Poet

William Cowper

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(A Brief Fragment Of An Extensive Projected Poem.)
1. the Glow-worm
2. the Jack Daw
3. the Cricket
4. the Parrot
A Comparison.
A Fable.
A Hymn, For The Use Of The Sunday School At Olney.
A Poetical Epistle To Lady Austen.
A REFLECTION on the foregoing ODE
A Song
A Tale, Founded On A Fact, Which Happened In January 1779.
Abuse Of The Gospel.
Addressed To Miss ----, On Reading The Prayer For Indifference, An Ode, By Mrs. Greville.
Afflictions Sanctified By The Word.
An Address To The Mob On Occasion Of The Late Riot At The House Of Sir Hugh Palliser
An Apology For Not Showing Her What I Had Wrote
An Attempt at the Manner of Waller
An Epistle To An Afflicted Protestant Lady In France.
An Epistle To Joseph Hill, Esq.
An Epistle To Robert Lloyd, Esq.
An Epitaph.
An Ode, On Reading Richardson's History Of Sir Charles Grandison.
Annus Memorabilis, 1789. Written In Commemoration Of His Majesty's Happy Recovery.
Another Comparison. Addressed To A Young Lady.
Another Inscription For A Stone Erected On A Similar Occasion At The Same Place In The Following Year.
Another to the Same. (To Leonora)
Another to the Same. (To Leonora)
Answer
Anti-Thelyphthora
Author Of "The Botanic Garden."
Beau's Reply.
Bid adieu, my sad heart
Boadicea. An Ode.
BOOK I.
BOOK II.
BOOK III.
BOOK IV.
BOOK V.
BOOK VI.
But finding soon a smoother road
Catharina. Addressed To Miss Stapleton (Afterwards Mrs. Courtney).
Catharina: The Second Part: On Her Marriage To George Courtenay, Esq.
Charity
Contentment. - Philippians iv.11.
Cowper's Reply.
Delia, th' unkindest girl on earth
Dependence.
Elegy I. To Charles Diodati.[1]
Elegy II. On The Death Of The University Beadle At Cambridge.[1]
Elegy III. Anno Aetates 17.[1] On The Death Of The Bishop Of Winchester.[2]
Elegy IV. Anno Aetates 18. To My Tutor, Thomas Young,[1] Chaplain Of The English Merchants Resident At Hamburg.
Elegy V. Anno Aetates 20. On The Approach Of Spring.
Elegy VI To Charles Diodati, When He Was Visiting In The Country
Elegy VI. Anno Aetates Undevigesimo.[1]
Ephraim Repenting. - Jeremiah xxxi.18-20.
Epigram Printed In The Northampton Mercury.
Epigrams on his Garden Shed
Epitaph On A Free But Tame Redbreast, A Favourite Of Miss Sally Hurdis.
Epitaph On A Hare.
Epitaph On Dr. Johnson.
Epitaph On Fop, A Dog Belonging To Lady Throckmorton.
Epitaph On Mr. Chester, Of Chicheley.
Epitaph On Mrs. M. Higgins, Of Weston.
Exhortation To Prayer.
Expostulation
Extract From A Sunday-School Hymn.
For The Poor.
Friendship.
From
From A Letter To The Rev. Mr. Newton, Late Rector Of St. Mary Woolnoth.
Grace And Providence.
Gratitude. Addressed To Lady Hesketh.
Hatred Of Sin.
Heroism.
HORACE. Book the 2d. ODE the 10th
How blest the youth whom Fate ordains
Human Frailty.
I Will Praise The Lord At All Times.
In Memory Of
In Memory Of The Late John Thornton, Esq.
Inscription For A Hermitage In The Author's Garden.
Inscription For A Moss-House In The Shrubbery At Weston.
Inscription For A Stone
Inscription For A Stone Erected At The Sowing Of A Grove Of Oaks At Chillington, The Seat Of T. Giffard, Esq., 1790.
Inscription For The Tomb Of Mr. Hamilton.
Jehovah Jesus
Jehovah Our Righteousness. - Jeremiah xxiii.6.
Jehovah-Jireh. The Lord Will Provide. - Genesis xxii.14.
Jehovah-Nissi. The Lord My Banner. - Exodus xvii.15.
Jehovah-Rophi. I Am The Lord That Healeth Thee. - Exodus xv.26.
Jehovah-Shalom. The Lord Send Peace
Jehovah-Shalom. The Lord Send Peace. - Judges vi.24.
Jehovah-Shammah. - Ezekiel xlviii.35.
Jesus Hasting To Suffer.
John Gilpin was a citizen...
Joy and Peace in Believing
Light Shining out of Darkness
Lines Addressed To Miss Theodora Jane Cowper.
Lines Composed For A Memorial Of Ashley Cowper, Esq. Immediately After His Death, By His Nephew William Of Weston.
Lines On A Sleeping Infant.
Lines On The Death Of Sir William Russel.
Lines Written In An Album
Lines Written In An Album Of Miss Patty More's, Sister Of Hannah More.
Lines.
Lively Hope and Gracious Fear
Living and a Dead Faith
Longing To Be With Christ.
Looking Upwards In A Storm.
Love Abused.
Love Constraining To Obedience.
Lovest Thou Me? - John xxi.16.
Mary And John.
Mortals! around your destin'd heads
Mourning And Longing.
Mutual Forbearance Necessary To The Happiness Of The Married State.
My Soul Thirsteth For God.
Not Of Works.
O Lord, I Will Praise Thee. - Isaiah xii.1.
Ode Supposed to be Written on the Marriage of a Friend
Ode To Apollo. On An Inkglass Almost Dried In The Sun.
Ode To Peace.
Old Testament Gospel. - Hebrews iv.2.
On A Goldfinch, Starved To Death In His Cage.
On A Mischievous Bull, Which The Owner Of Him Sold At The Author's Instance.
On A Mistake In His Translation Of Homer.
On A Plant Of Virgin's Bower. Designed To Cover A Garden-Seat.
On A Similar Occasion. For The Year 1788.
On A Similar Occasion. For The Year 1789.
On A Similar Occasion. For The Year 1790.
On A Similar Occasion. For The Year 1792.
On A Similar Occasion. For The Year 1793.
On A Spaniel, Called Beau, Killing A Young Bird.
On Flaxman's Penelope.
On Her Endeavouring to Conceal Her Grief at Parting
On Mrs. Montague's Feather-Hangings.
On Observing Some Names Of Little Note Recorded In The Biographia Britannica.
On Opening a Place for Social Prayer
On Receipt Of My Mother's Picture
On Receiving Hayley's Picture.
On Receiving Heyne's Virgil From Mr. Hayley.
On The Author Of Letters On Literature.[1]
On The Author Of Letters On Literature.[837]
On The Benefit Received By His Majesty From Sea-Bathing In The Year 1789.
On The Burning Of Lord Mansfield's Library, Together With His Mss., By The Mob, In The Month Of June 1780.
On The Death Of A Minister.
On The Death Of Mrs. (Afterwards Lady) Throckmorton's Bullfinch.
On the Death of the Bishop of Ely.[1] Anno Aetates 17.
On the Death of the Vice-Chancellor, A Physician.[1]
On the Engraver of his Portrait.[1]
On The Gunpowder Plot.[1]
On The High Price Of Fish.
On The Ice Islands Seen Floating In The German Ocean.
On The Loss Of The Royal George
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 A Hamper.
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]
Peace after a Storm
Pity For Poor Africans.
Pleading For And With Youth.
Praise for Faith
Praise For The Fountain Opened. - Zechariah xiii.1.
Prayer For A Blessing On The Young.
Prayer for Children
Prayer for Patience
Psalm CXIV
Report Of An Adjudged Case, Not To Be Found In Any Of The Books
Report Of An Adjudged Case, Not To Be Found In Any Of The Books.
Retirement
Retirement
Sardis. - Revelation iii.1-6.
See where the Thames, the purest stream
Seeking The Beloved.
Self-Acquaintance.
Song.
Song. On Peace.
Sonnet To A Young Lady On Her Birth-Day.
Sonnet To George Romney, Esq. On His Picture Of Me In Crayons,
Sonnet, Addressed To Henry Cowper, Esq.
Sonnet, Addressed To William Hayley, Esq.
Stanzas Addressed To Lady Hesketh, By A Lady,
Stanzas.
Stanzas. On The Late Indecent Liberties Taken With The Remains Of Milton.[1]
Submission.
Temptation.
That Nature Is Not Subject To Decay.
The Bird's Nest. A Tale.[1]
The Castaway.
The Christian
The Cock-Fighter's Garland.[1]
The Cock-Fighter'S Garland.[830]
The Colubriad.
The Contrite Heart. - Isaiah lvii.15.
The Covenant. - Ezekiel xxxvi.25-28.