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 ...
Joanna Baillie Poems on Home (32 Poems)
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 ...
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 ...
Lord John Of The East (Joanna Baillie Poems)
THE fires blazed bright till deep midnight,And the guests sat in the hall,And the Lord of the feast, Lord John ...
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 ...
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 ...
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 ...
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 ...
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 ...
Song #4 (Joanna Baillie Poems)
WHEN hollow bursts the rushing winds,And heavy beats the show'r,This anxious, aching bosom findsNo comfort in its power.For ah, my ...
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 ...
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 ...
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 ...
The Clearing Shower (Joanna Baillie Poems)
THE rising moon look'd clear and mild,In chasten'd tints of glowing eve,And bright the early morning smil'd;It flatter'd only to ...
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 ...
The Ship’s Return (Joanna Baillie Poems)
THOU com'st, fair bark, in gallant prideThy swan-white sails exulting spread;Nor I the graceful triumph chide,For silent are the tears ...
Lines Suggested By A Portrait Of The Queen, Taken On The Last Examination Previous To Execution (Joanna Baillie Poems)
AND this was she! the peerless and the bright,The false world's darling! she who did possess,(And held awhile in Europe's ...
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 ...
The Loss Of The Royal George (Joanna Baillie Poems)
WHERE are the tamers of the deep,The gallant and the brave?Heaven's angry whirlwinds o'er them sweep,Cold ocean is their grave.Was ...
On Memory (Joanna Baillie Poems)
WRITTEN AT AIX-LA-CHAPELLE.NO ! this is not the land of Memory,It is not the home where she dwells,Though her wandering, ...
The Devonshire Lane (Joanna Baillie Poems)
IN a Devonshire lane, as I trotted along,T'other day, much in want of a subject for song,Thinks I to myself, ...
A Poetical Or Sound-Hearted Lover’s Farewell To His Mistress (Joanna Baillie Poems)
FAIR Nymph, who dost my fate controulAnd reignest Mistress of my soul,Where thou all bright in beauty's rayHast held a ...
The Lot Of Thousands (Joanna Baillie Poems)
WHEN hope lies dead within the heart,By secret sorrow long conceal'd,We shrink lest looks or words impartWhat may not be ...
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 ...
Hymn #7 (Joanna Baillie Poems)
WHAT thoughts come to the Christian's aid,Upon a bed of sickness laid,While nightly watchers silence keep,Or close their weary eyes ...
The Sailor’s Departure (Joanna Baillie Poems)
O, FRESH blows the gale o'er the wide mantling ocean,And proudly the frigate repels the white foam;And high beats my ...
A Hymn For The Kirk (Joanna Baillie Poems)
O LORD of earth and Heaven,Whose love and power have givenThe solid ground and floating airAnd circling ocean, regions fair,To ...
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 ...