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)

“There is a Book
By seraphs writ with beams of heavenly light,
On which the eyes of God not rarely look,

A chronicle of actions just and bright—
There all thy deeds, my faithful Mary, shine;
And since thou own’st that praise, I spare thee mine.”
—William Cowper (1731–1800)