The Suppliant (Caroline Maxwell Poems)
STOP , lady stop, my wretched tale attend,And to my wants your kind assistance lend:So may kind fortune e'er propitious ...
Caroline Maxwell Poems on Mind (15 Poems)
Gowry’s Conspiracy (Caroline Maxwell Poems)
AS Scotland's monarch forth did goTo hunt in Falkland's wood;Then Ruthven Gowry, bowing low,Before the king there stood.This youth was ...
Rosetta (Caroline Maxwell Poems)
IN Gallia's kingdom, near a forest wild,There liv'd a peasant, and his only child;A female, to whom Nature, most unkind,Had ...
The Heir Of Tyrconnel; Or, The Threatening Spectre (Caroline Maxwell Poems)
NOW seated secure round this bright cheery fire,A ditty from me why so earnest require?A tale full of horrors, you ...
The Old Man In Blue (Caroline Maxwell Poems)
A LITTLE old man, who was cloathed in blue,Whose wants they were many, and friends very few,And whose grief at ...
Edwin And Isabel; Or The Nabob (Caroline Maxwell Poems)
HARK ! heard you not yon mournful bell,Slow sounding thro' the gloom;A lovely victim's fate to tell,Call'd early to the ...
Egbert; Or Ingratitude (Caroline Maxwell Poems)
LATE was the hour; and hush'd each sound,When Egbert sought his downy bed;Tho' silence reign'd, yet balmy sleepHad from his ...
Sir Stephen (Caroline Maxwell Poems)
A GOTHIC BALLAD. MOURNING muse, record a ditty,Of two tender lovers dear:A heart of marble sure must pity,The woes of ...
David’s Dependance (Caroline Maxwell Poems)
WRITTEN AT A TIME OF GREAT MENTAL DISTRESS. AND art thou he? said Saul, so young, so fair,Stripling, can'st thou ...
Captivity (Caroline Maxwell Poems)
THE LAMENTATION OF A CANARY BIRD IN HIS CAGE. OH ! happy kindred, tenants of the air,Ye wing'd inhabitants of ...
To A Gentleman, Who Disliked Cats (Caroline Maxwell Poems)
YOU blame me, dear friend, for admiring of cats,Which (except for destroying of mice and of rats)You say is a ...
The Complaint (Caroline Maxwell Poems)
WHEN Emma, in my humble cot,Her smiles bestow'd on me;Ah! then I thought, a happier lotThan mine could never be.The ...
Hope (Caroline Maxwell Poems)
DELUSIVE Hope, thou flattering fairy,I will not thy soft tales believe;Fill not my mind with dreams so airy,Of thee I ...
To A Poetic Friend (Caroline Maxwell Poems)
WHO DECLARED AN INTENTION OF LEAVING OFF WRITING IN FUTURE. OFT ' doth the mournful muse complain,And will, I wean, ...
Consolation (Caroline Maxwell Poems)
WHEN forc'd to leave my lovely Sue,What sorrow tore my heart;How did I ever bid adieu?How could I ever part?Still ...