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Subject: COWPER, WILLIAM (1731-1800)
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UPDATE command denied to user 'poetryex_users'@'localhost' for table `poetryex_poems`.`subcnt` COWPER, by JOHN CLARE    Poem Source         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: Cowper, the poet of the fields
Subject(s): Cowper, William (1731-1800); Poetry And Poets


COWPER'S CONSOLATION, by PHOEBE CARY    Poem Text         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: He knew what mortals know when tried
Last Line: God took his own!
Subject(s): Consolation; Cowper, William (1731-1800); Death; Poetry & Poets; Dead, The


COWPER'S GRAVE, by ELIZABETH BARRETT BROWNING    Poem Text         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: It is a place where poets crowned / may feel the heart's decaying
Last Line: And I, on cowper's grave, should see his rapture in a vision.
Subject(s): Cowper, William (1731-1800); Graves; Poetry & Poets; Tombs; Tombstones


COWPER'S THREE HARES, by CHARLES TENNYSON TURNER    Poem Text                     Poet's Biography
First Line: They know not of their mission from above
Last Line: And mix your woodland breath with cowper's sighs.
Subject(s): Animals; Cowper, William (1731-1800); Poetry & Poets; Rabbits; Hares


FOR A COWPER PAPERWEIGHT, by CHARLES LAURENCE NORTH    Poem Source                    
First Line: Not that his writing isn't moving when
Last Line: And dreaded as thou art!'
Subject(s): Cowper, William (1731-1800); Poetry And Poets


HERE IS THE SCENES THE RURAL POET MADE, by JOHN CLARE    Poem Source         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
Last Line: The wilderness -- here cowpers spirit spoke
Subject(s): Cowper, William (1731-1800); Poetry And Poets


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, by JOHN BETJEMAN    Poem Source         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: Oh god the olney hymns abound
Subject(s): Cowper, William (1731-1800); Poetry And Poets


ON COWPER'S GARDEN AT OLNEY, by RICHARD MONCKTON MILNES    Poem Text         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: From this forlornest place, at morn and even
Last Line: "of truth to madness even than shun that fountain's brink."
Alternate Author Name(s): Houghton, 1st Baron; Houghton, Lord
Subject(s): Cowper, William (1731-1800); Gardens & Gardening; Poetry & Poets


TAME HARE, by NORMAN NICHOLSON    Poem Source                     Poet's Biography
First Line: She came to him in dreams - her ears
Last Line: Was sweetened by a lunch of docks and lettuce
Variant Title(s): Copwer's Tame Har
Subject(s): Animals; Cowper, William (1731-1800); Poetry And Poets; Rabbits


THE DEATH-SMILE OF COWPER, by CHARLES TENNYSON TURNER    Poem Text                     Poet's Biography
First Line: O orphan smile! Born since our mourner died
Last Line: A death-smile, and the sorrow that it quelled.
Subject(s): Cowper, William (1731-1800); Poetry & Poets


THE POETS AT TEA: 4. COWPER, WHO THOROUGHLY ENJOYED IT, by BARRY PAIN    Poem Text                     Poet's Biography
First Line: The cosy fire is bright and gay
Last Line: And do not make it strong.
Subject(s): Cowper, William (1731-1800); Food & Eating; Poetry & Poets; Tea


TO COWPER, by ANNE BRONTE    Poem Text         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: Sweet are thy strains, celestial bard
Last Line: Oh! How shall I appear?
Alternate Author Name(s): Bell, Acton
Subject(s): Cowper, William (1731-1800); Poetry & Poets


TO MR. MURRAY (3), by GEORGE GORDON BYRON    Poem Text         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: Strahan, tonson, lintot of the times
Last Line: My murray!
Alternate Author Name(s): Byron, Lord; Byron, 6th Baron
Variant Title(s): Impromptu
Subject(s): Cowper, William (1731-1800); Murray, John (1745-1793); Poetry & Poets


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