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Contents
Horace | xxii |
Verses written at Bath on finding the Heel of a Shoe in 1748 | 1 |
The Ninth Satire of the First Book of Horace | 11 |
Table Talk | 19 |
Truth | 53 |
Expostulation | 67 |
Hope | 84 |
Charity | 101 |
To the Nightingale which the Author heard sing on New Years | 424 |
Catharina | 427 |
To a Young Friend | 434 |
On receiving Heynes Virgil from Mr Hayley | 440 |
Monumental Inscription to William Northcot | 446 |
To the Rev William Bull | 452 |
On the High Price of Fish | 459 |
Epitaphium Alterum | 466 |
Conversation | 116 |
Retirement | 137 |
The Doves | 155 |
Human Frailty | 161 |
Idem Latine Redditum | 167 |
A Reflection on the Foregoing | 171 |
The Winter Nosegay | 177 |
The Poet the Oyster and Sensitive Plant | 184 |
207 | 287 |
An Epistle to Joseph Hill | 311 |
The Diverting History of John Gilpin | 336 |
To the Rev Mr Newton on his Return from Ramsgate | 344 |
On Friendship | 350 |
In Submersionem Navigii cui Georgius Regale Nomen | 356 |
The Valediction | 362 |
Lines composed for a Memorial of Ashley Cowper Esq | 368 |
On the Benefit received by his Majesty from Seabathing | 373 |
The Poets New Years Gift | 382 |
Epigram | 389 |
Motto for a Clock | 393 |
Annus Memorabilis 1789 | 401 |
Hymn | 408 |
The Judgment of the Poets | 415 |
Written in a Quarrel | 469 |
R S | 476 |
An Attempt at the Manner of Waller | 482 |
The Castaway | 488 |
To Leonora singing at Rome | 507 |
On the Platonic Idea as it was understood by Aristotle | 513 |
To Giovanni Battista Manso Marquis of Villa | 520 |
Sonnets | 535 |
Translation from Ovid | 547 |
A Manual more ancient than the Art of Printing | 554 |
Denners Old Woman | 560 |
TRANSLATIONS OF GREEK VERSES | 568 |
On an Old Woman | 572 |
On an Ugly Fellow | 578 |
513 | 581 |
Avarus et Plutns | 584 |
The Perfect Sacrifice | 589 |
Watching unto God in the Night Season | 597 |
Joy in Martyrdom | 603 |
The Nativity | 609 |
The Triumph of Heavenly Love desired | 615 |
Happy Solitude | 621 |
The Acquiescence of Pure Love | 627 |
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Bibliographic information
| Title | The Poetical Works of William Cowper Routledge's British poets |
| Author | William Cowper |
| Editor | Robert Aris Willmott |
| Publisher | Routledge, Warne and Routledge, 1862 |
| Original from | University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign |
| Digitized | 21 Oct 2016 |
| Length | 630 pages |
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