Poetry Explorer- Classic Contemporary Poetry, TO WILLIAM COWPER, by JOHN COWPER POWYS


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TO WILLIAM COWPER, by                     Poet's Biography
First Line: Never hath gentler soul or purer heart
Last Line: To thy meek sons, or make thy sages kind.
Subject(s): Fate; Flowers; Hearts; Heaven; Love; Soul; Destiny; Paradise


Never hath gentler soul or purer heart
Waked the sweet echoes of Parnassian strings.
Let other bards with deeper passionings,
With loftier flights and more mellifluous art
Compel our praises. -- Thou dost ask our loves
As thou gav'st thine to birds and beasts and flowers,
Where thy slow Ouse dreaming of summer hours
Glides to the chanting of innumerous doves.
O tender heart, that seemed so long the toy
Of adverse Fate and Heaven most pitiless,
Taking thy pleasure in Elysian joy,
Knowest thou now no wrong without redress?
O God, for Thine own sake give larger mind
To Thy meek sons, or make Thy sages kind.





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