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  • To The Baron DeStonne,
    WITH AIKIN'S ESSAY ON SONG-WRITING
    To Gallia's gay and gallant coast
    13 lines
  • To Miss F. B.: On Her Asking For Mrs. B's Love and Time
    Of Love and Time say what would Fanny know?
    That Time is precious, and that Love is sweet?
    12 lines
  • The Epiphany
    Deep in Sabea's fragrant groves retired,
    Long had the Eastern Sages studious dwelt,
    85 lines
  • To Mr. Barbauld
    NOVEMBER, 14, 1778.
    Come, clear thy studious looks awhile,
    38 lines
  • Where A Crowd Of Pilgrims Toil
    \The world is not their friend, nor the world's law.\
    37 lines
  • Ovid To His Wife
    MY aged head now stoops its honours low,
    Bow'd with the load of fifty winters' snow;
    108 lines
  • Lines
    PLACED OVER A CHIMNEY-PIECE
    Surly Winter, come not here;
    17 lines
  • Lines
    WRITTEN IN A YOUNG LADY'S ALBUM OF DIFFERENT-COLOURED PAPER
    Life's chequered scenes these varied leaves display,
    15 lines
  • Riddle #2
    This creature, though extremely thin,
    In shape is almost square;
    28 lines
  • To Doctor Priestley
    DECEMBER 29, 1792.
    Stirs not thy spirit, Priestley! as the train
    22 lines
  • Songs
    COME here fond youth, whoe'er thou be,
    That boasts to love as well as me ;
    217 lines
  • Octogenery Reflections
    Say, ye who through this round of eighty years
    Have proved its joys and sorrows, hopes and fears,—
    21 lines
  • Written On A Marble
    The world's something bigger,
    But just of this figure
    10 lines
  • On A Portrait
    Blest art! What magic powers with thine may vie,
    That brings (too seldom seen) a Brother nigh?
    20 lines
  • The Invitation
    HEALTH to my friend, and long unbroken years,
    By storms unruffled and unstain'd by tears:
    188 lines
  • The Death of Virtuous
    Sweet is the scene when Virtue dies!—
    When sinks a righteous soul to rest,
    20 lines
  • To Dr. A.
    Within the cot the Muses love,
    May Peace reside, that household dove!
    14 lines
  • On The Death of Mrs. Martineau, Senr.
    Ye who around this venerated bier
    In pious anguish pour the tender tear,
    36 lines
  • To Mrs. Marissal
    Whither, whither, wearied dove,
    Wilt thou fly to seek thy rest?
    20 lines
  • Peace and Shepherd
    Low in a deep sequestered vale,
    Whence Alpine heights ascend,
    44 lines
  • West End Fair
    Dame Charity one day was tired
    With nursing of her children three,—
    51 lines
  • Ode To Remorse
    Dread offspring of the holy light within,
    Offspring of Conscience and of Sin,
    155 lines
  • To Love and Time
    TO MRS. MULSO.
    On Stella's brow as lately envious Time
    74 lines
  • Pious Friendship
    How blest the sacred tie that binds
    In union sweet according minds!
    20 lines
  • Prologue To A Drama
    PERFORMED BY A FAMILY PARTY ON THE ANNIVERSARY OF MR. AND MRS. C.'S MARRIAGE
    “To wake the soul by tender strokes of art,
    53 lines
  • To Wisdom
    O WISDOM ! if thy soft controul
    Can sooth the sickness of the soul,
    28 lines
  • To Mrs. A.
    You whose clear life, one fair, well-ordered day,
    In useful tenour calmly glides away;
    6 lines
  • Jehovah Reigns
    Jehovah reigns: let every nation hear,
    And at his footstool bow with holy fear;
    60 lines
  • This Solemn Day
    When, as returns this solemn day,
    Man comes to meet his maker God,
    12 lines
  • The Unknown God
    To learned Athens, led by fame,
    As once the man of Tarsus came,
    36 lines
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