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 Thought & Thinking (20 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 ...
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 ...
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 ...
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 ...
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 ...
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 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 ...
Fy, Let Us A’ To The Wedding (Joanna Baillie Poems)
(AN AULD SANG NEW BUSKIT.)FY , let us a' to the wedding,For they will be lilting there;For Jock's to be ...
The Banished Man, (Joanna Baillie Poems)
ON A DISTANT VIEW OF HIS COUNTRY, WHICHHE IS QUITTING FOR EVER.DEAR distant land, whose mountains blueStill bound this wild ...
Hymn #3 (Joanna Baillie Poems)
THE frith is crossed, the previous war-fare past,Through swampy plains, dark woods and deserts vast,O'er heaths, and flowery slopes and ...
Orpheus To Eurydice (Joanna Baillie Poems)
SOLE partner of my heart! remov'd from all,Here on the lonely shore to thee I call;The waves which raise their ...
A Character (Joanna Baillie Poems)
ASK you, "What charms first chain'd my heart,"And held me from the world apart,"Made young ambition's turmoil cease,"And blest me ...
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 ...
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 ...
On Memory (Joanna Baillie Poems)
WRITTEN AT AIX-LA-CHAPELLE.NO ! this is not the land of Memory,It is not the home where she dwells,Though her wandering, ...
The Sailor’s Departure (Joanna Baillie Poems)
O, FRESH blows the gale o'er the wide mantling ocean,And proudly the frigate repels the white foam;And high beats my ...