BY WILLIAM COWPER, Of the Inner Temple, Esq. fi'titaqasc tremulum Ubrts ubi lumen ahenis Virg. ./En. viii. A NEW EDITION. PRINTED FOR J. JOHNSON AND CO. ST. PAUL'3 1810. Page The Yearly Distress, or Tithing time at Stock Sonnet to Henry Cowper, Esq. . . . . . 26l Lines addressed to Dr. Darwin . . . . 262 On Mrs. Montagu's Feather Hangings . . 263 Verses supposed to he written by Alexander Selkirk, during his Abode in the Island of On the Promotion of Edward Thurlow Esq., to the Chancellorship of England . . . 269 On observing some Names of little Note record- ed in the Biographia Britanmca . . . 275 Report of an adjudged Case, not to be found On the Burning of Lord Mansfield's Library 278 Another, addressed to a young Lady . . . 292 The Poet's New-Year's Gift 293 Pairing Time anticipated, a Fable .... 296 The Dog and the Water-Lily 299 The Poet, the Oyster, and the Sensitive Plant 302 Mutual Forbearance necessary to the Happiness The Nightingale and Glow-worm . . . .320 On a Goldfinch starved to Death in his Cage 322 The Pineapple and the Bee ...... 323 A Reflection on the foregoing Ode. . * .327 Idem Latine Redditum ....... 333 Translations from Vincent Bourne .... 336' Translation of Prior's Chloe and Euphelia- . 349 The history of John Gilpin 350 PREFACE FIRST VOLUME. When an Author, by appearing in print, requests an audience of the Public, and is upon the point of speaking for himself, whoever presumes to step before him with a preface, and to say, "Nay, but hear me first," should have something worthy of attention to offer, or he will be justly deemed officious and impertinent. The judicious reader has probably, upon other occasions, been beforehand with me in this reflection: and I am not very willing it should now be applied to me, however I may seem to expose myself to the danger of it. But the thought of having my own name perpetuated in connexion with the name in the title page is so |