Category: William Cowper
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The Long Abandon’d Hill, for Frank Wilson as he retires
~~~~~ It is not quite right to say that Frank Wilson, books editor at The Philadelphia Inquirer, is retiring today. It is better to say that The Inquirer is retiring. In parts of the world where there is tyrannical rule, our journalists and poets are politically silenced as threats, because they start […]
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Faith’s Review and Expectation by John Newton (Amazing Grace, that is)
originally a poem written with William Cowper (1731-1800) by Rev. John Newton (1725-1807) Faith’s Review and Expectation Amazing grace! (how sweet the sound) That sav’d a wretch like me! I once was lost, but now am found, Was blind, but now I see. […]
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Verse for Veterans: First Foe to Flanders Fields
by Richard Lovelace (1618-1658) To Lucasta, Going to the Wars Tell me not, Sweet, I am unkind, That from the nunnery Of thy chaste breast and quiet mind To war and arms I fly. True, a new mistress now I chase, […]
Clattery MacHinery on Poetry 