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 ...
COME here fond youth, whoe'er thou be, That boasts to love as well as me;And if thy breast have felt ...
The kindred arts to please thee shall conspire,One dip the pencil, and one string the lyre. ...
God of my life! and author of my days!Permit my feeble voice to lisp thy praise;And trembling, take upon a ...
ON HIS REVISITING WARRINGTON IN 1789Friend of those years which from Youth's sparkling fountWith silent lapse down Time's swift gulf ...
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 ...
YES, DELIA loves! My fondest vows are blest;Farewel the memory of her past disdain;One kind relenting glance has heal'd my ...
SWEET daughter of a rough and stormy fire,Hoar Winter's blooming child; delightful Spring! Whose unshorn locks with leaves ...
NOW the moon-beam's trembling lustre Silvers o'er the dewy green,And in soft and shadowy colours Sweetly paints the ...
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 ...
A FRAGMENTFarewell the softer hours, Spring's opening blushAnd Summer's deeper glow, the shepherd's pipeTuned to the murmurs of a weeping ...
NOVEMBER, 14, 1778.Come, clear thy studious looks awhile,'T is arrant treason nowTo wear that moping brow,When I, thy empress, bid ...
IN vain the sprightly sun renews his course,Climbs up th' ascending signs and leads the day,While long embattled clouds repel ...
The world is not their friend, nor the world's law.Lo where a crowd of pilgrims toilYon craggy steeps among!Strange their ...
O WISDOM! if thy soft controulCan sooth the sickness of the soul,Can bid the warring passions cease,And breathe the balm ...
FLOWERS to the fair: To you these flowers I bring,And strive to greet you with an earlier spring.Flowers sweet, and ...
Joy to the followers of the Lord!Thus saith the sure the eternal word.Not of earth the joy it brings,Tempered in ...
PLACED OVER A CHIMNEY-PIECESurly Winter, come not here;Bluster in thy proper sphere:Howl along the naked plain,There exert thy joyless reign;Triumph ...
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