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'LL on; for what should hinder meFrom loving and enjoying thee?Thou canst not those exceptions make,Which vulgar, sordid mortals take-That ...
As to a northern people (whom the sun Uses just as the Romish church has done Her prophane laity, and ...
Well then; I now do plainly see This busy world and I shall ne'er agree. The very honey ...
Go, let the fatted calf be kill'd; My prodigal's come home at last,With noble resolutions fill'd, ...
. . . . . . . . . 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 ...
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