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date: 21 June 2025

Abraham Cowley 1618–67
English poet and essayist 

  1. God the first garden made, and the first city Cain.
     
    Essays, in Verse and Prose (1668) ‘The Garden’; see Cowper
  2. Nothing so soon the drooping spirits can raise
    As praises from the men, whom all men praise.
     
    ‘Ode upon a Copy of Verses of My Lord Broghill's’ (1663)
  3. Life is an incurable disease.
     
    ‘To Dr Scarborough’ (1656)