"At this still hour the self-collected soul  / Turns inward, and beholds a stranger there / Of high descent, and more than mortal rank."
An Summer Evening's Meditation [from Poems]
At least 10 entries in ESTC (1773, 1774, 1776, 1777, 1792).<br>
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Barbauld, Mrs. (Anna Letitia), 1743-1825.
See <u>Poems</u> (London: Printed for Joseph Johnson, 1773). &lt;<a href="http://estc.bl.uk/T74944">Link to ESTC</a>&gt;&lt;<a href="http://name.umdl.umich.edu/004796832.0001.000">Link to ECCO-TCP</a>&gt;<br>
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Some text drawn from <u>The Works of Anna LÃ¦titia Barbauld. With a Memoir by Lucy Aikin</u> (London: Longman, Hurst, Rees, Orme, Browne, and Green, 1825).<br>
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Reading McCarthy, William and Kraft, Elizabeth, eds. <u>Anna Letitia Barbauld: Selected Poetry and Prose</u> (Ontario: Broadview Press, 2002).