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 ...
IWith love exceeding a simple love of the thingsThat glide in grasses and rubble of woody wreck;Or change their perch ...
HOPE , heavenly maid! to thee I sing, Who hovering round the anguish'd heart, Dost steep ...
I'd fain instruct you, pretty Bell,How you most others might excel;The Lesson's short, and mighty easy,I scorn with long Harangues ...
How sweet the summer morning's blush, The noontide's ripening glow,The gloaming's shadows o'er the path Where happy lovers go,The lakelet's ...
When Nature wants to drill a manAnd thrill a man,And skill a man,When Nature wants to mould a manTo play ...
Within the precincts of this yard,Each in his narrow confines barred,Dwells every beast that can be foundOn Afric or on ...
SAY, lordly Man, of pow'rs possest,That no inferior creatures know;Say, can the mind with reason blest,Relentless fury show.To thy domain ...
Beauty complete, and majesty divine,In all thy works, ador'd Creator, shine.Where'er I cast my wond'ring eyes around,The God I seek ...
BIT of topsy-turvy artifice Goes wandering like a monarch ...
Oh, for that kindly copper I knew long years ago,A stalwart man and proper, Crime's unrelenting foe.He was for me ...
Down thro' the ages these same sticksHave played on man their knavish tricks. Down thro' the ages these false lips ...
Nothing substance utters or time stills and restrains joins design and supple measure deftly as thought's intricate polyphonic score dovetails ...
PATIENCE and I have traveled hand in hand So many days that I have grown to trace The lines of ...
You have been born for sadness and for pains: Fate could have placed your narrow baby-bed In palace, by the ...
1903 (South African War ended, May, 1902) Here, where my fresh-turned furrows run, And the deep soil glistens red, I ...
THOUGHTS ON JESUS CHRIST'S DESCENT INTO HELL. [THE remarkable Poem of which this is a literal but faint representation, was ...
They came in masted wooden ships across an unindentured sea and cast their lot in ocean swells to chance at ...
Life is simple and gay The bright sun rings with a quiet sound The sound of the bells has quieted ...
To Henry St. John, Lord Bolingbroke Awake, my St. John! leave all meaner things To low ambition, and the pride ...
The First Epistle Awake, my ST. JOHN!(1) leave all meaner things To low ambition, and the pride of Kings. Let ...
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