The POETS of GREAT BRITAIN

COMPLETE FROM
CHAUCER to CHURCHILL.

LOWLEY VOLUME 1.
Bee where he fits & in what comely wife
Draps tears more fair than others Eyes

Printed for John Bell near Exeter Exchange Strand London Jan

POETICAL WORKS

OF

ABRAHAM COWLEY.

IN FOUR VOLUMES.

FROM THE TEXT OF DR. SPRAT, &c.

WITH THE LIFE OF THE AUTHOR.

Begin the fong, and ftrike the living lyre!

Lo! how the Years to come, a num'rous and well-fitted quire!
All hand in hand do decently advance,

And to my fong with smooth and equal measures dance.

Whilft the dance lafts, how long foe'er it be,

My Mufick's voice fhall bear it company,

Till all gentle notes be drown'd
In the last trumpet's dreadful found.
COWLEY does to Jove belong,
Jove and COWLEY claim my fong.-
The Mufes did young COWLEY raise,
They ftole thee from thy nurse's arms,
Fed thee with facred love of praise,
And taught thee all their charms:
As if Apollo's felf had been thy fire,
They daily rock'd thee on his lyre.

THE RESURRECTION.

VERSES TO COWLEY.

VOL. II.

Bell's fecond edition.

EDINBURG:

AT THE Apollo Press, BY THE MARTINS.
Anno 1784.

ship, prefented to the University library in Oxford, by John Davis of Deptford, Esq.

142

The Tree of Knowledge. That there is no know

A translation of verfes upon the Bleffed Virgin, 158
On the uncertainty of Fortune. A tranflation, 161
That a pleasant poverty is to be preferred before‹
difcontented riches,

163

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166

In commendation of the time we live in, under
the reign of our gracious King, Charles II.
An answer to an invitation to Cambridge,
An answer to a copy of verses fent me to Jersey, 167
Prometheus ill painted,

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