WILLIAM COWPER

VOLUME I

ALDI

DISCIP.

ANGLVS

LONDON

WILLIAM PICKERING

1830

LONDON :

PRINTED BY C, WHITTINGHAM, TOOKS COURT.

CONTENTS.

VOL. I.

Page

TABLE TALK .........

1

The Progress of Error .....

27

Truth.

48

Expostulation..

68

Hope......

93

Charity...

119

Conversation .......

141

Retirement ..........

172

The Yearly Distress, or Tithing Time at Stock in Essex. 200

Sonnet addressed to Henry Cowper, Esq.

203

Lines addressed to Dr. Darwin......

204

On Mrs. Montagu's Feather-Hangings.

205

Verses supposed to be written by Alexander Selkirk,

during his solitary abode in the island of Juan Fer-

nandez.......

207

On observing some Names of little Note recorded in the

Biographia Britannica.........

209

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

the Books.......

210

On the Promotion of Edward Thurlow, Esq. to the

Lord High Chancellorship of England.

212

Ode to Peace......

213

Human Frailty...

214

The Modern Patriot

215

On the Burning of Lord Mansfield's Library.

216

On the same...

216

The Love of the World reproved.......

217

Page

On the Death of Lady Throckmorton's Bullfinch........ 219

The Rose.

222

The Doves....

223

A Fable.......

225

Ode to Apollo......

226

A Comparison...

228

Another, addressed to a Young Lady

228

The Poet's New Year's Gift.........

229

Pairing Time anticipated, a Fable ...

230

The Dog and the Water-Lily...

233

The Winter Nosegay.....

235

The Poet, the Oyster, and Sensitive Plant....

236

The Shrubbery.....

238

Mutual Forbearance necessary to the Happiness of the

Married State.....

239

The Negro's Complaint....

242

Pity for Poor Africans

244

The Morning Dream

246

The History of John Gilpin

248

The Nightingale and Glowworm...

258

Epistle to an afflicted Protestant Lady in France.. 260

To the Rev. W. C. Unwin.........

262