William Cowper
William Cowper
William Cowper was an English poet and hymnodist. One of the most popular poets of his time, Cowper changed the direction of 18th century nature poetry by writing of everyday life and scenes of the English countryside. In many ways, he was one of the forerunners of Romantic poetry. Samuel Taylor Coleridge called him "the best modern poet", whilst William Wordsworth particularly admired his poem Yardley-Oak. He was a nephew of the poet Judith Madan...
NationalityEnglish
ProfessionPoet
Date of Birth26 November 1731
eagles flew invincible
Religion Caesar never knew Thy posterity shall sway, Where his eagles never flew, None as invincible as they.
loneliness doors lions
I seem forsaken and alone, / I hear the lion roar; / And every door is shut but one, / And that is Mercy's door.
judgment should mischief
It is a general rule of Judgment, that a mischief should rather be admitted than an inconvenience.
moral manners courtesy
A moral, sensible, and well-bred manWill not affront me, and no other can.
golden truth-is girdles
Truth is the golden girdle of the globe.
despair purpose purses
Most satirists are indeed a public scourge; Their mildest physic is a farrier's purge; Their acrid temper turns, as soon as stirr'd, The milk of their good purpose all to curd. Their zeal begotten, as their works rehearse, By lean despair upon an empty purse.
beneath blood drawn filled fountain guilty lose
There is a fountain filled with blood / Drawn from Emmanuel's veins; / And sinners, plunged beneath that flood, / Lose all their guilty stains.
cool farewell sound whispering
The poplars are felled, farewell to the shade,/ And the whispering sound of the cool colonnade!
lies lies-and-lying silent
When this poor, lisping, stammering tongue/ Lies silent in the grave.
darkest english-poet past till
The darkest day, if you live till tomorrow, will have past away.