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

• On An Infant (From The Greek) by William Cowper
• On A True Friend (From The Greek) by William Cowper
• On A Thief (From The Greek) by William Cowper
• On A Spaniel, Called Beau, Killing A Young Bird by William Cowper
• On A Similar Character (From The Greek) by William Cowper
• On A Plant Of Virgin’s-Bower, Designed To Cover A Garden-seat by William Cowper
• On A Mistake In His Translation Of Homer by William Cowper
• On A Miser (From The Greek) by William Cowper
• On A Miser, 3 (From The Greek) by William Cowper
• On A Miser, 2 (From The Greek) by William Cowper
• On A Mischievous Bull, Which The Owner Him Sold At The Author’s Instance by William Cowper
• On A Good Man (From The Greek) by William Cowper
• On A Goldfinch, Starved To Death In His Cage by William Cowper
• On A Fowler, By Isidorus by William Cowper
• On A Battered Beauty (From The Greek) by William Cowper
• On A Bath, By Plato by William Cowper
• Olney Hymn 9: The Contrite Heart by William Cowper
• Olney Hymn 7: Vanity of the World by William Cowper
• Olney Hymn 68: Light Shining Out Of Darkness by William Cowper
• Olney Hymn 67: Longing To Be With Christ by William Cowper
• Olney Hymn 66: I Will Praise The Lord At All Times by William Cowper
• Olney Hymn 64: Praise For Faith by William Cowper
• Olney Hymn 63: Not Of Works by William Cowper
• Olney Hymn 61: The Narrow Way by William Cowper
• Olney Hymn 60: Abuse Of The Gospel by William Cowper
• Olney Hymn 59: A Living And A Dead Faith by William Cowper
• Olney Hymn 57: The New Convert by William Cowper
• Olney Hymn 56: Hatred Of Sin by William Cowper
• Olney Hymn 55: The Heart Healed And Changed By Mercy by William Cowper
• Olney Hymn 54: Love Constraining To Obedience by William Cowper
• Olney Hymn 53: My Soul Thirsteth For God by William Cowper
• Olney Hymn 52: For The Poor by William Cowper
• Olney Hymn 50: The Christian by William Cowper
• Olney Hymn 5: Jehovah-Shalom: The Lord Send Peace by William Cowper
• Olney Hymn 48: Joy And Peace In Believing by William Cowper
• Olney Hymn 47: The Hidden Life by William Cowper
• Olney Hymn 45: The Happy Change by William Cowper
• Olney Hymn 43: Prayer For Patience by William Cowper
• Olney Hymn 40: Peace After A Storm by William Cowper
• Olney Hymn 4: Jehovah-Nissi: The Lord My Banner by William Cowper
• Olney Hymn 39: The Valley Of The Shadow Of Death by William Cowper
• Olney Hymn 38: Looking Upwards In A Storm by William Cowper
• Olney Hymn 36: Afflictions Sanctified By The Word by William Cowper
• Olney Hymn 34: The Waiting Soul by William Cowper
• Olney Hymn 33: Seeking The Beloved by William Cowper
• Olney Hymn 32: The Shining Light by William Cowper
• Olney Hymn 31: On The Death Of A Minister by William Cowper
• Olney Hymn 30: The Light And Glory Of The Word by William Cowper
• Olney Hymn 3: Jehovah-Rophi: I Am the Lord That Healeth Thee by William Cowper
• Olney Hymn 29: Exhortation To Prayer by William Cowper
• Olney Hymn 28: Jesus Hasting To Suffer by William Cowper
• Olney Hymn 27: Welcome To The Table by William Cowper
• Olney Hymn 26: On Opening A Place For Social Prayer by William Cowper
• Olney Hymn 24: Prayer For Children by William Cowper
• Olney Hymn 23: Pleading For And With Youth by William Cowper
• Olney Hymn 22: Prayer For A Blessing In The Young by William Cowper
• Lines Addressed To Dr. Darwin, Author Of The ‘Botanic Garden.’ by William Cowper
• Joy In Martyrdom by William Cowper
• Invitation To The Redbreast by William Cowper
• Inscription For The Tomb Of Mr. Hamilton by William Cowper
• Inscription For A Stone Erected At The Sowing Of A Grove Of Oaks At Chillington, Anno 1791 by William Cowper
• Inscription For A Stone Erected At The Sowing Of A Grove Of Oaks At Chillington, Anno 1790 by William Cowper
• Inscription For A Moss-House In The Shrubbery At Weston by William Cowper
• Inscription For A Hermitage In The Author’s Garden by William Cowper
• In Seditionem Horrendam, Corruptelis Gallicus Ut Fertue, Londini Nuper Exortam by William Cowper
• In Memory Of The Late John Thornton, Esq. by William Cowper
• In A Letter To C. P. Esq. In Imitation Of Shakspeare by William Cowper
• In A Letter To C. P. Esq. Ill With The Rheumatism by William Cowper
• Hymn For The Use Of The Sunday School At Olney by William Cowper
• Hope, Like The Short-lived Ray That Gleams Awhile by William Cowper
• Gratitude And Love To God by William Cowper
• Gratitude, Addressed To Lady Hesketh by William Cowper
• God Neither Known Nor Loved By The World by William Cowper
• Glory To God Alone by William Cowper
• From The Greek Of Julianus by William Cowper
• From Menander by William Cowper
• Epitaph On Mrs. M. Higgins, Of Weston by William Cowper
• Epitaph On Johnson by William Cowper
• Epitaph On Fop, A Dog Belonging To Lady Throckmorton by William Cowper
• Epitaph On A Free But Tame Redbreast, A Favourite Of Miss Sally Hurdis by William Cowper
• Epitaph On Mr. Chester Of Chicheley by William Cowper
• Epigram : To Leonora Singing At Rome (Translated From Milton) by William Cowper
• Epigram : To Christina, Queen Of Sweden, With Cromwell’s Picture (Translation) by William Cowper
• Epigram : The Cottager And His Landlord. A Fable (Translated From Milton) by William Cowper
• Epigram : On The Inventor Of Gunpowder (Translated From Milton) by William Cowper
• Epigram : To Leonora Singing At Rome 2 (Translated From Milton) by William Cowper
• Elegy VII. Anno Aetates Undevigesimo (Translated From Milton) by William Cowper
• Elegy VI. To Charles Diodati, When He Was Visiting In The Country (Translated From Milton) by William Cowper
• Elegy V. Anno Aet. 20. On The Approach Of Spring (Translated From Milton) by William Cowper
• Elegy III. Anno Aet. 17. On The Death Of The Bishop Of Winchester (Translated From Milton) by William Cowper
• Elegy II. On The Death Of The University Beadle At Cambridge (Translated From Milton) by William Cowper
• Elegy I. To Charles Deodati (Translated From Milton) by William Cowper
• Denner’s Old Woman by William Cowper
• On The Death Of The Vice-Chancellor, A Physician (Translated From Milton) by William Cowper
• Catharina : The Second Part. On Her Marriage To George Courtenay, Esq. by William Cowper
• By Philemon by William Cowper
• By Moschus by William Cowper
• By Heraclides by William Cowper
• By Callimachus by William Cowper
• On the Burning of Lord Mansfield’s Library by William Cowper
• Boadicea. An Ode by William Cowper
• Aspirations Of The Soul After God by William Cowper
• Apology to Delia by William Cowper
• Anti-Thelyphthora. A Tale In Verse by William Cowper
• Answer To Stanzas Addressed To Lady Hesketh By Miss Catharine Fanshawe, In Returning A Poem by William Cowper
• Annus Memorabilis : Written in Commemoration of His Majesty’s Happy Recovery by William Cowper
• An Ode, On Reading Mr. Richardson’s History Of Sir Charles Grandison by William Cowper
• An Epitaph by William Cowper
• An Epitaph (From The Greek) by William Cowper
• An Epitaph 4 (From The Greek) by William Cowper
• An Epitaph 3 (From The Greek) by William Cowper
• An Epitaph 2 (From The Greek) by William Cowper
• An Epistle To Robert Lloyd, Esq. by William Cowper
• An Epistle To Joseph Hill, Esq. by William Cowper
• An Epigram From Homer by William Cowper
• An Enigma by William Cowper
• An Attempt At The Manner Of Waller by William Cowper
• An Apology For Not Showing Her What I Had Wrote by William Cowper
• Addressed To Miss Macartney, Afterwards Mrs. Greville, On Reading The Prayer For Indifference by William Cowper
• Adam: A Sacred Drama. Act 5. by William Cowper
• Adam: A Sacred Drama. Act 4. by William Cowper
• Adam: A Sacred Drama. Act 3. by William Cowper
• Adam: A Sacred Drama. Act 2. by William Cowper
• Adam: A Sacred Drama. Act 1. by William Cowper
• A Tale. June 1793 by William Cowper
• A Tale, Founded On A Fact, Which Happened In January, 1779 by William Cowper
• A Song : The Sparkling Eye by William Cowper
• A Song : On The Green Margin by William Cowper
• A Riddle by William Cowper
• A Poetical Epistle To Lady Austen by William Cowper
• A Manual, More Ancient Than The Art Of Printing, And Not To Be Found In Any Catalogue by William Cowper
• A Figurative Description Of The Procedure Of Divine Love by William Cowper
• A Fable by William Cowper
• A Comparison by William Cowper
• A Comparison. Addressed To A Young Lady by William Cowper
• A Child Of God Longing To See Him Beloved by William Cowper
• Zunsheen In The Winter by William Barnes
• Zummer Thoughts In Winter Time by William Barnes
• Zummer Evenèn Dance by William Barnes
• A Zong by William Barnes
• Zitten Out The Wold Year by William Barnes
• Zellen Woone’s Honey To Buy Zome’hat Sweet by William Barnes
• Woodcom’ Feast by William Barnes
• Wold Friends A-Met by William Barnes
• A Wold Friend by William Barnes
• A Witch by William Barnes
• Whitsuntide An’ Club Walken by William Barnes
• Vo’k A-Comèn Into Church by William Barnes
• Vellen O’ The Tree by William Barnes
• Uncle An’ Aunt by William Barnes
• Treat Well Your Wife by William Barnes
• To Me by William Barnes
• The Zilver-Weed by William Barnes
• The Woodlands by William Barnes
• The Wold Wall by William Barnes
• The Wold Waggon by William Barnes
• The Wold Vo’k Dead by William Barnes
• The Woddy Hollow by William Barnes
• The Winter’s Willow by William Barnes
• The Window Freäm’d Wi’ Stwone by William Barnes
• The Wind In Woone’s Feäce by William Barnes
• The Wind At The Door by William Barnes
• The Widow’s House by William Barnes
• The White Road Up Athirt The Hill by William Barnes
• The Wheel Routs by William Barnes
• The Welshnut Tree by William Barnes
• The Weepen Leady by William Barnes
• The Weather-Beaten Tree by William Barnes
• The Water-Spring In The Leäne by William Barnes
• The Water Crowvoot by William Barnes
• The Waggon A-Stooded by William Barnes
• The Vrost by William Barnes
• The Vier-Zide by William Barnes
• The Veairy Veet That I Do Meet by William Barnes
• The Vaïces That Be Gone by William Barnes
• The Two Churches by William Barnes
• The Turnstile by William Barnes
• The Turn O’ The Days by William Barnes
• The Thorns In The Geäte by William Barnes
• The Stwonen Bwoy Upon The Pillar by William Barnes
• The Stwonèn Pworch by William Barnes
• The Stage Coach by William Barnes
• The Sparrow Club by William Barnes
• The Slantèn Light O’ Fall by William Barnes
• The Sky A-Clearen by William Barnes
• The Shy Man by William Barnes
• The Shepherd O’ The Farm by William Barnes
• The Settle An’ The Girt Wood Vire by William Barnes
• The Scud by William Barnes
• The Rwose In The Dark by William Barnes
• The Railroad by William Barnes
• The Poplars by William Barnes
• The Pleäce Our Own Ageän by William Barnes
• The Pleäce A Teäle’s A-Twold O’ by William Barnes
• The Pillar’d Geäte by William Barnes
• The Peasant’s Return by William Barnes
• The New House A-Gettèn’ Wold by William Barnes
• The Neäme Letters by William Barnes
• The Music O’ The Dead by William Barnes
• The Motherless Child by William Barnes
• The Milk-Maid O’ The Farm by William Barnes
• The Mead A-Mow’d by William Barnes
• The Meäd In June by William Barnes
• The May-Tree by William Barnes
• The Maid Vor My Bride by William Barnes
• The Maid O’ Newton by William Barnes
• The Lovely Maïd Ov Elwell Meäd by William Barnes
• The Love Child by William Barnes
• The Little Worold by William Barnes
• The Linden On The Lawn by William Barnes
• The Lilac by William Barnes
• The Lew O’ The Rick by William Barnes
• The Leäne by William Barnes
• The Leädy’s Tower by William Barnes
• The Lark by William Barnes
• The Ivy by William Barnes
• The Hwomestead A-Vell Into Hand by William Barnes
• The Humstrum by William Barnes
• The Homestead by William Barnes
• The Hollow Woak by William Barnes
• The Hedger by William Barnes
• The Heäre by William Barnes
• The Guide Post by William Barnes
• The Girt Wold House O’ Mossy Stwone by William Barnes
• The Giants In Treädes by William Barnes
• The Flood In Spring by William Barnes
• The Farmer’s Woldest D’ter by William Barnes
• The Fancy Feäir At Maïden Newton by William Barnes
• The Fall by William Barnes
• The Evenèn Star O’ Zummer by William Barnes
• The Echo by William Barnes
• The Dree Woaks by William Barnes
• The Drèven O’ The Common by William Barnes
• The Do’set Militia by William Barnes
• The Common A-Took In by William Barnes
• The Clote (Water-Lily) by William Barnes
• The Church An’ Happy Zunday by William Barnes
• The Child’s Greäve by William Barnes
• The Child an’ the Mowers by William Barnes
• The Castle Ruins by William Barnes
• The Carter by William Barnes
• The Bwoat by William Barnes
• The Brook That Ran By Gramfer’s by William Barnes
• The Bells Ov Alderburnham by William Barnes
• The Bean Vield by William Barnes
• The Beam In Grenley Church by William Barnes
• The Beäten Path by William Barnes
• The Bachelor by William Barnes
• Thatchen O’ The Rick by William Barnes
• Teaken In Apples by William Barnes
• Sweet Music In The Wind by William Barnes
• Sound O’ Water by William Barnes
• A Snowy Night by William Barnes
• Slow To Come, Quick Agone by William Barnes
• Sleep Did Come Wi’ The Dew by William Barnes
• Shrodon Feäir by William Barnes
• Shaftesbury Feäir by William Barnes
• Ruth A-Ridèn by William Barnes
• Rivers Don’t Gi’e Out by William Barnes
• Riden Hwome At Night by William Barnes
• Readen Ov A Head-Stwone by William Barnes
• “The Girt Woak Tree That’s In the Dell” by William Barnes
• Praise O’ Do’set by William Barnes
• Polly Be-en Upzides Wi’ Tom by William Barnes
• Poll’s Jack-Daw by William Barnes
• A Pleäce In Zight by William Barnes
• Pentridge By The River by William Barnes
• Out At Plough by William Barnes
• Out A-Nuttèn by William Barnes
• Our Father’s Works by William Barnes
• Our Be’thplace by William Barnes
• Our Abode In Arby Wood by William Barnes
• Not Goo Hwome To-Night by William Barnes
• Night A-Zetten In by William Barnes
• Nanny’s New Abode by William Barnes
• Nanny’s Cow by William Barnes
• Naighbour Pla Meätes by William Barnes
• My Love’s Guardian Angel by William Barnes
• My Love Is Good by William Barnes
• Mornèn by William Barnes
• Moonlight On The Door by William Barnes
• Me’th Below The Tree by William Barnes
• Meary-Ann’s Child by William Barnes
• Meaken Up A Miff by William Barnes
• Meäry’s Smile by William Barnes
• Meäry Wedded by William Barnes
• Martin’s Tide by William Barnes
• Married Peäir’s Love Walk by William Barnes
• Looks A-Know’d Avore by William Barnes
• Linda Deäne by William Barnes
• Light Or Sheäde by William Barnes
• Leaves A-Vallèn by William Barnes
• Leady-Day, An’ Ridden House by William Barnes
• Keepen Up O’ Chris’mas by William Barnes
• John Bloom In Lon’on by William Barnes
• John Bleäke At Hwome At Night by William Barnes
• Jeane’s Wedden Day In Mornen by William Barnes
• In The Stilness O’ The Night by William Barnes
• I’m Out O’ Door by William Barnes
• Hope In Spring by William Barnes

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.