Poems by William Cowper
Epitaph On Johnson
... Whose verse may claim, grave, masculine and strong, ...
Sonnet To George Romney, Esq. On His Picture Of Me In Crayons
... But this I mark, -- that symptoms none of woe ...
To William Hayley, Esq. June 29, 1793.
... Which they who need them use, and then despise ...
To Health (From The Greek)
... Owe, themselves, their youth to thee ...
On Receiving Heyne's Virgil From Mr. Hayley
... To sweeten more sweet Maro's matchless strain, ...
The Poet, The Oyster, And Sensitive Plant
... To make them grow just where she chooses):-- ...
An Epitaph 4 (From The Greek)
... At threescore winters' end I died ...
On An Old Woman (From The Greek)
... But 'tis a foul aspersion ...
On The Ice Islands Seen Floating In The German Ocean
... Behold! Like burnished brass they shine, or beaten gold ...
A Tale, Founded On A Fact, Which Happened In January, 1779
... Now farewell oaths, and blasphemies, and lies! ...
On The Death Of The Bishop Of Ely. Anno Aet. 17. (Translated From Milton)
... Death is not (wherefore dream'st thou thus ...
To Miss C-----, On Her Birthday
... Whose deeds constrain us to detest ...
Epitaph On Mrs. M. Higgins, Of Weston
... They in some nook, where little known they dwell, ...
Olney Hymn 3: Jehovah-Rophi: I Am the Lord That Healeth Thee
... Like her, with hopes and fears we come, ...
Stanzas On The Late Indecent Liberties Taken With The Remains Of The Great Milton
... Ill fare the hands that heaved the stones ...
