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 ...
——— A manly race Of unsubmitting spirit, wise and brave; Who still through bleeding ages struggled hard To hold a ...
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, ...
God of my life! and author of my days!Permit my feeble voice to lisp thy praise;And trembling, take upon a ...
For man's support I came at first from earth,But man perverts the purpose of my birth;Beneath his plastic hand new ...
No, helpless thing, I cannot harm thee now; Depart in peace, thy little life is safe,For I have scanned thy ...
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 ...
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 ...
When sickness clouds the languid eye,And seeds of sharp diseases flySwift through the vital frame;Rich drugs are torn from earth ...
Say, ye who through this round of eighty yearsHave proved its joys and sorrows, hopes and fears,-Say, what is life, ...
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