The Complete Poetical Works of William Cowper Quotes

“God moves in mysterious ways
His wonders to performs”
― William Cowper, The Complete Poetical Works of William Cowper

“Now stir the fire, and close the shutters fast,
Let fall the curtains, wheel the sofa round,
And, while the bubbling and loud hissing urn
Throws up a steamy column and the cups
That cheer but not inebriate, wait on each,
So let us welcome peaceful ev'ning in.”
― William Cowper, The Complete Poetical Works of William Cowper

“I am monarch of all I survey,
My right there is none to dispute,
From the centre all round to the sea,
I am lord of the fowl and the brute.
O solitude! Where are the charms
That sages have seen in thy face?
Better dwell in the midst of alarms,
Than reign in this horrible place.”
― William Cowper, The Complete Poetical Works of William Cowper

“Man disavows, and Deity disowns me;
Hell might afford my miseries a shelter;
Therefore Hell keeps her ever-hungry mouths all
Bolted against me.

Hard lot! encompassed with a thousand dangers,
Weary, faint, trembling with a thousand terrors,
I'm called, if vanquished, to receive a sentence
Worse than Abiram's.

Him the vindictive rod of angry Justice
Sent quick and howling to the centre headlong;
I, fed with judgement, in a fleshy tomb, am
Buried above ground.”
― William Cowper, Poetical Works of William Cowper

“I, fed with judgment, in a fleshy tomb, am
Buried above ground.”
― William Cowper, The Complete Poetical Works of William Cowper

“To see the law by Christ fulfill’d, And hear his pardoning voice, Changes a slave into a child, And duty into choice.”
― William Cowper, William Cowper: Complete Poetical Works

“So Fancy dreams - Disprove it, if ye can,
Ye reas'ners broad awake, whose busy search
Of argument, employ'd too oft amiss,
Sifts half the pleasures of short life away.”
― William Cowper, The Complete Poetical Works of William Cowper, Esq: Including the Hymns and Translations From Madame Guion, Milton, Etc. ; With a Memoir of the Author