Poetry Codex

Romantic

Joanna Baillie

1762–1851

Joanna Baillie (1762–1851) is one of the Scottish song-writers whose lives Charles Rogers sketched in The Modern Scottish Minstrel (six volumes, Edinburgh: Adam & Charles Black, 1855–57).

This archive holds 12 songs printed under this poet's name in volume 1 of the anthology, in Rogers's spelling. Dates are those given in Rogers's memoir, which is the only source used here.

Poems (13)

  1. The Maid of Llanwellyn
  2. Good Night, Good Night!
  3. Though Richer Swains Thy Love Pursue
  4. Poverty Parts Good Companie
  5. Fy, Let Us A' to the Wedding
  6. Hooly and Fairly
  7. The Weary Pund o' Tow
  8. The Wee Pickle Tow
  9. The Gowan Glitters on the Sward
  10. Saw Ye Johnnie Comin'?
  11. It Fell on a Morning
  12. Woo'd, and Married, and A'
  13. To a Kitten

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