Additional Poetry of Felicia Hemans in the 1840 edition of Songs of the Affections/To the Daughter of Bernard Barton

by Felicia Hemans

Songs of the Affections, 1840, Page 141

TO THE DAUGHTER OF BERNARD BARTON,

THE QUAKER POET.

Happy thou art, the child of one
    Who in each lowly flower,
Each leaf that glances to the sun,
    Or trembles with the shower;

In each soft shadow of the sky,
    Or sparkle of the stream,
Will guide thy kindling spirit's eye
    To trace the Love Supreme.

So shall deep quiet fill thy breast,
    A joy in wood and wild;—
And e'en for this I call thee blest,
    The gentle poet's child!