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
dare love loving shall
I love it, I love it; and who shall dare / To chide me for loving that old arm-chair?
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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.