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"Man is the nobler growth our realms supply, And souls are ripened in our northern sky."
Mrs. Barbauld / The Invitation.
The Invitation.
Bartlett's Familiar Quotations, 9th ed. (Little, Brown, 1905), public domain
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"This dead of midnight is the noon of thought, And Wisdom mounts her zenith with the stars."
Mrs. Barbauld / A Summer's Evening Meditation.
A Summer's Evening Meditation.
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"It is to hope, though hope were lost."
Mrs. Barbauld / Come here, Fond Youth.
Come here, Fond Youth.
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"Life! we 've been long together Through pleasant and through cloudy weather; 'T is hard to part when friends are dear,-- Perhaps 't will 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.""
Mrs. Barbauld / Life.
Life.
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"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."
Mrs. Barbauld / The Death of the Virtuous.
The Death of the Virtuous.
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"Child of mortality, whence comest thou? Why is thy countenance sad, and why are thine eyes red with weeping?"
Mrs. Barbauld / Hymns in Prose. xiii.
Hymns in Prose. xiii.
Bartlett's Familiar Quotations, 9th ed. (Little, Brown, 1905), public domain