COWPER'S

MINOR POEMS.

PART 11.

CONTENTS.

The Cast-away

Pity for Poor Africans

Alexander Selkirk

The Negro's Complaint

The Morning Dream

The Retired Cat

PART II.

The Love of the World Reproved.....

Mutual Forbearance.........

Love Abused..

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21

23

26

Pairing Time Anticipated

The Moralizer Corrected...

A Fable

The Pine-apple and Bee.

The Poet, the Oyster, and Sensitive Plant

The Nightingale and Glow-worm...

The Dog and the Water-Lily..

On a Spaniel........

The Doves...

The Faithful Bird.....

The Lily and the Rose.......

On a Goldfinch..

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The Modern Patriot...

Report of an Adjudged Case

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The Judgmeut of the Poets......

On a Mischievous Bull..

The Needless Alarm.

On some Names of little note in the Biographia

Britannica.

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49

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52

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60

TRANSLATIONS FROM VINCENT BOURNE.

I. The Glow-worm.......

61

XII. Strada's Nightingale

XIII. On the Death of a Lady, who lived one

76

hundred years

77

XIV. The Cause Won

79

XX. No Sorrow peculiar to the Sufferer

XXI. The Snail.....

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86

Hymn for the use of the Sunday School at Olney..

87

Another, for 1793

98

Inscription for a Stone on a Grove of Oak

Memorial for Ashley Cowper, Esq.

To the Memory of John Thornton, Esq.

To the Memory of Dr. Lloyd

Epitaph on Mrs. Higgins..

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........... on a Hare

.......... on Mr. Hamilton

........... on Fop

MINOR POEMS.

PART II.

VERSES

SUPPOSED TO BE WRITTEN BY

ALEXANDEr selkirk,

DURING HIS SOLITARY ABODE IN THE ISLAND OF JUAN FERNANDEZ.

I AM monarch of all I survey,

My right there is none to dispute;
From the centre all round to the sea,
I am lord of the fowl and the brute.
O Solitude! where are the charms,

That sages have seen in thy face?
Better dwell in the midst of alarms,
Than reign in this horrible place.

I am out of humanity's reach,

I must finish my journey alone,
Never hear the sweet music of speech;
I start at the sound of my own.