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Classic and Contemporary Poetry
A SONNET; ADDRESSED TO MR. PHILLIPS, by WILLIAM COWPER 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)
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)
PHILLIPS! the suff'rer less by law than pow'r,
Though prison'd in an adamantine hold,
May bear a heart as free and uncontroul'd
In his dark cell, as in a summer's bow'r.
The sly accuser—He, who in an hour
When all suspicion slept, like Him of old
Eve's Tempter, wreath'd in many an artful fold
Conceal'd his drift with purpose to devour—
He is the pris'ner, and those ribs within
That hoop his sorry vitals round about
Dwells one, who never shall compassion win
Feel what he may, 'till Judgment call him out.
Thou then less deeply at thy wrongs repine,
Scorn is his meed, commiseration thine.
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