William Cowper Quotes About Earth

Quotes about: Earth

• The Cross! There, and there only (though the deist rave, and the atheist, if Earth bears so base a slave); There and there only, is the power to save.

  William Cowper

  Atheist, Easter, Earth

  William Cowper, D Macvean (1830). “Poems”, p.36

• The only amaranthine flower on earth is virtue; the only lasting treasure, truth.

  William Cowper

  Inspirational, Flower, Treasure

  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

• 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

• Not a flower
  But shows some touch, in freckle, streak or stain,
  Of his unrivall'd pencil. He inspires
  Their balmy odors, and imparts their hues,
  And bathes their eyes with nectar, and includes
  In grains as countless as the seaside sands,
  The forms with which he sprinkles all the earth
  Happy who walks with him!

  William Cowper

  Flower, Eye, Inspire

  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.305

• The earth was made so various, that the mind Of desultory man, studious of change, And pleased with novelty, might be indulged.

  William Cowper

  Men, Mind, Earth

  William Cowper, Thomas Shuttleworth Grimshawe, John William Cunningham (1835). “The Life and Works of William Cowper: Now First Completed by the Introduction of His "Private Correspondence."”, p.240

• Go, mark the matchless working of the power
  That shuts within the seed the future flower;
  Bids these in elegance of form excel.
  In color these, and those delight the smell;
  Sends nature forth, the daughter of the skies,
  To dance on earth, and charm all human eyes.

  William Cowper

  Daughter, Flower, Eye

• My soul is sick with every day's report of wrong and outrage with which earth is filled.

  William Cowper

  Sick, Soul, Earth

  William Cowper (1855). “Thoughts on War and Warriors; extracted from the poetical writings of William Cowper”, p.15

• Sends Nature forth the daughter of the skies... To dance on earth, and charm all human eyes.

  William Cowper

  Daughter, Eye, Sky

  William Cowper, James Montgomery (1859). “Poems ... With an introductory essay by James Montgomery. [With plates.]”, p.33

• But many a crime deemed innocent on earth Is registered in Heaven; and these no doubt Have each their record, with a curse annex'd.

  William Cowper

  Heaven, Doubt, Records

• The only amarantine flower on earth Is virtue.

  William Cowper

  Flower, Earth, Virtue

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