* William Cowper's The Solitude Of Alexander Selkirk is about the feelings of Alexander Selkirk as he lived all alone on the island.

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The fourth verse of William Cowper's hymn " Sometimes a Light Surprises ", written in 1779, quotes.

The title is taken from William Cowper's translation of Book II of Homer's Iliad: " The vulture's maw / Shall have his carcase, and the dogs his bones.

* Detailed account of William Cowper's life in the 1911 Encyclopædia Britannica

A bulbourethral gland, also called a Cowper's gland for anatomist William Cowper, is one of two small exocrine glands present in the reproductive system of human males.

Here is an example from William Cowper's " Verses Supposed to be Written by Alexander Selkirk " ( 1782 ), composed in anapaestic trimeter:

He made his reputation by The Pleasures of Memory when William Cowper's fame was still in the making.

* William Cowper's Poems ( 1825 )

After his Roman period he produced fewer outline designs for the engraver except three for William Cowper's translations of the Latin poems of John Milton ( 1810 ).

* An incident on the round the world voyage is the subject of William Cowper's famed poem The Castaway.

* William Cowper's poem, The Colubriad, refers to his queue of flatterers while a prisoner in London

William Cowper's poem, the " Loss of the Royal George ," commemorates this disaster.

The museum was William Cowper's actual house, and was given to the town in 1905 by the publisher William Hill Collingridge ( who had been born in the house himself ).

Ware was the unintended destination of John Gilpin in William Cowper's comic poem.

* John Gilpin, a real-life character featured in William Cowper's ballad, The Diverting History of John Gilpin

* William Cowper ( anatomist )-surgeon, gave his name to Cowper's gland

* William Cowper's Letters ( 1911 ), editor

William Cowper FRS ( c. 1666 – 8 March 1709 ) was an English surgeon and anatomist, famous for his early description of what is now known as the Cowper's gland.

Shaw's distaste for this attitude to Shakespeare is anticipated by William Cowper's attack on Garrick's whole festival as blasphemous in his poem The Task ( 1785 ).

He translated some of the Confucian classics into English, notably The Discourses and Sayings of Confucius and The Universal Order or Conduct of Life ; and rendered William Cowper's narrative poem The Diverting History of John Gilpin into classical Chinese verse ( known as 癡漢騎馬歌 ).

" And did those feet in ancient time " is a short poem by William Blake from the preface to his epic Milton a Poem, one of a collection of writings known as the Prophetic Books.

Similar examples may be found in Irish poet William Butler Yeats ' poem The Wild Swans at Coole where the maturing season that the poet observes symbolically represents his own ageing self.

William Cowper wrote a popular poem, " Boadicea, an ode ," in 1782.

* Constantinople appears as a city of wondrous majesty, beauty, remoteness, and nostalgia in William Butler Yeats ' 1928 poem " Sailing to Byzantium ".

The film's title was inspired by the line, " Bring me my chariot of fire ," from the William Blake poem adapted into the popular British hymn " Jerusalem "; the hymn is heard at the end of the film.

* William Schuman composed an opera, The Mighty Casey ( 1953 ), based on the poem.

* Electric Chair at Sing Sing, a 1900 photograph by William M. Vander Weyde, accompanied by a poem by Jared Carter.

The two line poetic form as a closed couplet was also used by William Blake in his poem Auguries of Innocence and also by Byron ( Don Juan ( Byron ) XIII ); John Gay ( Fables ); Alexander Pope ( An Essay on Man ).

The Scottish poem Flyting of Dunbar and Kennedy, which is dated before 1520 ( the generally accepted date prior to the death of William Dunbar, one of the composers ), refers to ' haggeis '.

William Ernest Henley is known to most people by virtue of this single poem.

The poet The Hon William Robert Spencer immortalised this hound in a poem.

The poem's emphasis on imagination as subject of a poem, on the contrasts within the paradisal setting, and its discussion of the role of poet as either being blessed or cursed by imagination, has influenced many works, including Alfred Tennyson's " Palace of Art " and William Butler Yeats's Byzantium based poems.

The poem also contains allusions to the Book of Revelation in its description of New Jerusalem and to the paradise of William Shakespeare's A Midsummer Night's Dream.

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* Leda and the Swan, a poem by William Butler Yeats

Lucrece is also featured in William Shakespeare's 1594 long poem The Rape of Lucrece ; he also mentioned her in Titus Andronicus, As You Like It, and Twelfth Night ( Malvolio authenticates his fateful letter by spotting Olivia's Lucrece seal ).

* Milton: a Poem, an epic poem by William Blake

Joseph Sobran, in Alias Shakespeare, argued that in 1607 William Barksted, a minor poet and playwright, implies in his poem " Mirrha the Mother of Adonis " that Shakespeare was already deceased.

Scholars point to a poem written circa 1620 by a student at Oxford, William Basse, that mentioned the author Shakespeare died in 1616, which is the year Shakespeare deceased and not Edward de Vere.

Other notables examples include the Roman de la Rose, a 13th-century French poem, William Langland's Piers Ploughman in the 14th century, and Jean de la Fontaine's Fables ( influenced by Aesop's ) in the 17th century.

One of the most common manifestations of stanzaic form in poetry in English ( and in other Western European languages ) is represented in texts for church hymns, such as the first three stanzas ( of nine ) from a poem by Isaac Watts ( from 1719 ) cited immediately below ( in this case, each stanza is to be sung to the same hymn tune, composed earlier by William Croft in 1708 ):

* " The Second Coming ", a poem by William Butler Yeats

The line " Some are born to sweet delight, some are born to endless night " from " End of the Night " is a quote from William Blake's poem " Auguries of Innocence ".