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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Biography of Abraham Cowley 

The Life of Cowley by Samuel Johnson

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Some poems by other baroque authors.

A few poems by other English poets

• Specula by Thomas Edward Brown
• Salve! by Thomas Edward Brown
• Risus Dei by Thomas Edward Brown
• Pain by Thomas Edward Brown
• Opifex by Thomas Edward Brown
• My Garden by Thomas Edward Brown
• Land, Ho! by Thomas Edward Brown
• Jessie by Thomas Edward Brown
• If Thou Could’st Empty All Thyself Of Self by Thomas Edward Brown
• Ibant Obscur? by Thomas Edward Brown
• I bended unto me a Bough by Thomas Edward Brown
• Dora by Thomas Edward Brown
• Disguises by Thomas Edward Brown
• Time of Roses by Thomas Hood
• Tim Turpin by Thomas Hood
• The World is with Me by Thomas Hood
• The Sun Was Slumbering in the West by Thomas Hood
• The Song of the Shirt by Thomas Hood
• The Haunted House by Thomas Hood
• The Dream of Eugene Aram by Thomas Hood
• The Death Bed by Thomas Hood
• The Bridge of Sighs by Thomas Hood
• Silence by Thomas Hood
• Ruth by Thomas Hood
• Past and Present by Thomas Hood
• On Mistress Nicely, a Pattern for Housekeepers by Thomas Hood
• November by Thomas Hood
• No! by Thomas Hood
• I Remember, I Remember by Thomas Hood
• Gold! by Thomas Hood
• Flowers by Thomas Hood
• Faithless Sally Brown by Thomas Hood
• Faithless Nelly Gray by Thomas Hood
• Death by Thomas Hood
• Christmas Holidays by Thomas Hood
• Autumn by Thomas Hood
• Allegory by Thomas Hood
• A Lake And A Fairy Boat by Thomas Hood
• Your Last Drive by Thomas Hardy
• Without Ceremony by Thomas Hardy
• [Greek Title] by Thomas Hardy
• Afterwards by Thomas Hardy
• A Broken Appointment by Thomas Hardy
• love_is_just_like_the_rain.html
• boy_running_in_the_rain.html
• xai_kou_from_book_seeds_of_faith.html
• xai_kou1.html
• xai_kou0.html
• xai_kou.html
• vorticism_is_a_choka_in_its_modular_home.html
• victor.html
• traveling.html
• tracks_in_the_private_country.html
• the_world.html
• the_holy_tree.html
• the_emigrant.html
• tears.html
• simple_heart.html
• silence.html
• she.html
• sealed_appropriate.html
• seal.html
• sea_salt_a_villanelle.html
• salamis_quot.html
• sacrifice_and_love.html
• poetry_and_politics.html
• plato.html
• paralipomemnon.html
• our_refuge.html
• one_sweet_white_light.html
• new_land.html
• motionless_body.html
• mother.html
• minimalism_and_the_elm_choka.html
• mark.html
• love_flower.html
• love.html
• lord_god_have_mercy_on_me.html
• libation.html
• least_in_a_list.html
• interpret_the_light.html
• innocence.html
• in_the_stone_i_rooted.html
• in_between_the_strophes.html
• human_joys.html
• human_charms.html
• he_who_creates_re_creates_himself.html
• hai_kou_unpublished.html
• hai_kou.html
• greek_light.html
• greece.html
• golden_eangle.html
• gesture_theory_a_villanelle.html
• gem_immortality.html
• fruit_leaf_roots_flowers.html
• first_verse.html
• first_light.html
• excerpt_from_the_quotgertrude_steinquot_collaborative_series.html
• eudaemonism_in_a_senryu_novel.html
• drunkenness.html
• do_not_get_angry.html
• dickinson_and_the_alabaster_gogyohka.html
• dawned_again.html
• create.html
• conference_swan_beauty.html
• colors_and_sounds.html
• children039s_eyes.html
• athens_stone_of_sapphire_of_ground_the_ring.html
• as_with_recitation_and_the_loss_of_a_kuhi.html
• antediluvian_kural_on_twitter.html
• alexander.html
• acts_of_love.html
• a_single_man.html
• a_poem.html
• a_dialogue.html
• a_city_one_wish.html
• a_choka_is_a_littoral_drift.html
• the_solitary_oak_on_mount_kremlin_bicetre.html
• the_prison_of_the_past.html
• The Dead Woman by Pablo Neruda, La Muerta
• pathos_is_the_skyward_tanka.html
• nominalism_is_a_liquid_kuhi.html
• eclipse_of_love.html
• divided_passion.html
• death039s_claim.html
• dear_bhikkhu_a_eulogy.html
• as_with_a_senryu_s_hardening_ridge.html
• A Gogyohka and the Forgotten Panopticon
• a_faded_postcard_is_a_tanka_daydream.html
• krishna039s_advice_to_arjuna.html
• krishna039s_advice_to_arjuna.html
• Exodus by Michael Nikoletseas
• Saint George the Dragon by Michael Nikoletseas
• heal_me_slowly.html
• gazebo.html
• all-days-seem-same.html
• Wind on the Hill by AA Milne
• us_two_by_a_a_milne.html
• twinkletoes.html
• the_morning_walk.html
• the_kings_breakfast.html
• the_dormouse_and_the_doctor.html
• the_christening.html
• rice_pudding.html
• politeness.html
• missing.html
• market_square.html
• lines_and_squares.html
• if_i_were_king.html
• hoppity.html
• happiness.html
• come_out_with_me.html
• buckingham_palace.html
• brownie.html
• at_the_zoo.html
• woken_up_by_beautiful_dreams.html
• was_then.html
• vestiges.html
• un-chien-andalou-an-andalusian-dog.html
• the_poet_angels_who_came_to_dinner.html
• the_nomad039s_vision_ode_to_a_skylark_dressed_in_black.html
• the_man_that_poetry_made.html
• the-flash-reverses-time.html
• que-sera-sera.html
• power-of-thought.html
• phantasm.html
• once_was_a_singer_for_god_remembering_nekia.html
• old-boy.html
• lost_love_is_never_lost.html
• long_i_waited_in_vain.html
• holiday_letter_for_a_poet_gone_to_war.html
• gratitudes_of_a_dozen_roses.html
• every_hour_henceforth.html
• einstein-defining-special-relativity.html
• cell-mate.html
• calling-the-spirits.html
• angel_of_christmas_love_shining_bright.html
• angel_of_better_days_to_come.html
• All Night in Savannah the Wind Wrote Poetry by Aberjhani
• a-tempest-in-a-teacup.html
• Eveleen’s Bower by Thomas Moore
• Erin! The Tear and the Smile in Thine Eyes by Thomas Moore
• Erin, Oh Erin by Thomas Moore
• Enigma by Thomas Moore
• Echo by Thomas Moore
• Drink To Her by Thomas Moore
• Drink of This Cup by Thomas Moore
• Did Not by Thomas Moore
• Dialogue Between a Sovereign and a One-Pound Note by Thomas Moore
• Desmond’s Song by Thomas Moore
• Dear Harp of my Country by Thomas Moore
• Cotton and Corn by Thomas Moore
• Come, Send Round the Wine by Thomas Moore
• Come, Rest in this Bosom by Thomas Moore
• Come O’er the Sea by Thomas Moore
• By That Lake, Whose Gloomy Shore by Thomas Moore
• Believe Me, If All Those Endearing Young Charms by Thomas Moore
• Befire the Battle by Thomas Moore
• Avenging and Bright by Thomas Moore
• At the Mid Hour of Night by Thomas Moore
• As Vanquish’d Erin by Thomas Moore
• As Slow Our Ship by Thomas Moore
• As a Beam O’er the Face of the Waters May Glow by Thomas Moore
• And Doth Not a Meeting Like This by Thomas Moore
• An Incantation by Thomas Moore
• An Expostulation to Lord King by Thomas Moore
• An Argument by Thomas Moore
• Alone in Crowds to Wander On by Thomas Moore
• All In a Family Way by Thomas Moore
• After the Battle by Thomas Moore
• Which way does the wind blow? by Thomas J Camp
• Virgule by Thomas Lux
• Unlike, For Example, The Sound Of A Riptooth Saw by Thomas Lux
• Torn Shades by Thomas Lux
• The Road That Runs Beside The River by Thomas Lux
• The Progress of Poesy by Thomas Gray
• The Man Into Whose Yard You Should Not Hit Your Ball by Thomas Lux
• The Inheritance by Thomas J Camp
• The Holy Mountain of Hope by Thomas Ziemer
• The Curse Upon Edward by Thomas Gray
• The Bard by Thomas Gray
• Sonnet On The Death Of Mr Richard West by Thomas Gray
• Refrigerator, 1957 by Thomas Lux
• Red Planet Haiku by Thomas J Camp
• Plague Victims Catapulted Over Walls Into Besieged City by Thomas Lux
• On The Death Of A Favourite Cat, Drowned In A Tub Of Gold Fishes by Thomas Gray
• Ode On The Spring by Thomas Gray
• Ode On The Pleasure Arising From Vicissitude by Thomas Gray
• Ode On A Distant Prospect Of Eton College by Thomas Gray
• My Country Place by Thomas J Camp
• Motel Seedy by Thomas Lux
• Monsters under the bed by Thomas J Camp
• Marine Snow At Mid-Depths And Down by Thomas Lux
• Lucky by Thomas Lux
• Thomas Gray – Thomas Gray
• Hymn To Adversity by Thomas Gray
• Henry Clay’s Mouth by Thomas Lux
• He Has Lived In Many Houses by Thomas Lux
• Gorgeous Surfaces by Thomas Lux
• Elegy Written In A Country Churchyard by Thomas Gray
• Drummer Boy by Thomas J Camp
• Becalmed and Bewildered by Thomas J Camp
• Autumn Leaves by Thomas J Camp
• Song IX: Ho Ye Who Seek Saving by William Morris
• Song IV: Draw Near and Behold Me by William Morris
• Song III: It Grew Up Without Heeding by William Morris
• Song II: Have No Thought for Tomorrow by William Morris
• Song I: Though the World Be A-Waning by William Morris
• Sir Giles’ War-Song by William Morris
• Sir Galahad, a Christmas Mystery by William Morris
• Sad-Eyed and Soft and Grey by William Morris
• Riding Together by William Morris
• Pomona by William Morris
• Our Hands Have Met by William Morris
• Night by William Morris
• Near But Far Away by William Morris
• Near Avalon by William Morris
• Mine and Thine by William Morris
• March by William Morris
• Love’s Gleaning Tide by William Morris
• King Arthur’s Tomb by William Morris
• In Prison by William Morris
• Iceland First Seen by William Morris
• For the Bed at Kelmscott by William Morris
• Flora by William Morris
• Earth the Healer, Earth the Keeper by William Morris
• Day by William Morris
• Autumn by William Morris
• Atalanta’s Race by William Morris
• A Good Knight In Prison by William Morris
• A Death Song by William Morris
• Who’s Who by W H Auden
• We’re Late by W H Auden
• Warm are the Still and Lucky Miles by W H Auden
• Voltaire At Ferney by W H Auden
• Underneath an Abject Willow by W H Auden
• This Lunar Beauty by W H Auden
• They Wondered Why the Fruit had Been Forbidden by W H Auden
• The Waters by W H Auden
• The Wanderer by W H Auden
• The Two by W H Auden
• The Riddle by W H Auden
• The Quest by W H Auden
• The Quest XII (Vocation) by W H Auden
• The Novelist by W H Auden
• The Labyrinth by W H Auden
• The Hidden Law by W H Auden
• The Geography of the House by W H Auden
• The Dream by W H Auden
• The Common Life by W H Auden
• Thanksgiving for a Habitat by W H Auden
• Taller To-day by W H Auden
• Song Of The Master And Boatswain by W H Auden
• At the Party by W H Auden
• Old People’s Home by W H Auden
• O What Is That Sound by W H Auden
• O Tell Me The Truth About Love by W H Auden
• Nocturne by W H Auden
• A New Age by W H Auden
• Like A Vocation by W H Auden

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.