Quote #8

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.'

More from Anna Letitia Barbauld

  1. It is to hope, though hope were lost.
  2. 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.
  3. This dead of midnight is the noon of thought, And Wisdom mounts her zenith with the stars.
  4. Man is the nobler growth our realms supply, And souls are ripened in our northern sky.
  5. The chearful light, the vital air, Are blessings widely given ; Let nature's commoners enjoy The common gifts of heaven.
  6. 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.
  7. OH! hear a pensive captive's prayer, For liberty that sighs ; And never let thine heart be shut Against the prisoner's cries.
  8. Child of mortality, whence comest thou? Why is thy countenance sad, and why are thine eyes red with weeping?

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