WRITTEN IN A COUNTRY CHURCH-YARD

AND OTHER POEMS

BY

THOMAS GRAY

TOGETHER WITH

THE DIVERTING HISTORY OF JOHN GILPIN

AND OTHER POEMS

BY

WILLIAM COWPER

EDITED, WITH AN INTRODUCTION AND NOTES

BY

J. H. CASTLEMAN, A.M.
TEACHER OF ENGLISH AT THE MCKINLEY High School

St. Louis, M188OURI

New York
THE MACMILLAN COMPANY

1918

Set up and electrotyped. Published September, 1909
Reprinted February, 1911; February, 1914; January, 1916.

Norwood Press
J. 8. Cushing Co. - Berwick & Smith Co.

Norwood, Mass., U.S.A.

GRAY'S POEMS:

Elegy Written in a Country Church-yard

Ode on the Spring

Ode on a Distant Prospect of Eton College.

Hymn to Adversity

Sonnet on the Death of Richard West

Ode on the Death of a Favorite Cat

The Progress of Poesy

The Bard

The Fatal Sisters

The Descent of Odin

The Triumphs of Owen

The Death of Hoel

Carådoc

Conan.

Sketch of his own Character

William Shakespeare

Song

A Long Story

Ode on the Pleasure arising from Vicissitude

The Alliance of Education and Government

Ode for Music

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CowPER'S POEMS :

The Diverting History of John Gilpin

On a Grasshopper

The Rose

The Doves

Ode to Apollo

The Dog and the Water Lily

The Shrubbery

The Negro's Complaint

Pity for Poor Africans

The Morning Dream

The Nightingale and Glow-worm

The Pineapples and the Bee

Verses, supposed to be written by Alexander Selkirk

Ode to Peace

The Modern Patriot

Report of an Adjudged Case

The Lily and the Rose

The Poplar Field

On Receipt of my Mother's Picture

The Needless Alarm

Boadicea

Epitaph on a Hare

On Friendship

On the Loss of the Royal George

Song on Peace

On the Shortness of Human Life

Epitaph on Johnson

The Judgment of the Poets

Yardley Oak

To the Nightingale

To Mary

The Castaway

The Task

The Winter Evening

The Winter Morning Walk

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