English poem
On The Receipt Of A Hamper.
(IN THE MANNER OF HOMER.) The straw-stuff'd hamper with his ruthless steel He open'd, cutting sheer th' inserted cords Which bound the lid and lip secure. Forth came The rustling package first, bright straw of wheat, Or oats, or barley; next a bottle green Throat-full, clear spirits the contents, distill'd Drop after drop odorous, by the art Of the fair mother of his friend—the Rose.
More by William Cowper
- On The Neglect Of Homer.
- On The Platonic 'Ideal' As It Was Understood By Aristotle.
- On The Promotion Of Edward Thurlow, Esq. To The Lord High Chancellorship Of England.
- On The Queen's Visit To London. The Night Of The Seventeenth Of March 1789.
- On The Receipt Of My Mother's Picture Out Of Norfolk, The Gift Of My Cousin, Ann Bodham.
- On The Same. (On The Burning Of Lord Mansfield's Library, Together With His Mss., By The Mob, In The Month Of June 1780.)
- Pairing Time Anticipated. A Fable.
- Paradisum Amissam, Lib. II [1]