William Cowper: Still

William Cowper was (1731–1800) English poet and hymnodist. Explore interesting quotes on still.

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“Dream after dream ensues;
And still they dream that they shall still succeed;
And still are disappointed.”

William Cowper The Task

Source: The Task (1785), Book III, The Garden, Line 127.

“The still small voice is wanted.”

William Cowper The Task

Source: The Task (1785), Book V, The Winter Morning Walk, Line 685.

“I praise the Frenchman [Voltaire], his remark was shrewd —
How sweet, how passing sweet, is solitude!
But grant me still a friend in my retreat
Whom I may whisper — solitude is sweet.”

William Cowper Retirement

Source: Retirement (1782), Line 739.

“Misery still delights to trace
Its semblance in another's case.”

William Cowper The Castaway

"The Castaway" (1799).

“While fancy, like the finger of a clock,
Runs the great circuit, and is still at home.”

William Cowper The Task

Source: The Task (1785), Book IV, The Winter Evening, Line 118.

“England, with all thy faults, I love thee still—
My country! and, while yet a nook is left
Where English minds and manners may be found,
Shall be constrained to love thee.”

William Cowper The Task

Source: The Task (1785), Book II, The Timepiece, Line 206.

“But strive still to be a man before your mother.”

Connoisseur. Motto of No. iii.
Bartlett's Familiar Quotations, 10th ed. (1919)

“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.”

William Cowper The Task

Source: The Task (1785), Book III, The Garden, Line 624.

“And still to love, though prest with ill,
In wintry age to feel no chill,
With me is to be lovely still,
My Mary!”

"To Mary", st. 11 (1791).

“His head,
Not yet by time completely silvered o'er,
Bespoke him past the bounds of freakish youth,
But strong for service still, and unimpaired.”

William Cowper The Task

Source: The Task (1785), Book II, The Timepiece, Line 702.

“What peaceful hours I once enjoyed!
How sweet their memory still!
But they have left an aching void
The world can never fill.”

No. 1, "Walking With God"
Olney Hymns (1779)