Quote #57
Religion! what treasure untold Resides in that heavenly word!
More from William Cowper
- Society friendship and love Divinely bestow'd upon man, O had I the wings of a dove How soon I would taste you again!
- My friends, do they now and then send A wish or a thought after me? O tell me I yet have a friend, Though a friend I am never to see.
- I am out of humanity's reach. I must finish my journey alone, Never hear the sweet music of speech; I start at the sound of my own.
- There is mercy in every place, And mercy, encouraging thought! Gives even affliction a grace And reconciles man to his lot.
- 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.
- Though on pleasure she was bent, She had a frugal mind.
- I am monarch of all I survey, My right there is none to dispute; From the center all round to the sea I am lord of the fowl and the brute.
- The dogs did bark, the children screamed, Up flew the windows all; And every soul cried out, 'Well done!' As loud as he could bawl.