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BY
WILLIAM COWPER.
WITH A BIOGRAPHICAL AND CRITICAL INTRODUCTION,
BY THE REV. THOMAS DALE:
AND
SEVENTY-FIVE ILLUSTRATIONS, ENGRAVED BY J. ORRIN SMITH,
FROM DRAWINGS BY JOHN GILBERT.
VOL. II.
LONDON:
TILT AND BOGUE, FLEET STREET.
MDCCCXLI.
CONTENTS OF VOL. II.
Page
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The Task, in Six Books :-
Book 1.-The Sofa . . . . . . . . . . . 1
II.-The Timepiece · · · · · · · · · 31
III.-The Garden . . . . . . . . . . 61
IV.—The Winter Evening ... .
V.—The Winter Morning Walk ...
VI.—The Winter Walk at Noon . . . . . 153
Tirocinium ; or, a Review of Schools . . . . . . . 187
Yardley Oak . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 220
Sonnet, addressed to William Hayley, Esq. . . . . . 225
On the Receipt of my Mother's Picture, out of Norfolk . 226
An Epistle to an afflicted Protestant Lady in France 231
To the Rev. W. Cawthorne Unwin . . . . . . . 233
An Epistle to Joseph Hill, Esq. . . . . . . . . 234
To the Rev. Mr. Newton i . . . . . . . . . 236
On receiving Hayley's Picture . . . . . . . . . 237
Catharina . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 238
The Moralizer corrected. A Tale . . . . . . . . 240
The Faithful Bird . . . . . . . . . . . . . 243
The Neediess Alarm. A Tale . . . . . . . . . 245
To John Johnson . . . . . .
Boadicea. An Ode . . . . . . . . . . . . 250
Heroism · · · · · · · · · · · · · · · · 252
Friendship . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 255
On a mischievous Bull . . . . . . . . . . .
On the Queen's Visit to London, March 17, 1789 . . 263
Annus Memorabilis, 1789, written in Commemoration of
His Majesty's happy Recovery .......
Gratitude. Addressed to Lady Hesketh ....
To my Cousin, Anne Bodham . . . . . . . . . 271
A Poetical Epistle to Lady Austen . . . . . . . 272
To Mrs. King . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 275
Sonnet, to William Wilberforce, Esq. . . . . . . . 277
To Dr. Austin, of Cecil Street, London . . . . . . 277
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Sonnet, to George Romney, Esq. ..... 278
To Mrs. Unwin . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 279
To Mary . . . . . . . . . . . . :
On the Loss of the Royal George . . . .
282
Stanzas, subjoined to a Bill of Mortality for 1787 . . . 284
On a Similar Occasion, for the Year 1788 . . . . . 286
On a Similar Occasion, for the Year 1789 ... 288
On a Similar Occasion, for the Year 1790 ... 290
On a Similar Occasion, for the Year 1792 . . . . . 292
On a Similar Occasion, for the Year 1793 . . . . . 294
Inscription for a Stone on sowing a Grove of Oaks . . 296
In Memory of the late John Thornton, Esq. . . . . 297
Verses to the Memory of Dr. Lloyd . . . . . . . 299
Epitaph on Mrs. M. Higgins . . . . . . . . . 300
Epitaph on “Fop". . . . . . . . . . . . . 300
Epitaph on a Hare . . . . . . . . . . . . . 301
Lines, composed for a Memorial of Ashley Cowper, Esq. 303
Hymn for the Use of the Sunday School at Olney . . . 304
The History of John Gilpin . . . . . . . . . . 306
TRANSLATIONS FROM VINCENT BOURNE:-
I. The Glow-worm . . . . . . . . . . . . . 315
II. The Jackdaw · · · ·
· 316
III. The Parrot . . . . . . . . . . . . . 318
IV. The Cricket . . . . . . . . . . . . . 320
V. Reciprocal Kindness the Primary Law of Nature . 321
VI. The Thracian . . . . . . . . . . . . . 322
VII. A Manual, more ancient than the Art of Printing · 323
VIII. Au Enigma . . . . . . . . . . . . . 325
IX. Sparrows, self-domesticated in Trinity College . . 326
X. Familiarity Dangerous . . . . . . . . . . 328
XI. Invitation to the Redbreast . . . . . . . . 328
XII. Strada's Nightingale . . . . . . . . . . 330
XIII. Ode on the Death of a Lady . . . . . . . 330
XIV. The Cause Won · · · · · ·
· 332
XV. The Silk worm · · · · · · · · · · · · 333
XVI. Denner's Old Woman · · · · · · · · · 334
XVII. The Maze . . . . . . . . . . . . . 335
XVIII. No Sorrow peculiar to the Sufferer . . . . . 335
XIX. The Snail . . . . . . . . . . . . . 336