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A willing heart adds feather to the heel.

Still on it creeps Each little moment at another's heels Till hours days years and ages are mad...

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The brave man is not he who feels no fear For that were stupid and irrational But he whose noble ...

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The bliss e'en of a moment still is bliss.

I wish I were with some of the wild people that run in the woods and know nothing about accomplishm...

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Words of affection howsoe'er expressed The latest spoken still are deem'd the best.

O lovely Sisters! is it true That they are all inspired by you And write by inward magic charm'd A...

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This will be triumph! This will be happiness! Yea that very thing happiness which I have been pur...

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Joanna Baillie

Poet

Born: 1762-09-11

Died: 1851-02-23

Joanna Baillie (11 September 1762 – 23 February 1851) was 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 brilliant literary society in her cottage at Hampstead.More