Corsica (Anna Laetitia Aikin Barbauld Poems)
——— A manly race Of unsubmitting spirit, wise and brave; Who still through bleeding ages struggled hard To hold a ...
——— A manly race Of unsubmitting spirit, wise and brave; Who still through bleeding ages struggled hard To hold a ...
HEALTH to my friend, and long unbroken years,By storms unruffled and unstain'd by tears:Wing'd by new joys may each white ...
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 ...
——— and their voice, Turning again towards childish treble, pipes And whistles in its sound. ———The Muses are turned gossips; ...
WHEN Cupid, wanton boy, was young,His wings unfledg'd, and rude his tongue,He loiter'd in Arcadian bowers,And hid his bow in ...
SWEET daughter of a rough and stormy fire,Hoar Winter's blooming child; delightful Spring! Whose unshorn locks with leaves ...
SUCH were the notes our chaster SAPPHO sung,And every muse dropt honey on her tongue.Blest shade ! how pure a ...
Stranger, approach! within this iron doorThrice locked and bolted, this rude arch beneathThat vaults with ponderous stone the cell; confinedBy ...
Say, ye who through this round of eighty yearsHave proved its joys and sorrows, hopes and fears,-Say, what is life, ...
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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