The poetical works of William Cowper, ed. by W.M. Rossetti

To Delia, 1755

Duncombe'e Horace, 1759

Ode, supposed to be Written on the Marriage of a Friend

The Fifth Satire of the First Book of Horace. Printed in

The Ninth Satire of the First Book of Horace. Adapted

to the present times

Addressed to Miss Macartney, afterwards Mrs. Greville,

on Reading the Prayer for Indifference, 1762

Anti-Thelyphthora: a Tale in Verse

OLNEY HYMNS-

1. Walking with God

272

2. Jehovah-Jireh The Lord will provide

272

3. Jehovah-Rophi: I am the Lord that healeth thee

13. The Covenant

8. O Lord, I will Praise Thee

9. The Contrite Heart

10. The Future Peace and Glory of the Church

II. Jehovah our Righteousness

12. Ephraim Repenting

14. Jehovah-Shammah

15. Praise for the Fountain Opened

16. The Sower

17. The House of Pray

18. Lovest thou me?

19. Contentment

20. Old Testament Gospel

OLNEY HYMNS, continued —

31. On the Death of a Minister

32. The Shining Light

33. The Waiting Soul

34. Seeking the Beloved

35. Light Shining out of Darkness

36. Welcome Cross

37. Afflictions Sanctified by the Word

38. Temptation

39. Looking Upwards in a Storm

40. The Valley of the Shadow of Death

41. Peace after a Storm

42. Mourning and Longing

43. Self-acquaintance.

44. Prayer for Patience

49. Joy and Peace in Believing

50. True Pleasures

51. The Christian

52. Lively Hope and Gracious Fear

302

53. For the Poor

302

54. My Soul Thirsteth for God

303

55. Love Constraining to Obedience .

57. Hatred of Sin

56. The Heart Healed and Changed by Morcy

303

304

305

67. I will Praise the Lord at all Times

Another, addressed to a Young Lady

Verses, supposed to be written by Alexander Selkirk,

during his solitary abode in the Island of Juan Fer-

nandez

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

High Chancellorship of England

The Modern Patriot

On observing some names of little note recorded in the

Biographia Britannica

Report of an Adjudged Case, not to be found in of

the Books

any

On the Burning of Lord Mansfield's Library, together

with his MSS., by the Mob, in the month of June

The Love of the World Reproved; or, Hypocrisy Detected

319

320

The Lily and the Rose

321

The Poet, the Oyster, and Sensitive Plant

To the Rev. William Cawthorne Unwin

An Epistle to Joseph Hill, Esq.

The Diverting History of John Gilpin, showing how he

went farther than he intended, and came safe home

again

The Distressed Travellers; or, Labour in Vain. An ex-

cellent New Song, to a Tune never sung_before

A Tale founded on a fact, which happened in January 1779

To the Rev. Mr. Newton, on his Return from Ramsgate,

October 1780

Love Abused

To the Rev. Mr. Newton-an Invitation into the Country

Translation of Prior's Chloe and Euphelia.

326

The Colubriad, 1782

A Poetical Epistle to Lady Austen, December 17, 1781

To the Rev. Mr. Newton, Rector of St. Mary Woolnoth,

May 28, 1782.

On Friendship, 1782

To an Afflicted Protestant Lady in France

347

348

The Yearly Distress; or, Tithing-Time at Stock in Essex

Sonnet to Henry Cowper, Esq.

352

353

Lines addressed to Dr. Darwin, author of the "Botanic

Pairing Time Anticipated

Epitaph on a Hare.

To Miss C- -, on her Birthday

The Flatting-Mill

this day, Monday, April 26, 1784

Song on Peace; written at the request of Lady Austen

Song; also written at the request of Lady Austen

Epitaph on Johnson

The Dog and the Water-Lily

To the Immortal Memory of the Halibut on which I dined

Gratitude-addressed to Lady Hesketh, 1786

Lines composed for a Memorial of Ashley Cowper, Esq.

Epitaphium Alterum

367

On the Loss of the Royal George

Sweet Meat has Sour Sauce; or, The Slave-Trader in the

On the Queen's Visit to London, the night of the 17th

374

Annus Memorabilis, 1789

376

in the year 1789

Hymn for the use of the Sunday School at Olney

Another, for a Stone erected on a similar occasion at the
same place in the following year

Inscription for a Stone erected at the Sowing of a Grove

of Oaks at Chillington, the seat of T. Giffard, Esq.,

1790

The Cock-Fighter's Garland

On the Benefit received by His Majesty from Sea-Bathing,

To Mrs. Throckmorton, on her beautiful Transcript of

Horace's Ode, Ad Librum Suum

377

379

381

382

mains of the Great Milton, Anno 1779

Stanzas on the late Indecent Liberties taken with the Re-

382

To Warren Hastings, Esq.

In Memory of the late John Thornton, Esq.

work Counterpane of her own making

To Mrs. King, on her kind Present to the Author, a Patch-

The Four Ages

The Judgment of the Poets

The Moralizer Corrected

The Faithful Bird

The Needless Alarm

Inspription for the Tomb of Mr. Hamilton

To the Nightingale, which the Author heard sing on New-

395

398

Lines written for insertion in a Collection of Handwritings

and Signatures made by Miss Patty, sister of Hannah

More.

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Epitaph on a Free but Tame Redbreast

Sonnet to William Wilberforce, Esq.

Epigram, printed in the Northampton Mercury

To Dr. Austin, of Cecil Street, London

Sonnet, addressed to William Hayley, Esq.

399

400

Mary and John

To Sir Joshua Reynolds

On the Author of Letters on Literature

To the Rev. William Bull

401

4CI

402

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

405

Gift of my Cousin, Anne Bodham

The Poplar Field .

406

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

409

the Author's instance

An Epitaph

409

On receiving Hayley's Picture

Epitaph on Fop, a dog belonging to Lady Throckmorton

Sonnet to George Romney, Esq.

410

411

Epitaph on Mr. Chester of Chicheley

411

On a Plant of Virgin's-Bower, designed to cover a garden-

411

seat

Inscription for a Hermitage in the Author's Garden

To my Cousin, Anne Bodham, on receiving from her a

Net-work Purse made by herself

To John Johnson, on his presenting me with an Antique

412

On a Spaniel, called Beau, killing a Young Bird,

Answer to Stanzas addressed to Lady Hesketh by Miss

Catharine Fanshawe .

To the Spanish Admiral, Count Gravina, on his Translat-

ing the Author's Song on a Rose into Italian Verse.

On Flaxman's Penelope

On receiving Hayne's Virgil from Mr. Hayley

To a Young Friend, on his arriving at Cambridge wet,

On the Ice Islands seen floating in the German Ocean

Montes Glaciales, in Oceano Germanico Natantes

Monumental Inscription to William Northcot

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