Abraham Cowley
Who is Abraham Cowley
Abraham Cowley (; 1618 – 28 July 1667) was an English poet and essayist born in the City of London late in 1618. He was one of the leading English poets of the 17th century, with 14 printings of his Works published between 1668 and 1721.
Early life and career
Cowley's father, a wealthy citizen, who died shortly before his birth, was a stationer. His mother was wholly given to works of devotion, but it happened that there lay in her parlour a copy of The Faerie Queene. This became the favourite reading of her son, and he had read it twice before he was sent to school.As early as 1628, that is, in his tenth year, he composed his Tragicall Historie of Piramus and Thisbe, an epic romance written in a six-line stanza, a style of his own invention. It is not too much t...
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Abraham Cowley Poems
- Chronicle, The: A Ballad
Margarita first possess'd,
If I remember well, my breast,
Margarita, first of all;
But when a while the wanton maid
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- The Despair
Beneath this gloomy shade,
By Nature only for my sorrows made,
I'll spend this voyce in crys,
In tears I'll waste these eyes
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- Cousel
AH! what advice can I receive!
No, satisfy me first;
For who would physick-potions give
To one that dies with thirst?
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- Concealment
No; to what purpose should I speak?
No, wretched heart! swell till you break.
She cannot love me if she would;
And, to say truth, 'twere pity that she should.
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- An Answer To A Copy Of Verses Sent Me To Jersey
As to a northern people (whom the sun
Uses just as the Romish church has done
Her prophane laity, and does assign
Bread only both to serve for bread and wine)
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- Dianajerut36521: solitude can be used well by very few people. they who do must have a knowledge of the world to see the foolishness of it, and enough virtue to despise all the vanity.,abraham cowley,solitude, world, people ,
- Directinor123: of all the pain, the greatest pain, is to love but to love in vain. —abraham cowley
- Jaquelinezbs: of all the pain, the greatest pain, is to love but to love in vain. —abraham cowley
- Suggeksadinem: of all the pain, the greatest pain, is to love but to love in vain. —abraham cowley
- Pendidikan4id: “may i a small house and large garden have;
and a few friends,
and many books, both true.”
― abraham cowley
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