item: #1 of 14
          id: 10448
      author: None
       title: The Anti-Slavery Harp: A Collection of Songs for Anti-Slavery Meetings
        date: None
       words: 10385
      flesch: 91
     summary: O, slave mother, hope! The lash of the master her deep sorrows mock, While the child of her bosom is sold on the block; Yet loud shrieked that mother, poor heart broken mother, In sorrow and woe.
    keywords: air; coming; freedom; god; heart; hurra; liberty; man; mother; o'er; slave; slavery; thee
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        item: #2 of 14
          id: 15370
      author: Gilbert, W. S. (William Schwenck)
       title: Bab Ballads and Savoy Songs
        date: None
       words: 23822
      flesch: 84
     summary: A Recipe The First Lord's Song When a Merry Maiden Marries The Suicide's Grave He and She The Lord Chancellor's Song Willow Waly The Usher's Charge King Goodheart The Tangled Skein Girl Graduates The Ape and the Lady Sans Souci The British Tar The Coming Bye and Bye The Sorcerer's Song Speculation The Duke of Plaza-Toro The Reward of Merit When I First Put This Uniform On Said I to Myself, Said I The Family Fool The Philosophic Pill The Contemplative Sentry Sorry Her Lot The Judge's Song True Diffidence The Highly Respectable Gondolier Don't Forget The Darned Mounseer The Humane Mikado The House of Peers The Æsthete Proper Pride The Baffled Grumbler The Working Monarch The Rover's Apology Would You Know The Magnet and the Churn Braid the Raven Hair Is Life a Boon? And pretty nigh all o' the crew was drowned (There was seventy-seven o' soul), And only ten of the _Nancy's_ men Said 'Here!'
    keywords: bishop; brown; captain; cloth; day; days; engravings; eyes; face; general; half; hand; head; heart; henry; illustrations; john; kind; king; lady; life; long; lord; love; maiden; man; men; merry; mind; queen; rev; set; sir; tell; thought; titwillow; way; willow; world; young
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        item: #3 of 14
          id: 18341
      author: None
       title: Come Lasses and Lads
        date: None
       words: 693
      flesch: 79
     summary: Each containing four different books, with their Coloured Pictures and innumerable Outline Sketches._ 1 R. Caldecott's Picture Book No. 1 2 R. Caldecott's Picture Book No. 2 3 Hey-Diddle-Diddle-Picture Book 4 The Panjandrum Picture Book RANDOLPH CALDECOTT'S Collection of Pictures and Songs No. 1 containing the first 8 books listed above with their Colour Pictures and numerous Outline Sketches RANDOLPH CALDECOTT'S Collection of Pictures and Songs No. 2 containing the second 8 books listed above with their Colour Pictures and numerous Outline Sketches LONDON Frederick Warne & Co. Ltd. & NEW YORK. [Illustration] Begin, says HALL; Ay, ay, says MALL, We'll lead up Packington's pound: No, no, says NOLL, and so says DOLL, We'll first have Sellenger's round.
    keywords: illustration; picture
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        item: #4 of 14
          id: 19221
      author: None
       title: The Golden Treasury Of the Best Songs and Lyrical Poems in the English Language
        date: None
       words: 77248
      flesch: 86
     summary: In me thou seest the twilight of such day As after sunset fadeth in the west, Which by and by black night doth take away, Death's second self, that seals up all in rest. Now the last day of many days All beautiful and bright as thou, The loveliest and the last, is dead, Rise, Memory, and write its praise!
    keywords: age; beauty; birds; care; come; day; days; dead; dear; death; deep; doth; earth; eyes; face; fair; find; flowers; gay; glory; god; good; great; green; hand; hath; head; heart; heaven; high; joy; land; lay; leaves; lie; life; live; long; look; love; man; men; mind; morn; music; nature; night; o'er; oft; pale; pleasure; poem; power; rest; round; saw; sea; shakespeare; sing; sky; sleep; song; sorrow; soul; spirit; spring; star; summer; sun; sweet; tell; thee; thine; things; thou; thought; thy; time; tis; tree; vain; voice; way; white; wild; winds; wordsworth; world; yarrow; years; youth
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        item: #5 of 14
          id: 21723
      author: None
       title: Songs of the Cattle Trail and Cow Camp
        date: None
       words: 28125
      flesch: 90
     summary: An' we 'lowed he'd go a-beggin' If you think my fame needs brightnin', Why, I'll rope a streak o' lightnin' An' spur it up an' quirt it till it's broke.
    keywords: air; big; bill; boys; broncho; cattle; cowboy; dance; day; dead; desert; eyes; face; feet; fer; glory; good; hand; head; heart; high; home; jes; life; love; man; men; night; range; red; ride; ridin; round; saddle; song; sun; texas; time; town; trail; way; west; wild; yer
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        item: #6 of 14
          id: 22223
      author: None
       title: English Songs and Ballads
        date: None
       words: 75233
      flesch: 90
     summary: Ill is the weather that bringeth no gain, Nor helps good hearts in need. Ill is the weather that bringeth no gain, Nor helps good hearts in need.
    keywords: bessee; black; blood; blow; bonny; brave; bride; cold; come; day; dead; dear; death; doth; england; eyes; fair; father; god; gold; good; great; green; hame; hand; hath; head; heart; heaven; high; home; john; king; lady; land; lay; left; life; little; long; lord; love; man; men; merry; mind; moon; mother; ne'er; new; night; o'er; oriana; poor; pretty; quoth; red; rose; round; row; saw; sea; ship; sing; sir; song; soul; sun; sweet; tell; thee; thou; thy; time; tis; went; white; wife; wind; work; young
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        item: #7 of 14
          id: 26679
      author: None
       title: Wit and Mirth: or Pills to Purge Melancholy, Vol. 5 of 6
        date: None
       words: 47375
      flesch: 95
     summary: In this fair Monument which you see, Adorn'd with so many Pillars; Doth lie the Countess of _Buckingham_, And her Husband, Sir _George Villers_. And thus of Old Soldiers, ye hear the Fame, But ne'er so many of one House and Name, And all of old _John Lord Viscount_ of _
    keywords: bonny; care; day; dear; devil; drink; eyes; fair; fear; good; great; heart; hills; house; jenny; jockey; john; kind; king; lady; life; like; love; maid; man; men; money; music; ne'er; new; night; o'er; poor; pretty; quoth; shepherd; sir; song; tell; thee; thou; thy; time; tis; town; vain; wife; wine; woman; wou'd; young
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        item: #8 of 14
          id: 27129
      author: None
       title: Lyrics from the Song-Books of the Elizabethan Age
        date: None
       words: 38204
      flesch: 92
     summary: Kind in unkindness, when will you relent And cease with faint love true love to torment? Still entertained, excluded still I stand; Her glove still hold, but cannot touch the hand. O stay, sweet love; see here the place of sporting (Farmer)
    keywords: airs; beauty; book; byrd; campion; change; circ; come; day; delight; die; doth; dowland; english; eyes; fair; good; hath; heart; hope; john; jones; life; love; madrigals; man; men; mind; music; page; pleasure; robert; set; sing; songs; sweet; thee; thomas; thomas campion; thou; thoughts; thy; time; weelkes; wilbye
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        item: #9 of 14
          id: 2831
      author: None
       title: A Bundle of Ballads
        date: None
       words: 41339
      flesch: 92
     summary: So forth be gone these good yeomen, As fast as they might hie; And after came and dwelt with the King, And died good men all three. -- Tham luiks to freits, my master dear, Then freits will follow thame: Let it neir be said brave Edom o' Gordon Was daunted by a dame!-- But when the ladie see the fire Come flaming o'er her head, She wept and kissed her children twain, Said, Bairns, we been but dead!
    keywords: beggar; bessee; bow; cloudeslie; come; day; dear; douglas; earl; english; fair; fast; father; god; good; great; green; hand; heart; hood; john; king; knight; lady; life; little; lord; love; man; men; merry; monk; o willow; o'er; pound; pretty; robin; sea; set; sheriff; sir; slain; thee; thou; thy; tree; william; willow; wood
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        item: #10 of 14
          id: 33404
      author: None
       title: Wit and Mirth: or Pills to Purge Melancholy, Vol. 6 of 6
        date: None
       words: 50943
      flesch: 95
     summary: [Music] When _Sylvia_ was kind, and Love play'd in her Eyes, We thought it no Morning till _Sylvia_ did rise; Of _Sylvia_ the Hills and the Vallies all Rang, For she was the Subject of every Song. Tune, _Let_ CÆSAR _rejoyce_.
    keywords: away; beauty; body; boys; brave; call'd; charms; come; day; dear; doth; drink; eyes; face; fair; fear; fine; good; heart; hey; huzza; jolly; joy; kind; king; know; leave; life; love; maid; man; men; mind; music; ne'er; new; night; nose; pain; play; pleasure; queen; self; set; sir; song; sung; thee; tho; thou; time; tis; town; tune; vain; way; wife; wou'd; young
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        item: #11 of 14
          id: 40048
      author: Various
       title: The Newcastle Song Book; or, Tyne-Side Songster Being a Collection of Comic and Satirical Songs, Descriptive of Eccentric Characters, and the Manners and Customs of a Portion of the Labouring Population of Newcastle and the Neighbourhood
        date: None
       words: 83672
      flesch: 90
     summary: Newcastle men, rejoice! For contrivance the coaches nyen could come before: Poor men that are tied to bad wives needn't stick-- Just tip Coachee the brass an' they're off tiv Au'd Nick.
    keywords: archy; au'd; aw'd; aw'll; aw've; bell; bit; black; blind; bob; bold; bonny; byeth; c. aw; c. o; cam; canny; care; chep; come; coronation; cranky; day; days; dear; dee; doon; drink; fair; fal; fam'd; fine; folks; footnote; frae; gan; gat; geordy; good; great; hae; half; hat; head; heart; hev; hinny; house; hyem; jack; keel; king; laddie; lads; lang; lasses; left; life; like; little; lord; mair; man; maw; mayor; men; mun; myed; myek; ne'er; neet; newcassel; newcastle; o'er; oft; ower; pay; pitman; place; play; poor; queen; ral; right; round; row; rum; sae; set; shields; sic; sing; sir; skipper; smash; stand; street; suen; sure; sweet; tell; thee; things; thou; thought; thowt; thy; till; time; tis; tiv; tommy; toon; town; trade; twas; tyne; wad; way; weel; wey; whe; wife; willie; wiv; wor; yell; yen
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        item: #12 of 14
          id: 41298
      author: None
       title: English Songs and Ballads
        date: None
       words: 75801
      flesch: 91
     summary: Ill is the weather that bringeth no gain, Nor helps good hearts in need. Ill is the weather that bringeth no gain, Nor helps good hearts in need.
    keywords: black; blood; blow; bonny; brave; bride; cold; come; day; dead; dear; death; doth; england; eyes; fair; father; fear; god; gold; good; great; green; hame; hand; hath; head; heart; heaven; high; home; john; king; lady; land; lay; left; life; little; long; lord; love; man; men; merry; mind; moon; mother; ne'er; new; night; o'er; poor; pretty; quoth; red; rose; round; row; saw; sea; ship; sidenote; sing; sir; song; soul; sun; sweet; tell; thee; thou; thy; time; tis; went; white; wife; wind; work; young
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        item: #13 of 14
          id: 42585
      author: None
       title: The Ballads & Songs of Derbyshire With Illustrative Notes, and Examples of the Original Music, etc.
        date: None
       words: 68327
      flesch: 83
     summary: When Apollo thinks fit to handle his lyre_, 206 _When Heaven from Earth had shut out day_, 190 _When Robin Hood was about twenty years old_, 58 Whittaker, 285 WHITTINGTON, SIR RICHARD'S, ADVANCEMENT, 104 Whittington and his Cat, 104 ----------- When little _John_ came, to Gambols they went, both Gentlemen, Yeomen and Cloun;
    keywords: ballad; bee; bessy; bold; bow; church; come; company; dale; darby; day; dear; death; derbyshire; doth; duke; earle; england; fair; family; father; following; foot; forest; forth; frith; god; gold; good; green; ground; hall; hand; head; heart; henry; high; hill; home; hood; house; humphrey; john; kind; king; lady; land; lay; let; life; little; london; lord; love; man; men; merry; miles; near; night; o'er; peak; people; place; poor; present; prince; richard; robin; run; seq; sir; song; squire; stand; stanley; strange; thee; thou; thought; time; tis; town; true; way; west; wife; william; words; years; young
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        item: #14 of 14
          id: 8466
      author: Farmer, John Stephen
       title: Musa Pedestris - Three Centuries of Canting Songs and Slang Rhymes [1536 - 1896]
        date: None
       words: 41437
      flesch: 92
     summary: The New Review_, a series of _Tudor Translations_, a new _ (Gregson--1819) INDEX TO AUTHORS Ainsworth, W. Harrison Anonymous Baumann, Heinrich Bon Gualtier Brome, Richard Bruton, James Chevalier, Albert Copland, Robert Dekker, Thomas Dibdin, Thomas Doss Chiderdoss Ducange Anglicus Egan, Pierce Fletcher, John Goadby, Robert Gregson Harper, J. Henley, W. Ernest H. T. R. Jones, J. Maginn, William Maher, Will Matsell, G. W. Messink Middleton, Thomas Milliken, T. Moore, Thomas Morley, R. Parker, George Rede, Leman Reynolds, G. W. M. Rowlands, Samuel Sims, G. R. Smith, W. H. Tomlinson, R. Vance FOREWORDS When Harrison Ainsworth, in his preface to _Rookwood,_ claimed tobe the first to write a purely flash song he was very wide of themark.
    keywords: away; beggar; ben; bit; canting; cove; crew; cry; cut; day; dear; dell; doe; drink; etc; eye; flash; game; girl; good; hand; high; house; iii; jack; joe; ken; lay; life; line; little; lol; london; lonfa; look; love; luddy; malura; man; maunder; men; moll; money; mort; new; night; notes; old; pad; pals; pocket; poor; round; rum; sir; slang; song; stanza; steal; thief; thou; thy; time; tip; tol; watch; wot; young
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