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 ...
——— A manly race Of unsubmitting spirit, wise and brave; Who still through bleeding ages struggled hard To hold a ...
The kindred arts to please thee shall conspire,One dip the pencil, and one string the lyre. ...
MY aged head now stoops its honours low, Bow'd with the load of fifty winters' snow; And for the raven's ...
Observe the insect race, ordain'd to keepThe lazy Sabbath of a half-year's sleep.Entomb'd beneath the filmy web they lie, And ...
When blooming beauty in the noon of power,While offered joys demand each sprightly hour,With all that pomp of charms and ...
Ye who around this venerated bierIn pious anguish pour the tender tear,Mourn not!-'Tis Virtue's triumph, Nature's doom,When honoured Age, slow ...
Stranger, approach! within this iron doorThrice locked and bolted, this rude arch beneathThat vaults with ponderous stone the cell; confinedBy ...
'TIS past: dear venerable shade, farewel!Thy blameless life thy peaceful death shall tell.Clear to the last thy setting orb has ...
To learned Athens, led by fame,As once the man of Tarsus came,With pity and surpriseMidst idol altars as he stood,O'er ...
'Tis past! we breathe! assuaged at lengthThe flames that drank our vital strength!Smote with intolerable heatNo more our throbbing temples ...
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