Anna Laetitia Barbauld Quotes

English author (1743–1825)

Anna Letitia Barbauld (June 20, 1743 – March 9, 1825) was an English poet and miscellaneous writer.

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Alternative Names: Anna Laetitia Aiken • Anna Letitia Barbauld • Anna Lætitia Barbauld • Ann Letitia Barbauld • Anna (Laetitia) Barbauld

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It is to hope, tho' hope were lost.

O gently guide my pilgrim feet
To find thy hermit cell;
Where in some pure and equal sky
Beneath thy soft indulgent eye
The modest virtues dwell.

Man is the nobler growth our realms supply,
And souls are ripen'd in our northern sky.

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