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William Cowper Quotes
«A patriot's blood,Well spent in such a strife, may earn indeed,And for a time ensure to his loved land,The sweets of liberty and equal laws;But martyrs struggle for a brighter prize,And win it with more pain. Their blood is shedIn confirmation of the noblest claim --Our claim to feed upon immortal truth,To walk with God, to be divinely free,To soar, and to anticipate the skies.Yet few remember them.»
Author: William Cowper
(Poet)
| Keywords:
anticipate, confirmation, confirmations, ensure, feed upon, skies, sweets
«Me howling blasts drive devious, tempest-tossed, / Sails ripped, seams opening wide, and compass lost.»
«I would not enter in my list of friends, Who needlessly sets foot upon a worm. An inadvertent step may crush the snail That crawls at evening in the public path, But he has the humanity, forewarned, Will tread aside, and let the reptile live.»
Author: William Cowper
(Poet)
| Keywords:
crawls, crush, enter upon, forewarn, Forewarned, inadvertent, list, List of, my list, reptile, reptiles, set aside, tread, worm
«An epigram is but a feeble thing - With straw in tail, stuck there by way of sting»
Author: William Cowper
(Poet)
| About:
Epitaphs and epigrams
| Keywords:
epigram, feeble, sting, straw, straws, stuck
«Now stir the fire, and close the shutters fast, Let fall the curtains, wheel the sofa round, And, while the bubbling and loud hissing urn Throws up a steamy column and the cups That cheer but not inebriate, wait on each, So let us welcome peaceful ev»
«He sees that this great roundaboutThe world, with all its motley rout,Church, army, physic, law,Its customs and its businesses,Is no concern at all of his,And says -- what says he? -- Caw.»
Author: William Cowper
(Poet)
| Keywords:
businesses, caw, customs, laws and customs, Laws of physics, motley, physic, roundabout, rout
«To-morrow is our wedding-day, / And we will then repair / Unto the Bell at Edmonton, / All in a chaise and pair.»