Poems by Abraham Cowley
Inconstancy
... 'Cause the spring flowers, and autumn fruit, does bear ...
The Given Heart
... Then shall Love keep the ashes, and torn parts, ...
Sleep
... Thou scorn'st th' unhappy, and the happy, thee! ...
A Vote (excerpt)
... With Nature's hand, not Art's, and pleasures yield ...
Cousel
... But, when they're great, the adverse wind ...
Platonick Love
... If, when they know 't, they straight abuse that trust, ...
The Despair
... That thou should'st come to live it o're again in me ...
Bathing In The River
... Show her how thou, though long since past, dost find ...
An Answer To A Copy Of Verses Sent Me To Jersey
... in which we The soil from whence they came, taste, smell, and see: ...
Constantia's Song
... With dangers yet, those clouds but gone, ...
Anacreontics
... Fill all the glasses there, for whyShould every creature drink but I,Why, man of morals, tell me why ...
Davideis
... 31From earth's vain joys, and love's soft witchcraft free,1 ...
A Vote
... ish my fate, But boldly say each night,To-morrow let my sun his beams display,Or in clouds hide them ...
