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The Unpublished and Uncollected Poems of William Cowper

Edited by Thomas Wright

Cowper, William (1731-1800)

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A Song of Mercy and Judgment.

A Thunder Storm.

Heu! Quam Remotus.

On the Trial of Admiral Keppel.

An Address to the Mob on Occasion of the late Riot at the House of Sir Hugh Palliser.

The Bee and the Pineapple.

Another on the Same.

Anti-thelyphthora, or The Doves.

The Cancelled Passage in Expostulation.

The Degeneracy of the Clergy.

The Love of God the End of Life.

Against Interested Love.

To a Lady (Lady Austen) WHO WORE A LOCK OF HIS HAIR SET WITH DIAMONDS.

To a Young Lady (Miss Ann Green).

The Critics Chastised.

To Sir John Fenn.

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THE MUSLIN IS FOUND.

HAYLEY'S PORTRAIT.

AN EPIGRAM.

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AN EPIGRAM.

[An epigram is but a feeble thing]

An epigram is but a feeble thing
With straw in tale, stuck there by way of sting.