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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Let A Florid Music Praise by W H Auden
Law, Like Love by W H Auden
At Last the Secret is Out by W H Auden
Lady Weeping at the Crossroads by W H Auden
It’s No Use Raising A Shout by W H Auden
In the Time of War, XII by W H Auden
In Praise Of Limestone by W H Auden
Here War Is Simple by W H Auden
Give me a doctor by W H Auden
from The Cave of Making by W H Auden
from In Time of War by W H Auden
Friday’s Child by W H Auden
Friday’s Child by W H Auden
For What As Easy by W H Auden
Five Songs – II by W H Auden
Fish in the Unruffled Lakes by W H Auden
Eyes Look Into The Well by W H Auden
Eyes Look Into The Well by W H Auden
Edward Lear by W H Auden
Doggerel by a Senior Citizen by W H Auden
Deftly, Admiral, Cast Your Fly by W H Auden
Two Songs for Hedli Anderson by W. H. Auden
The Shield of Achilles by W. H. Auden
The More Loving One by W. H. Auden
The Fall of Rome by W. H. Auden
September 1, 1939 by W. H. Auden
On the Circuit by W. H. Auden
In Memory of W. B. Yeats by W. H. Auden
In Memory of Sigmund Freud by W. H. Auden
If I could tell you by W. H. Auden
For Friends Only by W. H. Auden
Epitaph on a Tyrant by W. H. Auden
Death’s Echo by W H Auden
Consider This And In Our Time by W H Auden
The Common Life by W H Auden
Cocaine Lil and Morphine Sue by W H Auden
Christmas Oratio by W H Auden
Carry Her Over the Water by W H Auden
Canzone by W H Auden
Calypso by W H Auden
Base Words Are Uttered by W H Auden
Autumn Song by W H Auden
August 1968 by W H Auden
Atlantis by W H Auden
As I Walked Out One Evening by W. H. Auden
As We Like It by W H Auden
As the poets have mournfully sung by W H Auden
Are You There? by W H Auden
After Reading a Child’s Guide to Modern Physics by W. H. Auden
Academic Graffiti by W H Auden
A Walk After Dark by W H Auden
A New Year Greeting by W H Auden
The Huntsmen by Walter de la Mare
The Ghost by Walter de la Mare
Snow by Walter de la Mare
The Mocking Fairy by Walter de la Mare
The Keys of Morning by Walter de la Mare
The Fool Rings His Bells by Walter de la Mare
Tartary by Walter de la Mare
Sunk Lyonesse by Walter de la Mare
Some One by Walter de la Mare
Silver by Walter de la Mare
Old Susan by Walter de la Mare
Off the Ground by Walter de la Mare
November by Walter de la Mare
Music by Walter de la Mare
Miss Loo by Walter de la Mare
Melmillo by Walter de la Mare
How Sleep the Brave by Walter de la Mare
Good-bye by Walter de la Mare
Full Moon by Walter de la Mare
Fare Well by Walter de la Mare
Bones by Walter de la Mare
At Ease by Walter de la Mare
Alone by Walter de la Mare
All That’s Past by Walter de la Mare
Alexander by Walter de la Mare
A Song of Enchantment by Walter de la Mare
Nicholas Nye by Walter de la Mare
Napoleon by Walter de la Mare
Arabia by Walter de la Mare
An Epitaph by Walter de la Mare
To His Love When He Had Obtained Her by Sir Walter Raleigh
To a Lady with an Unruly and Ill-mannered Dog Who Bit several Persons of Importance by Sir Walter Raleigh
The Silent Lover ii by Sir Walter Raleigh
The Silent Lover i by Sir Walter Raleigh
The Nymph’s Reply To The Shepherd by Sir Walter Raleigh
The Lie by Sir Walter Raleigh
The Conclusion by Sir Walter Raleigh
The Artist by Sir Walter Raleigh
Stans Puer ad Mensam by Sir Walter Raleigh
Song of Myself by Sir Walter Raleigh
Sestina Otiosa by Sir Walter Raleigh
Now What Is Love by Sir Walter Raleigh
On Being Challenged to Write an Epigram in the Manner of Herrick by Sir Walter Raleigh
Nature that Washed Her Hands in Milk by Sir Walter Raleigh
My Last Will by Sir Walter Raleigh
Like Truthless Dreams, So Are My Joys Expired by Sir Walter Raleigh
Life by Sir Walter Raleigh
His Pilgrimage by Sir Walter Raleigh
Her Reply by Sir Walter Raleigh
Farewell to the Court by Sir Walter Raleigh
Epitaph by Sir Walter Raleigh
A Literature Lesson. Sir Patrick Spens in the Eighteenth Century Manner by Sir Walter Raleigh
A Farewell to False Love by Sir Walter Raleigh
On Catullus by Walter Savage Landor
Of Clementina by Walter Savage Landor
Corinna, from Athens, to Tanagra by Walter Savage Landor
Ianthe! You are Call’d to Cross the Sea by Walter Savage Landor
Mother, I cannot mind my Wheel by Walter Savage Landor
Ianthe by Walter Savage Landor
Child of a Day by Walter Savage Landor
Late Leaves by Walter Savage Landor
One Lovely Name by Walter Savage Landor
On An Eclipse Of The Moon by Walter Savage Landor
Mild is the Parting Year by Walter Savage Landor
I Entreat You, Alfred Tennyson by Walter Savage Landor
In spring and summer winds may blow by Walter Savage Landor
Death Stands Above Me, Whispering Low by Walter Savage Landor
Proud Word You Never Spoke by Walter Savage Landor
God Scatters Beauty by Walter Savage Landor
Remain! by Walter Savage Landor
I Strove with None by Walter Savage Landor
Absence by Walter Savage Landor
Dirce by Walter Savage Landor
Autumn by Walter Savage Landor
On His Seventy-fifth Birthday by Walter Savage Landor
On His Eightieth Birthday by Walter Savage Landor
Lately our poets by Walter Savage Landor
Ianthe’s Question by Walter Savage Landor
F?sulan Idyl by Walter Savage Landor
Finis by Walter Savage Landor
Dying Speech of an Old Philosopher by Walter Savage Landor
Alciphron and Leucippe by Walter Savage Landor
Acon and Rhodope by Walter Savage Landor
A Terre (being the philosophy of many soldiers) by Wilfred Owen
Disabled by Wilfred Owen
Anthem For Doomed Youth by Wilfred Owen
Dulce Et Decorum Est by Wilfred Owen
Conscious by Wilfred Owen
Insensibility by Wilfred Owen
A Terre by Wilfred Owen
Arms And The Boy by Wilfred Owen
Asleep by Wilfred Owen
Exposure by Wilfred Owen
Futility by Wilfred Owen
Le Christianisme by Wilfred Owen
An Imperial Elegy by Wilfred Owen
But I Was Looking At The Permanent Stars by Wilfred Owen
I Saw His Round Mouth’s Crimson by Wilfred Owen
I know The Music (unfinished) by Wilfred Owen
Hospital Barge At Cerisy by Wilfred Owen
Has Your Soul Sipped? by Wilfred Owen
Happiness by Wilfred Owen
Greater Love by Wilfred Owen
From My Diary, July 1914 by Wilfred Owen
At A Calvary Near The Ancre by Wilfred Owen
Apologia Pro Poemate Meo by Wilfred Owen
Antaeus: [A Fragment] by Wilfred Owen
A New Heaven (To-On Active Service) by Wilfred Owen
1914 by Wilfred Owen
Love Compared To A Game Of Tables by William Strode
Keepe On Your Maske (Version for his Mistress) by William Strode
Keepe On Your Maske And Hide Your Eye by William Strode
Justification by William Strode
Jacke-On-Both-Sides by William Strode
William Strode – William Strode
In Commendation Of Musick by William Strode
Her Epitaph by William Strode
For A Gentleman, Who, Kissinge His Friend At His Departure Left A Signe Of Blood On Her by William Strode
Epitaph On Mr. Bridgeman by William Strode
Consolatorium, Ad Parentes by William Strode
Chloris in the Snow by William Strode
Anthem For Good Fryday by William Strode
An Epitaph On Sr John Walter, Lord Cheife Baron by William Strode
An Epitaph On Mr. Fishborne The Great London Benefactor, And His Executor by William Strode
An Eare-Stringe by William Strode
An Antheme by William Strode
A Watch-String by William Strode
A Watch Sent Home To Mrs. Eliz: King, Wrapt In Theis Verses by William Strode
A Translation Of The Nightingale Out Of Strada by William Strode
A Superscription On Sir Philip Sidney’s Arcadia, Sent For A Token by William Strode
A Strange Gentlewoman Passing By His Window by William Strode
A Song On The Baths by William Strode
A Song On A Sigh by William Strode
A Riddle: On A Kiss by William Strode
A Purse-String by William Strode
A Paralell Between Bowling And Preferment by William Strode
A New Year’s Gift by William Strode
A Necklace by William Strode
A Lover To His Mistress by William Strode
A Girdle by William Strode
Sonnet 127: In the old age black was not counted fair by William Shakespeare
Sonnet 126: O thou, my lovely boy, who in thy power by William Shakespeare
Sonnet 125: Were’t aught to me I bore the canopy by William Shakespeare
Sonnet 124: If my dear love were but the child of state by William Shakespeare
Sonnet 123: No, Time, thou shalt not boast that I do change by William Shakespeare
Sonnet 122: Thy gift, thy tables, are within my brain by William Shakespeare
Sonnet 121: Tis better to be vile than vile esteemed by William Shakespeare
Sonnet 120: That you were once unkind befriends me now by William Shakespeare
Sonnet 11: As fast as thou shalt wane, so fast thou grow’st by William Shakespeare
Sonnet 119: What potions have I drunk of Siren tears by William Shakespeare
Sonnet 118: Like as to make our appetite more keen by William Shakespeare
Sonnet 117: Accuse me thus: that I have scanted all by William Shakespeare
Sonnet 116: Let me not to the marriage of true minds by William Shakespeare
Sonnet 115: Those lines that I before have writ do lie by William Shakespeare
Sonnet 114: Or whether doth my mind, being crowned with you by William Shakespeare
Sonnet 113: Since I left you, mine eye is in my mind by William Shakespeare
Sonnet 112: Your love and pity doth th’ impression fill by William Shakespeare
Sonnet 111: O, for my sake do you with Fortune chide by William Shakespeare
Sonnet 110: Alas, ’tis true, I have gone here and there by William Shakespeare
Sonnet 10: For shame, deny that thou bear’st love to any by William Shakespeare
Sonnet 109: O, never say that I was false of heart by William Shakespeare
Sonnet 108: What’s in the brain that ink may character by William Shakespeare
Sonnet 107: Not mine own fears, nor the prophetic soul by William Shakespeare
Sonnet 106: When in the chronicle of wasted time by William Shakespeare
Sonnet 105: Let not my love be called idolatry by William Shakespeare
Sonnet 104: To me, fair friend, you never can be old by William Shakespeare
Sonnet 103: Alack, what poverty my Muse brings forth by William Shakespeare
Sonnet 102: My love is strengthened, though more weak in seeming by William Shakespeare
Sonnet 101: O truant Muse, what shall be thy amends by William Shakespeare
Sonnet 100: Where art thou, Muse, that thou forget’st so long by William Shakespeare
Sonnet LIV by William Shakespeare
Silvia by William Shakespeare
Sigh No More by William Shakespeare
Orpheus with his Lute Made Trees by William Shakespeare
Orpheus by William Shakespeare
Not marble nor the guilded monuments (Sonnet 55) by William Shakespeare
Not from the stars do I my judgment pluck (Sonnet 14) by William Shakespeare
Love by William Shakespeare
It was a Lover and his Lass by William Shakespeare
Hark! Hark! The Lark by William Shakespeare
From you have I been absent in the spring… (Sonnet 98) by William Shakespeare
from Venus and Adonis by William Shakespeare
Fidele by William Shakespeare
Fear No More by William Shakespeare
Fairy Land v by William Shakespeare
Fairy Land iv by William Shakespeare
Fairy Land iii by William Shakespeare
Fairy Land ii by William Shakespeare
Dirge of the Three Queens by William Shakespeare
Dirge by William Shakespeare
Carpe Diem by William Shakespeare
Bridal Song by William Shakespeare
Blow, Blow, Thou Winter Wind by William Shakespeare
Aubade by William Shakespeare
A Lover’s Complaint by William Shakespeare
A Fairy Song by William Shakespeare
Sonnet 128: How oft, when thou, my music, music play’st by William Shakespeare
Sonnet 149: Canst thou, O cruel, say I love thee not by William Shakespeare
Sonnet 148: O me! what eyes hath love put in my head by William Shakespeare
Sonnet 147: My love is as a fever, longing still by William Shakespeare
Sonnet 146: Poor soul, the centre of my sinful earth by William Shakespeare
Sonnet 145: Those lips that Love’s own hand did make by William Shakespeare
Sonnet 144: Two loves I have, of comfort and despair by William Shakespeare
Sonnet 143: Lo, as a careful huswife runs to catch by William Shakespeare
Sonnet 142: Love is my sin, and thy dear virtue hate by William Shakespeare
Sonnet 141: In faith, I do not love thee with mine eyes by William Shakespeare
Sonnet 140: Be wise as thou art cruel; do not press by William Shakespeare
Sonnet 13: O, that you were your self! But, love, you are by William Shakespeare
Sonnet 138: When my love swears that she is made of truth by William Shakespeare
Sonnet 137: Thou blind fool, Love, what dost thou to mine eyes by William Shakespeare
Sonnet 136: If thy soul check thee that I come so near by William Shakespeare
Sonnet 135: Whoever hath her wish, thou hast thy will by William Shakespeare
Sonnet 134: So, now I have confessed that he is thine by William Shakespeare
Sonnet 133: Beshrew that heart that makes my heart to groan by William Shakespeare
Sonnet 132: Thine eyes I love, and they, as pitying me by William Shakespeare
Sonnet 131: Thou art as tyrannous, so as thou art by William Shakespeare
Sonnet 130: My mistress’ eyes are nothing like the sun by William Shakespeare
Sonnet 12: When I do count the clock that tells the time by William Shakespeare
Sonnet 129: Th’ expense of spirit in a waste of shame by William Shakespeare
The Eolian Harp by Samuel Taylor Coleridge
Sonnet 32: If thou survive my well-contented day by William Shakespeare
Sonnet 31: Thy bosom is endearèd with all hearts by William Shakespeare
Sonnet 30: When to the sessions of sweet silent thought by William Shakespeare
Sonnet 2: When forty winters shall besiege thy brow by William Shakespeare
Sonnet 29: When in disgrace with Fortune and men’s eyes by William Shakespeare
Sonnet 28: How can I then return in happy plight by William Shakespeare
Sonnet 27: Weary with toil, I haste me to my bed by William Shakespeare
Sonnet 26: Lord of my love, to whom in vassalage by William Shakespeare
Sonnet 25: Let those who are in favour with their stars by William Shakespeare
Sonnet 24: Mine eye hath played the painter and hath stelled by William Shakespeare
Sonnet 23: As an unperfect actor on the stage by William Shakespeare
Sonnet 22: My glass shall not persuade me I am old by William Shakespeare
Sonnet 21: So is it not with me as with that muse by William Shakespeare
Sonnet 20: A woman’s face with Nature’s own hand painted by William Shakespeare
Sonnet 1: From fairest creatures we desire increase by William Shakespeare
Sonnet 19: Devouring Time blunt thou the lion’s paws by William Shakespeare
Sonnet 18: Shall I compare thee to a summer’s day? by William Shakespeare
Sonnet 17: Who will believe my verse in time to come by William Shakespeare
Sonnet 16: But wherefore do not you a mightier way by William Shakespeare
Sonnet 15: When I consider every thing that grows by William Shakespeare
Sonnet 154: The little Love-god lying once asleep by William Shakespeare
Sonnet 153: Cupid laid by his brand and fell asleep by William Shakespeare
Sonnet 152: In loving thee thou know’st I am forsworn by William Shakespeare
Sonnet 151: Love is too young to know what conscience is by William Shakespeare
Sonnet 150: O from what power hast thou this powerful might by William Shakespeare
Sonnet 14: Not from the stars do I my judgement pluck by William Shakespeare
Sonnet 54: O, how much more doth beauty beauteous seem by William Shakespeare
Sonnet 53: What is your substance, whereof are you made by William Shakespeare

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.