"But soon, alas! this holy calm is broke; / My soul submits to wear her wonted yoke; / With shackled pinions strives to soar in vain, / And mingles with the dross of earth again."
An Address to the Deity [from Poems]
At least 10 entries in ESTC (1773, 1774, 1776, 1777, 1792). McCarthy and Kraft note that the poem "became one of Barbauld's most famous and most reprinted poems" (41). Wollstonecraft reprinted it her anthology, <u>The Female Reader</u> (1789).  <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).