It was not sleep that made him nod, he said, But too great weight and largeness of his head.
ABRAHAM COWLEYAll the world’s bravery that delights our eyes is but thy several liveries.
More Abraham Cowley Quotes
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Nature waits upon thee still, And thy verdant cup does fill; ‘Tis fill’d wherever thou dost tread, Nature’s self’s thy Ganymede.
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Does not the passage of Moses and the Israelites into the Holy Land yield incomparably more poetic variety than the voyages of Ulysses or Aeneas?
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His faith, perhaps, in some nice tenets might Be wrong; his life, I’m sure, was in the right.
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The liberty of a private man, in being master of his own time and actions, as far as may consist with the laws of God and of his country.
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Happy insect! what can be In happiness compared to thee? Fed with nourishment divine, The dewy morning’s gentle wine!
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Stones of small worth may lie unseen by day, But night itself does the rich gem betray.
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Let’s banish business, banish sorrow; To the gods belong to-morrow.
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Poets by Death are conquer’d but the wit Of poets triumphs over it.
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To th’ active Moon a quick brisk stroke he gave, To Saturn’s string a touch more sore and grave.
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God the first garden made, and the first city Cain.
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What shall I do to be for ever known, And make the age to come my own?
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I would not fear nor wish my fate, but boldly say each night, to-morrow let my sun his beams display, or in clouds hide them; I have lived today.
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Nay, in death’s hand, the grape-stone proves As strong as thunder is in Jove’s.
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Who that has reason, and his smell, Would not among roses and jasmin dwell?
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There have been fewer friends on earth than kings.
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