Spring hangs her infant blossoms on the trees, Rock’d in the cradle of the western breeze.
WILLIAM COWPERKnowledge and wisdom, far from being one, Have oft-times no connection.
More William Cowper Quotes
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…So let us welcome peaceful evening in.
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When nations are to perish in their sins, ’tis in the Church the leprosy begins.
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Now stir the fire, and close the shutters fast, Let fall the curtains, wheel the sofa around, And while the bubbling and loud-hissing urn
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Tea – the cups that cheer but not inebriate.
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Time, as he passes us, has a dove’s wing, Unsoil’d, and swift, and of a silken sound.
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There is in souls a sympathy with sounds: And as the mind is pitch’d the ear is pleased With melting airs, or martial, brisk or grave; Some chord in unison with what we hear Is touch’d within us, and the heart replies.
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Heaven’s harmony is universal love.
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The kindest and the happiest pair Will find occasion to forbear; And something, every day they live, To pity, and perhaps forgive.
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Nor rural sights alone, but rural sounds, Exhilirate the spirit, and restore The tone of languid nature.
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England with all thy faults, I love thee still– My country! and, while yet a nook is left Where English minds and manners may be found, Shall be constrained to love thee.
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I am out of humanity’s reach.I must finish my journey alone,Never hear the sweet music of speech;I start at the sound of my own.
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Books are not seldom talismans and spells.
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Ceremony leads her bigots forth, prepared to fight for shadows of no worth.
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Truth is the golden girdle of the globe.
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Remorse, the fatal egg by pleasure laid, In every bosom where her nest is made, Hatched by the beams of truth, denies him rest, And proves a raging scorpion in his breast.
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