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"I cannot talk with civet in the room,
A fine puss-gentleman that's all perfume."
William Cowper (1731-1800), British poet. repr. In Poetical Works, ed. H.S. Milford (1934). Conversation, l. 283-4 (1782). |
"The pipe, with solemn interposing puff,
Makes half a sentence at a time enough;
The dozing sages drop the drowsy strain,
Then pause, and puff—and speak, and pause again."
William Cowper (1731-1800), British poet. repr. In Poetical Works, ed. H.S. Milford (1934). Conversation, l. 245-8 (1782). |
"I kept him for his humour's sake,
For he would oft beguile
My heart of thoughts that made it ache,
And force me to a smile."
William Cowper (1731-1800), British poet. Epitaph on a Hare (l. 33-36). . .
Poets of the English Language, Vols. I-V. Vol. I: Langland to Spenser; Vol. II: Marlowe to Marvell; Vol. III: Milton to Goldsmith; Vol. IV: Blake to Poe; Vol. V: Tennyson to Yeats. W. H. Auden and Norman Holmes Pearson, eds. (1950) The Viking Press. |
"Forgive the song that falls so low,
beneath the gratitude I owe."
William Cowper (1731-1800), British hymn-writer. Published in The Sacred Harp (1991). "Forgive the song," l. 1-2 (1779). |
"A man renowned for repartee
Will seldom scruple to make free
With friendship's finest feeling,
Will thrust a dagger at your breast,
And say he wounded you in jest,
By way of balm for healing."
William Cowper (1731-1800), British poet. Friendship. |
"The man that hails you Tom or Jack,
And proves by thumps upon your back
How he esteems your merit,
Is such a friend, that one had need
Be very much his friend indeed
To pardon or to bear it."
William Cowper (1731-1800), British poet. repr. In Poetical Works, ed. H.S. Milford (1934). Friendship, l. 169-74 (written 1781, published 1800). |
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