Coy Nature, (which remain’d, though aged grown, A beauteous virgin still, enjoy’d by none, Nor seen unveil’d by anyone),
ABRAHAM COWLEYPlenty, as well as Want, can separate friends.
More Abraham Cowley Quotes
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“We may talk what we please,” he cries in his enthusiasm for the oldest of the arts, “of lilies, and lions rampant, and spread eagles
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The spade, the plough-share, and the rake) Arts, in most cruel wise Man’s left to epitomize!
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For the whole world, without a native home, Is nothing but a prison of larger room.
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Ah! Wretched and too solitary he who loves not his own company.
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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.
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May I a small house and large garden have; And a few friends, And many books, both true.
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This only grant me, that my means may lie, too low for envy, for contempt to high.
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Fill the bowl with rosy wine, around our temples roses twine, And let us cheerfully awhile, like wine and roses, smile.
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Thus would I double my life’s fading space;For he that runs it well, runs twice his race.
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I never had any other desire so strong, and so like covetousness, as that
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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.
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Hope! fortune’s cheating lottery; when for one prize an hundred blanks there be!
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When Harvey’s violent passion she did see, Began to tremble and to flee; Took sanctuary, like Daphne, in a tree
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I might be master at last of a small house and a large garden, with very moderate conveniences joined to them, and there dedicate the remainder of my life to the culture of them and the study of nature.
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Vain, weak-built isthmus, which dost proudly rise Up between two eternities!
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