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Fugitive Verses Fugitive Verses Joanna Baillie Fugitive Verses Table of Contents Fugitive Verses..........................................................................................................................................................1 Joanna Baillie.................................................................................................................................................1 TO SAMUEL ROGERS, ESQ....................................................................................................................................3 PREFACE...................................................................................................................................................................3 POEMS..........................................................................................................................................................5 A WINTER'S DAY........................................................................................................................................5 A SUMMER'S DAY....................................................................................................................................11 NIGHT SCENES OF OTHER TIMES........................................................................................................17 A Poem, in Three Parts................................................................................................................................17 PART I.........................................................................................................................................................17 PART II........................................................................................................................................................20 PART III......................................................................................................................................................23 ADDRESS TO THE MUSES......................................................................................................................26 A MELANCHOLY LOVER'S FAREWELL TO HIS MISTRESS............................................................29 A CHEERFUL−TEMPERED LOVER'S FAREWELL TO HIS MISTRESS............................................30 A PROUD LOVER'S FAREWELL TO HIS MISTRESS...........................................................................31 A POETICAL OR SOUND−HEARTED LOVER'S FAREWELL TO HIS MISTRESS...........................32 A REVERIE.................................................................................................................................................33 A DISAPPOINTMENT...............................................................................................................................35 A LAMENTATION.....................................................................................................................................37 A MOTHER TO HER WAKING INFANT................................................................................................39 A CHILD TO HIS SICK GRANDFATHER...............................................................................................40 THUNDER...................................................................................................................................................41 THE HORSE AND HIS RIDER..................................................................................................................43 FRAGMENT OF A POEM..........................................................................................................................43 MISCELLANEOUS POETRY WRITTEN SINCE THE YEAR 1790.......................................................49 LINES ON THE DEATH OF SIR WALTER SCOTT................................................................................49 THE BANISHED MAN,............................................................................................................................54 TO A CHILD...............................................................................................................................................56 SONG...........................................................................................................................................................57 LONDON.....................................................................................................................................................57 LINES ON THE DEATH OF WILLIAM SOTHEBY, ESQ.....................................................................58 VERSES TO OUR OWN FLOWERY KIRTLED SPRING.......................................................................60 LINES TO A PARROT...............................................................................................................................62 LINES TO A TEAPOT................................................................................................................................65 THE MOODY SEER,..................................................................................................................................68 THE MERRY BACHELOR,.......................................................................................................................74 TWO SONGS..............................................................................................................................................75 I....................................................................................................................................................................75 II. (FOR FISHERMEN.)..............................................................................................................................75 SONG...........................................................................................................................................................76 TO SOPHIA J. BAILLIE, AN INFANT.....................................................................................................76 VERSES ADDED TO THE FOREGOING BY THE BABY'S PATERNAL GRANDMOTHER...........77 THE KITTEN..............................................................................................................................................78 SCHOOL RHYMES FOR NEGRO CHILDREN.......................................................................................80 RHYMES.....................................................................................................................................................81 RHYMES FOR CHANTING......................................................................................................................81 DEVOTIONAL SONG FOR A NEGRO CHILD.......................................................................................81 i Fugitive Verses Table of Contents Fugitive Verses SECOND DEVOTIONAL SONG...............................................................................................................82 THIRD DEVOTIONAL SONG...................................................................................................................82 A NURSERY LESSON (DEVOTIONAL).................................................................................................83 SECOND NURSERY LESSON (ADMONITORY)...................................................................................83 HYMN.........................................................................................................................................................84 TWO BROTHERS.......................................................................................................................................85 LINES TO AGNES BAILLIE ON HER BIRTHDAY................................................................................87 VERSES SENT TO MRS. BAILLIE ON HER BIRTHDAY, 1813...........................................................89 VERSES WRITTEN IN FEBRUARY, 1827..............................................................................................91 THE TRAVELLER BY NIGHT IN NOVEMBER.....................................................................................92 LINES FOR A FRIEND'S ALBUM............................................................................................................97 ADDRESS TO A STEAM VESSEL...........................................................................................................98 THE ELDEN TREE...................................................................................................................................101 NOTE.........................................................................................................................................................106 SONG, WOO'D AND MARRIED AND A',.............................................................................................106 A SONG,....................................................................................................................................................107 FY, LET US A' TO THE WEDDING.......................................................................................................109 HOOLY AND FAIRLY............................................................................................................................111 LORD JOHN OF THE EAST, A Ballad...................................................................................................112 MALCOLM'S HEIR..................................................................................................................................116
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