The Works of Anna Lætitia Barbauld (1825)
Volume One

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Contents

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Front Matter  
Memoir, by Lucy Aikin  
Corsica 1
The Invitation. To Mis 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 35
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
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 Bord 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 166
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
On the expected general Rising of the French Nation in 1792 180
To Dr. Priestley 183
The Rights of Woman 185
Inscription for an Ice-house 188
An Autumnal Thought 190
To the Poor 192
Hymn 194
To a little Invisible Being who is expected soon to become visible 199
Washing-day 202
Verses inscribed on a Pair of Screens 207
To Mr. S. T. Coleridge 209
Peace and Shepherd 212
On the Death of Mrs. Martineau senior 215
On a Portrait 218
West End Fair 220
Dirge 224
The Unknown God 227
Eternity 230
Eighteen Hundred and Eleven 232
Ode to Remorse 251
Life 261
On the King's Illness, 1811 263
A Thought on Death 266
Stanzas, in the manner of Spenser 268
To Miss T. 271
The First Fire 273
The Caterpillar 278
On the Death of the Princess Charlotte 281
The Wake of the King of Spain 283
The Baby-house 286
Logogriph 290
Riddle 293
Prologue to a Drama, performed by a family party on the anniversary of Mr. And Mrs. C.'s marriage 298
Lines written in a young Lady's Album of different-coloured paper 302
To a Friend 303
Dejection 304
To Mrs. Marissal 306
Epitaph on the same 308
To Mr. Bowring, on his poetical translations from various languages 309
Fragment 311
Octogenary Reflections 313
The Death of the Virtuous 315
Hymns 317
Sabbath Hymns 343