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William Cowper
- Close sectionPoems 1785–1791
- Epitaph on Dr. Samuel Johnson
- Epitaph on Dr. J-N
- These Critics who to Faith no Quarter Grant
- On the Author of Letters of Literature
- Long Shine the Star, What Star It Is
- To my Dearest Cousin on her Removal of us From Silver end, to Weston
- Verses Subjoined to the Bill of Mortality for the Town of Northampton, 1787: Pallida Mors æquo pulsat pede pauperum tabernas Regumque turres
- The Poet's New Year's Gift to Mrs. Throckmorton
- The Scholar at his Wit's-End: A Tale
- Cum Ratione Insanire
- Sonnet. Addressed to Henry Cowper Esqr. On his Emphatical and interesting Delivery of the Defence of Warren Hastings Esq. In the House of Lords
- The Negro's Complaint: To the Tune of "Hosier's Ghost" or as near Portobello lying
- Sweet Meat Has Sour Sauce: Or, The Slave-Trader In the Dumps
- The Morning Dream: To the tune of "Twedside"
- Benefactions of Poem in Shenstone's Manner Addressed to my dear Coz April 14, 1788
- Gratitude: Addressed To Lady Hesketh
- On Mrs. Montagu's Feather-Hangings
- Lines Composed for a Memorial of Ashley Cowper, Esquire Immediately After his Death by his Nephew William of Weston
- Inscription for the Tomb of Mr. Hamilton
- Pity for the Poor Africans: Video meliora, proboque, Deteriora sequor. My Mind far better Things approves, My Heart far worse in Practice, loves
- Motto on a Clock
- The Dog and the Water-Lily No Fable
- On the Death of Mrs. Throckmorton's Bullfinch
- Verses Subjoined to the Bill of Mortality for the Town of Northampton, 1788
- Annus Memorabilis 1789: a Poem Written in Commemoration of his Majesty's Happy Recovery
- On the Queen's Nocturnal Visit to London, March 17, 1789
- Catharina
- The Cock-Fighter's Garland
- On the Benefit Received by His Majesty From Sea-Bathing in the Year 1789
- Hymn for the Use of the Sunday School at Olney
- The Needless Alarm: A Tale
- Verses Subjoined to the Bill of Mortality for the Town of Northampton 1789: Placidâque ibi demùm morte quievit. Virgil. There, at length, he breathed his Soul away
- A Hymn for a Child that has Ungodly Parents
- Pairing Time Anticipated: A Fable
- The Moraliser Corrected
- To Mrs. Throckmorton on her Beautiful Transcript of Horace's Ode Ad Librum Suum
- On the Receipt of my Mother's Picture out of Norfolk; the Gift of my Cousin, Ann Bodham
- Inscription for a Stone Erected at the Sowing of a Grove of Oaks at Chillington the Seat of Thomas Giffard Esq. 1790
- Another for a Stone Erected on a Similar Occasion at the Same Place in the Following Year
- To Mrs. King on her Kind Present to the Author a Patch-work Counterpane of her Own Making
- On a Mischievous Bull Which the Owner of him Sold at the Author's Instance
- On the Late Indecent Liberties taken with the Remains of the Great Milton 1790
- The Retired Cat
- Pay me my Price, Potters! And I will Sing
- In Memory of the Late John Thornton Esq.
- Verses Subjoined to the Bill of Mortality for the Town of Northampton , 1790: Ne commonentem recta sperne. Buchanan. Despise not my good counsel
- On the Refusal of the University of Oxford to Subscribe to his translation of Homer
- The Judgement of the Poets
- In Memory of Mrs. Higgins
- The Four Ages of Man
- Yardley Oak
- Translation from Virgil Aeneid, Book VIII. Line 18
- Lines Written for Insertion in a Collection of Handwriting and Signatures Made by Miss Patty, Sister of Hannah More
John D. Baird and Charles Ryskamp (eds), The Poems of William Cowper, Vol. 3: 1785–1800
Contents
- Close section Front Matter
- Close sectionPoems 1785–1791
- Epitaph on Dr. Samuel Johnson
- Epitaph on Dr. J-N
- These Critics who to Faith no Quarter Grant
- On the Author of Letters of Literature
- Long Shine the Star, What Star It Is
- To my Dearest Cousin on her Removal of us From Silver end, to Weston
- Verses Subjoined to the Bill of Mortality for the Town of Northampton, 1787: Pallida Mors æquo pulsat pede pauperum tabernas Regumque turres
- The Poet's New Year's Gift to Mrs. Throckmorton
- The Scholar at his Wit's-End: A Tale
- Cum Ratione Insanire
- Sonnet. Addressed to Henry Cowper Esqr. On his Emphatical and interesting Delivery of the Defence of Warren Hastings Esq. In the House of Lords
- The Negro's Complaint: To the Tune of "Hosier's Ghost" or as near Portobello lying
- Sweet Meat Has Sour Sauce: Or, The Slave-Trader In the Dumps
- The Morning Dream: To the tune of "Twedside"
- Benefactions of Poem in Shenstone's Manner Addressed to my dear Coz April 14, 1788
- Gratitude: Addressed To Lady Hesketh
- On Mrs. Montagu's Feather-Hangings
- Lines Composed for a Memorial of Ashley Cowper, Esquire Immediately After his Death by his Nephew William of Weston
- Inscription for the Tomb of Mr. Hamilton
- Pity for the Poor Africans: Video meliora, proboque, Deteriora sequor. My Mind far better Things approves, My Heart far worse in Practice, loves
- Motto on a Clock
- The Dog and the Water-Lily No Fable
- On the Death of Mrs. Throckmorton's Bullfinch
- Verses Subjoined to the Bill of Mortality for the Town of Northampton, 1788
- Annus Memorabilis 1789: a Poem Written in Commemoration of his Majesty's Happy Recovery
- On the Queen's Nocturnal Visit to London, March 17, 1789
- Catharina
- The Cock-Fighter's Garland
- On the Benefit Received by His Majesty From Sea-Bathing in the Year 1789
- Hymn for the Use of the Sunday School at Olney
- The Needless Alarm: A Tale
- Verses Subjoined to the Bill of Mortality for the Town of Northampton 1789: Placidâque ibi demùm morte quievit. Virgil. There, at length, he breathed his Soul away
- A Hymn for a Child that has Ungodly Parents
- Pairing Time Anticipated: A Fable
- The Moraliser Corrected
- To Mrs. Throckmorton on her Beautiful Transcript of Horace's Ode Ad Librum Suum
- On the Receipt of my Mother's Picture out of Norfolk; the Gift of my Cousin, Ann Bodham
- Inscription for a Stone Erected at the Sowing of a Grove of Oaks at Chillington the Seat of Thomas Giffard Esq. 1790
- Another for a Stone Erected on a Similar Occasion at the Same Place in the Following Year
- To Mrs. King on her Kind Present to the Author a Patch-work Counterpane of her Own Making
- On a Mischievous Bull Which the Owner of him Sold at the Author's Instance
- On the Late Indecent Liberties taken with the Remains of the Great Milton 1790
- The Retired Cat
- Pay me my Price, Potters! And I will Sing
- In Memory of the Late John Thornton Esq.
- Verses Subjoined to the Bill of Mortality for the Town of Northampton , 1790: Ne commonentem recta sperne. Buchanan. Despise not my good counsel
- On the Refusal of the University of Oxford to Subscribe to his translation of Homer
- The Judgement of the Poets
- In Memory of Mrs. Higgins
- The Four Ages of Man
- Yardley Oak
- Translation from Virgil Aeneid, Book VIII. Line 18
- Lines Written for Insertion in a Collection of Handwriting and Signatures Made by Miss Patty, Sister of Hannah More
- Close sectionTranslations of Latin, Greek and Italian Poems of Milton 1791–1792
- Close sectionComplimentary Pieces Translated from the Latin and Italian
- The Neapolitan John Baptist Manso, Marquis of Villa to the Englishman John Milton
- An Epigram Addressed to the Englishman John Milton, a Poet Worthy of Three Laurels, The Grecian, Latin, and Etruscan, by John Salsillo of Rome
- To John Milton
- An Ode Addressed to the Englishman Mr. John Milton, by Signore Antonio Francini, Gentleman of Florence
- To Mr. John Milton of London: A youth eminent from his country and his virtues
- Close sectionElegies
- Elegy I: To Charles Deodati
- Elegy II: Composed by Milton in the 17th Year of his age: On the Death of the University Beadle at Cambridge
- Elegy III: On the Death of the Bishop of Winchester: Composed in the Author's 17th Year.
- Elegy IV: To his Tutor, Thomas Young, Chaplain to the English Factory at Hamburgh: Written in the Author's 18th Year
- Elegy V: On the Approach of Spring: Written in the Author's 20th year
- Elegy VI: To Charles Deodati
- Elegy VII: Composed in the Author's 19th year
- Close sectionEpigrams
- Close sectionMiscellaneous Poems
- On the Death of the Vice-Chancellor, a Physician
- On the Death of the Bishop of Ely: Written in the Author's 17th Year
- Nature Unimpaired by Time
- On the Platonic Idea as it was Understood by Aristotle
- To His Father
- The Philosopher and the King
- On the Engraver of his Portrait
- To Salsillus, a Roman Poet Much Indisposed
- Manso
- On the Death of Damon: The Argument
- An Ode Addressed to Mr. John Rouse, Librarian of the University of Oxford, on a Lost Volume of my Poems which he Desired me to Replace
- Close sectionA Translation of Italian Sonnets
- Close sectionComplimentary Pieces Translated from the Latin and Italian
- Close sectionPoems, 1792–1795
- An Epitaph
- To a Young Lady who stole a Pen from the P. of W.'s Standish
- To the Nightingale which the Author Heard sing on New-Year's Day 1792
- Epitaph on a Free But Tame Redbreast, a Favourite of Miss Sally Hurdis
- To Sir John Fenn
- To William Wilberforce, Esq.
- To Warren Hastings Esqr. By an Old Schoolfellow of his at Westminster
- Epigram Printed in the Northampton Mercury
- To Dr. Austin of Cecil Street
- Sonnet Addressed to William Hayley, Esq., June 2, 1792
- To Doctor Darwin
- Catharina: Part the Second
- Epitaph on Fop
- A Distich written by Mr. Cowper at the Request of a Gentleman who Importuned him to write something in his pocket album
- To George Romney, Esq.
- Verses subjoined to the Bill of Mortality for the Town of Northampton, 1792
- On Receiving Hayley's Picture
- Epitaph on Mr. Chester of Chicheley
- On a Plant of Virgin's-Bower Design'd to cover a Garden-Seat
- To my Cousin Anne Bodham on Receiving a Network purse made by Her
- Inscription for the Hermitage
- To John Johnson Esqr. On his Presenting me with an Antique Bust of Homer
- To Mrs. Unwin
- To a Young Friend on his Arriving at Cambridge wet when no rain had fallen there
- A Tale
- A Sonnet Addressed to Mr. Phillips, Printer, Now in Confinement at Leicester
- To William Hayley, Esq.
- Inscription for a Bust of Homer
- On a Spaniel Called Beau, Killing a Young Bird, July 15th, 1793
- Beau's Reply
- Answer to Stanzas Addressed to Lady Hesketh By Miss Catherine Fanshawe in Returning a Poem of Mr. Cowper's
- On Lady Hesketh's Sending Me an Italian translation of my Ballad of the Rose by the Spanish Admiral Count Gravina
- On Flaxman's Penelope
- Verses Subjoined to the Bill of Mortality for the Town of Northampton, 1793: De sacris autem haec sit una sententia, ut conserventur. Cicero, de Legibus
- To Mary
- On Receiving Heyne's Virgil From Mr. Hayley
- Lines Written on a Window-Shutter at Weston
- Close sectionThe Norfolk Manuscripts, 1799–1800
- Montes Glaciales in Oceano Germanico Natantes
- On the Ice-Islands Seen Floating in the Germanic Ocean
- The Cast-Away
- Idem Latine Redditum
- Close sectionTranslations from Vincent Bourne
- Reciprocal Kindness that Primary Law of Nature
- The Thracian
- A Manual More Antient Than the Arts of Printing, and not to be found in Any Catologue
- An Enigma
- Sparrows Self-Domesticated in Trinity College, Cambridge
- Familiarity Dangerous
- Invitation to the Red-Breast
- Strada's Nightingale
- Ode on the Death of a Lady, who Lived an Hundred Years, and Died on her Birthday in the Year 1728
- The Grief of an Heir
- The Cause Won
- The Silkworm
- The Innocent Thief
- Denner's Old Woman
- The Tears of a Painter
- The Snail
- The Maze
- No Sorrow Peculiar to the Sufferer
- The Serious Trifler
- My Taper His Perpetual Aim
- Close sectionTranslations from Greek Verses
- From Greek of Julianus
- On the Same by Palladas
- An Epitaph
- Another
- Another
- Another
- By Callimachus
- On Miltiades
- On an Infant
- By Heraclides
- On the Reed
- To Health
- On the Astrologers
- On An Old Woman
- On Invalides
- On Flatterers
- On the Shallow
- On Late-Aquired Wealth
- On a True Friend
- On a Bath by Plato
- On a Fowler by Isiodorus
- On Niobe
- On a Good Man
- On A Miser
- Another
- Another
- On Female Inconstancy
- On the Grasshopper or Cicada
- On Hermocrateia
- From Menander
- On Pallas Bathing: From A Hymn of Callimachus
- To Demosthenis
- On a Similar Character
- On an Ugly Fellow
- On a Batter'd Beauty
- On a Thief
- On Pedigree from Epicharmus
- On Envy
- By Philemon
- By Moschus
- The Sallad By Virgil
- Close sectionEpigrams, Translated from the Latin of Owen
- On one Ignorant and Arrogant X. lix
- On a Litigious Debtor IV. lxxx
- Prudent Simplicity II. cxcv
- To a Friend in Distress III. clxxxi
- VI. xxxix
- On a New-Created Noble VI. xxx
- Verse and Prose VII. lxxvi
- Comfort for Walkers IX. lxxxix
- To Erasmus II. lxxxv
- To Lady M. N. his Patroness III. i
- On his Candid and Uncandid Readers III. xi, xii
- On the Prodigal and the Covetous III. lxv
- Cheap and Dear III. lxx
- Retaliation III. clxx
- On the Salt Sea IV. xiii
- The Evils of Bad Example XII. ciii
- [XII. cxx]
- Philautos VII. lxiv
- Sunset and Sunrise V. xxxix
- Close sectionTranslations of the Fables of Gay
- Close section
End Matter
- COMMENTARY ON THE POEMS
- Close sectionAPPENDICES
- Close sectionAPPENDIX I
- Close sectionPoems translated by Cowper
- Close sectionPoems by Vincent Bourne
- Multua Benevolentia Primaria Lex Naturae Est
- Thrax
- Manuale tyopgraphia omni Antiquius, Nulli Uspiam Librorum Insertum Catalogo
- Enigma
- Passeres Indigenæ; Coll. Trin. Cant. Commensales
- Nulli te facias nimis sodalem
- Ad Rubeculam, Invitatio
- Stradæ Philomela
- Anus Sæcularis
- Hæredis Luctus
- Victoria Forensis
- Bombyx
- Innocens Prædatrix
- Denneri Anus
- Lachrymæ Pictoris
- Limax
- Spe Finis
- Nemo Miser Nisi Comparatus
- Labor Ineptiarum
- Suicida
- John Owen Epigrams
- Close sectionPoems by Vincent Bourne
- Close sectionPoems translated by Cowper
- APPENDIX II
- APPENDIX III
- Close sectionAPPENDIX IV
- Close sectionAPPENDIX I
- INDEX OF TITLES
- INDEX OF FIRST LINES
- INDEX OF NAMES
