1743-1825
Anna L. Barbauld (1743-1825)

June 20, 1743, Kib­worth-Har­court, Lei­ces­ter­shire, Eng­land.

March 9, 1825, New­ing­ton Green, Eng­land.

In the fam­i­ly vault, St. Ma­ry’s Church, Stoke New­ing­ton (north Lon­don), Eng­land.

Anna was the daugh­ter of John Ai­ken, a dis­sent­ing min­is­ter. In 1753, she be­came a class­ics tu­tor at a dis­sent­ing acad­e­my in War­ring­ton. Dur­ing her res­i­dence there, she con­trib­ut­ed five hymns to Dr. W. En­field’s Hymns for Pub­lic Wor­ship (War­ring­ton: 1772). In 1773, these were in­clud­ed in her Po­ems (Lon­don: J. John­son, 1773). In May 1774, An­na mar­ried Rev. Roche­mont Bar­bauld. The Bar­baulds moved to New­ing­ton Green in 1802, where she lived the rest of her life.

Barbauld is best known for her po­etry, in­clud­ing The Rights of Wo­man and The Mouse’s Pe­ti­tion.

  1. Again the Lord of Light and Life
  2. Awake, My Soul, Lift Up Thine Eyes
  3. Behold, Where Breath­ing Love Di­vine
  4. Come, Said Je­sus’ Sac­red Voice
  5. God of My Life and Author of My Days
  6. God, Our Kind Mas­ter, Mer­ci­ful as Just
  7. How Blest the Sac­red Tie That Binds
  8. How May Earth and Hea­ven Unite
  9. If Friendless in the Vale of Tears I Stray
  10. Jehovah Reigns, Let Ev­ery Na­tion Hear
  11. Joy to the Fol­low­ers of the Lord
  12. Lo Where a Crowd of Pil­grims Toil
  13. Our Coun­try is Im­man­u­el’s Ground
  14. Praise to God, Im­mor­tal Praise
  15. Pure Spir­it, O Where Art Thou Now
  16. Salt of the Earth, Ye Vir­tu­ous Few
  17. Sleep, Sleep To­day, Tor­ment­ing Cares
  18. Sweet is the Scene when Vir­tue Dies
  19. This Earthly Globe, the Crea­ture of a Day
  20. When as Re­turns the Sol­emn Day
  21. When Life as Open­ing Buds Is Sweet