Classic and Contemporary Poetry
LETTER IN VERSE, by WILLIAM COWPER Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: If I write not to you Last Line: Y@4rs obed@4ly stalking horse. | ||||||||
IF I write not to you As I gladly would do To a Man of your Mettle & Sense, 'Tis a Fault I must own For which I'll attone When I take my Departure from hence. To tell you y@4e Truth, I'm a queer kind of Youth And I care not if all y@4e world knows it; Whether Sloven, or Beau, In Square, Alley, or Row, At Whitehall, in y@4e court, or y@4e closet. Having written thus much In honest high Dutch, I must now take a nobler still up: Give my Fancy, a prick, My Invention, a flick, And my Genius a pretty smart Fillip. For the Bus'ness in hand You are to understand, Is indeed neither trifling nor small: But w@4ch you may transact If your scull is not crackt As well as y@4e best of them all. And so may your Dear Wife Be y@4e joy of your Life, And of all our brave troops y@4e Commandress, As you shall convey What herein I say To y@4e very fair Lady, my Laundress. That to Town I shall trot (No I Lie, I shall not, For to Town I shall jog in y@4e stage) On October y@4e Twentieth, For my Father consenteth To make me y@4e Flower of y@4e Age. So bid her prepare Every Table & Chair, And warm well my Bed by y@4e Fire, And if this be not done I shall break her Back bone As sure as I ever come nigh her. I am Jovial & Merry, Have writ till I'm weary, Am become, with a great deal of Talking, hoarse: So farewellsweet Lad! Is all I shall add, Except y@4rs obed@4ly stalking Horse. | Discover our Poem Explanations and Poet Analyses!Other Poems of Interest...A COMPARISON [ADDRESSED] TO A YOUNG LADY by WILLIAM COWPER BOADICEA; AN ODE by WILLIAM COWPER EPITAPH ON A HARE by WILLIAM COWPER OLNEY HYMNS: 1. WALKING WITH GOD by WILLIAM COWPER OLNEY HYMNS: 18. LOVEST THOU ME? by WILLIAM COWPER OLNEY HYMNS: 35. LIGHT SHINING OUT OF DARKNESS by WILLIAM COWPER OLNEY HYMNS: 49. JOY AND PEACE IN BELIEVING by WILLIAM COWPER OLNEY HYMNS: 9. THE CONTRITE HEART by WILLIAM COWPER ON THE DEATH OF MRS. (NOW LADY) THROCKMORTON'S BULLFINCH by WILLIAM COWPER ON THE LOSS OF THE ROYAL GEORGE by WILLIAM COWPER ON THE RECEIPT OF MY MOTHER'S PICTURE [OUT OF NORFOLK] by WILLIAM COWPER |
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