Anna Letitia Barbauld quotes

Anna Letitia Barbauld was an English poet, essayist, and children's author, renowned for her literary and educational works. Her writings addressed social, political, and religious issues of her time and influenced the Romantic movement. She played a significant role in shaping children's literature and advocating for progressive educational reform. Here are 22 of her quotes:

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

Anna Letitia 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 Letitia 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 Letitia Barbauld

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

Anna Letitia Barbauld

It is to hope, though hope were lost.

Anna Letitia Barbauld

If e'er thy breast with freedom glow'd, And spurn'd a tyrant's chain, Let not thy strong oppressive force A free-born mouse detain.

Anna Letitia Barbauld

So when unseen destruction lurks, Which men like mice may share, May some kind angel clear thy path, And break the hidden snare.

Anna Letitia Barbauld

The chearful light, the vital air, Are blessings widely given; Let nature's commoners enjoy The common gifts of heaven.

Anna Letitia Barbauld

Flowers, the sole luxury which nature knew, In Eden's pure and guiltless garden grew- Gay without toil, and lovely without art, They spring to cheer the sense, and glad the heart.

Anna Letitia Barbauld

The dead of midnight is the noon of thought.

Anna Letitia Barbauld

But every act in consequence of our faith, strengthens faith.

Anna Letitia Barbauld

The best way for women to acquire knowledge is from conversation with a father, a brother, or a friend, in the way of family intercourse and easy conversation, and by such a course of reading as they may recommend.

Anna Letitia Barbauld

When one by one our ties are torn, and friend from friend is snatched forlorn; when man is left alone to mourn, oh! then how sweet it is to die!

Anna Letitia Barbauld

OH! hear a pensive captive's prayer, For liberty that sighs; And never let thine heart be shut Against the prisoner's cries.

Anna Letitia Barbauld

This dead of midnight is the noon of thought, And Wisdom mounts her zenith with the stars.

Anna Letitia Barbauld

I read his awful name, emblazon'd high With golden letters on th' illumin'd sky.

Anna Letitia Barbauld

Come calm content serene and sweet, O gently guide my pilgrim feet To find thy hermit cell.

Anna Letitia Barbauld

With Thee in shady solitudes I walk, With Thee in busy, crowded cities talk; In every creature own Thy forming power, In each event Thy providence adore.

Anna Letitia Barbauld

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

Anna Letitia Barbauld