Anna Laetitia Barbauld, née Aikin; was a prominent English poet, essayist, literary critic, editor, and children's author.
“The dead of midnight is the noon of thought.”
“Is there notA tongue in every star that talks with man,And wooes him to be wise? nor wooes in vain;This dead of midnight is the noon of thought,And wisdom mounts her zenith with the stars.”