BY

ANNA LETITIA BARBAULD.

Hæc sat erit, Divæ, vestrum cecinisse poetam,

Dum sedet, et gracili fiscellam texit hibisco.

CONTENTS.

Corsica.

1

The Invitation, to Miss B

The Groans of the Tankard.

On the Backwardness of the Spring 1771.

Verses written in an Alcove.

The Mouse's Petition. -

To Mrs. P........, with Drawings of Birds and Insects.

Characters.

On a Lady's Writing.

Hymn to Content.

To Wisdom.

To Miss R ...., on her Attendance upon her Mother at Buxton. -

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CORSICA.

WRITTEN IN THE YEAR 1769.

A manly race

Of unsubmitting spirit, wise and brave;
Who still thro' bleeding ages struggled hard

To hold a generous undiminis'd state;
Too much in vain!

Thompson.

HAIL

generous CORSICA! unconquer'd isle!

The fort of freedom; that amidst the waves
Stands like a rock of adamant, and dares
The wildest fury of the beating storm.

And are there yet, in this late sickly age, Unkindly to the tow'ring growths of virtue, Such bold exalted spirits? Men whose deeds, To the bright annals of old GREECE oppos'd,