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 Time (36 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 ...
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 ...
Devon’s Poly-Obion (Joanna Baillie Poems)
FIRST of Devon's thousand streams--(Beside whose banks no poet dreams,Since to her praise old Drayton fram'dHis pastoral reed, yet scarcely ...
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, ...
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, ...
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 ...
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 ...
Lines To A Parrot (Joanna Baillie Poems)
IN these our days of sentimentWhen youthful poets all lamentSome dear lost joy, some cruel maid;Old friendship changed and faith ...
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! ...
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 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 ...
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 ...
Chorus Of Greek Matrons (Joanna Baillie Poems)
TIME, the Dawn of the Day. --SCENE, Cape Mastic, in Scio.HAIL ! once again, great fount of life, and light,Hail, ...
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 ...
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 ...
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 ...
Annan Water (Joanna Baillie Poems)
WITH rapture, Annan! all exclaim,Thy banks how varied and how gay!Why should a name, well known to fame,Unsung remain in ...
On The King’s Illness (Joanna Baillie Poems)
REST , rest, afflicted spirit, quickly passThy hour of bitter suffering! Rest awaits thee,There, where, the load of weary life ...
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 Fountain (Joanna Baillie Poems)
IT was a wellOf whitest marble, white as from the quarry;And richly wrought with many a high relief,Greek sculpture--in some ...
A Scotch Song (Joanna Baillie Poems)
THE gowan glitters on the sward,The lavrock's in the sky,And collie on my plaid keeps ward,And time is passing by.Oh ...
To Sophia J. Baillie, An Infant (Joanna Baillie Poems)
SWEET bud of promise, fresh and fair,Just moving in the morning air,The morn of life but just begun,The sands of ...
To A Child (Joanna Baillie Poems)
WHOSE imp art thou, with dimpled cheek,And curly pate and merry eye,And arm and shoulders round and sleek,And soft and ...
Time And Friendship (Joanna Baillie Poems)
UNFELT , unseen, time steals away,So softly with our years,The dewy gem of op'ning dayNot swifter disappears.In childhood's thoughtless, laughing ...
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 ...