William Cowper Poems (104 Poems)
Adam: A Sacred Drama. Act 1. (William Cowper Poems)
CHORUS OF ANGELS, Singing the Glory of God. To Heaven’s bright lyre let Iris be the bow,Adapt the spheres for chords, for notes the stars;Let new-born gales discriminate the bars,Nor let old Time to measure times be slow.Hence to new … Continue reading
Adam: A Sacred Drama. Act 3. (William Cowper Poems)
SCENE I.– Adam and Eve. Oh, my beloved companion!Oh thou of my existence,The very heart and soul!Hast thou, with such excess of tender haste,With ceaseless pilgrimage,To find again thy Adam,Thus solitary wandered?Behold him! Speak! what are thy gentle orders?Why dost … Continue reading
A Poetical Epistle To Lady Austen (William Cowper Poems)
Dear Anna, — Between friend and friend,Prose answers every common end;Serves, in a plain and homely way,To express the occurrence of the day;Our health, the weather, and the news,What walks we take, what books we choose,And all the floating thoughts … Continue reading
Addressed To Miss Macartney, Afterwards Mrs. Greville, On Reading The Prayer For Indifference (William Cowper Poems)
And dwells there in a female heart,By bounteous heaven design’dThe choicest raptures to impact,To feel the most refined; Dwells there a wish in such a breastIts nature to forego,To smother in ignoble restAt once both bliss and woe? Far be … Continue reading
A Tale. June 1793 (William Cowper Poems)
In Scotland’s realm, where trees are fewNor even shrubs abound;But where, however bleak the viewSome better things are found; For husband there and wife may boastTheir union undefiled,And false ones are as rare almostAs hedge-rows in the wild; In Scotland’s … Continue reading
A Figurative Description Of The Procedure Of Divine Love (William Cowper Poems)
‘Twas my purpose, on a day,To embark, and sail away.As I climbed the vessel’s side,Love was sporting in the tide;‘Come,’ he said, ‘ascend-make haste,Launch into the boundless waste.’ Many mariners were there,Having each his separate care;They that rowed us held … Continue reading
A Tale, Founded On A Fact, Which Happened In January, 1779 (William Cowper Poems)
Where Humber pours his rich commercial stream,There dwelt a wretch, who breathed but to blaspheme.In subterraneous caves his life he led,Black as the mine, in which he wrought for bread.When on a day, emerging from the deep,A Sabbath-day, (such Sabbaths … Continue reading
A Manual, More Ancient Than The Art Of Printing, And Not To Be Found In Any Catalogue (William Cowper Poems)
There is a book, which we may call(Its excellence is such)Alone a library, though small;The ladies thumb it much. Words none, things numerous it contains:And thing with words compared,Who needs be told, that has his brains,Which merits most regard? Ofttimes … Continue reading
A Child Of God Longing To See Him Beloved (William Cowper Poems)
There’s not an echo round me,But I am glad should learn,How pure a fire has found me,The love with which I burn.For none attends with pleasureTo what I would reveal;They slight me out of measure,And laugh at all I feel. … Continue reading
A Fable (William Cowper Poems)
A raven, while with glossy breastHer new-laid eggs she fondly press’d,And, on her wicker-work high mounted,Her chickens prematurely counted(A fault philosophers might blame,If quite exempted from the same),Enjoy’d at ease the genial day;‘Twas April, as the bumpkins say,The legislature call’d … Continue reading
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