A Song, (Joanna Baillie Poems)
(WRITTEN FOR MR. STRUTHER'S COLLECTION OF SONGS.)IT was on a morn, when we were thrang,The kirn it crooned, the cheese ...
(WRITTEN FOR MR. STRUTHER'S COLLECTION OF SONGS.)IT was on a morn, when we were thrang,The kirn it crooned, the cheese ...
Ye wha are fain to hae your nameWrote in the bonny book of fame,Let merit nae pretension claimTo laurel'd wreath,But ...
I loo'd ne'er a laddie but ane,He loo'd ne'er a lassie but me; He's willing to mak me his ain, And his ...
AIR--_"Johnnie's Gray Breeks."_ Jenny's heart was frank and free, And wooers she had mony, yet The sang was aye, "Of a' I see, Commend ...
In summer's heat and mid-time of the day,To rest my limbs upon a bed I lay,One window shut, the other ...
In summer's heat and mid-time of the dayTo rest my limbs upon a bed I lay,One window shut, the other ...
THE BRIDE'S FAREWELL.When the marriage was completed,When the many guests had feasted,At the wedding of the Northland,At the Dismal-land carousal,Spake ...
ILMARINEN'S WOOING.ILMARINEN, hero-blacksmith,The eternal metal-worker,Hastens forward to the court-roomOf the hostess of Pohyola,Of the master of the Northland,Hastens through the ...
LEMMINKAINEN'S LAMENT.This the time to sing of Ahti,Son of Lempo, Kaukomieli,Also known as Lemminkainen.Ahti was the king of islands,Grew amid ...
ELLA kept anxious vigil by the bed: How strange it is to watch through creeping hours A face which was ...
Extracts from the Prologue I have come into the Desert because my soul is athirst as the Desert is ...
… Such speech they chang'd; when in the yard there lay A dog, call'd Argus, which, before his ...
I.WHEN first, beloved, in vanish'd hours The blind man sought thy love to gain, They said thy cheek was bright ...
Take the boat to the bounds of the ocean, Away to the ends of the earth:We've a heritage no one ...
Its glittering emptiness it brings — This little lane of useless things. Here peering envy arm in arm With ennui ...
IN simmer, when the hay was mawn, And corn wav'd green in ilka field, While claver blooms white o'er the ...
WHERE Cart rins rowin' to the sea, By mony a flower and spreading tree, There lives a lad, the lad ...
Penelope for her Vlisses sake, Deuiz'd a Web her wooers to deceaue: in which the worke that she all day ...
"O Trade! O Trade! would thou wert dead! The Time needs heart -- 'tis tired of head: We're all for ...
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