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 Fairness (55 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 ...
A Winter Day (Joanna Baillie Poems)
The cock, warm roosting 'midst his feather'd dames,Now lifts his beak and snuffs the morning air,Stretches his neck and claps ...
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 ...
Fragment Of A Poem (Joanna Baillie Poems)
GLOOMY and still was the broad solemn deep,Whose rolling tides for twice a hundred years,Had lashed the rugged walls of ...
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 ...
A November Night’s Traveller (Joanna Baillie Poems)
HE , who with journey well begun,Beneath the beam of morning's sun,Stretching his view o'er hill and dale,And distant city, ...
The Moody Seer (Joanna Baillie Poems)
"THE sun shines in a cloudless sky,The lake is blue and still;Up, Flora! on thine errand hie,And climb the eyrie ...
Elegy On The Abrogation Of The Birth-Night Ball, And The Consequent Final Subversion Of The Minuet (Joanna Baillie Poems)
NOW cease the exulting strain! And bid the warbling lyre complain.Heave the soft sigh, and drop the tuneful tear,And mingle notes ...
The Elden Tree (Joanna Baillie Poems)
A FEAST was spread in the Baron's hall,And loud was the merry sound,As minstrels played at lady's call,And the cup ...
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, ...
Life (Joanna Baillie Poems)
THE ministering spirits from aboveDescend with energy creative fraught,They breathe on nature with the breath of love,And lo! she wakens ...
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 ...
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! ...
A Reverie (Joanna Baillie Poems)
Beside a spreading elm, from whose high boughsLike knotted tufts the crow's light dwelling shows,Where screen'd from northern blasts, and ...
A Disappointme (Joanna Baillie Poems)
On village green, whose smooth and well worn sod,Cross-path'd with every gossip's foot is trod;By cottage door where playful children ...
Fothringay (Joanna Baillie Poems)
HAIL , falling shades! hail, stillest ev'ning hour!Sacred to verse; and thou sublimest power,Imagination! thou, while slumber lightLays me to ...
Fair Mead Lodge (Joanna Baillie Poems)
HAIL , Fair Mead! hail, my forest glade!Thou green isle, girt around with shade!Woods, where of old with hound and ...
Verses Sent To Mrs. Baillie On Her Birthday, 1813 (Joanna Baillie Poems)
A JUDGEMENT clear, a pensive mindWith feelings tender and refined;A generous heart in kindness glowing,An open hand on all bestowing;A ...
Epilogue To The Theatrical Presentation At Strawberry Hill (Joanna Baillie Poems)
WHILE fogs along the Thames' damp margin creep,And cold winds through his leafless willows sweep;And fairy elves, whose summer sport ...
London (Joanna Baillie Poems)
IT is a goodly sight through the clear air,From Hampstead's heathy height, to see at onceEngland's vast capital in fair ...
Hymn #3 (Joanna Baillie Poems)
THE frith is crossed, the previous war-fare past,Through swampy plains, dark woods and deserts vast,O'er heaths, and flowery slopes and ...
A Song, (Joanna Baillie Poems)
(WRITTEN FOR MR. STRUTHER'S COLLECTION OF SONGS.)IT was on a morn, when we were thrang,The kirn it crooned, the cheese ...
Lines Written On The Field Of Quatre Bras, 1821 (Joanna Baillie Poems)
SO bright the sun puts forth his glorious beams,So fair the field beneath his lustre gleams,So soft the south wind ...
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, ...