Address To Mrs. WM. Anderson (Janet Hamilton Poems)
On the Early Death of her only Son."We weep with those who weep:" I sympathiseWith thee, oh mother! with the ...
Janet Hamilton Poems on Death & Dying (59 Poems)
The Mourning Mother (Janet Hamilton Poems)
What woe is thine, pale mother?—sayWhat grief devours thy heart? For ayeThy looks averted shun the day,And midnight sees thee ...
The Garden of God (Janet Hamilton Poems)
In a vineyard where grape-laden boughs To the trellised wall heavily cling,Where the voice of the turtle is heard, And the song ...
Be Pitiful (Janet Hamilton Poems)
Be pitiful, be pitiful, Pity the weak and worn;Pity the outcast vile, Ever so lost and lorn.Pity the poor who groan beneath Poverty's ...
Medley of Thoughts And Feelings On The Italian Crisis (Janet Hamilton Poems)
"Had I a thousand mouths, a thousand tongues,A thousand throats, inspired with brazen lungs,"I'd rouse with thunder tones the slumbering ...
Addressed To Mr. John Fairlie (Janet Hamilton Poems)
Calling a world to arms—I hear from farThe pealing clangours of the trump of war;The horizon political flames forthHer angry ...
The God of The Seasons (Janet Hamilton Poems)
O God of the Seasons! we bringTo Thee our thankoff'rings of praise;We soar with the lark; as we sing,The skies ...
The Dying Old Year, 1867 (Janet Hamilton Poems)
"Avaunt, away! dread shapes of hate and fearThat hover round me," moan'd the dying Year:"Dark treason, superstition, and misrule!Man, 'neath ...
Midnight Thoughts At The Close of 1864 (Janet Hamilton Poems)
Dark and lone, at midnight sitting,Not unthinking, not unwitting,As I muse of my surroundings,Sorrows deep and spirit woundings—The anguish keen, ...
Remonstrance (Janet Hamilton Poems)
"One murder makes a villain, millions a hero; and number sanctifies the crime."—YoungWith mournful eyes, and folded hands,And listening ear, ...
Night Scene At The Fall of Sebastopol (Janet Hamilton Poems)
The toils, the flames, the thunders of the siege Are quench'd and hush'd. Night shrouds in funeral pallThe fallen fortress, and ...
To Members And Office-Beare (Janet Hamilton Poems)
I speak to my brothers—to men who have givenA pledge unto man—a pledge unto heaven,That in deed and in truth ...
Address And Welcome To J. B. Gough (Janet Hamilton Poems)
Welcome! Oh, welcome! in thy course of fame—Through rolling clouds of smoke and lurid flame,Belched from a hundred murky piles—at ...
June, 1864 (Janet Hamilton Poems)
Why darkly veiled, like mourning bride,Com'st thou, sweet June?—Why dost thou hideThy glowing charms and lustrous eyesBeneath a cloudy, cold ...
The Hartley Colliery Catastrophe (Janet Hamilton Poems)
Dark gulf of death! black cavern of despair!From your foul depths, to breathe the upper air,No victim comes—one common living ...
America–“Pe (Janet Hamilton Poems)
"Peace, peace, O peace!" sweet peace, descend,The cloud of war asunder rend;Thy gentle reign alone restoresRest to Columbia's ravaged shores!Peace, ...
Elegiac Verses (Janet Hamilton Poems)
Inscribed, and Sacred to the Memory of the Rev. Dr. John Campbell, of London, who died March 26, 1867.Oh, faithful ...
On The Death of The Rev. Matthew Gardner, D.D. of Bothwell (Janet Hamilton Poems)
Who died 4th June, 1865, in his Ninetieth Year, and Sixty-third of his Ministry in that Paris.Ripe, fully ripe, then ...
October Thoughts–18 (Janet Hamilton Poems)
A solemn, tender melancholy—A soft emotion, sweet and holy;A sense of stillness and repose,O'er my worn heart and spirit flows.I ...
To Mother Earth (Janet Hamilton Poems)
O earth, earth, earth! where wilt thou hide thy slain?How cover up the blood thy children pour in vain?The air ...
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 ...
To William Craig (Janet Hamilton Poems)
On the Death of an only Son, who lost his life by a Railway Accident.'Twas drear November; by the turbid ...
To William Logan (Janet Hamilton Poems)
On the Death of his aged Mother.Mourn not, my Christian friend:—thy late removed,Thy sainted mother, cherished and beloved,In Jesus fell ...
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 ...
British Volunteers (Janet Hamilton Poems)
At the call of the bugle, and the roll of the drum,With the bold front of heroes, our trained Rifles ...
Lines On The Death of My Mother (Janet Hamilton Poems)
My Mother! O my Mother! when thy spirit heavenward fled,And thy aged form, in death's embrace, lay on thy lonely ...
The Fate of Maximilian of Mexico And His Empress (Janet Hamilton Poems)
"Take physic, Pomp!" Look on that noble brow—Of what avail thy garish splendours now—The crown of Empire, worn for three ...
On The Proposed Presentation (Janet Hamilton Poems)
On The Proposed Presentation of Guns By The People of Britain To The King of Sardinia, In Aid To Italian ...
To Mrs. J. Cleland (Janet Hamilton Poems)
On The Death of A Beloved Son and Only ChildMy olive plant, so green and fair;My budding hope, my dearest ...