Jump to Content
We use cookies to enhance your experience on our website. By continuing to use our website, you are agreeing to our use of cookies.
You can change your cookie settings at any time.
Find out more
Oxford Scholarly Editions Online
Home
View personal profile
Help
Previous Section
Next Section
Expand View Options
Main Text
Reset panels
Lock Panels
Close
Print
Save
Cite
Email this content
Share Link
Copy this link, or click below to email it to a friend
Email this content
or copy the link directly:
https://www.oxfordscholarlyeditions.com/abstract/10.1093/actrade/9780198123392.book.1/actrade-9780198123392-div1-9
The link was not copied. Your current browser may not support copying via this button.
Link copied successfully
Copy link
Share This
Jump to chapter
Works
Contents
Search
William Cowper
Close section
Poems 1782–1784
Horace. Book I. Ode IX
Horace. Book I. Ode XXXVIII: Persicos odi, puer, apparatus
[Another] Hor. B. I. Ode 38
Ovid. Trist. Lib. V. Eleg. XII: Scribis, ut oblectem
From a Letter to the Rev. Mr. Newton
An Epistle to the Rev. William Bull
The Colubraid
To Watch the Storms, and Hear the Sky
The Distressed Travellers, or Labour in Vain: An excellent New Song to a Tune never sung before
On the Loss of the Royal George: By desire of Lady Austen who wanted Words to the March in Scipio
In Submersionem Navigii Cui Georgius Regale Nomen Inditum
Epitaph on a Hare
Epitaphium Alterum
On Peace
A Song to the tune of 'The Lass of Pattie's Mill'
A Hymn Set to Music by Dr. Arnold
To a Lady who wore a Lock of his Hair set with Diamonds
To a Young Lady, with a Present of two Coxcombs
The Poplar-Field
Idem Latine Redditum
The Rose
On an Ink-Glass Almost Dried in the Sun: An Ode to Apollo
The Faithful Bird
The Valediction
On the Shortness of Human Life
To the Immortal Memory of the Halybutt, on which I Dined this Day, Monday, April 26, 1784
He came to him in the Extasy of Pray'r
Inscription for a moss-house in the Shrubbery at Weston
John D. Baird and Charles Ryskamp (eds)
,
The Poems of William Cowper, Vol. 2: 1782–1785
Contents
Close section
Front Matter
ACKNOWLEDGEMENTS
COWPER AND HIS POETRY 1782-1785
TEXTUAL INTRODUCTION
SYMBOLS, SHORT TITLES, AND ABBREVIATIONS
Close section
Poems 1782–1784
Horace. Book I. Ode IX
Horace. Book I. Ode XXXVIII: Persicos odi, puer, apparatus
[Another] Hor. B. I. Ode 38
Ovid. Trist. Lib. V. Eleg. XII: Scribis, ut oblectem
From a Letter to the Rev. Mr. Newton
An Epistle to the Rev. William Bull
The Colubraid
To Watch the Storms, and Hear the Sky
The Distressed Travellers, or Labour in Vain: An excellent New Song to a Tune never sung before
On the Loss of the Royal George: By desire of Lady Austen who wanted Words to the March in Scipio
In Submersionem Navigii Cui Georgius Regale Nomen Inditum
Epitaph on a Hare
Epitaphium Alterum
On Peace
A Song to the tune of 'The Lass of Pattie's Mill'
A Hymn Set to Music by Dr. Arnold
To a Lady who wore a Lock of his Hair set with Diamonds
To a Young Lady, with a Present of two Coxcombs
The Poplar-Field
Idem Latine Redditum
The Rose
On an Ink-Glass Almost Dried in the Sun: An Ode to Apollo
The Faithful Bird
The Valediction
On the Shortness of Human Life
To the Immortal Memory of the Halybutt, on which I Dined this Day, Monday, April 26, 1784
He came to him in the Extasy of Pray'r
Inscription for a moss-house in the Shrubbery at Weston
Close section
Translations from the French of Madame Guyon, 1782–1783
Dedication
God Neither Known nor Loved by the World: Volume 2 Cantique II
The Swallow: Volume 2 Cantique 54
Wishing for the Reign of Love: Volume 2 Cantique 236
A Figurative Description of the Procedure of Divine Love Bringing a Soul to the Point of Self-Renunciation and Absolute Acquiescence: Volume 2 Cantique 110
A Child of God Longing to see him Beloved: Volume 2 Cantique 144
Aspirations of a Soul Sick of Love: Volume 2 Cantique 95
Pure Love on a Principle of Gratitude: Volume 2 Cantique 96
Happy Solitude - Unhappy Men: Volume 2 Cantique 89
Spring Water: Volume 4 Cantique 81
Truth and Divine Love Rejected by the World: Volume 2 Cantique 22
Divine Justice Amiable: Volume 2 Cantique 119
The Soul that Loves God Finds Him Everywhere: Volume 2 Cantique 108
The Testimony of Divine Adoption: Volume 2 Cantique 78
Love Endures No Rival: Volume 2 Cantique 155
Self-Diffidence: Volume 2 Cantique 125
The Acquiescence of Pure Love: Volume 2 Cantique 135
Repose in God: Volume 2 Cantique 17
Glory to God Alone: Volume 2 Cantique 15
Self-Love and Truth Incompatible: Volume 2 Cantique 21
Live to Love: Volume 2 Cantique 165
Love Faithful in the Absence of the Beloved: Volume 4 Cantique 49
Love Pure and Fervent: Volume 4 Cantique 31
The Entire Surrender: Volume 4 Cantique 77
The Perfect Sacrifice: Volume 4 Cantique 74
God Hides his People: Volume 4 Cantique 42
The Nativity: Volume 4 Cantique 4
The Secrets of Divine Love are to be Kept: Volume 3 Cantique 48
The Vicissitudes Experienced in a Christian Life: Volume 3 Cantique 69
Watching God in the Night-Season: Volume 3 Cantique 71
On the Same: Volume 3 Cantique 72
On the Same: Volume 3 Cantique 73
The Joy of the Cross: Volume 3 Contique 97
Joy in Martyrdom: Volume 3 Cantique 94
Simple Trust: Volume 3 Cantique 95
The Necessity of Self-Abasement: Volume 3 Cantique 92
Love Increased by Suffering: Volume 3 Cantique 98
Scenes Favourable to Meditation: Volume 3 Canqitue 83
Against Interested Love: Volume 2 Cantique 19
Close section
The Task and Other Poems, 1785
Close section
The Task
Title-page
ADVERTISEMENT
ARGUMENT OF THE FIRST BOOK
BOOK I THE SOFA
ARGUMENT OF THE SECOND BOOK
BOOK II THE TIME-PIECE
ARGUMENT OF THE THIRD BOOK
BOOK III THE GARDEN
ARGUMENT OF THE FOURTH BOOK
BOOK IV THE WINTER EVENING
ARGUMENT OF THE FIFTH BOOK
BOOK V THE WINTER MORNING WALK
ARGUMENT OF THE SIXTH BOOK
BOOK VI THE WINTER WALK AT NOON
An Epistle to Joseph Hill, Esq.
Tirocinium: or, a Review of Schools
The Diverting History of John Gilpin,: Showing How he Went Farther than he Intended and came Safe Home Again
Close section
End Matter
COMMENTARY ON THE POEMS
Close section
APPENDICES
Close section
APPENDIX I
Bull's Preface to Poems Translated from the French of Madame de la Mothe Guion, 1801
Close section
APPENDIX II
Cowper's Account of His Hares
Close section
APPENDIX III
Close section
Poem Translated by Cowper
John Jortin [In Brevitatem Vitae Spatii Hominibus Concessi]
INDEX OF TITLES An asterisk indicates an alternative title.
INDEX OF FIRST LINES
INDEX OF NAMES
Find Location in text
Author
Work title
Location
Main Text
Users without a subscription are not able to see the full content. Please,
subscribe
or
login
to access all content.
Copy and cite
Open this text in OSEO
Open the copy and cite lightbox
Copyright © 2023. All rights reserved.
Cookie Policy
Privacy Policy
Legal Notice
Credits
Accessibility
results for "
"
Show Less
Close
[3.226.122.122]
3.226.122.122
