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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Biography of Abraham Cowley 

The Life of Cowley by Samuel Johnson

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Some poems by other baroque authors.

A few poems by other English poets

• The Hawthorn Tree by Siegfried Sassoon
• The Goldsmith by Siegfried Sassoon
• The General by Siegfried Sassoon
• The Fathers by Siegfried Sassoon
• The Effect by Siegfried Sassoon
• The Dug-Out by Siegfried Sassoon
• The Dreamers by Siegfried Sassoon
• The Dream by Siegfried Sassoon
• The Dragon & The Undying by Siegfried Sassoon
• The Death-Bed by Siegfried Sassoon
• The Dark House by Siegfried Sassoon
• The Choral Union by Siegfried Sassoon
• Survivors by Siegfried Sassoon
• Suicide In The Trenches by Siegfried Sassoon
• Stretcher Case by Siegfried Sassoon
• Storm and Sunlight by Siegfried Sassoon
• Stand-To: Good Friday Morning by Siegfried Sassoon
• South Wind by Siegfried Sassoon
• Song-Books of the War by Siegfried Sassoon
• Slumber-Song by Siegfried Sassoon
• Sick Leave by Siegfried Sassoon
• Secret Music by Siegfried Sassoon
• Remorse by Siegfried Sassoon
• Reconciliation by Siegfried Sassoon
• Prelude to an Unwritten Masterpiece by Siegfried Sassoon
• Picture-Show by Siegfried Sassoon
• Parted by Siegfried Sassoon
• October by Siegfried Sassoon
• Noah by Siegfried Sassoon
• Nimrod in September by Siegfried Sassoon
• Night-Piece by Siegfried Sassoon
• Night on the Convoy by Siegfried Sassoon
• Morning-Land by Siegfried Sassoon
• Morning-Glory by Siegfried Sassoon
• Morning Express by Siegfried Sassoon
• Miracles by Siegfried Sassoon
• Middle-Ages by Siegfried Sassoon
• Memory by Siegfried Sassoon
• Memorial Tablet by Siegfried Sassoon
• Lovers by Siegfried Sassoon
• Limitations by Siegfried Sassoon
• Lamentations by Siegfried Sassoon
• Joy-Bells by Siegfried Sassoon
• Invocation by Siegfried Sassoon
• ‘In the Pink’ by Siegfried Sassoon
• In Me, Past, Present, Future meet by Siegfried Sassoon
• In Barracks by Siegfried Sassoon
• Idyll by Siegfried Sassoon
• I Stood With the Dead by Siegfried Sassoon
• How to Die by Siegfried Sassoon
• Hero by Siegfried Sassoon
• Haunted by Siegfried Sassoon
• Golgotha by Siegfried Sassoon
• Goblin Revel by Siegfried Sassoon
• Glory Of Women by Siegfried Sassoon
• France by Siegfried Sassoon
• Fight to a Finish by Siegfried Sassoon
• Fancy Dress by Siegfried Sassoon
• Falling Asleep by Siegfried Sassoon
• Everyone Sang by Siegfried Sassoon
• Enemies by Siegfried Sassoon
• Elegy by Siegfried Sassoon
• Editorial Impressions by Siegfried Sassoon
• Dryads by Siegfried Sassoon
• Dreamers by Siegfried Sassoon
• Dream-Forest by Siegfried Sassoon
• Does It Matter? by Siegfried Sassoon
• Died of Wounds by Siegfried Sassoon
• Devotion to Duty by Siegfried Sassoon
• Dead Musicians by Siegfried Sassoon
• Daybreak In A Garden by Siegfried Sassoon
• David Cleek by Siegfried Sassoon
• Counter-Attack by Siegfried Sassoon
• Conscripts by Siegfried Sassoon
• Concert Party by Siegfried Sassoon
• Companions by Siegfried Sassoon
• Butterflies by Siegfried Sassoon
• Break of Day by Siegfried Sassoon
• Bombardment by Siegfried Sassoon
• Blind by Siegfried Sassoon
• Blighters by Siegfried Sassoon
• Before the Battle by Siegfried Sassoon
• Before Day by Siegfried Sassoon
• Battalion-Relief by Siegfried Sassoon
• Base Details by Siegfried Sassoon
• Banishment by Siegfried Sassoon
• Autumn by Siegfried Sassoon
• Attack by Siegfried Sassoon
• At Daybreak by Siegfried Sassoon
• At Carnoy by Siegfried Sassoon
• Arms and the Man by Siegfried Sassoon
• Arcady Unheeding by Siegfried Sassoon
• Ancient History by Siegfried Sassoon
• Ancestors by Siegfried Sassoon
• An Old French Poet by Siegfried Sassoon
• Alone by Siegfried Sassoon
• Aftermath by Siegfried Sassoon
• Absolution by Siegfried Sassoon
• A Working Party by Siegfried Sassoon
• A Whispered Tale by Siegfried Sassoon
• A Wanderer by Siegfried Sassoon
• A Subaltern by Siegfried Sassoon
• A Poplar and the Moon by Siegfried Sassoon
• A Mystic As Soldier by Siegfried Sassoon
• A Letter Home by Siegfried Sassoon
• A Child’s Prayer by Siegfried Sassoon
• The Pleasures Of Friendship by Stevie Smith
• The Jungle Husband by Stevie Smith
• Tenuous And Precarious by Stevie Smith
• Sunt Leones by Stevie Smith
• Pad, Pad by Stevie Smith
• Our Bog Is Dood by Stevie Smith
• Not Waving But Drowning by Stevie Smith
• Nor We Of Her To Him by Stevie Smith
• Never Again by Stevie Smith
• My Heart Was Full by Stevie Smith
• My Heart Goes Out by Stevie Smith
• Mother, Among The Dustbins by Stevie Smith
• Infelice by Stevie Smith
• In The Night by Stevie Smith
• I Remember by Stevie Smith
• I Do Not Speak by Stevie Smith
• Happiness by Stevie Smith
• Freddy by Stevie Smith
• Exeat by Stevie Smith
• Edmonton, thy cemetery by Stevie Smith
• Drugs Made Pauline Vague by Stevie Smith
• Deeply Morbid by Stevie Smith
• Conviction (iv) by Stevie Smith
• Conviction (iii) by Stevie Smith
• Conviction (ii) by Stevie Smith
• Conviction (i) by Stevie Smith
• Bag-Snatching In Dublin by Stevie Smith
• Away, Melancholy by Stevie Smith
• Autumn by Stevie Smith
• Alone In The Woods by Stevie Smith
• Zoo-Keeper’s Wife by Sylvia Plath
• You’re by Sylvia Plath
• Yadwigha, On A Red Couch, Among Lillies by Sylvia Plath
• Yaddo : The Grand Manor by Sylvia Plath
• Wreath For A Bridal by Sylvia Plath
• Words Heard, By Accident, Over The Phone by Sylvia Plath
• A Winter’s Tale by Sylvia Plath
• Winter Landscape, With Rooks by Sylvia Plath
• Watercolor Of Grantchester Meadows by Sylvia Plath
• Waking In Winter by Sylvia Plath
• Virgin In A Tree by Sylvia Plath
• Two Views Of Withens by Sylvia Plath
• Two Views Of A Cadaver Room by Sylvia Plath
• Two Sisters Of Persephone by Sylvia Plath
• Two Lovers And A Beachcomber By The Real Sea by Sylvia Plath
• Two Campers In Cloud Country by Sylvia Plath
• Trio Of Love Songs by Sylvia Plath
• To Eva Descending The Stair by Sylvia Plath
• To A Jilted Lover by Sylvia Plath
• Tinker Jack And The Tidy Wives by Sylvia Plath
• The Trial Of A Man by Sylvia Plath
• The Tour by Sylvia Plath
• The Times Are Tidy by Sylvia Plath
• The Thin People by Sylvia Plath
• The Swarm by Sylvia Plath
• The Surgeon At 2 A.M. by Sylvia Plath
• The Stones by Sylvia Plath
• The Snowman on the Moor by Sylvia Plath
• The Sleepers by Sylvia Plath
• The Shrike by Sylvia Plath
• The Rival by Sylvia Plath
• The Ravaged Face by Sylvia Plath
• The Rabbit Catcher by Sylvia Plath
• The Queen’s Complaint by Sylvia Plath
• The Princess And The Goblins by Sylvia Plath
• The Other by Sylvia Plath
• The Other Two by Sylvia Plath
• The Night Dances by Sylvia Plath
• The Net-Menders by Sylvia Plath
• The Munich Mannequins by Sylvia Plath
• The Moon And The Yew Tree by Sylvia Plath
• The Manor Garden by Sylvia Plath
• The Lady And The Earthenware Head by Sylvia Plath
• The Jailer by Sylvia Plath
• The Hermit At Outermost House by Sylvia Plath
• The Hanging Man by Sylvia Plath
• The Great Carbuncle by Sylvia Plath
• The Goring by Sylvia Plath
• The Glutton by Sylvia Plath
• The Ghost’s Leavetaking by Sylvia Plath
• The Fearful by Sylvia Plath
• The Eye-Mote by Sylvia Plath
• The Everlasting Monday by Sylvia Plath
• The Dream by Sylvia Plath
• The Disquieting Muses by Sylvia Plath
• The Dispossessed by Sylvia Plath
• The Detective by Sylvia Plath
• The Death Of Myth-Making by Sylvia Plath
• The Dead by Sylvia Plath
• The Couriers by Sylvia Plath
• The Courage Of Shutting-Up by Sylvia Plath
• The Companionable Ills by Sylvia Plath
• The Colossus by Sylvia Plath
• The Burnt-Out Spa by Sylvia Plath
• The Bull Of Bendylaw by Sylvia Plath
• The Beggars by Sylvia Plath
• The Beekeeper’s Daughter by Sylvia Plath
• The Bee Meeting by Sylvia Plath
• The Beast by Sylvia Plath
• The Babysitters by Sylvia Plath
• The Arrival Of The Bee Box by Sylvia Plath
• The Applicant by Sylvia Plath
• Temper Of Time by Sylvia Plath
• Tale Of A Tub by Sylvia Plath
• Suicide Off Egg Rock by Sylvia Plath
• Stars Over The Dordogne by Sylvia Plath
• A Sorcerer Bids Farewell To Seem by Sylvia Plath
• Sonnet: To Time by Sylvia Plath
• Sonnet To Satan by Sylvia Plath
• Sonnet : To Eva by Sylvia Plath
• Song For A Summer’s Day by Sylvia Plath
• Song For A Revolutionary Love by Sylvia Plath
• Soliloquy Of The Solipsist by Sylvia Plath
• Sleep In The Mojave Desert by Sylvia Plath
• Sheep In Fog by Sylvia Plath
• Prologue To Spring by Sylvia Plath
• Poppies In October by Sylvia Plath
• Poppies In July by Sylvia Plath
• Polly’s Tree by Sylvia Plath
• On The Plethora Of Dryads by Sylvia Plath
• On The Difficulty Of Conjuring Up A Dryad by Sylvia Plath
• On The Decline Of Oracles by Sylvia Plath
• On Looking Into The Eyes Of A Demon Lover by Sylvia Plath
• On Deck by Sylvia Plath
• Old Ladies’ Home by Sylvia Plath
• Ode For Ted by Sylvia Plath
• Notes To A Neophyte by Sylvia Plath
• Nick And The Candlestick by Sylvia Plath
• New Year On Dartmoor by Sylvia Plath
• Never Try To Trick Me With A Kiss by Sylvia Plath
• Mussel Hunter At Rock Harbor by Sylvia Plath
• Morning In The Hospital Solarium by Sylvia Plath
• Moonsong At Morning by Sylvia Plath
• Monologue At 3 AM by Sylvia Plath
• Miss Drake Proceeds To Supper by Sylvia Plath
• Metamorphoses Of The Moon by Sylvia Plath
• Memoirs Of A Spinach-Picker by Sylvia Plath
• Mary’s Song by Sylvia Plath
• Man In Black by Sylvia Plath
• Mad Girl’s Love Song by Sylvia Plath
• Love Is A Parallax by Sylvia Plath
• Letter To A Purist by Sylvia Plath
• Letter In November by Sylvia Plath
• A Lesson In Vengeance by Sylvia Plath
• Leaving Early by Sylvia Plath
• Last Words by Sylvia Plath
• Landowners by Sylvia Plath
• Insolent Storm Strikes At The Skull by Sylvia Plath
• In Plaster by Sylvia Plath
• In Midas’ Country by Sylvia Plath
• Go Get The Goodly Squab by Sylvia Plath
• For A Fatherless Son by Sylvia Plath
• Flute Notes From A Reedy Pond by Sylvia Plath
• Faun by Sylvia Plath
• Family Reunion by Sylvia Plath
• Fable Of The Rhododendron Stealers by Sylvia Plath
• Epitaph In Three Parts by Sylvia Plath
• Epitaph For Fire And Flower by Sylvia Plath
• Electra On Azalea Path by Sylvia Plath
• Dream With Clam-Diggers by Sylvia Plath
• Doom Of Exiles by Sylvia Plath
• Dirge For A Joker by Sylvia Plath
• Death & Co. by Sylvia Plath
• Crossing The Water by Sylvia Plath
• Conversation Among The Ruins by Sylvia Plath
• Circus In Three Rings by Sylvia Plath
• Child’s Park Stones by Sylvia Plath
• “Célibataire” by Sylvia Plath
• By Candlelight by Sylvia Plath
• Burning The Letters by Sylvia Plath
• Bluebeard by Sylvia Plath
• Blackberrying by Sylvia Plath
• Black Rook In Rainy Weather by Sylvia Plath
• Black Pine Tree In An Orange Light by Sylvia Plath
• Battle-Scene From the Comic Operatic Fantasy The Seafarer by Sylvia Plath
• Balloons by Sylvia Plath
• Ariel by Sylvia Plath
• Apprehensions by Sylvia Plath
• An Appearance by Sylvia Plath
• Amnesiac by Sylvia Plath
• All The Dead Dears by Sylvia Plath
• Aftermath by Sylvia Plath
• Admonition by Sylvia Plath
• Above The Oxbow by Sylvia Plath
• A Winter Ship by Sylvia Plath
• A Secret by Sylvia Plath
• Years by Sylvia Plath
• Wuthering Heights by Sylvia Plath
• Words by Sylvia Plath
• Witch Burning by Sylvia Plath
• Wintering by Sylvia Plath
• Winter Trees by Sylvia Plath
• Widow by Sylvia Plath
• Who by Sylvia Plath

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.