William Cowper (November 15, 1731-April 25, 1800) was an English poet who pioneered the English Romantic movement. His works include: Table Talk; Truth; Expostulations; On Receipt of My Mother's Picture; and The Castaway. His most renowned work, published in 1785, was The Task, which included his best-known poem, "The Diverting History of John Gilpin." He also completed a translation of Homer. In 1779, William Cowper published The Olney Hymns, which include: "Oh! for a Closer Walk with God," "There is a Fountain Filled with Blood," and "God Moves in a Mysterious Way."
In his work, The Task, 1785, William Cowper composed the poem, "Winter Walk at Noon":
<Nature is but a name for an effect, Whose cause is God.> 1731WC001
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1731WC001. William J. Federer, American Quotations (2014). William Cowper, 1785, in The Task, Vol. VI, "Winter Walk at Noon," l. 223. John Bartlett, Bartlett's Familiar Quotations (Boston: Little, Brown and Company, 1855, 1980), p. 377.