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William Cowper- Collected Poetical Works

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by William Cowper


  XXXIX. THE VALLEY OF THE SHADOW OF DEATH.

  XL. PEACE AFTER A STORM.

  XLI. MOURNING AND LONGING.

  XLII. SELF-ACQUAINTANCE.

  XLIII. PRAYER FOR PATIENCE.

  XLIV. SUBMISSION.

  XLV. THE HAPPY CHANGE.

  XLVI. RETIREMENT.

  XLVII. THE HIDDEN LIFE.

  XLVIII. JOY AND PEACE IN BELIEVING.

  XLIX. TRUE PLEASURES.

  L. THE CHRISTIAN.

  LI. LIVELY HOPE AND GRACIOUS FEAR.

  LII. FOR THE POOR.

  LIII. MY SOUL THIRSTETH FOR GOD.

  LIV. LOVE CONSTRAINING TO OBEDIENCE.

  LV. THE HEART HEALED AND CHANGED BY MERCY.

  LVI. HATRED OF SIN.

  LVII. THE NEW CONVERT.

  LVIII. TRUE AND FALSE COMFORTS.

  LIX. A LIVING AND A DEAD FAITH.

  LX. ABUSE OF THE GOSPEL.

  LXI. THE NARROW WAY.

  LXII. DEPENDENCE.

  LXIII. NOT OF WORKS.

  LXIV. PRAISE FOR FAITH.

  LXV. GRACE AND PROVIDENCE.

  LXVI. I WILL PRAISE THE LORD AT ALL TIMES.

  LXVII. LONGING TO BE WITH CHRIST.

  LXVIII. LIGHT SHINING OUT OF DARKNESS.

  HYMN FOR THE USE OF THE SUNDAY SCHOOL AT OLNEY

  AMAZING GRACE! BY JOHN NEWTON

  THE NATIVITY

  GOD NEITHER KNOWN NOR LOVED BY THE WORLD

  THE SWALLOW

  THE TRIUMPH OF HEAVENLY LOVE DESIRED

  A FIGURATIVE DESCRIPTION OF THE PROCEDURE OF DIVINE LOVE

  A CHILD OF GOD LONGING TO SEE HIM BELOVED

  ASPIRATIONS OF THE SOUL AFTER GOD

  GRATITUDE AND LOVE TO GOD

  HAPPY SOLITUDE — UNHAPPY MEN

  LIVING WATER

  TRUTH AND DIVINE LOVE REJECTED BY THE WORLD

  DIVINE JUSTICE AMIABLE

  THE SOUL THAT LOVES GOD FINDS HIM EVERYWHERE

  THE TESTIMONY OF DIVINE ADOPTION

  DIVINE LOVE ENDURES NO RIVAL

  SELF-DIFFIDENCE

  THE ACQUIESCENCE OF PURE LOVE

  REPOSE IN GOD

  GLORY TO GOD ALONE

  SELF-LOVE AND TRUTH INCOMPATIBLE

  THE LOVE OF GOD THE END OF LIFE

  LOVE FAITHFUL IN THE ABSENCE OF THE BELOVED

  LOVE PURE AND FERVENT

  THE ENTIRE SURRENDER

  THE PERFECT SACRIFICE

  GOD HIDES HIS PEOPLE

  THE SECRETS OF DIVINE LOVE ARE TO BE KEPT

  THE VICISSITUDES EXPERIENCED IN THE CHRISTIAN LIFE

  WATCHING UNTO GOD IN THE NIGHT SEASON

  ON THE SAME

  ON THE SAME

  THE JOY OF THE CROSS

  JOY IN MARTYRDOM

  SIMPLE TRUST

  THE NECESSITY OF SELF-ABASEMENT

  LOVE INCREASED BY SUFFERING

  SCENES FAVOURABLE TO MEDITATION

  THE FIFTH SATIRE OF THE FIRST BOOK OF HORACE : A HUMOROUS DESCRIPTION OF THE AUTHOR’S JOURNEY FROM ROME TO BRUNDUSIUM

  THE NINTH SATIRE OF THE FIRST BOOK OF HORACE: THE DESCRIPTION OF AN IMPERTINENT. ADAPTED TO THE PRESENT TIMES

  HORACE, BOOK I. ODE IX.

  HORACE, BOOK I. ODE XXXVIII.

  HORACE, BOOK II. ODE XVI.

  TRANSLATION FROM VIRGIL. ÆNEID, BOOK VIII. LINE 18.

  THE SALAD BY VIRGIL

  OVID. TRIST. LIB. V. ELEGY XII.

  THE GLOWWORM.

  THE JACKDAW.

  THE CRICKET.

  THE PARROT.

  ON THE PICTURE OF A SLEEPING CHILD.

  THE THRACIAN.

  RECIPROCAL KINDNESS THE PRIMARY LAW OF NATURE.

  A MANUAL, MORE ANCIENT THAN THE ART OF PRINTING, AND NOT TO BE FOUND IN ANY CATALOGUE.

  AN ENIGMA.

  SPARROWS SELF-DOMESTICATED IN TRINITY COLLEGE, CAMBRIDGE.

  FAMILIARITY DANGEROUS.

  INVITATION TO THE REDBREAST.

  STRADA’S NIGHTINGALE.

  ODE ON THE DEATH OF A LADY, WHO LIVED ONE HUNDRED YEARS, AND DIED ON HER BIRTHDAY, 1728.

  THE CAUSE WON.

  THE SILKWORM.

  THE INNOCENT THIEF.

  DENNER’S OLD WOMAN.

  THE TEARS OF A PAINTER.

  THE MAZE.

  NO SORROW PECULIAR TO THE SUFFERER.

  THE SNAIL.

  THE CANTAB.

  ON ONE IGNORANT AND ARROGANT

  PRUDENT SIMPLICITY

  TO A FRIEND IN DISTRESS

  WHEN LITTLE MORE THAN BOY IN AGE

  RETALIATION

  SUNSET AND SUNRISE

  ON AN INFANT

  ON A FOWLER, BY ISIDORUS

  ON NIOBE

  ON A GOOD MAN

  ON A MISER

  ON A MISER II

  ON A MISER III

  ON HERMOCRATIA

  BY HERACLIDES

  ON FEMALE INCONSTANCY

  ON THE REED

  TO HEALTH

  ON THE SWALLOW

  ON THE GRASSHOPPER

  ON A BATH, BY PLATO

  ON PALLAS BATHING, FROM A HYMN OF CALLIMACHUS

  FROM MENANDER

  ON LATE ACQUIRED WEALTH

  ON FLATTERERS

  ON A TRUE FRIEND

  ON INVALIDS

  ON THE ASTROLOGERS

  ON AN OLD WOMAN

  TO DEMOSTHENES

  ON A SIMILAR CHARACTER

  ON A BATTERED BEAUTY

  ON AN UGLY FELLOW

  ON A THIEF

  ON ENVY

  ON PEDIGREE. FROM EPICHARMUS

  BY PHILEMON

  BY MOSCHUS

  AN EPIGRAM FROM HOMER

  TRANSLATION OF PRIOR’S CHLOE AND EUPHELIA

  TRANSLATION OF DRYDEN’S POEM ON MILTON.

  TRANSLATION OF A SIMILE IN PARADISE LOST.

  A SIMILE LATINISED.

  LEPUS MULTIS AMICUS.

  AVARUS ET PLUTUS.

  PAPILIO ET LIMAX.

  THE NEAPOLITAN, GIOVANNI BATTISTA MANSO, MARQUIS OF VILLA, TO THE ENGLISHMAN, JOHN MILTON

  AN EPIGRAM

  TO JOHN MILTON

  AN ODE TO JOHN MILTON, ENGLISH GENTLEMAN

  TO MR. JOHN MILTON OF LONDON

  ELEGY I

  ELEGY II

  ELEGY III

  ELEGY IV

  ELEGY V

  ELEGY VI

  ELEGY VI

  ON THE INVENTOR OF GUNS

  TO LEONORA SINGING AT ROME

  TO LEONORA SINGING AT ROME II

  THE COTTAGER AND HIS LANDLORD. A FABLE

  TO CHRISTINA, QUEEN OF SWEDEN, WITH CROMWELL’S PICTURE

  FAIR LADY

  AS ON A HILL-TOP RUDE

  CANZONE

  TO CHARLES DIODATI

  LADY! IT CANNOT BE, BUT THAT THINE EYES

  ENAMOUR’D, ARTLESS, YOUNG, ON FOREIGN GROUND

  ON LOYALTY

  LETTER IN VERSE

  IN A LETTER TO C. P. ESQ. ILL WITH THE RHEUMATISM

  IN A LETTER TO THE SAME IN IMITATION OF SHAKESPEARE

  A THUNDER STORM

  RIDDLE

  TOM RABAN

  METHINKS I SEE THEE DECENTLY ARRAY’D

  IMPROMPTU ON READING THE CHAPTER ON POLYGAMY, IN MR. MADAN’S THELYPHTHORA

  ON MADAN’S ANSWER TO NEWTON’S COMMENTS ON THELYPHTHORA

  ON A REVIEW CONDEMNING THELYPHTHORA

  ON THE HIGH PRICE OF FISH

  TO MRS. NEWTON.

  LET BANISTER NOW LEND HIS AID

  AGAINST INTERESTED LOVE

  FRAGMENT: HE CAME TO HIM IN THE EXTASY OF PRAY’R

  ONE PARSON, ONE POET, ONE BELMAN, ONE CRIER

  LINES WRITTEN ON A PAGE OF THE MONTHLY REVIEW, WHICH HAD SPOKEN OF MR. NEWTON’S OPINIONS AS CANT

  IMPROMPTU ON WRITING A LETTER WITHOUT HAVING ANYTHING TO SAY

  LINES AFTER THE MANNER OF HOMER, DESCRIPTIVE OF THE OPENING OF A HAMPER

  IT IS A MAXIM OF MUCH WEIGHT

  LINES WRITTEN FOR INSERTION IN A COLLECTION OF HANDWRITINGS


  TO A YOUNG LADY WHO STOLE A PEN FROM THE PRINCE OF WALES’S STANDISH

  ON A MISTAKE IN HIS TRANSLATION OF HOMER

  AWAY GOES SUSSEX WILLIAM WITH HIS PACK

  TO SIR JOHN FENN

  ON THURLOW

  ON HIS PORTRAIT

  ON HIS APPROACHING VISIT TO HAYLEY

  ON HAYLEY’S PORTRAIT

  ON RECEIVING HAYLEY’S PICTURE

  THANKS FOR A GIFT OF PHEASANTS

  MY PENS ARE ALL SPLIT, AND MY INK-GLASS IS DRY

  AN EPIGRAM IS BUT A FEEBLE THING

  AH BROTHER POET! SEND ME OF YOUR SHADE

  EPIGRAMS ON HIS GARDEN SHED

  ON A LETTER OF MISS FANSHAWE

  TO GRAVINA, ON HIS TRANSLATING THE AUTHOR’S SONG ON A ROSE INTO ITALIAN VERSE

  ON FLAXMAN’S PENELOPE

  ON RECEIVING HEYNE’S VIRGIL FROM HAYLEY

  EXPOSTULATION

  BENEFACTIONS

  THE POEM TO LADY HESKETH

  ON A LITIGIOUS DEBTOR

  ON A NEW-CREATED NOBLE

  VERSE AND PROSE

  COMFORT FOR WALKERS

  TO ERASMUS

  ON HIS CANDID & UNCANDID READERS

  ON THE PRODIGAL AND THE COVETOUS

  CHEAP AND DEAR

  ON THE SALT SEA

  THE EVILS OF BAD EXAMPLE

  PHILAUTOS

  TO LADY M. N. HIS PATRONESS

  THE PHILOSOPHER AND THE KING

  ON THE ENGRAVER OF HIS POURTRAIT

  IN VAIN TO LIVE FROM AGE TO AGE I

  IN VAIN TO LIVE FROM AGE TO AGE II

  A SONNET: PHILLIPS! THE SUFF’RER LESS BY LAW THAN POW’R

  THE GRIEF OF AN HEIR

  ON THE JOY UNIVERSALLY EXPRESS’D ON THE KING’S HAPPY ESCAPE FROM ASSASSINATION

  CUM RATIONE INSANIRE

  A GOOD SONG

  TRANSLATION

  THE SCHOLAR AT HIS WITS’ END

  PSALM 114TH

  A HYMN FOR A CHILD THAT HAS UNGODLY PARENTS

  List of Poems in Alphabetical Order

  A-D E-H I-L M-O P-S T-V W-Z

  A CARD

  A CHILD OF GOD LONGING TO SEE HIM BELOVED

  A COMPARISON

  A FABLE

  A FIGURATIVE DESCRIPTION OF THE PROCEDURE OF DIVINE LOVE

  A GOOD SONG

  A HYMN FOR A CHILD THAT HAS UNGODLY PARENTS

  A MANUAL, MORE ANCIENT THAN THE ART OF PRINTING, AND NOT TO BE FOUND IN ANY CATALOGUE.

  A POETICAL EPISTLE TO LADY AUSTEN

  A REFLECTION ON THE FOREGOING ODE

  A SIMILE LATINISED.

  A SONG OF MERCY AND JUDGMENT

  A SONG: ON THE GREEN MARGIN OF THE BROOK

  A SONNET: PHILLIPS! THE SUFF’RER LESS BY LAW THAN POW’R

  A TALE

  A TALE, FOUNDED ON A FACT WHICH HAPPENED IN JANUARY, 1779

  A THUNDER STORM

  ADDRESSED TO MISS MACARTNEY ON READING THE PRAYER FOR INDIFFERENCE

  AGAINST INTERESTED LOVE

  AH BROTHER POET! SEND ME OF YOUR SHADE

  AMAZING GRACE! BY JOHN NEWTON

  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 ENIGMA.

  AN EPIGRAM

  AN EPIGRAM FROM HOMER

  AN EPIGRAM IS BUT A FEEBLE THING

  AN EPISTLE TO A PROTESTANT LADY IN FRANCE

  AN EPISTLE TO JOSEPH HILL, ESQ.

  AN EPISTLE TO ROBERT LLOYD, ESQ.

  AN EPITAPH

  AN ODE ON READING MR. RICHARDSON’S HISTORY OF SIR CHARLES GRANDISON

  AN ODE SECUNDUM ARTEM

  AN ODE TO JOHN MILTON, ENGLISH GENTLEMAN

  ANNUS MEMORABILIS, 1789 WRITTEN IN COMMEMORATION OF HIS MAJESTY’S HAPPY RECOVERY

  ANOTHER ADDRESSED TO A YOUNG LADY

  ANOTHER FOR A STONE ERECTED ON A SIMILAR OCCASION AT THE SAME PLACE IN THE FOLLOWING YEAR

  ANSWER TO STANZAS ADDRESSED TO LADY HESKETH BY MISS CATHARINE FANSHAWE

  ANTI-THELYPHTHORA

  AS ON A HILL-TOP RUDE

  ASPIRATIONS OF THE SOUL AFTER GOD

  AVARUS ET PLUTUS.

  AWAY GOES SUSSEX WILLIAM WITH HIS PACK

  BEAU’S REPLY

  BENEFACTIONS

  BID ADIEU, MY SAD HEART

  BOADICEA: AN ODE

  BOOK I. THE SOFA.

  BOOK II. THE TIMEPIECE.

  BOOK III. THE GARDEN.

  BOOK IV. THE WINTER EVENING.

  BOOK V. THE WINTER MORNING WALK.

  BOOK VI. THE WINTER WALK AT NOON.

  BY HERACLIDES

  BY MOSCHUS

  BY PHILEMON

  CANZONE

  CATHARINA ADDRESSED TO MISS STAPLETON

  CATHARINA THE SECOND PART ON HER MARRIAGE TO GEORGE COURTENAY, ESQ.

  CHARITY.

  CHEAP AND DEAR

  COMFORT FOR WALKERS

  CONVERSATION.

  CUM RATIONE INSANIRE

  DELIA, TH’ UNKINDEST GIRL ON EARTH

  DENNER’S OLD WOMAN.

  DIVINE JUSTICE AMIABLE

  DIVINE LOVE ENDURES NO RIVAL

  ELEGY I

  ELEGY II

  ELEGY III

  ELEGY IV

  ELEGY V

  ELEGY VI

  ELEGY VI

  ENAMOUR’D, ARTLESS, YOUNG, ON FOREIGN GROUND

  EPIGRAM (PRINTED IN THE NORTHAMPTON MERCURY)

  EPIGRAM ON THE REFUSAL OF THE UNIVERSITY OF OXFORD TO SUBSCRIBE TO HIS TRANSLATION OF HOMER

  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

  EPITAPHIUM ALTERUM

  EXPOSTULATION

  EXPOSTULATION.

  FAIR LADY

  FAMILIARITY DANGEROUS.

  FRAGMENT: HE CAME TO HIM IN THE EXTASY OF PRAY’R

  FRIENDSHIP

  FROM MENANDER

  GLORY TO GOD ALONE

  GOD HIDES HIS PEOPLE

  GOD NEITHER KNOWN NOR LOVED BY THE WORLD

  GRATITUDE ADDRESSED TO LADY HESKETH

  GRATITUDE AND LOVE TO GOD

  HAPPY SOLITUDE — UNHAPPY MEN

  HEROISM

  HEU! QUAM REMOTUS

  HOPE, LIKE THE SHORT-LIV’D RAY THAT GLEAMS AWHILE

  HOPE.

  HORACE, BOOK I. ODE IX.

  HORACE, BOOK I. ODE XXXVIII.

  HORACE, BOOK II. ODE XVI.

  HORACE. BOOK THE 2ND. ODE THE 10TH.

  HOW BLEST THE YOUTH

  HUMAN FRAILTY

  HYMN FOR THE USE OF THE SUNDAY SCHOOL AT OLNEY

  I. WALKING WITH GOD. — GENESIS V.24.

  IDEM LATINE REDDITUM

  IDEM LATINE REDDITUM

  II. JEHOVAH-JIREH. THE LORD WILL PROVIDE. — GENESIS XXII.14.

  III. JEHOVAH-ROPHI. I AM THE LORD THAT HEALETH THEE. — EXODUS XV.26.

  IMPROMPTU ON READING THE CHAPTER ON POLYGAMY, IN MR. MADAN’S THELYPHTHORA

  IMPROMPTU ON WRITING A LETTER WITHOUT HAVING ANYTHING TO SAY

  IN A LETTER TO C. P. ESQ. ILL WITH THE RHEUMATISM

  IN A LETTER TO THE SAME IN IMITATION OF SHAKESPEARE

  IN MEMORY OF THE LATE JOHN THORNTON, ESQ.

  IN SEDITIONEM HORRENDAM CORRUPT ELIS GALLICIS (UT FERTUR) LONDINI NUPER EXORTAM

  IN SUBMERSIONEM NAVIGII CUI GEORGIUS REGALE NOMEN INDITUM

  IN VAIN TO LIVE FROM AGE TO AGE I

  IN VAIN TO LIVE FROM AGE TO AGE II

  INSCRIPTION FOR A BUST OF HOMER

  INSCRIPTION FOR A MOSS-HOUSE IN THE SHRUBBERY AT WESTON

  INSCRIPTION FOR A STONE ERECTED AT THE SOWING OF A GROVE OF OAKS AT CHILLINGTON, THE. SEAT OF T. GIFFORD, ESQ.,
1790

  INSCRIPTION FOR AN HERMITAGE IN THE AUTHOR’S GARDEN

  INSCRIPTION FOR THE TOMB OF MR. HAMILTON

  INSTRUCTION

  INVITATION TO THE REDBREAST.

  IT IS A MAXIM OF MUCH WEIGHT

  IV. JEHOVAH-NISSI. THE LORD MY BANNER. — EXODUS XVII.15.

  IX. THE CONTRITE HEART. — ISAIAH LVII.15.

  JOY IN MARTYRDOM

  L. THE CHRISTIAN.

  LADY! IT CANNOT BE, BUT THAT THINE EYES

  LEPUS MULTIS AMICUS.

  LET BANISTER NOW LEND HIS AID

  LETTER IN VERSE

  LI. LIVELY HOPE AND GRACIOUS FEAR.

  LII. FOR THE POOR.

  LIII. MY SOUL THIRSTETH FOR GOD.

  LINES ADDRESSED TO DR. DARWIN AUTHOR OF THE BOTANIC GARDEN

  LINES AFTER THE MANNER OF HOMER, DESCRIPTIVE OF THE OPENING OF A HAMPER

  LINES COMPOSED FOR A MEMORIAL OF ASHLEY COWPER, ESQ. IMMEDIATELY AFTER HIS DEATH, BY HIS NEPHEW WILLIAM OF WESTON

  LINES SENT WITH TWO COCKSCOMBS TO MISS GREEN

  LINES WRITTEN DURING A PERIOD OF INSANITY

  LINES WRITTEN FOR INSERTION IN A COLLECTION OF HANDWRITINGS

  LINES WRITTEN ON A PAGE OF THE MONTHLY REVIEW, WHICH HAD SPOKEN OF MR. NEWTON’S OPINIONS AS CANT

  LINES WRITTEN ON A WINDOW-SHUTTER AT WESTON

  LIV. LOVE CONSTRAINING TO OBEDIENCE.

  LIVING WATER

  LIX. A LIVING AND A DEAD FAITH.

  LOVE ABUSED

  LOVE FAITHFUL IN THE ABSENCE OF THE BELOVED

  LOVE INCREASED BY SUFFERING

  LOVE PURE AND FERVENT

  LV. THE HEART HEALED AND CHANGED BY MERCY.

  LVI. HATRED OF SIN.

  LVII. THE NEW CONVERT.

  LVIII. TRUE AND FALSE COMFORTS.

  LX. ABUSE OF THE GOSPEL.

  LXI. THE NARROW WAY.

  LXII. DEPENDENCE.

  LXIII. NOT OF WORKS.

  LXIV. PRAISE FOR FAITH.

  LXV. GRACE AND PROVIDENCE.

  LXVI. I WILL PRAISE THE LORD AT ALL TIMES.

  LXVII. LONGING TO BE WITH CHRIST.

  LXVIII. LIGHT SHINING OUT OF DARKNESS.

  METHINKS I SEE THEE DECENTLY ARRAY’D

  MONTES GLACIALES IN OCEANO GERMANICO NATANTES

  MONUMENTAL INSCRIPTION TO WILLIAM NORTHCOT.

  MORAL

  MORAL

  MORAL

  MORTALS! AROUND YOUR DESTIN’D HEADS

  MOTTO ON THE KING’S CLOCK

  MUTUAL FORBEARANCE NECESSARY TO THE HAPPINESS OF THE MARRIED STATE

  MY PENS ARE ALL SPLIT, AND MY INK-GLASS IS DRY

  NATURE UNIMPAIRED BY TIME

  NO SORROW PECULIAR TO THE SUFFERER.

  ODE ON THE DEATH OF A LADY, WHO LIVED ONE HUNDRED YEARS, AND DIED ON HER BIRTHDAY, 1728.

  ODE SUPPOSED TO BE WRITTEN ON THE MARRIAGE OF A FRIEND

  ODE TO APOLLO ON AN INK-GLASS ALMOST DRIED IN THE SUN

  ODE TO PEACE

  OF HIMSELF

  ON A BATH, BY PLATO

  ON A BATTERED BEAUTY

  ON A FOWLER, BY ISIDORUS

  ON A GOLDFINCH STARVED TO DEATH IN HIS CAGE

  ON A GOOD MAN

  ON A LETTER OF MISS FANSHAWE

 

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