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«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.»
Author: William Cowper (Poet) | Keywords: blasts, compass, devious, howling, opening, ripped, rip out, sails, seam, seams, tempest-tossed, tempest, tempests, The Tempest, tossed
«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»
Author: William Cowper (Poet) | Keywords: bubbling, column, cups, curtains, inebriate, inebriated, shutter, shutters, sofa, sofas, steamy, urn, urns
«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
«Greece, sound thy Homer's, Rome thy Virgil's name, / But England's Milton equals both in fame.»
Author: William Cowper (Poet) | Keywords: equals, Greece, homer, Milton, Rome, Virgil
«To-morrow is our wedding-day, / And we will then repair / Unto the Bell at Edmonton, / All in a chaise and pair.»
Author: William Cowper (Poet) | Keywords: chaise, Edmonton, repair, wedding day
«Who loves a garden loves a greenhouse too.»
Author: William Cowper (Poet) | Keywords: greenhouse, greenhouses
«Knowledge is proud that it knows so much; wisdom is humble that it knows no more.»
Author: William Cowper (Poet) | About: Knowledge
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