William Cowper - Nature Quotes

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Fleecy locks and black complexion
Cannot forfeit nature's claim;
Skins may differ, but affection
Dwells in white and black the same.

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Ages elapsed ere Homer's lamp appear'd,
And ages ere the Mantuan swan was heard:
To carry nature lengths unknown before,
To give a Milton birth, ask'd ages more.

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Detested sport
That owes its pleasures to another's pain;
That feeds upon the sobs and dying shrieks
Of harmless nature.

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But animated nature sweeter still, to soothe and satisfy the human ear.

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Sends Nature forth the daughter of the skies... To dance on earth, and charm all human eyes.

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Nor rural sights alone, but rural sounds,
Exhilarate the spirit, and restore
The tone of languid nature.

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

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Nature, exerting an unwearied power,
Forms, opens, and gives scent to every flower;
Spreads the fresh verdure of the field, and leads
The dancing Naiads through the dewy meads.

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Friends, books, a garden, and perhaps his pen,
Delightful industry enjoy'd at home,
An Nature, in her cultivated trim
Dress'ed to his taste, inviting him abroad -
Can he want occupation who has these?

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

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To trace in Nature's most minute design The signature and stamp of power divine.... The Invisible in things scarce seen revealed, To whom an atom is an ample field.

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

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Learning itself, received into a mind
By nature weak, or viciously inclined,
Serves but to lead philosophers astray,
Where children would with ease discern the way.

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And in that hour,
The seeds of cruelty, that since have swell'd
To such gigantic and enormous growth,
Were sown in human nature's fruitful soil.
Hence date the persecution and the pain
That man inflicts on all inferior kinds,
Regardless of their plaints.

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When all within is peace How nature seems to smile Delights that never cease The live-long day beguile

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