The Parlour song book : a casquet of vocal gems [music] / edited and introduced by Michael R. Turner ; the music edited by Antony Miall.

First published in Great Britain 1972 by Michael Joseph Ltd. -- p. iv

1 HEARTS AND FLOWERS; or, Songs of Love : My pretty Jane (The bloom is on the rye) / Edward Fitzball, Henry Bishop -- She wore a wreath of roses / Thomas Haynes Bayly, Joseph P. Knight -- The dream (I dreamt that I dwelt in marble halls) / Alfred Bunn, M.W. Balfe -- Jeanie with the light-brown hair / Stephen C. Foster -- Come into the garden, Maud / Alfred, Lord Tennyson & M.W. Balfe -- Touch the harp gently / Samuel N. Mitchell, Charles Blamphin -- Oh Mother! take the wheel away / Claribel -- When you and I were young, Maggie / George W. Johnson, J.A. Butterfield -- Twickenham Ferry / Theo Marzials -- Love's old sweet song / J. Clifton Bingham, James L. Molloy -- That is love / Felix McGlennon -- The rosary / Robert Cameron Rogers, Ethelbert Nevin -- 2 SOLDIERS AND SAILORS; or, Songs of Battle and the Deep : The soldier's tear / Thomas Haynes Bayly, Alexander Lee -- Yes, let me like a soldier fall (Maritana) / Edward Fitzball, Vincent Wallace -- Weeping, sad and lonely (When this cruel war is over) / Charles C. Sawyer, Henry Tucker -- Weeping, sad and lonely (When this cruel war is over) / Charles C. Sawyer, Henry Tucker -- The old brigade / Fred E. Weatherly, Odoardo Barri -- Tom Bowling / Charles Dibdin -- Rocked in the cradle of the deep / Emma Hart Willard, Joseph P. Knight -- A life on the ocean wave / Epes Sargent, Henry Russell -- Nancy Lee / Fred E. Weatherly, Stephen Adams -- The ship I love / Felix McGlennon -- 3 FAR AND WIDE; or, Songs of Foreign Lands : The Irish emigrant / Lady Dufferin, George Barker -- I'll take you home again, Kathleen / Thomas P. Westendorf -- The miner's dream of home / Will Godwin, Leo Dryden -- The miner's dream of home / Will Godwin, Leo Dryden -- I'll sing thee songs of Araby / W.G. Wills, Frederick Clay -- A son of the desert am I / John P. Wilson, Walter A. Phillips -- 4 HEARTH AND HOME; or, Songs of the Family : Home! sweet home! / John Howard Payne, Henry Bishop -- Woodman, spare that tree / G.P. Morris, Henry Russell -- Ben Bolt / Thomas Dunn English, Nelson Kneass -- Rock me to sleep / Elizabeth Akers Allen, Julius Benedict -- Grandfather's clock / Henry Clay Work -- A boy's best friend is his mother / Henry Miller, Joseph P. Skelly -- Maggie Murphy's home / Edward Harrigan, Dave Braham -- 5 BOYS AND GIRLS; or, Songs of Childhood : Watching for Pa / Henry Clay Work -- Shall I be an angel, Daddy? / Charles Collins, Fred J. Barnes, arr. John Francis -- Saved by a child / Nemo, M. Piccolomini -- The burial of the linnet / J.H. Ewing, Alfred Scott-Gatty -- Won't you buy my pretty flowers? / A.W. French, G.W. Persley -- Tatters / Gerald Lane -- Auntie / Fred E. Weatherly, A.H. Behrend -- 6 SACRED AND SENTIMENTAL; or, Songs of Inspiration : The last rose of summer / Thomas Moore -- O for the wings of a dove! / William Bartholomew, Felix Mendelssohn Bartholdy -- Ring the bell, watchman / Henry Clay Work -- Waste not, want not (You never miss the water till the well runs dry) / Rollin Howard -- Goodbye! / G.J. Whyte-Melville, F. Paolo Tosti -- The lost chord / Adelaide A. Procter, Arthur Sullivan -- The gipsy's warning / Henry A. Goard -- 7 RUM AND THE TRUE RELIGON; or, Songs of the Blue Ribbon Come home, Father / Henry Clay Work -- Father's a drunkard and Mother is dead / Stella, Mrs E.A. Parkhurst -- Throw out the life-line! / E.S. Ufford -- Temp'rance bells / author and composer unknown -- 8 BURNT CORK AND TEARS; or, Songs of the Minstrels : Massa's in de cold ground ; My old Kentucky home, goodnight ; Beautiful dreamer / Stephen C. Foster -- Pretty Dinah Snow / M.H. Drummond -- The yellow rose of Texas / J. K. -- Dixie's land / Daniel D. Emmett -- Let me kiss him for his mother / John P. Ordway, L.O. Emerson -- 9 LILIES AND CRAPE; or, Songs of Disaster and Death : The death of Nelson / S.J. Arnold, John Braham -- The snow storm / Seba Smith, Lyman Heath -- Ring the bell softly / W.D. Smith, E.N. Catlin -- Dear mother, I've come home to die / E. Bowers, Henry Tucker -- The vacant chair / Henry S. Washburn, George F. Root -- The pardon came too late / Paul Dresser -- 10 SWEET AND LOW; or, Songs for Several Voices : Come, let us join the roundelay / William Beale -- Excelsior! / H.W. Longfellow, M.W. Balfe -- The moon has raised her lamp above (The lily of Killarney) / John Oxenford, Julius Benedict -- Goodnight, goodnight, beloved / H.W. Longfellow, Ciro Pinsuti, arr. H. Elliot Button -- Sweet and low / Alfred, Lord Tennyson & Joseph Barnby.