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William Cowper Quotes

«Society, friendship, and love, / Divinely bestowed upon man, / Oh, had I the wings of a dove, / How soon would I taste you again!»
Author: William Cowper (Poet) | Keywords: bestowed, dove
«I was a stricken deer, that left the herd / Long since.»
Author: William Cowper (Poet) | Keywords: deer, stricken, The Herd
«We perished, each alone: / But I beneath a rougher sea, / And whelmed in deeper gulfs than he.»
Author: William Cowper (Poet) | Keywords: gulfs, perished, rougher
«Low ambition and the thirst of praise.»
Author: William Cowper (Poet)
«There is a bird who by his coat,And by the hoarseness of his note,Might be supposed a crow.»
Author: William Cowper (Poet) | Keywords: crow, hoarseness
«Heaven held his hand, the likeness must be true.»
Author: William Cowper (Poet) | Keywords: likeness
«He found it inconvenient to be poor.»
Author: William Cowper (Poet) | Keywords: inconvenient
«Great contest follows, and much learned dust / Involves the combatants.»
«What peaceful hours I once enjoyed! / How sweet their memory still! / But they have left an aching void / The world can never fill.»
Author: William Cowper (Poet) | Keywords: aching
«The twentieth year is well-nigh past, / Since first our sky was overcast; / Ah would that this might be the last! / My Mary!»
Author: William Cowper (Poet) | Keywords: overcast