William Cowper Quotes About Death

Quotes about: Death

• Grief is itself a medicine.

  William Cowper

  Death, Pain, Grief

  Charity

• We turn to dust, and all our mightiest works die too.

  William Cowper

  Death, Dust, Turns

  William Cowper, Robert Southey, William Harvey (1835). “The Works of William Cowper: Comprising His Poems, Correspondence, and Translations. With a Life of the Author”, p.83

• Far happier are the dead methinks than they who look for death and fear it every day.

  William Cowper

  Death, Looks

  William Cowper (1851). “The Works of William Cowper: His Life, Letters, and Poems. Now First Completed by the Introduction of Cowper's Private Correspondence”, p.713

• All flesh is grass. and all its glory fades
  Like the fair flower dishevell'd in the wind;
  Riches have wings, and grandeur is a dream;
  The man we celebrate must find a tomb,
  And we that worship him, ignoble graves.

  William Cowper

  Death, Dream, Flower

  William Cowper (1856). “The task, Table talk, and other poems: With critical observations of various authors on his genius and character, and notes, critical and illustrative”, p.186

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