BY

WILLIAM COWPER, ESQ.

OF THE INNER TEMPLE

IN THREE VOLUMES.

Sicut aquæ tremulum labris ubi lumen ahenis
Sole repercussum, aut radiantis imagine lunæ,
Omnia pervolitat late loca, jamque sub auras
Erigitur, summique ferit laquearia tecti.

Virg. Æn. vili.
So water, trembling in a polish'd vase,
Reflects the beam that plays upon its face;
The sportive light, uncertain where it falls,
Now strikes the roof, vow Sashes ou the walls

VOL. I.

STEREOTYPED BY T. H. CARTER & CO. BOSTOK.

PUBLISHED BY TIMOTHY BEDLINGTON,
No. 31, WASHINGTON-STREET.

CONTENTS

OF

THE FIRST VOLUME.

85

Table Talk,

11

Progress of Errour,

32

Truth,

49

30 Expostulation,

65

Hope,

Charity,

- 106

Conversation,

- 124

Retirement,

149

The Yearly Distress, or Tithing Time at Stock in

Essex,

• 171

Sonnet to Henry Cowper, Esq.

· 174

Lines addressed to Dr. Darwin,

· 175

On Mrs. Montagu's Feather-Hangings,

176

Verses, supposed to be written by Alexander

Selkirk during his abode in the Island of

Juan Fernandez,

· 178

On the promotion of Edward Thurlow, Esq. to

the Chancellorship of England,

- 180

Ode to Peace,

• 181

Human Frailty,

- 182

The Modern Patriot,

- 183

On observing some names of little Note recorded

in the Biographia Britannica,

- 184

Report of an adjudged Case, not to be found in

any of the Books,

ibid.

On the Burning of Lord Mansfield's Library, 186

On the Same,

• 187

The Love of the World reproved,

• 188

On the death of Lady Throckmorton's Bulfinch, 189

The Rose,

190

The Doves,

A Fable,

A Comparison,

195

Another, addressed to a young Lady,

196

'The Poet's New Year's Gift,

ibid.

Ode to Apollo,

197

Pairing Time anticipated, a Fable,

198

The Dog and the Water Lily,

201

The Poet, the Oyster, and the Sensitivo Plant, 202

The Shrubbery,

204

The Winter Nosegay,

205

Mutual Forbearance necessary to the happiness

of the Married State,

206

The Negro's Complaint,

208

Pity for poor Africans,

210

The Morning Dream,

212

The Nightingale and Glow-worm,

213

On a Goldfinch starved to death in his Cage, 215

The Pine Apple and the Bee,

216

Horace, Book II. Ode X.

217

A reflection on the foregoing Ode,

218

The Lily and the Rose,

219

Idem, Latine Redditum,

220

The Poplar Field,

Idem, Latine Redditum,

Votum,

Translations from Vincent Bourne,

Cicindela,

The Glow-worm,

Cornicula,

The Jackdaw,

226

Ad Grillum. Anacreonticum,

227

The Cricket,

229

Simile agit in simile,

230

The Parrot,

231

Translation of Prior's Chloe and Euphelia,

999

The History of John Gilpin,

Epistle to an afflicted Protestant Lady in France, 242

To the Rev. W. C. Unwin,

244

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