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 ...
Janet Hamilton Poems on Mothers (41 Poems)
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 ...
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 ...
Some Incidents In The Latter Days of John Whitelaw (Janet Hamilton Poems)
The bridge was won, the foe had crossedThe Clyde; the Covenanted hostHad lost the day, and vanquished fled.Mixed with the ...
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 ...
Ichabod (Janet Hamilton Poems)
A panting messenger of woe and dread,His garments torn, and dust upon his head,His wounded feet with blood and travel ...
Important Queries (Janet Hamilton Poems)
Why this hurrying to and fro, Why all this strange commotion?The good ship Briton rolls and sways Upon a stormy ocean.Oh! where ...
Pictures of Memory (Janet Hamilton Poems)
IA small thatched cottage, moss grown old, A low-browed, weather-beaten door,Two windows small, that dimly light The dusky walls and earthen floor.From ...
Bells (Janet Hamilton Poems)
Blest Sabbath bells! blest Sabbath bells!My heart with solemn rapture swells;I come! I come! how blessed there,How joyful in the ...
To The Rev. John James (Janet Hamilton Poems)
On His Going Out To CanadaArise, for this is not thy rest; go forthAnd brave the frozen rigours of the ...
Night Phases of Drunkenness (Janet Hamilton Poems)
PHASE IThe midnight hour hath chimed, The night is wild and cold;I see a trembling hand Yon cottage door unfold.A pale and ...
The Contrast (Janet Hamilton Poems)
See yonder wretched little girl,Braving cold, and want, and peril,Wandering through the frozen street,Seeking her she fears to meet;Matted locks ...
The Plague of Our Isle (Janet Hamilton Poems)
It is said, it is sung, it is written, and read,It sounds in the ear, and it swims in the ...
Battle of The Alma (Janet Hamilton Poems)
Dark lowered the thunder-cloud of deathO'er Alma's height, while far beneath, In deep and dread array,Fair France, thy eagle-bannered host,Her lion ...
The Demon Drink! (Janet Hamilton Poems)
"I do well to be angry, even unto death."—Jonah iv. 9."I do well to be angry, even unto death,"To denounce, ...
Temperance Warfare (Janet Hamilton Poems)
"Sound To The Onset, The Onset, The Onset!"Arouse ye! arouse ye! the foe is at large,Again and again we must ...
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 ...
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 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 ...
Scotia: A Vision (Janet Hamilton Poems)
Midnight's solemn peal had rung;My drowsy spirit listless hungBetween the certain and unreal,When visioned forms and shapes idealCome floating from ...
Denmark And The German Despots (Janet Hamilton Poems)
"I see a people scattered like a flock,Some royal mastiff panting at their heelsWith all the savage thirst a tiger ...
A Parody On “The Wayside Well” (Janet Hamilton Poems)
An Exquisite Little Poem In Dickens' "Household Words"Hail to thee, the Workman's Friend, We wreathe thy brow with roses!While thy useful ...
The Midnight Vigil (Janet Hamilton Poems)
Mournful, sighing, sadly weeping,Sleepless 'midst a household sleeping;Midnight's lonely vigil keeping, Darkling and alone;From my sore each friend and loverStand aloof, ...
Woman (Janet Hamilton Poems)
There is an element of powerThat suits the needs of every hour—All wants to which our state gives birth—The life, ...
The Highlands of Scotland (Janet Hamilton Poems)
Queen of hundred ocean Isles, Rich in scenic grandeurs;Land of forest, hill, and glen, Where the tourist wanders.Land of torrent, lake, and ...
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, ...
A True Story: To Young Abstainers (Janet Hamilton Poems)
Listen, dear ones, to my story, True as sad, and sad as true;'Tis a tale to make you sorry— Show you what ...
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 ...
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 ...