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 ...
Janet Hamilton Poems on War & Peace (65 Poems)
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 ...
“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 ...
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 ...
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, ...
America In 1863: Her “Voice Is Still For War” (Janet Hamilton Poems)
Still beyond the wild AtlanticWeeping Peace, dishevelled, frantic,Shrieking, flies from shore to shore,Hearing still the cannons roar—Seeing through the skies ...
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 ...
The Civil War in America (Janet Hamilton Poems)
Ah, bannered stars and stripes! your gloryHath paled, the blazoned folds all goryWith kindred blood hang sadly drooping;The eagle and ...
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 ...
Civil War In America–Exp (Janet Hamilton Poems)
No darker record on the roll of timeWas e'er inscribed to country, age, or clime,By the red hand of war—so ...
June, 1864 (Janet Hamilton Poems)
Why darkly veiled, like mourning bride,Com'st thou, sweet June?—Why dost thou hideThy glowing charms and lustrous eyesBeneath a cloudy, cold ...
Rhymes For The Times: II: 1865 (Janet Hamilton Poems)
Juist noo there are mony wha rin to an' fro,An' knowledge increases, abune an' below;The yird's like a riddle, pits, ...
Lines (Janet Hamilton Poems)
She comes, she comes—all right, all well!Thank God! thank God! the fearful spellThat chilled our hearts is broke; no more,On ...
The Haunted House (Janet Hamilton Poems)
The Haunted House in days of yoreStood lone, deserted, ruined, hoar,With dusty panes, and moss-grown sill,With grass-grown steps, rooms dark ...
Impending War Between Austria and Sardinia (Janet Hamilton Poems)
Hark! the impatient dogs of war,Growling, baying from afar,The royal ban-dogs, bound and strainTo slip the leash or snap the ...
The Voice of Blood (Janet Hamilton Poems)
"The voice of thy brother's blood crieth unto me from the ground."In the valley, on the mountain,From the swamp, the ...
Nuts To Crack For Cousin Sam (Janet Hamilton Poems)
Hae ye come to yer senses yet, Sammy, my man?For ye juist war rid-wud whan the war it began;Has the ...
America–“Pe (Janet Hamilton Poems)
"Peace, peace, O peace!" sweet peace, descend,The cloud of war asunder rend;Thy gentle reign alone restoresRest to Columbia's ravaged shores!Peace, ...
The Bloody Bouquet On The Road To Richmond (Janet Hamilton Poems)
Swept the storm of battle by,'Neath Virginia's glowing sky;Left alone to bleed and die, Lay a wounded boy.From the battle-field he ...
Elegiac Verses (Janet Hamilton Poems)
Inscribed, and Sacred to the Memory of the Rev. Dr. John Campbell, of London, who died March 26, 1867.Oh, faithful ...
Dirge For Jessie Macpherson (Janet Hamilton Poems)
Sad Winter weeps, his tears bedew thy grave, That grave on which no kindred sorrows flow;The wailing winds around it moan ...
Welcome To October, 1867 (Janet Hamilton Poems)
I hail and bless thy presence, month most dearIn the round cycle of the rolling year;Thy grave, sweet aspect, silent ...
To Mother Earth (Janet Hamilton Poems)
O earth, earth, earth! where wilt thou hide thy slain?How cover up the blood thy children pour in vain?The air ...
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 ...
Auld Scotland’s Welcome To Garibaldi (Janet Hamilton Poems)
I wadna bid ye welcome hereIn Southern phrase; I wadna speirWhat was the erran' brocht ye here;But soul, and heart, ...
Advice Tae Brither Jonathan (Janet Hamilton Poems)
At The Beginning of The Ceevil War in AmericaFrien' Jonathan, tak' gude advice, an' fast as eer ye dow,Fling doon ...
Farewell To The Old Year, 1863 (Janet Hamilton Poems)
Farewell, old year, "the bourne" is near, "Whence traveller ne'er returneth"—Passing away from time for aye, Thy life-light faintly burneth.Farewell, old year, ...
Verses Inscribed To Mr. Thomas Duncan, Glasgow (Janet Hamilton Poems)
Frien' Tammie, I thocht that I coudna dae betterThan rhyme a bit scrift in reply to yer letter,Sae I juist ...