Anna Letitia Barbauld Quotes

• Child of mortality, whence comest thou? Why is thy countenance sad, and why are thine eyes red with weeping?
• OH! hear a pensive captive's prayer, For liberty that sighs ; And never let thine heart be shut Against the prisoner's cries.
• If e'er thy breast with freedom glow'd, And spurn'd a tyrant's chain, Let not thy strong oppressive force A free-born mouse detain.
• The chearful light, the vital air, Are blessings widely given ; Let nature's commoners enjoy The common gifts of heaven.
• Man is the nobler growth our realms supply, And souls are ripened in our northern sky.
• This dead of midnight is the noon of thought, And Wisdom mounts her zenith with the stars.
• It is to hope, though hope were lost.
• Life! we've been long together Through pleasant and through cloudy weather; 'T is hard to part when friends are dear,- Perhaps 't will cost a sigh, a tear; Then steal away, give little warning, Choose thine own time; Say not 'Good night,' but in some brighter clime Bid me 'Good morning.'
• 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.

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