The Ballad O’ Mary Muiren (Janet Hamilton Poems)
The pride o' the clachan, the rose o' the glen,The flower o' oor lasses was Mary Muiren;Sae modest, an' mensefu', ...
Janet Hamilton Poems on Sin (14 Poems)
Rhymes For The Times: II (Janet Hamilton Poems)
Ae day short syne, whan gaun afiel,A douce aul' farrant eldrin chielCam' yont the burn tae hae a crack,For John ...
The Death of Stephen (Janet Hamilton Poems)
O power invincible of faith and love,Like angel rising to his home above,Thy heaven-lit features beam, calm, earnest grace,Firm truth, ...
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 ...
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 ...
The Two Conquerors (Janet Hamilton Poems)
'Twas ancient Macedon that gave to timeThe hero, world-renown'd—his sire sublimeOlympian Jove: so said the royal dameWhose breast maternal nursed ...
Newspaper Findings, 1867 (Janet Hamilton Poems)
Quiet an' cozie, but an' ben,Sittin' at my ain fire-en',On the twa-leav'd volume porin',News baith hame an' foreign storin',Owre them ...
The Three Golden Balls (Janet Hamilton Poems)
Deadlier balls than North or SouthThrow from cannon's blazing mouth,Everywhere appal my sight—Three in number—golden, bright."All that glitters is not ...
The Sunday Rail: II (Janet Hamilton Poems)
A Scottish Summer Sabbath MorningThe still repose, the holy calmOf this blest morn, a sacred balmSheds on my world-worn weary ...
“God Is Departed From Me, And Answereth Me No More” (Janet Hamilton Poems)
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 ...
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, ...
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 ...
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 ...
The Servant of The Lord (Janet Hamilton Poems)
Servant of God! thy soul's pure spring of lifeDisturb, defile not, with unholy strife;Gentle to all, as it becomes thee ...