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"What shall I do to be forever known, And make the age to come my own?"
Abraham Cowley / The Motto.
The Motto.
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"His time is forever, everywhere his place."
Abraham Cowley / Friendship in Absence.
Friendship in Absence.
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"We spent them not in toys, in lusts, or wine, But search of deep philosophy, Wit, eloquence, and poetry; Arts which I lov'd, for they, my friend, were thine."
Abraham Cowley / On the Death of Mr. William Harvey.
On the Death of Mr. William Harvey.
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"His faith, perhaps, in some nice tenets might Be wrong; his life, I 'm sure, was in the right."
Abraham Cowley / On the Death of Crashaw.
On the Death of Crashaw.
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"The thirsty earth soaks up the rain, And drinks, and gapes for drink again; The plants suck in the earth, and are With constant drinking fresh and fair."
Abraham Cowley / From Anacreon, ii. Drinking.
From Anacreon, ii. Drinking.
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"Fill all the glasses there, for why Should every creature drink but I? Why, man of morals, tell me why?"
Abraham Cowley / From Anacreon, ii. Drinking.
From Anacreon, ii. Drinking.
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"A mighty pain to love it is, And 't is a pain that pain to miss; But of all pains, the greatest pain It is to love, but love in vain."
Abraham Cowley / From Anacreon, vii. Gold.
From Anacreon, vii. Gold.
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"Hope, of all ills that men endure, The only cheap and universal cure."
Abraham Cowley / The Mistress. For Hope.
The Mistress. For Hope.
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"Th' adorning thee with so much art Is but a barb'rous skill; 'T is like the pois'ning of a dart, Too apt before to kill."
Abraham Cowley / The Waiting Maid.
The Waiting Maid.
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"Nothing is there to come, and nothing past, But an eternal now does always last."
Abraham Cowley / Davideis. Book i. Line 25.
Davideis. Book i. Line 25.
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"When Israel was from bondage led, Led by the Almighty's hand From out of foreign land, The great sea beheld and fled."
Abraham Cowley / Davideis. Book i. Line 41.
Davideis. Book i. Line 41.
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"An harmless flaming meteor shone for hair, And fell adown his shoulders with loose care."
Abraham Cowley / Davideis. Book ii. Line 95.
Davideis. Book ii. Line 95.
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"The monster London laugh at me."
Abraham Cowley / Of Solitude, xi.
Of Solitude, xi.
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"Let but thy wicked men from out thee go, And all the fools that crowd thee so, Even thou, who dost thy millions boast, A village less than Islington wilt grow, A solitude almost."
Abraham Cowley / Of Solitude, vii.
Of Solitude, vii.
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"The fairest garden in her looks, And in her mind the wisest books."
Abraham Cowley / The Garden, i.
The Garden, i.
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"God the first garden made, and the first city Cain."
Abraham Cowley / The Garden, ii.
The Garden, ii.
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"Hence, ye profane! I hate ye all, Both the great vulgar and the small."
Abraham Cowley / Horace. Book iii. Ode 1.
Horace. Book iii. Ode 1.
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"Charm'd with the foolish whistling of a name."
Abraham Cowley / Virgil, Georgics. Book ii. Line 72.
Virgil, Georgics. Book ii. Line 72.
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"Words that weep and tears that speak."
Abraham Cowley / The Prophet.
The Prophet.
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"We griev'd, we sigh'd, we wept; we never blush'd before."
Abraham Cowley / Discourse concerning the Government of Oliver Cromwell.
Discourse concerning the Government of Oliver Cromwell.
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"Thus would I double my life's fading space; For he that runs it well, runs twice his race."
Abraham Cowley / Discourse xi. Of Myself. St. xi.
Discourse xi. Of Myself. St. xi.
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