1st Baron Cowley

Famous quotes containing the words baron and/or cowley:

“For age with stealing steps
Hath clawed me with his crutch,”
—Thomas Vaux, 2d Baron Vaux Of Harrowden (1510–1566)

“Ah wretched We, Poets of Earth! but Thou
Wert Living the same Poet which thou’rt Now,
Whilst Angels sing to thee their ayres divine,
And joy in an applause so great as thine.
Equal society with them to hold,
Thou need’st not make new Songs, but say the Old.”
—Abraham Cowley (1618–1667)