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"Behind a frowning providence He hides a shining face."
William Cowper / Light shining out of Darkness.
Light shining out of Darkness.
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"Beware of desperate steps! The darkest day, Live till to-morrow, will have pass'd away."
William Cowper / The Needless Alarm. Moral.
The Needless Alarm. Moral.
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"Oh that those lips had language! Life has pass'd With me but roughly since I heard thee last."
William Cowper / On the Receipt of my Mother's Picture.
On the Receipt of my Mother's Picture.
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"The son of parents pass'd into the skies."
William Cowper / On the Receipt of my Mother's Picture.
On the Receipt of my Mother's Picture.
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"The man that hails you Tom or Jack, And proves, by thumping on your back, His sense of your great merit, Is such a friend that one had need Be very much his friend indeed To pardon or to bear it."
William Cowper / On Friendship.
On Friendship.
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"A worm is in the bud of youth, And at the root of age."
William Cowper / Stanzas subjoined to a Bill of Mortality.
Stanzas subjoined to a Bill of Mortality.
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"Toll for the brave!-- The brave that are no more! All sunk beneath the wave, Fast by their native shore!"
William Cowper / On the Loss of the Royal George.
On the Loss of the Royal George.
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"There is a bird who by his coat, And by the hoarseness of his note, Might be supposed a crow."
William Cowper / The Jackdaw. (Translation from Vincent Bourne.)
The Jackdaw. (Translation from Vincent Bourne.)
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"He sees that this great roundabout The world, with all its motley rout, Church, army, physic, law, Its customs and its businesses, Is no concern at all of his, And says--what says he?--Caw."
William Cowper / The Jackdaw. (Translation from Vincent Bourne.)
The Jackdaw. (Translation from Vincent Bourne.)
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"For 't is a truth well known to most, That whatsoever thing is lost, We seek it, ere it come to light, In every cranny but the right."
William Cowper / The Retired Cat.
The Retired Cat.
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"He that holds fast the golden mean, And lives contentedly between The little and the great, Feels not the wants that pinch the poor, Nor plagues that haunt the rich man's door."
William Cowper / Translation of Horace. Book ii. Ode x.
Translation of Horace. Book ii. Ode x.
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"But strive still to be a man before your mother."
William Cowper / Connoisseur. Motto of No. iii.
Connoisseur. Motto of No. iii.
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