Poetry Codex

Restoration & Augustan

Anne Hunter (Mrs John Hunter)

1742–1821

Anne Hunter (Mrs John Hunter) (1742–1821) 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 7 songs printed under this poet's name in volume 1 of the anthology, in Rogers's spelling. Dates are those given in Rogers's memoir, which is the only source used here.

Poems (7)

  1. The Indian Death-song
  2. My Mother Bids Me Bind My Hair
  3. The Flowers of the Forest
  4. The Season Comes When First We Met
  5. Oh, Tuneful Voice! I Still Deplore
  6. Dear to My Heart As Life's Warm Stream
  7. The Lot of Thousands

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