LIFE AND WORKS

OP

WILLIAM COWPER

NOW FIRST COMPLETED BY THE INTRODUCTION OF HIS

66 PRIVATE CORRESPONDENCE.”

REVISED, ARRANGED, ANL EDITED BY

THE REV. T. S. GRIMSHAWE, A.M.

RECTOR OF BURTON, NORTHAMPTONSHIRE, AND VICAR OF
BIDDENHAM, BEDFORDSHIRE, AUTHOR OF THE LIFE OF THE REV. LEGH RICHMOND.

WITH

AN ESSAY ON THE GENIUS AND POETRY OF COWPER.

CONTENTS.

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The Task, In Sıx Books.

Book III. THE GARDEN

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IV. THE WINTER EVENING

33

V. THE WINTER MORNING WALK

63

VI. THE WINTER WALK AT Noon 97

Epistle to Joseph Hill, Esq.

135

Tirocinium; or, a Review of Schools

139

The Yearly Distress, or Tithing Time at Stock, in Essex 173

Sonnet addressed to Henry Cowper, Esq.

176

Lines addressed to Dr. Darwin

177

On Mrs. Montagu's Feather Hangings

178

Verses supposed to be written by Alexander Selkirk,

during his solitary Abode in the Island of Juan Fer-

nandez

180

On observing some Names of little note in the Biogra-

phía Britannica

182

Report of an adjudged Case

183

On the Promotion of Edward Thurlow, Esq. to the Lord

High Chancellorsbip of England

185

Ode to Peace

186

Human Frailty

187

The Modern Patriot

188

On the Burning of Lord Mansfield's Library, &c. 189

On the same

189

The Love of the World Reproved

190

On the Death of Mrs. (now Lady) Throckmorton's Bull-

finch

192

The Rose

· 195

The Doves

196

A Fable

198

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Ode to Apollo

• 199

A Comparison

201

Another, addressed to a Young Lady

201

The Poet's New Year's Gift

202

Pairing-time anticipated

203

The Dog and the Water Lily

. 206

The Winter Nosegay

• 208

The Poet, the Oyster, and the Sensitive Plant

209

The Shrubbery

211

Mutual Forbearance necessary to the Married State 212

The Negro's Complaint

. 215

Pity for Poor Africans

. 217

The Morning Dream

. 219

The Diverting History of John Gilpin

221

The Nightingale and Glowworm

232

An Epistle to an afflicted Protestant Lady in France 233

To the Rev. W. Cawthorne Unwin

To the Rev. Mr. Newton

236

Catharina

238

The Moralizer corrected

240

The Faithful Bird

242

The Needless Alarm

244

Boadicea

249

Heroism

251

On the Receipt of my Mother's Picture out of Norfolk 254

Friendship

258

On a mischievous Bull, which the Owner of him sold at

the Author's instance

266

Annus memorabilis, 1789. Written in Commemoration

of his Majesty's happy recovery

Hymn for the use of the Sunday School at Olney 270

Stanzas subjoined to a Bill of Mortality for the year 1787 272

The same for 1788

274

The same for 1789

276

The same for 1790

The same for 1792

280

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