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The Works of William Cowper

Comprising his poems, correspondence, and translations. With a life of the author, by the editor, Robert Southey

Cowper, William (1731-1800)

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VIII.

VERSES WRITTEN AT BATH, ON FINDING THE HEEL OF A SHOE, IN 1748.

AN ODE, ON READING MR. RICHARDSON'S HISTORY OF SIR CHARLES GRANDISON.

IN A LETTER TO C. P. ESQ.

IN A LETTER TO THE SAME.

AN ATTEMPT AT THE MANNER OF WALLER.

UPON A VENERABLE RIVAL.

ON THE PICTURE OF A SLEEPING CHILD.

[Mortals! around your destined heads]

AN EPISTLE TO ROBERT LLOYD, ESQ. 1754.

AN APOLOGY FOR NOT SHOWING HER WHAT I HAD WROTE.

[Delia, the unkindest girl on earth]

[This evening, Delia, you and I]

WRITTEN IN A QUARREL.

THE SYMPTOMS OF LOVE.

[See where the Thames, the purest stream]

[How bless'd the youth whom Fate ordains]

[Bid adieu, my sad heart, bid adieu to thy peace!]

WRITTEN AFTER LEAVING HER AT NEW BURNS.

ON HER ENDEAVOURING TO CONCEAL HER GRIEF AT PARTING.

[Hope, like the short-lived ray that gleams awhile]

WRITTEN IN A FIT OF ILLNESS.

ODE SUPPOSED TO BE WRITTEN ON THE MARRIAGE OF A FRIEND.

THE FIFTH SATIRE OF THE FIRST BOOK OF HORACE.

THE NINTH SATIRE OF THE FIRST BOOK OF HORACE.

ADDRESSED TO MISS MACARTNEY, AFTERWARDS MRS. GREVILLE,

ANTI-THELYPHTHORA.

THE PROGRESS OF ERROR.

ANOTHER [COMPARISON] ADDRESSED TO A YOUNG LADY.

VERSES, SUPPOSED TO BE WRITTEN BY ALEXANDER SELKIRK, DURING HIS SOLITARY ABODE IN THE ISLAND OF JUAN FERNANDEZ.

ON THE PROMOTION OF EDWARD THURLOW, ESQ. TO THE LORD HIGH CHANCELLORSHIP OF ENGLAND.

THE MODERN PATRIOT.

ON OBSERVING SOME NAMES OF LITTLE NOTE

REPORT OF AN ADJUDGED CASE

ON THE BURNING OF LORD MANSFIELD'S LIBRARY, TOGETHER WITH HIS MSS.

ON THE SAME [THE BURNING OF LORD MANSFIELD'S LIBRARY].

THE LOVE OF THE WORLD REPROVED;

THE LILY AND THE ROSE.

THE NIGHTINGALE AND GLOW-WORM.

ON A GOLDFINCH STARVED TO DEATH IN HIS CAGE.

THE PINE APPLE AND THE BEE.

HORACE. BOOK II. ODE X.

A REFLECTION ON THE FOREGOING ODE.

TRANSLATIONS FROM VINCENT BOURNE.

THE WINTER NOSEGAY.

MUTUAL FORBEARANCE, NECESSARY TO THE HAPPINESS OF THE MARRIED STATE.

TO THE REV. MR. NEWTON.

THE POET, THE OYSTER, AND SENSITIVE PLANT.

TO THE REV. WILLIAM CAWTHORNE UNWIN.

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XI, XII.

[Vol. XI., XII.]

XIII, XIV.

[Vol. XIII., XIV.]

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A REFLECTION ON THE FOREGOING ODE.

And is this all? Can reason do no more
Than bid me shun the deep and dread the shore?
Sweet moralist! afloat on life's rough sea
The Christian has an art unknown to thee;
He holds no parley with unmanly fears,
Where duty bids he confidently steers,
Faces a thousand dangers at her call,
And trusting in his God, surmounts them all.