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The Dramatic and Poetical Works of Joanna Baillie

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Baillie, Joanna (1762-1851)

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A SERIES OF PLAYS: IN WHICH IT IS ATTEMPTED TO DELINEATE THE STRONGER PASSIONS OF THE MIND EACH PASSION BEING THE SUBJECT OF A TRAGEDY AND A COMEDY.
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BASIL:
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ACT I.
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SONG.— a glee.
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DE MONFORT:
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ACT V.
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ETHWALD:
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PART FIRST.
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ACT I.
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ACT II.
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SCENE III.
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SCENE V.
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ACT III.
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ACT IV.
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ACT V.
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PART SECOND.
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ACT II.
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ACT III.
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ACT IV.
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ACT V
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ORRA:
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ACT II.
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ACT III.
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ACT V.
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THE BEACON:
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ACT II.
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SONG.
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ROMIERO:
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ACT V.
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HENRIQUEZ:
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ACT V.
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MISCELLANEOUS PLAYS.
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RAYNER:
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ACT II.
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ACT III.
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ACT IV.
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ACT V.
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CONSTANTINE PALEOLOGUS;
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ACT IV.
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ACT V.
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THE FAMILY LEGEND:
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THE MARTYR:
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THE SEPARATION:
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THE PHANTOM:
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THE BRIDE:
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SCENE VII.
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SCENE VIII.
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MISCELLANEOUS POETRY.
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METRICAL LEGENDS.
  
A METRICAL LEGEND OF WILLIAM WALLACE.
  
THE LEGEND OF CHRISTOPHER COLUMBUS.
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THE LEGEND OF LADY GRISELD BAILLIE.
  
[prologue]
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III.
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VIII.
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XIV.
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XVI.
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XVIII.
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XIX.
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XX.
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XXVI.
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XXVII.
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XXVIII.
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XXIX.
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XXX.
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XXXII.
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XXXIII.
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XXXIV.
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XXXV.
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XXXVI.
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XXXVII.
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XXXVIII.
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XXXIX.
 XL. 
XL.
 XLI. 
XLI.
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XLII.
 XLIII. 
XLIII.
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XLIV.
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XLV.
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XLVI.
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XLVII.
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XLVIII.
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XLIX.
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LIII.
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LIV.
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LVI.
  
LORD JOHN OF THE EAST:
  
MALCOLM'S HEIR:
  
THE ELDEN TREE:
  
THE GHOST OF FADON.
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FUGITIVE VERSES.
  
[dedication]
  
A WINTER'S DAY.
  
A SUMMER'S DAY.
  
NIGHT SCENES OF OTHER TIMES.
  
ADDRESS TO THE MUSES.
  
A MELANCHOLY LOVER'S FAREWELL TO HIS MISTRESS.
  
A CHEERFUL-TEMPERED LOVER'S FAREWELL TO HIS MISTRESS
  
A PROUD LOVER'S FAREWELL TO HIS MISTRESS.
  
A POETICAL OR SOUND-HEARTED LOVER'S FAREWELL TO HIS MISTRESS.
  
A REVERIE.
  
A DISAPPOINTMENT.
  
A LAMENTATION.
  
A MOTHER TO HER WAKING INFANT.
  
A CHILD TO HIS SICK GRANDFATHER.
  
THUNDER
  
THE HORSE AND HIS RIDER.
  
FRAGMENT OF A POEM
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MISCELLANEOUS POETRY
  
LINES ON THE DEATH OF SIR WALTER SCOTT.
  
EPILOGUE
  
THE BANISHED MAN.
  
TO A CHILD.
  
SONG
  
LONDON.
  
LINES ON THE DEATH OF WILLIAM SOTHEBY, ESQ.
  
VERSES TO OUR OWN FLOWERY KIRTLED SPRING.
  
LINES TO A PARROT.
  
LINES TO A TEAPOT.
  
THE MOODY SEER:
  
THE MERRY BACHELOR
  
TWO SONGS.
  
SONG
  
TO SOPHIA J.BAILLIE.
  
THE KITTEN.
  
SCHOOL RHYMES FOR NEGRO CHILDREN.
  
RHYMES.
  
RHYMES FOR CHANTING.
  
DEVOTIONAL SONG FOR A NEGRO CHILD.
  
SECOND DEVOTIONAL SONG.
  
THIRD DEVOTIONAL SONG.
  
A NURSERY LESSON (DEVOTIONAL).
  
SECOND NURSERY LESSON
  
HYMN.
  
RECOLLECTIONS OF A DEAR AND STEADY FRIEND.
  
TWO BROTHERS.
  
LINES TO AGNES BAILLIE ON HER BIRTHDAY.
  
VERSES SENT TO MRS. BAILLIE ON HER BIRTHDAY, 1813.
  
VERSES WRITTEN IN FEBRUARY, 1827.
  
THE TRAVELLER BY NIGHT IN NOVEMBER.
  
LINES FOR A FRIEND'S ALBUM.
  
ADDRESS TO A STEAMVESSEL.
  
SONG,
  
A SONG
  
FY, LET US A' TO THE WEDDING.
  
HOOLY AND FAIRLY.
  
THE LADY IN HER CAR.
  
TO JAMES B. BAILLIE,
  
THE WEARY PUND O' TOW.
  
TAM O' THE LIN.
  
NEW WORDS TO THE OLD SCOTCH AIR OF “THE WEE PICKLE TOW.”
  
SONG,
  
VOLUNTEER'S SONG,
  
SONG,
  
SONG,
  
A SCOTCH SONG.
  
SONG,
  
SONG,
  
A SAILOR'S SONG.
  
SONG,
  
SIR MAURICE:
  
TO MRS. SIDDONS.
  
A SONG,
  
SONG,
  
SONG.
  
SONG.
  
THE BLACK COCK,
  
SONG,
  
SONG,
  
SONG,
  
SONG.
  
ON THE DEATH OF A VERY DEAR FRIEND.
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VERSES ON SACRED SUBJECTS.
  
HYMN.
  
HYMN.
  
HYMN.
  
HYMN.
  
HYMN.
  
HYMN FOR THE SCOTCH KIRK.
  
A SECOND HYMN FOR THE KIRK.
  
A THIRD HYMN FOR THE KIRK.
  
ST. MATTHEW, v. 9.
  
ST.LUKE, XVIII. 16.
  
ST.JOHN, XXI. 1.
  
ST. LUKE, VII. 12.
  
JOB, XIII. 15.
  
HYMN.
  
A HYMN FOR THE KIRK.
  
A HYMN.
  
SELECT VERSES FROM THE 147TH PSALM.
  
THOUGHTS TAKEN FROM THE 93RD PSALM.
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AHALYA BAEE:

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TO MRS. SIDDONS.

Gifted of heaven! who hast, in days gone by,
Moved every heart, delighted every eye;
While age and youth, of high and low degree,
In sympathy were join'd, beholding thee,
As in the Drama's ever changing scene,
Thou heldst thy splendid state, our tragic queen!
No barriers there thy fair domains confined,
Thy sovereign sway was o'er the human mind;
And, in the triumph of that witching hour,
Thy lofty bearing well became thy power.
The impassion'd changes of thy beauteous face,
Thy stately form, and high imperial grace;
Thine arms impetuous toss'd, thy robe's wide flow,
And the dark tempest gather'd on thy brow;
What time thy flashing eye and lip of scorn
Down to the dust thy mimic foes have borne;
Remorseful musings, sunk to deep dejection,
The fix'd and yearning looks of strong affection;
The active turmoil a wrought bosom rending,
When pity, love, and honour, are contending:
They who beheld all this, right well, I ween,
A lovely, grand, and wondrous sight have seen.
Thy varied accents, rapid, fitful, slow,
Loud rage, and fear's snatch'd whisper, quick and low;
The burst of stifled love, the wail of grief,
And tones of high command, full, solemn, brief;
The change of voice, and emphasis that threw
Light on obscurity, and brought to view
Distinctions nice, when grave or comic mood,
Or mingled humours, terse and new, elude
Common perception, as earth's smallest things
To size and form, the vesting hoar-frost brings,
That seem'd as if some secret voice, to clear
The ravell'd meaning, whisper'd in thine ear,
And thou hadst e'en with him communion kept,
Who hath so long in Stratford's chancel slept;
Whose lines, where nature's brightest traces shine,
Alone were worthy deem'd of powers like thine;
They who have heard all this, have proved full well
Of soul-exciting sound, the mightiest spell.
But though time's lengthen'd shadows o'er thee glide,
And pomp of regal state is cast aside,
Think not the glory of thy course is spent,
There's moonlight radiance to thy evening lent,
That, to the mental world can never fade,
Till all who saw thee, in the grave are laid.
Thy graceful form still moves in nightly dreams,
And what thou wast, to the lull'd sleeper seems:
While feverish fancy oft doth fondly trace
Within her curtain'd couch thy wondrous face.
Yea; and to many a wight, bereft and lone,
In musing hours, though all to thee unknown,
Soothing his earthly course of good and ill,
With all thy potent charm, thou actest still.
And now in crowded room or rich saloon,
Thy stately presence recognized, how soon
On thee the glance of many an eye is cast,
In grateful memory of pleasures past!
Pleased to behold thee, with becoming grace,
Take, as befits thee well, an honour'd place
(Where blest by many a heart, long mayst thou stand!)
Among the virtuous matrons of our land.
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