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 ...
The kindred arts to please thee shall conspire,One dip the pencil, and one string the lyre. ...
'TIS past! The sultry tyrant of the southHas spent his short-liv'd rage; more grateful hoursMove silent on; the skies no ...
——— and their voice, Turning again towards childish treble, pipes And whistles in its sound. ———The Muses are turned gossips; ...
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 ...
PERFORMED BY A FAMILY PARTY ON THE ANNIVERSARY OF MR. AND MRS. C.'S MARRIAGE"To wake the soul by tender strokes ...
O Thou, the Nymph with placid eye!O seldom found, yet ever nigh! Receive my temperate vow:Not all the ...
SUCH were the notes our chaster SAPPHO sung,And every muse dropt honey on her tongue.Blest shade ! how pure a ...
OH! born to sooth distress, and lighten care;Lively as soft, and innocent as fair;Blest with that sweet simplicity of thoughtSo ...
A FRAGMENTFarewell the softer hours, Spring's opening blushAnd Summer's deeper glow, the shepherd's pipeTuned to the murmurs of a weeping ...
Again the Lord of life and lightAwakes the kindling ray;Unseals the eyelids of the morn,And pours increasing day.O what a ...
The world is not their friend, nor the world's law.Lo where a crowd of pilgrims toilYon craggy steeps among!Strange their ...
Praise to God, immortal praise, For the love that crowns our days;Bounteous source of every joy,Let thy praise our tongues ...
Pure spirit! O where art thou now! O whisper to my soul!O let some soothing thought of thee,The bitter grief ...
Behold, where breathing love divine,Our dying Master stands!His weeping followers gathering roundReceive his last commands.From that mild teacher's parting lipsWhat ...
Child of distress, who meet'st the bitter scornOf fellow-men to happier prospects born,Doomed Art and Nature's various stores to seeFlow ...
O WISDOM! if thy soft controulCan sooth the sickness of the soul,Can bid the warring passions cease,And breathe the balm ...
Awake, my soul! lift up thine eyes,See where thy foes against thee rise,In long array, a numerous host;Awake, my soul! ...
How blest the sacred tie that bindsIn union sweet according minds!How swift the heavenly course they run,Whose hearts, whose faith, ...
When life as opening buds is sweet, And golden hopes the fancy greet,And Youth prepares his joys to meet,—Alas! how ...
PLACED OVER A CHIMNEY-PIECESurly Winter, come not here;Bluster in thy proper sphere:Howl along the naked plain,There exert thy joyless reign;Triumph ...
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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