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 ...
COME here fond youth, whoe'er thou be, That boasts to love as well as me;And if thy breast have felt ...
EdwardHist, William! hist! what means that air so gay?Thy looks, thy dress, bespeak some holiday:Thy hat is brushed; thy hands, ...
Deep in Sabea's fragrant groves retired,Long had the Eastern Sages studious dwelt,By love sublime of sacred science fired:Long had they ...
ON HIS REVISITING WARRINGTON IN 1789Friend of those years which from Youth's sparkling fountWith silent lapse down Time's swift gulf ...
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 ...
YES, DELIA loves! My fondest vows are blest;Farewel the memory of her past disdain;One kind relenting glance has heal'd my ...
God of my life! and author of my days!Permit my feeble voice to lisp thy praise;And trembling, take upon a ...
SWEET daughter of a rough and stormy fire,Hoar Winter's blooming child; delightful Spring! Whose unshorn locks with leaves ...
PERFORMED BY A FAMILY PARTY ON THE ANNIVERSARY OF MR. AND MRS. C.'S MARRIAGE"To wake the soul by tender strokes ...
Midway the hill of science, after steepAnd rugged paths that tire the' unpractised feet,A grove extends; in tangled mazes wrought,And ...
A FRAGMENTFarewell the softer hours, Spring's opening blushAnd Summer's deeper glow, the shepherd's pipeTuned to the murmurs of a weeping ...
Yes, Britain mourns, as with electric touch,For youth, for love, for happiness destroyed,Her universal population meltsIn grief spontaneous, and hard ...
WITH DR. AIKIN'S "WISH," WHICH THEY EXPRESSED A DESIRE TO HAVE A COPY OFNot this the Wish in life's first, ...
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