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 ...
MY aged head now stoops its honours low, Bow'd with the load of fifty winters' snow; And for the raven's ...
'TIS past! The sultry tyrant of the southHas spent his short-liv'd rage; more grateful hoursMove silent on; the skies no ...
OF strange events I sing, and portents dire;The wond'rous themes a reverent ear require;Tho' strange the tale, the faithful Muse ...
Deep in Sabea's fragrant groves retired,Long had the Eastern Sages studious dwelt,By love sublime of sacred science fired:Long had they ...
YES, DELIA loves! My fondest vows are blest;Farewel the memory of her past disdain;One kind relenting glance has heal'd my ...
Jehovah reigns: let every nation hear,And at his footstool bow with holy fear;Let heaven's high arches echo with his name,And ...
PERFORMED BY A FAMILY PARTY ON THE ANNIVERSARY OF MR. AND MRS. C.'S MARRIAGE"To wake the soul by tender strokes ...
NOW the moon-beam's trembling lustre Silvers o'er the dewy green,And in soft and shadowy colours Sweetly paints the ...
Midway the hill of science, after steepAnd rugged paths that tire the' unpractised feet,A grove extends; in tangled mazes wrought,And ...
Rise, mighty nation, in thy strength,And deal thy dreadful vengeance round;Let thy great spirit, roused at length,Strike hordes of despots ...
The world is not their friend, nor the world's law.Lo where a crowd of pilgrims toilYon craggy steeps among!Strange their ...
Virgin, brighter than the morning,Haste and finish thy adorning!Hymen claims his promised day,-Come from thy chamber, come away!Roses strew, and ...
O WISDOM! if thy soft controulCan sooth the sickness of the soul,Can bid the warring passions cease,And breathe the balm ...
WITH DR. AIKIN'S "WISH," WHICH THEY EXPRESSED A DESIRE TO HAVE A COPY OFNot this the Wish in life's first, ...
Say, ye who through this round of eighty yearsHave proved its joys and sorrows, hopes and fears,-Say, what is life, ...
Awake, my soul! lift up thine eyes,See where thy foes against thee rise,In long array, a numerous host;Awake, my soul! ...
Sweet is the scene when Virtue dies!-When sinks a righteous soul to rest,How mildly beam the closing eyes,How gently heaves ...
How blest the sacred tie that bindsIn union sweet according minds!How swift the heavenly course they run,Whose hearts, whose faith, ...
Dear faithful object of my tender care,Whom but my partial eyes none fancy fair;May I unblamed display thy social mirth,Thy ...
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