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- Close section Front Matter
- Close sectionEarly Poems 1748–1763
- Verses Written at Bath, in 1748, on Finding the Heel of a Shoe
- A Letter to Chase Price
- Why You Scurvy Curmudgeon
- To Miss Halford, Upon her Stealing a Book out of my Pocket, and then Reproaching me with Carelessness
- Upon Miss Halford, Singing and Playing Upon the Harpsichord
- Wherefore did I Leave the Fair
- Various Beauties by Possessing
- A Song
- If Ought Might Reach the Girl I Love
- What! Not One Look, One Gracious Smile
- A Song
- On the Green Margin of a Brook
- To a Young Lady with her Breast Knot
- A Character
- Behold! The Charming Celia Cry'd
- Song
- To C. P., Ill with the Rheumatism
- In a Letter to C. P. Esquire: In Imitation of Shakespeare
- O! Ask not where Contentment May Abide
- Cum Tot Sustineant Reges Et Tanta, Neque Ulla
- Job Chapter Fourteen
- Psalm CXXXVII
- Mortals, Around your Destin'd Heads
- Anxious as Sad Offenders are
- An Apology for not Showing her What I had Wrote
- Delia, The Unkindest Girl on Earth
- This Evening, Delia, you and I
- In a Fond Hour my Delia Swore
- Of Himself
- Bid Adieu, my Sad Heart, Bid Adieu to your Peace
- Written After Leaving her at New Barns
- On Her Endeavouring to Conceal Her Grief at Parting
- The Symptoms of Love
- An Attempt at the Manner of Waller
- Horti ad Floram Dedicatio 1753
- Written in a Quarrel
- Hope, like the Short-Lived Ray that Gleams a While'
- 1755
- Written in a fit of Illness 1755
- See Where the Thames, the Purest Stream
- How Blest the Youth Whom Fate Ordains
- Upon a Venerable Rival
- To Delia: 1755
- Ode: Supposed to be Written on the Marriage of a Friend
- Happy the Man Whose Amorous Flame Has Found
- A New Ballad Entitled: The Sorrowful Husband's Garland; or, The Grey Mare, the Better Horse
- An Ode on Reading Mr. Richardson's History of Sir Charles Grandison
- An Epistle to Robert Lloyd, Esqr. 1754
- A Letter in Verse to Joseph Hill
- The Shade of Homer: An Ode: From the French of Houdar de la Motte
- On the Picture of a Sleeping Child: From the Latin of Vincent Bourne
- Doom'd, as I am, in Solitude to Waste
- Translations from the Satires of Horace: The Fifth Satire of the First Book
- Translations from the Satires of Horace: The Ninth Satire of the First Book
- Addressed to Miss --- On Reading the Prayer for Indifference
- Close sectionTranslations of Four Cantos of Voltaire's La Henriade
- Close sectionOlney Hymns and Other Poems 1764–1772
- A Song of Mercy and Judgement
- To Jesus, the Crown of my Hope
- Close sectionCowper's Contributions to Olney Hymns
- Close sectionBook I: On Selected Passages of Scripture
- Hymn I [I. iii] Walking with God, Genesis v. 24
- Hymn 2 [I. vi] Jehovah-Jireh, the Lord Will Provide, Genesis xxii.14
- Hymn 3 [I. xiv] Jehovah-Rophi I am the Lord that Heals You, Exodus xv
- Hymn 4 [I. xvii] Jehovah-Nissi, The Lord my Banner, Exodus xvii.15
- Hymn 5 [I. xxii] Jehovah-Shalem, the Lord Send Peace, Judges vi. 24.
- Hymn 6 [I. lii] Wisdom
- Hymn 7 [I.lv] Vanity of the World, Ecclesiastes
- Hymn 8 [I.lviii] O Lord, I Will Praise You! Isaiah xii
- Hymn 9 [I. lxiv] The Contrite Heart, Isaiah lvii. 15
- Hymn 10 [I. lxv] The Future Peace and Glory of the Church, Isaiah lx. 15–20
- Hymn 11 [I. lxvii] Jehovah our Righteousness, Jeremiah xxiii.6
- Hymn 12 [I. lxvii] Ephraim Repenting, Jeremiah xxxi. 18–20
- Hymn 13 [I. lxxi] The Covenant, Ezekiel xxxvi. 25–8
- Hymn 14 [I. lxxii] Jehovah-Shammah, Ezekiel xlviii. 35
- Hymn 15 [I. lxxix] Praise for the Fountain Opened, Zechariah xiii.I
- Hymn 16 [I. lxxxv] The Sower, Matthew xiii.3
- Hymn 17 [I. xcvi] The House of Prayer, Mark xi. 17
- Hymn 18 [I. cxviii] Do you Love Me?, John xxi. 16
- Hymn 19 [I. cxxxi] Contentment, Philippians iv. II
- Hymn 20 [I. cxxxii] Old-Testament Gospel, Hebrews iv. 2
- Hymn 21 [I. cxxxviii] Sardis, Revelation iii. 1–6
- Close sectionBook II: On Occasional Subjects. I. Seasons. II. Ordinances. III. Providences. IV. Creation.
- Hymn 22 [II. viii] Prayer for a Blessing
- Hymn 23 [II. xi] Pleading for and with Youth
- Hymn 24 [II. xii] Prayer for Children
- Hymn 25 [II. xxxviii] Jehovah-Jesus
- Hymn 26 [II. xliv] On Opening a Place for Social Prayer
- Hymn 27 [II. liii] Welcome to the Table
- Hymn 28 [II. lv] Jesus Hastening to Suffer
- Hymn 29 [II. lx] Exhortation to Prayer
- Hymn 30 [II. lxii] The Light and Glory of the Word
- Hymn 31 [II. lxxiii] On the Death of a Minister
- Close sectionBook III: On the Rise, Progress, Changes and Comforts of the Spiritual Life
- Hymn 32 [III. viii] The Shining Light
- Hymn 33 {III. x] The Waiting Soul
- Hymn 34 [III. xiii] Seeking the Beloved
- Hymn 35 [III. xv] Light Shining out of Darkness
- Hymn 36 [III. xvi] Welcome Cross
- Hymn 37 [III. xvii] Afflictions Sanctified by the Word
- Hymn 38 [III. xviii] Temptation
- Hymn 39 [III. xix] Looking Upwards in a Storm
- Hymn 40 [III. xx] The Valley of the Shadow of Death
- Hymn 41 [III. xxiii] Peace After a Storm
- Hymn 42 [III. xxiv] Mourning and Longing
- Hymn 43 [III. xxvi] Self-Acquaintance
- Hymn 44 [III. xxviii] Prayer for Patience
- Hymn 45 [III. xxix] Submission
- Hymn 46 [III. xliv] Behold I Make All Things New
- Hymn 47 [III. xlv] Retirement
- Hymn 48 [III. xlivv] The Hidden Life
- Hymn 49 [III. xlviii] Joy and Peace in Believing
- Hymn 50 [III. xlix] True Pleasures
- Hymn 51 [III. lii] The Christian
- Hymn 52 [III. li] Lively Hope, and Gracious Fear
- Hymn 53 [III. lvii] For the Poor
- Hymn 54 [III. lxi] My Soul Thirsts For God
- Hymn 55 [III. lxii] Love Constraining to Obedience
- Hymn 56 [III. lxiii] The Heart Healed and changed by Mercy
- Hymn 57 [III. lxiv] Hatred of Sin
- Hymn 58 [III. lxviii] The New Convert
- Hymn 59 [III. lxix] True and False Comforts
- Hymn 60 [III. lxxi] A Living and a Death Faith
- Hymn 61 [III. lxxii] Antonomians
- Hymn 62 [III. lxxii] The Narrow Way
- Hymn 63 [III. lxxiv] Dependance
- Hymn 64 [III. lxxv] Not of Works
- Hymn 65 [III. lxxx] Praise for Faith
- Hymn 66 [III. lxxxi] Grace and Providence
- Hymn 67 [III. lxxxiii] I Will Praise the Lord at all Times
- Close sectionBook I: On Selected Passages of Scripture
- Close sectionMiscellaneous Poems 1774–1780
- Tales et Nostri Viguissent, Jesus, Amores
- Ceasa Est Nostra Columba, et Nostro Crimine, Cujus
- Hatred and Vengeance, My Eternal Portion
- Heu Quam Remotus Vescor ab Omnibus
- The Cantab
- On the Trial of Admiral Keppel
- An Address to the Mob on Occasion of the Late Riot at the House of Sir Hugh Palliser
- Translation of the 16th. Ode of the 2d. Book of Horace
- A Tale, Founded on a Fact, Which Happened in January, 1779
- The Bee and the Pine Apple
- Ettinikion
- To Sir Joshua Reynolds
- A Present for the Queen of France
- On the Victory Gained by Sir George Rodney over the Spanish Fleet of Gibraltar in 1780
- A Simile Translated from Paradise Lost
- In Seditionem Horrendam, Corruptelis Gallicis (Ut Fertur) Londini Nuper Exortam
- The Same In English
- Translation of an Epitaph for William Northcot
- Epigramma Celebratissimum Johannis Dryden In Eulogium Miltoni Latine Redditum
- A Riddle
- To Mr. Newton on his Return from Ramsgate
- The Yearly Distress, or, Tithing Time at Stock
- To Miss Creuzé on her Birthday
- Close sectionPoems Against Madan's Thelyphthora 1780
- Close sectionPoems by William Cowper, Of the Inner Temple, Esq.
- Table Talk: Si te fortè meæ gravis uret sarcina chartæ Abjicito. --- Hor. Lib. I. Epis. 13.
- The Progress of Error: Si quid loquar audiendum. Hor. Lib. 4. Od. 2
- Truth: Penŝentur trutinâ. Hor.
- Expostulation: Tantane, tam patiens, nullo certamine tolli Dona sines? VIRG.
- Hope: doceas iter et sacra ostia pandas. VIRG. EN. 6
- Charity: Quâ nihil majus meliusve terris Fata donavere, bonique divi, Nec dabunt, quamvis redeant in aurum Tempora Priscum. HOR. Lib. IV. Ode II
- Conversation: Nam neque me tantum venientis sibilus austri, Nec percussa juvant fluctu tam litora, nec quae Saxosa inter decurrunt flumina valles. VIRG. ECL. 5
- Retirement: studiis florens ignobilis oti. Virg. Geor. Lib. 4
- The Doves
- A Fable
- Moral
- A Comparison
- Another: Addressed to a Young Lady
- Verses, Supposed to be Written by Alexander Selkirk, durring his Solitary Abode In the Island of Juan Fernandez
- On the Promotion of Edward Thurlow, ESQ. to the Lord High Chancellorship of England
- Ode to Peace
- Human Frailty
- 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 any of the Books
- On the Burning of Lord Mansfield's Library, Together with his MSS. By the Mob, in the Month of June, 1780
- On the Same
- The Love of the World Reproved; or, Hypocrisy Detected
- The Lily and the Rose
- Idem Latine Redditum
- The Nightingale and Glow-Worm
- Votum
- On a Goldfinch Starved to Death in his Cage
- The Pine Apple and the Bee
- Horace. Book the 2nd. Ode the 10th
- A Reflection on the Foregoing Ode
- Close sectionTranslations from Vincent Bourne
- The Shrubbery: Written in a Time of Affiction
- The Winter Nosegay
- Mutual Forbearance, Necessary to the Happiness of the Married State
- To the Rev. Mr. Newton, An Invitation into the Country
- Translation of Prior's Chloe and Euphelia
- Boadicea, an Ode
- Heroism
- The Poet, the Oyster, and Sensitive Plant
- To the Rev. William Cawthorne Unwin
- Close sectionMiscellaneous Poems 1781
- Methinks I see You Decently Array'd
- Vestris
- Translation of Verses in Memory of Dr. Lloyd (I)
- Translation of Verses in Memory of Dr. Lloyd (II)
- Epistle to a Lady in France: A person of great piety and much afflicted
- On Friendship
- A Poetical Epistle to Lady Austen: Dec. 17,1781
- The Flatting-Mill: An Illustration: An Illustration
- Close section End Matter
