Cowper

Famous quotes containing the word cowper:

    “O that those lips had language! Life has passed
    With me but roughly since I heard thee last.”
    —William Cowper (1731–1800)

    “Toll for the brave—
    The brave! that are no more:
    All sunk beneath the wave,
    Fast by their native shore.”
    —William Cowper (1731–1800)

    “O, popular applause! what heart of man
    Is proof against thy sweet, seducing charms?”
    —William Cowper (1731–1800)