The Poetical Works of William Cowper

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Routledge, Warne and Routledge, 1862 - 630 pages

Contents

Horace
xxii
Catharina
xliv
Verses written at Bath on finding the Heel of a Shoe in 1748
1
The Ninth Satire of the First Book of Horace
11
Ode to Miss Macartney
19
The Progress of Error
39
Expostulation
67
11
76
To William Hayley
437
On the Ice Islands seen floating in the German Ocean
443
To Warren Hastings
449
Verses printed by Himself or a Flood at Olney
459
Epitaphium Alterum
466
Written in a Quarrel
469
R S
476
431
479

39
84
Human Frailty
161
Idem Latine Redditum
167
An Invitation to the Rev Mr Newton
180
The Garden
227
The Winter Evening
247
The Winter Morning Walk
266
The Winter Walk at Noon
287
Tirocinium or A Review of Schools
313
The Diverting History of John Gilpin
336
To the Rev Mr Newton on his Return from Ramsgate
344
On the Loss of the Royal George
355
The Rose
361
The FlattingMill
367
On the Benefit received by his Majesty from Seabathing
373
The Poets New Years Gift
382
Epigram
389
Motto for a Clock
393
To Mrs Throckmorton
401
Inscription for a Stone erected at the Sowing of a Grove of Oaks
407
The Four Ages
413
Yardley
419
Lines written for insertion in a Collection of Handwritings
425
An Epitaph 1792
430
An Attempt at the Manner of Waller
480
The Castaway
488
Elegy IV
495
Elegy VI
501
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
An Ode addressed to Mr John Rouse
531
Sonnets
534
Translation from Ovid
547
A Manual more ancient than the Art of Printing
553
The Silkworm
559
From the Greek of Julianus
568
On an Old Woman
572
On an Ugly Fellow
578
Avarus et Plutus
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 SolitudeUnhappy
621
The Acquiescence of Pure Love
627
160
644

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