William Cowper Quotes About Age

Quotes about: Age

• This fond attachment to the well-known place
  Whence first we started into life's long race,
  Maintains its hold with such unfailing sway,
  We feel it e'en in age, and at our latest day.

  William Cowper

  Home, Race, Attachment

  William Cowper (1855). “The complete poetical works of William Cowper, with life and critical notice of his writings”, p.224

• Ages elapsed ere Homer's lamp appear'd, And ages ere the Mantuan swan was heard: To carry nature lengths unknown before, To give a Milton birth, ask'd ages more.

  William Cowper

  Swans, Giving, Age

  William Cowper, Henry Stebbing, Giovanni Battista Andreini (1854). “The Complete Poetical Works of William Cowper, Esq: Including the Hymns and Translations from Madame Guion, Milton, Etc., and Adam; a Sacred Drama”, p.40

• Some drill and bore
  The solid earth, and from the strata there
  Extract a register, by which we learn,
  That he who made it, and reveal'd its date
  To Moses, was mistaken in its age.

  William Cowper

  Science, Age, Earth

  William Cowper (1855). “The Complete Poetical Works of William Cowper: With Life, and Critical Notice of His Writings. Eight Engravings on Steel”, p.151

• A glory gilds the sacred page, Majestic like the sun, It gives a light to every age, It gives, but borrows none.

  William Cowper

  Light, Giving, Age

  William Cowper (1855). “The Works of William Cowper: His Life, Letters, and Poems : Now First Completed by the Introduction of Cowper's Private Correspondence”, p.677

• The statesman, lawyer, merchant, man of trade
  Pants for the refuge of some rural shade,
  Where all his long anxieties forgot
  Amid the charms of a sequester'd spot,
  Or recollected only to gild o'er
  And add a smile to what was sweet before,
  He may possess the joys he thinks he sees,
  Lay his old age upon the lap of ease,
  Improve the remnant of his wasted span.
  And having lived a trifler, die a man.

  William Cowper

  Sweet, Retirement, Thinking

  William Cowper (1847). “Poems, with a memoir of the author”, p.146

• A Christian's wit is offensive light,
  A beam that aids, but never grieves the sight;
  Vig'rous in age as in the flush of youth,
  'Tis always active on the side of truth.

  William Cowper

  Christian, Grieving, Light

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