Works by Anna Letitia Barbauld [née Aikin]
Verse
- An Address to the Deity
- [Advice to William Enfield]
- Animals, and their Countries
- The Apology of the Bishops, in Answer to ‘Bonner’s Ghost’
- Autumn, a Fragment
- An Autumnal Thought: 1795
- The Baby-House
- Bouts Rimés in Praise of old Maids
- The Caterpillar
- A Character
- [A Character of Elizabeth Rigby]
- [A Character of John Aikin]
- [A Character of John Mort]
- [A Character of Joseph Priestley]
- [A Character of Martha Jennings]
- [A Character of Mrs Fenton]
- [A Character of Sarah Hallowell Vaughan]
- [A Character of Sarah Rigby]
- [A Character of Sarah Taylor Rigby]
- [A Character of Susannah Barbauld]
- Close section Conjectural Attributions (attrib.)
- Corsica
- The Cottage that Stands at the Foot of the Hill
- Dejection
- Delia. An Elegy
- [A Dialogue with Death]
- Dirge: Written November 1808
- [Eclogue on Elizabeth Belsham]
- Eighteen Hundred and Eleven, a Poem
- Enigma: To the Ladies
- [Epigram on David Garrick’s Shoe Buckles]
- The Epiphany
- Epistle to Dr Enfield, on his Revisiting Warrington in 1789
- Epistle to William Wilberforce, Esq. on the Rejection of the Bill for Abolishing the Slave Trade
- [Epitaph on Susannah Barbauld Marissal]
- Epithalamium
- Eternity
- [A Farewell to Mr and Mrs Edwards]
- The First Fire: October 1st, 1815
- Fragment (‘As the poor schoolboy’)
- Fragment (‘Fall, fall! poor leaf ’)
- Fragment (‘O is there not a land’)
- A Fragment of an Epic Poem, occasioned by the Loss of a Game of Chess to Dr. Priestley, in consequence of an unseasonable Drowsiness
- A Funeral Hymn
- The Groans of the Tankard
- Hymn to Content
- Hymn VI: Pious Friendship
- Hymn VII (Come, said Jesus’ sacred voice)
- Hymn VIII (Lo, where a crowd of Pilgrims toil)
- Hymn: ‘How may earth and heaven unite?’
- Hymn: ‘Joy to the followers of the Lord!’
- Hymn: ‘Sleep, sleep today, tormenting cares’
- Hymn: ‘When, as returns this solemn day’
- Hymn: ‘Ye are the salt of the earth’
- Close section Hymns
- Inscription for an Ice-House
- Inscription upon the Tomb of Elias Norgate, Student at Warrington Academy
- An Inventory of the Furniture in Dr. Priestley’s Study
- The Invitation: To Miss B*****
- The Lament: A Ballad
- Life
- [Lines for Anne Wakefield on her Wedding to Charles Rochemont Aikin, with a Pair of Chimney Ornaments in the Figures of two Females seated with open Books]
- [Lines on the Death of Philip Meadows]
- Lines placed over a Chimney-Piece
- Lines to be spoken by Thomas Denman, on the Christmas before his Birthday, when he was four Years old
- Lines to Mr W—, on his Forty-Fifth Birthday: Written impromptu in a post-chaise, on a journey, Sept. 1794
- [Lines to Robert Alderson upon his Departure from Warrington Academy]
- [Lines to Samuel Rogers in Wales on the Eve of Bastille Day, 1791]
- Lines with a Wedding Present
- Lines written at the Close of the Year
- Lines written in a young Lady’s Album of different-coloured Paper
- Logogriph
- Love and Time: To Mrs. Mulso
- Mock Conjuration: Peter and Betty
- [Mock Epitaph on John and Susanna Estlin]
- The Mouse’s Petition
- Ode to Remorse
- Ode to Spring
- On a Lady’s Writing
- On a Portrait
- On a Portrait of a Lady and two Children
- On Being asked if One was a Number
- On the Backwardness of the Spring 1771
- On the Birth of a Friend’s Eldest Son
- On the Death of Mrs Martineau
- On the Death of Mrs. Jennings
- On the Death of the Princess Charlotte
- On the King’s Illness
- The Origin of Song-Writing
- Ovid to his Wife: Imitated from different Parts of his Tristia
- Peace and Shepherd
- Petition of a Schoolboy to his Father
- The Petition of the Scotch General Assembly against the operation of the Test Act towards the Scotch
- The Pilgrim
- Prologue to ‘The Man of Pleasure’ by John Aikin
- Prologue to a Drama, performed by a Family Party on the Anniversary of Mr and Mrs C’s Marriage
- Prologue to the Play of Henry the Fourth. Spoken by a Warrington Student in his morning Gown
- [A Rebuke to Robert Southey]
- A Riddle (‘An unfortunate maid’)
- Riddle (‘From rosy bowers we issue forth’)
- The Rights of Woman
- A School Eclogue
- Sentiments, given in Walnuts after Dinner on the Wedding Day of Dr Parry to Miss Rigby
- Song for the London Volunteers
- Close section Songs
- Stanzas in the Manner of Spenser
- A Summer Evening’s Meditation
- A Thought on Death
- The Times
- To *******. Occasioned by his Poem on the Sun
- To a Dog
- To a Friend
- To a Great Nation
- To a Lady, with some painted Flowers
- To a Little Invisible Being who is Expected soon to become Visible
- To Dr Aikin on his Complaining that she neglected him, October 20th 1768
- To Dr Priestley. Dec. 29, 1792
- To Dr. Goldsmith, Author of The Deserted Village
- To Lord Byron
- To Miss D****
- To Miss F. B. on her asking for Mrs B’s ‘Love and Time’
- To Miss Kinder, on receiving a Note dated February 30th
- To Miss R—, on her Attendance upon her Mother at Buxton
- To Mr Barbauld, with a Map of the Land of Matrimony
- To Mr Barbauld: November 14, 1778
- To Mr Bowring, on his Poetical Translations from various Languages
- To Mr S. T. Coleridge
- To Mrs —, on Returning a fine Hyacinth Plant after the Bloom was over
- To Mrs Marissal, 1779
- To Mrs P—, with some Drawings of Birds and Insects
- To Mrs Priestley, on her Leaving Warrington
- To Sarah Taylor
- To the Baron de Stonne
- To the Baron de Stonne, who had wished at the next Transit of Mercury to find Himself again between Mrs. Laborde and Mrs. B—
- To the Baron de Stonne, with Aikin’s Essays on Song-Writing
- To the Miss Websters, with Dr Aikin’s ‘Wish’, which they expressed a Desire to have a Copy of
- To the New Year, 1823
- To the Poor
- To Wisdom
- To-morrow
- The Unknown God
- Verses inscribed on a Pair of Screens
- Verses on Mrs Rowe
- Verses written in an Alcove
- Verses written on the Back of an old Visitation Copy of the Arms of Dr Priestley’s Family, with Proposals for a new Escutcheon
- Verses written on the Leaves of an Ivory Pocket-Book, presented to Master T*****
- The Wake of the King of Spain
- Washing-Day
- West End Fair
- What Do the Futures Speak of? In Answer to a Question in the Greek Grammar
- Written on a Marble
