Bibliography
Publications
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Gothalbert and Hisanna. Newcastle: W.A. Mitchell/The Mercury Press, 1822, 22pp.
Includes: ‘On the ruins of Jesmond Monastery’, ‘To an illegitimate child on the day of its birth’ and ‘To ____’.
A Collection of Original Local Songs, Local and Sentimental. W. A. Mitchell, 1824, 24pp. (9 songs and 1 poem)
A Collection of Original Local Songs. Second Edition. Newcastle: W.A. Mitchell. 1824. Available via Hathi Trust Digital Library.
The collier’s keek at the nation
Bold archy drowned
A voyage to Lunnin
The skipper’s erudition (The Amphitrite)
The quack doctors
Northumberland free o’newcassel
Blind Willie singing
The lamentation of the death of Captain Starkey
Poor Jackey, the Howdon Pans Fifer
The Loss of the Ovington
Poems. Newcastle: William Boag. (84 poems), 1826, 88pp.
33 untitled poems and 51 titled poems:
Written at midnight, during a storm
On the death of ____
Lines written in a country alehouse
The orphans
Lines on Gibside
On the approach of Winter
Verses on a plant reared by a lady, and which died in consequence of bearing so much blossom
On the ruins of Benwell
Lines on the death of Rev.. John Smith, Vicar of Newcastle
Written at the tomb of Cunningham, in St. John’s Church-Yard, Newcastle
Ruthbert and his Cockle Shell
To my lamp
Verses, composed on hearing the unfortunate Miss A______ singing
On seeing the field of Otterburn
The stranger
Written beneath a portrait of Dr Jenner, the illustrious discoverer of vaccination
The death of Ismir
Lines to Mr. Wm. Vasey, on reaing his effusion to Eliza
To the Tyne
Lines on seeing a funeral, at which none were present as mourners
Lines addressed to an infant
Written at sea, on the morning of the Sabbath day
On the Battle of Waterloo
The three sisters
Lines addressed to Master C.H.
On Neil Gow’s rural seat
Lines to the memory of Mr. Nicholas Corbitt
Composed on a ruinous edifice
Written at sea
The sleeping city
On the death of an infant
To sena
Written in an album
On slander
On a young gentleman who died abroad
On St. Nicholas Church, Newcastle upon Tyne
To a young lady
To Anna
A scene at sea; written at midnight
The Vale of Nent
On war
The prostitute
On Ravensworth Castle
On the death of Charles John Brandling, Esq.
The freedom of election
The rose of England
Jesmond Dean
A fragment
On popularity
On a flask
A sonnet
Newspapers and magazines
'Lines caused by the death of Mr Aynsley, of Great Babington', Northumberland and Newcastle Monthly Magazine, No 15, Vol, II, February 1819, p.54.
'Addressed to Miss S.B. of Newcastle', Northumberland and Newcastle Monthly Magazine, No. 25, Vol II, December 1819, p.353. (An early version of 'To Sena', Poems 1826).
‘Stanzas to Miss ____’, Newcastle Magazine, 1(3), January 1821, p.302.
‘Stanzas address to ____’, Newcastle Magazine, 1(10), October 1822, p.511.
‘Stanzas’, Newcastle Magazine, 2(4), April 1823, p.207. Available via Hathi Trust Digital Library.
‘Stanzas’, Newcastle Magazine, 2(6), June 1823, p.322-323. Available via Hathi Trust Digital Library.
‘Stanzas’, Newcastle Magazine, 3(2), February 1824, p.67. Available via HathiTrust Digital Library.
‘The Prostitute’, Newcastle Magazine, 4(1), January 1825, p.25. Available via Hathi Trust Digital Library.
‘Verses suggested by seeing a funeral at which none were present as mourners’, Newcastle Magazine, 4(5), May 1825, p.229. Available via Hathi Trust Digital Library.
‘Lines’, Newcastle Magazine, 4(9), September 1825, p.408. Available via Hathi Trust Digital Library.
'On the death of Bold Archy, who died 14 May 1828' , Tyne Mercury, 20 May 1828.
‘New song for Barge Day’, Newcastle Journal, 24 October 1835.
‘A new song’, Newcastle Journal, 26 May 1838.
‘Sonnet to Miss Grace Horsley Darling – The preserver of the passengers saved from the wreck of the Forfarshire steam-packet’, Newcastle Journal, 22 September 1838.
‘The humble petition of the old house in the Shield Field – to Mr. W. Foggin’, Newcastle Journal, 15 December 1838.
'A New Song on the Opening of the Newcastle and North Shields Railway', 21 June 1839 (newspaper unknown)
'On a late accident at sea', The Great Northern Advertiser and Commercial Herald, 25 March 1841.
‘Sonnet on the death of Grace Darling’, Newcastle Journal, 29 October 1842.
‘On the death of old Thomas Porteus, R.N.’, Newcastle Journal, 11 March 1843.
‘On the death of old Thomas Porteus, R.N.’, Sunderland Herald, 17 March 1843.
‘To the memory of the late Archibald Reed, Esq.’, Newcastle Journal, 28 January 1843.
‘Sonnet on the shortest day’, Newcastle Journal, 27 December 1856, p.6.
'Lament on the death of Captain Starkey', Newcastle Courant, 8 April 1887.
'A New Song for Barge- Day, 1835', Newcastle Chronicle (Literary Supplement, p.2), 25 January 1890.
Poems and songs in local anthologies
'More innovations' in Selkirk's Songs and Ballads for the People No. 10 (1852), pp.217-218.
'Anti-antiquarianism' in Selkirk's Songs and Ballads for the People No. 6 (1851), pp.129-130.
'The Amphitrite' in Selkirk's Songs and Ballads for the People (1851), pp.84-85.
'The Amphitrite' in Joseph Crawhall's Beuk o Newcassel Sangs (1965). Harold Hill: Newcastle-Upon-Tyne, pp.47-50. Available via HathiTrust Digital Library.
'Amphitrite', 'April Gowk, or The Lovers Alarmed', 'Bear Club', 'The Birth-Day of Queen Victoria', 'Blind Willie's Epitaph', 'Bold Archy and Blind Willie's Lament on the Death of Capt. Starkey', 'Collier's Keek at the Nation', 'Death of Bold Archy', 'Farewell to the Tyne', 'Herbage Committee', 'Humble Petition of the Old House in the Shield-Field to John Clayton, Esq', 'More Innovations', 'New Song for Barge-Day, 1835', 'Northumberland Free O' Newcassel', 'The Quack Doctors', 'Sir Tommy Made an Odd Fellow', 'Tommy Thompson', 'Voyage to Lunnin', in The Tyne Songster, A Choice Collection of Songs in the Newcastle Dialect (1840) W. and T. Fordyce: Newcastle-upon-Tyne.
'The Amphitrite', 'Collier's Keek at the Nation', 'Blind Willy Singing', 'Bold Archy's Lament (On the Death of Captain Starkey)', ''The Quack Doctors', 'A Voyage to Lunnin', 'Tommy Thompson', 'Farewell to the Tyne', 'Northumberland Free O' Newcassel', 'Pandon Dean', 'Sir Tommy Made an Odd Fellow', in A Collection of Songs, Comic, Satirical, and Descriptive, chiefly in the Newcastle Dialect, and illustrative of the language and manners of the common people on the Banks of the Tyne and neighbourhood. By T. Thompson, J. Shields, W. Mitford, H Robson, and Others. Newcastle upon Tyne, Printed by John Marshal in the Old Flesh Market 1827.
A choice collection of Tyneside songs by Wilson, Corvan, Mitford, Gilchrist, Robson, Harrison, Emery, Ridley, Oliver, Shield, &c,. &c., &c. with lives of the authors illustrated with views of the town and portraits of the poets and eccentrics of Newcastle. Published by Allan, 62 Dean Street, Newcastle upon Tyne: & 16 Collingwood Street, North Shields. (1873)
'Gothalbert and Hisanna - an extract', 'Zion's Hill - an extract', 'Bethlehem's Star - an extract', 'St Nicholas's Church', 'Petition from the Old House in Shieldfield', 'Poetic Fragments', 'Sonnet on the Shortest Day', 'Collier's Keek at the Nation', 'On the Death of Bold Archy', 'Bold Archy Drowned', 'A Voyage to Lunnin', 'The Amphitrite', 'Blind Willie Singin'', 'Lamentation on the Death of Captain Benjamin Starkey', 'More Innovations', 'The Corn Market', 'Lines to Miss Bell - Extract', Allan's illustrative edition of Tyneside Songs and readings with lives, portraits and autographs of the writers and notes on the songs. Revised edition. (1891) The publisher was Thomas & George Allan, 18 Blackett Street and 34 Collingwood Street, Newcastle upon Tyne, and the cover stated that it was "Sold by W Allan, 80 Grainger Street & B Allan, North Shields: & W Scott of London. Available via HathiTrust Digital Library.
'April Gowk', 'Bear Club', 'Blind Willie Singing', 'Bold Airchy's Lament', 'Collier's Keek at the Nation', 'Lovely Mary', 'More Innovations', 'Northumberland Free of Newcastle', 'New Song for Barge Day, 1835', 'Pandon Dean', 'Sir Tommy Made an Odd Fellow', 'Song of Improvements', 'Voyage to Lunnin', in J.P. Robson (1849) Songs of the Bards of the Tyne. P. France & Co: Newcastle-Upon-Tyne.
Excerpts from ‘On the death of Bold Archy’ and ‘The lamentation on the death of Captain Starkey’ published in Bell, D. and Patterson, E. (eds.) Characters of Old Tyneside. Newcastle upon Tyne: Oriel Press Ltd, 1969.
'A New Song for Barge-Day, 1835', 'Lament for Jackey Forster', in M.A. Richardson (1846) The Local Historians Table Book, of Remarkable Occurences, Historical Facts, Traditions, Legendary and Descriptive Ballads, etc. Etc., connected with the Counties of Newcastle-upon-Tyne, Northumberland and Durham. Newcastle-upon-Tyne: M.A. Richardson, pp.193-196. Available via HathiTrust Digital Library.
'A New Song for Barge-Day, 1835', 'Lament for Jackey Forster', in M.A. Richardson (1846) The Borderer's Table Book; or, Gatherings of the Local History and Romanceof the English and Scottish Borders. Newcastle-upon-Tyne: M.A. Richardson, pp.193-196. Available via HathiTrust Digital Library.
'The Old House', in The Conversazione. Number 2, Volume 1, Tuesday January 20th, 1829. W. Boag: Newcastle-Uon-Tyne, pp.13-20.
'Fragmenta' in The Conversazione. Number 2, Volume 1, Tuesday January 20th, 1829. W. Boag: Newcastle-Uon-Tyne, pp.21-23
'Suggested by the Death of an Infant Daughter', November 26, 1828. in The Conversazione. Number 2, Volume 1, Tuesday January 20th, 1829. W. Boag: Newcastle-Uon-Tyne, p.24.
Broadsides
The Bear Club (March 1838), in Bodleian Library Broadside Ballads Collection. (Johnson Ballads, fol, 238).
'To An Old Coat', Tyne and Wear Archives and Museums (TWAM), Dr. C.M. Brooks Papers, DF.BK/5/2/6.
'Anti-Antiquarianism', E. Walker, Printer, Newcastle. TWAM, Dr. C.M. Brooks Papers, DF.BK/5/2/7.
'To Scotland', Printed by William Boag. TWAM, Dr. C.M. Brooks Papers, DF.BK/5/2/8. (Note - pagination of 11-12 - taken from a chapbook?)
'To the Memory of Mr. William Hardy, Gateshead, Who Died May 2, 1828, Aged 28 Years', 5 May 1828, TWAM, Dr. C.M. Brooks Papers, DF.BK/5/2/3.
'On the Death of Bold Archy, Who Died May 14, 1828', 15 May 1828. W.A. Mitchell, Printer, Newcastle. TWAM, Dr. C.M. Brooks Papers, DF.BK/5/2/4.
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'The Confession of a Barber and a T-Vender', TWAM, Dr. C.M. Brooks Papers, DF.BK/5/2/11.
'Suggestd by the Death of an Infant Daughter', Taken from The Conversazione. TWAM, Dr. C.M. Brooks Papers, DF.BK, 5/2/13.
'When Sir T---y was Made an Odd Fellow', TWAM, Dr. C.M. Brooks Papers, DF.BK/15/2/14/6.
'Lines to the Memory of Mr. Nicholas Corbitt', 10 December 1824, TWAM, Dr. C.M. Brooks Papers, DF.BK/5/2/2.
'On The King's Birthday, June 4th 1818', TWAM, Dr. C.M. Brooks Papers, DF.BK/5/2/1.
'Blind Willie Singing'. Newcastle Songs. Newcastle University Broadside Collection. Broadsides 1/7/5. Published by William Fordyce. 1842. Size 511 x 372mm.
'The Corn Market. A Lament'. Newcastle University Broadsides Collection. Broadsides 1/4/4. Published by William Boag. 1830. Size 214 x 174mm. Thomas Allan guesses that this broadside was written by Gilchrist.
'The Birth Day of Queen Victoria: A New Song, intended to be sung on board the stewards' barge, on Ascension Day, May 24, 1838'. Newcastle University Broadsides Collection. Broadsides 3/2/3/26. 1838. Size 227 x 143mm.
Unprinted/unpublished compositions
'Verses on the Tanfield Arch, in the County of Durham', in Bell-White Collection Vol. 3, p.175, Robinson Library Special Collections, Newcastle University.
'A Sonnet', TWAM, Dr. C.M. Brooks Papers, 1845/ DBC 407. (note - this is the acrostic lines to Miss Bell mentioned in Allan).
'Ruthbert and Anna', TWAM, Dr. C.M. Brooks Papers, DF.BK/15/2/14/4. n.d.
'Sonnet to Miss Mary Newly', July 1834, TWAM, Dr. C.M. Brooks Papers, DF.BK.
'Sonnet to _____', February 28 1834, TWAM, Dr. C.M. Brooks Papers, DF.BK.
'An Acoustical Song', TWAM, Dr. C.M. Brooks Papers, DF.BK/15/2/14/7.
'A Steam Boat Voyage', TWAM, Dr. C.M. Brooks Papers, DF.BK/15/2/14/8. (note - possibly an early draft of a Voyage to Lunnin).
'A Song - for 1835 Barge Day', TWAM, Dr. C.M. Brooks Papers, DF.BK/15/2/14/9.
'Herbage Committee', TWAM. Dr. C.M. Brooks Papers, DF.BK. (in DBC 392 - Loose volumes containing poems by Robert Gilchrist and related papers).
'Lines inscribed to Mr William Garrett, president of the Loyal Northumbrian Social Society, Newcastle. Dated 27 April 1821. Newcastle Reprints Poetical. Brotherton Library Special Collections, Leeds University, Special Collections Modern History Y-8.3 NEW.
For an alphabetical list click here
Gothalbert and Hisanna. Newcastle: W.A. Mitchell/The Mercury Press, 1822, 22pp.
Includes: ‘On the ruins of Jesmond Monastery’, ‘To an illegitimate child on the day of its birth’ and ‘To ____’.
A Collection of Original Local Songs, Local and Sentimental. W. A. Mitchell, 1824, 24pp. (9 songs and 1 poem)
A Collection of Original Local Songs. Second Edition. Newcastle: W.A. Mitchell. 1824. Available via Hathi Trust Digital Library.
The collier’s keek at the nation
Bold archy drowned
A voyage to Lunnin
The skipper’s erudition (The Amphitrite)
The quack doctors
Northumberland free o’newcassel
Blind Willie singing
The lamentation of the death of Captain Starkey
Poor Jackey, the Howdon Pans Fifer
The Loss of the Ovington
Poems. Newcastle: William Boag. (84 poems), 1826, 88pp.
33 untitled poems and 51 titled poems:
Written at midnight, during a storm
On the death of ____
Lines written in a country alehouse
The orphans
Lines on Gibside
On the approach of Winter
Verses on a plant reared by a lady, and which died in consequence of bearing so much blossom
On the ruins of Benwell
Lines on the death of Rev.. John Smith, Vicar of Newcastle
Written at the tomb of Cunningham, in St. John’s Church-Yard, Newcastle
Ruthbert and his Cockle Shell
To my lamp
Verses, composed on hearing the unfortunate Miss A______ singing
On seeing the field of Otterburn
The stranger
Written beneath a portrait of Dr Jenner, the illustrious discoverer of vaccination
The death of Ismir
Lines to Mr. Wm. Vasey, on reaing his effusion to Eliza
To the Tyne
Lines on seeing a funeral, at which none were present as mourners
Lines addressed to an infant
Written at sea, on the morning of the Sabbath day
On the Battle of Waterloo
The three sisters
Lines addressed to Master C.H.
On Neil Gow’s rural seat
Lines to the memory of Mr. Nicholas Corbitt
Composed on a ruinous edifice
Written at sea
The sleeping city
On the death of an infant
To sena
Written in an album
On slander
On a young gentleman who died abroad
On St. Nicholas Church, Newcastle upon Tyne
To a young lady
To Anna
A scene at sea; written at midnight
The Vale of Nent
On war
The prostitute
On Ravensworth Castle
On the death of Charles John Brandling, Esq.
The freedom of election
The rose of England
Jesmond Dean
A fragment
On popularity
On a flask
A sonnet
Newspapers and magazines
'Lines caused by the death of Mr Aynsley, of Great Babington', Northumberland and Newcastle Monthly Magazine, No 15, Vol, II, February 1819, p.54.
'Addressed to Miss S.B. of Newcastle', Northumberland and Newcastle Monthly Magazine, No. 25, Vol II, December 1819, p.353. (An early version of 'To Sena', Poems 1826).
‘Stanzas to Miss ____’, Newcastle Magazine, 1(3), January 1821, p.302.
‘Stanzas address to ____’, Newcastle Magazine, 1(10), October 1822, p.511.
‘Stanzas’, Newcastle Magazine, 2(4), April 1823, p.207. Available via Hathi Trust Digital Library.
‘Stanzas’, Newcastle Magazine, 2(6), June 1823, p.322-323. Available via Hathi Trust Digital Library.
‘Stanzas’, Newcastle Magazine, 3(2), February 1824, p.67. Available via HathiTrust Digital Library.
‘The Prostitute’, Newcastle Magazine, 4(1), January 1825, p.25. Available via Hathi Trust Digital Library.
‘Verses suggested by seeing a funeral at which none were present as mourners’, Newcastle Magazine, 4(5), May 1825, p.229. Available via Hathi Trust Digital Library.
‘Lines’, Newcastle Magazine, 4(9), September 1825, p.408. Available via Hathi Trust Digital Library.
'On the death of Bold Archy, who died 14 May 1828' , Tyne Mercury, 20 May 1828.
‘New song for Barge Day’, Newcastle Journal, 24 October 1835.
‘A new song’, Newcastle Journal, 26 May 1838.
‘Sonnet to Miss Grace Horsley Darling – The preserver of the passengers saved from the wreck of the Forfarshire steam-packet’, Newcastle Journal, 22 September 1838.
‘The humble petition of the old house in the Shield Field – to Mr. W. Foggin’, Newcastle Journal, 15 December 1838.
'A New Song on the Opening of the Newcastle and North Shields Railway', 21 June 1839 (newspaper unknown)
'On a late accident at sea', The Great Northern Advertiser and Commercial Herald, 25 March 1841.
‘Sonnet on the death of Grace Darling’, Newcastle Journal, 29 October 1842.
‘On the death of old Thomas Porteus, R.N.’, Newcastle Journal, 11 March 1843.
‘On the death of old Thomas Porteus, R.N.’, Sunderland Herald, 17 March 1843.
‘To the memory of the late Archibald Reed, Esq.’, Newcastle Journal, 28 January 1843.
‘Sonnet on the shortest day’, Newcastle Journal, 27 December 1856, p.6.
'Lament on the death of Captain Starkey', Newcastle Courant, 8 April 1887.
'A New Song for Barge- Day, 1835', Newcastle Chronicle (Literary Supplement, p.2), 25 January 1890.
Poems and songs in local anthologies
'More innovations' in Selkirk's Songs and Ballads for the People No. 10 (1852), pp.217-218.
'Anti-antiquarianism' in Selkirk's Songs and Ballads for the People No. 6 (1851), pp.129-130.
'The Amphitrite' in Selkirk's Songs and Ballads for the People (1851), pp.84-85.
'The Amphitrite' in Joseph Crawhall's Beuk o Newcassel Sangs (1965). Harold Hill: Newcastle-Upon-Tyne, pp.47-50. Available via HathiTrust Digital Library.
'Amphitrite', 'April Gowk, or The Lovers Alarmed', 'Bear Club', 'The Birth-Day of Queen Victoria', 'Blind Willie's Epitaph', 'Bold Archy and Blind Willie's Lament on the Death of Capt. Starkey', 'Collier's Keek at the Nation', 'Death of Bold Archy', 'Farewell to the Tyne', 'Herbage Committee', 'Humble Petition of the Old House in the Shield-Field to John Clayton, Esq', 'More Innovations', 'New Song for Barge-Day, 1835', 'Northumberland Free O' Newcassel', 'The Quack Doctors', 'Sir Tommy Made an Odd Fellow', 'Tommy Thompson', 'Voyage to Lunnin', in The Tyne Songster, A Choice Collection of Songs in the Newcastle Dialect (1840) W. and T. Fordyce: Newcastle-upon-Tyne.
'The Amphitrite', 'Collier's Keek at the Nation', 'Blind Willy Singing', 'Bold Archy's Lament (On the Death of Captain Starkey)', ''The Quack Doctors', 'A Voyage to Lunnin', 'Tommy Thompson', 'Farewell to the Tyne', 'Northumberland Free O' Newcassel', 'Pandon Dean', 'Sir Tommy Made an Odd Fellow', in A Collection of Songs, Comic, Satirical, and Descriptive, chiefly in the Newcastle Dialect, and illustrative of the language and manners of the common people on the Banks of the Tyne and neighbourhood. By T. Thompson, J. Shields, W. Mitford, H Robson, and Others. Newcastle upon Tyne, Printed by John Marshal in the Old Flesh Market 1827.
A choice collection of Tyneside songs by Wilson, Corvan, Mitford, Gilchrist, Robson, Harrison, Emery, Ridley, Oliver, Shield, &c,. &c., &c. with lives of the authors illustrated with views of the town and portraits of the poets and eccentrics of Newcastle. Published by Allan, 62 Dean Street, Newcastle upon Tyne: & 16 Collingwood Street, North Shields. (1873)
'Gothalbert and Hisanna - an extract', 'Zion's Hill - an extract', 'Bethlehem's Star - an extract', 'St Nicholas's Church', 'Petition from the Old House in Shieldfield', 'Poetic Fragments', 'Sonnet on the Shortest Day', 'Collier's Keek at the Nation', 'On the Death of Bold Archy', 'Bold Archy Drowned', 'A Voyage to Lunnin', 'The Amphitrite', 'Blind Willie Singin'', 'Lamentation on the Death of Captain Benjamin Starkey', 'More Innovations', 'The Corn Market', 'Lines to Miss Bell - Extract', Allan's illustrative edition of Tyneside Songs and readings with lives, portraits and autographs of the writers and notes on the songs. Revised edition. (1891) The publisher was Thomas & George Allan, 18 Blackett Street and 34 Collingwood Street, Newcastle upon Tyne, and the cover stated that it was "Sold by W Allan, 80 Grainger Street & B Allan, North Shields: & W Scott of London. Available via HathiTrust Digital Library.
'April Gowk', 'Bear Club', 'Blind Willie Singing', 'Bold Airchy's Lament', 'Collier's Keek at the Nation', 'Lovely Mary', 'More Innovations', 'Northumberland Free of Newcastle', 'New Song for Barge Day, 1835', 'Pandon Dean', 'Sir Tommy Made an Odd Fellow', 'Song of Improvements', 'Voyage to Lunnin', in J.P. Robson (1849) Songs of the Bards of the Tyne. P. France & Co: Newcastle-Upon-Tyne.
Excerpts from ‘On the death of Bold Archy’ and ‘The lamentation on the death of Captain Starkey’ published in Bell, D. and Patterson, E. (eds.) Characters of Old Tyneside. Newcastle upon Tyne: Oriel Press Ltd, 1969.
'A New Song for Barge-Day, 1835', 'Lament for Jackey Forster', in M.A. Richardson (1846) The Local Historians Table Book, of Remarkable Occurences, Historical Facts, Traditions, Legendary and Descriptive Ballads, etc. Etc., connected with the Counties of Newcastle-upon-Tyne, Northumberland and Durham. Newcastle-upon-Tyne: M.A. Richardson, pp.193-196. Available via HathiTrust Digital Library.
'A New Song for Barge-Day, 1835', 'Lament for Jackey Forster', in M.A. Richardson (1846) The Borderer's Table Book; or, Gatherings of the Local History and Romanceof the English and Scottish Borders. Newcastle-upon-Tyne: M.A. Richardson, pp.193-196. Available via HathiTrust Digital Library.
'The Old House', in The Conversazione. Number 2, Volume 1, Tuesday January 20th, 1829. W. Boag: Newcastle-Uon-Tyne, pp.13-20.
'Fragmenta' in The Conversazione. Number 2, Volume 1, Tuesday January 20th, 1829. W. Boag: Newcastle-Uon-Tyne, pp.21-23
'Suggested by the Death of an Infant Daughter', November 26, 1828. in The Conversazione. Number 2, Volume 1, Tuesday January 20th, 1829. W. Boag: Newcastle-Uon-Tyne, p.24.
Broadsides
The Bear Club (March 1838), in Bodleian Library Broadside Ballads Collection. (Johnson Ballads, fol, 238).
'To An Old Coat', Tyne and Wear Archives and Museums (TWAM), Dr. C.M. Brooks Papers, DF.BK/5/2/6.
'Anti-Antiquarianism', E. Walker, Printer, Newcastle. TWAM, Dr. C.M. Brooks Papers, DF.BK/5/2/7.
'To Scotland', Printed by William Boag. TWAM, Dr. C.M. Brooks Papers, DF.BK/5/2/8. (Note - pagination of 11-12 - taken from a chapbook?)
'To the Memory of Mr. William Hardy, Gateshead, Who Died May 2, 1828, Aged 28 Years', 5 May 1828, TWAM, Dr. C.M. Brooks Papers, DF.BK/5/2/3.
'On the Death of Bold Archy, Who Died May 14, 1828', 15 May 1828. W.A. Mitchell, Printer, Newcastle. TWAM, Dr. C.M. Brooks Papers, DF.BK/5/2/4.
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'The Confession of a Barber and a T-Vender', TWAM, Dr. C.M. Brooks Papers, DF.BK/5/2/11.
'Suggestd by the Death of an Infant Daughter', Taken from The Conversazione. TWAM, Dr. C.M. Brooks Papers, DF.BK, 5/2/13.
'When Sir T---y was Made an Odd Fellow', TWAM, Dr. C.M. Brooks Papers, DF.BK/15/2/14/6.
'Lines to the Memory of Mr. Nicholas Corbitt', 10 December 1824, TWAM, Dr. C.M. Brooks Papers, DF.BK/5/2/2.
'On The King's Birthday, June 4th 1818', TWAM, Dr. C.M. Brooks Papers, DF.BK/5/2/1.
'Blind Willie Singing'. Newcastle Songs. Newcastle University Broadside Collection. Broadsides 1/7/5. Published by William Fordyce. 1842. Size 511 x 372mm.
'The Corn Market. A Lament'. Newcastle University Broadsides Collection. Broadsides 1/4/4. Published by William Boag. 1830. Size 214 x 174mm. Thomas Allan guesses that this broadside was written by Gilchrist.
'The Birth Day of Queen Victoria: A New Song, intended to be sung on board the stewards' barge, on Ascension Day, May 24, 1838'. Newcastle University Broadsides Collection. Broadsides 3/2/3/26. 1838. Size 227 x 143mm.
Unprinted/unpublished compositions
'Verses on the Tanfield Arch, in the County of Durham', in Bell-White Collection Vol. 3, p.175, Robinson Library Special Collections, Newcastle University.
'A Sonnet', TWAM, Dr. C.M. Brooks Papers, 1845/ DBC 407. (note - this is the acrostic lines to Miss Bell mentioned in Allan).
'Ruthbert and Anna', TWAM, Dr. C.M. Brooks Papers, DF.BK/15/2/14/4. n.d.
'Sonnet to Miss Mary Newly', July 1834, TWAM, Dr. C.M. Brooks Papers, DF.BK.
'Sonnet to _____', February 28 1834, TWAM, Dr. C.M. Brooks Papers, DF.BK.
'An Acoustical Song', TWAM, Dr. C.M. Brooks Papers, DF.BK/15/2/14/7.
'A Steam Boat Voyage', TWAM, Dr. C.M. Brooks Papers, DF.BK/15/2/14/8. (note - possibly an early draft of a Voyage to Lunnin).
'A Song - for 1835 Barge Day', TWAM, Dr. C.M. Brooks Papers, DF.BK/15/2/14/9.
'Herbage Committee', TWAM. Dr. C.M. Brooks Papers, DF.BK. (in DBC 392 - Loose volumes containing poems by Robert Gilchrist and related papers).
'Lines inscribed to Mr William Garrett, president of the Loyal Northumbrian Social Society, Newcastle. Dated 27 April 1821. Newcastle Reprints Poetical. Brotherton Library Special Collections, Leeds University, Special Collections Modern History Y-8.3 NEW.
