Romantic
Robert Gilchrist
Robert Gilchrist is represented here by verse printed in The Newcastle Song Book; or, Tyne-side Songster (Newcastle: W. & T. Fordyce, 1842), 17 pieces.
A writer of Tyneside songs in the local dialect; the spelling of the printed texts is kept as the books give it.
Poems (17)
- Amphitrite
- Bear Club
- Birth-Day of Queen Victoria
- Blind Willie Singing
- 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 Shieldfield to John Clayton, Esq.
- More Innovations
- New Song for Barge-day, 1835
- Northumberland Free o' Newcassel
- Sir Tommy made an Odd Fellow
- Tommy Thompson
- Voyage to Lunnin