Joanna Baillie Poems on Life Archives - Page 2 of 2 - Famous Inspirational Poems, Poetry, Quotes

WHEN hope lies dead within the heart,By secret sorrow long conceal'd,We shrink lest looks or words impartWhat may not be ...

HAST thou well my counsels weigh'd,Shew me not that gay cockade;--I have watch'd thy tender years,With a mother's hopes and ...

SWEET bud of promise, fresh and fair,Just moving in the morning air,The morn of life but just begun,The sands of ...

"GIVE me, to bless domestic life,With social ease, secure from strife,(Cries every fellow of a college)A wife, not overstock'd with ...

WHOSE imp art thou, with dimpled cheek,And curly pate and merry eye,And arm and shoulders round and sleek,And soft and ...

YES , Love has his changes, but be not too ready,To number his faults or dishonour his sway;Abuse him you ...

O GOD , who by thy boundless might,This earth, heaven's dome and stars of light,Hast formed in wisdom and in ...

WHEN, at rising morn we laveOur dark limbs in the shiny wave,When beneath the palm-tree shade,We rest awhile in freshness ...

THE sun declines; his parting rayShall bear the cheerful light away,And on the landscape close:Then will I seek the lonely ...

SLEEP --and while slumber weighs thine eyelids down,May no foul phantom o'er thy pillow frown;But brightest visions deck thy tranquil ...

O LORD of earth and Heaven,Whose love and power have givenThe solid ground and floating airAnd circling ocean, regions fair,To ...

SPIRIT of evil, with which earth is rife,Revenge, Revenge! thee all abjure and blame,Yet, when their hour is come, invoke ...

FIRST of invaders, Hannibal, thy nameIs proud as chief may claim, or man bestow,For thy historian is the conquer'd foe,And ...

THERE is a virtue, which to Fortune's heightFollows us not, but in the vale below,Where dwell the ills of life, ...

Joanna Baillie Poems on Life (44 Poems)