Classic and Contemporary Poetry
A CHARACTER, by ANNA LETITIA BARBAULD Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Be this philander's praise -- a well-tuned mind Last Line: Taste of the sacred spring from which they flow. Alternate Author Name(s): Aikin, Anna Letitia Subject(s): Virtue; Purity | ||||||||
Be this Philander's praise, -- a well-tuned mind, Lofty as man, and more than woman kind; A virgin soul which, spotless yet and bright, Keeps all the lustre of its native white. Virtue in him from no cold precept flow'd, But with a vigorous, genuine ardour glow'd; So pure his feelings and his sense so strong, Seldom his head, his heart was never wrong; Gentle to others, to himself severe, And mild from pity only, not from fear. Tender yet firm, and prudent without art, The sweetest manners and the gentlest heart. If in so fair a mind there reign'd a fault, 'T was sensibility too finely wrought, Too quickly roused, too exquisite for peace, Too deeply thoughtful for unmingled ease. His griefs were like his joys, too far refined To reach the dull or touch the selfish mind; Yet the pure sorrows that on virtue grow, Taste of the sacred spring from which they flow. | Discover our Poem Explanations and Poet Analyses!Other Poems of Interest...TOMORROW by ANNA LETITIA BARBAULD THE RIGHTS OF WOMAN by ANNA LETITIA BARBAULD WASHING-DAY by ANNA LETITIA BARBAULD A SUMMER EVENING'S MEDITATION by ANNA LETITIA BARBAULD HYMN: 2 by ANNA LETITIA BARBAULD LIFE [AND DEATH] by ANNA LETITIA BARBAULD ODE TO SPRING by ANNA LETITIA BARBAULD ON THE EXPECTED GENERAL RISING OF THE FRENCH NATION IN 1792 by ANNA LETITIA BARBAULD THE MOUSE'S PETITION TO DOCTOR PRIESTLY FOUND IN THE TRAP .. by ANNA LETITIA BARBAULD THE SABBATH OF THE SOUL by ANNA LETITIA BARBAULD TO A LITTLE INVISIBLE BEING WHO IS EXPECTED SOON TO BECOME VISIBLE by ANNA LETITIA BARBAULD |
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