“A mighty pain to love it is,And 't is a pain that pain to miss;But of all pains, the greatest painIt is to love, but love in vain.”
Abraham Cowley“A mighty pain to love it is,And 't is a pain that pain to miss;But of all pains, the greatest painIt is to love, but love in vain.”
Abraham Cowley, The Poems of Abraham Cowley“Solitude can be used well by very few people. They who do must have a knowledge of the world to see the foolishness of it, and enough virtue to despise all the vanity.”
Abraham Cowley“Enjoy the present hour Be thankful for the past And neither fear nor wish Th' approaches of the last.”
Abraham Cowley“Hope! of all ills that men endure The only cheap and universal cure.”
Abraham Cowley“Hope! Of all the ills that men endure the only cheap and universal cure.”
Abraham Cowley