How happy here should I
And one dear she live, and embracing die!
She who is all the world, and can exclude
In deserts solitude.
        (The Wish, 33-36)

1. Anacreontics (excerpt)
2. Davideis (excerpt)
3. The Given Heart
4. On the Death of Mr. Crashaw
5. To The Royal Society (excerpt)
6. A Vote (Of My Self) (excerpt)
7. The Wish

Notes on Life and Works

• Lindsay, Alexander. “Cowley, Abraham (1618-1667).” Oxford Dictionary of National Biography. Ed. H. C. G. Matthew and Brian Harrison. Oxford: OUP, 2004.

Biographical information

Given name: Abraham
Family name: Cowley
Birth date: 1618
Death date: 28 July 1667
Nationality: English
Family relations
          father: Thomas Cowley
Languages
          English
          Latin
Education
          Westminster school
          Trinity College, Cambridge (B.A.): 21 April 1636 to 1639
          Trinity College, Cambridge (M.A.) to 1642
          Oxford (M.D.) to 2 December 1657
Literary period: Seventeenth century
Residences
          London: 1618
          France: 1646
          England: 1656
          France: 1660
          Barn Elms, Chertsey: 1665 to 1667
Cause of death: Cold
Buried at: Westminster Abbey
First RPO edition: 1996-2000