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 Cry (17 Poems)
Evening (Joanna Baillie Poems)
HOW lovely, Evening, is thy parting smile!The twilight softness of thy glowing skyMay well the poet's pensive dream beguile,And kindle ...
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 ...
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 ...
Malcolm’s Heir (Joanna Baillie Poems)
O, go not by Dunorloch's wallsWhen the moon is in the wane,And cross not o'er Dunorloch's bridge,The farther bank to ...
Belshazzar’s Feast (Joanna Baillie Poems)
'TWAS night in Babylon,--yet many a beamOf lamps, far glittering from her domes on high,Shone, brightly mingling in Euphrates' stream,With ...
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 ...
Verses On Our Own Flowery Kirtled Spring (Joanna Baillie Poems)
WELCOME , sweet time of buds and bloom, renewingThe earliest objects of delight, and wooingThe notice of the grateful heart! ...
De La Charite Pour Les Pauvres Prisonniers, Dieppe (Joanna Baillie Poems)
YES , 'tis a year since last that plaintive cry,"Pity the prisoners," touch'd my wand'ring ear:And now again their hat ...
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 ...
Fy, Let Us A’ To The Wedding (Joanna Baillie Poems)
(AN AULD SANG NEW BUSKIT.)FY , let us a' to the wedding,For they will be lilting there;For Jock's to be ...
Cameronian Dream (Joanna Baillie Poems)
IN a dream of the night I was wafted away,To the moorland of mist where the martyrs lay;Where Cameron's sword ...
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 ...
The Song Of Triumph Of The Greeks, Off Tenedos, After The Night Of The 10th Of November, 1822 (Joanna Baillie Poems)
THE Monarchs of Europe, who prattle of peace,Shall cease, from this night, to calumniate Greece,The Moslems repent that they roused ...
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 ...
Select Verses From The 147th Psalm (Joanna Baillie Poems)
PRAISE ye the Lord with cheerful voice,In swelling strains his praises sing,It makes the grateful heart rejoice,It is a blest ...
To Mrs. Fry (Joanna Baillie Poems)
THE REFORMER OF NEWGATE.HELP , Master, help!—we sink—our toil is vain—We perish—help!—the faint disciples cried:The Saviour rose and look'd upon ...