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Born in November 26, 1731 / Died in April 25, 1800 / United Kingdom / English

Poems by William Cowper

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Olney Hymn 18: Lovest Thou Me?

... Sought thee wandering, set thee right, ...

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Lines. Oh! To Some Distant Scene

... But, greatly pitying whom the world calls happy ...

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Sonnet To A Young Lady On Her Birth-Day

... Deem not, sweet rose, that bloom'st 'midst many a thorn, ...

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Love Faithful In The Absence Of The Beloved

... Such scenes, such pleasures, are all past with me ...

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Sparrows Self-Domesticated In Trinity College, Cambridge

... Their nest they weave in hope of crumbs, ...

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The Task: Book VI. -- The Winter Walk at Noon

... and all cry, “Worthy the Lamb, for he was slain for us!” ...

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Divine Love Endures No Rival

... Love strips of all its terrors, and beguiles ...

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Tirocinium; or, a Review of Schools

... Pull down the schools—what!—all the schools i’ th’ land ...

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Mortals! Around Your Destined Heads

... Since then in vain we strive to guard ...

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To The Immortal Memory Of The Halibut, On Which I Dined This Day, Monday, April 26, 1784

... Peace, therefore, and good health, and much good fish, ...

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Sonnet III. Canzone. (Translated From Milton)

... How dar'st thou risque to sing these foreign strains ...

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To A Young Friend, On His Arriving At Cambridge Wet, When No Rain Had Fallen There

... If Gideon's fleece, which drenched with dew he found, ...

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The Negro's Complaint

... But though theirs they have enroll'd me ...

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The Yearly Distress; Or, Tithing-Time At Stock In Essex

... " The money chinks, down drop their chins, ...

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The Acquiescence Of Pure Love

... As pleased when shipwrecked as when safe on shore ...