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

• Cinderella by Roald Dahl
• blessing for sound health by matthew scott harris
• Black Lake by Memphis Knight
• Before The Law by Michael Major
• A Conceit by Maya Angelou
• A Rythm Upon Our Trusts by Michael McGovern
• Your Poems on My Patio by Martina Reisz Newberry
• Yesterday’s Mishaps by Mary Etta Metcalf
• Yes Dear by Mary Etta Metcalf
• Words Unspoken by Mark Olynyk
• Woman With Parasol by Martin Willitts Jr.
• Why Write? by Mark Olynyk
• Where Have We All Gone by Mary Etta Metcalf
• What is Poetry? by Mark Olynyk
• Wednesday by Marvin Bell
• To Sea by Martin Zakovski
• To Dorothy by Marvin Bell
• They Thought Her Crazy by Mary Etta Metcalf
• These Green-Going-to-Yellow by Marvin Bell
• The Story Of Our Lives by Mark Strand
• The Self and the Mulberry by Marvin Bell
• Your Poems on My Patio by Martina Reisz Newberry
• The Room by Mark Strand
• Yesterday’s Mishaps by Mary Etta Metcalf
• The River Has Its Memories by Mary Etta Metcalf
• Yes Dear by Mary Etta Metcalf
• The River by Mark Olynyk
• Words Unspoken by Mark Olynyk
• The Remains by Mark Strand
• Woman With Parasol by Martin Willitts Jr.
• The Poetic Principle by Mark Olynyk
• Why Write? by Mark Olynyk
• The Other Side of Panic by Martina Reisz Newberry
• Where Have We All Gone by Mary Etta Metcalf
• The joyful things in life by Martin Smith
• What is Poetry? by Mark Olynyk
• The Frantic by Mark Miller
• Wednesday by Marvin Bell
• The End of the Argument by Martina Reisz Newberry
• To Sea by Martin Zakovski
• The Dreadful Has Already Happened by Mark Strand
• To Dorothy by Marvin Bell
• The Dragon and The Unicorn by Mary Etta Metcalf
• They Thought Her Crazy by Mary Etta Metcalf
• These Green-Going-to-Yellow by Marvin Bell
• The Last Wolf by Mary TallMountain
• The Homeless Man by Mary TallMountain
• The Story Of Our Lives by Mark Strand
• Telescope by Mark R Slaughter
• The Self and the Mulberry by Marvin Bell
• Sunflowers by Martin Willitts Jr.
• The Room by Mark Strand
• Speaking the Language of Deer by Martin Willitts Jr.
• The River Has Its Memories by Mary Etta Metcalf
• Some Say by Mark Miller
• The River by Mark Olynyk
• So You Say by Mark Strand
• Slag by Mark Base
• The Remains by Mark Strand
• The Poetic Principle by Mark Olynyk
• She and Drugs by Mark R Slaughter
• The Other Side of Panic by Martina Reisz Newberry
• Sculpture of Debris on the Waterfront by Martina Reisz Newberry
• Question mark remarks by Mark Miller
• The joyful things in life by Martin Smith
• The Frantic by Mark Miller
• Postures by Martina Reisz Newberry
• The End of the Argument by Martina Reisz Newberry
• My Father’s Hats by Mark Irwin
• The Dreadful Has Already Happened by Mark Strand
• The Dragon and The Unicorn by Mary Etta Metcalf
• Please Don’t Judas Me by Mark Miller
• The Last Wolf by Mary TallMountain
• Never Sure Which You Are by Mary Etta Metcalf
• Nestling by Mark R Slaughter
• The Homeless Man by Mary TallMountain
• My Words Embrace by Mary Etta Metcalf
• Telescope by Mark R Slaughter
• My Mother On An Evening In Late Summer by Mark Strand
• Sunflowers by Martin Willitts Jr.
• Morning by Mark R Slaughter
• Speaking the Language of Deer by Martin Willitts Jr.
• Mending Socks by Martin Willitts Jr.
• Some Say by Mark Miller
• So You Say by Mark Strand
• Slag by Mark Base
• Manure by Mark R Slaughter
• Mammary Tunes by Mark R Slaughter
• She and Drugs by Mark R Slaughter
• Sculpture of Debris on the Waterfront by Martina Reisz Newberry
• Lines For Winter by Mark Strand
• Life, wait for me by Martin Zakovski
• Question mark remarks by Mark Miller
• Life by Marvin Bell
• Postures by Martina Reisz Newberry
• My Father’s Hats by Mark Irwin
• Let Him Free by Mary Etta Metcalf
• Keeping Things Whole by Mark Strand
• Please Don’t Judas Me by Mark Miller
• Never Sure Which You Are by Mary Etta Metcalf
• Important thing’s in life by Martin Smith
• Images by Mary Etta Metcalf
• Nestling by Mark R Slaughter
• My Words Embrace by Mary Etta Metcalf
• Illusions by Mark R Slaughter
• My Mother On An Evening In Late Summer by Mark Strand
• If Only by Mary Etta Metcalf
• Morning by Mark R Slaughter
• I, or Someone Like Me by Marvin Bell
• Mending Socks by Martin Willitts Jr.
• He Said To by Marvin Bell
• Grumpy Old Man by Mary Etta Metcalf
• Manure by Mark R Slaughter
• Giving Myself Up by Mark Strand
• Mammary Tunes by Mark R Slaughter
• Ghosts by Martina Reisz Newberry
• Lines For Winter by Mark Strand
• From The Long Sad Party by Mark Strand
• Life, wait for me by Martin Zakovski
• Forty Years Later by Martin Willitts, Jr
• Life by Marvin Bell
• Farmers Market by Mary TallMountain
• Let Him Free by Mary Etta Metcalf
• Eternal Existence by Mark Miller
• Keeping Things Whole by Mark Strand
• Et Le Marbre Creuse… by Martine Morillon-Carreau
• Important thing’s in life by Martin Smith
• Images by Mary Etta Metcalf
• Illusions by Mark R Slaughter
• If Only by Mary Etta Metcalf
• I, or Someone Like Me by Marvin Bell
• He Said To by Marvin Bell
• Grumpy Old Man by Mary Etta Metcalf
• Giving Myself Up by Mark Strand
• Ghosts by Martina Reisz Newberry
• From The Long Sad Party by Mark Strand
• Forty Years Later by Martin Willitts, Jr
• Farmers Market by Mary TallMountain
• Eternal Existence by Mark Miller
• Et Le Marbre Creuse… by Martine Morillon-Carreau
• Eating Poetry by Mark Strand
• Does Our Spirit Fly Away by Mary Etta Metcalf
• Do Not Stand At My Grave and Weep by Mary Frye
• Disingenuousness by Mark R Slaughter
• Days Are Gone by Mary Etta Metcalf
• Dans les filets de midi by Martine Morillon-Carreau
• Courtship by Mark Strand
• Coming To This by Mark Strand
• Coming to Terms by Mary Etta Metcalf
• Collateral Damage by Martina Reisz Newberry
• Collage by Martine Morillon-Carreau
• Chronicles by Mark Olynyk
• Ce N’est Jamais Le Même Jardin by Martine Morillon-Carreau
• C’est la nuit aveugle by Martine Morillon-Carreau
• Books by Mark Olynyk
• Awaken by Mark Miller
• Avec seulement du noir by Martine Morillon-Carreau
• Attente by Martine Morillon-Carreau
• At This Very Moment by Mary TallMountain
• Answers by Mark Strand
• And The Black Scythe With Its Beak of Ibis by Martine Morillon-Carreau
• After Forever by Mark Miller
• A World So Different by Mary Etta Metcalf
• A Poet I knew by Martin Zakovski
• A Piece Of The Storm by Mark Strand
• A Photograph on the Desk by Mary Etta Metcalf
• A Misty Morning by Mary Etta Mietcalf
• A Cozy Little Room by Mary Etta Metcalf
• À ce point du voyage by Martine Morillon-Carreau
• A Dream of Rodney King by Mary TallMountain
• You Ask Why Sometimes I Say Stop by Marge Piercy
• Yell of Pain by Maria Ivana Trevisani Bach
• Year’s End by Marilyn Hacker
• Winter Promises by Marge Piercy
• What Are Big Girls Made Of? by Marge Piercy
• Visiting a Dead Man on a Summer Day by Marge Piercy
• Upon Julia’s Breast by Marie Starr
• Unloved, unmoved by Maria Jastine Golo
• Twas’ the Night Before Christmas and Santa got Drunk by Margaret Marie Hubbard
• Traveling Dream by Marge Piercy
• Toad Dreams by Marge Piercy
• To the Pay Toilet by Marge Piercy
• To Be of Use by Marge Piercy
• To a Steam Roller by Marianne Moore
• To an Intra-mural Rat by Marianne Moore
• The Woman in the Ordinary by Marge Piercy
• The Steeple-Jack by Marianne Moore
• The Seven Of Pentacles by Marge Piercy
• The Past is the Present by Marianne Moore
• The Paper Nautilus by Marianne Moore
• The Pangolin by Marianne Moore
• The Neighbor by Marge Piercy
• The Morning Half-Life Blues by Marge Piercy
• The Moment I knew my Life had Changed by Maria Mazziotti Gillan
• The Friend by Marge Piercy
• The Fish by Marianne Moore
• The Dark Cavalier by Margaret Widdemer
• The Colloquy Beneath by Margaret Marie Hubbard
• The Cat’s Song by Marge Piercy
• The Campera, the Foreigner y el Novio by Marjorie Kanter
• The Boy by Marilyn Hacker
• The Aegean by Maria Luisa Spaziani
• The Gate by Marie Howe
• The Copper Beech by Marie Howe
• Synchronicity by Marina Cecilia Kohon
• Subjective Genocide by Marie Starr
• Subject to Change by Marilyn L. Taylor
• Spenser’s Ireland by Marianne Moore
• Song by Margaret Widdemer
• Silence by Marianne Moore
• Scars on Paper by Marilyn Hacker
• Rosemary by Marianne Moore
• Release by Marie Starr
• Reading Runes by Marina Cecilia Kohon
• Portrait in Black and White by Marjorie Kanter
• Poetry by Marianne Moore
• Peter by Marianne Moore
• Passion by Sera Jacob
• Paragraphs from a Day-Book by Marilyn Hacker
• Not out of the running by Margaret Marie Hubbard
• Nevertheless by Marianne Moore
• Nearly A Valediction by Marilyn Hacker
• My Mother’s Body by Marge Piercy
• My Daughter at 14, Christmas Dance, 1981 by Maria Mazziotti Gillan
• Morning News by Marilyn Hacker
• Love Poem to My Husband of Thirty-one Years by Maria Mazziotti Gillan
• Locked Away by Margaret Marie Hubbard
• Labyrinth by Sera Jacob
• Iva’s Pantoum by Marilyn Hacker
• Island-Hearth by M. Ivana Trevisani Bach
• Irish Love Song by Margaret Widdemer
• Invocation by Marilyn Hacker
• If you should tire of loving me by Margaret Widdemer
• I Dream of my Grandmother and Great-Grandmother by Maria Mazziotti Gillan
• I Deserve It by Margaret Marie Hubbard
• Hurry by Marie Howe
• He Made This Screen by Marianne Moore
• Forever Closed by Margaret Marie Hubbard
• For the Young Who Want To by Marge Piercy
• For K. J., Leaving and Coming Back by Marilyn Hacker
• Exiles by Marilyn Hacker
• Desesperanto by Marilyn Hacker
• Dear Alzheimer’s by Maria Knox
• Colors Passing Through Us by Marge Piercy
• Children of My Own by Marie Starr
• Belly Good by Marge Piercy
• Baseball and Writing by Marianne Moore
• Barbie Doll by Marge Piercy
• Attack of the Squash People by Marge Piercy
• Always Unsuitable by Marge Piercy
• about emptiness… by Marina Cecilia Kohon
• A Work Of Artifice by Marge Piercy
• A Grave by Marianne Moore
• Woman by Manmohan Acharya
• Without exile, who am I? by Mahmoud Darwish
• Winter’s End by Mac McGovern
• Wind by Mac McGovern
• What these girl means to me by Maphoto selokela
• Two Stranger Birds in Our Feathers by Mahmoud Darwish
• Tip-Toe-ing by Mahak Raithatha S
• They Would Love To See Me Dead by Mahmoud Darwish
• These nights by Manushya Puthiran
• The Sound Of Your Breathing by Mac McGovern
• The Pigeons Fly by Mahmoud Darwish
• The Mouse by Mac McGovern
• The Most Exquisite Creature Of My Dreams by Mac McGovern
• The Husband’s Black Hands by Mallika Sengupta
• The Frivolity of Dreaming by Mahi Chauhan
• The Eve of Saint Agnes by Malcolm Massiah
• The end by Mahak Raithatha S
• The cake by Mahak Raithatha S
• Thanksgiving by Mac Hammond
• State of Siege by Mahmoud Darwish
• Southern Song by Margaret Walker
• Soul by Malkia Charlee NoCry
• Sonnet V by Mahmoud Darwish
• She’s Flawless by Mandy Williams
• She Looks by Mac McGovern
• She got her wings by Mahak Raithatha S
• Set out by Mahak Raithatha S
• Rita And The Rifle by Mahmoud Darwish
• Psalm Three by Mahmoud Darwish
• Psalm 9 by Mahmoud Darwish
• Pride and Fury by Mahmoud Darwish
• Postip by Manolo Arriola
• Poema LX, El albergue by Mara Romero Torres
• Poema II, “Pañuelos de La Alhambra” by Mara Romero Torres
• Pequeña niña mía by Mara Romero Torres
• Passport by Mahmoud Darwish
• Pañuelos de La Alhambra by Mara Romero Torres
• Ontological by Maggie Anderson
• Only Iraq by Mahmoud Darwish
• Oh My Father, I am Yusif by Mahmoud Darwish
• October Journey by Margaret Walker
• Nube by Manolo Arriola
• No Matter What You Write by Mac McGovern
• Neighing at the Slope by Mahmoud Darwish
• My Mother by Mahmoud Darwish
• For My People by Margaret Walker
• Muhammad by Mahmoud Darwish

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.