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Classic and Contemporary Poetry
ON MADAN'S ANSWER TO NEWTON'S COMMENTS ON THELYPHTORA, by WILLIAM COWPER Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: M. Quarrels with n., because m. Wrote a book Last Line: If a man must be scolded for loving his own. | |||
M. quarrels with N., because M. wrote a book And N. did not like it, which M. could not brook; So he called him a bigot, a wrangler, a monk, With as many hard names as would line a good trunk, And set up his back, and clawed like a cat; But N. liked it never the better for that. Now N. had a wife, and he wanted but one, Which stuck in M.'s stomach as cross as a bone: It has always been reckoned a just cause of strife For a man to make free with another man's wife; But the strife is the strangest that ever was known, If a man must be scolded for loving his own. | Discover our Poem Explanations and Poet Analyses!Other Poems of Interest...A COMPARISON [ADDRESSED] TO A YOUNG LADY by WILLIAM COWPER BOADICEA; AN ODE by WILLIAM COWPER EPITAPH ON A HARE by WILLIAM COWPER OLNEY HYMNS: 1. WALKING WITH GOD by WILLIAM COWPER OLNEY HYMNS: 18. LOVEST THOU ME? by WILLIAM COWPER OLNEY HYMNS: 35. LIGHT SHINING OUT OF DARKNESS by WILLIAM COWPER OLNEY HYMNS: 49. JOY AND PEACE IN BELIEVING by WILLIAM COWPER OLNEY HYMNS: 9. THE CONTRITE HEART by WILLIAM COWPER ON THE DEATH OF MRS. (NOW LADY) THROCKMORTON'S BULLFINCH by WILLIAM COWPER ON THE LOSS OF THE ROYAL GEORGE by WILLIAM COWPER ON THE RECEIPT OF MY MOTHER'S PICTURE [OUT OF NORFOLK] by WILLIAM COWPER |
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