The Modern Scottish Minstrel, Volume II. The Songs of Scotland of the past half century
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THE MODERN SCOTTISH MINSTREL; OR, THE SONGS OF SCOTLAND OF THE PAST HALF CENTURY. WITH Memoirs of the Poets, AND SKETCHES AND SPECIMENS IN ENGLISH VERSE OF THE MOST CELEBRATED MODERN GAELIC BARDS. BY CHARLES ROGERS, LL.D. F.S.A. SCOT.
INTRODUCTION TO The Modern Gaelic Minstrelsy.[1]
CONTENTS.
METRICAL TRANSLATIONS FROM THE MODERN GAELIC MINSTRELSY.
THE MODERN SCOTTISH MINSTREL
JAMES HOGG.
DONALD MACDONALD.
FLORA MACDONALD'S FAREWELL.[51]
BONNY PRINCE CHARLIE.
THE SKYLARK.[52]
CALEDONIA.[53]
O, JEANIE, THERE 'S NAETHING TO FEAR YE!
WHEN THE KYE COMES HAME.[54]
THE WOMEN FOLK.[55]
M'LEAN'S WELCOME.[56]
CHARLIE IS MY DARLING.[57]
LOVE IS LIKE A DIZZINESS.
O, WEEL BEFA' THE MAIDEN GAY.[58]
THE FLOWERS OF SCOTLAND.
LASS, AN' YE LO'E ME, TELL ME NOW.[59]
PULL AWAY, JOLLY BOYS!
O, SAW YE THIS SWEET BONNY LASSIE O' MINE?
THE AULD HIGHLANDMAN.
AH, PEGGIE, SINCE THOU 'RT GANE AWAY![60]
GANG TO THE BRAKENS WI' ME.
LOCK THE DOOR, LARISTON.
I HAE NAEBODY NOW.
THE MOON WAS A-WANING.
GOOD NIGHT, AND JOY.
JAMES MUIRHEAD, D.D.
BESS, THE GAWKIE.
MRS AGNES LYON.
NEIL GOW'S FAREWELL TO WHISKY.[62]
SEE THE WINTER CLOUDS AROUND.[64]
WITHIN THE TOWERS OF ANCIENT GLAMMIS.[65]
MY SON GEORGE'S DEPARTURE.[67]
ROBERT LOCHORE.
NOW, JENNY LASS.
MARRIAGE, AND THE CARE O'T.
MARY'S TWA LOVERS.
THE FORLORN SHEPHERD.[68]
JOHN ROBERTSON.
THE TOOM MEAL POCK.
ALEXANDER BALFOUR.
THE BONNY LASS O' LEVEN WATER.
SLIGHTED LOVE.
GEORGE MACINDOE.
CHEESE AND WHISKY.
THE BURN TROUT.
ALEXANDER DOUGLAS.
FIFE, AN' A' THE LAND ABOUT IT.[70]
WILLIAM M'LAREN.
NOW SUMMER SHINES WITH GAUDY PRIDE.
AND DOST THOU SPEAK SINCERE, MY LOVE?
SAY NOT THE BARD HAS TURN'D OLD.
HAMILTON PAUL.
HELEN GRAY.
THE BONNIE LASS OF BARR.
ROBERT TANNAHILL.
JESSIE, THE FLOWER O' DUMBLANE.[77]
LOUDOUN'S BONNIE WOODS AND BRAES.[78]
THE LASS O' ARRANTEENIE.[79]
YON BURN SIDE.[80]
THE BRAES O' GLENIFFER.[81]
THROUGH CROCKSTON CASTLE'S LANELY WA'S.[82]
THE BRAES O' BALQUHITHER.[83]
GLOOMY WINTER 'S NOW AWA'.
O! ARE YE SLEEPING, MAGGIE?
NOW WINTER, WI' HIS CLOUDY BROW.
THE DEAR HIGHLAND LADDIE, O!
THE MIDGES DANCE ABOON THE BURN.
BARROCHAN JEAN.[85]
O, ROW THEE IN MY HIGHLAND PLAID!
BONNY WOOD OF CRAIGIE LEA.[86]
GOOD NIGHT, AND JOY.[87]
HENRY DUNCAN, D.D.
CURLING SONG.
ON THE GREEN SWARD.[88]
THE RUTHWELL VOLUNTEERS.[89]
EXILED FAR FROM SCENES OF PLEASURE.[90]
THE ROOF OF STRAW.
THOU KEN'ST, MARY HAY.[91]
ROBERT ALLAN.
BLINK OVER THE BURN, MY SWEET BETTY.
COME AWA, HIE AWA.
ON THEE, ELIZA, DWELL MY THOUGHTS.
TO A LINNET.
THE PRIMROSE IS BONNY IN SPRING.
THE BONNIE LASS O' WOODHOUSELEE.
THE SUN IS SETTING ON SWEET GLENGARRY.
HER HAIR WAS LIKE THE CROMLA MIST.
O LEEZE ME ON THE BONNIE LASS.
QUEEN MARY'S ESCAPE FROM LOCHLEVEN CASTLE.
WHEN CHARLIE TO THE HIGHLANDS CAME.
LORD RONALD CAME TO HIS LADY'S BOWER.
THE LOVELY MAID OF ORMADALE.
A LASSIE CAM' TO OUR GATE.
THE THISTLE AND THE ROSE.
THE COVENANTER'S LAMENT.
BONNIE LASSIE.
ANDREW MERCER.
THE HOUR OF LOVE.
JOHN LEYDEN, M.D.
ODE TO THE EVENING STAR.
THE RETURN AFTER ABSENCE.
LAMENT FOR RAMA.
JAMES SCADLOCK.
ALONG BY LEVERN STREAM SO CLEAR.[97]
HARK, HARK, THE SKYLARK SINGING.
OCTOBER WINDS.
SIR ALEXANDER BOSWELL, BART.
JENNY'S BAWBEE.
JENNY DANG THE WEAVER.[100]
THE LASS O' ISLA.
TASTE LIFE'S GLAD MOMENTS.[101]
GOOD NIGHT, AND JOY BE WI' YE A'.
OLD AND NEW TIMES.[102]
BANNOCKS O' BARLEY MEAL.[103]
WILLIAM GILLESPIE.
THE HIGHLANDER.[104]
ELLEN.
THOMAS MOUNSEY CUNNINGHAM.
ADOWN THE BURNIE'S FLOWERY BANK.[106]
THE HILLS O' GALLOWA'.[107]
THE BRAES OF BALLAHUN.[108]
THE UNCO GRAVE.[109]
JULIA'S GRAVE.
FAREWEEL, YE STREAMS.
JOHN STRUTHERS.
ADMIRING NATURE'S SIMPLE CHARMS.
OH, BONNIE BUDS YON BIRCHEN TREE.
RICHARD GALL.
HOW SWEET IS THE SCENE.
CAPTAIN O'KAIN.
MY ONLY JO AND DEARIE, O'.
THE BONNIE BLINK O' MARY'S E'E.[110]
THE BRAES O' DRUMLEE.
I WINNA GANG BACK TO MY MAMMY AGAIN.
THE BARD.
LOUISA IN LOCHABER.
THE HAZELWOOD WITCH.
FAREWELL TO AYRSHIRE.[111]
GEORGE SCOTT.
THE FLOWER OF THE TYNE.
THOMAS CAMPBELL.
YE MARINERS OF ENGLAND.
GLENARA.
THE WOUNDED HUSSAR.
BATTLE OF THE BALTIC.
MEN OF ENGLAND.
MRS G. G. RICHARDSON.[112]
THE FAIRY DANCE.
SUMMER MORNING.
THERE 'S MUSIC IN THE FLOWING TIDE.
AH! FADED IS THAT LOVELY BLOOM.
THOMAS BROWN, M.D.
CONSOLATION OF ALTERED FORTUNES.
THE FAITHLESS MOURNER.
THE LUTE.
WILLIAM CHALMERS.
SING ON.
THE LOMOND BRAES.
JOSEPH TRAIN.
MY DOGGIE.
BLOOMING JESSIE.
OLD SCOTIA.
ROBERT JAMIESON.
MY WIFE 'S A WINSOME WEE THING.
GO TO HIM, THEN, IF THOU CAN'ST GO.
WALTER WATSON.
MY JOCKIE 'S FAR AWA'.
MAGGIE AN' ME.
SIT DOWN, MY CRONIE.[116]
BRAES O' BEDLAY.[117]
JESSIE.
WILLIAM LAIDLAW.
LUCY'S FLITTIN'.[118]
HER BONNIE BLACK E'E.
ALAKE FOR THE LASSIE!
METRICAL TRANSLATIONS FROM The Modern Gaelic Minstrelsy.
ALEXANDER MACDONALD.
THE LION OF MACDONALD.
THE BROWN DAIRY-MAIDEN.
THE PRAISE OF MORAG.
URLAR.
SIUBHAL.
URLAR.
SIUBHAL.
URLAR.
SIUBHAL.
CRUNLUATH.
URLAR.
SIUBHAL.
URLAR.
SIUBHAL.
URLAR.
SIUBHAL.
CRUNLUATH.
NEWS OF PRINCE CHARLES.
JOHN ROY STUART.
LAMENT FOR LADY MACINTOSH.
THE DAY OF CULLODEN.
JOHN MORRISON.
MY BEAUTY DARK.
ROBERT MACKAY.
THE HIGHLANDER'S HOME SICKNESS.
GLOSSARY.
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