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To Mrs. Throckmorton, On Her Beautiful Transcript Of Horaces Ode, Ad Librum Suum.

By William Cowper

Topics: classic

Maria, could Horace have guessd     What honour awaited his ode     To his own little volume addressd,     The honour which you have bestowd;     Who have traced it in characters here,     So elegant, even, and neat,     He had laughd at the critical sneer     Which he seems to have trembled to meet.     And sneer, if you please, he had said,     A nymph shall hereafter arise,     Who shall give me, when you are all dead,     The glory your malice denies;     Shall dignity give to my lay,     Although but a mere bagatelle;     And even a poet shall say,     Nothing ever was written so well.

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About William Cowper

William Cowper (1731–1800) was an English poet and hymnodist whose work bridges the gap between the Augustan age and Romanticism. His poems "The Task" and "John Gilpin" were enormously popular, and his hymn "God Moves in a Mysterious Way" remains widely sung.

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