William Cowper Quotes About Eyes

Quotes about: Eyes

• To follow foolish precedents, and wink With both our eyes, is easier than to think.

  William Cowper

  Eye, Thinking, Government

  William Cowper (1835). “The Works of William Cowper: Table talk. The task. Tirocinium; or, A review of schools. Miscellaneous poems”, p.316

• Acquaint thyself with God, if thou would'st taste
  His works. Admitted once to his embrace,
  Thou shalt perceive that thou was blind before:
  Thine eye shall be instructed; and thine heart
  Made pure shall relish with divine delight
  Till then unfelt, what hands divine have wrought.

  William Cowper

  Eye, Hands, Blind

  William Cowper, “The Task: Book V. -- The Winter Morning Walk”

• 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

• 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

• The spleen is seldom felt where Flora reigns;
  The low'ring eye, the petulance, the frown,
  And sullen sadness, that o'ershade, distort,
  And mar the face of beauty, when no cause
  For such immeasurable woe appears;
  These Flora banishes, and gives the fair
  Sweet smiles, and bloom less transient than her own.

  William Cowper

  Sweet, Sadness, Eye

  William Cowper, James Sambrook (2016). “William Cowper: The Task and Selected Other Poems”, p.72, Routledge

• 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

• Transforms old print To zigzag manuscript, and cheats the eyes Of gallery critics by a thousand arts.

  William Cowper

  Art, Eye, Cheat

  William Cowper, John Bruce (F.S.A.) (1866). “Poetical Works”, p.49

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