1801 ENGLISH POETRY 1579-1830: SPENSER AND THE TRADITION

William Cowper

Leigh Hunt, "Epitaph on Cowper" Poetical Register and Repository of Fugitive Poetry for 1801 (1802) 78.

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Here, where thought no more devours,
Rests the Poet and the Man;
Life, with all its subtle powers,
Ending where it first began.

Stranger, if thou lov'st a tear,
Weep thee o'er his death awhile:
If thine eye would still be clear,
Think upon his life and smile.