Romantic

David Vedder

1790–1854


David Vedder (1790–1854) 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 3 of the anthology, in Rogers's spelling. Dates are those given in Rogers's memoir, which is the only source used here.

  1. Jeanie's Welcome Hame
  2. I Neither Got Promise of Siller
  3. There Is a Pang for Every Heart
  4. The First of May
  5. Song of the Scottish Exile
  6. The Tempest Is Raging
  7. The Temple of Nature

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