Isle of Beauty, Fare Thee Well

DESCRIPTION: "Shades of ev'ning close not o'er us, Leave our lonely bark a while, Morn, alas, will not restore us, Yonder dim and distant isle." The singer thinks of the places at home as he paces the deck; absence will make the heart grow fonder
AUTHOR: unknown
EARLIEST DATE: before 1844 (Bodleian broadsides)
KEYWORDS: home separation
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REFERENCES (2 citations):
Hylands-Mammoth-Hibernian-Songster, p. 14, "Isle of Beauty, Fare Thee Well" (1 text)
Dime-Song-Book #3/72, p. 59 and #3/62, pp. 62-63, "Isle of Beauty" (1 text)
Roud #2553
BROADSIDES:
Bodleian, Harding B 11(1809)= Johnson Ballads 872, "Isle of beauty fare thee well," J. Pitts (London( 1819-1844; also Harding B 18(302), "Isle of beauty fare thee well," H. de Marsan (New York), c. 1860; also Firth c.19(227)=Harding B 11(493), Harding B 11(491)=Harding B 11(492), "Isle of beauty fare-thee-well," H. Such (London), 1863-1885; also Harding B 11(1969)=Johnson Ballads 662=Johnson Ballads 663, "Isle of beauty," C. Paul (London), n.d.; also Firth b.25(257), "Isle of beauty," J. Forth (Pocklington), n.d.; also Firth b.25(595/596)=Firth b.34(212), "Isle of beauty," W. Ordoyno (Nottingham), n.d.; also Harding B 15(280a), "Shades of evening," E. M. A. Hodges (London), 1846-1854; also Harding B 11(1103), "Isle of beauty," unknown, n.d.; also Harding B 11(2740), "Isle of beauty!" J. Harkness (Preston), 1840-1866; also Harding B 11(313)=Johnson Ballads 1864, "Isle of beauty," J. O. Babbington/J. Beaumont (Manchester and Leeds), 1855-1858; also Harding B 11(3250)=Johnson Ballads 690=Johnson Ballads 690A, "Isle of beauty," C. Paul (London), n.d.; also Harding B 11(709), "Isle of beauty," W. McCall (Liverpool), 1857-1877; also Firth b.27(136), "Isle of beauty," unknown, n.d.; also Harding B 16(115c), "Isle of Beauty," Swingells (Manchester), 1796-1853; also Johnson Ballads 2584, "Isle of Beauty," unknown, n.d.; also 2806 b.9(279), "Isle of Beauty" (unknown, n.d.)
File: HMHS014A

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