Notes from Wikiquote
Compare: "Thoughts that breathe, and words that burn", Thomas Gray, Progress of Poesy, iii. 3, 4
More quotes by Abraham Cowley
Nothing is there to come, and nothing past,
But an eternal now does always last.
An harmless flaming meteor shone for hair,
And fell adown his shoulders with loose care.
What shall I do to be forever known,
And make the age to come my own?
The fairest garden in her looks,
And in her mind the wisest books.
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Three sleepless nights I passed in sounding on,
Through words and things, a dim and perilous way.
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