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 ...
Joanna Baillie Poems on Nature (29 Poems)
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 ...
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 ...
Malcolm’s Heir (Joanna Baillie Poems)
O, go not by Dunorloch's wallsWhen the moon is in the wane,And cross not o'er Dunorloch's bridge,The farther bank to ...
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 ...
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 ...
Address To The Muses (Joanna Baillie Poems)
YE tuneful sisters of the lyre,Who dreams and fantasies inspire,Who over poesy preside,And on a lofty hill abideAbove the ken ...
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 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 ...
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 ...
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 ...
Hay-Making (Joanna Baillie Poems)
Upon the grass no longer hangs the dew;Forth hies the mower with his glittering scythe,In snowy shirt bedight, and all ...
Sunset Meditation, Under The Apprehension Of Approaching Blindness (Joanna Baillie Poems)
IN tremulous vision, falsely near,The forms of nature as phantoms appear,With the wonted colours of earth and sky,When o'er them ...
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 ...
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 ...
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 ...
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 ...
The Outlaw’s Song (Joanna Baillie Poems)
The chough and crow to roost are gone,The owl sits on the tree,The hush'd wind wails with feeble moan,Like infant ...
Song, For An Irish Air (Joanna Baillie Poems)
COME , form we round a cheerful ringAnd broach the foaming ale,And let the merry maiden sing,The beldame tell her ...
Song Written For A Welch Melody (Joanna Baillie Poems)
I'VE no sheep on the mountain, nor boat on the lake,Nor coin in my coffer to keep me awake,Nor corn ...
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 ...
The Last Leaf (Joanna Baillie Poems)
THOU last pale relic from yon widow'd tree,Hovering awhile in air, as if to leaveThy native sprig reluctant, how I ...
Sonnet On The Apennines (Joanna Baillie Poems)
IN the sun's eye I sate, nor deem'd his rayToo bright to gaze on, for the autumnal breeze,Though gently whispering ...