Anna Laetitia Barbauld - Eyes Quotes

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

Anna Laetitia Barbauld

Who can resist those dumb beseeching eyes,
Where genuine eloquence persuasive lies?
Those eyes, where language fails, display thy heart
Beyond the pomp of phrase and pride of art.

Anna Laetitia Barbauld

The well-taught philosophic mind
To all compassion gives;
Casts round the world an equal eye,
And feels for all that lives.

Anna Laetitia Barbauld

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.

Anna Laetitia Barbauld

Health to my friend, and long unbroken years,
By storms unruffled and unstained by tears:
Winged by new joys may each white minute fly;
Spring on her cheek, and sunshine in her eye.

Anna Laetitia Barbauld

What atom forms of insect life appear! And who can follow Nature's pencil here? Their wings with azure, green and purple gloss'd, Studded with color eyes, with gems embossed, Inlaid with pearl, and marked with various stains Of lovely crimson, through their dusky veins.

Anna Laetitia Barbauld