Songs (Anna Laetitia Aikin Barbauld Poems)
COME here fond youth, whoe'er thou be, That boasts to love as well as me;And if thy breast have felt ...
COME here fond youth, whoe'er thou be, That boasts to love as well as me;And if thy breast have felt ...
——— A manly race Of unsubmitting spirit, wise and brave; Who still through bleeding ages struggled hard To hold a ...
'TIS past! The sultry tyrant of the southHas spent his short-liv'd rage; more grateful hoursMove silent on; the skies no ...
MY aged head now stoops its honours low, Bow'd with the load of fifty winters' snow; And for the raven's ...
——— and their voice, Turning again towards childish treble, pipes And whistles in its sound. ———The Muses are turned gossips; ...
OF strange events I sing, and portents dire;The wond'rous themes a reverent ear require;Tho' strange the tale, the faithful Muse ...
God of my life! and author of my days!Permit my feeble voice to lisp thy praise;And trembling, take upon a ...
WHO HAD WISHED AT THE NEXT TRANSIT OF MERCURY TO FIND HIMSELF AGAIN BETWEEN MRS. LA BORDE AND MRS. B.In ...
For man's support I came at first from earth,But man perverts the purpose of my birth;Beneath his plastic hand new ...
Dame Charity one day was tiredWith nursing of her children three,-So might you beIf you had nursed and nursed so ...
Gentle pilgrim, tell me whyDost thou fold thine arms and sigh,And wistful cast thine eyes around?-Whither, pilgrim, art thou bound?"The ...
How blest the sacred tie that bindsIn union sweet according minds!How swift the heavenly course they run,Whose hearts, whose faith, ...
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