Selected Poems: William Cowper

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ISBN: 9781857547122 | 1857547128
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Copyright: 5/28/2006

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In this selection, which includes short poems and extracts from the longer ones, there is ample evidence of the quality of Cowper's faith and of his eye and ear for nature. Indicative of how his life was sustained by writing, these poems reveal his effort to engage in discourse with friends and with the natural world.

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Introduction
"I am your voice - It was tied in you - In me it begins to talk"	p. 3
"I am the poet of reality"	p. 3
"One touch of a tug of me has unhaltered all my senses but feeling"	p. 4
"Afar in the sky was a nest"	p. 6
"The crowds naked in the bath"	p. 7
"In vain were nails driven through my hands"	p. 7
"There is no word in any tongue"	p. 8
Song of Myself	p. 11
"I wander all night in my vision" [The Sleepers]	p. 95
Crossing Brooklyn Ferry	p. 109
Out of the Cradle Endlessly Rocking	p. 117
I Ebb'd with the Ocean of Life	p. 126
When Lilacs Last in the Dooryard Bloom'd	p. 130
Poets to Come	p. 145
To the Garden the World	p. 145
From Pent-up Aching Rivers	p. 146
I Sing the Body Electric	p. 149
A Woman Waits for Me	p. 160
Spontaneous Me	p. 162
Ages and Ages Returning at Intervals	p. 165
O Hymen! O Hymenee!	p. 166
I Am He that Aches with Love	p. 166
Facing West from California's Shores	p. 166
As Adam Early in the Morning	p. 167
In Paths Untrodden	p. 171
Scented Herbage of My Breast	p. 172
Whoever You Are Holding Me Now in Hand	p. 174
Of the Terrible Doubt of Appearances	p. 176
City of Orgies	p. 178
I Saw in Louisiana a Live-Oak Growing	p. 178
On the Beach at Night	p. 183
The World Below the Brine	p. 184
A Hand-Mirror	p. 185
The Dalliance of the Eagles	p. 186
As Toilsome I Wander'd Virginia's Woods	p. 187
The Wound-Dresser	p. 188
Reconciliation	p. 192
There Was a Child Went Forth	p. 192
Chanting the Square Deific	p. 199
A Noiseless Patient Spider	p. 202
O Living Always, Always Dying	p. 203
The Last Invocation	p. 203
A Clear Midnight	p. 204
Good-Bye my Fancy	p. 204
When the Full-Grown Poet Came	p. 204
Good-Bye my Fancy!	p. 205
"Respondez! Respondez!"	p. 206
Biographical Note	p. 213
Note on the Texts	p. 215
Notes	p. 217
Index of Titles and First Lines	p. 219
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Selected Poems: William Cowper

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