Abraham Cowley
Abraham Cowley (1618 – July 28, 1667) was an English metaphysical poet. In his own time he was widely considered the greatest poet of the age.
Eternity
@ Nothing is there to come, and nothing past,
But an eternal now does always last.
Davideis, book i, line 25; reported in Bartlett's Familiar Quotations, 10th ed. (1919). See also "One of our poets (which is it?) speaks of an everlasting now", Robert Southey, The Doctor, chap. xxv. p. 1.
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