The Invitation (Anna Laetitia Aikin Barbauld Poems)
HEALTH to my friend, and long unbroken years,By storms unruffled and unstain'd by tears:Wing'd by new joys may each white ...
HEALTH to my friend, and long unbroken years,By storms unruffled and unstain'd by tears:Wing'd by new joys may each white ...
IN other lands we welcomed thee from out the drifting snow,With yule-log blazing on the hearth, beneath the mistletoe,The hoarse ...
IF , when far distant, memory should pourtrayThe sweet enjoyments of a former day;If she should reign and by her ...
"YOU tell me, fair one, that you ne'er can love, And seem with scorn to mock the dangerous fire; But ...
A land without ruins is a land without memories -- a land without memories is a land without history. A ...
Ye offspring of the morning sun, Ye flowers that deck the smiling plain,Your lives, in joy and bliss begun, In ...
Grave brother of the burning sands, Whose eyes enshrine forever The desert's soul, are you not worn Of gazing outward ...
With big tin trumpet and little red drum,Marching like soldiers, the children come!It 's this way and that way they ...
From earth I seem to wing my flight,And sun myself in Heaven's pure light, When thy sweet gaze meets mineI ...
Let me not die for ever! when I'm laid In the cold earth; but let my memory Live ...
I love: and day by day, as absent, pine Barr'd from her sight and converse whom I love: And yet ...
There are who lord it o'er their fellow-men With most prevailing tinsel: who unpen Their baaing vanities, to browse away ...
I My ardours for emprize nigh lost Since Life has bared its bones to me, I shrink to seek a ...
With big tin trumpet and little red drum, Marching like soldiers, the children come! It 's this way and that ...
Say not of beauty she is good, Or aught but beautiful, Or sleek to doves' wings of the wood Her ...
Happy Grave, thou dost enshrine That which makes thee a rich mine: Remember yet, 'tis but a loane; And wee ...
From earth I seem to wing my flight, And sun myself in Heaven's pure light, When thy sweet gaze meets ...
Ye offspring of the morning sun, Ye flowers that deck the smiling plain, Your lives, in joy and bliss begun, ...
Now Morn, her rosy steps in the eastern clime Advancing, sowed the earth with orient pearl, When Adam waked, so ...
As one who in his journey bates at noon, Though bent on speed; so here the Arch-Angel paused Betwixt the ...
Of Man's first disobedience, and the fruit Of that forbidden tree whose mortal taste Brought death into the World, and ...
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