Words of affection, howsoe'er express'd, The latest spoken … - Joanna Baillie

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

Joanna Baillie

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About Joanna Baillie

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.

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Alternative Names: Joanna Bailley • Baillie Joanna

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The hushed winds wail with feeble moan
Like infant charity.

Think'st thou there are no serpents in the world
But those who slide along the grassy sod,
And sting the luckless foot that presses them?
There are who in the path of social life
Do bask their spotted skins in Fortune's sun,
And sting the soul.

But woman's grief is like a summer storm,
Short as it violent is.

Words of affection, howsoe'er express'd, The latest spoken still are deem'd the best. - Joanna Baillie

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