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 ...
Whilst what I write I do not see, I dare thus, ev'n to you, write poetry.Ah, foolish Muse! ...
Pindarum quisquis studet oemulari, &c.I. Pindar is imitable by none;The phoenix Pindar is a vast species alone.Whoe'er but Daedalus with ...
UPON HIS TWO FIRST BOOKS OF GONDIBERT FINISHED BEFORE HIS VOYAGE TO AMERICA. METHINKS heroick poesy till now, Like some ...
FOR HIS SAFE RETURN FROM THE NORTHERN EXPEDITION AGAINST THE SCOTS. Great is thy Charge, O North! be wise and ...
FIVE years ago (says Story) I lov'd you,For which you call me most inconstant now;Pardon me, Madam! you mistake the ...
Happy insect, what can beIn happiness compared to thee?Fed with nourishment divine,The dewy morning's gentle wine!Nature waits upon thee still,And ...
LOVE in her sunny eyes does basking play;Love walks the pleasant mazes of her hair;Love does on both her lips ...
THE thirsty earth soaks up the rain, And drinks and gapes for drink again; The plants suck in the earth, ...
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