Mac Duff’s Cross (Joanna Baillie Poems)
MAC DUFF'S CROSS,A DRAMA.PRELUDE.NAY , smile not, lady, when I speak of witchcraft,And say that still there lurks amongst our ...
Joanna Baillie Poems on Place (17 Poems)
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 ...
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 ...
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, ...
Elegy On The Abrogation Of The Birth-Night Ball, And The Consequent Final Subversion Of The Minuet (Joanna Baillie Poems)
NOW cease the exulting strain! And bid the warbling lyre complain.Heave the soft sigh, and drop the tuneful tear,And mingle notes ...
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 ...
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 ...
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 ...
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 ...
Fair Mead Lodge (Joanna Baillie Poems)
HAIL , Fair Mead! hail, my forest glade!Thou green isle, girt around with shade!Woods, where of old with hound and ...
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 ...
A Mother To Her Waking Infant (Joanna Baillie Poems)
NOW in thy dazzled half-op'd eye,Thy curled nose and lip awry,Up-hoisted arms and noddling head,And little chin with crystal spread,Poor ...
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 ...
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, ...
Song, A New Version Of An Old Scotch Song (Joanna Baillie Poems)
"SAW ye Johnny comin?" quo' she,"Saw ye Johnny comin?Wi' his blue bonnet on his head,And his doggie runnin.Yestreen about the ...
Thoughts Taken from The 93rd Psalm (Joanna Baillie Poems)
CLOTHED in majesty sublime,And girt with strength th' Almighty reigns;And, through the wreckful course of time,His hand the stedfast world ...