Eliza Cook
Eliza Cook
Eliza Cookwas an English author and poet associated with the Chartist movement. She was a proponent of political freedom for women, and believed in the ideology of self-improvement through education, something she called "levelling up." This made her hugely popular with the working class public in both England and America...
NationalityEnglish
ProfessionPoet
Date of Birth24 December 1818
build cells
Better build schoolrooms for "the boy,"/ Than cells and gibbets for "the man.
dare love loving shall
I love it, I love it; and who shall dare / To chide me for loving that old arm-chair?
echoes plays sweet tune
How cruelly sweet are the echoes that start, When memory plays an old tune on the heart.
cynic english-poet knock
Why should we strive, with cynic frown, to knock their fairy castles down?
english-poet trust
Who would not rather trust and be deceived?
english-poet good language though works
Though language forms the preacher, 'Tis good works make the man.
bear coward equal hand heart ought pain slightest start torture whose wretch
The coward wretch whose hand and heart Can bear to torture ought below, Is ever first to quail and start From the slightest pain or equal foe.