"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. 196–206, 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).