Poetry

Poetry

William Cowper, english poet and hymnodist (1731-1800)


This ebook presents «Poetry», from William Cowper. A dynamic table of contents enables to jump directly to the chapter selected.


Table of Contents

- About This Book

- Verses Written At Bath, On Finding The Heel Of A Shoe

- An Epistle To Robert Lloyd, Esq

- Mortals - Around Your Destin'd Heads

- Of Himself

- The Symptoms Of Love

- An Apology For Not Showing Her What I Had Wrote

- Delia, Th' Unkindest Girl On Earth

- This Ev'ning, Delia, You And I

- An Attempt At The Manner Of Waller

- A Song

- Upon A Venerable Rival

- Written In A Quarrel

- See Where The Thames, The Purest Stream

- How Blest The Youth Whom Fate Ordains

- Ode, Supposed To Be Written On The Marriage Of A Friend

- On Her Endeavouring To Conceal Her Grief At Parting

- Bid Adieu, My Sad Heart

- On The Death Of Sir W. Russell

- An Address To The Mob On Occasion Of The Late Riot At The House Of Sir

- Hugh Palliser

- The Modern Patriot

- The Distressed Travellers

- The Poplar-field

- The Nightingale And Glow-worm

- Also Quoted In An Argosy Of Fables

- On A Goldfinch Starved To Death In His Cage

- Boadicea - An Ode

- The Negro's Complaint

- Verses Supposed To Be Written By Alexander Selkirk

- Care For The Lowest, Poem Advocating Animal-rights

- Sweet Meat Has Sour Sauce

- Retirement

- The Winter Nosegay

- To The Nightingale

- Sonnet To William Wilberforce, Esq

- Epigrams On His Garden Shed

- To Mary

- The Castaway

- Anti-thelyphthora, Satirical Attack Against The Defence Of Polygamy

- Entitled Thelyphthora

- The Diverting History Of John Gilpin

- The Task

- The Lilly And The Rose Quoted In An Argosy Of Fables

- On The Receipt Of My Mother's Picture