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William Cowper Quotes About Love

Quotes about: Love
  • Absence from whom we love is worse than death, and frustrates hope severer than despair.

    William Cowper, Robert Southey (1836). “Miscellaneous poems. Olney hymns. Anti-Thelyphthora. Table talk and other poems. Translations from Vincent Bourne”, p.28
  • Ye therefore who love mercy, teach your sons to love it, too.

    William Cowper (1854). “The Poetical Works of William Cowper”, p.143
  • Lord, it is my chief complaint, That my love is weak and faint; Yet I love thee and adore, Oh for grace to love thee more!

    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.660
  • England, with all thy faults I love thee still, My country!

    The Task bk. 2 "The Timepiece" l. 206 (1785) See Charles Churchill 1

William Cowper

  • Born: November 26, 1731
  • Died: April 25, 1800
  • Occupation: Poet
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