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William Cowper - The Poet`s New-Year`s Gift. To Mrs. (Afterwards Lady) Throckmorton
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Maria! I have every good 
For thee wished many a time,
Both sad and in a cheerful mood,
But never yet in rhyme.

To wish thee fairer is no need,
More prudent, or more sprightly,
Or more ingenuous, or more freed
From temper-flaws unsightly.

What favour then not yet possessed 
Can I for thee require,
In wedded love already blessed,
To thy whole heart`s desire?

None here is happy but in part;
Full bliss is bliss divine;
There dwells some wish in every heart,
And doubtless one in thine.

That wish, on some fair future day
Which Fate shall brightly gild,
(`Tis blameless, be it what it may,)
I wish it all fulfilled.
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