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Poems of Purpose and Sketches in Prose

of Scottish Peasant Life and Character in Auld Langsyne, Sketches of Local Scenes and Characters, With a Glossary. By Janet Hamilton

Hamilton, Janet (1795-1873)

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POEMS OF PURPOSE.

THE LOWLY SONG OF A LOWLY BARD.

A MEMORY.

BELLS.

FAREWELL TO THE OLD YEAR 1863.

A PHASE OF THE WAR IN AMERICA, 1864.

ON THE DEATH OF A HIGHLY GIFTED AND PRECOCIOUS CHILD,

PRAY FOR POLAND.

MYSIE, AN AUL' WARL', BUT OWER TRUE STORY.

THE BLOODY BOUQUET ON THE ROAD TO RICHMOND.

MAY, 1864.

JUNE, 1864.

SPIRIT-RAPPING.

NUTS TO CRACK FOR COUSIN SAM.

LINES ON THE SNOWDROP.

AMERICA.—“PEACE, PEACE, O PEACE!”

POLAND.

NEEBOUR JOHNNIE'S COMPLAINT.

OCTOBER, 1863.

THE VOICE OF BLOOD.

HINTS TO POETS.

LUGGIE, PAST AND PRESENT.

NORTH AMERICA AND HER WAR PARSONS.

GRAN'FAITHER AT CAM'SLANG

COMPARATIVE SLAVERY.

POLAND.

GRANNIE VISITED AT BLACKHILL, SHOTTS, July, 1805.

DECAY.

AULD MITHER SCOTLAND.

MIDNIGHT THOUGHTS AT THE CLOSE OF 1864.

ELEGY.

WINTER.

AULD SCOTLAND'S WELCOME TO GARIBALDI.

STANZAS TO APRIL, AND INVITATION TO GARIBALDI.

TO MOTHER EARTH.

WILLIAM OF PRUSSIA, THE AGGRESSOR.

LINES SACRED TO THE MEMORY OF MR JOHN WHITELAW

THE AUL' KIRKYARD.

THE VICTIM OF DRINK.

AMERICA IN 1863: HER “VOICE IS STILL FOR WAR.”

DENMARK AND THE GERMAN DESPOTS.

VERSES,

OUR LOCAL SCENERY.

GARIBALDI IN HIS CONQUERING CAREER IN ITALY.

A PLEA FOR THE DORIC.

TO MEMBERS AND OFFICE-BEARERS OF TEMPERANCE SOCIETIES.

AULD SCOTLAND AT THE ABBEY CRAIG IN NOVEMBER, 1864.

BATTLE OF THE ALMA.

A WHEEN AUL' MEMORIES.

THE FRUITS OF THE SPIRIT.

THE SERVANT OF THE LORD.

THE COMMUNION OF SAINTS.

VERSES INSCRIBED TO MR. THOMAS DUNCAN, GLASGOW.

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TO MY DEAR AND DUTIFUL SON, JAMES HAMILTON, FOR HIS FILIAL LOVE AND DEVOTED ATTENTION TO HIS AGED PARENTS, This Volume IS LOVINGLY AND GRATEFULLY INSCRIBED BY THE AUTHORESS, HIS AFFECTIONATE MOTHER,

JANET HAMILTON.