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Victorian Songs
"'Let some one sing to us, lightlier move The minutes fledged with music'."
TENNYSON
Victorian Songs
Lyrics of the Affections and Nature
Collected and Illustrated by Edmund H Garrett with an Introduction by Edmund Gosse
[Decoration]
Little Brown and Company Boston 1895
Copyright, 1895. BY EDMUND H. GARRETT.
University Press: John Wilson and Son, Cambridge, U.S.A.
[Transcriber's Note:
Some printings of the book have a two-page Editor's Note before the Contents, acknowledging the "publishers and authors who have given permission for the use of many of the songs included in this volume". It has been omitted from this e-text.]
CONTENTS
Where are the songs I used to know?
Christina Rossetti.
AIDE, HAMILTON (1830). Page Remember or Forget 3 Oh, Let Me Dream 6 Love, the Pilgrim 7
ALLINGHAM, WILLIAM (1824-1889). Lovely Mary Donnelly 9 Song 13 Serenade 14 Across the Sea 16
ARNOLD, SIR EDWIN (1832). Serenade 18 A Love Song of Henri Quatre 20
ASHE, THOMAS (1836-1889). No and Yes 22 At Altenahr 23 Marit 24
AUSTIN, ALFRED (1835). A Night in June 26
BEDDOES, THOMAS LOVELL (1803-1849). Dream-Pedlary 30 Song from the Ship 33 Song 34 Song 35 Song, by Two Voices 36 Song 38
BENNETT, WILLIAM COX (1820). Cradle Song 39 My Roses blossom the Whole Year Round 41 Cradle Song 42
BOURDILLON, F. W. (1852). Love's Meinie 43 The Night has a Thousand Eyes 44 A Lost Voice 45
BUCHANAN, ROBERT (1841). Serenade 46 Song 48
COLLINS, MORTIMER (1827-1876). To F. C. 49 A Game of Chess 50 Multum in Parvo 52 Violets at Home 53 My Thrush 54
CRAIK, DINAH MARIA MULOCK (1826-1887). Too Late 56 A Silly Song 58
DARLEY, GEORGE (1795-1846). May Day 60 I 've been Roaming 62 Sylvia's Song 63 Serenade 64
DE TABLEY, LORD (1835). A Winter Sketch 66 The Second Madrigal 69
DE VERE, AUBREY (1788-1846). Song 70 Song 72 Song 74
DICKENS, CHARLES (1812-1870). The Ivy Green 75
DOBSON, AUSTIN (1840). The Ladies of St. James's 77 The Milkmaid 81
DOMETT, ALFRED (1811-1887). A Glee for Winter 84 A Kiss 86
DUFFERIN, LADY (1807-1867). Song 88 Lament of the Irish Emigrant 90
FIELD, MICHAEL. Winds To-day are Large and Free 94 Let us Wreathe the Mighty Cup 96 Where Winds abound 97
GALE, NORMAN (1862). A Song 98 Song 99
GOSSE, EDMUND (1849). Song for the Lute 101
HOOD, THOMAS (1798-1845). Ballad 102 Song 104 I Remember, I Remember 106 Ballad 108 Song 110
HOUGHTON, LORD (RICHARD MONCKTON MILNES) (1809-1885). The Brookside 111 The Venetian Serenade 113 From Love and Nature 115
INGELOW, JEAN (1830). The Long White Seam 116 Love 118 Sweet is Childhood 120
KINGSLEY, CHARLES (1819-1875). Airly Beacon 121 The Sands of Dee 122 Three Fishers went Sailing 124 A Farewell 126
LANDOR, WALTER SAVAGE (1775-1864). Rose Aylmer 127 Rubies 128 The Fault is not Mine 129 Under the Lindens 130 Sixteen 131 Ianthe 132 One Lovely Name 133 Forsaken 133
LOCKER-LAMPSON, FREDERICK (1821-1895). A Garden Lyric 134 The Cuckoo 137 Gertrude's Necklace 139
LOVER, SAMUEL (1797-1868). The Angel's Whisper 141 What will you do, Love? 143
MACKAY, CHARLES (1814-1889). I Love my Love 145 O Ye Tears! 147
MAHONEY, FRANCIS (1805-1866). The Bells of Shandon 149
MASSEY, GERALD (1828). Song 153
O'SHAUGHNESSY, ARTHUR (1844-1881). A Love Symphony 156 I made Another Garden 158
PROCTER, ADELAIDE ANNE (1825-1864). The Lost Chord 160 Sent to Heaven 162
PROCTER, B. W. (BARRY CORNWALL) (1787-1874). The Poet's Song to his Wife 165 A Petition to Time 167 A Bacchanalian Song 168 She was not Fair nor Full of Grace 170 The Sea-King 172 A Serenade 174 King Death 176 Sit Down, Sad Soul 178 A Drinking Song 180 Peace! What do Tears Avail? 182 The Sea 184
ROSSETTI, CHRISTINA G. (1830-1895). Song 186 Song 188 Song 189 Three Seasons 190
ROSSETTI, DANTE GABRIEL (1828-1882). A Little While 191 Sudden Light 193 Three Shadows 194