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1.
A thousand different shapes it bears
First Line:
A thousand different shapes it bears
Last Line:
In that strange mirror of the deity
Author:
Abraham Cowley (Absolute)
DMI number:
6021
2.
A tower of brass one would have said
First Line:
A tower of brass one would have said
Last Line:
With sparing hand but just enough has given
Author:
Abraham Cowley (Absolute)
DMI number:
932
3.
Awake and with attention hear
First Line:
Awake and with attention hear
Last Line:
They in the dens shall lurk beasts in the palaces shall reign
Author:
Abraham Cowley (Absolute)
DMI number:
22898
4.
Beneath this gloomy shade
First Line:
Beneath this gloomy shade
Last Line:
That thou shouldst come to live it over again in me
Author:
Abraham Cowley (Absolute)
DMI number:
9766
5.
Come poetry and with thee bring along
First Line:
Come poetry and with thee bring along
Last Line:
To sing my words when she but speaks her own
Author:
Abraham Cowley (Absolute)
DMI number:
3944
6.
Come poetry and with you bring along
First Line:
Come poetry and with you bring along
Last Line:
To sing thy praise when she but speaks her own
DMI number:
7795
7.
Cursed be that wretch death's factor sure who brought
First Line:
Cursed be that wretch death's factor sure who brought
Last Line:
Into an age of gold
DMI number:
7782
8.
Cursed be the man what do I wish as though
First Line:
Cursed be the man what do I wish as though
Last Line:
As of good princes' deaths so of a tyrant's birth
Author:
Abraham Cowley (Absolute)
DMI number:
4723
9.
Enough my muse of earthly things
First Line:
Enough my muse of earthly things
Last Line:
That he will still require some waters to his blood
Author:
Abraham Cowley (Confident)
DMI number:
4105
10.
Excellent Brutus of all human race
First Line:
Excellent Brutus of all human race
Last Line:
And showed thee a god crucified
Author:
Abraham Cowley (Absolute)
DMI number:
1443
11.
Firstborn of chaos who so fair didst come
First Line:
Firstborn of chaos who so fair didst come
Last Line:
From thence first took their rise thither at last must flow
Author:
Abraham Cowley (Absolute)
DMI number:
5633
12.
Freedom with virtue takes her seat
First Line:
Freedom with virtue takes her seat
Last Line:
To kites and meaner birds he leaves the mangled prey
Author:
Abraham Cowley (Absolute)
DMI number:
22903
13.
From the maternal tomb
First Line:
From the maternal tomb
Last Line:
Are but the empty dreams which in death's sleep we make
Author:
Abraham Cowley (Absolute)
DMI number:
6007
14.
Go the rich chariot instantly prepare
First Line:
Go the rich chariot instantly prepare
Last Line:
To fill up half the orb of round eternity
Author:
Abraham Cowley (Absolute)
DMI number:
22803
15.
Hail old patrician trees so great and good
First Line:
Hail old patrician trees so great and good
Last Line:
A solitude almost
Author:
Abraham Cowley (Absolute)
DMI number:
22900
16.
Hail old patrician trees so great and good
First Line:
Hail old patrician trees so great and good
Last Line:
How prettily they talk
Author:
Abraham Cowley (Absolute)
DMI number:
5506
17.
He's no small prince who every day
First Line:
He's no small prince who every day
Last Line:
A journey too might go
Author:
Abraham Cowley (Absolute)
DMI number:
5649
18.
Hence ye profane I hate you all
First Line:
Hence ye profane I hate you all
Last Line:
Much will be missing still and much will be amiss
Author:
Abraham Cowley (Absolute)
DMI number:
922
19.
Hence ye prophane I hate ye all
First Line:
Hence ye prophane I hate ye all
Last Line:
Much will be wanting still and much will be amiss
Author:
Abraham Cowley (Absolute)
DMI number:
24459
20.
Is this thy bravery man is this thy pride
First Line:
Is this thy bravery man is this thy pride
Last Line:
That draws like a strong net the mighty sea upon them all
Author:
Abraham Cowley (Absolute)
DMI number:
25429
21.
Indeed I must confess
First Line:
Indeed I must confess
Last Line:
Love in all capacities
Author:
Abraham Cowley (Absolute)
DMI number:
6839
22.
In vain thou drowsy god I thee invoke
First Line:
In vain thou drowsy god I thee invoke
Last Line:
Thou scorn'st th'unhappy and the happy thee
Author:
Abraham Cowley (Absolute)
DMI number:
6027
23.
Much will always wanting be
First Line:
Much will always wanting be
Last Line:
With sparing hand enough but just enough has given
Author:
Abraham Cowley (Absolute)
DMI number:
6026
24.
I never yet could see that face
First Line:
I never yet could see that face
Last Line:
More constant than the man loves always all
Author:
Abraham Cowley (Absolute)
DMI number:
5511
25.
I leave mortality and things below
First Line:
I leave mortality and things below
Last Line:
And mount herself like him to eternity in fire
Author:
Abraham Cowley (Absolute)
DMI number:
22899
26.
I little thought thou fond ungrateful sin
First Line:
I little thought thou fond ungrateful sin
Last Line:
That twere rebellion now to claim mine own
Author:
Abraham Cowley (Absolute)
DMI number:
4521
27.
I'll teach him a receipt to make
First Line:
I'll teach him a receipt to make
Last Line:
At which the soul goes out too with the breath
Author:
Abraham Cowley (Absolute)
DMI number:
5630
28.
If life should a well-ordered poem be
First Line:
If life should a well-ordered poem be
Last Line:
To kites and meaner birds he leaves the mangled prey
Author:
Abraham Cowley (Absolute)
DMI number:
7511
29.
Leave off unfit complaints and clear
First Line:
Leave off unfit complaints and clear
Last Line:
With his own fasces he shall make him fires
DMI number:
7781
30.
Me from the womb the midwife muse did take
First Line:
Me from the womb the midwife muse did take
Last Line:
And all thy forefathers were from Homer down to Ben
Author:
Abraham Cowley (Absolute)
DMI number:
28380
31.
Mark how the lusty sun salutes the spring
First Line:
Mark how the lusty sun salutes the spring
Last Line:
He does sill new flowers beget
Author:
Abraham Cowley (Absolute)
DMI number:
5565
32.
Mark that swift arrow how it cuts the air
First Line:
Mark that swift arrow how it cuts the air
Last Line:
To out live Nestor in a day
DMI number:
7784
33.
Not winds to voyages at sea
First Line:
Not winds to voyages at sea
Last Line:
But flings writer and reader too that sits not sure
Author:
Abraham Cowley (Absolute)
DMI number:
9765
34.
O fountains when in you shall I
First Line:
O fountains when in you shall I
Last Line:
That tis the way too thither
Author:
Abraham Cowley (Absolute)
DMI number:
5947
35.
Oh life thou nothing's younger brother
First Line:
Oh life thou nothing's younger brother
Last Line:
But broken and overwhelmed the endless ocean meets again
Author:
Abraham Cowley (Absolute)
DMI number:
5572
36.
Oh life thou nothing's younger brother
First Line:
Oh life thou nothing's younger brother
Last Line:
For all old Homer's life ever since he died till now
Author:
Abraham Cowley (Absolute)
DMI number:
24954
37.
Queen of all harmonious things
First Line:
Queen of all harmonious things
Last Line:
Is equally impossible
Author:
Abraham Cowley (Absolute)
DMI number:
10419
38.
Pindar is imitable by none
First Line:
Pindar is imitable by none
Last Line:
And there with humble sweets contents her industry
Author:
Abraham Cowley (Absolute)
DMI number:
937
39.
Sleep is a god too proud to wait in palaces
First Line:
Sleep is a god too proud to wait in palaces
Last Line:
Tis not enough he must find quiet too
Author:
Abraham Cowley (Absolute)
DMI number:
5654
40.
Tell me o tell what kind of thing is wit
First Line:
Tell me o tell what kind of thing is wit
Last Line:
I'll only show your lines and say tis this
Author:
Abraham Cowley (Absolute)
DMI number:
9744
41.
The self same sun
First Line:
The self same sun
Last Line:
He runs the day and walks the year
Author:
Abraham Cowley (Absolute)
DMI number:
5974
42.
Tis not a pyramid of marble stone
First Line:
Tis not a pyramid of marble stone
Last Line:
Mausolus envied by thee
DMI number:
7776
43.
To whom now Pyrrha art thou kind
First Line:
To whom now Pyrrha art thou kind
Last Line:
My consecrated vessel hangs at last
Author:
Abraham Cowley (Absolute)
DMI number:
885
44.
Tyrian dye why do you wear
First Line:
Tyrian dye why do you wear
Last Line:
Less than a golden one it cannot be
DMI number:
7779
45.
We allowed you beauty and we did submit
First Line:
We allowed you beauty and we did submit
Last Line:
That Rome's overcome at last by a woman of her race
Author:
Abraham Cowley (Absolute)
DMI number:
9768
46.
Well then I now do plainly see
First Line:
Well then I now do plainly see
Last Line:
And so make a city here
Author:
Abraham Cowley (Absolute)
DMI number:
9770
47.
When Israel was from bondage led
First Line:
When Israel was from bondage led
Last Line:
The rocks shall weep new waters forth instead of these
Author:
Abraham Cowley (Absolute)
DMI number:
9746
48.
Why dost thou heap up wealth which thou must quit
First Line:
Why dost thou heap up wealth which thou must quit
Last Line:
How vain were such an industry
Author:
Abraham Cowley (Absolute)
DMI number:
28166
49.
Why oh doth gaudy Tagus ravish thee
First Line:
Why oh doth gaudy Tagus ravish thee
Last Line:
Make both my monument and elegy
DMI number:
7778