Poems

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I-'R'.IM AN 'nRICINAI, ■PAINTII.a i'"l shed b J. "■ i.t ' 18?6 POEMS BY WILLIAM COWPER , Esq, 0 V THE INNER TEMPLE. Sicut aquæ tremulum labris ubi lumen ahenis Sole repercussum, aut radian tis Imagine Lunæ, Omnia pcrvolitat lato loca, jamque sub auras Erigitur, summique ferit laqucaria tecti. Virg. Æn. vifi. So water, trembling in a polish'd vase, Reflects the beam that plays upon its face,- The sportive light, uncertain where it falls, Now strikes the roof, now flashes on the walls. LONDON: PUBLISHED BY JONES & COMPANY, .1, ACTON PLACE, KINGSLAND ROAD. 1825. CONTENTS. Page Table Talk I Progress of Error 9 Truth ]5 Expostulation 20 Hope 27 Charity 35 Conversation 41 Retirement 49 The Task, in Six Books : Book I. The Sofa 57 II. The Time-piece .... 65 III. The Garden 73 IV. The Winter Evening ... 81 ■ V. The Winter Morning Walk . 89 VI.

The Winter Walk at Noon. . 98 Tirocinium; or, a Review of Schools . . 108 Yearly Distress, or Tithing Time at Stock, in Essex 117 Sonnet addressed to Henry Cowper . . ib. Lines addressed to Dr. Darwin .... 118 On Mrs. Montagu's Feather Hangiugs . ib. Verses supposed to be written by Alexander Selkirk, during his abode in the Island of Juan Fernandez ib. On the promotion of Edward Thurlow, Esq. to the Chancellorship of England . 119 Ode to Peace ib. Human Frailty 120 The Modern Patriot ib. On observing some Names of little Note, recorded in the Biographia Britannica . ib. Report of an adjudged Case not to be found in any of the Books . . . • . .ib. On the burning of Lord Mansfield's Library 121 On the Same ib. The Love of the World reproved . . .ib. On the death of Lady Tbrockmortoo's Bullinch 122 The Rose ib.

The Doves 123 A Fable ib. A Comparison 121 Another, addressed to a Young Lady . . ib. The Poet's New-year's-Gift ib. Ode to Apollo ib. Pairing Time anticipated. A Fable . . ib. The Dog and Water Lily 125 r_ge The Poet, the Oyster, and the Sensitive Plant 120 The Shrubbery ib. The Winter Nosegay ib. Mutual Forbearance necessary to the Happiness of the Married State ... 127 The Negro's Complaint ib. Pity for Poor Africans 128 The Moruing Dream 129 The Nightingale and Glow-worm . . . ib. On a Goldfinch starved to Death in his Cage ib. The Pineapple and the Bee 130 Horace, Book II. Ode X ib. Reflection on the foregoing Ode .... ib. The Lily and the Rose 131 Idem Latine Redditum ib. The Poplar field ib. Idem Latine Redditum 132 Votum ib. TRANSLATIONS FROM VINCENT BOURNE: Cicindela ib. The Glow-worm ib.