Abraham Cowley Poems on Death & Dying Archives - Famous Inspirational Poems, Poetry, Quotes

Poet and Saint! to thee alone are given The two most sacred names of earth and heaven, The ...

IT was a dismal and a fearful night: Scarce could the Morn drive on th' unwilling Light, When Sleep, Death's ...

Though all thy gestures and discourses be Coin'd and stamp'd by modesty; ...

BOOK I (excerpt) I sing the man who Judah's sceptre bore In that right hand which ...

Thou 'adst to my soul no title or pretence; I was mine own, and free, Till ...

I came, I saw, and was undone;Lightning did through my bones and marrow run; A pointed pain pierc'd ...

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. ...

Life's a nameThat nothing here can truly claim;This wretched inn, where we scarce stay to bait,We call our dwelling-place!And mighty ...

Underneath this marble stone,Lie two beauties joyn'd in one.Two whose loves, death could not sever,For both liv'd, both dy'd together.Two ...

Abraham Cowley Poems on Death & Dying (11 Poems)