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 Pride (31 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 ...
Sir Maurice (Joanna Baillie Poems)
SIR MAURICE was a wealthy lord,He liv'd in the north countrie,Well would he cope with foe-man's sword,Or the glance of ...
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, ...
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 ...
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 ...
Address To A Steam-Vessel (Joanna Baillie Poems)
WRITTEN FOR THIS COLLECTION.FREIGHTED with passengers of every sort,A motley throng, thou leav'st the busy port.Thy long and ample deck, ...
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 ...
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 ...
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 ...
De La Charite Pour Les Pauvres Prisonniers, Dieppe (Joanna Baillie Poems)
YES , 'tis a year since last that plaintive cry,"Pity the prisoners," touch'd my wand'ring ear:And now again their hat ...
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 ...
A Disappointme (Joanna Baillie Poems)
On village green, whose smooth and well worn sod,Cross-path'd with every gossip's foot is trod;By cottage door where playful children ...
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 ...
Thunder (Joanna Baillie Poems)
SPIRIT of strength! to whom in wrath 'tis given,To mar the earth and shake its vasty dome,Behold the sombre robes ...
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 ...
Epilogue To The Theatrical Presentation At Strawberry Hill (Joanna Baillie Poems)
WHILE fogs along the Thames' damp margin creep,And cold winds through his leafless willows sweep;And fairy elves, whose summer sport ...
London (Joanna Baillie Poems)
IT is a goodly sight through the clear air,From Hampstead's heathy height, to see at onceEngland's vast capital in fair ...
The Grenwich Pensioners (Joanna Baillie Poems)
WHEN ev'ning listen'd to the dipping oar,Forgetting the loud city's ceaseless roar,By the green banks, where Thames, with conscious pride,Reflects ...
Song, Woo’d And Married And A’ (Joanna Baillie Poems)
THE bride she is winsome and bonny,Her hair it is snooded sae sleek,And faithfu' and kind is her Johnny,Yet fast ...
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 ...
The Ship’s Return (Joanna Baillie Poems)
THOU com'st, fair bark, in gallant prideThy swan-white sails exulting spread;Nor I the graceful triumph chide,For silent are the tears ...
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 The Lark (Joanna Baillie Poems)
MOUNT , child of Morning, mount and sing,And gaily beat thy fluttering wing,And sound thy shrill alarms:Bath'd in the fountains ...
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 ...
On A Sprig Of Heath (Joanna Baillie Poems)
FLOWER of the waste! the heath-fowl shunsFor thee the brake and tangled wood,--To thy protecting shade she runs,Thy tender buds ...
The Horse And His Rider (Joanna Baillie Poems)
BRACED in the sinewy vigour of thy breed,In pride of generous strength, thou stately steed!Thy broad chest to the battle's ...
St. Matthew V.9. (Joanna Baillie Poems)
"BLESSED are the peace-makers, for theyGod's children shall be called!"--so spakeThe Prince of Peace, in mortal clay,Who veiled his glory, ...