William Cowper Quotes About Home

• This fond attachment to the well-known place
  Whence first we started into life's long race,
  Maintains its hold with such unfailing sway,
  We feel it e'en in age, and at our latest day.

  William Cowper

  Home, Race, Attachment

  William Cowper (1855). “The complete poetical works of William Cowper, with life and critical notice of his writings”, p.224

• Strength may wield the ponderous spade, May turn the clod, and wheel the compost home; But elegance, chief grace the garden shows, And most attractive, is the fair result Of thought, the creature of a polished mind.

  William Cowper

  Strength, Home, Garden

  William Cowper (1854). “Poetical Works”, p.255

• Te corono rey de los placeres íntimos,
  de los placeres junto al fuego, de la felicidad hogareña,
  Y todas las comodidades que el humilde techo
  Del retiro tranquilo, y las horas
  De largas e ininterrumpidas vicisitudes.

  William Cowper

  Reyes, Hogar, Invierno

  "La Tarea": Un Poema. En seis libros".

• This cabin, Mary, in my sight appears,
  Built as it has been in our waning years,
  A rest afforded to our weary feet,
  Preliminary to - the last retreat.

  William Cowper

  Home, Sight, Years

  William Cowper, John William Cunningham, William Hayley (1835). “The Life and Works of William Cowper: His life and letters by William Hayley. Now first completed by the introduction of Cowper's private correspondence”, p.172

• Even in the stifling bosom of the town,
  A garden, in which nothing thrives, has charms
  That soothes the rich possessor; much consol'd,
  That here and there some sprigs of mournful mint,
  Or nightshade, or valerian, grace the well
  He cultivates.

  William Cowper

  Home, Garden, Grace

  William Cowper (1810). “The Task: A Poem. In Six Books”, p.125

• Forzado a dejar mi hogar y todos sus placeres, abandoné la costa africana; para aumentar los tesoros de un extranjero, en las olas embravecidas. Hombres de Inglaterra me compraron y vendieron, pagaron mi precio en mísero oro; pero, aunque suyas me han enrolado, las mentes nunca se venderán.

  William Cowper

  Hogar, Hombres, Mente

  William Cowper, James Thomson (1851). "Las obras de Cowper y Thomson: Including Many Letters and Poems Never Before Published in this Country : with a New and Interesting Memoir of the Life of Thomson", p.122

• 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?

  William Cowper

  Friendship, Book, Home

  William Cowper, “The Task: Book Iii. -- The Garden”

• His wit invites you by his looks to come, But when you knock, it never is at home.

  William Cowper

  Home, Looks, Wit

  'Conversation' (1782) l. 303

• How much a dunce that has been sent to roam, excels a dunce that has been kept at home.

  William Cowper

  Home, Dunces, Has Beens

  'The Progress of Error' (1782) l. 415

• Thieves at home must hang; but he that puts Into his overgorged and bloated purse The wealth of Indian provinces, escapes.

  William Cowper

  Home, Thieves, Purses

  William Cowper (1856). “The task, Table talk, and other poems: With critical observations of various authors on his genius and character, and notes, critical and illustrative”, p.129

• Siempre deja que la fantasía vague, el placer nunca está en casa.

  William Cowper

  Hogar, Imaginación, Fantasía

• Filólogos, que persiguen Una sílaba pictórica a través del tiempo y el espacio Empiezan en casa, y la cazan en la oscuridad, A la Galia, a Grecia, y al Arca de Noé.

  William Cowper

  Home, Dark, Space

  "Retirement" l. 691 (1782)

• Call'd to the temple of impure delight He that abstains, and he alone, does right. If a wish wander that way, call it home; He cannot long be safe whose wishes roam.

  William Cowper

  Home, Long, Wish

  William Cowper (1825). “Table Talk, and Other Poems, by William Cowper, of the Inner Temple, Esq”, p.49

• Oh, invierno, soberano del año invertido... Yo te corono rey de los placeres íntimos, de los placeres junto al fuego, de la felicidad hogareña, y de todas las comodidades que conoce el humilde techo del retiro tranquilo, y las horas de la larga tarde ininterrumpida.

  William Cowper

  Jubilación, Reyes, Hogar

  William Cowper (1854). "Poetical Works", p.12

• Elegante, como el dedo de un reloj,
  recorre el gran circuito y sigue en casa.

  William Cowper

  Running, Home, Fancy

  William Cowper, Henry Stebbing (1869). “The Complete Poetical Works of William Cowper, Esq: Including the Hymns and Translations from Madame Guion, Milton, Etc. ; with a Memoir of the Author”, p.234

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