WorkWilliam Cowper

“On the Receipt of My Mother's Picture out of Norfolk”

On the Receipt of My Mother's Picture out of Norfolk (1798) Inferred

William Cowper (1731–1800) · 1798

InferredQuoted phrase 'O that those lips had language / Life has passed / With me but roughly since I heard thee last' matches opening lines of Cowper's elegy on his mother's portrait. Opening couplet of Cowper's 'On the Receipt of My Mother's Picture out of Norfolk' (1798). Fuller quotes it as a boy reciting at a school exhibition.

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Woman in the Nineteenth Century

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“O that those lips had language. Life has passed / With me but roughly since I heard thee last.*”

Fuller, Margaret. Woman in the Nineteenth Century. New York: Greeley & McElrath, 1845.

Inferred Quoted phrase 'O that those lips had language / Life has passed / With me but roughly since I heard thee last' matches opening lines of Cowper's elegy on his mother's portrait. Opening couplet of Cowper's '“On the Receipt of My Mother's Picture out of Norfolk”' (1798). Fuller quotes it as a boy reciting at a school exhibition.