Abraham Cowley Quotes About Gardens

Quotes about: Gardens

• May I a small house and large garden have; And a few friends, And many books, both true.

  Abraham Cowley

  Book, Garden, House

  Abraham Cowley, A. R. Waller (2014). “Poems”, p.88, Cambridge University Press

• I never had any other desire so strong, and so like covetousness, as that ... I might be master at last of a small house and a large garden, with very moderate conveniences joined to them, and there dedicate the remainder of my life to the culture of them and the study of nature.

  Abraham Cowley

  Life, Nature, Strong

  Abraham Cowley, Samuel Johnson (1822). “The Poems of Abraham Cowley”, p.152

• God the first garden made, and the first city Cain.

  Abraham Cowley

  Garden, Cities, Cain

  "The Garden" l. 44 (1668) See Cowper 5

• "We may talk what we please," he cries in his enthusiasm for the oldest of the arts, "of lilies, and lions rampant, and spread eagles, in fields d'or or d'argent; but, if heraldry were guided by reason, a plough in a field arable would be the most noble and ancient arms."

  Abraham Cowley

  Art, Garden, Eagles

• Ah, yet, e'er I descend to th' grave, May I a small House and a large Garden have. And a few Friends, and many Books both true, Both wise, and both delightful too. And since Love ne'er will from me flee, A mistress moderately fair, And good as Guardian angels are, Only belov'd and loving me.

  Abraham Cowley

  Wise, Book, Angel

  Abraham Cowley, “The Wish”

• facebook
• twitter
• googleplus
• email
• linkedin

• facebook
• twitter
• googleplus
• email
• linkedin