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 ...
OF strange events I sing, and portents dire;The wond'rous themes a reverent ear require;Tho' strange the tale, the faithful Muse ...
Deep in Sabea's fragrant groves retired,Long had the Eastern Sages studious dwelt,By love sublime of sacred science fired:Long had they ...
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 ...
God of my life! and author of my days!Permit my feeble voice to lisp thy praise;And trembling, take upon a ...
O Thou, the Nymph with placid eye!O seldom found, yet ever nigh! Receive my temperate vow:Not all the ...
When blooming beauty in the noon of power,While offered joys demand each sprightly hour,With all that pomp of charms and ...
WHO IS EXPECTED SOON TO BECOME VISIBLEGerm of new life, whose powers expanding slow For many a moon their full ...
Stranger, approach! within this iron doorThrice locked and bolted, this rude arch beneathThat vaults with ponderous stone the cell; confinedBy ...
LIFE! I know not what thou art, But know that thou and I must part; And when, or how, or ...
Sweet are the thoughts that stir the virgin's breastWhen love first enters there, a timid guest;Before her dazzled eyes gay ...
Behold, where breathing love divine,Our dying Master stands!His weeping followers gathering roundReceive his last commands.From that mild teacher's parting lipsWhat ...
When sickness clouds the languid eye,And seeds of sharp diseases flySwift through the vital frame;Rich drugs are torn from earth ...
Child of distress, who meet'st the bitter scornOf fellow-men to happier prospects born,Doomed Art and Nature's various stores to seeFlow ...
DECEMBER 29, 1792.Stirs not thy spirit, Priestley! as the trainWith low obeisance, and with servile phrase,File behind file, advance, with ...
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