Quote #17
Misses! the tale that I relate This lesson seems to carry - Choose not alone a proper mate, But proper time to marry.
More from William Cowper
- Beware of desp'rate steps! The darkest day (Live till tomorrow) will have passed away.
- Misery still delights to trace Its semblance in another's case.
- Visits are insatiable devourers of time, and fit only for those who, if they did not that, would do nothing.
- No voice divine the storm allay'd, No light propitious shone; When, snatch'd from all effectual aid, We perish'd, each alone; But I beneath…
- And still to love, though prest with ill, In wintry age to feel no chill, With me is to be lovely still, My Mary!
- Oh! for a closer walk with God, A calm and heav'nly frame; A light to shine upon the road That leads me to the Lamb!
- Toll for the brave - The brave! that are no more; All sunk beneath the wave, Fast by their native shore!
- What peaceful hours I once enjoyed! How sweet their memory still! But they have left an aching void The world can never fill.