[My kitten's] gambols are not to be described, and would be incredible, if they could. — William Cowper Cat Copy Share Image
To impute our recovery to medicine, and to carry our view no further, is to rob God of His honor, and is… — William Cowper Death Copy Share Image
The bud may have a bitter taste, But sweet will be the flower. — William Cowper Bitter Copy Share Image
Mountains interposed Make enemies of nations, who had else Like kindred drops been mingled into one. — William Cowper Enemy Copy Share Image
But still remember, if you mean to please, To press your point with modesty and ease. — William Cowper Ease Copy Share Image
The mind, relaxing into needful sport, Should turn to writers of an abler sort, Whose wit well managed, and whose classic style,… — William Cowper Classic Copy Share Image
The things that mount the rostrum with a skip, And then skip down again, pronounce a text, Cry hem; and reading what… — William Cowper Cry Copy Share Image
The spleen is seldom felt where Flora reigns; The low'ring eye, the petulance, the frown, And sullen sadness, that o'ershade, distort, And… — William Cowper Beauty Copy Share Image
Trials make the promise sweet, Trials give new life to prayer; Trials bring me to His feet, Lay me low, and keep… — William Cowper Feet Copy Share Image
Ages elapsed ere Homer's lamp appear'd, And ages ere the Mantuan swan was heard: To carry nature lengths unknown before, To give… — William Cowper Age Copy Share Image
Some drill and bore The solid earth, and from the strata there Extract a register, by which we learn, That he who… — William Cowper Age Copy Share Image
To trace in Nature's most minute design The signature and stamp of power divine. ... The Invisible in things scarce seen revealed,… — William Cowper Atoms Copy Share Image
Slaves cannot breathe in England; if their lungs Receive our air, that moment they are free; They touch our country, and their… — William Cowper Air Copy Share Image
He that has seen both sides of fifty has lived to little purpose if he has no other views of the world… — William Cowper Both sides Copy Share Image
Manner is all in all whatever is writ, the substitute for genius sense and wit — William Cowper Intelligence Copy Share Image