245 ordspråk av William Cowper
William Cowper
William Cowper föddes den November 15th 1731 och dog den 25 April 1800 - One of the most widely read English poets of his day.
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 Made poetry a mere mechanical art. |
| Man disavows, and Deity disowns me: hell might afford my miseries a shelter; therefore hell keeps her ever-hungry mouths all bolted against me. |
| Man may dismiss compassion from his heart, but God never will |
| Manner is all in all whatever is writ, the substitute for genius sense and wit |
| May I but meet thee on that peaceful shore,/ The parting word shall pass my lips no more! |
| Me howling blasts drive devious, tempest-tossed, / Sails ripped, seams opening wide, and compass lost. |
| Me, therefore, studious of laborious ease, Not slothful, happy to deceive the time, Not waste it, and aware that human life Is but a loan to be repaid with use. |
| 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. |
| 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. |
| Men deal with life as children with their play, Who first misuse, then cast their toys away. |
| Mercy to him that shows it, is the rule. |
| Mine is an unchanging love,
Higher than the heights above, Deeper than the depths beneath, Free and faithful, strong as death. |
| Misses the tale that I relate - This lesson seems to carry - Choose not alone a proper mate, But proper time to marry |
| Mortals, whose pleasures are their only care,/ First wish to be imposed on, and then are. |
| Mountains interposed / Make enemies of nations, who had else, / Like kindred drops, been mingled into one. |
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Toplists (6 st)
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