William Cowper

William Cowper was a poet  who was born in Birkhamstead Hertfordshire

He wrote poems and hymns and was a poet who did inspire

Young writers in English long after he had died

In the literary World his name is known Worldwide

Cowper wrote memorable poems in his lifetime

And in mental institutions he spent some time

His poems on his pet hares still popular today

He did live his verses of him one can say

As is said of writing poetry it can be a hungry belly game

Cowper in his lifetime never became wealthy though he did know of fame

In his bouts of depression he often contemplated suicide

And in April in eighteen hundred  in his sixty eight year of dropsy he died

On his writing of The Task and The Olney Hymns his became a great name

William Cowper the poet is long outlived by his fame

On his long hard journey to literary renown

He did know of many an up and a down

Though long dead the fans of his writing in numbers do grow

In his lifetime few happy days of he did know

An anti slavery as well as an anti racism poet

Two hundred and twenty one years after  his death he remains a writer worthy of note