The Riverside song book/Topical Index

by William Mangam Lawrence

TOPICAL INDEX.

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The following classification is intended to be merely suggestive. In celebrating the birthday of an author not represented in this collection, select songs that are in harmony with the writer's work. Thus, for example, songs relating to the sea, to Indian life, and to the American Revolution, may be used for James Fenimore Cooper; songs of nature would be appropriate for Henry David Thoreau, especially those by Emerson, his intimate friend.

I. PATRIOTISM.

My Country, ’t is of Thee 1
The Flower of Liberty 2
Our Country's Call 5
Sail on, O Ship of State! 6
Old Ironsides 11
Hail, Columbia! 12
The Star-Spangled Banner 14
The Red, White, and Blue 16
A Ballad of the Boston Tea Party 18
A Song of the Flag 20

Where the Eagle is King 27
Ready 34
Battle Hymn of the Republic 36
The Sweet Little Man 38
The Flag 44
Centennial Hymn 45
Columbus 47
The Fatherland 146
Angel of Peace 166

II. LABOR.

Centennial Hymn 45
The Fishermen 50
The Storm Song 51
A Life on the Ocean Wave 58

For an Autumn Festival 59
The Corn Song 60
The Heritage 90

III. HOME AND CHILDHOOD.

Swanee River 33
The Voyagers 53
Home, Sweet Home 62
Around the Hearth 64
Rain on the Roof 68
The Old Oaken Bucket 70
Child and Mother 78
The Captain's Daughter 82

The Little House on the Hill 84
Curfew 85
Baby Charley 91
Will and I 92
Wynken, Blynken, and Nod 93
Baby’s Ring 128
To stay at Home is best 145
The Poet and the Children 170

IV. AFFECTION.

The Hunter's Serenade 54
The Raven 61
A Midsummer Song 66
Speed Away! 71
The Indian Girl’s Lament 72
My Mother’s Memory 74
Faithful 80
The Proposal 96
May, the Maiden 97

She came and went 100
Stars of the Summer Night 101
Near in the Forest 102
In Absence 103
Ben Bolt 104
Thine Eyes still shined 109
The Fortune in the Daisy 111
Don’t be sorrowful, Darling 122
Long Time Ago 154

V. BEREAVEMENT.

She came and went 100
The Light that is felt 120
Gone 121
Alike are Life and Death 129
There is no End for Souls like his 135

The Open Window 136
Nearer Home 139
The Reaper and the Flowers 151
There is hovering about me 159
My Own shall come to me 162

VI. NATURE AND SEASONS.

The Storm Song 51
Wind and Sea 56
A Life on the Ocean Wave 58
For an Autumn Festival 59
The Corn Song 60
A Midsummer Song 66
Rain on the Roof 68
Will and I 92
Idle 98
Katydid 106
A Dream of Summer 108
The Summers come and go 112

November 113
Afternoon in February 115
The Humble-Bee 116
Woodnotes 117
The Fountain 118
The Harp at Nature’s Advent strung 119
The Rainy Day 140
Pleasure-Pain 142
What the Chimney sang 148
Summer Studies 150
Waldeinsamkeit 156

VII. HYMNS AND ETHICAL SONGS.

(Suitable for opening and closing school.)

The Falcon 10
Now 30
If I were a Sunbeam 65
God Speed the Right 67
The Bridge 86
A Dream of Summer 108
November 113
Harp at Nature’s Advent strung, The 119
The Light that is felt 120
Learn to live and live to learn 125
The Poet 126
Alike are Life and Death 129
To Mother Fairie 132
There is no End for Souls like his 135

My Psalm 138
Nearer Home 139
The Rainy Day 140
I know not what the Future hath 144
Lord of All Being 149
The Reaper and the Flowers 151
Kind Words can never die 155
Softly now the Light of Day 157
Nearer, my God, to Thee 158
There is hovering about me 159
My Own shall come to me 162
My Birthday 169
A Psalm of Life 172

VIII. ELECTION DAY.

My Country, ’t is of Thee 1
True Freedom 4
The Poor Voter on Election Day 7

Our Country 40
God Speed the Right 67
The Fatherland 146

IX. FOURTH OF JULY.

My Country, ’t is of Thee 1
The Flower of Liberty 2
Sail on, O Ship of State! 6
Concord Hymn 9
Old Ironsides 11
Hail, Columbia! 12
The Star-Spangled Banner 14

The Red, White, and Blue 16
A Ballad of the Boston Tea Party 18
The Sword of Bunker Hill 22
The Sweet Little Man 38
Our Country 40
The Flag 44

X. WASHINGTON'S BIRTHDAY.

The Flower of Liberty 2
Sail on, O Ship of State! 6
Concord Hymn 9
Hail, Columbia! 12
The Star-Spangled Banner 14

The Red, White, and Blue 16
A Ballad of the Boston Tea Party 18
Ode for Washington’s Birthday 21
The Sword of Bunker Hill 22

XI. BIRTHDAYS OF LINCOLN, GRANT, AND OTHER EMINENT AMERICANS.

My Country, ’t is of Thee 1
The Flower of Liberty 2
Our Country’s Call 5
Sail on, O Ship of State! 6
A Song of the Flag 20
Song of the Negro Boatman 24
Hymn sung at St. Helena’s Island 26
Laus Deo! 32

Battle Hymn of the Republic 36
O Captain! My Captain! 46
Alike are Life and Death 129
There is no End for Souls like his 135
My Psalm 138
I know not what the Future hath 144
My Birthday 169
A Psalm of Life 172

XII. MEMORIAL DAY.

My Country, ’t is of Thee 1
The Flower of Liberty 2
Our Country’s Call 5
Sail on, O Ship of State! 6
Ready 34

Battle Hymn of the Republic 36
Tenting on the Old Camp-Ground 42
Decoration Day 43
The Flag 44
O Captain! My Captain! 46

XIII. ARBOR DAY.

Under the Trees 49
Woodman, Spare that Tree 69
A Dream of Summer 108

Woodnotes 117
The Harp at Nature’s Advent strung 119
Waldeinsamkeit 156

XIV. THANKSGIVING DAY AND AUTUMN FESTIVAL.

For an Autumn Festival 59
The Corn Song 60
Home, Sweet Home 62
Home Again 63
Around the Hearth 64
Old Oaken Bucket, The 70

November 113
The Harp at Nature’s Advent strung 119
I know not what the Future hath 144
To stay at Home is best 145
What the Chimney sang 148

XV. CHRISTMAS AND NEW YEAR’S DAY.

Hymn sung at St. Helena’s Island 26
Home, Sweet Home 62
Around the Hearth 64
Faithful 80
The Little House on the Hill 84
Curfew 85
The Summers come and go 112

Learn to live, and live to learn 125
The Old Year and the New 130
Nearer Home 139
I know not what the Future hath 144
Kriss Kringle 152
A Psalm of Life 172

XVI. INDIANS.

Speed Away! 71
The Indian Girl’s Lament 72

Ye say they all have passed away 73
The Death of Minnehaha 75