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OF
ANNA LÆTITIA BARBAULD.
WITH A MEMOIR
BY LUCY AIKIN.
Bright-eyed Fancy hovering o'er Scatters from her pictured urn Thoughts that breathe and words that burn.
IN TWO VOLUMES.
VOL. I.
LONDON:
PRINTED FOR
LONGMAN, HURST, REES, ORME, BROWN, AND GREEN,
PATERNOSTER-ROW.
· 1925.,
CONTENTS OF VOLUME I.
1
35
.
Page
Corsica
The Invitation. To Miss B ***
12
The Groans of the Tankard
23
On the Backwardness of the Spring 1771
29
Verses written in an Alcove
31
The Mouse's Petition
To Mrs. P**** ****, with some drawings of birds and
insects
39
Characters .
47
An Inventory of the Furniture in Dr. Priestley's Study. 55
On a Lady's Writing
59
On the Deserted Village
60
Hymn to Content
61
To Wisdom ..
65
The Origin of Song-writing
67
Songs
73
Delia. An Elegy
87
Ovid to his Wife .
93
To a Lady, with some painted flowers
. 100
Ode to Spring
· 102
Epithalamium
. 106
Verses on Mrs. Rowe
. 108
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To a Dog
111
To Miss R****, on her attendance upon her mother at
Buxton
112
On the Death of Mrs. Jennings
115
An Address to the Deity
117
A Summer Evening's Meditation
122
The Epiphany
129
To Mr. Barbauld
134
To Mr. Barbauld, with a map of the Land of Matrimony 137
Love and Time
140
To Miss F. B., on her asking for Mrs. B.'s “Love and
Time"
145
Tomorrow
146
Lines placed over a Chimney-piece
147
Written on a Marble
148
A School Eclogue .
149
What do the Futures speak of ?-in answer to a question
in the Greek grammar
157
Autumn. A fragment
159
To the Baron de Stonne, who had wished at the next
transit of Mercury to find himself again between Mrs.
La Borde and Mrs. B.
. . 161
To the Baron de Stonne, with Aikin's Essay on Song-
writing
165
To the Miss Websters, with Dr. Aikin's “Wish," which
they expressed a desire to have a copy of
Epistle to Dr. Enfield, on his revisiting Warrington in
1789
168
Epistle to William Wilberforce, Esq., on the Rejection of
the Bill for abolishing the Slave Trade, 1791 · 173
· 166