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• Meditation 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.

  William Cowper

  Yoga, Book, Heart

  William Cowper, Robert Southey (1836). “The Works of William Cowper, Esq., Comprising His Poems, Correspondence, and Translations: With a Life of the Author”, p.234

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• The earth was made so various, that the mind Of desultory man, studious of change, And pleased with novelty, might be indulged.

  William Cowper

  Men, Mind, Earth

  William Cowper, Thomas Shuttleworth Grimshawe, John William Cunningham (1835). “The Life and Works of William Cowper: Now First Completed by the Introduction of His "Private Correspondence."”, p.240

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• No, Freedom has a thousand charms to show
  That slaves, howe'er contented, never know.

  William Cowper

  Freedom, Slave, Charm

  'Table Talk' (1782) l. 260

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• Our love is principle, and has its root
  In reason, is judicious, manly, free.

  William Cowper

  Life, Love Is, Roots

  William Cowper (1830). “Poems ... With a sketch of his life and a vindication of his religious principles and character. Third edition, corrected and enlarged. [With a portrait.]”, p.247

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• Lord, it is my chief complaint, That my love is weak and faint; Yet I love thee and adore, Oh for grace to love thee more!

  William Cowper

  Love, Grace, Lord

  William Cowper (1851). “The Works of William Cowper: His Life, Letters, and Poems. Now First Completed by the Introduction of Cowper's Private Correspondence”, p.660

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• Pernicious weed! whose scent the fair annoys, Unfriendly to society's chief joys: Thy worst effect is banishing for hours The sex whose presence civilizes ours.

  William Cowper

  Weed, Sex, Joy

  William Cowper, Robert Southey, William Harvey (1835). “The Works of William Cowper, Comprising His Poems, Correspondence, and Translations”, p.163

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• Spare feast! a radish and an egg.

  William Cowper

  Eggs, Radishes, Spares

  William Cowper, James Sambrook (2016). “William Cowper: The Task and Selected Other Poems”, p.146, Routledge

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• Ages elapsed ere Homer's lamp appear'd, And ages ere the Mantuan swan was heard: To carry nature lengths unknown before, To give a Milton birth, ask'd ages more.

  William Cowper

  Swans, Giving, Age

  William Cowper, Henry Stebbing, Giovanni Battista Andreini (1854). “The Complete Poetical Works of William Cowper, Esq: Including the Hymns and Translations from Madame Guion, Milton, Etc., and Adam; a Sacred Drama”, p.40

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• Just knows, and knows no more, her Bible true,- A truth the brilliant Frenchman never knew.

  William Cowper

  Truth, Brilliant, Frenchmen

  William Cowper (1874). “The poetical works of William Cowper, ed: with notes and biographical introd. by William Benham”, p.82

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• I crown thee king of intimate delights,
  Fire-side enjoyments, home-born happiness,
  And all the comforts that the lowly roof
  Of undisturb'd retirement, and the hours
  Of long uninterrupted ev'ning, know.

  William Cowper

  Kings, Home, Winter

  "The Task: A Poem. In Six Books".

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• E'er since, by faith, I saw the stream
  thy flowing wounds supply,
  redeeming love has been my theme,
  and shall be till I die.

  William Cowper

  Saws, Redeeming Love, Theme

  William Cowper, John William Cunningham, William Hayley (1835). “The Life and Works of William Cowper: Poems”, p.111

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• Lights of the world, and stars of human race.

  William Cowper

  Stars, Light, Race

  William Cowper, Robert Southey (1835). “The Works of William Cowper, Comprising His Poems, Correspondence, and Translations”, p.32

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• In indolent vacuity of thought.

  William Cowper

  Vacuity

  William Cowper (1849). “The Complete Poetical Works of William Cowper ...: Including the Copyright Poems, with a Life of the Author”, p.238

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• Is base in kind, and born to be a slave.

  William Cowper

  Kindness, Slave, Born

  William Cowper (1819). “Poems, etc”, p.2

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• Some write a narrative of wars and feats, Of heroes little known, and call the rant A history.

  William Cowper

  War, Hero, Writing

  William Cowper, Henry Stebbing (1839). “Poems with a Memoir of the Author by Henry Stebbing”, p.268

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• Could he with reason murmur at his case, Himself sole author of his own disgrace?

  William Cowper

  Reason, Sole, Cases

  'Hope' (1782) l. 316

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• Great offices will have great talents.

  William Cowper

  Greatness, Office, Talent

  William Cowper, John Corry (1820). “The Beauties of Cowper; Or, Extracts ... for the Use of Schools ... By John Corry”, p.13

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• Some drill and bore
  The solid earth, and from the strata there
  Extract a register, by which we learn,
  That he who made it, and reveal'd its date
  To Moses, was mistaken in its age.

  William Cowper

  Science, Age, Earth

  William Cowper (1855). “The Complete Poetical Works of William Cowper: With Life, and Critical Notice of His Writings. Eight Engravings on Steel”, p.151

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• And in that hour,
  The seeds of cruelty, that since have swell'd
  To such gigantic and enormous growth,
  Were sown in human nature's fruitful soil.
  Hence date the persecution and the pain
  That man inflicts on all inferior kinds,
  Regardless of their plaints.

  William Cowper

  Pain, Men, Animal

  William Cowper (1872). “The poetical works of William Cowper: Complete ed., with memoir, explanatory notes etc”, p.318

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• Heaven speed the canvas, gallantly unfurl'd, To furnish and accommodate a world, To give the Pole the produce of the sun, And knit the unsocial climates into one.

  William Cowper

  Giving, Heaven, Climate

  William Cowper (1855). “The complete poetical works of William Cowper, with life and critical notice of his writings”, p.71

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• How soft the music of those village bells, Falling at interval upon the ear In cadence sweet; now dying all away, Now pealing loud again, and louder still, Clear and sonorous, as the gale comes on! With easy force it opens all the cells Where Memory slept.

  William Cowper

  Sweet, Memories, Fall

  William Cowper (1856). “The task, Table talk, and other poems: With critical observations of various authors on his genius and character, and notes, critical and illustrative”, p.293

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• Toil for the brave! The brave that are no more.

  William Cowper

  Bravery, Brave, Toil

  'On the Loss of the Royal George' (written 1782)

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• But many a crime deemed innocent on earth Is registered in Heaven; and these no doubt Have each their record, with a curse annex'd.

  William Cowper

  Heaven, Doubt, Records

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• If hindrances obstruct the way, Thy magnanimity display. And let thy strength be seen: But O, if Fortune fill thy sail With more than a propitious gale, Take half thy canvas in.

  William Cowper

  Half, Way, Gale

  William Cowper (1874). “The poetical works of William Cowper, ed: with notes and biographical introd. by William Benham”, p.171

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• Twere better to be born a stone Of ruder shape, and feeling none, Than with a tenderness like mine And sensibilities so fine! Ah, hapless wretch! condemn'd to dwell Forever in my native shell, Ordained to move when others please, Not for my own content or ease; But toss'd and buffeted about, Now in the water and now out.

  William Cowper

  Moving, Oysters, Water

  William Cowper, William Hayley, John William Cunningham (1854). “The Works of William Cowper: His Life, Letters, and Poems ; Now First Completed by the Introduction of Cowper's Private Correspondence”, p.617

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