A Cheerful-Tempered Lover’s Farewell To His Mistress (Joanna Baillie Poems)
THE light winds on the streamers playThat soon shall bear me far away;My comrades give the parting cheer,And I alone ...
Joanna Baillie Poems on Love (61 Poems)
Hymn #4 (Joanna Baillie Poems)
ALMIGHTY God, from whom our being came,To whom it tends, blest be thy holy name!Blest when through pillared aisles we ...
A Volunteer Song (Joanna Baillie Poems)
YE , who Britain's soldiers be,Freemen, children of the free,Who freely come at danger's callFrom shop and palace, cot and ...
Hymn #5 (Joanna Baillie Poems)
MY soul! and dost thou faintly shrink,Thus trembling on an awful brink?Or rough or smooth, but one step more,And thy ...
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 ...
The Merry Heart (Joanna Baillie Poems)
I WOULD not from the wise requireThe lumber of their learned lore;Nor would I from the rich desireA single counter ...
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 ...
Hymn #6 (Joanna Baillie Poems)
THOSE , Lord, who raise their souls to thee,Not alway sink on bended knee.On earth's vast space of sea and ...
Hymn #2 (Joanna Baillie Poems)
MY God! would that, from earthly trammels free,My thoughts could win their upward way to thee,And there a while in ...
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 ...
To Sophia J. Baillie, An Infant (Joanna Baillie Poems)
SWEET bud of promise, fresh and fair,Just moving in the morning air,The morn of life but just begun,The sands of ...
St. luke VII. 12. (Joanna Baillie Poems)
IN silent sorrow from the gates of Nain,Bearing their dead, the widow's only son,A band of friends went forth; and ...
To A Friend, On His Wedding-Day (Joanna Baillie Poems)
"GIVE me, to bless domestic life,With social ease, secure from strife,(Cries every fellow of a college)A wife, not overstock'd with ...
A Sketch (Joanna Baillie Poems)
LIGHT was her step, no sound her movements made;With bending head, her breath she scarcely drewBefore that couch on which ...
Song, Written For An Irish Air (Joanna Baillie Poems)
THE morning air plays on my face,And through the grey mist peeringThe softened sun I sweetly trace,Wood, muir and mountain ...
Love (Joanna Baillie Poems)
YES , Love has his changes, but be not too ready,To number his faults or dishonour his sway;Abuse him you ...
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 ...
Job XIII. 15. (Joanna Baillie Poems)
O GOD , who by thy boundless might,This earth, heaven's dome and stars of light,Hast formed in wisdom and in ...
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 ...
Song #3 (Joanna Baillie Poems)
YES , thou mayst walk in silk attire,If thou'lt consent to be his bride,Whose wealth can satiate each desireThat ministers ...
Address To The Evening Primrose (Joanna Baillie Poems)
THE sun declines; his parting rayShall bear the cheerful light away,And on the landscape close:Then will I seek the lonely ...
Verses Added To The Foregoing By The Baby’s Paternal Grandmother (Joanna Baillie Poems)
UNCONSCIOUS babe!--not even lines like theseHave power thy little slumbering sense to please,Nor all the charms pourtrayed with so much ...
A Hymn (Joanna Baillie Poems)
O LORD supreme, whose works so fair,Sublime and varied, every whereThe gazing eye delight!Thy wisdom, power, and love, the dayDoth ...
St. Cecilia (Joanna Baillie Poems)
AWAKE , thou lov'd strain! oh, again let me hear thee!Breathe o'er me again thy enchantment divine:'Tis silence,—'tis night,—no intruder ...
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 ...
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 ...
Sonnet 3 (Joanna Baillie Poems)
WHEN last we parted, thou wert young and fair, How beautiful let fond remembrance say! Alas! since then, old time has stol'n ...
Sonnet 1 (Joanna Baillie Poems)
NOT love, nor war, nor the tumultuous swellOf civil conflicts, nor the wrecks of change,And duty struggling with afflictions strange,Not ...
Song Written For A Welch Air (Joanna Baillie Poems)
CALLED "THE PURSUIT OF LOVE."O, welcome, bat and owlet gray,Thus winging low your airy way!And welcome, moth and drowsy fly,That ...
Song #7 (Joanna Baillie Poems)
WITH the rough blast heaves the billow,In the light air waves the willow,Every thing of moving kindVaries with the veering ...