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

• Reply to an Announcement by J. Rankine by Robert Burns
• Reply to a Trimming Epistle, received from a Tailor by Robert Burns
• Remorseful Apology by Robert Burns
• Remorse: A Fragment by Robert Burns
• Prologue, spoken by Mr. Woods at Edinburgh by Robert Burns
• Prologue spoken at the Theatre of Dumfries by Robert Burns
• Prayer—O Thou Dread Power by Robert Burns
• Poor Mailie’s Elegy by Robert Burns
• Poem on Sensibility by Robert Burns
• Pegasus at Wanlockhead by Robert Burns
• Paraphrase of the First Psalm by Robert Burns
• One Night as I did Wander by Robert Burns
• On the late Captain Grose’s Peregrinations by Robert Burns
• On the Death of Robert Dundas, Esq., of Arniston by Robert Burns
• On the Death of John M’Leod, Esq. by Robert Burns
• On the Birth of a Posthumous Child by Robert Burns
• On Tam the Chapman by Robert Burns
• On seeing Mrs. Kemble in Yarico by Robert Burns
• On Scaring some Water-Fowl in Lock Turit by Robert Burns
• On Glenriddell’s Fox breaking his chain: A Fragment by Robert Burns
• On Elphinstone’s Translation of Martial’s Epigrams by Robert Burns
• On Chloris requesting a sprig of blossom’d thorn by Robert Burns
• Oh Wert Thou In The Cauld Blast by Robert Burns
• Ode, Sacred to the Memory of Mrs. Oswald of Auchencruive by Robert Burns
• Ode on the Departed Regency Bill by Robert Burns
• Ode for General Washington’s Birthday by Robert Burns
• Note to Mr. Renton of Lamerton by Robert Burns
• Nature’s Law: A Poem by Robert Burns
• My Highland Lassie, O by Robert Burns
• My Heart’s In The Highlands by Robert Burns
• My Girl she’s Airy: A Fragment by Robert Burns
• My Father was a Farmer: A Ballad by Robert Burns
• Mr. William Smellie: A Sketch by Robert Burns
• Motto prefixed to the Author’s first Publication by Robert Burns
• Monody on a Lady, famed for her Caprice by Robert Burns
• Masonic Song—Ye Sons of Old Killie by Robert Burns
• Mary Morison by Robert Burns
• Man was made to Mourn: A Dirge by Robert Burns
• Lord Gregory: A Ballad by Robert Burns
• Lines Written under the Picture of Miss Burns by Robert Burns
• Lines written on a Bank-note by Robert Burns
• Lines to Sir John Whitefoord, Bart by Robert Burns
• Lines to Mr. John Kennedy by Robert Burns
• Lines to John Syme, Esq., with a dozen of Porter by Robert Burns
• Lines to John M’Murdo of Drumlanrig by Robert Burns
• Lines to an Old Sweetheart by Robert Burns
• Lines to a Gentleman who sent a Newspaper by Robert Burns
• Lines on the Fall of Fyers by Robert Burns
• Lines on the Author’s Death by Robert Burns
• Lines on Meeting with Lord Daer by Robert Burns
• Lines on Fergusson, the Poet by Robert Burns
• Lines Inscribed under Fergusson’s Portrait by Robert Burns
• Lines Inscribed in a Lady’s Pocket Almanack by Robert Burns
• Lament For Culloden by Robert Burns
• John Barleycorn: A Ballad by Robert Burns
• John Barleycorn by Robert Burns
• John Anderson by Robert Burns
• Inscription to Miss Graham of Fintry by Robert Burns
• Inscription to Jessie Lewars by Robert Burns
• Inscription to Chloris by Robert Burns
• inscription on Mr. Syme’s crystal goblet by Robert Burns
• Inscription for the Headstone of Fergusson the Poet by Robert Burns
• Inscription at Friars’ Carse Hermitage by Robert Burns
• Inscribed on a Work of Hannah More’s by Robert Burns
• Impromptu on Mrs. Riddell’s Birthday by Robert Burns
• Impromptu on Carron Iron Works by Robert Burns
• Impromptu Lines to Captain Riddell by Robert Burns
• I’ll go and be a Sodger by Robert Burns
• Halloween by Robert Burns
• Green Grow The Rashes by Robert Burns
• Fragment on Sensibility by Robert Burns
• Fragment of Song—The Night was Still by Robert Burns
• Fragment of Song—“My Jean!” by Robert Burns
• Fragment—Her Flwoing Locks by Robert Burns
• For a’ that and a’ that by Robert Burns
• Fickle Fortune: A Fragment by Robert Burns
• Fareweel To A’Our Scottish Fame by Robert Burns
• Extempore Reply to an Invitation by Robert Burns
• Extempore on some commemorations of Thomson by Robert Burns
• Extempore in the Court of Session by Robert Burns
• Extemporaneous Effusion on being appointed to an Excise Division by Robert Burns
• Esteem for Chloris by Robert Burns
• Epitaph on Wm. Graham, Esq., of Mossknowe by Robert Burns
• Epitaph on William Muir by Robert Burns
• Epitaph on William Hood, Senior by Robert Burns
• Epitaph on “Wee Johnnie” by Robert Burns
• Epitaph on the same by Robert Burns
• Epitaph on my Ever Honoured Father by Robert Burns
• Epitaph on John Rankine by Robert Burns
• Epitaph on John Dove, Innkeeper by Robert Burns
• Epitaph on John Busby, Esq., Tinwald Downs by Robert Burns
• Epitaph on James Grieve by Robert Burns
• Epitaph on Holy Willie by Robert Burns
• Epitaph on Captain Lascelles by Robert Burns
• Epitaph on a noted coxcomb by Robert Burns
• Epitaph on a Noisy Polemic by Robert Burns
• Epitaph on a Henpecked Squire by Robert Burns
• Epitaph for William Nicol, High School, Edinburgh by Robert Burns
• Epitaph for Mr. William Michie, Schoolmaster by Robert Burns
• Epitaph for Mr. Walter Riddell by Robert Burns
• Epitaph for Mr. W. Cruickshank by Robert Burns
• Epitaph for Mr. Gabriel Richardson, Brewer by Robert Burns
• Epitaph for James Smith by Robert Burns
• Epitaph for Gavin Hamilton, Esq. by Robert Burns
• Epistle to William Simson by Robert Burns
• Epistle to the Rev. John M’Math by Robert Burns
• Epistle to Robert Graham, Esq., of Fintry by Robert Burns
• Epistle to Mrs. Scott of Wauchope House by Robert Burns
• Epistle to Major Logan by Robert Burns
• Epistle to John Rankine by Robert Burns
• Epistle to John Maxwell, Esq., of Terraughty by Robert Burns
• Epistle to John Goldie, in Kilmarnock by Robert Burns
• Epistle to James Tennant of Glenconner by Robert Burns
• Epistle to James Smith by Robert Burns
• Epistle to Hugh Parker by Robert Burns
• Epistle to Dr. Blacklock by Robert Burns
• Epistle to Davie, A Brother Poet by Robert Burns
• Epistle to Colonel de Peyster by Robert Burns
• Epistle to a Young Friend by Robert Burns
• Epistle on J. Lapraik by Robert Burns
• Epistle from Esopus to Maria by Robert Burns
• Epigrams against the Earl of Galloway by Robert Burns
• Epigram to Miss Jean Scott by Robert Burns
• Epigram to Miss Ainslie in Church by Robert Burns
• Epigram—The True Loyal Natives by Robert Burns
• Epigram—The Toad-eater by Robert Burns
• Epigram—The Raptures of Folly by Robert Burns
• Epigram—The Keekin Glass by Robert Burns
• Epigram—Thanks for a National Victory by Robert Burns
• Epigram pinned to Mrs. Riddell’s carriage by Robert Burns
• Epigram on the same Laird’s Country Seat by Robert Burns
• Epigram on the said Occasion by Robert Burns
• Epigram on the Laird of Laggan by Robert Burns
• Epigram on Rough Roads by Robert Burns
• Epigram on Politics by Robert Burns
• Epigram on Parting with a kind Host in the Highlands by Robert Burns
• Epigram on Mr. James Gracie by Robert Burns
• Epigram on Miss Fontenelle by Robert Burns
• Epigram on Jessy Staig’s recovery by Robert Burns
• Epigram on Francis Grose the Antiquary by Robert Burns
• Epigram on Dr. Babington’s looks by Robert Burns
• Epigram on Andrew Turner by Robert Burns
• Epigram on an Innkeeper (“The Marquis”) by Robert Burns
• Epigram on a Swearing Coxcomb by Robert Burns
• Epigram on a Suicide by Robert Burns
• Epigram on a Country Laird (Cardoness) by Robert Burns
• Epigram—Kirk and State Excisemen by Robert Burns
• Epigram—Divine Service at Lamington by Robert Burns
• Epigram—Commissary Goldie’s Brains by Robert Burns
• Epigram at RoslinInn by Robert Burns
• Epigram at Brownhill Inn by Robert Burns
• Epigram Addressed to an Artist by Robert Burns
• Elegy on Willie Nicol’s Mare by Robert Burns
• Elegy on the Year 1788 by Robert Burns
• Elegy on the late Miss Burnet of Monboddo by Robert Burns
• Elegy on the Death of Sir James Hunter Blair by Robert Burns
• Elegy on the Death of Robert Ruisseaux by Robert Burns
• Elegy on Stella by Robert Burns
• Elegy on Captain Matthew Henderson by Robert Burns
• Election Ballad for Westerha’ by Robert Burns
• Election Ballad at close of Contest for representing the Dumfries Burghs, 1790 by Robert Burns
• Duncan Gray by Robert Burns
• Dialogue Song—Philly and Willy by Robert Burns
• Despondency: An Ode by Robert Burns
• Delia: An Ode by Robert Burns
• Complimentary versicles to Jessie Lewars by Robert Burns
• Complimentary Epigram to Mrs. Riddell by Robert Burns
• Commemoration of Rodney’s Victory by Robert Burns
• Coming Through The Rye by Robert Burns
• Caledonia: A Ballad by Robert Burns
• Burlesque Lament fo Wm. Creech’s Absence by Robert Burns
• Bonnie Lesley by Robert Burns
• Bonie Jean: A Ballad by Robert Burns
• Boat Song—Hey, Ca’ Thro’ by Robert Burns
• Birthday Ode for 31st December, 1787 by Robert Burns
• Ballad on the American War by Robert Burns
• Ballad on Mr. Heron’s Election—No. 4 by Robert Burns
• Ballad on Mr. Heron’s Election—No. 3 by Robert Burns
• Ballad on Mr. Heron’s Election—No. 2 by Robert Burns
• Ballad on Mr. Heron’s Election—No. 1 by Robert Burns
• Auld Lang Syne by Robert Burns
• Apology to Mr. Syme for not dining with him by Robert Burns
• Another on the said Occasion by Robert Burns
• Ah, woe is me, my Mother dear by Robert Burns
• Ae Fond Kiss, And Then We Sever by Robert Burns
• Address to Wm. Tytler, Esq., of Woodhouselee by Robert Burns
• Address to the Unco Guid by Robert Burns
• Address to the Toothache by Robert Burns
• Address to the shade of Thomson by Robert Burns
• Address to the Deil by Robert Burns
• Address to Edinburgh by Robert Burns
• Address to a Haggis by Robert Burns
• Address spoken by Miss Fontenelle by Robert Burns
• Adam Armour’s Prayer by Robert Burns
• A Winter Night by Robert Burns
• A Vision by Robert Burns
• A Tippling Ballad—When Princes and Prelates, etc. by Robert Burns
• A Red, Red Rose by Robert Burns
• A Prayer under the Pressure of Violent Anguish by Robert Burns
• A Prayer in the Prospect of Death by Robert Burns
• A Poet’s Welcome to his Love-Begotten Daughter by Robert Burns
• A New Psalm for the Chapel of Kilmarnock by Robert Burns
• A Mother’s Lament for her Son’s Death by Robert Burns
• A Grace before Dinner by Robert Burns
• A Grace after Dinner by Robert Burns
• News, lassies, news (Song) by Robert Burns
• Mally’s meek, Mally’s sweet (Song) by Robert Burns
• Crowdie ever mair (Song) by Robert Burns
• Inscription to Chloris by Robert Burns
• Yonder pomp of costly fashion (Song) by Robert Burns
• Robert Bruce’s March to Bannockburn (Song) by Robert Burns
• My Spouse Nancy by Robert Burns
• Forlorn, my love, no comfort here (Song) by Robert Burns
• Behold the hour by Robert Burns
• Impromptu on Mrs. Riddell’s Birthday by Robert Burns
• On Chloris being ill (Song) by Robert Burns
• How cruel are the parents by Robert Burns
• Had I a cave by Robert Burns
• Craigieburn Wood by Robert Burns
• Poem on Pastoral Poetry by Robert Burns
• Lines of John M’Murdo by Robert Burns
• Inscription for an Alter of Independence by Robert Burns
• Epitaph on a Lap-dog by Robert Burns
• Epigram on Miss Davies by Robert Burns
• Out over the Forth (Song) by Robert Burns
• O aye my wife she dang me (Song) by Robert Burns
• Hey, the Dusty Miller (Song) by Robert Burns
• Fragment – Wee Willie Gray (Song) by Robert Burns
• Farewell to Eliza (Song) by Robert Burns
• On a Scotch Bard, gone to the West Indies by Robert Burns
• Lament of Mary, Queen of Scots by Robert Burns
• Lament for James, Earl of Glencairn by Robert Burns
• Impromptu on Dumourier’s Desertion of the French Republican Army by Robert Burns
• Grace before and after Meat by Robert Burns
• Epitaph for Robert Aiken by Robert Burns
• Epistle to a Young Friend by Robert Burns
• Address to Beelzebub by Robert Burns
• A Grace after Meat by Robert Burns
• A Dream by Robert Burns
• A Dedication to Gavin Hamilton by Robert Burns
• A Bard’s Epitaph by Robert Burns
• Zion by Rudyard Kipling
• You Must n’t Swim… by Rudyard Kipling
• With Scindia to Delphi by Rudyard Kipling
• Wilful Missing by Rudyard Kipling
• White Horses by Rudyard Kipling
• When the Great Ark by Rudyard Kipling
• When ‘Omer Smote ‘Is Bloomin’ Lyre by Rudyard Kipling
• When Earth’s Last Picture Is Painted by Rudyard Kipling
• What the People Said by Rudyard Kipling
• What Happened by Rudyard Kipling
• Ulster by Rudyard Kipling
• Two Months by Rudyard Kipling
• Two Kopjes by Rudyard Kipling
• Troopin’ by Rudyard Kipling
• Tommy by Rudyard Kipling
• Tin Fish by Rudyard Kipling
• The Young British Soldier by Rudyard Kipling
• The Wishing-Caps by Rudyard Kipling
• The Winners by Rudyard Kipling
• The Widow at Windsor by Rudyard Kipling
• The Truce of the Bear by Rudyard Kipling
• The Thousandth Man by Rudyard Kipling
• The Story of Uriah by Rudyard Kipling
• The Story of Ung by Rudyard Kipling
• The Sons of Martha by Rudyard Kipling
• The Songs of the Lathes by Rudyard Kipling
• The Song of the Women by Rudyard Kipling
• The Song of the Sons by Rudyard Kipling
• The Song of the Old Guard by Rudyard Kipling
• The Song of the Little Hunter by Rudyard Kipling
• The Song of the Dead by Rudyard Kipling
• The Song of the Cities by Rudyard Kipling
• The Song of Seven Cities by Rudyard Kipling
• The Settler by Rudyard Kipling
• The Servant When He Reigneth by Rudyard Kipling
• The Sergeant’s Weddin’ by Rudyard Kipling
• The Secret of the Machines by Rudyard Kipling
• The Second Voyage by Rudyard Kipling
• The Sea-Wife by Rudyard Kipling
• The Sea And the Hills by Rudyard Kipling
• The Sacrifice of Er-Heb by Rudyard Kipling
• The Rupaiyat of Omar Kal’vin by Rudyard Kipling
• The Rowers by Rudyard Kipling
• The Rhyme of the Three Sealers by Rudyard Kipling
• The Rhyme of the Three Captains by Rudyard Kipling
• The Return by Rudyard Kipling
• The Reformers by Rudyard Kipling
• The Recall by Rudyard Kipling
• The Rabbi’s Song by Rudyard Kipling
• The Quesion by Rudyard Kipling
• The Queen’s Men by Rudyard Kipling
• The Puzzler by Rudyard Kipling
• The Prodigal Son by Rudyard Kipling
• The Pro-Consuls by Rudyard Kipling
• The Prayer of Miriam Cohen by Rudyard Kipling
• The Law of the Jungle by Rudyard Kipling
• The Last Rhyme of True Thomas by Rudyard Kipling
• The Last of the Light Brigade by Rudyard Kipling
• The Last Department by Rudyard Kipling

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.