How much a dunce that has been sent to roam, excels a dunce that has been kept at home.
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It chills my blood to hear the blest Supreme Rudely appealed to on each trifling theme.
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Absence from whom we love is worse than death, and frustrates hope severer than despair.
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On Invalids (From The Greek)
Far happier are the dead, methinks, than they
Who look for death, and fear it every day.
poem by William Cowper
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Prudent Simplicity (Translated From Owen)
That thou mayst injure no man, dove-like be,
And serpent-like, that none may injure thee!
poem by William Cowper
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To A Friend In Distress (Translated From Owen)
I wish thy lot, now bad, still worse, my friend;
For when at worst, they say, things always mend.
poem by William Cowper
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Inscription For A Stone Erected At The Sowing Of A Grove Of Oaks At Chillington, Anno 1791
Reader! behold a monument
That asks no sigh or tear,
Though it perpetuate the event
Of a great burial here.
poem by William Cowper
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To The Spanish Admiral Count Gravina
My rose, Gravina, blooms anew;
And steeped not now in rain,
But in Castalian streams by you,
Will never fade again.
poem by William Cowper
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God moves in a mysterious way, His wonders to perform. He plants his footsteps in the sea, and rides upon the storm.
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On Miltiades
Miltiades! thy valor best
(Although in every region known)
The men of Persia can attest,
Taught by thyself at Marathon.
poem by William Cowper
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