Poems and other works by Abraham Cowley

Poems and other works by Abraham Cowley

Poems by Abraham Cowley, the great English poet of the baroque era, a royalist, a brilliant essayist, a refugee to France, and a fascinating personality of the 17th century England.  Cowley may be underappreciated but, fortunately for us, not forgotten.

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Some poems by other baroque authors.

A few poems by other English poets

• Whitsun by Sylvia Plath
• Whiteness I Remember by Sylvia Plath
• Verbal Calisthenics by Sylvia Plath
• Vanity Fair by Sylvia Plath
• Tulips by Sylvia Plath
• Touch-And-Go by Sylvia Plath
• Totem by Sylvia Plath
• Three Women by Sylvia Plath
• Thalidomide by Sylvia Plath
• Terminal by Sylvia Plath
• Strumpet Song by Sylvia Plath
• Street Song by Sylvia Plath
• Stopped Dead by Sylvia Plath
• Stings by Sylvia Plath
• Stillborn by Sylvia Plath
• Spinster by Sylvia Plath
• Spider by Sylvia Plath
• Sow by Sylvia Plath
• Southern Sunrise by Sylvia Plath
• Snakecharmer by Sylvia Plath
• Sculptor by Sylvia Plath
• Rhyme by Sylvia Plath
• Resolve by Sylvia Plath
• Recantation by Sylvia Plath
• Pursuit by Sylvia Plath
• Purdah by Sylvia Plath
• Prospect by Sylvia Plath
• Private Ground by Sylvia Plath
• Point Shirley by Sylvia Plath
• Poems, Potatoes by Sylvia Plath
• Pheasant by Sylvia Plath
• Perseus by Sylvia Plath
• Parliament Hill Fields by Sylvia Plath
• Paralytic by Sylvia Plath
• Spinster by Sylvia Plath
• Spider by Sylvia Plath
• Sow by Sylvia Plath
• Southern Sunrise by Sylvia Plath
• Snakecharmer by Sylvia Plath
• Sculptor by Sylvia Plath
• Rhyme by Sylvia Plath
• Resolve by Sylvia Plath
• Recantation by Sylvia Plath
• Purdah by Sylvia Plath
• Prospect by Sylvia Plath
• Private Ground by Sylvia Plath
• Point Shirley by Sylvia Plath
• Poems, Potatoes by Sylvia Plath
• Pheasant by Sylvia Plath
• Perseus by Sylvia Plath
• Parliament Hill Fields by Sylvia Plath
• Paralytic by Sylvia Plath
• Owl by Sylvia Plath
• Ouija by Sylvia Plath
• Night Shift by Sylvia Plath
• Natural History by Sylvia Plath
• Mystic by Sylvia Plath
• Owl by Sylvia Plath
• Mushrooms by Sylvia Plath
• Ouija by Sylvia Plath
• Morning Song by Sylvia Plath
• Night Shift by Sylvia Plath
• Moonrise by Sylvia Plath
• Natural History by Sylvia Plath
• Mirror by Sylvia Plath
• Mystic by Sylvia Plath
• Midsummer Mobile by Sylvia Plath
• Mushrooms by Sylvia Plath
• Metaphors by Sylvia Plath
• Morning Song by Sylvia Plath
• Medusa by Sylvia Plath
• Moonrise by Sylvia Plath
• Medallion by Sylvia Plath
• Mirror by Sylvia Plath
• Maudlin by Sylvia Plath
• Midsummer Mobile by Sylvia Plath
• Magnolia Shoals by Sylvia Plath
• Metaphors by Sylvia Plath
• Magi by Sylvia Plath
• Medusa by Sylvia Plath
• Maenad by Sylvia Plath
• Medallion by Sylvia Plath
• Lyonnesse by Sylvia Plath
• Maudlin by Sylvia Plath
• Lorelei by Sylvia Plath
• Magnolia Shoals by Sylvia Plath
• Little Fugue by Sylvia Plath
• Magi by Sylvia Plath
• Maenad by Sylvia Plath
• Lyonnesse by Sylvia Plath
• Lorelei by Sylvia Plath
• Little Fugue by Sylvia Plath
• Lesbos by Sylvia Plath
• Leaving Early by Sylvia Plath
• Landowners by Sylvia Plath
• Lament by Sylvia Plath
• Lady Lazarus by Sylvia Plath
• Kindness by Sylvia Plath
• Jilted by Sylvia Plath
• Insomniac by Sylvia Plath
• Incommunicado by Sylvia Plath
• I Want, I Want by Sylvia Plath
• I Am Vertical by Sylvia Plath
• Heavy Woman by Sylvia Plath
• Hardcastle Crags by Sylvia Plath
• Gulliver by Sylvia Plath
• Green Rock, Winthrop Bay by Sylvia Plath
• Gold Mouths Cry by Sylvia Plath
• Goatsucker by Sylvia Plath
• Gigolo by Sylvia Plath
• Getting There by Sylvia Plath
• Full Fathom Five by Sylvia Plath
• Frog Autumn by Sylvia Plath
• Firesong by Sylvia Plath
• Finisterre by Sylvia Plath
• Fiesta Melons by Sylvia Plath
• Fever 103° by Sylvia Plath
• Female Author by Sylvia Plath
• Faun by Sylvia Plath
• Face Lift by Sylvia Plath
• Event by Sylvia Plath
• Elm by Sylvia Plath
• Ella Mason And Her Eleven Cats by Sylvia Plath
• Edge by Sylvia Plath
• Eavesdropper by Sylvia Plath
• Doomsday by Sylvia Plath
• Dialogue En Route by Sylvia Plath
• Dialogue Between Ghost And Priest by Sylvia Plath
• Departure by Sylvia Plath
• Denouement Villanelle by Sylvia Plath
• Dark Wood, Dark Water by Sylvia Plath
• Dark House by Sylvia Plath
• Danse Macabre by Sylvia Plath
• Cut by Sylvia Plath
• Crystal Gazer by Sylvia Plath
• Contusion by Sylvia Plath
• Cinderella by Sylvia Plath
• Childless Woman by Sylvia Plath
• Child by Sylvia Plath
• Channel Crossing by Sylvia Plath
• Candles by Sylvia Plath
• Bucolics by Sylvia Plath
• Brasilia by Sylvia Plath
• Blue Moles by Sylvia Plath
• Berck-Plage by Sylvia Plath
• Barren Woman by Sylvia Plath
• Aquatic Nocturne by Sylvia Plath
• April Aubade by Sylvia Plath
• April 18 by Sylvia Plath
• Among The Narcissi by Sylvia Plath
• Alicante Lullaby by Sylvia Plath
• Aerialist by Sylvia Plath
• Work and Play by Ted Hughes
• Wind by Ted Hughes
• Tractor by Ted Hughes
• Thrushes by Ted Hughes
• Thistles by Ted Hughes
• The Warm and the Cold by Ted Hughes
• The Thought-Fox by Ted Hughes
• The Owl by Ted Hughes
• The Minotaur by Ted Hughes
• The Harvest Moon by Ted Hughes
• The Child Is Father To The Man by Ted Hughes
• Spring & Fall: To A Young Child by Ted Hughes
• September by Ted Hughes
• Pied Beauty by Ted Hughes
• Old Age Gets Up by Ted Hughes
• Lovesong by Ted Hughes
• Lineage by Ted Hughes
• How To Paint A Water Lily by Ted Hughes
• Hawk Roosting by Ted Hughes
• God’s Grandeur by Ted Hughes
• Full Moon and Little Frieda by Ted Hughes
• Examination at the Womb-Door by Ted Hughes
• Earth-Moon by Ted Hughes
• Crow’s Nerve Fails by Ted Hughes
• Crow’s Fall by Ted Hughes
• Bride and Groom Lie Hidden for Three Days by Ted Hughes
• A Woman Unconscious by Ted Hughes
• Whispers of Immortality by T. S. Eliot
• The Song Of The Jellicles by T. S. Eliot
• The Rum Tum Tugger by T. S. Eliot
• The Old Gumbie Cat by T. S. Eliot
• The Naming Of Cats by T. S. Eliot
• The Hollow Men by T. S. Eliot
• The Boston Evening Transcript by T. S. Eliot
• The Ad-Dressing Of Cats by T. S. Eliot
• Sweeney Erect by T. S. Eliot
• Sweeney among the Nightingales by T. S. Eliot
• Rhapsody on a Windy Night by T. S. Eliot
• Preludes by T. S. Eliot
• Portrait of a Lady by T. S. Eliot
• Old Deuteronomy by T. S. Eliot
• Mungojerrie And Rumpelteazer by T. S. Eliot
• Mr. Mistoffelees by T. S. Eliot
• Mr. Eliot’s Sunday Morning Service by T. S. Eliot
• Mr. Apollinax by T. S. Eliot
• Morning at the Window by T. S. Eliot
• Mr. Apollinax by T. S. Eliot
• Morning at the Window by T. S. Eliot
• Lune de Miel by T. S. Eliot
• Le Directeur by T. S. Eliot
• La Figlia che Piange by T. S. Eliot
• Journey Of The Magi by T. S. Eliot
• Hysteria by T. S. Eliot
• Gus: The Theatre Cat by T. S. Eliot
• Growltiger’s Last Stand by T. S. Eliot
• Gerontion by T. S. Eliot
• Four Quartets 4: Little Gidding by T. S. Eliot
• Four Quartets 3: The Dry Salvages by T. S. Eliot
• Four Quartets 2: East Coker by T. S. Eliot
• Four Quartets 1: Burnt Norton by T. S. Eliot
• Dans le Restaurant by T. S. Eliot
• Cousin Nancy by T. S. Eliot
• Conversation Galante by T. S. Eliot
• Bustopher Jones: The Cat About Town by T. S. Eliot
• Burbank with a Baedeker: Bleistein with a Cigar by T. S. Eliot
• Aunt Helen by T. S. Eliot
• Ash Wednesday by T. S. Eliot
• A Cooking Egg by T. S. Eliot
• Zermatt To The Matterhorn. by Thomas Hardy
• A Woman’s Fancy by Thomas Hardy
• The Woman In The Rye by Thomas Hardy
• A Week by Thomas Hardy
• The Year’s Awakening by Thomas Hardy
• The Workbox by Thomas Hardy
• The Wistful Lady by Thomas Hardy
• The Puzzled Game-Birds by Thomas Hardy
• A Spot by Thomas Hardy
• A Sign-Seeker by Thomas Hardy
• “The Curtains Now Are Drawn” by Thomas Hardy
• A Poet by Thomas Hardy
• A Meeting With Despair by Thomas Hardy
• A Man (In Memory of H. of M.) by Thomas Hardy
• A King’s Soliloquy [On the Night of His Funeral] by Thomas Hardy
• In A Wood by Thomas Hardy
• “I Sometimes Think” by Thomas Hardy
• A Death-Day Recalled by Thomas Hardy
• A Conversation At Dawn by Thomas Hardy
• A Confession To A Friend In Trouble by Thomas Hardy
• A Commonplace Day by Thomas Hardy
• A Circular by Thomas Hardy
• A Christmas Ghost Story by Thomas Hardy
• Amabel by Thomas Hardy
• Ah, Are You Digging On My Grave? by Thomas Hardy
• After The Visit by Thomas Hardy
• After Schiller by Thomas Hardy
• After A Journey by Thomas Hardy
• Additions: The Fire at Tranter Sweatley’s by Thomas Hardy
• “According to the Mighty Working” by Thomas Hardy
• A Wife In London by Thomas Hardy
• A Wasted Illness by Thomas Hardy
• A Thunderstorm In Town by Thomas Hardy
• A Jog-Trot Pair by Thomas Hardy
• A Dream Or No by Thomas Hardy
• The Resignation by Thomas Chatterton
• The Methodist by Thomas Chatterton
• The Death of Nicou by Thomas Chatterton
• The Copernican System by Thomas Chatterton
• The Advice by Thomas Chatterton
• Song from Aella by Thomas Chatterton
• Sly Dick by Thomas Chatterton
• Narva and Mored by Thomas Chatterton
• Heccar and Gaira by Thomas Chatterton
• February by Thomas Chatterton
• Eclogues by Thomas Chatterton
• Colin Instructed by Thomas Chatterton
• An Excelente Balade of Charitie: As Wroten bie the Gode Pri by Thomas Chatterton
• A New Song by Thomas Chatterton
• A Hymn for Christmas Day by Thomas Chatterton
• The Spring by Thomas Carew
• The Primrose by Thomas Carew
• Song. Murdering Beauty by Thomas Carew
• Song. Mediocrity in love rejected. by Thomas Carew
• Song. Good Counsel to a Young Maid by Thomas Carew
• Song: Eternity of Love Protested by Thomas Carew
• Song. A Beautiful Mistress. by Thomas Carew
• Song by Thomas Carew
• Secrecy Protested. by Thomas Carew
• Persuasions to Joy, a Song by Thomas Carew
• My Mistress Commanding Me to Return Her Letters. by Thomas Carew
• Mediocrity in Love Rejected by Thomas Carew
• Lips and Eyes. by Thomas Carew
• Know, Celia, Since Thou Art So Proud by Thomas Carew
• Ingrateful Beauty Threatened by Thomas Carew
• I Do Not Love Thee For That Fair by Thomas Carew
• He That Loves A Rosy Cheek by Thomas Carew
• Epitaph On the Lady Mary Villiers by Thomas Carew
• Epitaph for Maria Wentworth by Thomas Carew
• Disdain Returned by Thomas Carew
• Celia Beeding, To the Surgeon by Thomas Carew
• Boldness in Love by Thomas Carew
• Ask Me No More by Thomas Carew
• Another by Thomas Carew
• An Elegy upon the Death of the Dean of St. Paul’s, Dr. John by Thomas Carew
• A Song: When June is Past, the Fading Rose by Thomas Carew
• A Song by Thomas Carew
• A prayer to the Wind by Thomas Carew
• A Divine Mistress by Thomas Carew
• A Cruel Mistress. by Thomas Carew

Poems by Abraham Cowley, the great English poet of the baroque era, a royalist, a brilliant essayist, a refugee to France, and a fascinating personality of the 17th century England.