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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

Running, Space, Race

Abraham Cowley, T. Sprat (1721). “Poems and other pieces published by the late Lord Bishop of Rochester; with some account of his life and writings”, p.719

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Neither the praise nor the blame is our own.

Abraham Cowley

Appreciation, Blame, Praise

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I confess I love littleness almost in all things. A little convenient estate, a little cheerful house, a little company, and a little feast.

Abraham Cowley

House, Cheerful, Littles

Abraham Cowley, Samuel Johnson (1822). “The Poems of Abraham Cowley”, p.162

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Plenty, as well as Want, can separate friends.

Abraham Cowley

Friends, Want, Wells

Abraham Cowley (1679). “The Works of Mr Abraham Cowley: Consisting of Those which Were Formerly Printed : and Those which He Design'd for the Press”, p.89

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His time's forever, everywhere his place.

Abraham Cowley

Time, Forever

"Friendship in Absence". Poem by Abraham Cowley, Stanza 3,

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Nay, in death's hand, the grape-stone proves
As strong as thunder is in Jove's.

Abraham Cowley

Strong, Hands, Stones

Abraham Cowley (1710). “The Works”, p.62

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Hope! fortune's cheating lottery; when for one prize an hundred blanks there be!

Abraham Cowley

Hope, Cheating, Hundred

Abraham Cowley, “Against Hope”

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Poets by Death are conquer'd but the wit Of poets triumphs over it.

Abraham Cowley

Triumph, Conquer, Poet

Abraham Cowley (1779). “The Works of the English Poets. With Prefaces, Biographical and Critical, by Samuel Johnson”, p.86

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All this world's noise appears to me a dull, ill-acted comedy!

Abraham Cowley

World, Dull, Noise

Abraham Cowley, Thomas Sprat (1710). “The works of Mr. Abraham Cowley ...: Consisting of those which were formerly printed; and those which he design'd for the press, publish'd out of the author's original copies. With The cutter of Coleman-street ...”, p.94

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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

Vanity, People, Solitude

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Does not the passage of Moses and the Israelites into the Holy Land yield incomparably more poetic variety than the voyages of Ulysses or Aeneas?

Abraham Cowley

Bible, Yield, Aeneas

Abraham Cowley, Thomas Sprat (1710). “The Works of Mr. Abraham Cowley ...: Consisting of Those which Were Formerly Printed, and Those which He Design'd for the Press, Publish'd Out of the Author's Original Copies ; with The Cutter of Coleman-street”

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And I myself a Catholic will be,
So far at least, great saint, to pray to thee.
Hail, Bard triumphant! and some care bestow
On us, the Poets militant below.

Abraham Cowley

Catholic, Religion, Saint

Abraham Cowley (1777). “Select Works of Mr. A. Cowley: In Two Volumes: with a Preface and Notes by the Editor. ...”, p.134

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Our yesterday's to-morrow now is gone,
And still a new to-morrow does come on.
We by to-morrow draw out all our store,
Till the exhausted well can yield no more.

Abraham Cowley

Yield, Yesterday, Doe

Abraham Cowley (1809). “The Works of Mr. A. Cowley: In Prose and Verse”, p.225

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Ah, yet, e'er I descend to th' grave, May I a small House and a large Garden have. And a few Friends, and many Books both true, Both wise, and both delightful too. And since Love ne'er will from me flee, A mistress moderately fair, And good as Guardian angels are, Only belov'd and loving me.

Abraham Cowley

Wise, Book, Angel

Abraham Cowley, “The Wish”

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Books should, not Business, entertain the Light;
And Sleep, as undisturb'd as Death, the Night.

Abraham Cowley

Book, Sleep, Night

Abraham Cowley, Thomas Sprat (1710). “The works of Mr. Abraham Cowley ...: Consisting of those which were formerly printed; and those which he design'd for the press, publish'd out of the author's original copies. With The cutter of Coleman-street ...”, p.181

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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

Life, Nice, Might

Abraham Cowley (1772). “Select works of mr. A. Cowley [ed. by R. Hurd].”, p.134

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Sleep is a god too proud to wait in palaces, and yet so humble too as not to scorn the meanest country cottages.

Abraham Cowley

Country, Humble, Sleep

Abraham Cowley, Samuel Johnson (1822). “The Poems of Abraham Cowley ...”

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Who that has reason, and his smell,
Would not among roses and jasmin dwell?

Abraham Cowley

Smell, Rose, Reason

Abraham Cowley, Thomas Sprat (1826). “Prose works of Abraham Cowley ; including his essays in prose and verse”, p.175

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The world's a scene of changes.

Abraham Cowley

World, Scene

'The Mistress: or...Love Verses' (1647) 'Inconstancy'

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When Israel was from bondage led,Led by the Almighty's handFrom out of foreign land,The great sea beheld and fled.

Abraham Cowley

Sea, Land, Israel

Abraham Cowley, Samuel Johnson (1822). “The Poems of Abraham Cowley ...”, p.174

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Why to mute fish should'st thou thyself discoverAnd not to me, thy no less silent lover?

Abraham Cowley

Lovers, Silent, Mute

Abraham Cowley (1779). “The Works of the English Poets. With Prefaces, Biographical and Critical, by Samuel Johnson”, p.320

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s a scene of changes, and to be constant in Nature were inconstancy.

Abraham Cowley

Change, Scene, Constant

'The Mistress: or...Love Verses' (1647) 'Inconstancy'

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Water and air He for the Tenor chose,
Earth made the Base, the Treble Fame arose,
To th' active Moon a quick brisk stroke he gave,
To Saturn's string a touch more sore and grave.
The motions strait, and round, and swift, and slow,
And short and long, were mixt and woven so,
Did in such artful Figures smoothly fall,
As made this decent measur'd dance of all.
And this is Musick.

Abraham Cowley

Music, Fall, Moon

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Beauty, thou wild fantastic ape Who dost in every country change thy shape!

Abraham Cowley

Country, Shapes, Apes

Abraham Cowley, Samuel Johnson (1822). “The Poems of Abraham Cowley ...”, p.57

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Nothing in Nature's sober found,
But an eternal Health goes round.
Fill up the Bowl then, fill it high--
Fill all the Glasses there; for why
Should every Creature Drink but I?
Why, Man of Morals, tell me why?

Abraham Cowley

Drinking, Men, Glasses

1656 'Drinking'.

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Born: 1618
Died: July 28, 1667
Occupation: Poet
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