Verses Sent To Mrs. Baillie On Her Birthday, 1813 (Joanna Baillie Poems)
A JUDGEMENT clear, a pensive mindWith feelings tender and refined;A generous heart in kindness glowing,An open hand on all bestowing;A ...
A JUDGEMENT clear, a pensive mindWith feelings tender and refined;A generous heart in kindness glowing,An open hand on all bestowing;A ...
Sunt aliquid manes; letum non omnia finit;Luridaque evictos effugit umbra rogos. PROPERTIUS._ __To Albion's misty isle across the waves I sped ...
Can America be reckoned as the country of the free?In the light of recent actions 'tis a truth that's hard ...
"Oh, wasn't he hard on poor sinners this mornin'?And his voice, begor! was no silver-tone fluteWhen he gave us," said ...
Never fear! For the crimson flag that proudly waves in these dawns, shall never fade,Before the last fiery hearth that ...
In the minister's morning sermonHe had told of the primal fall,And how thenceforth the wrath of GodRested on each and ...
There's a flag hangs over my threshold, whose folds are more dear to meThan the blood that thrills in my ...
Once on a time, old Legends say,'Twas on a sultry Summer's day,A Grecian God forsook the Skies,To taste of Earth's ...
You shudder as you think uponThe carnage of the grim report -The desolation when we wonThe inner trenches of the ...
The yellow fever was raging, Down in the sunny south;And in many of the cities, There was a death at every house.This ...
The rocky ledge runs far into the sea, And on its outer point, some miles away,The Lighthouse lifts its massive masonry, A ...
From every quarter we, Who bent the trembling knee And cowered or grovelled prostrate day and night, Now come once more to sing A ...
S Sweete Muse strike vp thy siluer string, I In shrill consort thy shake but straine, R Reflecting peales let Cosmos ring, R ...
Behold, my gracious God! with pitying eye,What dangers in my painful office lie,Who never must, at any season, ceaseTo visit ...
By the side of a rock on the hill, beneaththe aged trees, old Osciansat on the moss; the last of ...
Have you heard tell the news?The Earl of Leicester has turned traitor,And at Orwell has certainly landed.He has fleeced the ...
Alone I strode where the broad Rhine flowed, The hedge with roses was covered, And wondrous rare through all the air The scent ...
AUGUST 29, 1859I REMEMBER--why, yes! God bless me! and was it so long ago?I fear I'm growing forgetful, as old ...
TRAVELLERWhy dost thou wildly rush and roar, Mad River, O Mad River?Wilt thou not pause and cease to pourThy hurrying, headlong ...
IHis eyes found nothing beautiful and bright,Nor wealth nor honour, glory nor delight,Which he could grasp and keep with might ...
LOVE, mistress is of many minds,Yet few know whom they serve;They reckon least how little LoveTheir service doth deserve.The will ...
THERE, where the swift Rhone's waters flow Its verdant banks between;Where fragrant myrtles bending grow, And Rhone reflects their green;There, where the ...
COME quietly, Britain, all together, come!It is time!We have waited, weighed, and wonderedWho had blundered;Stared askance at one anotherAs our ...
With some pot-fury, ravish'd from their wit,They sit and muse on some no-vulgar writ:As frozen dunghills in a winter's morn,That ...
Stanza 1From harmony, from Heav'nly harmonyThis universal frame began.When Nature underneath a heapOf jarring atoms lay,And could not heave her ...
HE was old and alone, and he sat on a stone to rest for awhile from the road:His beard was ...
Plac'd on the verge of youth, my mindLife's op'ning scene survey'd:I view'd its ills of various kind,Afflicted and afraid.But chief ...
The President to Kingdoms, As in the Days of Old;The King to the Republic, As it had been foretold.They could not read ...
I oft have net thee, Autumn, wandering Beside a misty stream, thy locks flung wild; Thy cheeks a hectic flush more fair ...
I. The HOLY LAW: or, The Ten Commandments, Exod. xx. 3—17.1. No God but me thou shalt adore.2. No image ...
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