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Poems and Essays of a Miscellaneous Character on Subjects of General Interest

By Janet Hamilton

Hamilton, Janet (1795-1873)

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Miscellaneous Pieces.

CENTENARY POEM,

THE HIGHLANDS OF SCOTLAND.

THE CHILD OF FRANCE.

LINES WRITTEN ON THE BIRTH OF THE YEAR 1853.

LINES SUGGESTED BY THE WAR IN THE CRIMEA, 1854.

RHYMES FOR THE TIMES. I.

THE POWER AND BEAUTY OF SCOTTISH SONG.

NIGHT SCENE AT THE FALL OF SEBASTOPOL.

ON THE RUSSIAN WAR IN THE CRIMEA, 1854–5.

RHYMES FOR THE TIMES. II.

LINES ON THE TRIAL OF MADELINE SMITH FOR THE MURDER OF L'ANGELIER.

VERSES ON THE CALDER IN ITS COURSE BY ST. ENOCH'S, ROSEHALL, &c.

THE CIVIL WAR IN AMERICA.

SOME INCIDENTS IN THE LATTER DAYS OF JOHN WHITELAW

MOTHER AND CHILD.

SONG—THE COUTHIE AULD MAN.

SPRING SCENE IN THE COUNTRY.

IMPENDING WAR BETWEEN AUSTRIA AND SARDINIA.

ON THE DEPARTURE OF THE BARQUE “FAME”

ADVICE TAE BRITHER JONATHAN

CONTRASTED SCENES FROM REAL LIFE.

THE MOTHER AT HOME.

SWEET MAY MORN.

ON THE PROPOSED PRESENTATION OF GUNS BY THE PEOPLE OF BRITAIN TO THE KING OF SARDINIA, IN AID OF ITALIAN LIBERTY.

TO THE NORTH AMERICANS.

DIRGE FOR JESSIE MACPHERSON.

LINES ADDRESSED TO A FRIEND ON RECEIVING FROM HIM A VOLUME OF “THE PARNASSUS JOURNAL.”

NOVEMBER FINDINGS—1862.

OCTOBER THOUGHTS—1862.

THE HARTLEY COLLIERY CATASTROPHE.

REMINISCENCES OF THE “HIE TOON” OF HAMILTON SIXTY YEARS AGO.

REMINISCENCES OF THE “AULD HIE TOON OF HAMILTON,” SIXTY YEARS AGO.

BRITISH VOLUNTEERS.

THE FIRST AND SECOND ADVENTS OF GARIBALDI—1851–2.

GARIBALDI A CAPTIVE.

CALDER—A MEMORY.

CIVIL WAR IN AMERICA—EXPOSTULATION.

WELCOME TO OCTOBER.

THE SEVEN STARS:

TO TEACHERS OF THE YOUNG.

ON THE MEETING OF THE SOCIAL SCIENCE ASSOCIATION

A REAL INCIDENT OF THE PERSECUTING TIMES IN SCOTLAND.

TO MRS J. CLELAND,

ON SEEING A THOUSAND SABBATH SCHOOL CHILDREN

LINES ADDRESSED TO MRS BUCHANAN OF DRUMPELLER,

ADDRESS TO MR JOHN FAIRLIE.

LINES ADDRESSED TO M. FAIRLIE, Esq., VIEWFIELD HOUSE,

LINES INSCRIBED TO MRS M. FAIRLIE OF VIEWFIELD HOUSE.

ADDRESS TO THE REV. DR. GARDNER OF BOTHWELL,

LINES ADDRESSED TO THE REV. DR. JOHN MUIR, OF ST. JAMES' PARISH, GLASGOW

LINES ADDRESSED TO Rev. D---G---, B.A.

LINES ADDRESSED TO THE REV. J. JAMES

VERSES WRITTEN ON THE OCCASION OF THE MARRIAGE OF ALBERT EDWARD, PRINCE OF WALES, AND ALEXANDRA, PRINCESS OF DENMARK.

CRAIGNETHAN CASTLE.

Temperance Pieces.

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119

TO TEACHERS OF THE YOUNG.

Husbandman, for work prepare
Tender plants of promise fair;
Rise! around thee everywhere
Life's young spring-time claims thy care,
Willing heart, and hand.

Dig, manure, and prune, and train—
Suns, and dew, and vernal rain,
Seek from Heaven, nor seek in vain—
Flowers and fruits reward thy pain—
Fair the smiling land.

Break thou up the fallow ground,
With the will the way is found;
Faint not!—thorns and weeds abound—
Seeds of knowledge scatter round—
God shall give increase.

Father! God! we ask for bread,
Stones thou wilt not give instead—
Down thy promised Spirit shed—
Toil is vain, and hope is dead,
Till Thou quicken these.

120

We have seen—we daily see,
Plant of hope, some fair young tree,
In the soft winds waving free,
Green and full of sap is he—
Rich the promised bloom.

Look again! A hot simoom,
Scorches tree, and branch, and bloom—
Write in blood the drunkard's doom,
Quenched in misery, guilt, and gloom,
Finds an early tomb.