13 William Cowper Quotes on Nature

William Cowper quotes on nature

30. Thus happiness depends, as Nature shows, Less on exterior things than most suppose.

34. Lights of the world, and stars of human race.

48. But Conversation, choose what theme we may, And chiefly when religion leads the way, Should flow, like waters after summer show'rs, Not as if raised by mere mechanic powers.

53. 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.

62. A hat not much the worse for wear.

64. God made the country, and man made the town.

65. Oh for a lodge in some vast wilderness, Some boundless contiguity of shade, Where rumor of oppression and deceit, Of unsuccessful or successful war, Might never reach me more.

66. Mountains interposed Make enemies of nations, who had else Like kindred drops, been mingled into one.

79. Who loves a garden loves a greenhouse too.

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.

83. O Winter, ruler of the inverted year!

93. Nature is but a name for an effect, Whose cause is God.

94. Not a flower But shows some touch, in freckle, streak or stain, Of his unrivall'd pencil.