Quote #80
So manifold, all pleasing in their kind, All healthful, are the employs of rural life, Reiterated as the wheel of time, Runs round; still ending, and beginning still.
More from William Cowper
- Who loves a garden loves a greenhouse too.
- 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 T…
- Detested sport, That owes its pleasures to another's pain.
- 'Tis pleasant, through the loopholes of retreat, To peep at such a world; to see the stir Of the great Babel, and not feel the crowd.
- Riches have wings, and grandeur is a dream.
- O Winter, ruler of the inverted year!
- From reveries so airy, from the toil Of dropping buckets into empty wells, And growing old in drawing nothing up.
- With spots quadrangular of diamond form, Ensanguined hearts, clubs typical of strife, And spades, the emblems of untimely graves.