,
NIGHT-PIECE TO JULIA ROBERT HERRICK Her eyes the glow-worm lend
THE MAD MAID'S SONG
TO BLOSSOMS
TO DAFFODILS
JULIA
TO THE VIRGINS, TO MAKE MUCH OF THEIR TIME
TWELFTH NIGHT, OR KING AND QUEEN
THE BAG OF THE BEE
A THANKSGIVING FOR HIS HOUSE
TO PRIMROSES, FILLED WITH MORNING DEW
DELIGHT IN DISORDER
CHERRY RIPE
VIRTUE GEORGE HERBERT Sweet day! so cool, so calm, so bright
THE SPANISH ARMADO
A BALLAD UPON A WEDDING SIR JOHN SUCKLING I tell thee, Dick,
WHY SO PALE AND WAN?
GO, LOVELY ROSE! EDMUND WALLER Go, lovely Rose! Tell her, that
THE FROG HE WOULD A-WOOING RIDE ANONYMOUS It was the frog in
TO ALTHEA, FROM PRISON RICHARD LOVELACE When love with
TO LUCASTA, ON GOING TO THE WARS
YE GENTLEMEN OF ENGLAND MARTIN PARKER Ye gentlemen of England
THE FAIRY QUEEN ANONYMOUS Come follow, follow me, You, fairy
THE PRAISE OF A COUNTRYMAN'S LIFE JOHN CHALKHILL Oh, the sweet
HERE'S A HEALTH ANONYMOUS Here's a health unto His Majesty,
BLACK-EYED SUSAN JOHN GAY All in the Downs the fleet was
ANNIE LAURIE ANONYMOUS Maxwellton braes are bonnie, Where early
RULE BRITANNIA JAMES THOMSON When Britain first at Heaven's
WALY, WALY, BUT LOVE BE BONNY ANONYMOUS O waly, waly up the
SALLY IN OUR ALLEY HENRY CAREY Of all the girls that are so
THE BRAES OF YARROW WILLIAM HAMILTON Busk ye, busk ye, my bonny
THE SHEPHERD'S HOME WILLIAM SHENSTONE My banks they are
THE DIVERTING HISTORY OF JOHN GILPIN WILLIAM COWPER John Gilpin
THE 'ROYAL GEORGE'
BOADICEA
HEARTS OF OAK DAVID GARRICK Come, cheer up, my lads, 'tis to
AN ELEGY ON THE DEATH OF A MAD DOG OLIVER GOLDSMITH Good people
EDWIN AND ANGELINA
AULD ROBIN GRAY LADY ANNE BARNARD When the sheep are in the
WOO'D, AND MARRIED, AND A'. ALEXANDER ROSS The bride cam' out
THE BRITISH GRENADIERS ANONYMOUS Some talk of Alexander, and
HERE'S TO THE MAIDEN ANONYMOUS Here's to the maiden of bashful
BRISTOW TRAGEDY THOMAS CHATTERTON The feathered songster
MINSTREL'S SONG IN ELLA
THE PIPER WILLIAM BLAKE Piping down the valleys wild, Piping
THE TIGER
SCOTS WHA HAE ROBERT BURNS Scots, wha hae wi' Wallace bled,
FOR A' THAT
A RED, RED ROSE
COMIN' THRO' THE RYE
PHILLIS THE FAIR
AE FOND KISS
MY BONNY MARY
AFTON WATER
FOR THE SAKE OF SOMEBODY
WHISTLE, AND I'LL COME TO YE, MY LAD
THE DE'IL'S AWA' WI' THE EXCISEMAN
LASSIE WI' THE LINT-WHITE LOCKS
I LOVE MY JEAN
THE HAPPY TRIO
JOHN ANDERSON MY JO
MY WIFE'S A WINSOME WEE THING
DUNCAN GRAY
MY AIN KIND DEARIE O
THE THORN
JOHN BARLEYCORN
THE BANKS OF ALLAN WATER ANONYMOUS On the banks of Allan Water,
DEAR IS MY LITTLE NATIVE VALE SAMUEL ROGERS Dear is my little
A WISH
THE FAKENHAM GHOST Robert Bloomfield The lawns were dry in
THE KEEL ROW Anonymous
THE BLUE BELL OF SCOTLAND Anonymous Oh where, and oh where, is
THE LAIRD O' COCKPEN Lady Nairne The Laird o' Cockpen he's
CALLER HERRIN'
TOM BOWLING Charles Dibdin Here, a sheer hulk, lies poor Tom
BLOW HIGH, BLOW LOW
THE JOLLY YOUNG WATERMAN
THE RIME OF THE ANCIENT MARINER SAMUEL TAYLOR COLERIDGE
THE VICAR OF BRAY Anonymous In good King Charles's golden days,
THERE'S NAE LUCK ABOUT THE HOUSE William Julius Mickle But are
THE GIRL I LEFT BEHIND ME ANONYMOUS I'm lonesome since I
EDWARD! EDWARD! SIR DAVID DALRYMPLE 'Why does your brand so
O NANNY, WILT THOU GO WITH ME? THOMAS PERCY O Nanny, wilt thou
THE FRIAR OF ORDERS GRAY
THE INCHCAPE ROCK ROBERT SOUTHEY No stir in the air, no stir in
THE WELL OF ST. KEYNE
THE BATTLE OF BLENHEIM
FATHER WILLIAM
THE FLOWERS OF THE FOREST MRS. COCKBURN I've seen the smiling
LUCY GRAY WILLIAM WORDSWORTH Oft I had heard of Lucy Gray; And,
WE ARE SEVEN
SHE DWELT AMONG UNTRODDEN WAYS
I TRAVELLED AMONG UNKNOWN MEN
LOCHINVAR SIR WALTER SCOTT O, young Lochinvar is come out of
CORONACH
A WEARY LOT IS THINE
ALLEN-A-DALE
PIBROCH OF DONUIL DHU
SONG FROM 'THE PIRATE'
ROSABELLE
PROUD MAISIE
LORD ULLIN'S DAUGHTER THOMAS CAMPBELL A chieftain to the
THE SOLDIER'S DREAM
EXILE OF ERIN
YE MARINERS OF ENGLAND
THE BATTLE OF THE BALTIC
NAPOLEON AND THE SAILOR
THE PARROT
HOHENLINDEN
MEN OF ENGLAND
WHEN THE KYE COMES HAME JAMES HOGG Come all ye jolly shepherds
THE SKYLARK
THE YOUNG MAXWELL ALLAN CUNNINGHAM 'Where gang ye, thou silly
HAME, HAME, HAME
A WET SHEET AND A FLOWING SEA
MY NANIE O
CANADIAN BOAT-SONG THOMAS MOORE Faintly as tolls the evening
GO WHERE GLORY WAITS THEE
THE HARP THAT ONCE THROUGH TARA'S HALLS
RICH AND RARE WERE THE GEMS SHE WORE
THE MEETING OF THE WATERS
SHE IS FAR FROM THE LAND
BELIEVE ME, IF ALL THOSE ENDEARING YOUNG CHARMS
LOVE'S YOUNG DREAM
THE LAST ROSE OF SUMMER
THE MINSTREL-BOY
THE TIME I'VE LOST IN WOOING
THE LIGHT OF OTHER DAYS
THE DESTRUCTION OF SENNACHERIB LORD BYRON The Assyrian came
WHEN WE TWO PARTED
SONG (3)
WE'LL GO NO MORE A-ROVING
SHE WALKS IN BEAUTY
KING DEATH B.W. PROCTER King Death was a rare old fellow, He
SONG FOR TWILIGHT
THE BURIAL OF SIR JOHN MOORE AT CORUNNA CHARLES WOLFE Not a
