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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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SABBATH HYMNS.

HYMN XI.

[Sleep, sleep today, tormenting cares]

Sleep, sleep today, tormenting cares
Of earth and folly born!
Ye shall not dim the light that streams
From this celestial morn.
Tomorrow will be time enough
To feel your harsh controul;
Ye shall not violate this day,
The sabbath of my soul.
Sleep, sleep for ever, guilty thoughts!
Let fires of vengeance die;
And, purged from sin, may I behold
A God of purity!
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HYMN XII.

[When, as returns this solemn day]

When, as returns this solemn day,
Man comes to meet his maker God,
What rites, what honours shall he pay?
How spread his sovereign's praise abroad?
From marble domes and gilded spires
Shall curling clouds of incense rise?
And gems, and gold, and garlands deck
The costly pomp of sacrifice?
Vain sinful man! Creation's lord
Thy golden offerings well may spare;
But give thy heart, and thou shalt find,
Here dwells a God who heareth prayer.
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