Blackie, John Stuart, Professor, F.R.S.E. (M)

Surname: Blackie
Forename(s): John Stuart
b. 28 July 1809. d. 2 March 1895. Nationality: Scottish. VIAF.
Poet, translator, scholar of classics and Scottish Gaelic literature, early Scottish nationalist. Alternative signatures: John S. Blackie and J. S. B. Appointed the first chair of humanity at the University of Aberdeen. Married Eliza Wyld on 19 April 1842. Published prolifically on a wide variety of subjects, and authored poetry volumes including Lyrical Poems (1860) and Lays of the Highlands and Islands (1872). Biographical information: ODNB. (AC)

Poems associated with this person

Total poems: 114
Poem title Date Periodical Roles id #
Ismene and Leander. In Three Ballads. (From the German) 1832-06 Blackwood’s Edinburgh Magazine Translator 11161
The Jungfrau of the Lurlei. (A Legend of the Rhine) 1835-03 Blackwood’s Edinburgh Magazine Poet 11630
The Cranes of Ibycus. A Ballad from Schiller 1835-09 Blackwood’s Edinburgh Magazine Translator 11570
Ideals 1835-10 Blackwood’s Edinburgh Magazine Translator 11588
The Fight With the Dragon. A Romance 1835-11 Blackwood’s Edinburgh Magazine Translator 11612
The Dying Flower 1836-05 Blackwood’s Edinburgh Magazine Translator 11774
Martin Luther. An Ode 1844-07 Blackwood’s Edinburgh Magazine Poet 10669
The Words of Schamyl, the Prophet 1854-07 Blackwood’s Edinburgh Magazine Poet 9294
Bellerophon. A Classical Ballad 1854-09 Blackwood’s Edinburgh Magazine Poet 9295
Prayer 1860-02 Good Words Poet 312
Sonnet. (Written at Sanquhar) 1860-02 Good Words Poet 313
Iliad II. 211—245 1861-08 Macmillan’s Magazine Translator 14254
How Wondrous are Thy Works, O God! A Hymn 1862-09 Good Words Poet 413
Glencoe. A Historical Ballad 1868-08-01 Good Words Poet 1911
V.—The Death of Haco 1870-08-01 Good Words Poet 12522
III.—Stennis 1870-08-01 Good Words Poet 12520
IV.—Maeshow 1870-08-01 Good Words Poet 12521
I.—The Old Man of Hoy 1870-08-01 Good Words Poet 2025
II.—Stennis 1870-08-01 Good Words Poet 12519
The Musical Frogs 1871-05 The Dark Blue Poet 170
“The gifts of God are many: but from me” 1871-09 The Dark Blue Poet 16102
“There stand thou now: it is the place for thee” 1871-09 The Dark Blue Poet 16103
“I came not here to weep, but in thy fall” 1871-09 The Dark Blue Poet 16104
“Ding dong, ding dong, so rich, so full, so deep” 1871-09 The Dark Blue Poet 16099
“There rolls He now, majestic, broad, and free” 1871-09 The Dark Blue Poet 16101
“‘A thing of beauty is a joy for ever’” 1871-09 The Dark Blue Poet 16100
“How now, captain? shrimps and flounders!” 1871-09 The Dark Blue Poet 16098
“Call the cab, boy! do not dally!” 1871-09 The Dark Blue Poet 16097
“There stands he now, amid the flock the ram” 1871-10 The Dark Blue Poet 16110
“Look here, and ponder well, and know the land” 1871-10 The Dark Blue Poet 16109
“Two prophets stand forth in the market-place” 1871-10 The Dark Blue Poet 16106
“Sand, sand, long leagues of heath and barren sand!” 1871-10 The Dark Blue Poet 16108
“Thou, too, art great among Germania’s towns” 1871-10 The Dark Blue Poet 16105
“I laud them not; but I must weep for all” 1871-10 The Dark Blue Poet 16107
“Who’s here? a strange, old-fangled German Herr” 1871-11 The Dark Blue Poet 16112
“Prussian, that iron cross upon thy breast” 1871-11 The Dark Blue Poet 16113
The Death of Columba 1872 Good Words Poet 2205
October 1872 Good Words Poet 2217
The Voyage of Columba 1872 Good Words Poet 2185
A Song of Three Words. Orare, Laborare, et Cantare 1874 Good Words Poet 2483
The Emigrant Lassie 1874 Good Words Poet 2518
A Song of Summer 1875 Good Words Poet 2559
Lift Up Your Hymns, All Men. A Song of Praise for British Workmen. (Tune—Old 148th Psalm) 1875 Good Words Poet 2534
Italia 1878-07 Macmillan’s Magazine Poet 14610
My Walk 1878-12 Macmillan’s Magazine Poet 14617
Lord Byron and the Armenian Convent 1879-08 Macmillan’s Magazine Poet 14689
Silvio Pellico and the Piombi 1879-08 Macmillan’s Magazine Poet 14690
Venice 1879-08 Macmillan’s Magazine Poet 14688
Hymn 1880 Good Words Poet 3624
A Good Old Man 1880 Good Words Poet 3552
The Clapham Sect 1881 Good Words Poet 3904
“Cuckoo! Cuckoo!” (Song for the First of May) 1881 Good Words Poet 3890
Slander 1881-12 Blackwood’s Edinburgh Magazine Translator 9120
Monuments 1881-12 Blackwood’s Edinburgh Magazine Translator 9116
Obedience 1881-12 Blackwood’s Edinburgh Magazine Translator 9148
Envy 1881-12 Blackwood’s Edinburgh Magazine Translator 9114
Genus Irritabile Vatum 1881-12 Blackwood’s Edinburgh Magazine Translator 9153
God 1881-12 Blackwood’s Edinburgh Magazine Translator 9146
The Wisdom of Life 1881-12 Blackwood’s Edinburgh Magazine Translator 9106
The Infinite 1881-12 Blackwood’s Edinburgh Magazine Translator 9138
Quarrels 1881-12 Blackwood’s Edinburgh Magazine Translator 9108
Secrecy 1881-12 Blackwood’s Edinburgh Magazine Translator 9135
Youth 1881-12 Blackwood’s Edinburgh Magazine Translator 9125
Utopia 1881-12 Blackwood’s Edinburgh Magazine Translator 9124
To-day 1881-12 Blackwood’s Edinburgh Magazine Translator 9141
Knowledge of Men 1881-12 Blackwood’s Edinburgh Magazine Translator 9100
The Golden Age 1881-12 Blackwood’s Edinburgh Magazine Translator 9110
Good Society 1881-12 Blackwood’s Edinburgh Magazine Translator 9107
Originality 1881-12 Blackwood’s Edinburgh Magazine Translator 9151
Toleration 1881-12 Blackwood’s Edinburgh Magazine Translator 9142
Life the School of Manhood 1881-12 Blackwood’s Edinburgh Magazine Translator 9102
Rule of Life 1881-12 Blackwood’s Edinburgh Magazine Translator 9105
God. Innate Ideas 1881-12 Blackwood’s Edinburgh Magazine Translator 9129
The Divine Procedure 1881-12 Blackwood’s Edinburgh Magazine Translator 9152
The World and How to Use It 1881-12 Blackwood’s Edinburgh Magazine Translator 9122
Freedom 1881-12 Blackwood’s Edinburgh Magazine Translator 9144
Divide et Impera 1881-12 Blackwood’s Edinburgh Magazine Translator 9112
Lies 1881-12 Blackwood’s Edinburgh Magazine Translator 9101
Patience 1881-12 Blackwood’s Edinburgh Magazine Translator 9103
Solitude and Society 1881-12 Blackwood’s Edinburgh Magazine Translator 9137
Limits of Humanity 1881-12 Blackwood’s Edinburgh Magazine Translator 9155
The Vocation of Man 1881-12 Blackwood’s Edinburgh Magazine Translator 9156
Perversity 1881-12 Blackwood’s Edinburgh Magazine Translator 9130
Prophets 1881-12 Blackwood’s Edinburgh Magazine Translator 9118
Self-Knowledge 1881-12 Blackwood’s Edinburgh Magazine Translator 9109
I.—Sickness 1882 Good Words Poet 3950
A Song of Old Age 1882 Good Words Poet 3962
II.—Recovery 1882 Good Words Poet 16041
Atheistic Scientists 1882 Good Words Poet 3959
My Bath 1882-11 Blackwood’s Edinburgh Magazine Poet 8968
An April Song 1883 Good Words Poet 3975
Song of a Good Eclectic 1883-02 Blackwood’s Edinburgh Magazine Poet 8960
October Song 1883-10 Blackwood’s Edinburgh Magazine Poet 8957
Ancrum Moor. A Historical Ballad 1883-11 Blackwood’s Edinburgh Magazine Poet 8958
The Prayer of Socrates 1884 Good Words Poet 4005
Pessimism 1884-02 Blackwood’s Edinburgh Magazine Poet 8878
A Song of Good Counsel. German Air.—Geniest de Reitz des Lebens. (To Young Men) 1885 Good Words Poet 4362
Portrait of a Lady 1885-05 Blackwood’s Edinburgh Magazine Poet 8868
Gur Moch Rinn Mi Dusgadh 1885-08 Macmillan’s Magazine Translator 14984
“O women of this glen” 1885-08 Macmillan’s Magazine Translator 14977
Merlin and Kentigern. A Legend of Tweeddale 1885-12 Blackwood’s Edinburgh Magazine Poet 8844
Socrates 1887-08 Blackwood’s Edinburgh Magazine Poet 8623
Alfred the Hero King. A Historical Ballad 1887-10 Blackwood’s Edinburgh Magazine Poet 8626
Man 1889 Good Words Poet 16049
Wait 1889 Good Words Poet 16050
Toleration 1889 Good Words Poet 16051
Liberty 1889 Good Words Poet 5566
Pessimism 1889 Good Words Poet 5552
Vanitas Vanitatum! 1889 Good Words Poet 16048
Tibbie Shiel’s in Yarrow 1889-12 Blackwood’s Edinburgh Magazine Poet 8528
The Auld House o’ Gask: A Sketch from Strathearn 1891-11 Blackwood’s Edinburgh Magazine Poet 8276
Lord Lynedoch: A Historical Ballad 1891-12 Blackwood’s Edinburgh Magazine Poet 8278
Farewell to Ben Vrackie 1894-10 Blackwood’s Edinburgh Magazine Poet 8146
Pious Resolutions, by a Prospective Lecturer 1895-11 Blackwood’s Edinburgh Magazine Poet 8105