Romantic

Alexander Balfour

1767–1829


Alexander Balfour (1767–1829) is one of the Scottish song-writers whose lives Charles Rogers sketched in The Modern Scottish Minstrel (six volumes, Edinburgh: Adam & Charles Black, 1855–57).

This archive holds 2 songs printed under this poet's name in volume 2 of the anthology, in Rogers's spelling. Dates are those given in Rogers's memoir, which is the only source used here.

  1. The Bonnie Lass o' Leven Water
  2. Slighted Love

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