1. William Cowper
England

From “The Timepiece”: “The Task,” Book. II.
ENGLAND, with all thy faults, I love thee still,—
My country! and, while yet a nook is left
Where English minds and manners may be found,
Shall be constrained to love thee. Though thy clime
Be fickle, and thy year...

Poet: William Cowper
The Diverting History of John Gilpin

Showing How He Went Farther Than He Intended, and Came Safe Home Again

JOHN GILPIN was a citizen
  Of credit and renown,
A trainband captain eke was he
  Of famous London town.

John Gilpin’s spouse said to her dear—
  “Though wedded we have been...

Poet: William Cowper
The Nose and the Eyes

Between Nose and Eyes a strange contest arose;
The spectacles set them, unhappily, wrong;
The point in dispute was, as all the world knows,
  To whom the said spectacles ought to belong.

So Tongue was the lawyer, and argued the cause,
  With a great deal...

Poet: William Cowper