Songs (Anna Laetitia Aikin Barbauld Poems)
COME here fond youth, whoe'er thou be, That boasts to love as well as me;And if thy breast have felt ...
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. ...
MY aged head now stoops its honours low, Bow'd with the load of fifty winters' snow; And for the raven's ...
——— and their voice, Turning again towards childish treble, pipes And whistles in its sound. ———The Muses are turned gossips; ...
Deep in Sabea's fragrant groves retired,Long had the Eastern Sages studious dwelt,By love sublime of sacred science fired:Long had they ...
YES, DELIA loves! My fondest vows are blest;Farewel the memory of her past disdain;One kind relenting glance has heal'd my ...
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 ...
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 ...
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 ...
Midway the hill of science, after steepAnd rugged paths that tire the' unpractised feet,A grove extends; in tangled mazes wrought,And ...
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 ...
The sailor worn by toil and wet with storms,As in the wished-for port secure he rides,With transport numbers o'er the ...
Again the Lord of life and lightAwakes the kindling ray;Unseals the eyelids of the morn,And pours increasing day.O what a ...
Rise, mighty nation, in thy strength,And deal thy dreadful vengeance round;Let thy great spirit, roused at length,Strike hordes of despots ...
Pure spirit! O where art thou now! O whisper to my soul!O let some soothing thought of thee,The bitter grief ...
Child of distress, who meet'st the bitter scornOf fellow-men to happier prospects born,Doomed Art and Nature's various stores to seeFlow ...
Say, ye who through this round of eighty yearsHave proved its joys and sorrows, hopes and fears,-Say, what is life, ...
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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