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THE
POETICAL WORKS
OF
WILLIAM COWPER.
EDITED BY THE
REV. T. S. GRIMSHAWE, A.M., F.S.A., M.R.S.L.
Author of the "Life of Legh Richmond," and Editor of the "Complete Works of William Cowper."
With Ellustrations.
COMPLETE IN TWO VOLUMES.
VOL. II.
NEW YORK:
ROBERT CARTER & BROTHERS, No. 285 BROADWAY.
1850.
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CONTENTS OF VOL. II.
Page 13
The Nightingale and Glow-worm............
An Epistle to an afflicted Protestant Lady in France 14
To the Rev. W. Cawthorne Unwin
16
To the Rev. Mr. Newton............
17
Catharina
18
19
21
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The Moralizer corrected..
The Faithful Bird....
The Needless Alarm.
Boadicea
............ 26
Heroism...
28
On the receipt of my Mother's Picture out of Norfolk 31
Friendship..
34
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On a mischievous Bull which the Owner of him sold
at the Author's instance.....................................................................
Annus memorabilis, 1789. Written in commemo-
ration of his Majesty's happy recovery...........
Hymn for the Sunday School at Olney
Stanzas subjoined to a Bill of Mortality for the year
1787
....
The same for 1788........
The same for 1789...
The same for 1790.......
The same for 1792.......
The same for 1793.......
On a Goldfinch starved to Death in his Cage....
The Pineapple and the Bee........
An Ode, on reading Richardson's History of Sir
Charles Grandison...
An Epistle to Robert Lloyd, Esq......
A tale founded on a Fact, which happened in Jan.,
1779..................................
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41
42
44
45
Verses written at Bath, on finding the heel of a Shoe 56
54
61
To the Rev. Mr. Newton, on his return from Rams-
gate.
Love Abused
A poetical Epistle to Lady Austen.....................................
The Colubriad ·······
Song. On Peace..........
Song "When all within is Peace"....
Verses selected from an occasional Poem entitled
"Valediction"...................
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Epitaph on Dr. Johnson............................
To Miss C, on her Birthday
Page
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Gratitude............
Lines composed for a Memorial of Ashley Cowper,
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Sonnet to George Romney, Esq...
Mary and John..........
Epitaph on Mr. Chester, of Chichely..
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Esq.....
On the Queen's Visit to London..
The Cockfighter's Garland.....
To Warren Hastings, Esq...
To Mrs. Throckmorton
To the Immortal Memory of the Halibut on which I
.............
dined................
82
Inscription for a Stone erected at the sowing of a
Grove of Oaks....
Another...................
63
64
67
69
To Mrs. King.....
In Memory of the late John Thornton, Esq.
The Four Ages...................
The Retired Cat........
The Judgment of the Poets.
Yardley Oak..
To the Nightingale which the author heard sing on
New Year's Day..
98
Lines written in an album of Miss Patty More's.... 99
Sonnet to William Wilberforce, Esq...
99
Epigram on refining Sugar....
........... 100
To Dr. Austin, of Cecil Street, London............. 100
Catharina; on her Marriage to George Courtenay,
74
78
81
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93
83
84
85
........ 101
Epitaph on Fop, a dog belonging to Lady Throck-
morton................
102
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