Date: 1791
"and my mother's mind / In doubtful balance hangs, if still with me / An inmate, she shall manage my concerns, / Attentive only to her absent Lord / And her own good report"
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Date: 1792
"Every thing encourages me on your account, while my own soul, tormented by an unlucky passion, has entirely lost its balance."
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Date: 1792
Light may break in and great ideas may dawn upon the mind
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Date: 1792
"Curs'd lethargy of the soul! ... that chain'd my better judgement, cramp'd all my strength of mind--ruin'd all my prospects."
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Date: 1792
"I should be a pitiful bungler indeed, if I knew not yet how to tear a son from the heart of his father, were they link'd together with chains of iron."
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Date: 1792
"Men!--Men! false! treacherous crocodiles! Your eyes are water! your hearts are iron!"
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Date: 1792
"The tears, the supplications of his father, never reach'd his iron heart.-- "
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Date: 1792
"But is it not most unjust --nay cruel, to condemn a man because he is so unfortunate as to be the victim of disease? May not a great soul inhabit a foul carcase?"
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Date: w. 1791-2
"But, sent from God, his presence leaves, / To gather home his ripen'd sheaves, / To call encumber'd souls away / From fleshly bonds to boundless day, / (As when the winged hours excite, / And summon forth the morning-light) / And each to convoy to her place / Before the Eternal Father's face."
preview | full record— Cowper, William (1731-1800)