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Abraham Cowley (1618 – 1667)


English metaphysical poet.
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Abraham Cowley
Nothing is there to come, and nothing past,
But an eternal now does always last.
Cowley quotes
Why to mute fish should'st thou thyself discover
And not to me, thy no less silent lover?
Cowley
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.




Cowley Abraham quotes
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.
Cowley Abraham
The fairest garden in her looks,
And in her mind the wisest books.
Abraham Cowley quotes
Hence, ye profane! I hate ye all,
Both the great vulgar and the small.
Abraham Cowley
We griev'd, we sigh'd, we wept; we never blush'd before.
Cowley Abraham quotes
The monster London laugh at me.
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