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 ...
Joanna Baillie Poems on Happiness (22 Poems)
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 ...
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, ...
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 ...
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 ...
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 ...
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 ...
Lines On The Death Of William Sotheby, Esq (Joanna Baillie Poems)
LEARNING and fancy were combinedTo stimulate his manly mind;Open, generous and acute,Steady of purpose, in pursuitArdent and hopeful; all the ...
The Banished Man, (Joanna Baillie Poems)
ON A DISTANT VIEW OF HIS COUNTRY, WHICHHE IS QUITTING FOR EVER.DEAR distant land, whose mountains blueStill bound this wild ...
A Melancholy Lover’s Farewell To His Mistress (Joanna Baillie Poems)
DEAR Phillis, all my hopes are o'erAnd I shall see thy face no more.Since every secret wish is vain,I will ...
To Memory (Joanna Baillie Poems)
HAIL , Memory! whose magic pow'rCan gild the present gloomy hourWith the gay colours of the past,Can smooth the wrinkled ...
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 ...
Song, Poverty Parts Good Company (Joanna Baillie Poems)
WHEN my o'erlay was white as the foam o' the lin,And siller was chinkin my pouches within,When my lambkins were ...
A Riddle (#1) (Joanna Baillie Poems)
'TWAS in heaven pronounced, and 'twas muttered in hell,And echo caught faintly the sound as it fell:On the confines of ...
Song written At Mr. Thomson’s Request (Joanna Baillie Poems)
AS A KIND OF INTRODUCTIONTO HIS IRISH MELODIES.SWEET power of song! that canst impartTo lowland swain or mountaineerA gladness thrilling ...
School Rhymes For Negro Children (Joanna Baillie Poems)
How happy are we in that hour we love,When shadows grow longer and branches move; Blithe urchins then we be!From the ...
The Lament (Joanna Baillie Poems)
SWEET lake! while shades are closing round,I love to haunt thy tranquil shore,And mournful tread the hallow'd groundWhich Emma's form ...
A Nursery Lesson (Devotional) (Joanna Baillie Poems)
SAY , little child, who gives to theeThy life and limbs, so light and free?Thy moving eyes to look around,Thy ...
Lines Written In The Autumn Of 1818 (Joanna Baillie Poems)
SUMMER still lingers, though its glories fade,Still soft and fragrant are the gales that blow;The yellow foliage now adorns the ...