Joanna Baillie
Joanna Baillie
Joanna Bailliewas a Scottish poet and dramatist. Baillie was very well known during her lifetime and, though a woman, intended her plays not for the closet but for the stage. Admired both for her literary powers and her sweetness of disposition, she hosted a literary society in her cottage at Hampstead. Baillie died at the age of 88, her faculties remaining unimpaired to the last...
NationalityScottish
ProfessionPoet
heart
He was not all a father's heart could wish;/ But oh, he was my son! my only son.
frozen portion
He that will not give some portion of his ease, his blood, his wealth, for others' good, is a poor, frozen churl
heart add willing
A willing heart adds feather to the heel.
women courageous danger
A woman is seldom roused to great and courageous exertion but when something most dear to her is in immediate danger.
writing magic lovely
O lovely Sisters! is it true That they are all inspired by you, And write by inward magic charm'd, And high enthusiasm warm'd?
men battle weakness
The strength of man sinks in the hour of trial; but there doth live a Power that to the battle girdeth the weak.
summer women grief
But woman's grief is like a summer storm, Short as it violent is.
affection stills
Words of affection, howsoe'er expressed, The latest spoken still are deem'd the best.
dog men tyrants
The tyrant now Trusts not to men: nightly within his chamber The watch-dog guards his couch, the only friend He now dare trust.
mean men laughing
I have seen the day, when, if a man made himself ridiculous, the world would laugh at him. But now, everything that is mean, disgusting, and absurd, pleases them but so much the better!
time wings bears
Time never bears such moments on his wing as when he flies too swiftly to be marked.
mind want bears
The mind doth shape itself to its own wants, and can bear all things.
eye ambition mountain
I am as one Who doth attempt some lofty mountain's height, And having gained what to the upcast eye The summit's point appear'd, astonished sees Its cloudy top, majestic and enlarged, Towering aloft, as distant as before.
men giving events
Men's actions to futurity appear but as the events to which they are conjoined do give them consequence.