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Give Me My Arrows and Give Me My Bow
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Wikipedia article
'"Give Me My Arrows And Give Me My Bow"' is a ballad written and composed by Samuel Lover in 1848.Lover, "Give Me My Arrows And Give Me My Bow" (Sheet music). Lovers, an Irish songwriter and novelist, wrote the ballad during a trip to the United States.—, "Our Portrait Gallery", p. 203: "These extracts, from songs written in American, will serve to show that Mr. Lover's poetry was not a conventional thing following in the beaten track of everyday association, nor confined to Irish subjects, with which his name was so identified; but fresh scenes produced fresh poetic combinations, alike truthful and just in imagery and illustration."
Preface
Lover prefaced the poem with an introductory story:Lover, 'Songs and Ballads', p. 27.
Poem/Ballad
Title
The song title came from the first line of "The Samoyeds", a poem by Rev. Isaac Taylor.Taylor, 'Scenes in Asia', p. 22,
References
Bibliography
*—. "Our Portrait Gallery.—No. LXII: Samuel Lover". pp. 196206, 'The Dublin University Magazine: Literary and Political Journal'. No. CCXVII (February 1851) Vol XXXVI. Dublin: James McGlashan.
*Lover, Samuel. 'Songs and Ballads'. London: David Bryce (1858).
*Lover, Samuel. "Give Me My Arrows And Give Me My Bow" (Sheet music). New York: Firth, Pond & Co. (1848).
*Taylor, Isaac, Rev. 'Scenes in Asia: for the Amusement and Instruction of Little Tarry-at-Home Travellers'. London: St. Paul's Church-Yard (1826).
Category:1848 songs
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