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The works of Anna Lætitia Barbauld

(1743-1825)
  
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CORSICA.
  
THE INVITATION.
  
THE GROANS OF THE TANKARD.
  
ON THE BACKWARDNESS OF THE SPRING 1771.
  
VERSES WRITTEN IN AN ALCOVE.
  
THE MOUSE'S PETITION .
  
TO MRS. P********,
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CHARACTERS.
  
[O born to soothe distress and lighten care]
  
[Of gentle manners, and of taste refined]
  
[Happy old man! who stretched beneath the shade]
  
[Such were the dames of old heroic days]
  
[Is there whom genius and whom taste adorn]
  
[Champion of Truth, alike through Nature's field]
  
AN INVENTORY OF THE FURNITURE IN DR. PRIESTLEY'S STUDY.
  
ON A LADY'S WRITING.
  
ON THE DESERTED VILLAGE.
  
HYMN TO CONTENT.
  
TO WISDOM.
  
THE ORIGIN OF SONG-WRITING .
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SONGS.
 I. 
SONG I.
 II. 
SONG II.
 III. 
SONG III.
 IV. 
SONG IV.
 V. 
SONG V.
 VI. 
SONG VI.
  
DELIA.
  
OVID TO HIS WIFE.
  
TO A LADY.
  
ODE TO SPRING.
  
EPITHALAMIUM .
  
VERSES ON MRS. ROWE.
  
TO A DOG.
  
TO MISS R****,
  
ON THE DEATH OF MRS. JENNINGS .
  
AN ADDRESS TO THE DEITY.
  
A SUMMER EVENING'S MEDITATION.
  
THE EPIPHANY.
  
TO MR. BARBAULD,
  
TO MR. BARBAULD,
  
LOVE AND TIME.
  
TO MISS F. B.
  
TOMORROW.
  
LINES
  
WRITTEN ON A MARBLE.
  
A SCHOOL ECLOGUE.
  
WHAT DO THE FUTURES SPEAK OF?
  
AUTUMN,
  
TO THE BARON DE STONNE,
  
TO THE BARON DE STONNE,
  
TO THE MISS WEBSTERS,
  
EPISTLE TO DR. ENFIELD,
  
EPISTLE TO WILLIAM WILBERFORCE, Esq.
  
ON THE EXPECTED GENERAL RISING OF THE FRENCH NATION, IN 1792.
  
TO DR. PRIESTLEY,
  
THE RIGHTS OF WOMAN.
  
INSCRIPTION FOR AN ICE-HOUSE.
  
AN AUTUMNAL THOUGHT:
  
TO THE POOR.
  
HYMN.
  
TO A LITTLE INVISIBLE BEING
  
WASHING-DAY.
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VERSES
  
TO DR. A.
  
TO MRS. A.
  
TO MR. S. T. COLERIDGE:
  
PEACE AND SHEPHERD.
  
ON THE DEATH OF MRS. MARTINEAU, Senr.
  
ON A PORTRAIT.
  
WEST END FAIR.
  
DIRGE:
  
THE UNKNOWN GOD.
  
ETERNITY.
  
EIGHTEEN HUNDRED AND ELEVEN.
  
ODE TO REMORSE.
  
LIFE.
  
ON THE KING'S ILLNESS:
  
A THOUGHT ON DEATH:
  
STANZAS:
  
TO MISS T.
  
THE FIRST FIRE.
  
THE CATERPILLAR.
  
ON THE DEATH OF THE PRINCESS CHARLOTTE.
  
THE WAKE OF THE KING OF SPAIN.
  
THE BABY-HOUSE.
  
LOGOGRIPH.
  
RIDDLE.
  
ENIGMA.
  
RIDDLE.
  
PROLOGUE TO A DRAMA,
  
LINES
  
TO A FRIEND.
  
DEJECTION.
  
TO MRS. MARISSAL:
  
EPITAPH ON THE SAME.
  
TO MR. BOWRING,
  
FRAGMENT.
  
OCTOGENARY REFLECTIONS.
  
THE DEATH OF THE VIRTUOUS.
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HYMNS.
 I. 
HYMN I.
 II. 
HYMN II.
 III. 
HYMN III. FOR EASTER SUNDAY.
 IV. 
HYMN IV.
 V. 
HYMN V.
 VI. 
HYMN VI. PIOUS FRIENDSHIP.
 VII. 
HYMN VII.
 VIII. 
HYMN VIII.
 IX. 
HYMN IX.
 X. 
HYMN X. A PASTORAL HYMN.
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SABBATH HYMNS.
 XI. 
HYMN XI.
 XII. 
HYMN XII.

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THE DEATH OF THE VIRTUOUS.

Sweet is the scene when Virtue dies!—
When sinks a righteous soul to rest,
How mildly beam the closing eyes,
How gently heaves the' expiring breast!
So fades a summer cloud away;
So sinks the gale when storms are o'er;
So gently shuts the eye of day;
So dies a wave along the shore.
Triumphant smiles the victor brow,
Fanned by some angel's purple wing;—
Where is, O Grave! thy victory now?
And where, insidious Death! thy sting?
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Farewell, conflicting joys and fears,
Where light and shade alternate dwell;
How bright the' unchanging morn appears!
Farewell, inconstant world, Farewell!
Its duty done,—as sinks the clay,
Light from its load the spirit flies;
While heaven and earth combine to say,
“Sweet is the scene when Virtue dies!”
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