Abraham Cowley on Anniversary
1618–1667 England
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6 quotes
Nothing is there to come, and nothing past,
But an eternal now does always last.
Poems (1656)
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.
Poems (1656)
Lukewarmness I account a sin
As great in love as in religion.
The Mistress (1647)
His time's forever, everywhere his place.
Ye fields of Cambridge, our dear Cambridge, say,
Have ye not seen us walking every day?
Was there a tree about which did not know
The love betwixt us two?
Poems (1656)
Begin, be bold, and venture to be wise,
He who defers this work from day to day,
Does on a river's bank expecting stay,
Till the whole stream, which stopped him, should be gone,
That runs, and as it runs, for ever will run on.