The Poetry Corner

William Cowper

Poems

A Comparison.
A Fable.
A Hymn, For The Use Of The Sunday School At Olney.
A Living And A Dead Faith.
A Poetical Epistle To Lady Austen.
A Tale, Founded On A Fact, Which Happened In January 1779.
Abuse Of The Gospel.
Addressed To Miss ----, On Reading The Prayer For Indifference, An Ode, By Mrs. Greville.
Afflictions Sanctified By The Word.
An Epistle To An Afflicted Protestant Lady In France.
An Epistle To Joseph Hill, Esq.
An Epistle To Robert Lloyd, Esq.
An Epitaph.
An Ode, On Reading Richardsons History Of Sir Charles Grandison.
Annus Memorabilis, 1789. Written In Commemoration Of His Majestys Happy Recovery.
Another Comparison. Addressed To A Young Lady.
Another Inscription For A Stone Erected On A Similar Occasion At The Same Place In The Following Year.
Another to the Same. (To Leonora)
Beaus Reply.
Boadicea. An Ode.
Catharina. Addressed To Miss Stapleton (Afterwards Mrs. Courtney).
Catharina: The Second Part: On Her Marriage To George Courtenay, Esq.
Charity.
Contentment. - Philippians iv.11.
Conversation.
Cowpers Reply.
Dependence.
Elegy I. To Charles Diodati.[1]
Elegy II. On The Death Of The University Beadle At Cambridge.[1]
Elegy III. Anno Aetates 17.[1] On The Death Of The Bishop Of Winchester.[2]
Elegy IV. Anno Aetates 18. To My Tutor, Thomas Young,[1] Chaplain Of The English Merchants Resident At Hamburg.
Elegy V. Anno Aetates 20. On The Approach Of Spring.
Elegy VI To Charles Diodati, When He Was Visiting In The Country
Elegy VI. Anno Aetates Undevigesimo.[1]
Ephraim Repenting. - Jeremiah xxxi.18-20.
Epigram Printed In The Northampton Mercury.
Epitaph On A Free But Tame Redbreast, A Favourite Of Miss Sally Hurdis.
Epitaph On A Hare.
Epitaph On Dr. Johnson.
Epitaph On Fop, A Dog Belonging To Lady Throckmorton.
Epitaph On Mr. Chester, Of Chicheley.
Epitaph On Mrs. M. Higgins, Of Weston.
Exhortation To Prayer.
Expostulation.
Extract From A Sunday-School Hymn.
For The Poor.
Friendship.
From A Letter To The Rev. Mr. Newton, Late Rector Of St. Mary Woolnoth.
Grace And Providence.
Gratitude. Addressed To Lady Hesketh.
Hatred Of Sin.
Heroism.
Hope.
Human Frailty.
I Will Praise The Lord At All Times.
In Memory Of The Late John Thornton, Esq.
Inscription For A Hermitage In The Authors Garden.
Inscription For A Moss-House In The Shrubbery At Weston.
Inscription For A Stone Erected At The Sowing Of A Grove Of Oaks At Chillington, The Seat Of T. Giffard, Esq., 1790.
Inscription For The Tomb Of Mr. Hamilton.
Jehovah Jesus.
Jehovah Our Righteousness. - Jeremiah xxiii.6.
Jehovah-Jireh. The Lord Will Provide. - Genesis xxii.14.
Jehovah-Nissi. The Lord My Banner. - Exodus xvii.15.
Jehovah-Rophi. I Am The Lord That Healeth Thee. - Exodus xv.26.
Jehovah-Shalom. The Lord Send Peace. - Judges vi.24.
Jehovah-Shammah. - Ezekiel xlviii.35.
Jesus Hasting To Suffer.
Joy And Peace In Believing.
Light Shining Out Of Darkness.
Lines Addressed To Dr. Darwin, Author Of The Botanic Garden.
Lines Addressed To Miss Theodora Jane Cowper.
Lines Composed For A Memorial Of Ashley Cowper, Esq. Immediately After His Death, By His Nephew William Of Weston.
Lines On A Sleeping Infant.
Lines On The Death Of Sir William Russel.
Lines Written In An Album Of Miss Patty Mores, Sister Of Hannah More.
Lines.
Lively Hope And Gracious Fear.
Longing To Be With Christ.
Looking Upwards In A Storm.
Love Abused.
Love Constraining To Obedience.
Lovest Thou Me? - John xxi.16.
Mary And John.
Mourning And Longing.
Mutual Forbearance Necessary To The Happiness Of The Married State.
My Soul Thirsteth For God.
Not Of Works.
O Lord, I Will Praise Thee. - Isaiah xii.1.
Ode To Apollo. On An Inkglass Almost Dried In The Sun.
Ode To Peace.
Old Testament Gospel. - Hebrews iv.2.
On A Goldfinch, Starved To Death In His Cage.
On A Mischievous Bull, Which The Owner Of Him Sold At The Authors Instance.
On A Mistake In His Translation Of Homer.
On A Plant Of Virgins Bower. Designed To Cover A Garden-Seat.
On A Similar Occasion. For The Year 1788.
On A Similar Occasion. For The Year 1789.
On A Similar Occasion. For The Year 1790.
On A Similar Occasion. For The Year 1792.
On A Similar Occasion. For The Year 1793.
On A Spaniel, Called Beau, Killing A Young Bird.
On Flaxmans Penelope.
On Mrs. Montagues Feather-Hangings.
On Observing Some Names Of Little Note Recorded In The Biographia Britannica.
On Opening A Place For Social Prayer.
On Receiving Hayleys Picture.
On Receiving Heynes Virgil From Mr. Hayley.
On The Author Of Letters On Literature.[1]
On The Benefit Received By His Majesty From Sea-Bathing In The Year 1789.
On The Burning Of Lord Mansfields Library, Together With His Mss., By The Mob, In The Month Of June 1780.
On The Death Of A Minister.
On The Death Of Mrs. (Afterwards Lady) Throckmortons Bullfinch.
On the Death of the Bishop of Ely.[1] Anno Aetates 17.
On the Death of the Vice-Chancellor, A Physician.[1]
On the Engraver of his Portrait.[1]
On the Fifth of November. Anno Aetates 17.
On The Gunpowder Plot.[1]
On The High Price Of Fish.
On The Ice Islands Seen Floating In The German Ocean.
On The Loss Of The Royal George.
On The Neglect Of Homer.
On The Platonic 'Ideal' As It Was Understood By Aristotle.
On The Promotion Of Edward Thurlow, Esq. To The Lord High Chancellorship Of England.
On The Queens Visit To London. The Night Of The Seventeenth Of March 1789.
On The Receipt Of A Hamper.
On The Receipt Of My Mothers Picture Out Of Norfolk, The Gift Of My Cousin, Ann Bodham.
On The Same. (On The Burning Of Lord Mansfields Library, Together With His Mss., By The Mob, In The Month Of June 1780.)
Pairing Time Anticipated. A Fable.
Paradisum Amissam, Lib. II [1]
Peace After A Storm.
Pity For Poor Africans.
Pleading For And With Youth.
Praise For Faith.
Praise For The Fountain Opened. - Zechariah xiii.1.
Prayer For A Blessing On The Young.
Prayer For Children.
Prayer For Patience.
Psalm CXIV
Psalm CXIV [1]
Report Of An Adjudged Case, Not To Be Found In Any Of The Books
Report Of An Adjudged Case, Not To Be Found In Any Of The Books.
Retirement.
Sardis. - Revelation iii.1-6.
Seeking The Beloved.
Self-Acquaintance.
Song.
Song. On Peace.
Sonnet To A Young Lady On Her Birth-Day.
Sonnet To George Romney, Esq. On His Picture Of Me In Crayons,
Sonnet To William Wilberforce, Esq.
Sonnet, Addressed To Henry Cowper, Esq.
Sonnet, Addressed To William Hayley, Esq.
Stanzas Addressed To Lady Hesketh, By A Lady,
Stanzas.
Stanzas. On The Late Indecent Liberties Taken With The Remains Of Milton.[1]
Submission.
Table Talk.
Temptation.
That Nature Is Not Subject To Decay.
The Birds Nest. A Tale.[1]
The Castaway.
The Christian.
The Cock-Fighters Garland.[1]
The Colubriad.
The Contrite Heart. - Isaiah lvii.15.
The Covenant. - Ezekiel xxxvi.25-28.
The Death of Damon.
The Distressed Travellers; Or, Labour In Vain.
The Diverting History Of John Gilpin; Showing How He Went Farther Than He Intended, And Came Safe Home Again.
The Dog And The Water Lily. No Fable.
The Doves.
The Fable of the Peasant and his Landlord.[1]
The Faithful Bird.
The Flatting Mill.
The Four Ages.
The Future Peace And Glory Of The Church. - Isaiah ix.15-20.
The Happy Change.
The Heart Healed And Changed By Mercy.
The Hidden Life.
The House Of Prayer. - Mark xi.17.
The Iliad Of Homer: Translated Into English Blank Verse: Book I.
The Iliad Of Homer: Translated Into English Blank Verse: Book II.
The Iliad Of Homer: Translated Into English Blank Verse: Book III.
The Iliad Of Homer: Translated Into English Blank Verse: Book IV.
The Iliad Of Homer: Translated Into English Blank Verse: Book IX.
The Iliad Of Homer: Translated Into English Blank Verse: Book V.
The Iliad Of Homer: Translated Into English Blank Verse: Book VI.
The Iliad Of Homer: Translated Into English Blank Verse: Book VII.
The Iliad Of Homer: Translated Into English Blank Verse: Book VIII.
The Iliad Of Homer: Translated Into English Blank Verse: Book X.
The Iliad Of Homer: Translated Into English Blank Verse: Book XI.
The Iliad Of Homer: Translated Into English Blank Verse: Book XII.
The Iliad Of Homer: Translated Into English Blank Verse: Book XIII.
The Iliad Of Homer: Translated Into English Blank Verse: Book XIV.
The Iliad Of Homer: Translated Into English Blank Verse: Book XIX.
The Iliad Of Homer: Translated Into English Blank Verse: Book XV.
The Iliad Of Homer: Translated Into English Blank Verse: Book XVI.
The Iliad Of Homer: Translated Into English Blank Verse: Book XVII.
The Iliad Of Homer: Translated Into English Blank Verse: Book XVIII.
The Iliad Of Homer: Translated Into English Blank Verse: Book XX.
The Iliad Of Homer: Translated Into English Blank Verse: Book XXI.
The Iliad Of Homer: Translated Into English Blank Verse: Book XXII.
The Iliad Of Homer: Translated Into English Blank Verse: Book XXIII.
The Judgment Of The Poets.
The Light And Glory Of The Word.
The Lily And The Rose.
The Love Of The World Reproved: Or, Hypocrisy Detected.
The Modern Patriot.
The Moralizer Corrected. A Tale.
The Morning Dream.
The Narrow Way.
The Needless Alarm. A Tale.
The Negros Complaint.
The New Convert.
The Nightingale And Glowworm.
The Philosopher and the King.
The Pine-Apple And The Bee.
The Poet, The Oyster, And Sensitive Plant.
The Poets New Years Gift. To Mrs. (Afterwards Lady) Throckmorton.
The Poplar Field.
The Progress Of Error.
The Retired Cat.
The Rose.
The Shining Light.
The Shrubbery. Written In A Time Of Affliction.
The Sower. - Matthew xiii.3.
The Task. Book I. The Sofa.
The Task. Book II. The Timepiece.
The Task. Book III. The Garden.
The Task. Book IV. The Winter Evening.
The Task. Book V. The Winter Morning Walk.
The Task. Book VI. The Winter Walk At Noon.
The Valley Of The Shadow Of Death.
The Waiting Soul.
The Winter Nosegay.
Tirocinium; Or, A Review Of Schools.
To A Young Friend, On His Arriving At Cambridge Wet, When No Rain Had Fallen There.
To Christina, Queen of Sweden, with Cromwell's Picture.[1]
To Dr. Austin, Of Cecil Street, London.
To Giovanni Battista Manso, Marquis of Villa.
To Giovanni Salzilli, a Roman Poet, in his Illness. Scazons.[1]
To John Johnston, Esq., On His Presenting Me With An Antique Bust Of Homer.
To Leonora,[1] Singing in Rome.[2]
To Mary (Mrs. Unwin).
To Mary.
To Miss C-----, On Her Birthday.
To Mr. John Rouse, Librarian of the University of Oxford, An Ode[1] on a Lost Volume of my Poems Which He Desired Me to Replace that He Might Add Them to My Other Works Deposited in the Library.
To Mrs. King, On Her Kind Present To The Author, A Patchwork Counterpane Of Her Own Making.
To Mrs. Newton.
To Mrs. Throckmorton, On Her Beautiful Transcript Of Horaces Ode, Ad Librum Suum.
To Mrs. Unwin.
To My Cousin, Anne Bodham, On Receiving From Her A Network Purse Made By Herself.
To My Father.
To Sir Joshua Reynolds.
To The Immortal Memory Of The Halibut, On Which I Dined This Day, Monday, April 26, 1784.
To The Nightingale, Which The Author Heard Sing On New Years Day.
To The Rev. Mr. Newton, On His Return From Ramsgate.
To The Rev. W. Cawthorne Unwin.
To The Rev. William Bull.
To The Reverend Mr. Newton. An Invitation Into The Country.
To The Same. (Lines Addressed To Miss Theodora Jane Cowper.)
To The Spanish Admiral Count Gravina, On His Translating The Authors Song On A Rose Into Italian Verse.
To Warren Hastings, Esq. By An Old Schoolfellow Of His At Westminster.
To William Hayley, Esq.
Translation of: The Odyssey of Homer: Book I
Translation of: The Odyssey of Homer: Book II
Translation of: The Odyssey of Homer: Book III
Translation of: The Odyssey of Homer: Book IV
Translation of: The Odyssey of Homer: Book IX
Translation of: The Odyssey of Homer: Book V
Translation of: The Odyssey of Homer: Book VI
Translation of: The Odyssey of Homer: Book VII
Translation of: The Odyssey of Homer: Book VIII
Translation of: The Odyssey of Homer: Book X
Translation of: The Odyssey of Homer: Book XI
Translation of: The Odyssey of Homer: Book XII
Translation of: The Odyssey of Homer: Book XIII
Translation of: The Odyssey of Homer: Book XIV
Translation of: The Odyssey of Homer: Book XIX
Translation of: The Odyssey of Homer: Book XV
Translation of: The Odyssey of Homer: Book XVI
Translation of: The Odyssey of Homer: Book XVII
Translation of: The Odyssey of Homer: Book XVIII
Translation of: The Odyssey of Homer: Book XX
Translation of: The Odyssey of Homer: Book XXI
Translation of: The Odyssey of Homer: Book XXII
Translation of: The Odyssey of Homer: Book XXIII
Translation of: The Odyssey of Homer: Book XXIV
Translations Of The Italian Poems
True And False Comforts.
True Pleasures.
Truth.
Vanity Of The World
Verses Addressed To A Country Clergyman, Complaining Of The Disagreeableness Of The Day Annually Appointed For Receiving The Dues At The Parsonage
Verses Printed By Himself, On A Flood At Olney.
Verses Selected From An Occasional Poem Entitled Valediction.
Verses To The Memory Of Dr. Lloyd.
Verses Written At Bath, On Finding The Heel Of A Shoe.
Verses, Supposed To Be Written By Alexander Selkirk, During His Solitary Abode In The Island Of Juan Fernandez.
Walking With God. - Genesis v.24.
Welcome Cross.
Welcome To The Table.
Wisdom. - Proverbs viii.22-31.
Yardley Oak.[1]