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

Sonnet 52: So am I as the rich whose blessèd key by William Shakespeare
Sonnet 51: Thus can my love excuse the slow offence by William Shakespeare
Sonnet 50: How heavy do I journey on the way by William Shakespeare
Sonnet 4: Unthrifty loveliness, why dost thou spend by William Shakespeare
Sonnet 49: Against that time, if ever that time come by William Shakespeare
Sonnet 48: How careful was I, when I took my way by William Shakespeare
Sonnet 47: Betwixt mine eye and heart a league is took by William Shakespeare
Sonnet 46: Mine eye and heart are at a mortal war by William Shakespeare
Sonnet 45: The other two, slight air and purging fire by William Shakespeare
Sonnet 44: If the dull substance of my flesh were thought by William Shakespeare
Sonnet 43: When most I wink, then do mine eyes best see by William Shakespeare
Sonnet 42: That thou hast her, it is not all my grief by William Shakespeare
Sonnet 41: Those pretty wrongs that liberty commits by William Shakespeare
Sonnet 40: Take all my loves, my love, yea, take them all by William Shakespeare
Sonnet 3: Look in thy glass, and tell the face thou viewest by William Shakespeare
Sonnet 39: O, how thy worth with manners may I sing by William Shakespeare
Sonnet 38: How can my Muse want subject to invent by William Shakespeare
Sonnet 37: As a decrepit father takes delight by William Shakespeare
Sonnet 36: Let me confess that we two must be twain by William Shakespeare
Sonnet 35: No more be grieved at that which thou hast done by William Shakespeare
Sonnet 34: Why didst thou promise such a beauteous day by William Shakespeare
Sonnet 33: Full many a glorious morning have I seen by William Shakespeare
Sonnet 74: But be contented when that fell arrest by William Shakespeare
Sonnet 73: That time of year thou mayst in me behold by William Shakespeare
Sonnet 72: O, lest the world should task you to recite by William Shakespeare
Sonnet 71: No longer mourn for me when I am dead by William Shakespeare
Sonnet 70: That thou art blamed shall not be thy defect by William Shakespeare
Sonnet 6: Then let not winter’s ragged hand deface by William Shakespeare
Sonnet 69: Those parts of thee that the world’s eye doth view by William Shakespeare
Sonnet 68: Thus is his cheek the map of days outworn by William Shakespeare
Sonnet 67: Ah, wherefore with infection should he live by William Shakespeare
Sonnet 66: Tired with all these, for restful death I cry by William Shakespeare
Sonnet 65: Since brass, nor stone, nor earth, nor boundless sea by William Shakespeare
Sonnet 64: When I have seen by Time’s fell hand defaced by William Shakespeare
Sonnet 63: Against my love shall be, as I am now by William Shakespeare
Sonnet 62: Sin of self-love possesseth all mine eye by William Shakespeare
Sonnet 61: Is it thy will thy image should keep open by William Shakespeare
Sonnet 60: Like as the waves make towards the pebbled shore by William Shakespeare
Sonnet 5: Those hours, that with gentle work did frame by William Shakespeare
Sonnet 59: If there be nothing new, but that which is by William Shakespeare
Sonnet 58: That god forbid, that made me first your slave by William Shakespeare
Sonnet 57: Being your slave, what should I do but tend by William Shakespeare
Sonnet 56: Sweet love, renew thy force, be it not said by William Shakespeare
Sonnet 55: Not marble, nor the gilded monuments by William Shakespeare
Sonnet 95: How sweet and lovely dost thou make the shame by William Shakespeare
Sonnet 94: They that have power to hurt and will do none by William Shakespeare
Sonnet 93: So shall I live, supposing thou art true by William Shakespeare
Sonnet 92: But do thy worst to steal thy self away by William Shakespeare
Sonnet 91: Some glory in their birth, some in their skill by William Shakespeare
Sonnet 90: Then hate me when thou wilt; if ever, now by William Shakespeare
Sonnet 8: Music to hear, why hear’st thou music sadly? by William Shakespeare
Sonnet 89: Say that thou didst forsake me for some fault by William Shakespeare
Sonnet 88: When thou shalt be disposed to set me light by William Shakespeare
Sonnet 87: Farewell! Thou art too dear for my possessing by William Shakespeare
Sonnet 86: Was it the proud full sail of his great verse by William Shakespeare
Sonnet 85: My tongue-tied Muse in manners holds her still by William Shakespeare
Sonnet 84: Who is it that says most, which can say more by William Shakespeare
Sonnet 83: I never saw that you did painting need by William Shakespeare
Sonnet 82: I grant thou wert not married to my Muse by William Shakespeare
Sonnet 81: Or I shall live your epitaph to make by William Shakespeare
Sonnet 80: O, how I faint when I of you do write by William Shakespeare
Sonnet 7: Lo, in the orient when the gracious light by William Shakespeare
Sonnet 79: Whilst I alone did call upon thy aid by William Shakespeare
Sonnet 78: So oft have I invoked thee for my Muse by William Shakespeare
Sonnet 77: Thy glass will show thee how thy beauties wear by William Shakespeare
Sonnet 76: Why is my verse so barren of new pride? by William Shakespeare
Sonnet 75: So are you to my thoughts as food to life by William Shakespeare
Sonnet CVIII by William Shakespeare
Sonnet CVII: Not Mine Own Fears, Nor the Prophetic Soul by William Shakespeare
Sonnet CVII by William Shakespeare
Sonnet CVI by William Shakespeare
Sonnet CV by William Shakespeare
Sonnet CLIV by William Shakespeare
Sonnet CLIII by William Shakespeare
Sonnet CLII by William Shakespeare
Sonnet CLI by William Shakespeare
Sonnet CL by William Shakespeare
Sonnet CIX by William Shakespeare
Sonnet CIV by William Shakespeare
Sonnet CIII by William Shakespeare
Sonnet CII by William Shakespeare
Sonnet CI by William Shakespeare
Sonnet C by William Shakespeare
Sonnet 9: Is it for fear to wet a widow’s eye by William Shakespeare
Sonnet 98: From you have I been absent in the spring by William Shakespeare
Sonnet 97: How like a winter hath my absence been by William Shakespeare
Sonnet 96: Some say thy fault is youth, some wantonness by William Shakespeare
Sonnet CXXVIII by William Shakespeare
Sonnet CXXVII by William Shakespeare
Sonnet CXXVI by William Shakespeare
Sonnet CXXV by William Shakespeare
Sonnet CXXIX by William Shakespeare
Sonnet CXXIV by William Shakespeare
Sonnet CXXIII by William Shakespeare
Sonnet CXXII by William Shakespeare
Sonnet CXXI by William Shakespeare
Sonnet CXX by William Shakespeare
Sonnet CXVIII by William Shakespeare
Sonnet CXVII by William Shakespeare
Sonnet CXV by William Shakespeare
Sonnet CXLVIII by William Shakespeare
Sonnet CXLVII by William Shakespeare
Sonnet CXLVI by William Shakespeare
Sonnet CXLV by William Shakespeare
Sonnet CXLIX by William Shakespeare
Sonnet CXLIV by William Shakespeare
Sonnet CXLIII by William Shakespeare
Sonnet CXLII by William Shakespeare
Sonnet CXLI by William Shakespeare
Sonnet CXL by William Shakespeare
Sonnet CXIX by William Shakespeare
Sonnet CXIV by William Shakespeare
Sonnet CXIII by William Shakespeare
Sonnet CXII by William Shakespeare
Sonnet CXI: O, for my sake do you with Fortune chide by William Shakespeare
Sonnet CXI by William Shakespeare
Sonnet CX by William Shakespeare
Sonnet LX by William Shakespeare
Sonnet LVIII by William Shakespeare
Sonnet LVII by William Shakespeare
Sonnet LVI by William Shakespeare
Sonnet LV by William Shakespeare
Sonnet LIX by William Shakespeare
Sonnet LIII by William Shakespeare
Sonnet LII by William Shakespeare
Sonnet LI by William Shakespeare
Sonnet L by William Shakespeare
Sonnet IX by William Shakespeare
Sonnet IV: Unthrifty Loveliness, Why Dost Thou Spend by William Shakespeare
Sonnet IV by William Shakespeare
Sonnet III: Look In Thy Glass, and Tell the Face Thou Viewest by William Shakespeare
Sonnet III by William Shakespeare
Sonnet II: When Forty Winters Shall Besiege Thy Brow by William Shakespeare
Sonnet II by William Shakespeare
Sonnet I: From Fairest Creatures We Desire Increase by William Shakespeare
Sonnet I by William Shakespeare
Sonnet CXXXVIII by William Shakespeare
Sonnet CXXXVII by William Shakespeare
Sonnet CXXXVI by William Shakespeare
Sonnet CXXXV by William Shakespeare
Sonnet CXXXIX by William Shakespeare
Sonnet CXXXIV by William Shakespeare
Sonnet CXXXIII by William Shakespeare
Sonnet CXXXII by William Shakespeare
Sonnet CXXXI by William Shakespeare
Sonnet CXXX: My mistress’ eyes are nothing like the sun by William Shakespeare
Sonnet CXXX by William Shakespeare
Winter by William Shakespeare
When to the sessions of sweet silent thought (Sonnet 30) by William Shakespeare
When that I was and a little tiny boy by William Shakespeare
When in disgrace with fortune and men’s eyes (Sonnet 29) by William Shakespeare
Venus and Adonis by William Shakespeare
Under the Greenwood Tree by William Shakespeare
Three Songs by William Shakespeare
The Quality of Mercy by William Shakespeare
The Phoenix and the Turtle by William Shakespeare
Spring in New Hampshire by William Shakespeare
Sonnets CXVI: Let me not to the marriage of true minds by William Shakespeare
Sonnet LXXI by William Shakespeare
Sonnet LXX by William Shakespeare
Sonnet LXVII by William Shakespeare
Sonnet LXVI by William Shakespeare
Sonnet LXV by William Shakespeare
Sonnet LXIX by William Shakespeare
Sonnet LXIV: When I Have Seen by Time’s Fell Hand Defac’d by William Shakespeare
Sonnet LXIV by William Shakespeare
Sonnet LXIII by William Shakespeare
Sonnet LXII by William Shakespeare
Sonnet LXI by William Shakespeare
The Example by William Henry Davies
The Dark Hour by William Henry Davies
The Child and the Mariner by William Henry Davies
The Boy by William Henry Davies
The Bird of Paradise by William Henry Davies
The Best Friend by William Henry Davies
Sweet Stay-at-Home by William Henry Davies
Songs of Joy by William Henry Davies
Seeking Beauty by William Henry Davies
Sadness and Joy by William Henry Davies
Rich or Poor by William Henry Davies
Rich Days by William Henry Davies
No Master by William Henry Davies
Nell Barnes by William Henry Davies
Money by William Henry Davies
Leisure by William Henry Davies
Laughing Rose by William Henry Davies
Joy and Pleasure by William Henry Davies
William Henry Davies – William Henry Davies
In the Country by William Henry Davies
In May by William Henry Davies
Days Too Short by William Henry Davies
Come, Let Us Find by William Henry Davies
Charms by William Henry Davies
April’s Charms by William Henry Davies
All in June by William Henry Davies
Ale by William Henry Davies
A Plain Life by William Henry Davies
A Greeting by William Henry Davies
A Great Time by William Henry Davies
A Fleeting Passion by William Henry Davies
The Marriage of Heaven and Hell by William Blake
Poems by William Blake, Songs of Innocence and Experience and the Book of Thel
I see the Four-fold Man by William Blake
An Imitation of Spenser by William Blake
Gwin King of Norway by William Blake
Intorduction to the Songs of Experience by William Blake
Fair Elanor by William Blake
England! awake! awake! awake! by William Blake
I Rose Up at the Dawn of Day by William Blake
Hear the Voice by William Blake
Introduction to the Songs of Innocence by William Blake
French Revolution, The (excerpt) by William Blake
I Saw a Chapel by William Blake
I Heard an Angel by William Blake
Broken Love by William Blake
Eternity by William Blake
Holy Thursday (Innocence) by William Blake
Ah! Sun-Flower by William Blake
A Cradle Song by William Blake
Earth’s Answer by William Blake
A Dream by William Blake
Infant Joy by William Blake
Evening Star by William Blake
Auguries Of Innocence by William Blake
And Did Those Feet In Ancient Time by William Blake
Infant Sorrow by William Blake
If It Is True What the Prophets Write by William Blake
How Sweet I Roam’d by William Blake
Holy Thursday (Experience) by William Blake
From Milton: And did those feet by William Blake
Blind Man’s Buff by William Blake
A Slumber did my Spirit Seal by William Wordsworth
A Sketch by William Wordsworth
A Poet’s Epitaph by William Wordsworth
A Poet! He Hath Put His Heart To School by William Wordsworth
A Parsonage In Oxfordshire by William Wordsworth
A Morning Exercise by William Wordsworth
A Jewish Family In A Small Valley Opposite St. Goar, Upon The Rhine by William Wordsworth
A Gravestone Upon The Floor In The Cloisters Of Worcester Cathedral by William Wordsworth
A Fact, And An Imagination, Or, Canute And Alfred, On The Seashore by William Wordsworth
A Complaint by William Wordsworth
Written In A Quarrel by William Cowper
Written In A Fit Of Illness. R. S. S. by William Cowper
Written After Leaving Her At New Burns by William Cowper
Watching Unto God In The Night Season by William Cowper
Watching Unto God In The Night Season (3) by William Cowper
Watching Unto God In The Night Season (2) by William Cowper
Verses Written At Bath, On Finding The Heel Of A Shoe by William Cowper
Verses Printed By Himself On A Flood At Olney by William Cowper
To The Rev. Mr. Newton, On His Return From Ramsgate by William Cowper
To The Rev. Mr. Newton : An Invitation Into The Country by William Cowper
To Mary by William Cowper
To Delia by William Cowper
To A Young Friend, On His Arriving At Cambridge Wet, When No Rain Had Fallen There by William Cowper
The Symptoms of Love by William Cowper
The Silkworm by William Cowper
The Secrets Of Divine Love Are To Be Kept by William Cowper
The Rose by William Cowper
The Perfect Sacrifice by William Cowper
The Parrot by William Cowper
The Lily And The Rose by William Cowper
The Ice Palace by William Cowper
The Distress’d Travellers; or, Labour in Vain by William Cowper
Sunset And Sunrise (Translated From Owen) by William Cowper
Strada’s Nightingale by William Cowper
Sonnet To Henry Cowper, Esq. by William Cowper
Sonnet To A Young Lady On Her Birth-Day by William Cowper
Repose In God by William Cowper
Pity For Poor Africans by William Cowper
On The Queen’s Visit To London, The Night Of The 17th March 1789 by William Cowper
On The Loss Of The “Royal George” by William Cowper
On The Ice Islands Seen Floating In The German Ocean by William Cowper
On The High Price Of Fish by William Cowper
On the Grasshopper (From The Greek) by William Cowper
On The Death Of The Bishop Of Ely. Anno Aet. 17. (Translated From Milton) by William Cowper
On The Death Of Mrs. Throckmorton’s Bullfinch by William Cowper
On The Death Of Damon. (Translated From Milton) by William Cowper
On The Benefit Received By His Majesty From Sea-Bathing, In The Year 1789 by William Cowper
On The Author Of Letters On Literature by William Cowper
On The Astrologers (From The Greek) by William Cowper
On Receiving Heyne’s Virgil From Mr. Hayley by William Cowper
On Receiving Hayley’s Picture by William Cowper
On Receipt Of My Mother’s Picture by William Cowper
On Pedigree. From Epicharmus by William Cowper
On Pallas Bathing, From A Hymn Of Callimachus by William Cowper
On One Ignorant And Arrogant (Translated From Owen) by William Cowper
On Observing Some Names Of Little Note Recorded In The Biographia Britannica by William Cowper
On Niobe (From The Greek) by William Cowper
On Mrs. Montague’s Feather Hangings by William Cowper
On Miltiades by William Cowper
On Late Acquired Wealth (From The Greek) by William Cowper
On Invalids (From The Greek) by William Cowper
On Hermocratia (From The Greek) by William Cowper
On Flaxman’s Penelope by William Cowper
On Flatteries (From The Greek) by William Cowper
On Female Inconstancy (From The Greek) by William Cowper
On Envy (From The Greek) by William Cowper
On Delia (Bid Adieu, My Sad Heart) by William Cowper
On An Ugly Fellow (From The Greek) by William Cowper
On An Old Woman (From The Greek) by William Cowper

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.