Books, Brochures, and Chapters>Book: Barbauld, Anna Laetitia (1806), Poetry for children, selected by L. Aikin, Retrieved on 2012-01-02Source Material [books.google.com]
Folksonomies: history poetry Memes
02 JAN 2012
The Mouse's Petition
(Found in the trap where he had been confined all night by Dr. Priestley, for the sake of making experiments with different kinds of air.)
OH! hear a pensive prisoner's prayer,
For liberty that sighs;
And never let thine heart be shut
Against the prisoner's cries!
For here forlorn and sad I sit,
Within the wiry grate;
And tremble at th' approaching morn,
Which brings impending fate.
If e'er thy breast with freedom glowed,
And spurned a tyrant's chain,
Let not thy strong oppressive force
A ...Folksonomies: poetry animal rights
Folksonomies: poetry animal rights
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A poem by Anna Laetitia Barbauld that is considered the spark of the movement for the humane treatment of animals in scientific experimentation.
