CONTENTS.

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A Winter's Day1
A Summer's Day17
Night Scenes of other Times31
Address to the Muses53
A Melancholy Lover's Farewell to his Mistress62
A Cheerful-tempered Lover's Farewell to his Mistress65
A Proud Lover's Farewell to his Mistress68
A Poetical or Sound-hearted Lover's Farewell to his Mistress71
A Reverie74
A Disappointment79
A Lamentation84
A Mother to her Waking Infant 89
A Child to his Sick Grandfather92
Thunder95
The Horse and his Rider100
Fragment of a Poem102

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MISCELLANEOUS POETRY:—
Lines on the Death of Sir Walter Scott 120
Epilogue to the Theatrical Representation at Strawberry Hill 128
The Banished Man 131
To a Child 135
Song, (to the Scotch Air of "My Nanny O.") 138
London 140
Lines on the Death of William Sotheby, Esq. 143
Verses to our own Flowery Kirtled Spring 147
Lines to a Parrot 153
Lines to a Teapot 161
The Moody Seer. A Ballad 168
The Merry Bachelor 184
Two Songs 187
Song, written for the Strawberry Hill Foundling Play 189
To Sophia J. Baillie, an Infant 191
Verses added to the foregoing, by the Baby's Paternal Grandmother 193
The Kitten 194
School Rhymes for Negro Children 201
Rhymes 203
Rhymes for Chanting 204
Devotional Song for a Negro Child 205
Second Devotional Song 206
Third Devotional Song 207
A Nursery Lesson (Devotional) 208
Second Nursery Lesson (Admonitory) 209
Hymn 211
Two Brothers 215
Lines to Agnes Baillie on her Birthday 219
Verses sent to Mrs. Baillie on her Birthday, 1813 226

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MISCELLANEOUS POETRY—Continued:—
Verses written in February, 1827 230
The Traveller by Night in November 233
Lines for a Friend's Album 246
Address to a Steam Vessel 248
The Elden Tree. A Ballad 255
Song. Woo'd and Married and a' 267
A Song 271
Fy, let us a' to the Wedding 275
Hooly and Fairly 281
Lord John of the East. A Ballad 284
Malcolm's Heir. A Tale of Wonder 294
Song, called the Country Lady's Reveillie 309
Volunteer's Song, written in 1803 311
Song, written for an Irish Air 314
Song, for an Irish Air 316
A Scotch Song 318
Song, Poverty parts Good Company 321
Song, for a Scotch Air 324
A Sailor's Song 326
Song, A New Version of an Old Scotch Song 328
Sir Maurice. A Ballad 331
To Mrs. Siddons 350
A Song, written for an Irish Melody 354
Song, for an Irish Melody 356
Song 358
Song 360
The Black Cock 362
Song 364
Song 365
Song, written for a Welch Melody 367
Song 369

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VERSES ON SACRED SUBJECTS:—
Hymn 373
Hymn 375
Hymn 378
Hymn 381
Hymn 383
Hymn for the Scotch Kirk 386
A Second Hymn for the Kirk 387
A Third Hymn for the Kirk 388
St. Matthew, v. 9 390
St. Luke, xviii. 16 392
St. John, xxi. 1 394
St. Luke, vii. 12 396
Job, xiii. 15 398
Hymn 400
A Hymn for the Kirk 402
A Hymn 404
Select Verses from the 147th Psalm 406
Thoughts taken from the 93rd Psalm 407

About this text
Courtesy of University of California, Davis. General Library. Digital Intitiatives Program.; http://digital.lib.ucdavis.edu/projects/bwrp
http://content.cdlib.org/view?docId=kt567nb8xt&brand=oac4
Title: Fugitive Verses
By: Baillie, Joanna, 1762-1851, creator, British Women Romantic Poets Project
Date: 2001 (issued)
Contributing Institution: University of California, Davis. General Library. Digital Intitiatives Program.; http://digital.lib.ucdavis.edu/projects/bwrp
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