Burnin’ Drink (Janet Hamilton Poems)
I tell a tale o' burnin' love, A love they seldom tineWha ance ha'e nursed it in their hearts: It's no a ...
Janet Hamilton Poems on Love (63 Poems)
To The North Americans (Janet Hamilton Poems)
"O foolish people, and unwise,"Who stop your ears and shut your eyes,Though common-sense and flagrant factsProclaim the madness of your ...
Retrospect of Song (Janet Hamilton Poems)
I've sung of Spring, her buds and flowers, Of Summer suns and Summer roses;Of golden Autumn's dreamy skies, The wealth her bounteous ...
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 ...
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 ...
The Seven Stars: A Constellatio (Janet Hamilton Poems)
BEATTIE.Sweet minstrel! from thy hermit's cell Rich strains of sacred truth are flowing,The haughty sceptic's pride to quell; Thy harp is tuned ...
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 ...
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 ...
“Pet Marjorie” (Janet Hamilton Poems)
Sweet Pet! such pets are far and few—A flow'ret balmed with spirit dew—With beauteous tints of heavenly hue—A lovely soul, ...
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 ...
A Faithful Mother’s Love (Janet Hamilton Poems)
Dear child! a faithful mother's love For thee will toil, and watch, and pray;An angel hovering still above Thy couch by night, ...
Dark Hours: The Drunkard’s Mother (Janet Hamilton Poems)
Dark hours of tearless, sleepless grief,Of woe, denied the soft reliefOf tears, to soothe the burning smartThat throbs and festers ...
May (Janet Hamilton Poems)
Blooming, brooding, balmy May,Tell me what to sing or sayTo thy praise. I muse in vain—Sonnet, song, and rhyming strainBabble ...
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 ...
Lines Addressed To The Rev. J. James (Janet Hamilton Poems)
Zion's King hath called thee—go! 'Tis His sovereign pleasure,Honour on thee to bestow, And charge of gospel treasure.He who winneth souls is ...
North America and Her War Parsons (Janet Hamilton Poems)
"Angels and ministers of grace defend us,"Not airs from Heaven, quite the reverse you send us,Your priests who counsel war ...
November Findings–18 (Janet Hamilton Poems)
Thou frigid tyrant, dark and stern November!We shrink before thee, and shall long rememberThy levin fires, untimely thunder volleys,That in ...
The Victim of Drink: The Early Lost (Janet Hamilton Poems)
The early lost I mourn, Ah, not the early dead;The early lost return, Young hope's fair blossom shed. Gone up like dust.Oh, deeper ...
Hints To Poets (Janet Hamilton Poems)
Paint your scenes in rainbow dyes,Gild with glories of the skies;Crown the fabric Fancy rearsWith diamonds from the starry spheres;With ...
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 ...
Lyrics of Drink (2) (Janet Hamilton Poems)
Pour ye a wail of the wildest E'er wrung from a worn heart and mind!Tears and entreaties the mildest Are blown like ...
Spring (Janet Hamilton Poems)
Fairy Spring, in kirtle green,Stealing through the woods, is seenGliding o'er the freshening meadowBright with sunshine, dim with shadow,Smiling on ...
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 ...
Our Heavenly Father (Janet Hamilton Poems)
An eager, youthful voice I hearAsking for bread a father dear;For he had strayed into the wild,And wandered far, the ...
Garibaldi’s Mission (Janet Hamilton Poems)
Garibaldi! Garibaldi! Bleeds and burns my heart for thee!Freedom! union for Italia! Never can be won by thee.Dipp'd in freedom's sacred fountain, Waved ...
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 ...
Address To The Rev. Dr. Gardner of Bothwell (Janet Hamilton Poems)
On Completing The Fiftieth Year of His MinistryPastor revered, beloved! the Muse would fainJoin on fair "Bothwell banks" the jubilant ...
The Fruits of The Spirit (Janet Hamilton Poems)
Spirit Divine! Eternal! Holy Dove!These sacred fruits are thine,—peace, joy, and love,Even peace with heaven, and peace on earth; a ...
The Power and Beauty of Scottish Song (Janet Hamilton Poems)
Wake every chord, strike every string, Diffuse harmonious raptures round;Ye foreign songsters warbling breathe The sweetest strains of vocal sound.Then, Scotia, pour ...