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The Melodist
Comprising a Selection of the Most Favourite English, Scotch, and Irish Songs Arranged for the Voice, Flute, or Violin.
by G. S. Thornton (New York: George Singleton, 1820.)

[Index of first lines:]

A blessing unknown to ambition and pride - 67
A Highland lad my love was born - 49
A Highland laddie heard of war - 44
A prey to tender anguish - 248
Adieu! adieu! my native shore - 227
Adieu, my native land, adieu - 19
Adown yon sloping banks sae green - 7
Ah! can I e'er forget thee, love - 150
Ah, sure a pair was never seen - 8
All will hail the joyous day - 110
And has she then fail'd in her truth - 131
As beautiful Kitty one morning was tripping - 77
At the peaceful midnight hour, (The Wolf) - 149
Behold in his soft expressive face - 57
Believe me if all those endearing young charms - 97
By Speedwell's silver bosom'd Lake - 140
By the pure light of love - 51
Careful the winding path explore - 241
Cease your funning - 64
Dear Erin, how sweetly thy green bosom rises - 243
Dear is my little native vale - 177
Deep in a Vale a cottage stood, (Dulce Domum) - 59
Did you e'er hear a tale - 112
Encompass'd in an angel's frame - 201
Ere around the huge oak, that o'ershadows yon mill - 80
Fervid on the glitt'ring flood - 28
Flow Susquehanna, hallow'd stream - 56
Fly not yet 'tis now the hour - 75
Had I a heart for falsehood fram'd - 6
Has sorrow thy young days shaded - 88
Hast thou forgot the oak that throws - 65
Henry cull'd the Flow'ret's bloom - 27
Her mouth, which a smile - 235
Here mark the poor desolate maid (Fancy's sketch) - 83
Here's the bower she lov'd so much - 100
How blest our condition, how jocund our day - 120
How oft, Louisa, hast thou said - 21
Hush! hush! such counsel do not give - 250
I came from a land far away, (Savoyard Boy) - 188
I have a silent sorrow here - 87
I have lov'd thee, dearly lov'd thee - 169
I have Parks, I have hounds, (Girl of my heart) - 90
I wander'd once at break of day, (Faithless Emma) - 102
I'll love thee ever dearly - 125
In the world's crooked path where I've been - 173
Is there a heart that never lov'd - 161
Just like love, is yonder Rose - 122
Let Fame sound the trumpet - 38
Light as thistle down moving, that floats on the air - 245
Loudon's bonnie woods and braes - 142
Love's blind they say - 211
Majestic rose the god of day - 180
Mary I believ'd thee true - 53
My friend is the man I would copy thro' life - 205
My heart with love is beating - 145
My sev'nteenth year scarce over - 232
O, my love's like the red red rose - 23
O, Nanny wilt thou gang with me - 16
O, why should the girl of my soul be in tears - 73
O'er highlands and lowlands to chase the fleet deer - 208
Of a' the airts the wind can blaw - 220
Oh, breathe not his name, let it sleep in the shade - 174
Oh, bright was the morning—all nature adorning - 79
Oh, light foot spring! with dripping flowers - 118
Oh, mine be the cottage within the vale - 222
Oh, think not my spirits are always as light - 137
Oh, where are you going sweet Robin? - 14
On this cold flinty rock I will lay down my bead - 93
Our bugles sung truce, for the night clouds had low'r'd - 195
Roy's wife of Aldivalloch - 36
Said a smile to a tear - 252
Scots, wha hae wi' Wallace bled - 25
Scots, you've won fu' mony fights - 144
Should auld acquaintance be forgot (Auld Lang Syne) - 3
Sigh not for love if you wish not to know - 104
Slow broke the light, (Bewilder'd Maid) - 30
Sweet is the dream, divinely sweet - 213
Tell her I'll love her, while the clouds drop rain - 95
Tell me sweet bird, ah, tell me why - 175
The broom bloom'd so fresh and so fair - 129
The flow'rs of the Forest - 157
The heath this night must be my bed - 218
The kiss dear maid thy lips have left - 71
The moon was beaming silver bright - 147
The morn returns in saffron drest - 55
The ploughman whistles o'er the furrow - 256
The rose and the lily their beauties combining - 182
The sapling oak, lost in the dell - 133
The streamlet that flow'd round her cot - 5
The sun his bright rays may withhold, love - 35
The sun's last beams had ting'd the sky - 171
The tear fell gently from her eye - 203
There is not in this wide world a valley so sweet - 214
There's not a look, a word of thine - 153
Thine am I my faithful fair - 115
This blooming rose at early morn - 33
This cold flinty heart, it is you who have warm'd - 199
Though love is warm awhile - 12
'Twas near a thicket's calm retreat - 247
'Twas within a mile of Edinburgh town - 180
What means my fair, that clouded brow - 179
Whate'er my fate where'er I roam - 42
What's this dull town to me - 48
When absent from her my soul holds most dear - 165
When deeds of fame at honour's call, (Home, Love, and Liberty) - 69
When fairies trip round the gay green - 230
When first this humble roof I knew - 127
When first you courted me - 85
When I quitted the cot that stands lone on the moor - 190
When Love gets you fast in her clutches - 136
When the sails catch the breeze - 163
When trees did bud, and fields were green - 224
Where is the nymph whose azure eye - 237
Where is the smile that was heav'n to our eye - 240
While gazing on the Moon's light - 193
Whilst with village maids I stray - 9
Why does azure deck the sky - 216
Why, Ella, dear, that pearly tear - 159
Ye banks and braes o' bonnie Boon - 117
Ye streams that round my prison creep - 81
You say my cottage incomplete - 46
Young Henry was as brave a youth - 99