Children are snatch'd away sometimes,
To punish Parents for their Crimes.
Thy Mother's Merit was so great,
Heav'n hasten'd thy untimely Fate,
To make her Character complete.
Tho' many Virtues fill'd her Breast,
'Twas Resignation crown'd the rest.

(C) Mary Barber
03/09/2017


Best Poems of Mary Barber

• To Mr. Rose;
• To A Lady
• Sincerity
• To Alexander Pope, Esq.
• The Peacock.
• A True Tale
• The Prodigy.
• Written For My Son
• To Mrs. ---
• To Novella
• An Invitation To Edward Walpole, Esq.
• Written Upon The Rocks At Tunbridge,
• To Mrs. Newans
• The Reverend Dr. L---.
• On Leaving Bath.
• To Mrs. Anne Donnellan, With The Fourth Essay On Man
• Stella And Flavia.
• Written From Dublin, To A Lady In The Country.