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Discover our Poem Explanations and Poet Analyses!Searching... Keyword: william cowper Matches Found: 314 A CARD, by WILLIAM COWPER Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Poor vestris, grieved beyond all measure Last Line: And jump into the former favour. A COMPARISON, by WILLIAM COWPER Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: The lapse of time and rivers is the same Last Line: Neglected, leaves a dreary waste behind. Subject(s): Time A COMPARISON [ADDRESSED] TO A YOUNG LADY, by WILLIAM COWPER Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Sweet stream that winds through yonder glade Last Line: And heaven reflected in her face. Variant Title(s): The Stream;to A Young Lady;addressed To A Young Lady Subject(s): Brooks; Youth; Streams; Creeks A FABLE, by WILLIAM COWPER Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: A raven, while with glossy breast Last Line: But in the sunshine strikes the blow. Subject(s): Fate; Ravens; Destiny A GOOD SONG, by WILLIAM COWPER Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Here's a health to honest john bull Last Line: Tis our pride, to be loyal and free. A HYMN FOR A CHILD THAT HAS UNGODLY PARENTS, by WILLIAM COWPER Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: How happy are those little ones Last Line: And supplication heard. Subject(s): Parents; Parenthood A POETICAL EPISTLE TO LADY AUSTEN, by WILLIAM COWPER Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Dear anna - between friend and friend Last Line: "a threefold cord is not soon broken." Subject(s): Friendship A REFLECTION ON ODES: BOOK II, 10 BY HORACE, by WILLIAM COWPER Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: And is this all? Can reason do no more Last Line: And, trusting in his god, surmounts them all. A SONG, by WILLIAM COWPER Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: The sparkling eye, the mantling cheek Last Line: But glow with more prevailing heat. A SONG, by WILLIAM COWPER Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: On the green margin of the brook Last Line: "ah! Thyrsis, I am won." A SONG OF MERCY AND JUDGMENT, by WILLIAM COWPER Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Lord, I love the habitation Last Line: Sweet the grace which makes me thine. A SONNET; ADDRESSED TO MR. PHILLIPS, by WILLIAM COWPER Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Phillips! The suff'rer less by law than pow'r Last Line: Scorn is his meed, commiseration thine. Subject(s): Censorship; Phillips, Sir Richard (1767-1840) A TALE, by WILLIAM COWPER Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: In scotland's realm, where trees are few Last Line: Instruct us how to love! Subject(s): Scotland A TALE, FOUNDED ON A FACT WHICH HAPPENED IN JANUARY 1779, by WILLIAM COWPER Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Where humber pours his rich commercial stream Last Line: "thy presence, thy embrace!""--he spoke, and died!" A THUNDER STORM, by WILLIAM COWPER Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: The sky begins to lower and thick'ning clouds Last Line: And harmony once more revisits earth. ADDRESSED TO MISS MACARTNEY, AFTERWARDS MRS. GREVILLE, by WILLIAM COWPER Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: And dwells there in a female heart Last Line: Or lively fancy guess. Subject(s): Greville, Francis (fanny) (1724-1789); Women AGAINST INTERESTED LOVE, by WILLIAM COWPER Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Who does not blush when charged with selfish views Last Line: A maxim all have stamp'd with their applause. AN ADDRESS TO THE MOB ON OCCASION OF THE LATE RIOT ... HUGH PALLISER, by WILLIAM COWPER Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: And is it thus, ye base and blind Last Line: Who fought and would have died for you. Subject(s): Palliser, Sir Hugh (1722-1796) AN APOLOGY FOR NOT SHOWING HER WHAT I HAD WROTE, by WILLIAM COWPER Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Did not my muse (what can she less?) Last Line: The terror of offending thee. AN ATTEMPT AT THE MANNER OF WALLER, by WILLIAM COWPER Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Did not thy reason and thy sense Last Line: Then scorn our freedom, and by choice obey. Subject(s): Obedience; Waller, Edmund (1606-1687) AN EPIGRAM IS BUT A FEEBLE THING, by WILLIAM COWPER Poet Analysis Poet's Biography AN EPISTLE TO AN AFFLICTED PROTESTANT LADY IN FRANCE, by WILLIAM COWPER Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Madam, - a stranger's purpose in these lays Last Line: And drought on all the drooping herbs around. AN EPISTLE TO JOSEPH HILL, ESQ, by WILLIAM COWPER Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Dear joseph - five and twenty years ago Last Line: Broadcloth without, and a warm heart within. Subject(s): Friendship AN EPISTLE TO ROBERT LLOYD, ESQ, by WILLIAM COWPER Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Tis not that I design to rob Last Line: "tis ready polished from the mine." AN EPITAPH, by WILLIAM COWPER Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Here lies one who never drew / blood himself, yet many slew Last Line: Pointer to sir john throckmorton. Subject(s): Buckinghamshire, England; Epitaphs AN ODE: SECUNDEM ARTEM, by WILLIAM COWPER Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Shall I begin with ah, or oh? Last Line: To bind the poet's brow, or please the critic's nose. ANNUS MEMORABILIS, 1789, by WILLIAM COWPER Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: I ransack'd, for a theme of song Last Line: Who is beloved where never seen. ANSWER TO STANZAS TO LADY HESKETH, BY CATHERINE FANSHAWE, by WILLIAM COWPER Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: To be remembered thus is fame Last Line: But never lodged so well. Subject(s): Fame; Reputation ANTI-THELYPHTHORA, by WILLIAM COWPER Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Airy del castro was as bold a knight Last Line: The spot he loathed so much for ever cleansed away. AWAY GOES SUSSEX WILLIAM WITH HIS PACK, by WILLIAM COWPER Poet Analysis Poet's Biography BEAU'S REPLY, by WILLIAM COWPER Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Sir, when I flew to seize the bird Last Line: With verse addressed to me? Subject(s): Animals; Dogs BID ADIEU, MY SAD HEART, BID ADIEU TO THY PEACE, by WILLIAM COWPER Poet Analysis Poet's Biography BOADICEA; AN ODE, by WILLIAM COWPER Poem Text Poem Explanation Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: When the british warrior queen Last Line: "shame and ruin wait for you!" Subject(s): Boudicca (d. 60 A.d.); Great Britain - Roman Conquest; Boudica; Boadicea CATHARINA: SECOND PART; ON HER MARRIAGE TO GEORGE COURTENAY, by WILLIAM COWPER Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Believe it or not, as you chuse Last Line: How soon I can make her a mother Subject(s): Marriage; Weddings; Husbands; Wives CATHARINA; ADDRESSED TO MISS STAPLETON (MRS. COURTENAY), by WILLIAM COWPER Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: She came - she is gone - we have met Last Line: Might we view her enjoying it here. CHARITY, by WILLIAM COWPER Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Fairest and foremost of the train that wait Last Line: And spare the poet for his subject sake. Subject(s): Charity; Philanthropy CONVERSATION, by WILLIAM COWPER Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Though nature weigh our talents, and dispense Last Line: It sounds jehovah's name, and pours his praise along. Subject(s): Friendship CRAZY KATE, by WILLIAM COWPER Poem Source Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: There often wanders one, whom better days Last Line: Though pinched with cold, asks never-kate is crazed CUM RATIONE INSANIRE, by WILLIAM COWPER Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: I am a caledonian born Last Line: You, my good friend, or I. Subject(s): Treason & Traitors DELIA, THE UNKINDEST GIRL ON EARTH, by WILLIAM COWPER Poet Analysis Poet's Biography DINNER PARTY, by WILLIAM COWPER Poem Source Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Adieu, vinoso cries, ere yet he sips EPIGRAM, by WILLIAM COWPER Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: To purify their wine some people bleed Last Line: Good cause why planters never try their own. Subject(s): Innocence EPIGRAM ON HIS GARDEN SHED (1), by WILLIAM COWPER Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Beware of building! I intended Last Line: Rough logs and thatch,--and thus it ended. EPIGRAM ON HIS GARDEN SHED (2), by WILLIAM COWPER Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Instead of a pound or two, spending a mint Last Line: At last out of doors, and have no house to live in. EPITAPH ON A FREE BUT TAME REDBREAST, by WILLIAM COWPER Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: These are not dew-drops, these are tears Last Line: But always in a flame. Subject(s): Robins EPITAPH ON A HARE, by WILLIAM COWPER Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Here lies, whom hound did ne'er pursue, / nor swifter greyhound follow Last Line: Must soon partake his grave. Subject(s): Animals; Mourning; Rabbits; Bereavement; Hares EPITAPH ON DR. JOHNSON, by WILLIAM COWPER Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Here johnson lies, a sage by all allowed Last Line: By fame on earth, by glory in the skies! Subject(s): Epitaphs EPITAPH ON FOP, A DOG BELONGING TO LADY THROCKMORTON, by WILLIAM COWPER Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Though once a puppy, and though fop by name Last Line: "and worn with vain pursuit man also dies." Subject(s): Animals; Dogs EPITAPH ON MR. CHESTER, OF CHICHELEY, by WILLIAM COWPER Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Tears flow, and cease not, where the good man lies Last Line: As husband, parent, brother, master, friend. EPITAPH ON MRS. M. HIGGINS, OF WESTON, by WILLIAM COWPER Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Laurels may flourish round the conqueror's tomb Last Line: And all those triumphs, mary, now are thine. EXPOSTULATION, by WILLIAM COWPER Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Why weeps the muse for england? What appears Last Line: Shall be my chosen theme, my glory to the last. FOREBEARANCE, by WILLIAM COWPER Poem Source Poet Analysis Poet's Biography Subject(s): Religion FRAGMENT, by WILLIAM COWPER Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: He came to him in the extasy of pray'r Last Line: How wonderful the lot design'd for him. FRIENDSHIP, by WILLIAM COWPER Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: What virtue, or what mental grace Last Line: Or may my friend deceive me! Subject(s): Friendship GRATITUDE; ADDRESSED TO LADY HESKETH, by WILLIAM COWPER Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: This cap, that so stately appears Last Line: When I sing of the splendour of mine. HEROISM, by WILLIAM COWPER Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: There was a time when aetna's silent fire Last Line: In britain's isle, beneath a george's reign. Subject(s): Great Britain; Heroism; Heroes; Heroines HOMAGE TO WILLIAM COWPER, by DONALD DAVIE Poem Source Poet's Biography First Line: Mrs. Throckmorton's bull-finch sang a song Last Line: Which was a cage, and still was no defence: %for horror stars, like charity, at home HOPE, by WILLIAM COWPER Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Ask what is human life - the sage replies Last Line: Repays their work--the gleaning only mine. Subject(s): Hope; Optimism HOPE, LIKE THE SHORT-LIVED RAY THAT GLEAMS AWHILE, by WILLIAM COWPER Poet Analysis Poet's Biography HOW BLEST THE YOUTH WHOM FATE ORDAINS, by WILLIAM COWPER Poet Analysis Poet's Biography HUMAN FRAILITY, by WILLIAM COWPER Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Weak and irresolute is man Last Line: Or all the toil is lost. Subject(s): Mankind; Human Race HYMN FOR THE USE OF THE SUNDAY SCHOOL AT OLNEY, by WILLIAM COWPER Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Hear, lord, the song of praise and prayer Last Line: Who placed us where it shines. Subject(s): Religious Education; Sunday Schools; Yeshivas; Parochial Schools IMPROMPTU ON READING THE CHAPTER ON POLYGAMY, by WILLIAM COWPER Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: If john marries mary, and mary alone Last Line: It can't be a match--'tis a bundle of matches. Subject(s): Polygamy IMPROMPTU ON WRITING A LETTER WITHOUT HAVING ANYTHING TO SAY, by WILLIAM COWPER Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: So have I seen the maids in vain Last Line: And what was work is changed to play. Subject(s): Letters IN A LETTER TO C.P. ESQ., ILL WITH RHEUMATISM, by WILLIAM COWPER Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Grant me the muse, ye gods! Whose humble flight Last Line: And sheds soft slumbers on her votary's eyes. IN A LETTER TO C.P., ESQ., IN IMITATION OF SHAKESPEARE, by WILLIAM COWPER Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Trust me, the meed of praise, dealt thriftily Last Line: And comely guise of ornament disposed. Subject(s): Dramatists; Plays & Playwrights ; Poetry & Poets; Shakespeare, William (1564-1616); Dramatists IN A TIME OF GREAT HEAT; TO HAYLEY, by WILLIAM COWPER Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Ah! Brother poet, send me of your shade! Last Line: Despatched by sunshine, to the shades below. IN MEMORY OF THE LATE JOHN THORNTON, ESQ, by WILLIAM COWPER Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Poets attempt the noblest task they can Last Line: Its use and power exemplified in thee. IN SEDITIONEM HORRENDAM, by WILLIAM COWPER Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: False, cruel, disappointed, stung to the heart Last Line: We always spare a coward on his knees. INSCRIPTION FOR A MOSS-HOUSE IN THE SHRUBBERY AT WESTON, by WILLIAM COWPER Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Here, free from riot's hated noise Last Line: And sweeten my repose. INSCRIPTION FOR A STONE ERECTED AT SOWING OF A GROVE OF OAKS, by WILLIAM COWPER Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Other stones the era tell Last Line: Stone at heart, and cannot grow, Subject(s): Somerset, England INSCRIPTION FOR A STONE ERECTED ON A SIMILIAR OCCASION, by WILLIAM COWPER Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Reader! Behold a monument Last Line: Of a great burial here. INSCRIPTION FOR AN ANTIQUE BUST OF HOMER, by WILLIAM COWPER Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: The sculptor? - nameless, though once dear to fame Last Line: But this man bears an everlasting name. Subject(s): Sculpture & Sculptors INSCRIPTION FOR AN HERMITAGE IN THE AUTHOR'S GARDEN, by WILLIAM COWPER Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: This cabin, mary, in my sight appears Last Line: Preliminary to--the last retreat. INSCRIPTION FOR THE TOMB OF MR. HAMILTON, by WILLIAM COWPER Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Pause here, and think: a monitory rhyme Last Line: "exclaims, ""prepare thee for an early shroud." JINGLE, by WILLIAM COWPER Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: The late dr. Jortin Last Line: Have done into enhlish. Subject(s): Jortin, John (1698-1770); Translating & Interpreting LEGS WITHOUT THE MAN, by WILLIAM COWPER Poem Source Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: From every herb and every priry blade LET BANISTER NOW LEND HIS AID, by WILLIAM COWPER Poet Analysis Poet's Biography LETTER IN VERSE, by WILLIAM COWPER Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: If I write not to you Last Line: Y@4rs obed@4ly stalking horse. LINES ADDRESSED TO DR. DARWIN; AUTHOR OF THE BOTANIC GARDEN, by WILLIAM COWPER Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Two poets, (poets by report) Last Line: Unworthy of his own. Subject(s): Darwin, Erasmus (1731-1802) LINES AFTER THE MANNER OF HOMER ... OPENING OF A HAMPER, by WILLIAM COWPER Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: The straw-stuffed hamper with his ruthless steel Last Line: Of the fair mother of his friend--the rose. LINES COMPOSED FOR A MEMORIAL OF ASHLEY COWPER, ESQ, by WILLIAM COWPER Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Farewell! Endued will that could engage Last Line: Love shall be satisfied, and veil the rest. Subject(s): Death; Dead, The LINES FOR .. COLLECTION BY MISS PATTY, SISTER OF HANNAH MORE, by WILLIAM COWPER Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: In vain to live from age to age Last Line: W. Cowper. Variant Title(s): Letter From Cowper To Newton LINES WRITTEN ON A PAGE OF THE MONTHLY REVIEW, by WILLIAM COWPER Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: These critics, who to faith no quarter grant Last Line: Than christ's own servant, or that servant's master. Subject(s): Critics & Criticism LINES WRITTEN ON A WINDOW-SHUTTER AT WESTON, by WILLIAM COWPER Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Farewell, dear scenes, for ever closed to me Last Line: Whose friend was god, but god swore not to aid me! LOVE ABUSED, by WILLIAM COWPER Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: What is there in the vale of life Last Line: And sighs that heave a breaking heart. Subject(s): Love - Complaints METHINKS I SEE THEE DECENTLY ARRAY'D, by WILLIAM COWPER Poet Analysis Poet's Biography MONUMENTAL INSCRIPTION TO WILLIAM NORTHCOT, by WILLIAM COWPER Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Farewell! 'but not for ever,' hope replies Last Line: Thou shalt not wither, nor I weep, again. Variant Title(s): Epitaph To William Northcot MOTTO ON THE KING'S CLOCK, by WILLIAM COWPER Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Slow comes the hour; its passing speed how great! Last Line: Waiting to seize it--vigilantly wait! Subject(s): Clocks; Time MUTUAL FOREBEARANCE NECESSARY TO ... THE MARRIED STATE, by WILLIAM COWPER Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: The lady thus addressed her spouse Last Line: Or soon expels him if it is. Subject(s): Marriage; Weddings; Husbands; Wives NOR LESS ATTRACTIVE IS THE WOODLAND SCENE, by WILLIAM COWPER Poem Source Poet Analysis Poet's Biography Last Line: As bushful, yet impatient to be seen Subject(s): Environment; Trees ODE ON READING RICHARDSON'S HISTORY OF SIR CHARLES GRANDISON, by WILLIAM COWPER Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Say, ye apostate and profane Last Line: The hero, and the saint! Subject(s): Richardson, Samuel (1689-1761) ODE SUPPOSED TO BE WRITTEN ON THE MARRIAGE OF A FRIEND, by WILLIAM COWPER Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Thou magic lyre, whose fascinating sound Last Line: And warm our fainting souls with energy divine. Subject(s): Marriage; Weddings; Husbands; Wives ODE TO APOLLO; ON AN INK-GLASS ALMOST DRIED IN THE SUN, by WILLIAM COWPER Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Patron of all those luckless brains Last Line: With equal grace below. Subject(s): Apollo; Mythology - Classical ODE TO PEACE, by WILLIAM COWPER Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Come, peace of mind, delightful guest! Last Line: "farewell! We meet no more""?" Subject(s): Despair OF HIMSELF, by WILLIAM COWPER Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: William was once a bashful youth Last Line: E'er claim him for her own. Subject(s): Cowper, William (1731-1800); Modesty; Poetry & Poets OLNEY HYMNS: 1. WALKING WITH GOD, by WILLIAM COWPER Poem Text Poem Explanation Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Oh! For a closer walk with god Last Line: That leads me to the lamb. Subject(s): God; Religion; Theology OLNEY HYMNS: 10. THE FUTURE PEACE AND GLORY OF THE CHURCH, by WILLIAM COWPER Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Hear what god the lord hath spoken Last Line: "god your everlasting light." Subject(s): Bible; Religion; Theology OLNEY HYMNS: 11. JEHOVAH OUR RIGHTEOUSNESS, by WILLIAM COWPER Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: My god, how perfect are thy ways! Last Line: The lord for ever mine. Subject(s): Sin OLNEY HYMNS: 12. EPHRAIM REPENTING, by WILLIAM COWPER Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: My god, till I received thy stroke Last Line: "he shall not seek in vain." Subject(s): Ephraim (bible) OLNEY HYMNS: 13. THE COVENANT, by WILLIAM COWPER Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: The lord proclaims his grace abroad! Last Line: "begun and ended in my power." OLNEY HYMNS: 14. JEHOVAH-SHAMMAH, by WILLIAM COWPER Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: As birds their infant brood protect Last Line: Thence? OLNEY HYMNS: 15. PRAISE FOR THE FOUNTAIN OPENED, by WILLIAM COWPER Poem Text Poem Explanation Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: There is a fountain filled with blood Last Line: No other name but thine. Subject(s): Fountains; God OLNEY HYMNS: 16. THE SOWER, by WILLIAM COWPER Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Ye sons of earth prepare the plough Last Line: Provide a fruitful place! Subject(s): Labor & Laborers; Work; Workers OLNEY HYMNS: 17. THE HOUSE OF PRAYER, by WILLIAM COWPER Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Thy mansion is the christian's heart Last Line: I give thee what was thine before. OLNEY HYMNS: 18. LOVEST THOU ME?, by WILLIAM COWPER Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Hark, my soul! It is the lord Last Line: Oh for grace to love thee more! Subject(s): Jesus Christ OLNEY HYMNS: 19. CONTENTMENT, by WILLIAM COWPER Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Fierce passions discompose the mind Last Line: Have learned to be content. Subject(s): Bible; Contentment; Religion; Mind, The; Theology OLNEY HYMNS: 2. JEHOVAH-JIREH, by WILLIAM COWPER Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: The saints should never be dismay'd Last Line: But cannot come too late. OLNEY HYMNS: 20. OLD-TESTAMENT GOSPEL, by WILLIAM COWPER Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Israel in ancient days Last Line: To clearer light vouchsafed to me! OLNEY HYMNS: 21. SARDIS, by WILLIAM COWPER Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Write to sardis,' saith the lord Last Line: "and woe be to the rest!" Subject(s): Bible; Religion; Theology OLNEY HYMNS: 22. PRAYER FOR A BLESSING ON THE YOUNG, by WILLIAM COWPER Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Bestow, dear lord, upon our youth Last Line: That jesus whom we preach. Subject(s): Youth OLNEY HYMNS: 23. PLEADING FOR AND WITH YOUTH, by WILLIAM COWPER Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Sin has undone our wretched race Last Line: "prepare to meet thy god!" Subject(s): Sin; Youth OLNEY HYMNS: 24. PRAYER FOR CHILDREN, by WILLIAM COWPER Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Gracious lord, our children see Last Line: Stoop, and bear the brood away. Subject(s): Children; Prayer; Childhood OLNEY HYMNS: 25. JEHOVAH JESUS, by WILLIAM COWPER Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: My song shall bless the lord of all Last Line: Salvation's sure, and must be mine. OLNEY HYMNS: 26. ON OPENING A PLACE FOR SOCIAL PRAYER, by WILLIAM COWPER Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Jesus, where'er thy people meet Last Line: And make a thousand hearts thine own. Variant Title(s): Ode: On Opening A Place For Social Prayer OLNEY HYMNS: 27. WELCOME TO THE TABLE, by WILLIAM COWPER Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: This is the feast of heavenly wine Last Line: And I shall see his face! OLNEY HYMNS: 28. JESUS HASTENING TO SUFFER, by WILLIAM COWPER Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: The saviour! What a noble flame Last Line: And hasten to the skies. OLNEY HYMNS: 29. EXHORTATION TO PRAYER, by WILLIAM COWPER Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: What various hindrances we meet Last Line: "hear what the lord has done for me." Subject(s): Prayer OLNEY HYMNS: 3. JEVOHAN-ROPHI, by WILLIAM COWPER Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Heal us, emmanuel, here we are Last Line: Send none unhealed away! OLNEY HYMNS: 30. THE LIGHT AND THE GLORY OF THE WORD, by WILLIAM COWPER Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: The spirit breathes upon the word Last Line: In brighter worlds above. Subject(s): Jews; Religion; Judaism; Theology OLNEY HYMNS: 31. ON THE DEATH OF A MINISTER, by WILLIAM COWPER Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: His master taken from his head Last Line: Who lives for evermore. OLNEY HYMNS: 32. THE SHINING LIGHT, by WILLIAM COWPER Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: My former hopes are fled Last Line: And watch the rising day. OLNEY HYMNS: 33. THE WAITING SOUL, by WILLIAM COWPER Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Breathe from the gentle south, o lord Last Line: The lord shall find him there. OLNEY HYMNS: 34. SEEING THE BELOVED, by WILLIAM COWPER Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: To those who know the lord I speak Last Line: I long to see him too. OLNEY HYMNS: 35. LIGHT SHINING OUT OF DARKNESS, by WILLIAM COWPER Poem Text Poem Explanation Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: God moves in a mysterious way, / his wonders to perform Last Line: And he will make it plain. Variant Title(s): Providence;hymn: In A Mysterious Way;mysteries Of Providence Subject(s): Faith; God; Religion; Belief; Creed; Theology OLNEY HYMNS: 36. WELCOME CROSS, by WILLIAM COWPER Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Tis my happiness below Last Line: Must not,--would not, if he might. OLNEY HYMNS: 37. AFFLICTIONS SANCTIFIED BY THE WORD, by WILLIAM COWPER Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Oh, how I love thy holy word Last Line: Thy chosen saints for ever rest. OLNEY HYMNS: 38. TEMPTATION, by WILLIAM COWPER Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: The billows swell, the winds are high Last Line: Force back my shattered bark again. Subject(s): Temptation OLNEY HYMNS: 39. LOOKING UPWARDS IN A STORM, by WILLIAM COWPER Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: God of my life, to thee I call Last Line: For whom the lord vouchsafes to plead. OLNEY HYMNS: 4. JEHOVAH-NISSI, THE LORD IS MY BANNER, by WILLIAM COWPER Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: By whom was david taught Last Line: Will help his servant to the end. Subject(s): Jews; Judaism OLNEY HYMNS: 40. THE VALLEY OF THE SHADOW OF DEATH, by WILLIAM COWPER Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: My soul is sad and much dismay'd Last Line: That I am foiled, and thou art grieved! Subject(s): Consolation OLNEY HYMNS: 41. PEACE AFTER A STORM, by WILLIAM COWPER Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: When darkness long has veil'd my mind Last Line: Be shame and self-abhorrence mine. OLNEY HYMNS: 42. MOURNING AND LONGING, by WILLIAM COWPER Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: The saviour hides his face! Last Line: And grant me all my prayer. OLNEY HYMNS: 43. SELF-ACQUAINTANCE, by WILLIAM COWPER Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Dear lord, accept a sinful heart Last Line: And let me roam no more. OLNEY HYMNS: 44. PRAYER FOR PATIENCE, by WILLIAM COWPER Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Lord, who hast suffer'd all for me Last Line: But rather weep, remembering thine. Subject(s): Patience OLNEY HYMNS: 45. SUBMISSION, by WILLIAM COWPER Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: O lord, my best desire fulfil Last Line: Drives all these thoughts away. OLNEY HYMNS: 46. THE HAPPY CHANGE, by WILLIAM COWPER Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: How blessed thy creature is, o god Last Line: Can shine upon the heart. Subject(s): God OLNEY HYMNS: 47. RETIREMENT, by WILLIAM COWPER Poem Text Poem Explanation Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Far from the world, o lord, I flee Last Line: When time shall be no more. OLNEY HYMNS: 48. THE HIDDEN LIFE, by WILLIAM COWPER Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: To tell the saviour all my wants Last Line: For such have all his saints. OLNEY HYMNS: 49. JOY AND PEACE IN BELIEVING, by WILLIAM COWPER Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Sometimes a light surprises Last Line: I cannot but rejoice. Variant Title(s): In Him Confiding Subject(s): Faith; Belief; Creed OLNEY HYMNS: 5. JEHOBAH-SHALOM, THE LORD SENT PEACE, by WILLIAM COWPER Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Jesus, whose blood so freely stream'd Last Line: Nor rob me of the lord my peace. Subject(s): Peace OLNEY HYMNS: 50. TRUE PLEASURES, by WILLIAM COWPER Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Lord, my soul with pleasure springs Last Line: And find his burden light. Subject(s): Jesus Christ OLNEY HYMNS: 51. THE CHRISTIAN, by WILLIAM COWPER Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Honour and happiness unite Last Line: And shout him welcome to the skies! OLNEY HYMNS: 52. LIVELY HOPE AND GRACIOUS FEAR, by WILLIAM COWPER Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: I was a groveling creature once Last Line: And none shall cast me down. OLNEY HYMNS: 53. FOR THE POOR, by WILLIAM COWPER Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: When hagar found the bottle spent Last Line: You shall not be forgot. Subject(s): Poverty OLNEY HYMNS: 54. MY SOUL THIRSTETH FOR GOD, by WILLIAM COWPER Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: I thirst, but not as once I did Last Line: Or yields him meaner fruit than I. OLNEY HYMNS: 55. LOVE CONSTRAINING TO OBEDIENCE, by WILLIAM COWPER Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: No strength of nature can suffice Last Line: And duty into choice. Subject(s): Faith; Obedience; Belief; Creed OLNEY HYMNS: 56. THE HEART HEALED AND CHANGED BY MERCY, by WILLIAM COWPER Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Sin enslaved me many years Last Line: "thy sins are done away." Subject(s): Forgiveness; Redemption; Sin; Clemency OLNEY HYMNS: 57. HATRED OF SIN, by WILLIAM COWPER Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Holy lord god! I love thy truth Last Line: Will strike all sin for ever dead. Subject(s): Sin OLNEY HYMNS: 58. THE NEW CONVERT, by WILLIAM COWPER Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: The newborn child of gospel-grace Last Line: We may not claim the praise we owe. OLNEY HYMNS: 59. TRUE AND FALSE COMFORTS, by WILLIAM COWPER Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: O god, whose favourable eye Last Line: And none can higher fly. OLNEY HYMNS: 6. WISDOM, by WILLIAM COWPER Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Ere god had built the mountains Last Line: "says, ""sinner, I am thine!" OLNEY HYMNS: 60. A LIVING AND A DEAD FAITH, by WILLIAM COWPER Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: The lord receives his highest praise Last Line: Unless that grace has made him free! Subject(s): Faith; Belief; Creed OLNEY HYMNS: 61. ABUSE OF THE GOSPEL, by WILLIAM COWPER Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Too many, lord, abuse thy grace Last Line: Till mercy calls us in. OLNEY HYMNS: 62. THE NARROW WAY, by WILLIAM COWPER Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: What thousands never knew the road! Last Line: Against the idol of your trust. OLNEY HYMNS: 63. DEPENDENCE, by WILLIAM COWPER Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: To keep the lamp alive Last Line: Confesses he has none. OLNEY HYMNS: 64. NOT OF WORKS, by WILLIAM COWPER Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Grace, triumphant in the throne Last Line: But the grace that never can. OLNEY HYMNS: 65. PRAISE FOR FAITH, by WILLIAM COWPER Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Of all the gifts thine hand bestows Last Line: That makes him precious too. Subject(s): Faith; Belief; Creed OLNEY HYMNS: 66. GRACE AND PROVIDENCE, by WILLIAM COWPER Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Almighty king! Whose wondrous hand Last Line: An angel's song can do no more. OLNEY HYMNS: 67. I WILL PRAISE THE LORD AT ALL TIMES, by WILLIAM COWPER Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Winter has a joy for me Last Line: Points to an eternal rest. OLNEY HYMNS: 68. LONGING TO BE WITH CHRIST, by WILLIAM COWPER Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: To jesus, the crown of my hope Last Line: Which binds me, my saviour! To thee. OLNEY HYMNS: 7. VANITY OF THE WORLD, by WILLIAM COWPER Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: God gives his mercies to be spent Last Line: Embraced in everlasting arms. OLNEY HYMNS: 8. O LORD, I WILL PRAISE THEE, by WILLIAM COWPER Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: I will praise thee every day Last Line: God the saviour dwells in thee! OLNEY HYMNS: 9. THE CONTRITE HEART, by WILLIAM COWPER Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: The lord will happiness divine / on contrite hearts below Last Line: And heal it if it be. Variant Title(s): "the Lord Will Happiness Divine""; Subject(s): Repentance; Penitence ON A GOLDFINCH STARVED TO DEATH IN HIS CAGE, by WILLIAM COWPER Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Time was when I was free as air Last Line: Had been your prisoner still. Subject(s): Goldfinches ON A LETTER OF MISS FANSHAWE, by WILLIAM COWPER Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Her pen drops eloquence as sweet Last Line: Her want of latin or of greek. Subject(s): Fanshawe, Catherine (1765-1834) ON A MISCHIEVOUS BULL, by WILLIAM COWPER Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Go! Thou art all unfit to share Last Line: And claps the gate behind thee. Subject(s): Bulls ON A MISTAKE IN HIS TRANSLATION OF HOMER, by WILLIAM COWPER Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Cowper had sinned with some excuse Last Line: When he translated homer. Subject(s): Translating & Interpreting ON A PLANT OF VIRGIN'S BOWER; DESIGNED TO COVER GARDEN-SEAT, by WILLIAM COWPER Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Thrive, gentle plant! And weave a bower Last Line: Be crowned with virgin's bower? Subject(s): Virgin's-bower (plant) ON A REVIEW CONDEMNING THELYPHTHORA, by WILLIAM COWPER Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: I have read the review; it is learned and wise Last Line: Clear, candid, and witty -- thelyphthora dies. Subject(s): Critics & Criticism ON A SPANIEL, CALLED BEAU, KILLING A YOUNG BIRD, by WILLIAM COWPER Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: A spaniel, beau, that fares like you Last Line: So much resemble man? Subject(s): Animals; Dogs ON FLAXMAN'S [STATUE OF] PENELOPE, by WILLIAM COWPER Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: The suitors sinned, but with a fair excuse Last Line: Who, for a wife so lovely, slew them all. Subject(s): Flaxman, John (1755-1826); Sculpture & Sculptors ON HAYLEY'S PORTRAIT, by WILLIAM COWPER Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Achilles and hector and homer and all Last Line: Shall then hide its pick-pocket looks in the dark. ON HER ENDEAVOURING TO CONCEAL HER GRIEF AT PARTING, by WILLIAM COWPER Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Ah! Wherefore should my weeping maid suppress Last Line: Nor think it weakness what we feel to show. Subject(s): Farewell; Grief; Parting; Sorrow; Sadness ON HIS APPROACHING VISIT TO HAYLEY, by WILLIAM COWPER Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Through floods and flames to your retreat Last Line: Will echo your huzza. Subject(s): Hayley, William (1745-1820) ON HIS PORTRAIT (IN A LETTER TO HAYLEY), by WILLIAM COWPER Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Abbot is painting me so true Last Line: If I were here or there. Subject(s): Paintings & Painters ON MADAN'S ANSWER TO NEWTON'S COMMENTS ON THELYPHTORA, by WILLIAM COWPER Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: M. Quarrels with n., because m. Wrote a book Last Line: If a man must be scolded for loving his own. ON MRS. MONTAGUE'S FEATHER-HANGINGS, by WILLIAM COWPER Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: The birds put off their every hue Last Line: Both poet saves and plume from fading. Subject(s): Feathers ON OBSERVING SOME NAMES OF LITTLE NOTE, by WILLIAM COWPER Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Oh, fond attempt to give a deathless lot Last Line: And there, scarce less illustrious, goes the clerk! Subject(s): Transience; Impermanence ON RECEIVING HAYLEY'S PICTURE, by WILLIAM COWPER Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: In language warm as could be breathed or penned Last Line: That friend of all a partial friend to me. Subject(s): Friendship; Hayley, William (1745-1820) ON RECEIVING HEYNE'S VIRGIL FROM HAYLEY, by WILLIAM COWPER Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: I should have deemed it once an effort vain Last Line: Since I received him as a gift from thee. Subject(s): Translating & Interpreting ON THE AUTHOR OF 'LETTERS ON LITERATURE', by WILLIAM COWPER Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: The genius of the augustan age Last Line: "that rots, and stinks, and is abhorred." ON THE BENEFIT RECEIVED BY MIS MAJESTY FROM SEA-BATHING, by WILLIAM COWPER Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: O sovereign of an isle renowned Last Line: Which strength restored to thee. Subject(s): Swimming & Swimmers ON THE BURNING OF LORD MANSFIELD'S LIBRARY (1), by WILLIAM COWPER Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: So then - the vandals of our isle Last Line: The burning of his own. Subject(s): Books; Great Britain - Gordon Riots (1780); Murray, William. 1st Earl Of Mansfield; Vandalism; Reading ON THE BURNING OF LORD MANSFIELD'S LIBRARY (2), by WILLIAM COWPER Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: When wit and genius meet their doom Last Line: The honey on his tongue. Subject(s): Books; Great Britain - Gordon Riots (1780); Murray, William. 1st Earl Of Mansfield; Vandalism; Reading ON THE DEATH OF MRS. (NOW LADY) THROCKMORTON'S BULLFINCH, by WILLIAM COWPER Poem Text Poem Explanation Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Ye nymphs! If e'er your eyes were red Last Line: The cruel death be died. Subject(s): Bullfinches ON THE DEATH OF SIR W. RUSSELL, by WILLIAM COWPER Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Doomed as I am in solitude to waste Last Line: All that delights the happy--palls with me! Subject(s): Despair ON THE HIGH PRICE OF FISH, by WILLIAM COWPER Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Cocoa-nut naught Last Line: And as oft as you please. Subject(s): Lobsters ON THE ICE ISLANDS SEEN FLOATING IN THE GERMAN OCEAN, by WILLIAM COWPER Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: What portents, from what distant region, ride Last Line: In no congenial gulf for ever lost! ON THE JOY UNIVERSALLY EXPRESSED ON THE KING'S HAPPY ESCAPE, by WILLIAM COWPER Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: The cloud that frowns on what we prize Last Line: And give him double praise. Subject(s): Assassination; George Iii, King Of England (1738-1820) ON THE LOSS OF THE ROYAL GEORGE, by WILLIAM COWPER Poem Text Poem Explanation Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Toll for the brave! Last Line: Shall plough the wave no more. Variant Title(s): The Royal George Subject(s): Courage; Disasters; Kempenfelt, Richard (1718-1782); Sea; Shipwrecks; Valor; Bravery; Ocean ON THE PROMOTION OF EDWARD THURLOW, ESQ., by WILLIAM COWPER Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Round thurlow's head in early youth Last Line: What all had deemed his own. Subject(s): Thurlow, Edward. 1st Baron Thurlow ON THE QUEEN'S VISIT TO LONDON, by WILLIAM COWPER Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: When, long sequestered from his throne Last Line: Such previous woe the price! Subject(s): George Iii, King Of England (1738-1820) ON THE RECEIPT OF MY MOTHER'S PICTURE [OUT OF NORFOLK], by WILLIAM COWPER Poem Text Poem Explanation Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: O that those lips had language! Life has passed Last Line: Thyself removed, thy power to soothe me left. Variant Title(s): Lines To My Mother's Picture;mother's Portrait;my Mother's Picture;lines On Receiving His Mother's Picture Subject(s): Mothers ON THE REFUSAL OF OXFORD TO SUBSCRIDBE TO HIS TRANSLATION, by WILLIAM COWPER Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Could homer come himself, distressed and poor Last Line: "begone! No tramper gets a farthing here!" Subject(s): Hate; Homer (10th Century B.c.); Oxford University; Poetry & Poets; Translating & Interpreting; Iliad; Odyssey ON THE TRIAL OF ADMIRAL KEPPEL, by WILLIAM COWPER Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Keppel, returning from afar Last Line: To praise him to his face. Subject(s): Keppel, Augustus (1725-1786) ON THURLOW, by WILLIAM COWPER Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: The chancellor once was a tree full of fruit Last Line: Is searching your boughs for plums in the winter. ONE PARSON, ONE POET, ONE BELMAN, ONE CRIER, by WILLIAM COWPER Poet Analysis Poet's Biography PAIRING TIME ANTICIPATED; A FABLE, by WILLIAM COWPER Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: I shall not ask jean jacques rousseau Last Line: But proper time to marry. Subject(s): Fables; Rousseau, Jean Jacques (1712-1778); Allegories PITY FOR POOR AFRICANS, by WILLIAM COWPER Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: I own I am shocked at the purchase of slaves Last Line: He shared in the plunder, but pitied the man. Subject(s): Africa; Slavery; Serfs PROSTRATION OF WILLIAM COWPER, by CHRISTOPHER MIDDLETON Poem Source First Line: O muse, make little of my gratitude Last Line: Take me or leave me, I will stuff them in. R.S.S., by WILLIAM COWPER Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: All-worshipped gold! Thou mighty mystery! Last Line: Nor delia can avail to make me blessed. Subject(s): Love; Virtue; Wealth; Riches; Fortunes REPORT OF AN ADJUDGED CASE, NOT TO BE FOUND IN ANY BOOKS, by WILLIAM COWPER Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Between nose and eyes a strange contest arose Last Line: Shut. Variant Title(s): A Law Case;the Nose And The Eyes Subject(s): Eyes; Noses RETIREMENT, by WILLIAM COWPER Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Hackneyed in business, wearied at that oar Last Line: To close life wisely, may not waste my own. Subject(s): Retirement RIDDLE, by WILLIAM COWPER Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: I am just two and two, I am warm, I am cold Last Line: And yielded with pleasure when taken by force. SEE WHERE THE THAMES, THE PUREST STREAM, by WILLIAM COWPER Poet Analysis Poet's Biography SONG, by WILLIAM COWPER Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: No more shall hapless celia's ears Last Line: With my fa, la, la. SONG OF PEACE WRITTEN AT THE REQUEST OF LADY AUSTEN, by WILLIAM COWPER Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: No longer I follow a sound Last Line: To the glorified spirits above. SONG WRITTEN AT THE REQUEST OF LADY AUSTEN, by WILLIAM COWPER Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: When all within is peace Last Line: And longs to be at rest. SONNET ADDRESSED TO HENRY COWPER, ESQ, by WILLIAM COWPER Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Cowper, whose silver voice, tasked sometimes hard Last Line: Of others' speech, but magic of thy own. Subject(s): Hastings, Warren (1732-1818) SONNET TO WILLIAM WILBERFORCE, ESQUIRE, by WILLIAM COWPER Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Thy country, wilberforce, with just disdain Last Line: From all the just on earth and all the blest above. Subject(s): Wilberforce, William (1759-1833) SOUL'S PROGRESS CHECKED BY TOO ABSORBING LOVE, by WILLIAM COWPER Poem Source Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: As wooing weds the plant within STANZAS ON INDECENT LIBERTIES TAKEN WITH REMAINS OF MILTON, by WILLIAM COWPER Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Me too, perchance, in future days Last Line: As much affronts thee dead. Subject(s): Milton, John (1608-1674) STANZAS PRINTED ON BILLS OF MORTALITY: 1787, by WILLIAM COWPER Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: While thirteen moons saw smoothly run Last Line: "and answer all--""amen!" Subject(s): Mortality STANZAS PRINTED ON BILLS OF MORTALITY: 1788, by WILLIAM COWPER Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Could I, from heaven inspired, as sure presage Last Line: And the next opening grave may yawn for you. Subject(s): Mortality STANZAS PRINTED ON BILLS OF MORTALITY: 1789, by WILLIAM COWPER Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: O most delightful hour by man Last Line: "such only be your lives." Subject(s): Mortality STANZAS PRINTED ON BILLS OF MORTALITY: 1790, by WILLIAM COWPER Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: He who sits from day to day Last Line: Make us learn that we must die. Subject(s): Mortality STANZAS PRINTED ON BILLS OF MORTALITY: 1792, by WILLIAM COWPER Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Thankless for favours from on high Last Line: And calm descend to yours. Subject(s): Mortality STANZAS PRINTED ON BILLS OF MORTALITY: 1793, by WILLIAM COWPER Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: He lives who lives to god alone Last Line: And mercy cast away. Subject(s): Mortality STELLA'S BIRTHDAY, by WILLIAM COWPER Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: How many between east and west Last Line: And wish her born once more! Variant Title(s): To Miss Creuze On Her Birthday SWEET MEAT HAS SOUR SAUCE; OR, THE SLAVE-TRADER IN THE DUMPS, by WILLIAM COWPER Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: A trader I am to the african shore Last Line: Which nobody can deny. Subject(s): Africa; African Americans; Slavery; Trade; Negroes; American Blacks; Serfs TABLE TALK, by WILLIAM COWPER Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: You told me, I remember, glory, built Last Line: And should, no doubt, if they were all forgot. Subject(s): Freedom; Poetry & Poets; Liberty TASK (BOOKS 1-6), by WILLIAM COWPER Poem Source Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: I sing the sofa. I, who lately sang Last Line: Whose frown can disappoint the proudest strain, %whose approbation - prosper even mine THANKS FOR A GIFT OF PHEASANTS, by WILLIAM COWPER Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: In copeman's ear this truth let echo tell Last Line: Of golden clients, for his golden birds. Subject(s): Pheasants THE BEE AND THE PINE-APPLE, by WILLIAM COWPER Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: A bee allur'd by the perfume Last Line: Than pleasure coveted in vain. THE CASTAWAY, by WILLIAM COWPER Poem Text Poem Explanation Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Obscurest night involved the sky, / the atlantic billows roared Last Line: And whelm'd in deeper gulfs than he. Subject(s): Atlantic Ocean; Drowning; Sea; Ocean THE CERTAINTY OF DEATH, by WILLIAM COWPER Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Mortals! Around your destined heads Last Line: To meet the fatal blow! Subject(s): Death; Dead, The THE COCK-FIGHTER'S GARLAND, by WILLIAM COWPER Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Muse, hide his name of whom I sing Last Line: Tis hard to read amiss. THE COLUBRIAD, by WILLIAM COWPER Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Close by the threshold of a door nailed fast Last Line: And taught him never to come there no more. Subject(s): Animals; Cats; Snakes; Serpents; Vipers THE DISTRESSED TRAVELLERS; OR, LABOUR IN VAIN, by WILLIAM COWPER Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: I sing of a journey to clifton Last Line: For the sense and the sound, they say, should be the same. Subject(s): Travel; Journeys; Trips THE DIVERTING HISTORY OF JOHN GILPIN, by WILLIAM COWPER Poem Text Poem Explanation Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: John gilpin was a citizen / of credit and renown Last Line: "may I be there to see!" Variant Title(s): Facetious Story Of John Gilpin;john Gilpin THE DOG AND THE WATER LILY; NO FABLE, by WILLIAM COWPER Poem Text Poem Explanation Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: The noon was shady, and soft airs Last Line: "to him who gives me all." THE DOVES, by WILLIAM COWPER Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Reasoning at every step he treads Last Line: A lesson for mankind. Subject(s): Doves; Love THE FAITHFUL BIRD, by WILLIAM COWPER Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: The greenhouse is my summer seat Last Line: To liberty without. Variant Title(s): The Faithful Friend Subject(s): Animals; Birds THE FLATTING MILL; AN ILLUSTRATION, by WILLIAM COWPER Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: When a bar of pure silver or ingot of gold Last Line: And unless you adorn it, a nausea follows. THE FOUR AGES, by WILLIAM COWPER Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: I could be well content, allowed the use Last Line: His manna from the ground, or starve, and die. THE GRIEF OF AN HEIR, by WILLIAM COWPER Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: The rich man's heir, his father's spirit fled Last Line: And, could we doubt them, we were fools indeed. Subject(s): Inheritance & Succession; Heirs THE JUDGMENT OF THE POETS, by WILLIAM COWPER Poem Text Poem Explanation Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Two nymphs, both nearly of an age Last Line: "and pinch your noses blue." Subject(s): Poetry & Poets THE LILY AND THE ROSE, by WILLIAM COWPER Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: The nymph must lose her female friend Last Line: They reign united there. Subject(s): Flowers; Great Britain; Lilies; Roses THE LOVE OF THE WORLD REPROVED; OR, HYPOCRISY DETECTED, by WILLIAM COWPER Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Thus says the prophet of the turk Last Line: Till quite from tail to snout 'tis eaten. Subject(s): Hypocrisy THE MODERN PATRIOT, by WILLIAM COWPER Poem Text Poem Explanation Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Rebellion is my theme all day Last Line: Then farewell british freedom. Subject(s): Great Britain; Revolutions THE MORALIZER CORRECTED; A TALE, by WILLIAM COWPER Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: A hermit (or if 'chance you hold) Last Line: "either too early or too late." THE MORNING DREAM (1), by WILLIAM COWPER Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Forced from home, and all its pleasures Last Line: Ere you proudly question ours! Variant Title(s): Slave's Complaint;the Negro's Complaint Subject(s): Africa; Blacks; Slavery; Serfs THE MORNING DREAM (2), by WILLIAM COWPER Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Twas in the glad season of spring Last Line: Resolves to have none of her own. Subject(s): Freedom; Liberty THE NEEDLESS ALARM; A TALE, by WILLIAM COWPER Poem Text Poem Explanation Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: There is a field through which I often pass Last Line: Live till to-morrow, will have passed away. THE NIGHTINGALE AND THE GLOW-WORM, by WILLIAM COWPER Poem Text Poem Explanation Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: A nightingale, that all day long Last Line: Of him that creeps and him that flies. Subject(s): Birds; Fireflies; Nightingales; Glowworms THE PINEAPPLES AND THE BEE, by WILLIAM COWPER Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: The pineapples, in triple row Last Line: Can gather honey from a weed. Subject(s): Bees; Insects; Pineapples; Truth; Wisdom; Beekeeping; Bugs THE POET'S NEW YEAR'S GIFT TO MRS. THROCKMORTON, by WILLIAM COWPER Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Maria! I have every good Last Line: I wish it all fulfilled. THE POET, THE OYSTER, AND SENSITIVE PLANT, by WILLIAM COWPER Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: An oyster, cast upon the shore Last Line: And each by shrinking showed he felt it. Subject(s): Oysters THE POPLAR FIELD, by WILLIAM COWPER Poem Text Poem Explanation Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: The poplars are felled, farewell to the shade Last Line: Have a being less durable even than he. Subject(s): Aging; Environment; Fields; Poplar Trees; Trees; Environmental Protection; Ecology; Conservation; Pastures; Meadows; Leas THE PROGRESS OF ERROR, by WILLIAM COWPER Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Sing, muse, (if such a theme, so dark, so long) Last Line: Bled, groaned and agonized, and died, in vain. Subject(s): Travel; Journeys; Trips THE RETIRED CAT, by WILLIAM COWPER Poem Text Poem Explanation Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: A poet's cat, sedate and grave Last Line: The folly of his expectation. Subject(s): Animals; Cats THE ROSE, by WILLIAM COWPER Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: The rose had been washed, just washed in a shower Last Line: "may be followed perhaps by a smile." Subject(s): Flowers; Roses THE SCHOLAR AT HIS WIT'S END; A TALE, by WILLIAM COWPER Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: In days when the learned, as old stories tell Last Line: Poems, vol. I, p. 110.] THE SHRUBBERY, WRITTEN IN A TIME OF AFFLICTION, by WILLIAM COWPER Poem Text Poem Explanation Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: O happy shades! To me unblest! Last Line: And those of sorrows yet to come. Subject(s): Grief; Sorrow; Sadness THE SYMPTOMS OF LOVE, by WILLIAM COWPER Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Would my delia know if I love, let her take Last Line: Though herself and the woman I love are the same. Subject(s): Love THE TASK: BOOK 1. THE SOFA, by WILLIAM COWPER Poem Text Poem Explanation Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: I sing the sofa. I, who lately sang Last Line: A mutilated structure, soon to fall. Subject(s): Sofas THE TASK: BOOK 2. THE TIME-PIECE, by WILLIAM COWPER Poem Text Poem Explanation Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Oh, for a lodge in some vast wilderness Last Line: And the land stank, so numerous was the fry. Subject(s): Clergy; Disasters; Earthquakes; Peace; Universities & Colleges; Priests; Rabbis; Ministers; Bishops THE TASK: BOOK 3. THE GARDEN, by WILLIAM COWPER Poem Text Poem Explanation Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: As one who, long in thickets and in brakes Last Line: For whom god heard his abraham plead in vain. Subject(s): Country Life; Gardens & Gardening; Truth THE TASK: BOOK 4. THE WINTER EVENING, by WILLIAM COWPER Poem Text Poem Explanation Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Hark! 'tis the twanging horn o'er yonder bridge Last Line: Found here that leisure and that ease I wished. Subject(s): Country Life; Winter THE TASK: BOOK 5. THE WINTER MORNING WALK, by WILLIAM COWPER Poem Text Poem Explanation Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Tis morning; and the sun with ruddy orb Last Line: And with thee rich, take what thou wilt away. Subject(s): Courts & Courtiers; Morning; Patriotism; Royal Court Life; Royalty; Kings; Queens THE TASK: BOOK 6. THE WINTER WALK AT NOON, by WILLIAM COWPER Poem Text Poem Explanation Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: There is in souls a sympathy with sounds Last Line: Whose approbation prosper--even mine. Subject(s): Animal Rights; Bells; Country Life; Winter; Animal Abuse; Vivisection THE VALEDICTION, by WILLIAM COWPER Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Farewell, false hearts! Whose best affections Last Line: A soul, an image of himself, and therefore true THE WINTER NOSEGAY, by WILLIAM COWPER Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: What nature, alas! Has denied Last Line: The truth of a friend such as you. Subject(s): Winter THE YEARLY DISTRESS; OR, TITHING TIME AT STOCK IN ESSEX, by WILLIAM COWPER Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Come, ponder well, for 'tis no jest Last Line: Without the clowns that pay. Subject(s): Tithes THIS EVENING, DELIA, YOU AND I, by WILLIAM COWPER Poet Analysis Poet's Biography THREE GREAT EPIC POETS, FR. TABLE TALK, by WILLIAM COWPER Poem Source Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Ages elapsed ere homer's lamp appeared Last Line: Then show far off their shining plumes again Variant Title(s): Milto Subject(s): Homer (10th Century B.c.); Poetry And Poets TIROCINIUM: OR, A REVIEW OF SCHOOLS, by WILLIAM COWPER Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: It is not from his form, in which we trace Last Line: Or better managed, or encouraged less. Subject(s): Education TO A LADY WHO WORE A LOCK OF HIS HAIR SET WITH DIAMONDS, by WILLIAM COWPER Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: The star that beams on anna's breast Last Line: But all the honour mine. Subject(s): Hair TO A YOUNG FRIEND ON HIS ARRIVING AT CAMBRIDGE WET, by WILLIAM COWPER Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: If gideon's fleece, which drenched with dew Last Line: Not drought on others, but much dew on thee! TO A YOUNG LADY WHO STOLE A PEN FROM THE PRINCE OF WALES'S STANDISH, by WILLIAM COWPER Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Sweet nymph, who art, it seems, accused Last Line: Worth more than all his crest. Subject(s): Pens & Pencils TO A YOUNG LADY, WITH A PRESENT OF TWO COCKSCOMBS, by WILLIAM COWPER Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Two cockscombs wait at your command Last Line: But then, to make amends, they both are mute. Variant Title(s): Lines Sent With Two Coxcombs To Miss Green Subject(s): Cockscombs (plants) TO DELIA, by WILLIAM COWPER Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Me to whatever state the gods assign Last Line: Would quit that heaven to find a happier place? Subject(s): Absence; Separation; Isolation TO DR. AUSTIN, OF CECIL STREET, LONDON, by WILLIAM COWPER Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Austin! Accept a grateful verse from me! Last Line: And boldly call thee, being his, my own. Variant Title(s): To Dr. Austen, Of Cecil Street, London Subject(s): Physicians; Doctors TO GEORGE ROMNEY, ESQ, by WILLIAM COWPER Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Romney! Expert infallibly to trace Last Line: When I was hayley's guest, and sat to thee? Subject(s): Romney, George (1734-1802) TO GRAVINA, ON HIS TRANSLATING THE AUTHOR'S SONG, by WILLIAM COWPER Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: My rose, gravina, blooms anew Last Line: Will never fade again. Subject(s): Gravina, Federico Carlos De (1756-1806); Translating & Interpreting TO HIS COUSIN, LADY HESKETH; REASONS FOR NOT WRITING LETTER, by WILLIAM COWPER Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: My pens are all split, and my ink-glass is dry Last Line: Neither wit, common sense, nor ideas, have I. TO JOHN JOHNSON, ON HIS PRESENTING AN ANTIQUE BUST OF HOMER, by WILLIAM COWPER Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Kinsman beloved, and as a son, by me! Last Line: Seek heavenly wealth, and work for god alone. Subject(s): Sculpture & Sculptors TO LADY AUSTEN, WRITTEN IN RAINY WEATHER, by WILLIAM COWPER Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: To watch the storms, and hear the sky Last Line: And no ambition to have more. Subject(s): Floods; Storms TO MARY, by WILLIAM COWPER Poem Text Poem Explanation Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: The twentieth year is well nigh past, / since first our sky was overcast Last Line: My mary! Variant Title(s): My Mary;to The Same (mary Unwin) Subject(s): Grief; Love; Sickness; Unwin, Mary; Sorrow; Sadness; Illness TO MARY UNWIN, by WILLIAM COWPER Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Mary! I want a lyre with other strings Last Line: And since thou own'st that praise, I spare thee mine. Variant Title(s): Sonnet To Mrs. Unwin;to Mrs. Unwin Subject(s): Unwin, Mary TO MRS. KING ON HER KIND PRESENT TO THE AUTHOR, A ... QUILT, by WILLIAM COWPER Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: The bard, if e'er he feel at all Last Line: Who put the whole together. Subject(s): Quilts TO MRS. NEWTON, by WILLIAM COWPER Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: A noble theme demands a noble verse Last Line: We say, good madam, and good sir, adieu! TO MRS. THROCKMORTON, ON HER BEAUTIFUL TRANSCRIPT OF HORACE, by WILLIAM COWPER Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Maria, could horace have guessed Last Line: Nothing ever was written so well. Subject(s): Horace (65-8 B.c.); Translating & Interpreting TO MY COUSIN ANNE BODHAM, ON RECEIVING FROM HER A PURSE, by WILLIAM COWPER Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: My gentle anne, whom heretofore Last Line: The best things kept within it. TO REV. WALTER BAGOT; EXCUSE FOR DELAY IN WRITING TO HIM, by WILLIAM COWPER Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: It is a maxim of much weight Last Line: Had need do nothing more. Subject(s): Translating & Interpreting TO SIR JOHN FENN, by WILLIAM COWPER Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Two omens seem propitious to my fame Last Line: Known by those titles, sir, both yours and you. TO SIR JOSHUA REYNOLDS, by WILLIAM COWPER Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Dear president, whose art sublime Last Line: Britannia gives the world repose. Subject(s): Reynolds, Sir Joshua (1723-1792) TO THE IMMORTAL MEMORY OF THE HALIBUT ON WHICH I DINED, by WILLIAM COWPER Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Where hast thou floated, in what seas pursued Last Line: To feed a bard, and to be praised in verse. Subject(s): Halibut; Sea; Ocean TO THE NIGHTINGALE WHICH THE AUTHOR HEARD ON NEW YEAR'S DAY, by WILLIAM COWPER Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Whence is it, that amazed I hear Last Line: And every season spring. Subject(s): Birds; Nightingales TO THE REV. MR. NEWTON [RECTOR OF ST. MARY, WOOLNOTH], by WILLIAM COWPER Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Says the pipe to the snuff-box, 'I can't understand' Last Line: "but of any thing else they may choose to put in us." Subject(s): Smoking; Tobacco; Pipes; Cigars; Cigarettes TO THE REV. MR. NEWTON: AN INVITATION TO THE COUNTRY, by WILLIAM COWPER Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: The swallows in their torpid state Last Line: Shall shine, and dry the tear. Subject(s): Newton, John (1725-1807) TO THE REV. WILLIAM BULL, by WILLIAM COWPER Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: My dear friend / if reading verse be your delight Last Line: Be always filling, never full. Subject(s): Poetry & Poets; Smoking; Tobacco; Pipes; Cigars; Cigarettes TO THE REV. WILLIAM CAWTHORNE UNWIN, by WILLIAM COWPER Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Unwin, I should but ill repay Last Line: I sink the poet in the friend. Subject(s): Friendship TO WARREN HASTINGS, ESQ.; BY AN OLD SCHOOLFELLOW OF HIS, by WILLIAM COWPER Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Hastings! I knew thee young, and of a mind Last Line: And worried thee, as not themselves the best. Subject(s): Hastings, Warren (1732-1818) TO WILLIAM COWPER, by JOHN COWPER POWYS Poem Text 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 TO WILLIAM HAYLEY, ESQ, by WILLIAM COWPER Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Hayley, thy tenderness fraternal shown Last Line: Not more to admire the bard than love the man. Subject(s): Hayley, William (1745-1820) TO WILLIAM HAYLEY, ESQ. IN REPLY TO HIS SOLICITATION, by WILLIAM COWPER Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Dear architect of fine chateaux in air Last Line: Which they who need them use, and then despise. Subject(s): Hayley, William (1745-1820) TO [THE REVEREND] MR. NEWTON ON HIS RETURN FROM RAMSGATE, by WILLIAM COWPER Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: That ocean you of late surveyed Last Line: Come home to port no more. TOM RABAN, by WILLIAM COWPER Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: The curate and churchwarden Last Line: Is fiction, yet her song is sometimes true. TRANSLATION, by WILLIAM COWPER Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Thy counsel sage, maria fair Last Line: I bid adieu to thee! Subject(s): Freedom; Liberty TRUTH, by WILLIAM COWPER Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Man, on the dubious waves of error tossed Last Line: Humility is crowned, and faith receives the prize. Subject(s): Truth UPON A VENERABLE RIVAL, by WILLIAM COWPER Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Full thirty frosts since thou wert young Last Line: Who old, though grey, a fool. Subject(s): Love; Middle Age; Youth VERSES SUPPOSED TO BE WRITTEN BY ALEXANDER SELKIRK, by WILLIAM COWPER Poem Text Poem Explanation Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: I am monarch of all I survey Last Line: And reconciles man to his lot. Variant Title(s): Verses By Alexander Selkirk;alexander Selkirk;the Solitude Of Alexander Selkirk Subject(s): Explorers; Memory; Selkirk, Alexander (1676-1721); Solitude; Exploring; Discovery; Discoverers; Loneliness VERSES WRITTEN AT BATH ON FINDING THE HEEL OF A SHOE, by WILLIAM COWPER Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Fortune! I thank thee: gentle goddess, thanks! Last Line: Drags the dull load of disappointment on. WALK TO EMMAUS, by WILLIAM COWPER Poem Source Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: It happened, on a solemn eventinde Last Line: Did not our hearts feel all he deigned to say, %did they not burn within us by the way? Subject(s): Jesus Christ WILLIAM COWPER, by WILLIAM BLAKE Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: For this is being a friend just in the nick Last Line: For any man to pretend to inspiration Subject(s): Bible; Cowper, William (1731-1800); Mythology; Poetry & Poets WILLIAM COWPER, by ROY MCFADDEN Poem Source First Line: Being damned, %he stopped longing for meaning, or Last Line: Composing hymns for simple souls to sing WRITTEN AFTER LEAVING HER AT NEW BURNS, by WILLIAM COWPER Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: How quick the change from joy to woe Last Line: You best may tell who feel the same. Subject(s): Absence; Grief; Separation; Isolation; Sorrow; Sadness WRITTEN IN A FIT OF ILLNESS; R.S.S., by WILLIAM COWPER Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: In these sad hours, a prey to ceaseless pain Last Line: Hope, joy, and peace, and delia in her train! Subject(s): Sickness; Illness WRITTEN IN A QUARREL (DELIVERY PREVENTED BY RECONCILIATION), by WILLIAM COWPER Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Think, delia, with what cruel haste Last Line: Tis madness to forego. WRITTEN UNDER THE INFLUENCE OF DELIRIUM, by WILLIAM COWPER Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Hatred and vengeance, my eternal portion Last Line: Buried above ground. Variant Title(s): Lines Written During A Period Of Insanity;lines Written Under The Influence Of Delirium Subject(s): Insanity; Madness; Mental Illness YARDLEY OAK, by WILLIAM COWPER Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Survivor sole, and hardly such, of all Last Line: Eventful, should supply her with a theme. Subject(s): Environment; Oak Trees; Trees; Environmental Protection; Ecology; Conservation YE FALLEN AVENUES! ONCE MORE I MOURN, by WILLIAM COWPER Poem Source Poet Analysis Poet's Biography Last Line: Play wanton, every moment, every spot Subject(s): Environment; Trees |
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