Quote

The man to solitude accustom'd long, Perceives in everything that lives a tongue Not animals alone, but shrubs and trees Have speech for him, and understood with ease, After long drought when rains abundant fall, He hears the herbs and flowers rejoicing all.

William Cowper

Change background

T
T
T

Change font

TAGS & TOPICS

William Cowper
Age: 68 †
Born: 1731
Born: November 26
Died: 1800
Died: April 25
Hymnwriter
Poet
Poet Lawyer
Translator
Writer
Berkhamsted
Hertfordshire
Everything
Flower
Flowers
Rejoicing
Long
Speech
Perceive
Perceives
Men
Understood
Ease
Rains
Tree
Trees
Drought
Animal
Solitude
Herbs
Alone
Tongue
Abundant
Lives
Animals
Hears
Accustom
Fall
Rain
Rejoice
Shrubs

More quotes by William Cowper

Image
... she, that will with kittens jest, Should bear a kitten's joke.
William Cowper
Image
Oh, popular applause! what heart of man Is proof against thy sweet seducing charms? The wisest and the best feel urgent need Of all their caution in thy gentlest gales But swell'd into a gust--who then, alas! With all his canvas set, and inexpert, And therefore, heedless, can withstand thy power?
William Cowper
Image
All we behold is miracle.
William Cowper
Image
Riches have wings, and grandeur is a dream.
William Cowper
Image
Friends, books, a garden, and perhaps his pen, Delightful industry enjoy'd at home, An Nature, in her cultivated trim Dress'ed to his taste, inviting him abroad - Can he want occupation who has these?
William Cowper
Image
They best can judge a poet's worth, Who oft themselves have known The pangs of a poetic birth By labours of their own.
William Cowper
Image
Lights of the world, and stars of human race.
William Cowper
Image
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
Image
No, Freedom has a thousand charms to show That slaves, howe'er contented, never know.
William Cowper
Image
A tale should be judicious, clear, succinct The language plain, and incidents well link'd Tell not as new what ev'ry body knows and, new or old, still hasten to a close.
William Cowper
Image
Detested sport, That owes its pleasures to another's pain.
William Cowper
Image
Fancy, like the finger of a clock, Runs the great circuit, and is still at home.
William Cowper
Image
An epigram is but a feeble thing - With straw in tail, stuck there by way of sting.
William Cowper
Image
We are never more in danger than when we think ourselves most secure, nor in reality more secure than when we seem to be most in danger.
William Cowper
Image
God never meant that man should scale the Heavens By strides of human wisdom. In his works, Though wondrous, he commands us in his word To seek him rather where his mercy shines.
William Cowper
Image
A Christian's wit is offensive light, A beam that aids, but never grieves the sight Vig'rous in age as in the flush of youth, 'Tis always active on the side of truth.
William Cowper
Image
Sacred interpreter of human thought, How few respect or use thee as they ought! But all shall give account of every wrong, Who dare dishonor or defile the tongue Who prostitute it in the cause of vice, Or sell their glory at a market-price!
William Cowper
Image
I am out of humanity's reach.I must finish my journey alone,Never hear the sweet music of speechI start at the sound of my own.
William Cowper
Image
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
Image
Folly ends where genuine hope begins.
William Cowper