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 ...
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 ...
I'AVE often wish'd to love; what shall I do? Me still the cruel boy does spare; ...
Whilst what I write I do not see, I dare thus, ev'n to you, write poetry.Ah, foolish Muse! ...
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 ...
Some blind themselves, 'cause possibly they may Be led by others a right way;They build on sands, which ...
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 ...
Tentanda via est, etc. What shall I do to be forever known, And make the age ...
Pindarum quisquis studet oemulari, &c.I. Pindar is imitable by none;The phoenix Pindar is a vast species alone.Whoe'er but Daedalus with ...
The fish around her crowded, as they doTo the false light that treacherous fisher shew,And all with as much ease ...
UPON HIS TWO FIRST BOOKS OF GONDIBERT FINISHED BEFORE HIS VOYAGE TO AMERICA. METHINKS heroick poesy till now, Like some ...
Thou 'adst to my soul no title or pretence; I was mine own, and free, Till ...
Well then; I now do plainly see This busy world and I shall ne'er agree. The very honey ...
FOR HIS SAFE RETURN FROM THE NORTHERN EXPEDITION AGAINST THE SCOTS. Great is thy Charge, O North! be wise and ...
In vain, thou drowsy God! I thee invoke; For thou, who dost from fumes arise- ...
No; to what purpose should I speak? No, wretched heart! swell till you break. She cannot ...
Go, let the fatted calf be kill'd; My prodigal's come home at last,With noble resolutions fill'd, ...
I came, I saw, and was undone;Lightning did through my bones and marrow run; A pointed pain pierc'd ...
'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 ...
INDEED I must confess, When souls mix 't is an happiness;But not complete till bodies too do combine,And ...
FIVE years ago (says Story) I lov'd you,For which you call me most inconstant now;Pardon me, Madam! you mistake the ...
. . . . . . . . . This only ...
… This only grant me: that my means may lie Too low for envy, for contempt too high. ...
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