| Description | Lyrics, pencilled annotations by Peter Buchan and William Walker; list of those printed in 'Gleanings of Scotch, English, and Irish scarce old ballads' compiled by William Walker, annexed to f.58.
f.59 'Cheerfu' Nancy'.
f.60 'Winter'.
f.60v. 'The sun danc'd thro' yon spreading trees'; 'Spotless Peggy' in 'Gleanings'.
f.61 'Dear are those shades, when Mary blest'; 'My Mary' in 'Gleanings'.
f.61v. 'While some with more than wonted glee'; 'Roseate May' in 'Gleanings'.
f.62 'Summer'
f.62v. 'I've wandered all day by the stream'; 'Beautiful Sue' in 'Gleanings'.
f.63 'Hark! yon waterfall how cheering variants'; 'Edwin' in 'Gleanings'.
f.64 'Tho' the bright star of Hope lends a ray to the ocean'.
f.64 'He'll listen no more to the wild tempests roaring'.
f.64v. 'May Morning'.
f.65 'Written for the tombstone of 3 children who died in infancy'.
f.65 'We sail'd from British land'.
f.67 'An Address to Death caused by reading an account of Lord Byron's demise'.
f.68 'Maria or, the Maniac's Song'.
f.69 'As the dews of the ev'ning are sweet'. 'Mary's Death' in 'Gleanings'.
f.69v. 'Address to Hope'.
f.70 'Designed for the tombstone of my infant daughter Janet (d. aged 10 months 21 Jne.1826). Revere this spot, ye passers by'.
f.70 'On the Death of an Infant Daughter'. |