To The Royal Society (excerpts) (Abraham Cowley Poems)
Philosophy the great and only heirOf all that human knowledge which has binUnforfeited by man's rebellious sin,Though full of years ...
Philosophy the great and only heirOf all that human knowledge which has binUnforfeited by man's rebellious sin,Though full of years ...
First-born of Chaos, who so fair didst comeFrom the old Negro's darksome womb!Which, when it saw the lovely child,The melancholy ...
I.Philosophy the great and only heirOf all that human knowledge which has binUnforfeited by man's rebellious sin,Though full of years ...
First-born of Chaos, who so fair didst comeFrom the old Negro's darksome womb!Which, when it saw the lovely child,The melancholy ...
IT was a dismal and a fearful night: Scarce could the Morn drive on th' unwilling Light, When Sleep, Death's ...
I'AVE often wish'd to love; what shall I do? Me still the cruel boy does spare; ...
Tentanda via est, etc. What shall I do to be forever known, And make the age ...
'T IS very true, I thought you once as fair As women in th' idea are;*Whatever here seems ...
Beneath this gloomy shade,By Nature only for my sorrows made,I'll spend this voyce in crys,In tears I'll waste these eyesBy ...
. . . . . . . . . This only ...
… This only grant me: that my means may lie Too low for envy, for contempt too high. ...
THE thirsty earth soaks up the rain, And drinks and gapes for drink again; The plants suck in the earth, ...
Come, love, why stay'st thou? The nightWill vanish ere wee taste delight.The moone obscures her selfe from sight, Thou absent, ...
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