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

• 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.
  • quoted in Three Thousand Selected Quotations From Brilliant Writers (1909) by Josiah H. Gilbert, p. 3
• 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.
  • Remains of the Rev. Carlos Wilcox: with a memoir of his life (1828), p. 99

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