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 ...
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 ...
EdwardHist, William! hist! what means that air so gay?Thy looks, thy dress, bespeak some holiday:Thy hat is brushed; thy hands, ...
Deep in Sabea's fragrant groves retired,Long had the Eastern Sages studious dwelt,By love sublime of sacred science fired:Long had they ...
God of my life! and author of my days!Permit my feeble voice to lisp thy praise;And trembling, take upon a ...
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 ...
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 ...
SUCH were the notes our chaster SAPPHO sung,And every muse dropt honey on her tongue.Blest shade ! how pure a ...
Midway the hill of science, after steepAnd rugged paths that tire the' unpractised feet,A grove extends; in tangled mazes wrought,And ...
WHO IS EXPECTED SOON TO BECOME VISIBLEGerm of new life, whose powers expanding slow For many a moon their full ...
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 ...
OH! born to sooth distress, and lighten care;Lively as soft, and innocent as fair;Blest with that sweet simplicity of thoughtSo ...
Yes, Britain mourns, as with electric touch,For youth, for love, for happiness destroyed,Her universal population meltsIn grief spontaneous, and hard ...
Yes, injured Woman! rise, assert thy right!Woman! too long degraded, scorned, opprest;O born to rule in partial Law's despite,Resume thy ...
NOVEMBER, 14, 1778.Come, clear thy studious looks awhile,'T is arrant treason nowTo wear that moping brow,When I, thy empress, bid ...
The world is not their friend, nor the world's law.Lo where a crowd of pilgrims toilYon craggy steeps among!Strange their ...
Praise to God, immortal praise, For the love that crowns our days;Bounteous source of every joy,Let thy praise our tongues ...
Pure spirit! O where art thou now! O whisper to my soul!O let some soothing thought of thee,The bitter grief ...
Sweet are the thoughts that stir the virgin's breastWhen love first enters there, a timid guest;Before her dazzled eyes gay ...
Virgin, brighter than the morning,Haste and finish thy adorning!Hymen claims his promised day,-Come from thy chamber, come away!Roses strew, and ...
Behold, where breathing love divine,Our dying Master stands!His weeping followers gathering roundReceive his last commands.From that mild teacher's parting lipsWhat ...
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! ...
Blest art! What magic powers with thine may vie,That brings (too seldom seen) a Brother nigh?That gives, by colours into ...
IN ANSWER TO A QUESTION IN THE GREEK GRAMMARThey speak of never-withering shades,And bowers of opening joy;They promise mines of ...
Joy to the followers of the Lord!Thus saith the sure the eternal word.Not of earth the joy it brings,Tempered in ...
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