Anna Laetitia Barbauld: Eye

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“The well-taught philosophic mind
To all compassion gives;
Casts round the world an equal eye,
And feels for all that lives.”

Anna Laetitia Barbauld The Mouse's Petition

The Mouse's Petition (1773)

“Child of mortality, whence comest thou? Why is thy countenance sad, and why are thine eyes red with weeping?”

Anna Laetitia Barbauld book Hymns in Prose for Children

Hymns in Prose for Children, Hymn 10 (1781).

“So fades a summer cloud away;
So sinks the gale when storms are o’er;
So gently shuts the eye of day;
So dies a wave along the shore.”

Anna Laetitia Barbauld

The Death of the Virtuous. Compare: "The daisie, or els the eye of the day", Geoffrey Chaucer, Prologue of the Legend of Good Women, line 183.
Bartlett's Familiar Quotations, 10th ed. (1919)