Research Catalog

Title

Poems / by William Cowper ; together with his posthumous poetry, and a sketch of his life by John Johnson.

Author

Cowper, William, 1731-1800

Publication

Boston : Phillips, Sampson, 1853.

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Details

Additional Authors

Johnson, John, 1769-1833

Description

3 v. in 1, [1] leaf of plates : port.; 20 cm.

Subject

• Cowper, William, 1731-1800

Genre/Form

• Poetry
• Essays
• Biographies

Processing Action (note)

• committed to retain

Contents

• Volume 1. Preface to the first volume / John Newton, Charles Square, Hoxton, February 18, 1782 -- Table talk -- Progress of errour -- Truth -- Expostulation -- Hope -- Charity -- Conversation -- Retirement -- The yearly distress, or, tithing time at Stock in Essex -- Sonnet to Henry Cowper, Esq. -- Lines addressed to Dr. Darwin -- On Mrs. Montagu's feather-hangings, verses, supposed to be written by Alexander Selkirk during his abode in the Island of Juan Fernandez -- On the promotion of Edward Thurlow, Esq. to the 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 -- On the same -- The love of the world reproved -- On the death of Lady Throckmorton's bulfinch -- The rose -- The doves -- A fable -- A comparison -- Another, addressed to a young lady -- The poet's New Years gift -- Od to Apollo -- Pairing time anticipated, a fable -- The dog and the water lily -- The poet, the oyster, and the sensitive plant -- The shrubbery -- The winter nosegay -- Mutual forbearance necessary to the happiness of the married state -- The Negro's complaint -- Pity for poor Africans -- The morning dream -- 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 -- The lily and the rose -- Idem, Latine Redditum -- The poplar field -- Idem, Latine Redditum -- Votum (Cieindela ; The glow-worm ; Cornicula ; The jackdaw ; Ad grilum. anacreonticum ; The cricket ; Simile agit in simile ; The parrot) / translations from Vincent Bourne -- The history of John Gilpin -- Epistle to an afflicted protestant lady in France -- To the rev. W.C. Unwin.
• Volume 2, The Task in six books. The sofa (The time-piece ; The garden ; The winter evening ; The winter morning walk ; The winter walk at noon) -- Epistle to Joseph Hill, esq. -- Tirocinium, or, A review of schools -- To the reverend Mr. Newton -- On the receipt of my mother's picture out of Norfolk -- Friendship -- The moralizer corrected -- Catharina -- The faithful bird -- The needless alarm -- Boadicea -- Heroism -- On a mischievous bull, which the owner of him sold at the author's instance -- Annus Memorablis, 1789, written in commoration of his majesty's happy's recovery -- Hymn for the use of the Sunday School at Olney -- Stanzas subjoined to a bill of mortality for the year 1787 -- The same for 1788 -- The same for 1789 -- The same for 1790 -- The same for 1792 -- The same for 1793 -- Inscription for the tomb of Mr. Hamilton -- Epitaph on a hare -- Epitaphium Alterum -- Account of the author's treatment of hares.
• Volume 3, To the right honourable Earl Spencer / John Johnson -- Preface -- Sketch of the author's life -- Verses writen on finding the heel of a shoe -- Stanzas on the first publication of Sir Charles Grandison -- Epistle to Robert Lloyd, Esq. -- Fifth satire of the First book of Horace -- Fifth satire of the first book of Horace -- Ninth satire of the first book of Horace - Address to Miss-- on reading the prayer for indifference -- Translation from Virgil -- Ovid, Trist, Lib. V, Eleg. XII -- A tale founded on fact -- Translation of a simile in Paradise Lost -- Translation of Dryden's epigram on Milton -- To the Rev. Mr. Newton, on his return from Ramsgate -- Love abused -- Poetical epistle to Lady Austen -- From a letter to the Rev. Mr. Newton - The Colubriad -- On friendship -- On the loss of the Royal George - In Submersionem Navigii, cui Georgius Regalis Nomen, inditum -- Song on peace -- Song, written at the request of Lady Austen -- Verses from a poem entitled Valediction -- In Brevitatem Vitae Spatii Hominibus concessi on the shortness of human life -- Epitaph on Johnson -- To Miss C-- on her birth-day -- Gratitude -- The flatting mill -- Lines for a memorial of Ashley Cowper, Esq. -- On the Queen's visit to London -- The cock-fighter's garland -- On the benefit received by his Majest from sea-bathing -- Hor. Lib I. Ode IX -- Hor. Lib I. Ode XXVII -- Hor. B.I. Ode XXXVIII -- Hor. Lib. II. Ode XVL -- Latin verses to the memory of Dr. Lloyd -- The same in English -- To Mrs. Throckmorton -- Inscription on a stone erected at the sowing of a grove of oak -- Another for a Stone erected on a similar occassion -- [other poems and essays].

OCLC

3886736

Owning Institutions

Harvard Library