To Mrs. P********, With Some Drawings of Birds and Insects. (Anna Laetitia Aikin Barbauld Poems)
The kindred arts to please thee shall conspire,One dip the pencil, and one string the lyre. ...
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, ...
OF strange events I sing, and portents dire;The wond'rous themes a reverent ear require;Tho' strange the tale, the faithful Muse ...
ON HIS REVISITING WARRINGTON IN 1789Friend of those years which from Youth's sparkling fountWith silent lapse down Time's swift gulf ...
So long estranged from every Muse's lyre,And groveling in the tangled net of Care;What powerful breath shall kindle up that ...
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 ...
Rest, rest, afflicted spirit, quickly passThine hour of bitter suffering! Rest awaits thee,There, where, the load of weary life laid ...
The sailor worn by toil and wet with storms,As in the wished-for port secure he rides,With transport numbers o'er the ...
Arrayed in robes of regal state,But stiff and cold, the monarch sate;In gorgeous vests, his chair beside,Stood prince and peer, ...
To learned Athens, led by fame,As once the man of Tarsus came,With pity and surpriseMidst idol altars as he stood,O'er ...
Sleep, sleep today, tormenting caresOf earth and folly born!Ye shall not dim the light that streamsFrom this celestial morn.Tomorrow will ...
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