Imprint Names: Pitts, J.
Imprint Locations: London
Date between 1819 and 1844
Imprint: Printed at J. Pitts Wholesale Toy Warehouse 6, Great st. Andrew Street, 7 Dials
Title: Deep as the fountain
First Line: Deep as the fountain of this beating heart
Title: Woodland Mary
First Line: With sloe-black eyes and jet black hair
Themes: Servants
Title: Lubin is away
First Line: My mother bids me bind my hair
Performers: Stephens, Catherine, 1794-1882
Title: Banks of Allan water
First Line: On the banks of Allan water
Title: Charlie is my dar[l]ing
First Line: Charlie is my darling
Performers: Stephens, Catherine, 1794-1882
Themes: Jacobite Rebellion, 1745
Title: We're a noddin
First Line: And we're a' noddin nid, nid noddin
Performers: Stephens, Catherine, 1794-1882
Title: The Highland lad
First Line: A Highland lad my love was born
Title: [None]
First Line: Twas morn and loud the blackbird sung
Tune: Woodland Mary
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Imprint Names: Catnach, J.
Imprint Locations: London
Date between 1813 and 1838
Imprint: London: Printed and published by J. Catnach, 2, Monmouth- court, 7 Dials
Title: The cottager's daughter. A favourite song
First Line: Ah! tell me ye swains, have you seen my Pastora
Title: The green-wood shade
First Line: To an arbor of woodbine ye both shall be led
Title: The forsaken shepherdess
First Line: Beneath some hoary mountain
Themes: Seduction and abandonment
Title: Oh! 'tis love
First Line: Oh! 'tis love, 'tis love, 'tis love
Title: A dawn of hope
First Line: A dawn of hope my soul revives
Title: [None]
First Line: A damsel stood to watch the fight
Performers: Bradshaw, Ann Maria, 1801-1862
Title: The broom of Cowden-knows
First Line: When summer comes, the swains on Tweed
Title: A favourite song
First Line: Softly sound the martial trumpet
Title: Liberty
First Line: Since ev'ry charm on earth combines
Themes: Liberty
Title: Home! sweet home!
First Line: Mid pleasures and palaces though we may roam
Authors: Payne, John Howard, 1791-1852
Performers: Bradshaw, Ann Maria, 1801-1862
Title: Loch-Eroch side
First Line: As I came by Loch-Eroch side
Title: The slave
First Line: Sons of freedom! hear my story
Performers: Stephens, Catherine, 1794-1882
Themes: Slavery
Title: The mermaid's song
First Line: Now the dancing sun-beams play
Title: Love among the roses
First Line: Young Love flew to the Paphian bower
Title: The cottager's daughter
First Line: Down in yon valley my father does dwell
Title: Where is my Lubin
First Line: Ah! where is my Lubin? ye songsters ah where!
Performers: Bland, Maria Theresa, 1769-1838
Title: Chorus of huntsmen in Der Freishutz [sic]
First Line: What equals on earth the delight of the hunsman [sic]
Authors: Weber, Carl Maria von, 1786-1826
Themes: Hunting
Title: [None]
First Line: O had I been by fate decreed
Attributation: Sung in Love in a village
Title: [None]
First Line: Here we meet too soon to part
Attributation: The words from Clare's poems
Authors: Clare, John, 1793-1864
Performers: Stephens, Catherine, 1794-1882
Title: Parody on the Rose-bud of summer
First Line: When gooseberries grow on the stem of a daisy
Imprint Names: Catnach, J.
Imprint Locations: London
Date between 1813 and 1838
Imprint: Printed by J. Catnach, 2, Monmouth-court
Title: Bonny brave Scotland
First Line: Where is the land which Scotland surpasses
Performers: Paton, Mary Ann, 1802-1864
Themes: Scotland
Title: Blest as the immortal, &c
First Line: Blest as the immortal gods is he
Title: Death of Robin Adair
First Line: Now he is dead and gone, Robin Adair
Title: She's fail'd in her truth
First Line: And has she then fail'd in her truth
Performers: Sinclair, Miss
Title: Return my Joey
First Line: When Joe first woo'd me for his bride
Tune: Love's a tyrant
Title: [None]
First Line: Be mine dear maid this faithful heart
Performers: Braham, John, 1774-1856
Title: The Rose that blooms for ever
First Line: Oh! could this tortur'd heart but speak
Title: [None]
First Line: Hark! the lark at heaven's gate sings
Performers: Stephens, Catherine, 1794-1882
Title: Gallant troubadour
First Line: Glowing with love on fire for fame
Performers: Braham, John, 1774-1856
Title: March! march! a favourite song
First Line: March! march! Ettrick and Teviotdale!
Authors: Scott, Walter, Sir, 1771-1832
Performers: Braham, John, 1774-1856
Title: The white cockade
First Line: My love was born in Aberdeen
Title: Bedlam city. Altered from the vulgar ballad
First Line: Down by Bedlam I walk'd one ev'ning
Title: My Lowland queen
First Line: Now spring has deck'd the fields in green
Title: The pilgrim. Far over land
First Line: Far over land, far over wave, a pilgrim am I roaming
Title: Willy of the Green
First Line: On Tay's sweet pleasant banks, how happy have I stray'd
Title: Donald of Dundee
First Line: Young Donald is the blithest lad
Title: The lass of Hazel-Dean
First Line: Beneath a milk-white hawthorn tree
Title: O'er the water to Charlie
First Line: Come boat me o'er, come row me o'er
Title: The minstrel boy
First Line: The minstrel boy to the wars is gone
Authors: Moore, Thomas, 1779-1852
Performers: Braham, John, 1774-1856
Title: Soldier's gratitude
First Line: Whate'er my fate, where'er I roam
Performers: Braham, John, 1774-1856
Themes: Soldiers
Title: Bow thy head thou lily pale
First Line: Bow thy head thou lily pale
Title: The adieu
First Line: Adieu ye streams that smoothly flow
Title: Little soldier
First Line: I'm a merry little soldier
Themes: Soldiers
Title: Scots song
First Line: A Highland lad my love was born
Performers: Stephens, Catherine, 1794-1882
Notes: Harding B 36(16) is cropped along top edge.
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Imprint Names: Catnach, J.
Imprint Locations: London
Date [1825]
Imprint: London: Printed & Sold by J. Catnach, 2, Monmouth-Court
Title: I've been roaming
First Line: I've been roaming, I've been roaming
Performers: Vestris (Lucia Elizabeth Mathews), Madame, 1797-1856
Title: Isabel
First Line: Wake! dearest wake! and again united
Performers: Stephens, Catherine, 1794-1882
Title: Rest, warrior, rest
First Line: He comes from the wars, from the red field of fight
Performers: Stephens, Catherine, 1794-1882
Themes: Soldiers
Title: An old man, &c
First Line: An old man would be wooing
Title: Come live with me, &c
First Line: Come live with me, & be my dear
Title: Taste, O! taste
First Line: Taste, O taste this spicy wine
Themes: Drinking
Title: He loves and he rides away
First Line: At the baron of Mowbray's gate was seen
Title: The sheep-shearing
First Line: Here's the rose-bud in June, and sweet violets below
Themes: Sheep
Title: The sweet, silver moon
First Line: As I went to my cot, at the close of the day
Title: The tuneful lark
First Line: The tuneful lark on æther win[g]
Title: The early horn
First Line: The early horn
Title: Fair Rosamond
First Line: Was ever nymph like Rosamond
Subjects: Clifford, Rosamond, d. 1176 , Henry II, King of England, 1133-1189 , Eleanor, of Aquitaine, Queen, consort of Henry II, King of England, 1122-1204
Title: Remember, love, remember
First Line: Twas ten o'clock one moonlight night
Notes: Portion of the right hand column has been cut out.
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Imprint Names: Catnach, J.
Imprint Locations: London
Date [1823]
Imprint: London Printed and Published by J. Catnach, 2, Monmouth Court, 7 Dials
Title: Deeds of the brave
First Line: Deeds of the brave, inspire a noble strain
Performers: Braham, John, 1774-1856
Title: Love among the roses
First Line: Young love flew to the Paphian bower
Title: Stand to your guns
First Line: Stand to your guns my hearts of oak
Title: The green-wood shade
First Line: To an arbor of woodbine ye both shall be led
Title: Oh! 'tis love
First Line: Oh! 'tis love, 'tis love, 'tis love
Title: A dawn of hope
First Line: A dawn of hope my soul revives
Title: [None]
First Line: A damsel stood to watch the fight
Performers: Bradshaw, Ann Maria, 1801-1862
Title: The slave
First Line: Sons of freedom! hear my story
Performers: Stephens, Catherine, 1794-1882
Themes: Slavery
Title: The broom of Cowden-knows
First Line: When summer comes, the swains on Tweed
Title: A favourite song
First Line: Softly sound the martial trumpet
Title: Liberty
First Line: Since ev'ry charm on earth combines
Themes: Liberty
Title: Home! sweet home
First Line: Mid pleasures and palaces though we may roam
Authors: Payne, John Howard, 1791-1852
Performers: Bradshaw, Ann Maria, 1801-1862
Title: Loch-Eroch side
First Line: As I came by Loch-Eroch side
Title: The forsaken shepherdess
First Line: Beneath some hoary mountain
Themes: Seduction and abandonment
Title: The mermaid's song
First Line: Now the dancing sunbeams play
Title: O had I been &c
First Line: O had I been by fate decreed
Title: The cottager's daughter
First Line: Down in yon valley my father does dwell
Title: Where is my Lubin
First Line: Ah! where is my Lubin? ye songsters ah where
Performers: Bland, Maria Theresa, 1769-1838
Title: Chorus of huntsmen in Der Freishutz [sic]
First Line: What equals on earth the delight of the huntsman
Authors: Weber, Carl Maria von, 1786-1826
Themes: Hunting
Title: [None]
First Line: Here we meet too soon to part
Authors: Clare, John, 1793-1864
Performers: Stephens, Catherine, 1794-1882
Title: Parody on the Rose-bud of summer
First Line: When gooseberries grow on the stem of a daisy
Title: The cottager's daughter. A favourite son[g]
First Line: Ah, tell me, ye swains, have you seen my Pastora
Imprint Names: Catnach, J.
Imprint Locations: London
Date [1823]
Imprint: Printed by J. Catnach, 2, Monmouth-Court
Title: Dashing serjeant
First Line: If I had a beau for a soldier would go
Performers: Stephens, Catherine, 1794-1882
Themes: Women soldiers
Title: The moon is on the hill
First Line: Awake, my light, my sleeping love
Performers: Stephens, Catherine, 1794-1882
Title: Evening bells
First Line: Those ev'ning bells, those ev'ning bells
Authors: Moore, Thomas, 1779-1852
Themes: Bells
Title: The shady bowers
First Line: I'll range around the shady bowers
Title: Wreath the bowl
First Line: Wreath the bowl with flow'rs of soul
Authors: Moore, Thomas, 1779-1852
Themes: Wine
Title: The ramble. Music and love
First Line: 'Twas at midsummer's tide, no matter the day
Title: A favourite pastoral
First Line: Flocks are sporting, doves are courting
Title: The Cambrian minstrel boy
First Line: Through Cambria's sweet valleys I stray
Performers: Longhurst, Master
Title: The beautiful maid
First Line: When absent from her my soul holds most dear
Title: Will Watch, the bold smuggler
First Line: 'Twas one morn when the wind from the north it blew keenly
Title: The happy shepherd
First Line: With the sun I rise at morn
Title: Amoret and Phyllis
First Line: Sweet Phyllis well met, the sun is just set
Title: Lullaby
First Line: Peaceful slumbr'ing on the ocean
Title: Home
First Line: I was courted by a young man who did me betray
Tune: Home, sweet home
Themes: Seduction and abandonment
Title: Sweet Mary of the dale
First Line: As blythe I tript the other morn
Title: The fairy. A midnight madrigal
First Line: Fairest of the virgin train
Title: The garden gate, a favourite song
First Line: The day was spent, the moon shone bright
Title: Helen the fair. A new song
First Line: Fair Helen one morn from her cottage had stray'd
Title: Where roses wild
First Line: Where roses wild were blooming
Title: Lowland Mary
First Line: Flow'ry spring has deck'd the dale
Title: The willow tree
First Line: Don't you remember the vows to tender
Imprint Names: Catnach, J.
Imprint Locations: London
Date between 1813 and 1838
Imprint: Printed and Sold by James Catnach, 2, Monmouth-Court, 7 Dials
Notes: Two titles on an uncut sheet
Title: The tiger hunters. A glee
First Line: O'er dreary wastes and deserts wild
Themes: Hunting
Title: My ain kind deary, O
First Line: Will ye gang o'er the lee-rigg
Performers: Broadhurst, Mr.
Title: Betsy Baker
First Line: From noise and bustle for away
Themes: Education , Actors , Doctors
Title: Julia to the wood robin
First Line: Stay sweet enchanter of the grove
Performers: Bland, Maria Theresa, 1769-1838
Title: The bower. Favourite song from the Oracle
First Line: I've been to my bower, for I love it's retreat
Performers: Cawse, Harriet, 1812-1889
Title: Let us seek
First Line: Let us seek the yellow shore
Performers: Bradshaw, Ann Maria, 1801-1862
Title: Mary's love
First Line: My morn of life how gay, how blest
Title: Fair Ellen
First Line: Fair Ellen like a lily grew
Title: Where shall the lover rest
First Line: Where shall the lover rest
Authors: Scott, Walter, Sir, 1771-1832
Title: Kelvin grove
First Line: Let us haste to Kelvin grove
Performers: Braham, John, 1774-1856
Title: Isabel
First Line: Wake! dearest wake! and again united
Performers: Stephens, Catherine, 1794-1882
Title: Epping hunt
First Line: All the fun is beginning, broad day is approaching
Notes: Verse and prose
Themes: Hunting
Title: Jock of Hazel Dean
First Line: Why weep ye by the tyde lady?
Authors: Scott, Walter, Sir, 1771-1832
Title: The Spanish madrigal
First Line: For me my fair a wreath has wove
Title: The answer to My heart and lute
First Line: Your heart and lute you frankly say
Title: Susanna
First Line: Ask if yon damask rose be sweet
Title: The graceful move
First Line: When first I saw thee graceful move
Title: How sweet in the woodlands
First Line: How sweet in the woodlands, with fleet hound and horn
Themes: Pastoral
Imprint Names: Catnach, J.
Imprint Locations: London
Date between 1813 and 1838
Imprint: Printed by J. Catnach, 2, Monmouth-court, 7 Dials
Title: My Nannie, O
First Line: Behind yon hills, where Stinchar flows
Title: The slave
First Line: Sons of freedom! hear my story
Performers: Stephens, Catherine, 1794-1882
Themes: Slavery
Title: The broom of Cowden-knows
First Line: When summer comes, the swains on Tweed
Title: [None]
First Line: A damsel stood to watch the fight
Performers: Bradshaw, Ann Maria, 1801-1862
Title: Glee for three voices
First Line: Amidst the myrtles as I walk'd
Title: Hole in the ballad
First Line: Your laughter I'll try to provoke
Authors: Dibdin, Charles, 1768-1833
Themes: Ballads
Title: Farewell Rosina
First Line: Farewell Rosina, lovely fair
Title: The pilgrim of love
First Line: Orynthia, my beloved, I call in vain
Title: Fly away pretty moth
First Line: Fly away pretty moth to the shade
Title: Liberty
First Line: Since ev'ry charm on earth combines
Themes: Liberty
Title: An old man, &c
First Line: An old man would be wooing
Title: Taste, O! taste
First Line: Taste, O taste this spicy wine
Themes: Drinking
Title: Irish schoolmaster
First Line: Old Teddy O'Rook kept a nice little school
Notes: Verse and prose
Title: Merry rows the bonny bark
First Line: O! merry row, O merry row
Title: Our king and our country for ever
First Line: To friendship and love, round our gay jovial ring
Title: The violet girl
First Line: Come buy my pretty violets blue
Themes: Street traders
Imprint Names: Pitts, J.
Imprint Locations: London
Date between 1819 and 1844
Imprint: Prin [sic] at Pitts Wholesale toy warehouse 6 Great st, Andrew street, 7 dials
Title: Charlie is my darling
First Line: Charlie is my darling
Performers: Stephens, Catherine, 1794-1882
Themes: Jacobite Rebellion, 1745
Notes: Slip
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Imprint Names: Catnach, J.
Imprint Locations: London
Date between 1813 and 1838
Imprint: J. Catnach, Printer, 2, Monmouth Court, 7 Dials, London
Title: The plain gold ring
First Line: He was a knight of low degree
Performers: Vestris (Lucia Elizabeth Mathews), Madame, 1797-1856
Title: Julia to the wood-robin
First Line: Stay, sweet enchantress of the grove
Themes: Robin, the
Title: Lubin is away
First Line: My mother bids me bind my hair
Performers: Stephens, Catherine, 1794-1882
Imprint Names: Catnach, J.
Imprint Locations: London
Date 1823
Imprint: Printed by J. Catnach, 2, Monmouth-Court, 7 Dials
Title: Dashing serjeant
First Line: If I had a beau, for a soldier would go
Performers: Stephens, Catherine, 1794-1882
Themes: Women soldiers
Title: The shady bowers
First Line: I'll range around the shady bowers
Title: The ramble
First Line: Twas at midsummer's tide, no matter the day
Title: Amoret and Phyllis
First Line: Sweet Phyllis well met, the sun is just set
Title: Lullaby
First Line: Peaceful slumbr'ing on the ocean
Themes: Sailors
Title: A favourite pastoral
First Line: Flocks are sporting, doves are courting
Title: The Cambrian minstrel boy
First Line: Through Cambria's sweet valleys I stray
Performers: Longhurst, Master
Title: The beautiful maid
First Line: When absent from her my soul holds most dear
Title: Is not it a pity
First Line: I lov'd a lad, a handsome lad
Performers: Tonstall, Miss
Title: The happy shepherd
First Line: With the sun I rise at morn
Title: Home
First Line: I was courted by a young man who did me betray
Tune: Sweet, sweet home
Authors: C., J.
Themes: Seduction and abandonment
Title: Lowland Mary
First Line: Flow'ry spring has deck'd the dale
Authors: C., J.
Title: Sweet Mary of the dale
First Line: As blythe I tript the other morn
Title: The fairy. A midnight madrigal
First Line: Fairest of the virgin train
Title: The garden gate, a favourite song
First Line: The day was spent, the moon shone bright
Themes: Marriage
Title: Helen the fair. A new song
First Line: Fair Helen one morn from her cottage had stray'd
Title: Where roses wild
First Line: Where roses wild were blooming
Title: The willow tree
First Line: Don't you remember the vows to tender
Notes: Johnson Ballads fol. 17A is damaged and the title is cut off
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Imprint Names: Pitts, J.
Imprint Locations: London
Date between 1819 and 1844
Imprint: Printed at Pitts, Wholesale Toy Warehouse, 6, Great St. Andrew Street 7 dials
Title: On banks of blushing roses
First Line: Young Pleasure like a swain arrayed
Title: Dame Durden
First Line: Dame Durden kept five serving girls
Title: Money is your friend
First Line: Of friendship I have heard much talk
Themes: Money
Title: The answer to the Castalian [sic] maid
First Line: O think not thy Henry tho' absent from you
Title: An answer to Highland home
First Line: Yes! I will leave my daddy's ha'
Title: Bonnie soldier laddie
First Line: Leeze me on my soldier love
Performers: Stephens, Catherine, 1794-1882
Performance Locations: Covent Garden Theatre
Themes: Soldiers
Title: The Castilian maid
First Line: Oh! remember the time in La Mancha's green shades
Title: O say not woman's love is bought
First Line: O say not woman's love is bought
Title: The bewildered maid
First Line: Slow broke the light and sweet breath'd the morn
Performers: Braham, John, 1774-1856
Themes: Soldiers - death in battle
Imprint Names: Catnach, J.
Imprint Locations: London
Date between 1813 and 1838
Imprint: Printed by J. Catnach, 2, Monmouth-Court, 7 Dials
Title: A three-part parody on Cherry ripe. Heavy wet. Mutton chops. Cherry bounce
First Line: Heavy wet, heavy wet, still I cry
Title: Mary's lament
First Line: My heart will not break, and my eyes will not weep
Title: Green leaves turned yellow
First Line: A sage once to a maiden sung
Title: [None]
First Line: Together let us range the fields
Performers: Braham, John, 1774-1856 , Stephens, Catherine, 1794-1882
Title: Paul Pry. A new song
First Line: Dear ladies my name's Paul Pry
Notes: Verse and prose.
Title: Native Highland home
First Line: My Highland home where tempests blow
Performers: Sinclair, John, 1791-1857
Title: Those endearing charms
First Line: Believe it all those endearing young charms
Title: Pity the orphan
First Line: O winter is set in
Authors: Seymour, John
Themes: Orphans
Title: Bruce's address to his army
First Line: Near Bannockburn king Edward lay
Authors: Burns, Robert, 1759-1796
Imprint Names: Birt, T.
Imprint Locations: London
Date between 1828 and 1829
Imprint: Printed by T. Birt, wholesale and retail, 10, Great St. Andrew-Street, Seven Dials London
Notes: Harding B 17(141b) is another issue
Title: [I']ve been roaming
First Line: I've been roaming -- I've been roaming
Title: Isabel
First Line: Wake! dearest wake! and for ever united
Performers: Stephens, Catherine, 1794-1882
Imprint Names: Pitts, J.
Imprint Locations: London
Date between 1802 and 1819
Imprint: Printed and sold by J. Pitts, 14, Great st, Andrew street, 7 Dials
Title: Oh! rest the babe
First Line: Oh! slumber my darling
Performers: Stephens, Catherine, 1794-1882
Themes: Lullaby
Imprint Names: Birt, T.
Imprint Locations: London
Date between 1828 and 1829
Imprint: Printed by T. Birt, wholesale and retail, 10, Great St. Andrew-Street, Seven Dials London
Notes: Harding B 17(142a) is another issue.
Title: [I']ve been roaming
First Line: I've been roaming -- I've been roaming
Title: Isabel
First Line: Wake! dearest wake! and for ever united
Performers: Stephens, Catherine, 1794-1882
Notes: Slip.
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Imprint Names: Catnach, J.
Imprint Locations: London
Date between 1813 and 1838
Imprint: Printed and Published by J. Catnach, 2, Monmouth-Court, 7 Dials
Title: Deeds of the brave
First Line: Deeds of the brave inspire a noble strain
Performers: Braham, John, 1774-1856
Themes: Soldiers
Title: Love among the roses
First Line: Young Love flew to the Paphian bower
Title: Draw the sword, Scotland
First Line: Draw the sword Scotland, Scotland, Scotland
Themes: Scotland
Title: Glee. (Three voices)
First Line: To all you ladies now at land
Title: The green-wood shade
First Line: To an arbor of woodbine ye both shall be led
Title: Oh! 'tis love
First Line: Oh! 'tis love, 'tis love, 'tis love
Title: Old England for ever shall weather, &c
First Line: Old England thy stamina never has yielded
Subjects: England
Themes: Patriotism
Title: A bundle of conundrums
First Line: While in your favour basking
Performers: Keeley,Robert, 1793-1869
Notes: Verse and prose
Title: A dawn of hope
First Line: A dawn of hope my soul revives
Title: A favourite song
First Line: Softly sound the martial trumpet
Title: Home! sweet home!
First Line: Mid pleasures and palaces though we may roam
Authors: Payne, John Howard, 1791-1852
Performers: Bradshaw, Ann Maria, 1801-1862
Title: Loch-Eroch side
First Line: As I came by Loch-Eroch side
Title: The forsaken shepherdess
First Line: Beneath some hoary mountain
Themes: Seduction and abandonment
Title: The mermaid's song
First Line: Now the dancing sun-beams play
Title: O had I been &c
First Line: O had I been by fate decreed
Attributation: Sung in Love in a village
Title: The cottager's daughter
First Line: Down in yon valley my father does dwell
Title: Where is my Lubin
First Line: Ah! where is my Lubin! ye songsters ah where!
Performers: Bland, Maria Theresa, 1769-1838
Title: Chorus of huntsmen in Der Freishutz [sic]
First Line: What equals on earth the delight of the hunsman [sic]
Authors: Weber, Carl Maria von, 1786-1826
Themes: Hunting
Title: [None]
First Line: Here we meet too soon to part
Attributation: The words from Clare's poems
Authors: Clare, John, 1793-1864
Performers: Stephens, Catherine, 1794-1882
Title: Parody on the Rose-bud of summer
First Line: When gooseberries grow on the stem of a daisy
Title: The cottager's daughter. A favourite son[g]
First Line: Ah! tell me, ye swains, have you seen my Pastora
Imprint Names: Catnach, J.
Imprint Locations: London
Date [1821]
Imprint: J. Catnach, Printer, 2, Monmouth-Court
Title: Dyot-street courtship
First Line: My lodging is in Leather-lane
Title: Sleep on, my babe. (Ballad)
First Line: Sleep on, my babe! thy heart ne'er felt
Themes: Infants
Title: The lass of Teviot-side
First Line: In robes of green the smiling spring
Title: How sweet at eve
First Line: How sweet at eve whene'er we rove
Title: The banks of Allan-water
First Line: On the banks of Allan-water
Performers: Stephens, Catherine, 1794-1882
Title: Lovely Charly
First Line: Over yon hills and lofty mountains
Tune: Legacy
Title: A red, red rose
First Line: My love's like a red, red rose
Title: The frozen tear
First Line: On beds of snow the moon-beam slept
Title: The mother's lament
First Line: From bubbling streams & springs that rise
Title: The maid of Bourdeaux
First Line: Stay, stay, Philomela! thy warbling forbear
Title: Bonny Highland laddie
First Line: Will ye to the Highlands go
Title: Young Love
First Line: Young Love liv'd once in a humble shed
Performers: Bland, Maria Theresa, 1769-1838
Performance Locations: Vauxhall Gardens
Title: Lemminy's grave
First Line: Bright was the morning, the wood-lark sang sweetly
Tune: Rose-bud
Title: Marriage. A canzonet
First Line: With thee I'll share each future joy
Title: Cherry ripe
First Line: Cherry ripe, cherry ripe, ripe, I cry
Performers: Vestris (Lucia Elizabeth Mathews), Madame, 1797-1856
Themes: Street traders
Title: Spring. A favourite song
First Line: Welcome sun and southern show'rs
Themes: Spring
Title: Let us haste to Kelvin grove
First Line: Let us haste to Kelvin grove
Performers: Braham, John, 1774-1856
Performance Locations: Drury Lane Theatre
Title: If I had such as lassie as this
First Line: If ever I marry, I'll wed with a lass
Title: Fair Helen
First Line: I wish I were where Helen lies
Tune: Wallace
Title: Woman's love
First Line: O say not woman's love is bought
Title: The farmer boy
First Line: Indeed my simple tale is true
Themes: Farmers
Imprint Names: Pitts, J.
Imprint Locations: London
Date between 1819 and 1844
Imprint: Pitts Printer Wholesale Toy and marb[le] [ware]house, 6, Great st. Andrew street, Dials
Title: There you go with your eye out
First Line: Queer sayings long in folk's chat
Notes: Incomplete
Title: The rose will cease to blow
First Line: The rose will cease to blow
Title: The light guitar
First Line: O leave the gay and festive scene
Title: Comin thro' the rye
First Line: Gin a body meet a body
Title: Hope told a flattering [tale]
First Line: Hope told a flattering tale
Title: The thorn
First Line: From the white blossomed slow
Notes: Incomplete and imperfectly printed.
Title: Wapping old stairs
First Line: Your Molly has never been false sh[e] declares
Title: [None]
First Line: The soldier tired of war's alarms
Performers: Stephens, Catherine, 1794-1882
Notes: Imperfectly printed.
Imprint Names: Catnach, J.
Imprint Locations: London
Date between 1813 and 1838
Imprint: J. Catnach, Printer, 2 & 3, Monmouth-court, 7 Dials
Title: The artful dodge
First Line: Never was there known as such
Title: I've been roaming
First Line: I've been roaming, I've been roaming
Performers: Stephens, Catherine, 1794-1882
Title: O! rest thee, babe
First Line: Oh! slumber my darling, thy sire [is a] knight
Themes: Lullaby
Title: The horn of chase
First Line: To join the chase at break of day
Themes: Hunting
Title: Yon moon o'er the mountain
First Line: Yon moon o'er the mountain wanes heavily still
Performers: Malibran, Maria, 1808-1836
Title: My heart's true blue
First Line: I ne'er will leave my native shore
Performers: Vestris (Lucia Elizabeth Mathews), Madame, 1797-1856
Title: Horticultural wife
First Line: She's my myrtle, my geranium
Title: Jame [sic] of Dundee
First Line: I canna like ye, gentle sir
Title: The rose of Ardee
First Line: When first to this country a stranger I came
Title: The kiss. A favourite song
First Line: One kind kiss before we part
Title: The pirates bride
First Line: Good bye, my love, good bye, my bark is on the bay
Title: Gentle moon
First Line: Day has gone down on the Baltic's broad billow
Title: Woodland maid
First Line: The woodland maid my beauty's queen
Title: On the banks of the blue Moselle
First Line: When the glow-worm gilds the elfin bower
Title: Lilla's a lady
First Line: The church bells are ringing
Title: The light bark
First Line: Off! said the stranger, off, off, & away!
Imprint Names: Catnach, J.
Imprint Locations: London
Date between 1813 and 1838
Imprint: Printed by J. Catnach, 2, Monmouth-Court, 7 Dials
Title: May-eve: or Kate of Aberdeen
First Line: The nymphs and swains expectant wait
Title: A Highland lad
First Line: A Highland lad my love was born
Performers: Stephens, Catherine, 1794-1882
Subjects: Scotland
Title: Love once a little boy
First Line: Love was once a little boy
Title: Jeremy Didler the fiddler
First Line: Miss Nicholls lodged on the first floor
Title: Werry pecooliar
First Line: If you'll list, a story to you I'll develope
Performers: Williams, Mr.
Notes: Verse and prose
Title: The spirit of the storm
First Line: At sight of each terrific form
Title: The rose of affection
First Line: Of all the sweet flowers that bloom in the spring
Title: The sun his bright rays
First Line: The sun his bright rays may withold [sic] love
Title: Canadian boat song
First Line: Faintly as tolls the evening chime
Authors: Moore, Thomas, 1779-1852
Title: The beggar man. A winter-piece
First Line: Around the fire, one wintry night
Themes: Beggars
Title: Dunois the brave
First Line: It was Dunois the young and brave
Imprint Names: Catnach, J.
Imprint Locations: London
Date between 1813 and 1838
Imprint: Printed by J. Catnach, No. 2, Monmouth-Court, 7 Dials
Title: March to the battle field
First Line: March to the battle field
Performers: Braham, John, 1774-1856
Title: The cottage boy
First Line: When morning streaks the east with gold
Title: Love in Long-Acre
First Line: Oh, this love, this love, this love
Title: [None]
First Line: The soldier, tir'd of war's alarms
Performers: Stephens, Catherine, 1794-1882
Themes: Soldiers
Title: Irish melody
First Line: O the days are gone by when beauty bright
Title: Comin thro' the rye
First Line: Gin a body meet a body
Title: The wake of Teddy Roe
First Line: In Dublin that city of riches and fame
Notes: Verse and prose
Themes: Irish wakes
Title: The mountain maid, a favourite song
First Line: The mountain maid from her bow'r has hied
Performers: Sinclair, John, 1791-1857
Title: My little native vale. An Italian song
First Line: Dear is my little native vale
Title: The chough and crow
First Line: The chough and crow to roost are gone
Attributation: Sung in Guy Mannering
Title: Sing to love a roundelay
First Line: Oh, love is the fairy power
Title: On banks of blushing roses
First Line: Young Pleasure like a swain array'd
Title: Arise, sweet messenger of morn
First Line: Arise sweet messenger of morn
Title: [None]
First Line: What's sweeter than the new blown rose
Attributation: Sung in the oratorio of Joseph
Title: My native land, good-night
First Line: Adieu! adieu! my native shore
Authors: Byron, George Gordon Byron, Baron, 1788-1824
Title: The noon-tide air
First Line: Would you taste the noon-tide air
Title: Jamie of Dundee
First Line: I canna like ye, gentle sir
Imprint Names: [s.n.]
Imprint Locations:
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Title: The Mountain Maid
First Line: The Mountain Maid from her bow'r has hied
Performers: Sinclair, John, 1791-1857
Title: Ere around the huge oak
First Line: Ere around the huge oak that overshadows yon mill
Title: Buy a broom
First Line: From Teutchland I came with my light wares all laden
Performers: Vestris (Lucia Elizabeth Mathews), Madame, 1797-1856
Title: Love's Labour Lost
First Line: Young Love in a transport exclaim'd
Performers: Vestris (Lucia Elizabeth Mathews), Madame, 1797-1856
Title: On banks of blushing roses
First Line: Young Pleasure like a swain array'd
Title: Irish melody
First Line: O the days are gone by when beauty bright
Title: Country sports
First Line: Happy is a country life
Themes: Rural society
Title: The Wake of Teddy Roe
First Line: In Dublin that city of riches and fame
Themes: Irish wakes
Title: The Mountain Maid
First Line: The Mountain Maid from her bow'r has hied
Performers: Sinclair, John, 1791-1857
Title: March to the Battle Field
First Line: March to the battle field
Performers: Braham, John, 1774-1856
Title: Sing to Love a Roundelay
First Line: Oh, Love is the fairy power
Title: My native land, good-night
First Line: Adieu! adieu! my native shore
Authors: Byron, George Gordon Byron, Baron, 1788-1824
Title: Jamie of Dundee
First Line: I Canna like ye, gentle Sir
Title: I've been roaming
First Line: I've been roaming, I've been roaming
Performers: Stephens, Catherine, 1794-1882
Title: The Spider and the fly
First Line: Will you walk in to my parlour said a Spider to a Fly
Title: Comin thro' the rye
First Line: Gin a body meet a body
Title: The Rose will cease to Blow
First Line: The rose will cease to blow
Title: The King and Countryman
First Line: There was an old chap in the west country
Title: The Parson's clerk
First Line: Near Moorfields is a house of prayer
Tune: Dashing Serjeant
Title: The Minute-Gun at Sea
First Line: When in the storm on Albion's coast
Themes: Sailors
Title: The chough & crow
First Line: The chough and crow to roost is gone
Performers: Sung in Guy Mannering
Notes: An uncut sheet of two songsheets. Torn at lower right corner.
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Imprint Names: [s.n.]
Imprint Locations:
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Title: Answer to Kelvin grove. A favorite ballad
First Line: Then farewell to Kelvin grove, bonny laddie O!
Attributation: Written expressly for Miss Stephens, by a Scottish Officer
Performers: Stephens, Catherine, 1794-1882
Title: The lover's mistake
First Line: A fond youth serenaded his love
Performers: Vestris (Lucia Elizabeth Mathews), Madame, 1797-1856
Imprint Names: [s.n.]
Imprint Locations:
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Title: Favourite song in Malvina
First Line: Sportive smiles and mirthful measures
Tune: O saw ye my father, or saw ye my mother
Performers: Stephens, Catherine, 1794-1882
Title: Beauty's bright eye
First Line: When sorrow's deep gloom o'er the young heart is stealing
Performers: Sinclair, John, 1791-1857
