Poetry Explorer

Classic and Contemporary Poetry

TO A YOUNG LADY WHO STOLE A PEN FROM THE PRINCE OF WALES'S STANDISH by WILLIAM COWPER

Poet Analysis

First Line: SWEET NYMPH, WHO ART, IT SEEMS, ACCUSED
Last Line: WORTH MORE THAN ALL HIS CREST.
Subject(s): PENS & PENCILS;
Sweet nymph, who art, it seems, accused
Of stealing George's pen,
Use it thyself, and having used,
E'en give it him again.

The Plume of his that has one scrap
Of thy good sense express'd,
Will be a Feather in his cap
Worth more than all his Crest.


Home: PoetryExplorer.net