"Pleased she surveys her infant charge, / Beholds the mental powers enlarge, / And as the young ideas rise, / Directs their issues to the skies."
To a Friend on her Marriage, 1784
See <u>Poems and Plays. By Mrs. West</u> (London: Printed by C. Whittingham; for T. N. Longman and O. Rees, Paternoster-Row, 1799). &lt;<a href="http://estc.bl.uk/N11804">Link to ESTC</a>&gt;<br>
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Text from Lonsdale, R. Ed. <u>Eighteenth Century Women Poets</u> (Oxford: Oxford UP, 1989).