Mac Duff’s Cross (Joanna Baillie Poems)
MAC DUFF'S CROSS,A DRAMA.PRELUDE.NAY , smile not, lady, when I speak of witchcraft,And say that still there lurks amongst our ...
Joanna Baillie Poems on Art (30 Poems)
A Summer Day (Joanna Baillie Poems)
The dark-blue clouds of night in dusky lines,Drawn wide and streaky o'er the purer sky,Wear faint the morning purple on ...
Night Scenes Of Other Times (Joanna Baillie Poems)
Part I."The wild winds bellow o'er my head,And spent eve's fading light;Where shall I find some friendly shedTo screen me ...
Devon’s Poly-Obion (Joanna Baillie Poems)
FIRST of Devon's thousand streams--(Beside whose banks no poet dreams,Since to her praise old Drayton fram'dHis pastoral reed, yet scarcely ...
Sir Maurice (Joanna Baillie Poems)
SIR MAURICE was a wealthy lord,He liv'd in the north countrie,Well would he cope with foe-man's sword,Or the glance of ...
Lines On The Death Of Sir Walter Scott (Joanna Baillie Poems)
THOU pleasant noble Bard of fame far spread,Now art thou gathered to the mighty dead,And the dark coffin and the ...
A Portrait (Joanna Baillie Poems)
YES ,--whilst my sight is yet allow'd to restOn those dear features, (which it calms my breastTo look upon, and, ...
Hope And Memory (Joanna Baillie Poems)
HOPE.NAY , sister, what hast thou to boastOf joy? a poor reciter thou,Whose happiest thought is but the ghostOf some ...
Address To A Steam-Vessel (Joanna Baillie Poems)
WRITTEN FOR THIS COLLECTION.FREIGHTED with passengers of every sort,A motley throng, thou leav'st the busy port.Thy long and ample deck, ...
Lines To A Teapot (Joanna Baillie Poems)
ON thy carved sides, where many a vivid dyeIn easy progress leads the wandering eye,A distant nation's manners we behold,To ...
Lines To Agnes Baillie On Her Birthday (Joanna Baillie Poems)
DEAR Agnes, gleamed with joy and dashed with tears,O'er us have glided almost sixty yearsSince we on Bothwell's bonny braes ...
Address To The Muses (Joanna Baillie Poems)
YE tuneful sisters of the lyre,Who dreams and fantasies inspire,Who over poesy preside,And on a lofty hill abideAbove the ken ...
Lines To A Parrot (Joanna Baillie Poems)
IN these our days of sentimentWhen youthful poets all lamentSome dear lost joy, some cruel maid;Old friendship changed and faith ...
The Kitten (Joanna Baillie Poems)
WANTON droll, whose harmless playBeguiles the rustic's closing day,When, drawn the evening fire about,Sit aged crone and thoughtless lout,And child ...
A Lamentation (Joanna Baillie Poems)
WHERE ancient broken wall encloses round,From tread of lawless feet, the hallowed ground,And sombre yews their dewy branches wave,O'er many ...
The Robber Polydore (Joanna Baillie Poems)
O! HOLY Mary, hear the blast!The elms 'twill overthrow,Where, hung in chains, a murderer's bonesAre tossing to and fro.The robber ...
Two Brothers (Joanna Baillie Poems)
WHO presses on my knee this kindly pat,And with a merry archness in my faceLooks up?--a youngling of my own ...
Hymn #1 (Joanna Baillie Poems)
FATHER and Lord! Almighty and all-wise!How ardently devout affections rise,When rushing thoughts, unsought for, swift and free,Crowd on th' expanding ...
Verses Written In February, 1827 (Joanna Baillie Poems)
LIKE gleam of sunshine on the mountain's side,Fair, bright and beautiful, while all beside,Slope, cliff and pinnacle in shadow lieBeneath ...
To The Rainbow (Joanna Baillie Poems)
TRIUMPHANT arch! that fill'st the sky When storms prepare to part,I ask not proud philosophy To teach me what thou art:—Still seem, ...
Orpheus To Eurydice (Joanna Baillie Poems)
SOLE partner of my heart! remov'd from all,Here on the lonely shore to thee I call;The waves which raise their ...
Stanzas, Suggested By A Canzone Of Petrarch (Joanna Baillie Poems)
Amor se vuvi ch'i torni al giogo antico.--P.2. C.2.AWAY , proud boy, away! thou canst not harm;Seize not thy unstrung ...
Annan Water (Joanna Baillie Poems)
WITH rapture, Annan! all exclaim,Thy banks how varied and how gay!Why should a name, well known to fame,Unsung remain in ...
On The King’s Illness (Joanna Baillie Poems)
REST , rest, afflicted spirit, quickly passThy hour of bitter suffering! Rest awaits thee,There, where, the load of weary life ...
A Mother To Her Waking Infant (Joanna Baillie Poems)
NOW in thy dazzled half-op'd eye,Thy curled nose and lip awry,Up-hoisted arms and noddling head,And little chin with crystal spread,Poor ...
The Merry Heart (Joanna Baillie Poems)
I WOULD not from the wise requireThe lumber of their learned lore;Nor would I from the rich desireA single counter ...
A Proud Lover’s Farewell To His Mistress (Joanna Baillie Poems)
FAREWELL , thou haughty, cruel fair!Upon thy brow no longer wearThat sombre look of cold disdain,I ne'er shall see thy ...
Hymn #2 (Joanna Baillie Poems)
MY God! would that, from earthly trammels free,My thoughts could win their upward way to thee,And there a while in ...
On A Sprig Of Heath (Joanna Baillie Poems)
FLOWER of the waste! the heath-fowl shunsFor thee the brake and tangled wood,--To thy protecting shade she runs,Thy tender buds ...
On Leaving Greece, 1820 (Joanna Baillie Poems)
HELLAS ! farewell!—with anxious gaze I view,Lovely in tears, and injur'd as thou art,Thy summits melting in the distant blue,Fade ...