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Shakspere's Songs and Sonnets (New York: Cassell, Peter, and Galpin, n.d.), by William Shakespeare, illust. by John Gilbert
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Songs and Sonnets (New York and Boston: T. Y. Crowell and Co., c1898), by William Shakespeare, ed. by Francis Turner Palgrave
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Musa Pedestris: Three Centuries of Canting Songs and Slang Rhymes (1536-1896), by John Stephen Farmer (Gutenberg text)
Poetical Recreations Consisting of Original Poems, Songs, Odes, &c; With Several New Translations, In Two Parts: Part I, Occasionally Written By Mrs. Jane Barker; Part II, By Several Gentlemen of the Universities, and Others (London: Printed for B. Crayle, 1688), contrib. by Jane Barker (HTML at Michigan)
The Lyceum Manual: A Compendium of Physical, Moral, and Spiritual Exercises for Use in Progressive Lyceums Connected With British Spiritualists' Societies and Kindred Bodies (10th (children's) edition; 1914), ed. by Emma Hardinge Britten, Alfred Kitson, and H. A. Kersey
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Lyrical poems (Macmillan and co., 1891), by Alfred Austin (page images at HathiTrust)
Melodies and madrigals; mostly from the Old English poets. (Bunce and Huntington, 1866), by Richard Henry Stoddard (page images at HathiTrust)
Songs from the British drama (Yale university press; [etc., etc.], 1925), by Edward Bliss Reed (page images at HathiTrust)
A pedlar's pack of ballads and songs. : With illustrative notes, (W. Paterson, 1869), by W. H. Logan and James Maidment (page images at HathiTrust)
Musa pedestris. Three centuries of canting songs and slang rhymes (1536-1896) (Priv. print. for subscribers only, 1896), by John Stephen Farmer (page images at HathiTrust)
The parlour song book : a choice and well-selected collection of the most popular sentimental, patriotic, naval, and comic songs. (Leavitt and Allen, 1857), by William McCarty (page images at HathiTrust)
Choyce drollery: songs & sonnets. Being a collection of divers excellent pieces of poetry, of several eminent authors. (Printed by R. Roberts, 1876), by Joseph Woodfall Ebsworth (page images at HathiTrust)
A book of British and American verse (Doubleday, Page, 1923), by Henry Van Dyke, Asa Don Dickinson, and Hardin Craig (page images at HathiTrust)
George Christy's essence of old Kentucky : containing a choice collection of new and popular songs, interludes, dialogues, funny speeches, darkey jokes and plantation wit (Dick & Fitzgerald, 1862), by George Christy (page images at HathiTrust)
The first volume of poetry; revised, improved, and considerably enlarged, containing the most favorite pieces, as performed at the Noblemen and Gentlemen's Catch Club, the Glee Club, the Harmonists' Society, the Argyll Glee Club, the Lodge of Antiquity, the Somerset House Lodge, the Lodge of Inverness, and the Lodge of Prudence, 122, of Freemasons, the Amateur Glee Club, evening parties, and all public societies, in general. (Printed for the editor, 1824), by Richard Clark (page images at HathiTrust)
Bobbing around songster. (Fisher & Brother, 1852) (page images at HathiTrust)
The songs of the mountaineers (s.n., 1922), by John Hirst and Rucksack Club (page images at HathiTrust)
Elizabethan songs "in honor of love and beauty" (Little, Brown, 1891), by Edmund H. Garrett and Andrew Lang (page images at HathiTrust)
Lyra venatica : a collection of hunting songs (A. L. Humphreys, 1906), by John Sherard Reeve (page images at HathiTrust)
Lyrics from the song-books of the Elizabethan Age (J.C. Nimmo, 1889), by A. H. Bullen (page images at HathiTrust)
The Golden treasury of the best songs and lyrical poems in the English language (Macmillan, 1861), by Francis Turner Palgrave (page images at HathiTrust)
Lyrics from the song-books of the Elizabethan Age. (AMS Press, 1971), by A. H. Bullen (page images at HathiTrust)
The St. James Christy Minstrels' Christmas annual (Printed by J. E. Adlard, 1868), by Alfred Crowquill, England) St. James Hall (London, and Christy Minstrels (page images at HathiTrust)
Grigg's southern and western songster : being a choice collection of the most fashionable songs, many of which are original. (Grigg & Elliot, 1834), by John Grigg (page images at HathiTrust)
Melodist, and mirthful olio; an elegant collection of themost popular songs, recitations, glees, duets, &c. &c.; intermixed with many originals and some of the most favorite of Dibdin, Moncrieff, &c., embellished with humouous wood engravings. (H. Arliss, 1828) (page images at HathiTrust)
Songs of the sea (New York : Leavitt and Allen, [1830?], 1830), by Edmond Elmendorf (page images at HathiTrust)
The vocal library; being the largest collection of English, Scottish, and Irish songs ever printed in a single volume. Selected from the best authors between the age of Shakspeare Jonson, and Cowley, and that of Dibdin, Wolcot, and Moore. (Sir Richard Phillips and co., 1822) (page images at HathiTrust)
The Rose, shamrock, and thistle song book. The songs of the old country for the people of the colonies... (Solomon, Lyons & company, 1860) (page images at HathiTrust)
Mathews' Theatrical budget, or, The actor's multum in parvo : containing all the whim, frolic, and eccentricity in his Mail coach adventures ... (Printed by and for Hodgson, 1823), by Charles Mathews (page images at HathiTrust)
The harp of Caledonia : a collection of songs, ancient and modern, chiefly Scottish, with an essay on Scottish song writers (Printed by Khull, Blackie for A. Fullerton, 1819), by John Struthers (page images at HathiTrust)
The New England pocket songster : a choice collection of popular songs, new and old. ([s.n.], 1846) (page images at HathiTrust)
The Tea-table miscellany : a collection of choice songs, Scots and English (Gilbert, Wogan, Byrne and Jones, 1794), by Allan Ramsay (page images at HathiTrust)
Collection of songs and hymns for the use of schools and homes, the nursery, and the fireside ([The author, in the 1880s), by F. H. Wagner (page images at HathiTrust)
Machine-room chants ("Labour leader", 1895), by Tom Maguire (page images at HathiTrust)
Merry songs and ballads : prior to the year A.D. 1800. (Priv. print. for subscribers only, 1897), by John Stephen Farmer (page images at HathiTrust)
Reliques of ancient English poetry : consisting of old heroic ballads, songs, and other pieces of our earlier poets (J. Nichol, 1858), by Thomas Percy and George Gilfillan (page images at HathiTrust)
Westminster drolleries, both parts, of 1671, 1672; being a choice of songs and poems, sung at court & theatres (R. Roberts, 1875), by Joseph Woodfall Ebsworth (page images at HathiTrust)
Choyce drollery: songs & sonnets. (Printed by R. Roberts, 1876), by Joseph Woodfall Ebsworth (page images at HathiTrust)
The ewie wi' the crooked horn ; to which are added, She lives in the valley below, The star of the east, The mill, mill, O, On friendship. (Printed for the Booksellers, 1828) (page images at HathiTrust)
The clown's song book. (Torrey Bros, printers, 13 Spruce Street, 1871), by Torrey Brothers (page images at HathiTrust)
Liederbüchel für Türner (s.n.], 1915), by Cincinnati Turngemeinde (page images at HathiTrust)
The golden treasury. Second series (Macmillan Co., 1898), by Bruce Rogers, Francis Turner Palgrave, and Pforzheimer Bruce Rogers Collection (Library of Congress) (page images at HathiTrust)
Grinning made more easy. (Printed and sold by J. Salter, in the 1820s) (page images at HathiTrust)
The golden treasury of the best songs and lyrical poems in the English language (Macmillan and Co., 1891), by Francis Turner Palgrave (page images at HathiTrust)
The golden treasury : of the best songs and lyrical poems in the English language (T. Nelson, 1900), by Francis T. Palgrave (page images at HathiTrust)
The golden treasury of the best songs and lyrical poems in the English language (Macmillan and Co., 1886), by Francis Turner Palgrave (page images at HathiTrust)
The book of popular songs : being a compendium of the best sentimental, comic, negro, Irish, Scotch, national, patriotic, military, naval, social, convivial and pathetic songs, ballads and melodies .. (G.G. Evans, 1860) (page images at HathiTrust)
The Cyclopædia of popular songs. ([W. Tegg, 1866) (page images at HathiTrust)
A handful of pleasant delights, containing sundry new sonnets and delectable histories in divers kinds of metre &c. 1584. (Edward Arber, 1878), by Clement Robinson (page images at HathiTrust)
The British muse : a choice collection of English, Scotch, and Irish songs, by the best authors: to which are added some originals. (Printed by and for S. Wilkinson, and may be had of the principal booksellers in Great Britain., 1805) (page images at HathiTrust)
Songs and sonnets (T. Y. Crowell & company, 1898), by William Shakespeare and Francis Turner Palgrave (page images at HathiTrust)
Robin Hood : a collection of all the ancient poems, songs, and ballads, now extant, relative to that celebrated English outlaw. To which are prefixed historical anecdotes of his life (John C. Nimmo, 1885), by Joseph Ritson, Thomas Bewick, and Joseph Frank (page images at HathiTrust)
Singing book for juvenile concerts (Plumly & Grassmann, Printers, 1865), by D. Kemmerer and J. F. Kemmerer (page images at HathiTrust)
Opera house songster (New York : Dick & Fitzgerald, [1864?], 1864), by Dance and Music Fredric Woodbridge Wilson Collection of Theater and Hooley's Minstrels (page images at HathiTrust)
The songster's library and museum of mirth : being vol. 1 of the most extensive collection of ancient and modern songs in the english language. (Manson, Emerson & Co., 1834) (page images at HathiTrust)
Lookout Mountain songster. No. 1 (Manufactured by the Chattanooga Medicine Co., 1890), by Chattanooga Medicine Company (page images at HathiTrust)
Songs from the plays of Shakespeare ([publisher not identified], 1949), by William Shakespeare and Book Arts Collection (page images at HathiTrust)
Cole's treasury of song : a collection of the most popular songs (old and new). (Hutchinson, 1913), by E. W. Cole (page images at HathiTrust)
Old Songs, contrib. by Edmund Spenser and George Wither, illust. by Edwin Austin Abbey and Alfred Parsons (Gutenberg ebook)
Choyce Drollery: Songs and Sonnets: Being a Collection of Divers Excellent Pieces of Poetry, of Several Eminent Authors., ed. by Joseph Woodfall Ebsworth (Gutenberg ebook)
The Bab Ballads, with Which Are Included Songs of a Savoyard, by W. S. Gilbert (Gutenberg ebook)
Beadle's Dime Song Book No. 5: A Collection of New and Popular Comic and Sentimental Songs (Gutenberg ebook)
Beadle's Dime Song Book No. 3: A Collection of New and Popular Comic and Sentimental Songs. (Gutenberg ebook)
English Songs and Ballads, ed. by T. W. H. Crosland (Gutenberg ebook)
The Golden Treasury: Selected from the Best Songs and Lyrical Poems in the English Language and arranged with Notes, ed. by Francis Turner Palgrave (Gutenberg ebook)
English Songs and Ballads, ed. by T. W. H. Crosland (Gutenberg ebook)
The Golden Treasury: Of the Best Songs and Lyrical Poems in the English Language, ed. by Francis Turner Palgrave, illust. by Alfred Pearse (Gutenberg ebook)
Bab Ballads and Savoy Songs, by W. S. Gilbert (Gutenberg ebook)
New poems, songs, prologues, and epilogues never before printed / written by Thomas Duffett ; and set by the most eminent musicians about the town. (London : Printed for Nicholas Woolfe ..., 1676), by Thomas Duffett (HTML at EEBO TCP)
Englands object, or, Good and true newes to all true-hearted subjects for the taking and apprehending of that horrid deluding sower of sedition, Hugh Peters, by the name of Thomson, in Southwarke, Saturday, September the first with his examination and entertainment by the rest of the rebellious crew now in the Tower of London. ([London] : Printed for F. Coles, T. Uere, and VV. Gilbertson, [1660]) (HTML at EEBO TCP)
An Excellent new playhouse song call'd, The west-country fairing, or, Dicks present to Doll under the barly mow (London : Printed and sold by T. Moore ..., 1697) (HTML at EEBO TCP)
An Excellent new song on Lewis le Grand, or, The French king and the Devil tune of, The orange. (London : Printed by T.M., [1689]) (HTML at EEBO TCP)
A song for St. Cæcilia's Day, Nov. 22, 1686 written by Mr. Tho. Flatman ; and composed by Mr. Isaac Blackwell. (London : Printed for John Carr ..., 1686), by Thomas Flatman and Isaac Blackwell (HTML at EEBO TCP)
Fools in earnest, or, A fairing for phanaticks ([S.l. : s.n., 1683]) (HTML at EEBO TCP)
The Frenchmens vvonder, or, The battle of the birds ... to the tune of, In summer time. ([S.l.] : Printed for F. Coles, T. Vere, J. Wright, and J. Clarke, [between 1674-1679]) (HTML at EEBO TCP)
A Friendly caveat to all true Christians, showing them the true way to heaven (London : Printed for VV. Thackeray, T. Passenger, and VV. Whitwood, [167-]) (HTML at EEBO TCP)
The Hasty damosel, or, Her worthy praise of her beloved William, a seaman ... tune of, The seamans departure, or doubting virgin. ([London] : Printed for P. Brooksby ..., [1687?]) (HTML at EEBO TCP)
The canting academy, or, The devils cabinet opened wherein is shewn the mysterious and villanous practices of that wicked crew, commonly known by the names of hectors, trapanners, gilts, &c. : to which is added a compleat canting-dictionary, both of old words, and such as are now most in use : with several new catches and songs, compos'd by the choisest wits of the age ... (London : Printed by F. Leach for Mat. Drew ..., 1673), by Richard Head (HTML at EEBO TCP)
Iter boreale. The second part relating the progress of the Lord General Monk, calling in the secluded members, their voting King Charls the second home, his joyfull reception at Dover, and his glorious conduct through London, to his royal palace at Whitehall / by T.H., a person of quality. (London : Printed for Henry Brome ..., 1660), by T. H. (Person of quality) (HTML at EEBO TCP)
Unconstant Phillis, or, The infortunate shepherds lamentation ... to an excellent new play-house tune, or, Tell me no more you love. ([London] : Printed for P. Brooksby ..., [not before 1672]) (HTML at EEBO TCP)
Undaunted London-Derry, or, The victorious Protestants constant success against the proud French and Irish forces to the tune of, Lilli borlero. ([London] : Printed for J. Deacon ..., [1689?]) (HTML at EEBO TCP)
Advice to young gentlemen, or, An answer to The ladies of London to the tune of, The ladies of London. (London : Printed for J. Back ..., [1690?]) (HTML at EEBO TCP)
Mock songs and joking poems, all novel consisting of mocks to several late songs about the town : with other new songs and ingenious poems much in use at court, and both theaters / by the author of Westminster drollery. (London : Printed for William Birtch ..., 1675), by Author of Westminster drollery (HTML at EEBO TCP)
Poetical recreations consisting of original poems, songs, odes, &c. with several new translations : in two parts / part I, occasionally written by Mrs. Jane Barker, part II, by several gentlemen of the universities, and others. (London : Printed for Benjamin Crayle ..., 1688), by Jane Barker (HTML at EEBO TCP)
Celia's triumph, or, Venus dethron'd ([London] : Printed for P. Brooksby ..., [1678]) (HTML at EEBO TCP)
[The Lamentation of] John Musgrave who was execued [sic] at Kendal for robbing the King's receiver, and taking away from him great store of treasure : to the tune of, Wharton. ([London] : Printed for J. Wright, J. Clark, W. Thackeray and T. Passenger, [1683?]), by John Musgrave (HTML at EEBO TCP)
The New academy of complements erected for ladies, gentlewomen, courtiers, gentlemen, scholars, souldiers, citizens, country-men, and all persons, of what degree soever, of both sexes : stored with variety of courtly and civil complements, eloquent letters of love and friendship : with an exact collection of the newest and choicest songs à la mode, both amorous and jovial / compiled by the most refined wits of this age. (London : Printed for Samuel Speed ..., 1669), by Charles Sackville Dorset, Charles Sedley, and William D'Avenant (HTML at EEBO TCP)
For the New Year, to the sun intended to be sung before Their Majesties on New-Years Day, 1693/4 / written by Mr. Prior at the Hague. (London : Printed for J. Tonson ..., [1694]), by Matthew Prior (HTML at EEBO TCP)
A Pindarique on His Majesties birth-day by Mr. Prior ; sung before Their Majesties at Whitehall, the fourth of November 1690. ([London] : Printed for John Amery ..., 1690), by Matthew Prior (HTML at EEBO TCP)
London drollery, or, The wits academy being a select collection of the newest songs, lampoons, and airs alamode : with several other most ingenious peices [sic] of railery, never before published / by W.H. (London : Printed by F. Eglesfield ..., 1673), by William Hicks (HTML at EEBO TCP)
Cupids garland set round about with gilded roses containing many pleasant songs and sonnets newly written. (London : Printed by E. Crowch for F. Coles, T. Vere, and J. Wright, 1674) (HTML at EEBO TCP)

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