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 Power (28 Poems)
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 ...
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 ...
The Ghost Of Fadon (Joanna Baillie Poems)
ON Gask's deserted ancient hallWas twilight closing fast,And, in its dismal shadows, allSeem'd lofty, void, and vast.All sounds of life, ...
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 ...
A Portrait (Joanna Baillie Poems)
YES ,--whilst my sight is yet allow'd to restOn those dear features, (which it calms my breastTo look upon, and, ...
Hope And Memory (Joanna Baillie Poems)
HOPE.NAY , sister, what hast thou to boastOf joy? a poor reciter thou,Whose happiest thought is but the ghostOf some ...
Belshazzar’s Feast (Joanna Baillie Poems)
'TWAS night in Babylon,--yet many a beamOf lamps, far glittering from her domes on high,Shone, brightly mingling in Euphrates' stream,With ...
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 ...
Lines To Agnes Baillie On Her Birthday (Joanna Baillie Poems)
DEAR Agnes, gleamed with joy and dashed with tears,O'er us have glided almost sixty yearsSince we on Bothwell's bonny braes ...
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 ...
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 ...
Fothringay (Joanna Baillie Poems)
HAIL , falling shades! hail, stillest ev'ning hour!Sacred to verse; and thou sublimest power,Imagination! thou, while slumber lightLays me to ...
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 ...
To Mrs. Siddons (Joanna Baillie Poems)
GIFTED of Heaven! who hast, in days gone by,Moved every heart, delighted every eye,While age and youth, of high and ...
Lines, Written At Athens In 1820 (Joanna Baillie Poems)
'TIS now the fourth revolving age,Since Hellas bow'd beneath the rageOf Othman's stormy sway;Whose deep'ning gloom and horror spreadTill all ...
On Grey Hair (Joanna Baillie Poems)
THOU , whom the giddy mock, the gay deride,Protracted folly's scourge, and foe to pride,I'll meet thee, poor, pale omen ...
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 ...
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 ...
Lines Written In Lady Lonsdale’s Album, At Lowther Castle, Oct.13,1821 (Joanna Baillie Poems)
SOMETIMES in youthful years,When in some ancient ruin I have stood,Alone and musing, till with quiet tears I felt my cheeks ...
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 ...
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 ...
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 ...
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 ...
The Season Of Life (Joanna Baillie Poems)
LONG gone, for ever gone! the joys of Spring;And Summer's brighter objects, riper cares;Now Autumn's lingering train are on the ...