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

Hope A-Left Behind by William Barnes
Heedless O’ My Love by William Barnes
Haven Woones Fortune A-Twold by William Barnes
The Happy Days When I Wer Young by William Barnes
Hallowed Pleäces by William Barnes
Gwain To Feäir by William Barnes
Gwaïn To Brookwell by William Barnes
Gwaïn Down The Steps Vor Water by William Barnes
Guy Faux’s Night by William Barnes
Grief An’ Gladness by William Barnes
Grammer’s Shoes by William Barnes
Grammer A-Crippled by William Barnes
Good Meäster Collins by William Barnes
Gammony Gaÿ by William Barnes
A Father Out, An’ Mother Hwome by William Barnes
Farmer’s Son by William Barnes
Fanny’s Be’th-Day by William Barnes
False Friends-Like by William Barnes
Evenèn Twilight by William Barnes
Evenèn Light by William Barnes
Evenén in the Village by William Barnes
Evenèn, An’ Maidens Out At Door by William Barnes
Eclogue:–Two Farms In Woone by William Barnes
Eclogue:–The Veäiries by William Barnes
Eclogue:–The Times by William Barnes
Eclogue:–The ‘Lotments by William Barnes
Eclogue:–The Common A-Took In by William Barnes
Eclogue:–The Best Man In The Vield by William Barnes
Eclogue:–Racketèn Joe by William Barnes
Eclogue:–John, Jealous At Shroton Feäir by William Barnes
Eclogue:–John An’ Thomas by William Barnes
Eclogue:–Come And Zee Us In The Zummer by William Barnes
Eclogue:–A Ghost by William Barnes
Eclogue:–A Bit O’ Sly Coorten by William Barnes
Early Risèn by William Barnes
Early Pla Meäte by William Barnes
Don’t Ceäre by William Barnes
A Do’set Sale by William Barnes
Day’s Work A-Done by William Barnes
Daniel Dwithen, The Wise Chap by William Barnes
Culver Dell And The Squire by William Barnes
Corn A-Turnen Yollow by William Barnes
Chris’mas Invitation by William Barnes
Children’s Children by William Barnes
Childhood by William Barnes
Changes by William Barnes
Brookwell by William Barnes
Bringen Woone Gwaïn O’ Zundays by William Barnes
Bob The Fiddler by William Barnes
Blessens A-Left by William Barnes
Bleäke’s House In Blackmwore by William Barnes
Blackmwore Maidens by William Barnes
The Blackbird by William Barnes
Bishop’s Caundle by William Barnes
Bees A-Zwarmen by William Barnes
Beauty Undecked by William Barnes
Be’mi’ster by William Barnes
Bad News by William Barnes
Aunt’s Tantrums by William Barnes
Angels By The Door by William Barnes
A Zong Of Harvest Hwome by William Barnes
A Wife A-Praïs’d by William Barnes
A-Haulen O’ The Corn by William Barnes
A Good Father by William Barnes
A Bit O’ Fun by William Barnes
Invictus by William Ernest Henley
Barmaid by William Ernest Henley
Ballade of Dead Actors by William Ernest Henley
As Like The Woman As You Can by William Ernest Henley
A Thanksgiving by William Ernest Henley
At Queensferry by William Ernest Henley
A New Song to an Old Tune by William Ernest Henley
A Love By The Sea by William Ernest Henley
A Late Lark Twitters From The Quiet Skies by William Ernest Henley
A Dainty Thing’s The Villanelle by William Ernest Henley
Blithe Dreams Arise To Greet Us by William Ernest Henley
Beside The Idle Summer Sea by William Ernest Henley
Ballade Of Youth And Age by William Ernest Henley
Ballade Of Truisms by William Ernest Henley
Ballade Of A Toyokuni Colour-Print by William Ernest Henley
Ballade Of Midsummer Days And Nights by William Ernest Henley
Ballade Made In The Hot Weather by William Ernest Henley
Back-View by William Ernest Henley
Attadale, West Highlands by William Ernest Henley
Arabian Night’s Entertainments by William Ernest Henley
Apparition by William Ernest Henley
Anterotics by William Ernest Henley
Andante Con Moto by William Ernest Henley
Allegro Maestoso by William Ernest Henley
After by William Ernest Henley
A Wink From Hesper by William Ernest Henley
A Desolate Shore by William Ernest Henley
A Child by William Ernest Henley
A Bowl Of Roses by William Ernest Henley
“Young England–What Is Then Become Of Old” by William Wordsworth
Yew-Trees by William Wordsworth
“Yes! Thou Art Fair, Yet Be Not Moved” by William Wordsworth
Yes, It Was The Mountain Echo by William Wordsworth
Yarrow Visited by William Wordsworth
Yarrow Unvisited by William Wordsworth
Yarrow Revisited by William Wordsworth
Written With A Slate Pencil On A Stone, On The Side Of The Mountain Of Black Comb by William Wordsworth
Written Upon A Blank Leaf In “The Complete Angler.” by William Wordsworth
Written In Very Early Youth by William Wordsworth
Written in March by William Wordsworth
Written in London. September, 1802 by William Wordsworth
Written In Germany On One Of The Coldest Days Of The Century by William Wordsworth
Written In A Blank Leaf Of Macpherson’s Ossian by William Wordsworth
With Ships the Sea was Sprinkled Far and Nigh by William Wordsworth
With How Sad Steps, O Moon, Thou Climb’st the Sky by William Wordsworth
Who Fancied What A Pretty Sight by William Wordsworth
Where Lies The Land To Which Yon Ship Must Go? by William Wordsworth
When To The Attractions Of The Busy World by William Wordsworth
“When I Have Borne In Memory” by William Wordsworth
Weak Is The Will Of Man, His Judgement Blind by William Wordsworth
Water-Fowl Observed Frequently Over The Lakes Of Rydal And Grasmere by William Wordsworth
Waldenses by William Wordsworth
View From The Top Of Black Comb by William Wordsworth
Vernal Ode by William Wordsworth
Vaudracour And Julia by William Wordsworth
Upon The Sight Of A Beautiful Picture Painted By Sir G. H. Beaumont, Bart by William Wordsworth
To The Small Celandine by William Wordsworth
To The Poet, John Dyer by William Wordsworth
To Sleep by William Wordsworth
To Sir George Howland Beaumont, Bart From the South-West Coast Or Cumberland 1811 by William Wordsworth
To Joanna by William Wordsworth
To A Young Lady Who Had Been Reproached For Taking Long Walks In The Country by William Wordsworth
To a Sky-Lark by William Wordsworth
‘Tis Said, That Some Have Died For Love by William Wordsworth
The Vaudois by William Wordsworth
The Two Thieves; Or, The Last Stage Of Avarice by William Wordsworth
The Two April Mornings by William Wordsworth
The Thorn by William Wordsworth
The Tables Turned by William Wordsworth
The Sun Has Long Been Set by William Wordsworth
The Stars Are Mansions Built By Nature’s Hand by William Wordsworth
The Sparrow’s Nest by William Wordsworth
The Solitary Reaper by William Wordsworth
The Simplon Pass by William Wordsworth
The Shepherd, Looking Eastward, Softly Said by William Wordsworth
The Seven Sisters by William Wordsworth
The Sailor’s Mother by William Wordsworth
The Russian Fugitive by William Wordsworth
The Reverie of Poor Susan by William Wordsworth
The Redbreast Chasing The Butterfly by William Wordsworth
The Prioress’s Tale [from Chaucer] by William Wordsworth
The Primrose of the Rock by William Wordsworth
The Power of Armies is a Visible Thing by William Wordsworth
The Pet-Lamb by William Wordsworth
The Passing of the Elder Bards by William Wordsworth
The Old Cumberland Beggar by William Wordsworth
The Oak Of Guernica Supposed Address To The Same by William Wordsworth
The Morning Of The Day Appointed For A General Thanksgiving. January 18, 1816 by William Wordsworth
The King Of Sweden by William Wordsworth
The Idle Shepherd Boys by William Wordsworth
The Horn Of Egremont Castle by William Wordsworth
The Highland Broach by William Wordsworth
The Happy Warrior by William Wordsworth
The Green Linnet by William Wordsworth
The Germans On The Heighs Of Hochheim by William Wordsworth
The French Revolution as it appeared to Enthusiasts by William Wordsworth
The French Army In Russia, 1812-13 by William Wordsworth
The French And the Spanish Guerillas by William Wordsworth
The Fountain by William Wordsworth
The Forsaken by William Wordsworth
The Force Of Prayer, Or, The Founding Of Bolton, A Tradition by William Wordsworth
The Farmer Of Tilsbury Vale by William Wordsworth
The Fairest, Brightest, Hues Of Ether Fade by William Wordsworth
The Emigrant Mother by William Wordsworth
The Eagle and the Dove by William Wordsworth
The Danish Boy by William Wordsworth
The Cottager To Her Infant by William Wordsworth
The Complaint Of A Forsaken Indian Woman by William Wordsworth
The Childless Father by William Wordsworth
The Brothers by William Wordsworth
The Birth Of Love by William Wordsworth
The Affliction Of Margaret by William Wordsworth
Surprised By Joy by William Wordsworth
Stray Pleasures by William Wordsworth
Strange Fits of Passion Have I Known by William Wordsworth
Stepping Westward by William Wordsworth
Star-Gazers by William Wordsworth
Stanzas by William Wordsworth
Stanzas Written In My Pocket Copy Of Thomson’s “Castle Of Indolence” by William Wordsworth
Spanish Guerillas by William Wordsworth
Sonnet: On seeing Miss Helen Maria Williams weep at a tale of distress by William Wordsworth
Sonnet: “It is not to be thought of” by William Wordsworth
Song Of The Wandering Jew by William Wordsworth
Song Of The Spinning Wheel by William Wordsworth
Song at the Feast of Brougham Castle by William Wordsworth
Simon Lee: The Old Huntsman by William Wordsworth
Siege Of Vienna Raised By Jihn Sobieski by William Wordsworth
She Was A Phantom Of Delight by William Wordsworth
September, 1819 by William Wordsworth
September 1815 by William Wordsworth
September 1, 1802 by William Wordsworth
Scorn Not The Sonnet by William Wordsworth
Say, What Is Honour?–‘Tis The Finest Sense by William Wordsworth
Ruth by William Wordsworth
Rural Architecture by William Wordsworth
Resolution And Independence by William Wordsworth
Repentance by William Wordsworth
Remembrance Of by William Wordsworth
Power Of Music by William Wordsworth
Picture of Daniel in the Lion’s Den at Hamilton Palace by William Wordsworth
Personal Talk by William Wordsworth
On The Same Occasion by William Wordsworth
On The Final Submission Of The Tyrolese by William Wordsworth
On the Extinction of the Venetian Republic by William Wordsworth
On the Departure of Sir Walter Scott from Abbotsford by William Wordsworth
On A Celebrated Event In Ancient History by William Wordsworth
O’erweening Statesmen Have Full Long Relied by William Wordsworth
O’er The Wide Earth, On Mountain And On Plain by William Wordsworth
Ode by William Wordsworth
Ode To Lycoris. May 1817 by William Wordsworth
Ode to Duty by William Wordsworth
Ode Composed On A May Morning by William Wordsworth
October, 1803 by William Wordsworth
Occasioned By The Battle Of Waterloo February 1816 by William Wordsworth
O Nightingale! Thou Surely Art by William Wordsworth
Nutting by William Wordsworth
Nuns Fret Not at Their Convent’s Narrow Room by William Wordsworth
November 1813 by William Wordsworth
November, 1806 by William Wordsworth
My Heart Leaps Up by William Wordsworth
Mutability by William Wordsworth
Most Sweet it is by William Wordsworth
Minstrels by William Wordsworth
Michael Angelo In Reply To The Passage Upon His Staute Of Sleeping Night by William Wordsworth
Michael: A Pastoral Poem by William Wordsworth
Methought I Saw The Footsteps Of A Throne by William Wordsworth
Memory by William Wordsworth
Memorials Of A Tour Of Scotland, 1803 VI. Glen-Almain, Or, The Narrow Glen by William Wordsworth
Memorials Of A Tour In Scotland, by William Wordsworth
Memorials Of A Tour In Scotland 1814 I. Suggested By A Beautiful Ruin Upon One Of The Islands Of Lo by William Wordsworth
Memorials Of A Tour In Scotland, 1803 by William Wordsworth
Memorials Of A Tour In Scotland, 1803 XIV. Fly, Some Kind Haringer, To Grasmere-Dale by William Wordsworth
Memorials Of A Tour In Scotland, 1803 XII. Yarrow Unvisited by William Wordsworth
Memorials Of A Tour In Scotland, 1803 XII. Sonnet Composed At —- Castle by William Wordsworth
Memorials Of A Tour In Scotland, 1803 X. Rob Roy’s Grave by William Wordsworth
Memorials of A Tour In Scotland, 1803 I. Departure From The Vale Of Grasmere, August 1803 by William Wordsworth
Matthew by William Wordsworth
Maternal Grief by William Wordsworth
Mark The Concentrated Hazels That Enclose by William Wordsworth
Lucy by William Wordsworth
Lucy Gray [or Solitude] by William Wordsworth
Louisa: After Accompanying Her On A Mountain Excursion by William Wordsworth
Look Now On That Adventurer Who Hath Paid by William Wordsworth
London, 1802 by William Wordsworth
Lines Written On A Blank Leaf In A Copy Of The Author’s Poem “The Excursion,” by William Wordsworth
Lines Written In Early Spring by William Wordsworth
Lines Written As A School Exercise At Hawkshead, Anno Aetatis 14 by William Wordsworth
Lines On The Expected Invasion, 1803 by William Wordsworth
Lines Left Upon The Seat Of A Yew-Tree, by William Wordsworth
Lines Composed a Few Miles above Tintern Abbey by William Wordsworth
Laodamia by William Wordsworth
Lament Of Mary Queen Of Scots by William Wordsworth
It was an April morning: fresh and clear by William Wordsworth
It Is No Spirit Who From Heaven Hath Flown by William Wordsworth
It Is a Beauteous Evening by William Wordsworth
Is There A Power That Can Sustain And Cheer by William Wordsworth
Invocation To The Earth, February 1816 by William Wordsworth
Inside of King’s College Chapel, Cambridge by William Wordsworth
Inscriptions Written with a Slate Pencil upon a Stone by William Wordsworth
Inscriptions In The Ground Of Coleorton, The Seat Of Sir George Beaumont, Bart., Leicestershire by William Wordsworth
Inscriptions For A Seat In The Groves Of Coleorton by William Wordsworth
Influence of Natural Objects by William Wordsworth
Indignation Of A High-Minded Spaniard by William Wordsworth
Incident Characteristic Of A Favorite Dog by William Wordsworth
In The Pass Of Killicranky by William Wordsworth
In Due Observance Of An Ancient Rite by William Wordsworth
I Travelled among Unknown Men by William Wordsworth
I Know an Aged Man Constrained to Dwell by William Wordsworth
I Grieved For Buonaparte by William Wordsworth
How Sweet It Is, When Mother Fancy Rocks by William Wordsworth
Hoffer by William Wordsworth
Hint From The Mountains For Certain Political Pretenders by William Wordsworth
Here Pause: The Poet Claims At Least This Praise by William Wordsworth
Her Eyes Are Wild by William Wordsworth
Hart-Leap Well by William Wordsworth
Hail, Zaragoza! If With Unwet eye by William Wordsworth
Hail, Twilight, Sovereign Of One Peaceful Hour by William Wordsworth
Guilt And Sorrow, Or, Incidents Upon Salisbury Plain by William Wordsworth
Great Men Have Been Among Us by William Wordsworth
Goody Blake And Harry Gill by William Wordsworth
Gipsies by William Wordsworth
George and Sarah Green by William Wordsworth
From The Italian Of Michael Angelo by William Wordsworth
From The Dark Chambers Of Dejection Freed by William Wordsworth
From The Cuckoo And The Nightingale by William Wordsworth
Foresight by William Wordsworth
Fidelity by William Wordsworth
Feelings Of The Tyrolese by William Wordsworth
Feelings Of A Noble Biscayan At One Of Those Funerals by William Wordsworth
Feelings of A French Royalist, On The Disinterment Of The Remains Of The Duke D’Enghien by William Wordsworth
Extract From The Conclusion Of A Poem Composed In Anticipation Of Leaving School by William Wordsworth
Extempore Effusion upon the Death of James Hogg by William Wordsworth
Expostulation and Reply by William Wordsworth
Even As A Dragon’s Eye That Feels The Stress by William Wordsworth
Epitaphs Translated From Chiabrera by William Wordsworth

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.