Sheepieknowe (Janet Hamilton Poems)
Aul' Sheepieknowe! how dear the name! Lane birthplace o' my gude forbears;Scene o' their life-lang cares an' toils, Their sunny joys an' ...
Janet Hamilton Poems on Happiness (19 Poems)
The Black Snakes (Janet Hamilton Poems)
"Look not upon the wine when it is red, when it giveth its colour in the cup, when it moveth ...
Reminiscence (Janet Hamilton Poems)
Fair Hamiltonia! when a happy childI roamed thy charming precincts free and wild.Led by a father's hand, beyond thy boundsI ...
Duleep Singh (Janet Hamilton Poems)
An Indian Prince now Resident in England.Of late I listened to a wondrous tale From lips revered. 'Twas not of war ...
Contrasted Scenes From Real Life (Janet Hamilton Poems)
Scene I—Marriage of Sir R. Peel With Lady E. HaySee yonder gorgeous fane, its doors expand,Throng'd with the rank, wealth, ...
Cousin Aggie: A Memory (Janet Hamilton Poems)
The seal of sixty summers now,Cousin Aggie, marks thy brow,If beneath Canadian skiesStill thou livest. Mayhap thou liesWithin the forest's ...
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 ...
Elegy (Janet Hamilton Poems)
"Where are ye, friend of my youth? And echo answered, 'Where!'"Where are ye, dear companions of my youth? I gaze around and ...
October, 1865 (Janet Hamilton Poems)
As by the deathbed of an aged saint,Whose pallid lips emit no moaning plaint,On whose calm brow the light of ...
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, ...
Sweet May Morn (Janet Hamilton Poems)
'Tis sweet May morn; wake, drowsy girls!Come ere the sun has stolen the pearls—The dewy pearls—that glisten sheenOn May's soft ...
May, 1864 (Janet Hamilton Poems)
Now o'er the laughing meadows, Throned on her dewy car,Queenly May comes with her train, From southern climes afar,To seek her woodland ...
Summer Voices (Janet Hamilton Poems)
Beneath the shining trembling leaves that drape the bowers of June,I sit and list with raptured ear to sweetly-varied tuneOf ...
Girlish Reminiscence (Janet Hamilton Poems)
Cradled in a nest of flowers,Sheltered by the birchen bowers That clustered round the spot,Waving their pensile, slender arms,Shedding a thousand ...
Verses Written On The Occasion of The Marriage of Albert Edward (Janet Hamilton Poems)
Verses Written On The Occasion of The Marriage of Albert Edward, Prince of Wales, And Alexandra, Princess of DenmarkI would ...
Epithalamium (Janet Hamilton Poems)
On The Marriage Of George Baird Of Strichen And Cecilia HattonFill high the cup, but not with wine—The cup of ...
Shew Us Thy Glory (Janet Hamilton Poems)
"And he said, I beseech thee, shew me thy glory."—Exodus xxxiii. 18.Shew us thy glory, Lord: From Sinai's mount of flame,With ...
Lines Addressed To Mr. M. Fairlie, Esq., Viewfield House, (Janet Hamilton Poems)
On Receiving His Photographic PortraitMy valued friend, long tried and true,Thanks warm, sincere, I render you,And haste to say with ...