Carlos Wilcox

Carlos Wilcox (22 October 1794 – 29 May 1827) was a minor American poet. He wrote a poem, "The Age of Benevolence", which was left unfinished, and which was clearly influenced by the work of William Cowper.

Quotes

Poetry

Remains of the Rev. Carlos Wilcox: with a memoir of his life (Hartford: Edward Hopkins, 1828)

• Of true benevolence, its charms divine,
  With other motives to call forth its power,
  And its grand triumphs, multiplied beyond
  All former bounds, in this its golden age,
  Humbly I sing, awed by the holy theme;
  A theme exalted, though as yet unsung,
  In beauty rich, of inspiration full,
  And worthy of a nobler harp than that
  From which heroic strains sublimely sound.
  • "The Age of Benevolence", Book I, line 1; p. 99

• Time well employed is Satan's deadliest foe:
  It leaves no opening for the lurking fiend.
  • "The Age of Benevolence", Extracts from Book II, p. 148

• The sultry summer past, September comes,
  Soft twilight of the soft-declining year.
  All mildness, soothing loneliness and peace,
  The fading season ere the falling come.
  • "The Age of Benevolence", Extracts from Book II, p. 153

• Be thy best thoughts to work divine addressed;
  Do something — do it soon — will all thy might;
  An angel's wing would droop if long at rest,
  And God Himself inactive were no longer blessed.
  • "The Religion of Taste", Stanza CII, p. 206

• 'Tis infamy to die and not be missed.
  • "The Religion of Taste", Stanza CVI, p. 207

• Rouse to some work of high and holy love,
  And thou an angel's happiness shall know.
  • "The Religion of Taste", Stanza CVII, p. 208

External links

• Josiah H. Gilbert: Three Thousand Selected Quotations From Brilliant Writers, The S. S. Scranton Co Publishers (1909)
• Wilcox, Carlos: Remains of the Rev. Carlos Wilcox: with a memoir of his life, Hartford, Conn. : E. Hopkins Publishers, 1828