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Quotes by Anna Letitia Barbauld
Life! we've been long together Through pleasant and through cloudy weather: 'Tis hard to part when friends are dear : Perhaps 'twill 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.— filed under Life
Man is the nobler growth our realms supply, And souls are ripened in our northern sky.— filed under Man
Is there not A tongue in every star that talks with man, And wooes him to be wise? nor wooes in vain; This dead of midnight is the noon of thought, And wisdom mounts her zenith with the stars.— filed under Midnight
Cruel Remorse! where Youth and Pleasure sport, And thoughtless Folly keeps her court, - Crouching 'midst rosy bowers thou lurk'st unseen; Slumbering the festal hours away, While Youth disports in that enchanting scene; Till on some fated day Thou with a tiger-spring dost leap upon thy prey, And tear his helpless breast, o'erwhelmed with wild dismay.— filed under Remorse
Child of mortality, whence comest thou? Why is thy countenance sad, and why are thine eyes red with weeping?— filed under Sadness
Fair Spring! whose simplest promise more delights Than all their largest wealth, and through the heart Each joy and new-born hope With softest influence breathes.— filed under Scripture
Fair Venus shines Even in the eye of day with sweetest beam with sweetest beam Propitious shines, and shakes a trembling flood Of softened radiance from her dewy locks.— filed under Twilight
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.— filed under Abd-El-Kader
It is to hope, though hope were lost.— filed under Hope