William Cowper ( 10 of 184 )
Absence from whom we love is worse than death, and frustrates hope severer than despair.
Absence from whom we love is worse than death, and frustrates hope severer than despair.
Thus happiness depends, as Nature shows,
Less on exterior things than most suppose.
Thus happiness depends, as Nature shows,
Less on exterior things than most suppose.
Then liberty, like day,
Breaks on the soul, and by a flash from Heaven
Fires all the read more
Then liberty, like day,
Breaks on the soul, and by a flash from Heaven
Fires all the faculties with glorious joy.
Knowledge, a rude unprofitable mass, the mere materials with which wisdom builds, till smoothed and squared and fitted to its read more
Knowledge, a rude unprofitable mass, the mere materials with which wisdom builds, till smoothed and squared and fitted to its place, does but encumber whom it seems to enrich. Knowledge is proud that he has learned so much; wisdom is humble that he knows no more.
Me therefore studious of laborious ease.
Me therefore studious of laborious ease.
In indolent vacuity of thought.
In indolent vacuity of thought.
Wisdom and goodness are twin-born, one heart
Must hold both sisters, never seen apart.
Wisdom and goodness are twin-born, one heart
Must hold both sisters, never seen apart.
The solemn fog; significant and budge;
A fool with judges, amongst fools a judge.
The solemn fog; significant and budge;
A fool with judges, amongst fools a judge.
Not a flower
But shows some touch, in freckle, streak or stain,
Of his unrivall'd pencil.
Not a flower
But shows some touch, in freckle, streak or stain,
Of his unrivall'd pencil.
Happiness makes up in height for what it lacks in length.
Happiness makes up in height for what it lacks in length.
