Who is Eliza Cook

Eliza Cook (24 December 1818 – 23 September 1889) was an English author and poet associated with the Chartist movement. She was a proponent of political freedom for women, and believed in the ideology of self-improvement through education, something she called "levelling up." This made her hugely popular with the working class public in both England and America.

Childhood

Eliza Cook was the youngest of the eleven children of a brazier (a brass-worker) living in London Road, Southwark, where she was born. When she was about nine years old her father retired from business, and the family went to live at a small farm in St. Leonard's Forest, near Horsham. Her mother encouraged Eliza's fondness for imaginative literature, and despite attending the local Sunday school...
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Eliza Cook Poems

  • I Leave Thee For Awhile
    I leave thee for awhile, my love, I leave thee with a sigh;
    The fountain spring within my soul is playing in mine eye;
    I do not blush to own the tear,--let, let it touch my cheek,
    And what my lip has failed to tell, that drop perchance may speak. ...
  • Don't Tell The World That You're Waiting For Me
    THREE summers have gone since the first time we met, love,
    And still 'tis in vain that I ask thee to wed ;
    I hear no reply but a gentle " Not yet, love,"
    With a smile of your lip, and a shake of your head. ...
  • The Flag Of The Free
    'Tis the streamer of England - it floats o'er the brave-
    'Tis the fairest unfurled o'er the land or the wave;
    But though brightest in story and matchless in fight,
    'Tis the heralds of Mercy as well as of Might. ...
  • Black Bess
    TURPIN had his Black Bess, and she carried him well,
    As fame with her loud-breathing trumpet will tell;
    She knew not the lash, and she suffered no spur;
    A bold rider was all that was needed by her. ...
  • The Old Arm-chair
    I LOVE it, I love it ; and who shall dare
    To chide me for loving that old Arm-chair ?
    I've treasured it long as a sainted prize ;
    I've bedewed it with tears, and embalmed it with sighs. ...
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Heart 11 Love 11 I Love You 11 Never 7 Soul 7 Death 5 Home 5 Hope 5 Dear 5 Light 5


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Ideafit: while you ready your vegetable gardens and uncover the grill, join us on april 5, 2023, for spring has sprung: green harissa chicken cups, a free live cook-along webinar with chopped champion & monj culinary director chef eliza martin.
Adityab: yuri manga gets it. (this is from she loves to cook, and she loves to eat.)
Omolara_eliza: currently recruiting!!! we need a cook for urgent employment at atakeout spot preferably: male salary: 50-60k work schedule: 12pm-11pm location: osapa london (must live in or close to the environ) requirements: •must have experience as a cook •punctuality
His_smokinggun: it’s an automatic given to immediately clean the kitchen when you’re done. real ones know you clean as you cook.
Rowsvee: i don’t cook tbh
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Isaac Watts Poem
Psalm 119 Part 10
 by Isaac Watts

Pleading the promises.

ver. 38,49

Behold thy waiting servant, Lord,
Devoted to thy fear;
Remember and confirm thy word,
For all my hopes are there.
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