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 ...
'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, ...
PERFORMED BY A FAMILY PARTY ON THE ANNIVERSARY OF MR. AND MRS. C.'S MARRIAGE"To wake the soul by tender strokes ...
So long estranged from every Muse's lyre,And groveling in the tangled net of Care;What powerful breath shall kindle up that ...
WHO IS EXPECTED SOON TO BECOME VISIBLEGerm of new life, whose powers expanding slow For many a moon their full ...
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 ...
Yes, injured Woman! rise, assert thy right!Woman! too long degraded, scorned, opprest;O born to rule in partial Law's despite,Resume thy ...
Sweet are the thoughts that stir the virgin's breastWhen love first enters there, a timid guest;Before her dazzled eyes gay ...
DECEMBER 29, 1792.Stirs not thy spirit, Priestley! as the trainWith low obeisance, and with servile phrase,File behind file, advance, with ...
Blest art! What magic powers with thine may vie,That brings (too seldom seen) a Brother nigh?That gives, by colours into ...
May never more of pensive melancholyWithin thy heart, beneath thy roof appear,Than just to break the charm of idle folly,And ...
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