The Poetical Works of William Cowper

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Warne, 1872 - 611 pages

Contents

Verses written at Bath
1
An Ode on Reading Sir Charles Grandison
17
Address to Miss Macartney afterwards Mrs Greville on Reading
24
M312280
29
OLNEY HYMNS
30
The Future Peace and Glory of the Church
36
Old Testament Gospel
42
Exhortation to Prayer
48
Boadicea
394
Lines Composed for a Memorial of Ashley Cowper
405
Epigram
411
On the Benefit Received by His Majesty from Seabathing in the Year 1789
423
To Mrs King on her kind Present to the Author a Patchwork Counter
431
Sonnet to a Young Lady on her Birthday
439
To Dr Austen of Cecil Street London
445
Epitaph on Mr Chester of Chicheley
451

The Waiting Soul
50
SelfAcquaintance
56
Lively Hope and Gracious Fear 62
62
Dependence
68
Love Abused the Thought suggested by Thelyphthora
79
The Progress of Error
93
Truth
107
Table Talk
125
Expostulation
142
The Diverting History of John Gilpin
212
THE TASK
219
99
272
The Winter Morning Walk17
290
99
310
Tirocinium or a Review of Schools
333
MISCELLANEOUS POEMS
354
A Riddle
362
The Flatting Mill
371
Human Frailty
378
On Receiving Heynes Virgil from Mr Hayley
462
TRANSLATIONS
468
On Pedigree from Epicharmus
478
The Ninth Satire of the First Book of Horace
484
On the Death of the Bishop of Winchester
506
To his Tutor Thomas Young
512
To Charles Diodati
523
On the Death of the ViceChancellor
527
On the Platonic Idea as it was understood by Aristotle
533
On the Death of Damon
541
An Ode Addressed to Mr Rous Librarian of the University of Oxford
548
Translations from Vincent Bourne
554
The Innocent Thief
562
Epigrams Translated from the Latin of Owen
566
A Figurative Description of the Procedure of Divine Love
574
Aspiration of the Soul after
580
Glory to God Alone
586
Translations from the Fables of Gay
608

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