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 World (26 Poems)
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 ...
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 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 ...
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 ...
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 ...
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 ...
Hymn On The Seasons (Joanna Baillie Poems)
NOW , when the kindling Spring breathes life and joyThrough earth and air, perfuming field and bow'r;While rings from every ...
Lines On The Death Of William Sotheby, Esq (Joanna Baillie Poems)
LEARNING and fancy were combinedTo stimulate his manly mind;Open, generous and acute,Steady of purpose, in pursuitArdent and hopeful; all the ...
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 ...
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 ...
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 ...
To The Rainbow (Joanna Baillie Poems)
TRIUMPHANT arch! that fill'st the sky When storms prepare to part,I ask not proud philosophy To teach me what thou art:—Still seem, ...
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 ...
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 ...
The Song Of Triumph Of The Greeks, Off Tenedos, After The Night Of The 10th Of November, 1822 (Joanna Baillie Poems)
THE Monarchs of Europe, who prattle of peace,Shall cease, from this night, to calumniate Greece,The Moslems repent that they roused ...
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 ...
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, ...
Love (Joanna Baillie Poems)
YES , Love has his changes, but be not too ready,To number his faults or dishonour his sway;Abuse him you ...
Song #5 (Joanna Baillie Poems)
WI ' lang-legged Tam the bruise I tried,Though best o' foot, what wan he o?The first kiss of the blouzing ...
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 ...
To Mrs. —-, On Returning A Fine Hyacinth Plant After The Bloom Was Over (Joanna Baillie Poems)
EVEN as a cherish'd daughter leaves her homeBlushing and breathing sweets; her home, where, nurs'dWith fond attendance every morn and ...
Sonnet 6 (Joanna Baillie Poems)
THE marks of death were on him, and he boreIn every feature that sharp, clear, cold look,Which is not of ...
A Third Hymn For The Kirk (Joanna Baillie Poems)
UP , sluggard soul! awake and raise,To thy blest Lord a song of praise,Who lifts thee from the gloomy grave,When ...