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Short Title Mock Bird, 1764 
Title American Mock-Bird, The 
Pages 216 
Publisher Brown, S. 
Location AoA 
Date 1764 
Place New York 
Data Place AoA: SM41428 
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Ye critics above, and ye crtitics below  3-4  9 
When late I wander'd o'er the plain  4-5  3 
Young Strephon long doated on Phaebe the fair  5-6  6 
See how the sick'ning year declines  6  4 
Swell the song in strains sublime  6-7  4 
Philander long had loosely rov'd  7-8  6 
No longer let whimisical songsters compare  8-9  7 
Ah! who in all these happy plains  9-10  3 
Now gaily blooms each field and grove  10-11  4 
In vain my love, you bid me strive  11  3 
Ye verdant woods, ye chrystal streams  11-12  4 
Ye fair possess'd of every charm  12-13  3 
Turn dearest, Cinthia, turn---and see  13-14  5 
Parents divine of Heaven--ly love  14-15  3 
Let others Damond's praise rehearse [sic]  15  6 
Ah! whence this impotence of mind  16-17  6 
Now the happy knot is ty'd  17-18  6 
Lov's a gentle generous passion [sic]  18  3 
Hark! hark! o'er the plains what glad tumult we hear!  19-20  8 
Come chear up, my lads, to our country be firm  20-21  5 
My shepherd so handsome and gay  21-22  4 
World, my dear Myra, is full of deceit, The  22  2 
How pleasing, dear wedlock, appear thy domains!  22-24  14 
On the white cliffs of Albion, see fame where she stands  24-25  7 
Come ye hours with joy replete  25  3 
See Royal Charlotte come!  26  3 
Amanda's fair, by all confess'd  26-27  2 
I said,---On the banks by the stream  27  4 
Ye shepherds attend to my strain  28-29  6 
Say, why must the poet's soft lays  29-30  5 
In vain to keep my heart you strive  30-31  4 
Court were all met, The  31  10 
When Flora, with her plighted love  32  3 
Where shall Celia fly for shelter  32-33  3 
Down in yon meadow a couple did tarry  33-34  11 
To dance, and to dress and to flaunt it about  35  4 
My Da---dy was gone to the Mar---ket two mile  35-36  5 
Lady, possess'd of a handsome estate, A  36  6 
All hail to the King  36-38  5 
Since time shall steal each tempting rose  38  2 
Ah mickle is the power and force that lies  39  1 
My Betsy flies me like a fawn  39  3 
Pursuing beau-ty men de-scry  39-40  5 
Nature's fairest charms we see  40-41  5 
When first I saw thee graceful move  41  3 
One day behind my lady's back  41  3 
'Tis I believe, next Hollantide Eve  42  5 
Yes, Phillis, we'll trip o'er the meads  43  6 
I own I love; but then my heart  43-44  3 
Sun's gay metal, shining gold, The  44  3 
Now the wood land choirists sings  45  3 
My conquer'd heart I freely yield  45  2 
To the wood ro-bin-red breast is flown  46  5 
What nation shall dare with old England compare  46-47  6 
O'er moorlands and mountains rude, barren and bare  47-48  4 
Poets, in conscience, have teas'd us too long, The  48-49  6 
On pleasure's smooth wings, how old time steals away  49-50  7 
Let harmony reign  50  4 
Three Georges now, for Britain's welfare born  50-51  1 
Say, lovely Polly, have you ever seen  51  3 
Wanton Cupid, sooth my anguish  51  1 
Bound out on a cruise, no tar wou'd refuse  51-52  5 
When the nymphs were contending for beauty and fame  52-53  4 
Ye foplings, and prigs, and ye wou'd-be smart things  53-54  4 
Attend all ye fair, and I'll tell ye the art  54  5 
Well---gentlemen, since you will needs have a song  54-55  5 
Tho' Strephons heart from loves a--larms  55-56  5 
How sweet are the roses of June  56  2 
Reflections that makes mortals wise [sic]  56-57  4 
Whare is he gone whom I adore [sic]  57-58  3 
Let others more forward behave  58  7 
My love my Rosabel  59  3 
To thee, my fair, the Muses sing  59-60  5 
On the slopes of a shady mountain  61  5 
Let sweet May her flow'rets boast  61  2 
When pleasing cares disturb the youthful breast  62  9 
Awake, my lyre! Thy sadly pleasing strain  63  5 
Whilst on thy dear bosom lying  63  2 
Last Holiday Eve how gaily were seen  64  4 
When beauty appears  64-65  3 
With roses and with myrtles crown'd  65-66  3 
On a bank beside a willow  66-67  3 
How vain are the efforts of art?  67-68  7 
Sweet Annie slowly left the shore  68-69  4 
See how Saphira 'mid the croud appears!  69-70  2 
Whimsical lover's a prey to each care, A  70  5 
Goddess, forsake thy fav'rite shades  71  5 
No more I shall dread the disaster  72-73  12 
How cou'd you deceive me, my fair?  73-75  7 
Kitty, think, though every grace  75  4 
Happy Bard, who without fear  75-76  4 
What med'cine can soften the bosom's keen smart  76  4 
Wanton God who pierces heart, The [sic]  76-77  4 
So brightly sweet fair Nancy's eyes  77-78  4 
You tell me, dear Tom like a faint hearted toad  76  4 
Dear Cloe, come give me sweet kisses [sic]  78-79  3 
Ye am'rous youths whose tone--ful lays  79-80  6 
Dawn of hope my soul revives, A  80  5 
How can you lovely Nancy thus cru-el-ly slight  80-81  5 
When vernal airs perfume the fields  81  4 
My fond shepherds of late were so blest  82  2 
In infancy our hopes and fears  82  2 
As Jamie gay, gang'd blyth his way  83  8 
All nature blooms, when you appear  84  2 
Nature gave all creatures arms  84-85  3 
'Twas underneath a May blown bush  85  3 
Grant me ye pow'rs a calm repose  86  4 
No more my song shall be ye swains  86-87  4 
Ye chearful virgins have ye seen my fair  87  3 
Ye pretty ladies  88-89  7 
Young Fanny once all pensive sat  89-90  4 
Oh! pity Colin! cruel fair  90-91  4 
We've fought; we have conquer'd  91  5 
While youthfull bards in lyrick lays  92  5 
Young Molly who lives at the foot of the hill  93  7 
Sun from the East tips the mountains with gold, The  94  5 
Ecchoing horn calls the sportsman abroad, The  94-95  2 
Our glory, renown'd on the ocean and shore  95  4 
Tho' I sweep to and thro' old iron to find  96  6 
Morning is charming, all nature is gay, The  97-98  6 
Ye fair marrie'd dames who so often deplore  98  5 
Virgin like me sure was ne'er so distress't, A  99  8 
Ye subjects of Bacchus who laught at dull thinking [sic]  100  3 
Once the gods of the Greeks at ambrosial Feast  100-101  4 
Wine, wine we allow the brisk fountain of mirth  101-102  5 
Virgin when softned by May, The [sic]  102-103  4 
Blooming Spring makes joy appear, The  103-104  5 
Old care begone thou churlish guest  104-105  4 
Cast, my love, thine eyes around  105-106  5 
What means that tender sigh my dear  106-107  2 
Sylvia whose eyes kill sure as any gun  107  2 
Though Kitty and Lucy are fair  107-108  7 
Dear Chloe, what means this disdain  108  2 
While poets tune their monthly lays  109  10 
When Fanny to woman is growing a pace  110-111  5 
From Lincoln to London rode forth our young squire  111-112  6 
See, Daphne, see, Florelio cry'd  112  6 
Sweet summer is coming, the peach trees in bloom  113  7 
Come, dear Pastora, come away  114  4 
Young Jockey he courted sweet Moggy so fair  115  6 
Sweet as th' enalmele'd meads appear [sic]  115-116  2 
Among all the arts, which to please we pursue  116-117  6 
Oh! Polly throw by that contemptible air  117-118  6 
'Tis night; and on the hill of storms  118-121  26 
Sun was now descended to the main, The  121-122  1 
To peace and love, in courts but seldom seen  122  3 
Shepherd's plain life, The  123-124  3 
Adieu for a while to the town and its trade  124  3 
Those best sons of Britain bold open and brave  124-125  5 
When Britain first, at Heaven's command  125  6 
If those who live in shepherd's bower  126  2 
He that a cuckold is let it not grieve him  126-127  8 
One midsummer morning when nature look'd gay  127-128  6 
I met in our village a swain t' other day  128-129  5 
As Chloe came into the room t' other day  129-130  2 
Cupid, the slyest rogue alive  130  4 
Boast not mistaken swain thy art  131  5 
Did you see e'er a shepherd ye nymphs pass this way  131-132  5 
What means that throb said I my heart  132-133  3 
Fair Hebe I left with a cautious design  133  4 
Make haste, and away mine only dear  133-134  5 
On a grassy pillow  134-135  3 
Merry land by this light, A  135-136  5 
Waft me some soft and cooling breeze  136-137  4 
Tho' cruel you seem to my pain  137-138  3 
Sad Musidora all in woe  138  2 
Saw you the nymph whom I adore  138-139  2 
Why Cloe still those jealous heart  139  2 
Sure Damon is the blithest swain  139-140  2 
Come listen and laugh at the times  140-141  4 
Why will you my passion reprove  141  3 
Let the tempest of war  142  1 
My banks they are furnish'd with bees  142-143  3 
Life how vain esteem'd a blessing  143-144  3 
To Fanny Fair I wou'd impart  144  3 
Ye shepherds give ear to my lay  145  3 
Sure Sally is the loveliest lass  145-146  5 
You tell me I'm handsome, I know not how true [sic]  147  3 
Soft pleasing pains, unknown before  147-148  3 
Saw ye John a coming, quoth she  148-149  6 
At the foot of a hill in a neat lonely cot  149-150  6 
You may talk as you will of new modes and new fashions  150-151  6 
Ye true honest Britons, who love your own land  151-152  4 
Since life is a bubble  152  4 
When first we see the ruddy, sun-rise from an eastern hill  153  5 
Where the primrose decks thee well  153-154  2 
With ev'ry grace young Strephon  154  4 
Phillis we don't grieve that nature  154-155  4 
Come here, fellow servants, and listen to me  154-155  7 
Come Damon come oh! haste away  156-157  6 
Term full as long as the siege of old Troy, A  157-158  6 
Since we went out a maying, too late can I find  158-159  5 
From sweet bewitching tricks of love  159-160  4 
As th' other day milking I sat in the vale  160  5 
When trees did bud and fields were green  161  6 
No lass on fam'd Hiberrigs Plains  161-162  5 
Alexis, a pretty young swain  162-163  3 
As May in all her youthful dress  163  2 
In all the sex some charms I find  163-164  4 
I seek my shepherd gone astray  164-165  5 
When I enter'd my teens, and threw playthings aside  165-166  6 
Young Roger of the mill, one morning very soon  166-167  7 
Now the snow-drops lift their heads  167-168  5 
One morning young Roger accosted me thus  168  6 
Love, thou bane of soft content  168-169  2 
Preach not to me your musty rules  169  1 
How blithe was I each morn to see  169-170  3 
Hark! the birds begin their lay  170-171  4 
Ask if yon damask rose is sweet  171  3 
Dearest Dapne, turn thine eyes [sic]  171-172  5 
Ye mortals, whom fancies and troubles perplex  173  3 
Come, my good shepherds, our flocks we must shear  173-174  5 
Young Collin fishing near the stream  174-175  5 
Say, lovely peace, that grac'd our isle  175  5 
Who has e'er been at Baldock must needs know the mill  176  5 
Come all you young lovers who wan with despair  176-177  5 
Sylvia, wilt thou waste thy prime  177-178  3 
I search'd the fields of every kind  178-179  4 
Fairest daughter of the day  179  6 
How few like you, wou'd dare advise  180  2 
Who, to win a woman's favour  180  2 
Sick of the town, at once I flew  180-181  3 
Lovely Fanny, charming maid  181-182  2 
Lass that would know how to manage a man, The  182  6 
With swords on their thighs the bold yeomen are seen  182-183  3 
O true content! secure from harms  183-184  6 
My mother cries, Betty be shy  184-185  6 
Fly hence grim melancholy's train  185-186  9 
No more the festive train I'll join  186-187  4 
Attend, ye nymphs, while I impart  187  5 
When gentle Harriot first I saw  188  5 
Heroes preparing to finish the war, The  188-189  2 
Myrtilla, demanding the aid of my pen  189  4 
Come, live with me, and be my love  189-190  3 
When fairies dance round on the grass  190-191  4 
Once more I'll tune the vocal shell  191-192  10 
When I was a young one, what girl was like me  192-193  6 
When first by fond Damon Flavella was seen  193-194  4 
Declare, my pretty maid  194-195  5 
Avast, my boys, avast, all hands on shore  195-196  9 
Near the side of a pond, at the foot of a hill  196-197  4 
Why heaves my fond bosom, ah! what can it mean?  197  3 
New-flown birds the shepherds sing, The  197-198  3 
Gentle love, to paint my lover  198-199  7 
Live and love, enjoy the fair  199-200  2 
'Twas when the seas were roaring  200-201  5 
How little do the landmen know  201  3 
Night, to lovers joys a friend  202  9 
Fair Fidel---es grassy tomb [sic]  203  6 
Tho' Peggy's charms have oft been sung  203-204  4 
Since Moggy I mon bid adieu  204  4 
Confin'd to the house till the age of fifteen  205  5 
Oh how blissful 'tis to languish  205  1 
Avarus sent for me to dine  206  3 
I am a young virgin, that oft have been told  206-207  6 
Beneath this vragrant myrtle shade [sic]  207  5 
When last we parted on the plain  207-208  8 
Gentle winds that fan the sea  208-209  2 
Young I am and yet unskill'd  209  2 
Virgins if e'er at length it prove  209-210  4 
Can love be controul'd by advice?  210-211  2 
Sun was sleeping in the main, The  211  3 
Shall, I wasting in despair  211-212  3 
Of all the nymphs that trip the green  212  2 
Come listen a-while and I'll tickle your ears  213-214  10 
As pleasing as shades to a way-faring swain  214  2 
I have rambl'd, I own it, whole years up, and down  214-215  5 
Britannia, Queen of Ocean, rise  215  6 
More bright the sun began to dawn  216  4 
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