Lord Cowper

Famous quotes containing the words lord and/or cowper:

“We entertaine him alwayes like a stranger,
And, as at first, still lodge him in the manger.”
—Unknown. Yet if His Majesty, Our Sovereign Lord (l. 29–30)

“I am monarch of all I survey;
My right there is none to dispute;
From the center all round to the sea
I am lord of the fowl and the brute.
O Solitude! where are the charms
That sages have seen in thy face?
Better dwell in the midst of alarms,
Than reign in this horrible place.”
—William Cowper (1731–1800)