Moore’s Irish Melodies / with New Symphonies & Accompaniments by G. A. Macfarren, 7 parts (London: Cramer, Beale & Chappell [1859-61]), fol. [var. Cramer Beale & Wood].

[Bibl.: Moore’s Irish Melodies / with New Symphonies & Accompaniments by G. A. Macfarren, 7 parts (London: Cramer, Beale & Chappell [1859-61]), fol. [var. Cramer Beale & Wood]. Source: COPAC - online; accessed 6.2010. Note that the contents are purportedly identical with the original series and reprinted from the same plates. There is listing of the contents of the original volumes or reprints of same by James or William Power are available in COPAC.

See also Notes from Letters, ... &c. (NY 1854), p.11 for stamped receipt in Moore's autograph, folio, 6th March 1813 for copyright of Irish Melodies, Number Five, and the following songs:-
 
“Oh see those Cherries”: A Ballad; “Oh fair! oh purest”: A Sacred Song; “Joys that pass away”: A Duett; “Oh forget that you ever were mine”: A Ballad; “A Finland Song for three voices”; “Oh remember the time”: A Song; “The Tyrolese Song of Liberty”; “From life without freedom”: A Song, and “The Song of War.”
Number 1 - Contents: 1. Go where glory waits thee; 2. Remember the glories of Brian the brave; 3. Erin! the tear & the smile; 4. Oh! breathe not his name; 5. When he who adores thee; 6. The harp that once through Tara’s halls ; 7. Fly not yet; 8. O think not my spirits are always as bright; 9. Tho’ the last glimpse of Erin; 10. Rich & rare were the gems she wore; 11. As a beam on the face of the waters; 12. The meeting of the waters.

Number 2 - Contents: 13. St. Senanus & the lady; 14. How dear to me the hour; 15. Take back the virgin page; 16. How oft has the benshee cried; 17. The legacy; 18. We may roam through the world; 19. Let Erin remember the days; 20. Eveleen’s bower; 21. Silent, O Moyle; 22. Come, send round the wine; 23. Sublime was the warning; 24. Believe me if all those endearing.

Number 3 - Contents: 25. Erin, oh! Erin, ’Like the bright lamp’; 26. Oh! blame not the bard; 27. While gazing on the moon’s light; 28. Ill omens, ’When daylight was yet sleeping’; 29. Before the battle, ’By the hope within me’; 30. After the battle, ’Night closed around’; 31. Oh! ’tis sweet to think; 32. Through grief & through danger; 33. Drink to her, who long has; 34. When through life unblest we rove; 35. It is not the tear at this moment shed - 36. ’Tis believ’d that this harp.

Number 4 - Contents: 37. Love’s young dream; 38. Tho’ dark are our sorrows ; 39. Weep on; 40. Nora Creina, ’Lesbia hath a beaming eye’; 41. I saw thy form in youthful prime; 42. By the lake whose gloomy shore; 43. She is far from the land; 44. Avenging & bright fall the swift sword; 45. Nay, tell me not, dear; 46. What the bee is to the flowret; 47. Love & the novice, ’Here we dwell in’; 48. This life is all chequered.

Number 5 - Contents: 49. Oh! the shamrock, ’Thro’ Erin’s isle to sport awhile’; 50. At the mid hour of night; 51. One bumper at parting; 52. The young may moon is beaming; 53. The minstrel boy to the war is gone; 54. The valley lay smiling before me; 55. Oh! had we some bright little isle; 56. Farewell! but whenever you welcome the hour; 57. ’Tis the last rose of summer; 58. Oh! doubt me not; 59. You remember Ellen, our hamlet’s pride; 60. I’d mourn the hopes that leave me.

Number 6 - Contents: 61. Has sorrow thy young days shaded; 62. Come o’er the sea, maiden, with me; 63. No not more welcome the fairy numbers; 64. When first I met thee; 65. While history’s muse; 66. The time I’ve lost in wooing; 67. Oh! where’s the slave so lowly; 68. Come rest on this bosom; 69. ’Tis gone, & for ever; 70. I saw from the beach; 71. Fill the bumper fair; 72. Dear harp of my country.

Number 7 - Contents: 73. My gentle harp; 74. As slow our ship; 75. In the morning of life; 76. When cold in the earth; 77. Remember thee! yes, while there’s life; 78. Wreathe the bowl with flowers; 79. Whene’er I see those smiling eyes; 80. If thoul’t be mine; 81. To ladies’ eyes around; 82. Forget not the field; 83. They may rail at this life; 84. Oh! for the swords of former time.

[Series ends here.]

Further contents of original series [otherwise listed or reconstructed from sundry references]:

Number 8 - Contents: incls. “Oh, ye Dead!”;

Number 9 - Contents: incls. “Sweet Innisfallen, fare thee well”; “’Twas one of Those Dreams”; “In Yonder Valley There Dwelt Alone”; “By the Feal’s wave benighted ...”Fairest put on a while ...”; “And doth not a meeting like this ...”; “As vanquished Erin wept ...”; “Quick we have but a second ...”, &c. [This list compiled from Notes from the Letters ... &c. (1854), p.105,n.]

Number 10 - Contents: 1. “Though humble the banquet”; 2. “Sing, sweet harp”; 3. “Sing, sweet harp” (harmonized for three voices); 3. “Song of the battle eve”; 4. “The wandering bard”; 5. “Alone in crowds to wander on”; 6. “I’ve a secret to tell thee”; 7. “Song of Innisfail”; 8. “The night-dance”; 9. “There are sounds of mirth”; 10. “Oh Arranmore, lov’d Arranmore”; 11. “Lay his sword by his side”; 12. “Oh! could we do with this world of ours”.

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