The Sunflow’r, thinking ’twas for him foul shame To nap by daylight, strove t’ excuse the blame
ABRAHAM COWLEYIn fields d’or or d’argent; but, if heraldry were guided by reason, a plough in a field arable would be the most noble and ancient arms.”
More Abraham Cowley Quotes
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Nothing is there to come, and nothing past, But an eternal Now does always last.
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Beauty, thou wild fantastic ape Who dost in every country change thy shape!
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Curs’d be that wretch (Death’s factor sure) who brought Dire swords into the peaceful world, and taught Smiths (who before could only make.
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Life is an incurable disease.
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It was not sleep that made him nod, he said, But too great weight and largeness of his head.
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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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Fill the bowl with rosy wine, around our temples roses twine, And let us cheerfully awhile, like wine and roses, smile.
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Water and air He for the Tenor chose, Earth made the Base, the Treble Fame arose,
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There have been fewer friends on earth than kings.
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This only grant me, that my means may lie, too low for envy, for contempt to high.
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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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Enjoy the present hour, Be thankful for the past, And neither fear nor wish Th’ approaches of the last.
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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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Of all ills that one endures, hope is a cheap and universal cure.
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When Israel was from bondage led,Led by the Almighty’s handFrom out of foreign land,The great sea beheld and fled.
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