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LOOKING ON, AND DISCOURSING WITH HIS MISTRESS by ABRAHAM COWLEY

Poet Analysis

First Line: THESE FULL TWO HOWERS NOW HAVE I BEEN GAZING
Last Line: AND THERE IN DARKNESSE AND DESPAIR REMAIN.
Subject(s): LOVE - COMPLAINTS;
1.

THese full two Howers now have I gazing been,
What comfort by it can I gain?
To look on Heaven with mighty Gulfes between
Was the great Miser's greatest pain;
So near was he to Heaven's Delight,
As with the blest converse he might,
Yet could not get one drop of water by't.

2.

Ah Wretch: I seem to touch her now; but, oh,
What boundlesse spaces do us part?
Fortune, and Friends, and all Earth's empty show,
My Lownesse, and her high Desert:
But these might conquerable prf water by't.

2.

Ah Wretch: I seem to touch her now; but, oh,
What boundlesse spaces do us part?
Fortune, and Friends, and all Earth's empty show,
My Lownesse, and her high Desert:
But these might conquerable prove;
Nothing does me so farre remove,
As her hard Soule's aversion from my Love,

3.

So Travellers that lose their way by Night,
If from afarre they chance t' espy
Th' uncertain glimmerings of a Taper's light,
Take flattering hopes, and think it nigh;
'Till wearied with the fruitless pain,
They sit them down, and weep in vain,
And there in Darknesse and Despair remain.



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