Anna Letitia Barbauld quotes

" When one by one our ties are torn, and friend from friend is snatched forlorn; When man is left alone to mourn, oh! then how sweet it is to die! " # Death and Dying # Friends and Friendship # Nostalgia

" Child of mortality, whence comest thou? Why is thy countenance sad, and why are thine eyes red with weeping? " # Children

" OH! hear a pensive captive's prayer, For liberty that sighs ; And never let thine heart be shut Against the prisoner's cries. " # Prayer

" 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. " # Freedom

" The chearful light, the vital air, Are blessings widely given ; Let nature's commoners enjoy The common gifts of heaven. " # Heaven

" Man is the nobler growth our realms supply, And souls are ripened in our northern sky. " # Cities and City Life

" This dead of midnight is the noon of thought, And Wisdom mounts her zenith with the stars. " # Wisdom

" It is to hope, though hope were lost. " # Hope

" 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." " # Love

" 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. " # Life and Living