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 ...
——— A manly race Of unsubmitting spirit, wise and brave; Who still through bleeding ages struggled hard To hold a ...
The kindred arts to please thee shall conspire,One dip the pencil, and one string the lyre. ...
EdwardHist, William! hist! what means that air so gay?Thy looks, thy dress, bespeak some holiday:Thy hat is brushed; thy hands, ...
God of my life! and author of my days!Permit my feeble voice to lisp thy praise;And trembling, take upon a ...
Jehovah reigns: let every nation hear,And at his footstool bow with holy fear;Let heaven's high arches echo with his name,And ...
A map of every country known,With not a foot to call his own.A list of folks that kicked a dustOn ...
When blooming beauty in the noon of power,While offered joys demand each sprightly hour,With all that pomp of charms and ...
Low in a deep sequestered vale,Whence Alpine heights ascend,A beauteous nymph, in pilgrim garb,Is seen her steps to bend.Her olive ...
The world is not their friend, nor the world's law.Lo where a crowd of pilgrims toilYon craggy steeps among!Strange their ...
To learned Athens, led by fame,As once the man of Tarsus came,With pity and surpriseMidst idol altars as he stood,O'er ...
O WISDOM! if thy soft controulCan sooth the sickness of the soul,Can bid the warring passions cease,And breathe the balm ...
DECEMBER 29, 1792.Stirs not thy spirit, Priestley! as the trainWith low obeisance, and with servile phrase,File behind file, advance, with ...
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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