Anna Laetitia Barbauld - Life Quotes

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The most characteristic mark of a great mind is to choose some one important object, and pursue it for life.

Anna Laetitia Barbauld
Life! I know not what thou art,
But know that thou and I must part;
And when, or how, or where we met,
I own to me's a secret yet.

Anna Laetitia Barbauld
Haste, precious pledge of happy love, to go
Auspicious borne through life's mysterious gate.

Anna Laetitia Barbauld
Happy is he to whom, in the maturer season of life, there remains one tried and constant friend...

Anna Laetitia Barbauld
Life! we've been long together
Through pleasant and through cloudy weather;
Tis hard to part when friends are dear,—
Perhaps 'twill 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."

Anna Laetitia Barbauld
Lo! the bright train their radiant wings unfold, With silver fring'd and freckl'd o'er with gold. On the gay bosom of some fragrant flower They idly fluttering live their little hour; Their life all pleasure, and their task all play, All spring their age, and sunshine all their day.

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