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Poem by Abraham Cowley


The Swallow


Foolish prater, what dost thou
So early at my window do?
Cruel bird, thou’st ta’en away
A dream out of my arms to-day;
A dream that ne’er must equall’d be
By all that waking eyes may see.
Thou this damage to repair
Nothing half so sweet and fair,
Nothing half so good, canst bring,



Abraham Cowley


Abraham Cowley's other poems:
  1. Reason, the Use of It in Divine Matters
  2. The Heart Breaking
  3. The Request
  4. The Despair
  5. Thisbe's Song


Poems of the other poets with the same name:

  • William Cowper The Swallow ("I am fond of the swallow--I learn from her flight")
  • Charlotte Smith The Swallow ("THE gorse is yellow on the heath")
  • John Clare The Swallow ("Pretty swallow, once again")
  • Thomas Aird The Swallow ("The little comer's coming, the comer o'er the sea")

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