Centenary Poem (Janet Hamilton Poems)
Recited at Burns' Centenary Festival, held at Mauchlin, January 25, 1859Oh Bard beloved! as pilgrims to thy shrine, With song and ...
Janet Hamilton Poems on Charity (10 Poems)
Phases of Girlhood (Janet Hamilton Poems)
With fondest love and sweetest pleasureGaze I on my infant treasure—My sweetest rose, my purest pearl,Heaven's latest gift, my baby-girl.Opening ...
Barnsley Colliery Explosion (Janet Hamilton Poems)
Far, far below, oh, far below,Where sulphurous lightnings flash and glow,Where blasting, bellowing thunders roarWith rending crash—dark Stygian shore;Black gulf ...
The Enemy In The Gate (Janet Hamilton Poems)
To Britannia.Nay, all this availeth thee nothing— Thy prestige, thy power, and estate,Thy glory, honour, and riches; An enemy sits in the ...
Lines Written On The Birth of The Year 1853 (Janet Hamilton Poems)
Hail! infant year, fresh from the womb of Time,Cradled in clouds, what shapes and shades sublimeAttend thy birth, and hover ...
The May Flower (Janet Hamilton Poems)
May, sweet May! this branch of blossomFrom thy fragrant, beauteous bosom,I accept and clasp the treasureTo my breast with grateful ...
Birkhill: A Memory (Janet Hamilton Poems)
O'er thy lone beauty, sweet Birkhill,Sad, brooding memory hovers still;Within, without, the sylvan cot,Ah! long unseen, but ne'er forgot.The fair-haired ...
Brave Angus Cameron (Janet Hamilton Poems)
The Winner of the Queen's Prize at Rifle Shooting, Wimbledon, 1866."When wine and other liquors were pressed upon him after ...
Verses (Janet Hamilton Poems)
Benevolence, attended by beauty, By elegance, fashion, and grace,Makes pleasure, the handmaid of duty, To plead for the poor in this place.She ...
Address To Col. D. C. R. Carrick-Buch (Janet Hamilton Poems)
Hail! noble mind, that formed the liberal plan:Hail! generous heart, that on the working man,With kindly courtesy, this day bestowedA ...