Poems (Barbauld)

by Anna Laetitia Barbauld

For works with similar titles, see Poems.

POEMS.

 

Hæc sat erit, Divæ, vestrum cecinisse poetam,
Dum sedet, et gracili fiscellam texit hibisco.
Virgil.

 

THE THIRD EDITION, CORRECTED.

 

LONDON:

PRINTED FOR JOSEPH JOHNSON, IN ST, PAUL'S CHURCH-YARD.

MDCCLXXIII.

T O

THE RIGHT HONOURABLE

LADY MARY WEST,

THESE POEMS

ARE RESPECTFULLY INSCRIBED

BY HER LADYSHIP'S OBLIGED

AND MOST OBEDIENT SERVANT,

Warrington,
Dec. 1st. 1772. ANNA LÆTITIA AIKIN.

CONTENTS.

Page

CORSICA. ....................................................................................................................................................................................................................................................

1.

The Invitation, to Miss B----. ....................................................................................................................................................................................................................................................

13.

The Groans of the Tankard. ....................................................................................................................................................................................................................................................

25.

On the Backwardness of the Spring 1771. ....................................................................................................................................................................................................................................................

31.

Verses written in an Alcove. ....................................................................................................................................................................................................................................................

33.

The Mouse's Petition. ....................................................................................................................................................................................................................................................

37.

To Mrs. P--------, with Drawings of Birds and Insects. ....................................................................................................................................................................................................................................................

41.

Characters. ....................................................................................................................................................................................................................................................

49.

On a Lady's Writing. ....................................................................................................................................................................................................................................................

52.

Hymn to Content. ....................................................................................................................................................................................................................................................

53.

To Wisdom. ....................................................................................................................................................................................................................................................

57.

The Origin of Song-Writing. ....................................................................................................................................................................................................................................................

59.

Songs. ....................................................................................................................................................................................................................................................

66.

Delia, an Elegy. ....................................................................................................................................................................................................................................................

82.

Ovid to his Wife. ....................................................................................................................................................................................................................................................

88.

To a Lady, with painted Flowers. ....................................................................................................................................................................................................................................................

95.

Ode to Spring. ....................................................................................................................................................................................................................................................

97.

Verses on Mrs. Rowe. ....................................................................................................................................................................................................................................................

101.

To Miss R----, on her Attendance upon her Mother at Buxton. ....................................................................................................................................................................................................................................................

104.

On the Death of Mrs. Jennings. ....................................................................................................................................................................................................................................................

107.

Hymns. ....................................................................................................................................................................................................................................................

110.

An Address to the Deity. ....................................................................................................................................................................................................................................................

125.

A Summer Evening's Meditation. ....................................................................................................................................................................................................................................................

131.