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 ...
Recited at Burns' Centenary Festival, held at Mauchlin, January 25, 1859Oh Bard beloved! as pilgrims to thy shrine, With song and ...
PHASE IThe midnight hour hath chimed, The night is wild and cold;I see a trembling hand Yon cottage door unfold.A pale and ...
Lines inscribed to the new Professor of Spiritual Rapology, Glasgow, 1864.Hast thou abjured the worship of old Mammon,To offer incense ...
"I see a people scattered like a flock,Some royal mastiff panting at their heelsWith all the savage thirst a tiger ...
My aul' neebour Johnnie had lang been awa',Twa towmonds an' mair I kent naething avaO' what he was daein', or ...
A King has sought at midnight hour The sorceress in her cell,And bids invoke the Prophet's shade, His coming doom to tell.He ...
O, what's come o'Spunkie; can naebody tellWhaur it dances an' blinks at e'en on the fell?It's lang since I saw ...
No darker record on the roll of timeWas e'er inscribed to country, age, or clime,By the red hand of war—so ...
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 ...
Sad Winter weeps, his tears bedew thy grave, That grave on which no kindred sorrows flow;The wailing winds around it moan ...
"Poor Tom's a-cold!" Upon his shrinking headThe pelting storm beats pitiless! On bedOf languishing, disease, and cureless painHe lies, surrounded ...
Be hopeful, sweet singer; man may not raiseTo lays that thou pourest high peans of praise:The nightingale's song will ever ...
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