Born: 1970-01-01
Profession: Poet
Nation: English
Biography of William Cowper
It chills my blood to hear the blest Supreme Rudely appealed to on each trifling theme.
Tags: Blood, Hear, SupremeThe earth was made so various, that the mind Of desultory man, studious of change, And pleased with novelty, might be indulged.
Tags: Change, Earth, MindThus happiness depends, as nature shows, less on exterior things than most suppose.
Tags: Happiness, Less, NatureCeremony leads her bigots forth, prepared to fight for shadows of no worth. While truths, on which eternal things depend, can hardly find a single friend.
Tags: Fight, Friend, SingleGlory, built on selfish principles, is shame and guilt.
Tags: Guilt, Principles, SelfishKnowledge is proud that it knows so much; wisdom is humble that it knows no more.
Tags: Humble, Knowledge, WisdomGod moves in a mysterious way, His wonders to perform. He plants his footsteps in the sea, and rides upon the storm.
Tags: God, Sea, StormAbsence from whom we love is worse than death, and frustrates hope severer than despair.
Tags: Death, Hope, LoveO solitude, where are the charms That sages have seen in thy face? Better dwell in the midst of alarms, Than reign in this horrible place.
Tags: Face, Place, SolitudeWhere men of judgment creep and feel their way, The positive pronounce without dismay.
Tags: Judgment, Men, PositiveExistence is a strange bargain. Life owes us little; we owe it everything. The only true happiness comes from squandering ourselves for a purpose.
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Absence of occupation is not rest; A mind quite vacant is a mind distressed.
Tags: Mind, Quite, RestReasoning at every step he treads, Man yet mistakes his way, Whilst meaner things, whom instinct leads, Are rarely known to stray.
Tags: Known, Mistakes, StepMeditation here may think down hours to moments. Here the heart may give a useful lesson to the head and learning wiser grow without his books.
Tags: Heart, Learning, MayO, popular applause! what heart of man is proof against thy sweet, seducing charms?
Tags: Against, Heart, SweetThe dogs did bark, the children screamed, Up flew the windows all; And every soul bawled out, Well done! As loud as he could bawl.
Tags: Children, Done, Soul