Bard of Tyneside - Robert Gilchrist (1797 - 1844)
  • Introduction
  • About
  • Biography
    • Ballast Hills
  • Chronology
  • Bibliography
    • Alphabetical List
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  • Songs
    • To Scotland
    • Tanfield Arch
    • Grace Darling
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Alphabetical List (Poems and Songs)


  1. A fragment
  2. A new song
  3. A new song for Barge- Day, 1835
  4. A new song on the opening of the Newcastle and North Shields Railway
  5. A scene at sea; written at midnight
  6. A song - for 1835 Barge Day
  7. A sonnet
  8. A sonnet
  9. A steam boat voyage
  10. A voice was heard from Zion’s Hill
  11. A Voyage to Lunnin
  12. Addressed to Miss S.B. of Newcastle
  13. An acoustical song
  14. Anti-antiquarianism
  15. April gowk, or the lovers alarmed
  16. Ascension Day
  17. Bear club
  18. Blind Willie's epitaph
  19. Blind Willie singing
  20. Bold Archy and Blind Willie's lament on the death of Capt. Starkey
  21. Bold Archy drowned
  22. Composed on a ruinous edifice
  23. Distrustful of a faithful heart
  24. Farewell! o faithless lover
  25. Farewel! the faithless death is past
  26. Farewell to the Tyne
  27. Fragmenta
  28. Give me that scene, when the pale moon is rising
  29. Gothalbert and Hisanna
  30. Herbage Committee
  31. Humble Petition of the Old House in the Shield-Field to John Clayton, Esq
  32. I have beheld thy polished brow
  33. I will forget those hours of bliss
  34. In darkness veiled, behold yon ruins grey
  35. In vain the scented woodbine twines
  36. Jesmond Dean
  37. Lament on the death of Captain Starkey
  38. Let Envy sneer, and Pride presume
  39. Lines
  40. Lines addressed to an infant
  41. Lines addressed to Master C.H.
  42. Lines caused by the death of Mr Aynsley, of Great Babington
  43. Lines inscribed to Mr William Garrett, president of the Loyal Northumbrian Social Society, Newcastle
  44. Lines on the death of Rev.. John Smith, Vicar of Newcastle
  45. Lines on Gibside
  46. Lines on seeing a funeral, at which none were present as mourners
  47. Lines to Mr. Wm. Vasey, on reaing his effusion to Eliza
  48. Lines to the memory of Mr. Nicholas Corbitt
  49. Lines written in a country alehouse
  50. Lovely Mary
  51. Mine only beloved, the last and the best
  52. More innovations
  53. Near Ravensworth, sweet Harry dwells
  54. New song for Barge Day
  55. Northumberland free o’newcassel
  56. Now the sun, his course beginning
  57. On a flask
  58. On a late accident at sea
  59. On a young gentleman who died abroad
  60. On Neil Gow’s rural seat
  61. On popularity
  62. On Ravensworth Castle
  63. On seeing the field of Otterburn
  64. On slander
  65. On St. Nicholas Church, Newcastle upon Tyne
  66. On the approach of Winter
  67. On the Battle of Waterloo
  68. On the death of an infant
  69. On the death of Bold Archy, who died 14 May 1828
  70. On the death of Charles John Brandling, Esq.
  71. On the death of old Thomas Porteus, R.N.
  72. On the death of ____
  73. On the King's birthday, June 4th 1818
  74. On the ruins of Benwell
  75. On the ruins of Jesmond Monastery
  76. On war
  77. Pandon Dean
  78. Poor Jackey, the Howdon Pans Fifer
  79. Ruthbert and Anna
  80. Ruthbert and his Cockle Shell
  81. Sad is this heart, my Love
  82. Say, wilt thou weep
  83. Should England’s proud foes with a vain gasconade
  84. Sir Tommy made an Odd Fellow
  85. Song of improvements
  86. Sonnet on the death of Grace Darling
  87. Sonnet on the shortest day
  88. Sonnet to Miss Grace Horsley Darling – The preserver of the passengers saved from the wreck of the Forfarshire steam-packet
  89. Sonnet to Miss Mary Newly
  90. Sonnet to _____
  91. Stanzas addressed to ____
  92. Stanzas
  93. Stanzas
  94. Stanzas
  95. Stanzas to Miss ____
  96. Suggested by the death of an infant daughter
  97. Sweet is the morn when drowsy mist
  98. Sweet Lily of the blooming vale
  99. The Amphitrite
  100. The birth-day of Queen Victoria
  101. The confession of a barber and a t-vender
  102. The collier’s keek at the nation
  103. The corn market
  104. The death of Ismir
  105. The freedom of election
  106. The humble petition of the old house in the Shield Field – to Mr. W. Foggin
  107. The lamentation of the death of Captain Starkey
  108. The last farewel
  109. The look of the maid said her heart was riven
  110. The loss of the Ovington
  111. The Old House
  112. The orphans
  113. The Prince of Bards sleeps in his last repose
  114. The prostitute
  115. The quack doctors
  116. The rose of England
  117. The skippers erudition (The Amphitrite)
  118. The sleeping city
  119. The sons of Tyne, Northumbria makes her boast
  120. The stranger
  121. The three sisters
  122. The throbbing accents of the heart’s Beloved
  123. The Vale of Nent
  124. There is an end to every vain pursuit
  125. Think not the sigh that speaks of woe
  126. Thinkest thou that the sigh which would faintly reprove thee
  127. To a young lady
  128. To an illegitimate child on the day of its birth
  129. To an old coat
  130. To Anna
  131. To my lamp
  132. To Scotland
  133. To sena
  134. To the memory of Mr. William Hardy, Gateshead, who died May 2, 1828, aged 28 Years
  135. To the memory of the late Archibald Reed, Esq.
  136. To the Tyne
  137. To ____
  138. Tommy Thompson
  139. Verses, composed on hearing the unfortunate Miss A______ singing
  140. Verses on a plant reared by a lady, and which died in consequence of bearing so much blossom 
  141. Verses on the Tanfield Arch, in the County of Durham
  142. Verses suggested by seeing a funeral at which none were present as mourners
  143. When friends meet by chance, who long parted have been
  144. When Jesse’s Son first struck the lyre
  145. Written at midnight, during a storm
  146. Written at sea
  147. Written at sea, on the morning of the Sabbath day
  148. Written at the tomb of Cunningham, in St. John’s Church-Yard, Newcastle
  149. Written beneath a portrait of Dr Jenner, the illustrious discoverer of vaccination
  150. Written in an album
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