Works†
Part I (1668) ((title-page))
Thomas Sprat's LIFE OF COWLEY, to Martin Clifford
From POEMS (1656) ((title-pages I II III and IV))
Dedicatory elegy to Cambridge (Latin / English)
PREFACE
I.
MISCELLANIES
THE
MOTTO
ODE. OF
WIT
TO
THE LORD FALKLAND. For his safe Return from the Northern Expedition
against the SCOTS
ON
THE DEATH OF SIR HENRY WOOTTON
ON THE DEATH
OF MR. WILLIAM HERVEY
ODE.
IN IMITATION OF HORACE'S ODE 1.5 // Horace, Od. 1.5
THE
CHRONICLE. A BALLAD
TO SIR
WILLIAM DAVENANT, Upon his two first Books of GONDIBERT, Finished before
his Voyage to America
AN
ANSWER TO A COPY OF VERSES SENT ME TO
JERSEY
THE
TREE OF KNOWLEDGE. THAT THERE IS NO KNOWLEDGE. Against the
Dogmatists
REASON.
THE USE OF IT IN DIVINE MATTERS
ON THE DEATH
OF MR. CRASHAW
ANACREONTIQUES:
OR, SOME COPIES OF VERSES, TRANSLATED PARAPHRASTICALLY OUT OF
ANACREON††
AN ELEGY UPON ANACREON
II. THE MISTRESS, OR SEVERAL COPIES OF
LOVE VERSES†††
THE
REQUEST [1.]
THE
THRALLDOM [2.]
THE
GIVEN LOVE [3.]
THE
SPRING [4.]
WRITTEN
IN JUICE OF LEMON [5.]
INCONSTANCY [6.]
PLATONIC LOVE [8.]
THE
CHANGE [9.]
LEAVING ME, AND THEN LOVING MANY [11.]
ANSWER TO THE PLATONICS [13.]
THE PASSIONS [16.]
WISDOM [17.]
THE
DESPAIR [18.]
THE
WISH [19.]
THE
THIEF [21.]
COUNSEL [26.]
RESOLVED
TO BE BELOVED [27.]
AGAINST
FRUITION [30.]
THE GIVEN
HEART [33.]
THE
WELCOME [36.]
WOMENS SUPERSTITION [38.]
ECCHO [40.]
THE RICH RIVAL [41.]
AGAINST AND FOR
HOPE [42 and 43.]
THE ENJOYMENT [47.]
SLEEP [48.]
BEAUTY [49.]
THE
PARTING [50.]
MY PICTURE [51.]
THE
CONCEALMENT [52.]
THE
HEART - BREAKING [60.]
THE
USURPATION [61.]
MAIDENHEAD [62.]
IMPOSSIBILITIES [63.]
THE
INCONSTANT [66.]
THE INCURABLE [78.]
HONOR [79.]
THE
INNOCENT ILL [80.]
DIALOGUE. AFTER ENJOYMENT [81.]
BATHING
IN THE RIVER [83.]
LOVE GIVEN OVER [84.]
† The best collated edition in print for large parts of the oeuvre is still Waller's edition (English Writings, 2 vols., Cambridge, 1905-06), vols. 1 (poems) and 2 (juvenilia, English dramas, prose tracts, and a posthumous imperfect Poem on the Late Civil War, only Book I, of 3), now available via Google Books online. Alfred Gough's 1915 edition of The Essays and Other Prose Writings, with valuable notes, is available via www.archive.org. In Works (1668) Cowley's editor Sprat kept the internal title-pages (above) from Poems (1656) for Parts II-IV (Mistress-Davideis); the first four parts are separately paginated, as are Cowley's Davideidos Liber Unus in Latin and the verse and prose writings that follow.
†† 1. Love, 2. Drinking, 3. Beauty, 4. The Duel, 5. Age, 6. The Account, 7. Gold, 8. The Epicure, 9. Another, 10. The Grasshopper, 11. The Swallow
††† Nos. 1-76, 84, 1st pub. 1647; see Collected Works 2/1 (1993) for a detailed collation and commentary.
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III. PINDARIC ODES‡
PREFACE // PROSE NOTES
THE SECOND OLYMPIQUE ODE [1.] // Pindar, Ol.. 2
THE
FIRST NEMEAN ODE [2.] // Pindar, Nem.. 1
THE
PRAISE OF PINDAR [3.] // Horace, Od. 4.2
THE
RESURRECTION [4.]
THE
MUSE [5.]
TO MR. HOBBES [6.]
DESTINY [7.]
BRUTUS [8.]
TO DR. SCARBOROUGH [9.]
LIFE AND FAME [10.]
THE
ECSTASY [11.]
THE NEW YEAR [12.]
LIFE [13.]
THE 34 CHAPTER OF THE PROPHET ISAIAH [14.]
THE PLAGUES OF
EGYPT [15.]
IV.
DAVIDEIS‡ with PROSE NOTES
Book I
Book
II
Book III
Book IV
First published in 1668 (here and in POEMATA LATINA):
DAVIDEIDOS LIBER UNUS in Latin (opening in a new window)
From VERSES ON SEVERAL OCCASIONS (1663/1668)
CHRIST'S PASSION
UPON ORINDA'S POEMS
MR. COWLEY'S BOOK PRESENTING ITSELF TO THE BODLEIAN
SITTING AND DRINKING ... DRAKE'S SHIP
UPON DR. HARVEY
ODE. Acme and Septimius out of Catullus (1-40)
ODE UPON HIS MAJESTY'S RESTORATION AND RETURN
ON THE QUEEN'S REPAIRING SOMERSET HOUSE
THE
COMPLAINT
ON THE DEATH OF MRS. KATHERINE PHILIPS [ORINDA]
HYMN TO
LIGHT (Latin / English)
TO THE
ROYAL SOCIETY
DRAKE'S CHAIR (Latin / English)
A PROPOSITION FOR THE ADVANCEMENT OF EXPERIMENTAL PHILOSOPHY [Gough ed. (1915)]
VISIONS AND PROPHECIES (1660 => Discourse By way of Vision 1668)
ESSAYS [Gough ed. (1915)]
AND
VERSES FROM THE ESSAYS
Ode OF
SOLITUDE (Latin / English)
From PLANTARUM IV
(1-48; Latin / English)
HORACE, EPODE 2 ("Beatus ille")
PARAPHRASE OF HORACE, ODE 3.16
ODE ("Why
dost thou"; Latin / English)
AUTORIS
VIVI EPITAPHIUM (Latin / English, by various hands)
Works
Part Two, Juvenilia‡‡ and Plays (1681)
From SYLVA
(1636)
THE VOTE
[also known as "The Wish"]
ODE I. ON THE PRAISE
OF POETRY
ODE VI. UPON THE
SHORTNESS OF MAN'S LIFE
NAUFRAGIUM JOCULARE
(1638; Latin and
English)
Poëmata
Latina (1668) => Works Part Three (1689) ((index))
Plantarum Libri Sex = De Plantis Libri VI (Latin)‡, tr. N. Tate et al.
Prose Notes in Latin // Image-references keyed to the Latin line-numbers
Frontmatter with verse dedication to Cambridge (Latin / English)
Books
I
and II,
of Herbs, tr. J. O. // 1247-48, 1309-12
(Latin / English)
Book III,
of Flowers, tr. C. Cleve
Book IV,
" , tr. N. Tate // 1-48 768-79
(Latin / English)
Book V, of Trees (Pomona), tr. N. Tate
Book VI, of Trees (Sylva), tr. Mrs. A. Behn // (Another version)
CARMINUM MISCELLANEORUM LIBER
Davideidos Liber Unus (Latin / English) [1.]
HYMN TO
LIGHT (Latin / English) [2.]
To Martin Clifford
(Latin / English) [3.]
DRAKE'S CHAIR (Latin / English) [4.]
OF
SOLITUDE (Latin / English) [5.]
ODE ("Why
dost thou"; Latin / English) [6.]
AUTORIS
VIVI EPITAPHIUM (Latin / English) [7.]
‡ These online versions may exclude Cowley's elaborate prose notes.
‡‡ Published as "4th ed." since Poetical Blossomes had gone through three separate editions already; see Collected Works 1 (1989) for a detailed description, collation, and commentary.
‡‡‡ Also see above, Verses from the Essays, and occasional verses in Latin well-Englished with much else by Cowley (Dana Sutton - Philological Museum). |
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