Book I
. The Sofa 547
II. The Time-Piece 553
III. The Garden 559
IV. The Winter Evening 566
V. The Winter Morning Walk 572
VI. The Winter Walk at Noon 579
Epistle to Joseph Hill, Esq. 587
Tirocinium; or, a Review of Schools 587
The Yearly Distress, or Tithing Time at Stock, in Essex 594
Sonnet addressed to Henry Cowper, Esq. 595
Lines addressed to Dr. Darwin 595
On Mrs. Montagu's Feather Hangings 595
Verses supposed to be written by Alexander Selkirk, during his solitary Abode in the Island of Juan Fernandez 596
On observing some Names of little note in the Biographia Britannica 596
Report of an adjudged Case 597
On the Promotion of Edward Thurlow, Esq. to the Lord High Chancellorship of England 597
Ode to Peace 597
Human Frailty 597
The Modern Patriot 598
On the Burning of Lord Mansfield's Library, &c. 598
On the same 598
The Love of the World Reproved 598
On the Death of Mrs. (now Lady) Throckmorton's Bullfinch 599
The Rose 599
The Doves 599
A Fable 600
Ode to Apollo 600
A Comparison 600
Another, addressed to a Young Lady 601
The Poet's New Year's Gift 601
Pairing-time anticipated 601
The Dog and the Water Lily 601
The Winter Nosegay 602
The Poet, the Oyster, and the Sensitive Plant 602
The Shrubbery 602
Mutual Forbearance necessary to the Married State 603
The Negro's Complaint 603
Pity for Poor Africans 604
The Morning Dream 604
The Diverting History of John Gilpin 604
The Nightingale and Glow-worm 607
An Epistle to an afflicted Protestant Lady in France 607
To the Rev. W. Cawthorne Unwin 607
To the Rev. Mr. Newton 608
Catharina 608
The Moralizer corrected 608
The Faithful Bird 609
The Needless Alarm 609
Boadicea 610
Heroism 611
On the Receipt of my Mother's Picture out of Norfolk 611
Friendship 612
On a mischievous Bull, which the Owner of him sold at the Author's instance 614
Annus memorabilis, 1789. Written in Commemoration of his Majesty's happy recovery 614
Hymn for the use of the Sunday School at Olney 615
Stanzas subjoined to a Bill of Mortality for the year 1787 615
The same for 1788 616
The same for 1789 616
The same for 1790 616
The same for 1792 617
The same for 1793 617
On a Goldfinch starved to Death in his Cage 617
The Pineapple and the Bee 618
Verses written at Bath, on finding the Heel of a Shoe 618
An Ode, on reading Richardson's History of Sir Charles Grandison 618
An Epistle to Robert Lloyd, Esq. 619
A Tale, founded on a Fact, which happened in Jan. 1779 619
To the Rev. Mr. Newton, on his Return from Ramsgate 620
Love Abused 620
A Poetical Epistle to Lady Austen 620
The Colubriad 621
Song. On Peace 621
Song--"When all within is Peace" 622
Verses selected from an occasional Poem entitled "Valediction" 622
Epitaph on Dr. Johnson 622
To Miss C----, on her Birthday 622
Gratitude 622
Lines composed for a Memorial of Ashley Cowper, Esq. 623
On the Queen's Visit to London 623
The Cockfighter's Garland 624
To Warren Hastings, Esq. 625
To Mrs. Throckmorton 625
To the Immortal Memory of the Halibut, on which I dined 625
Inscription for a Stone erected at the sowing of a Grove of Oaks 625
Another 625
To Mrs. King 625
In Memory of the late John Thornton, Esq. 626
The Four Ages 626
The Retired Cat 626
The Judgment of the Poets 627
Yardley Oak 628
To the Nightingale which the Author heard sing on New Year's Day 629
Lines written in an Album of Miss Patty More's 629
Sonnet to William Wilberforce, Esq. 629
Epigram on Refining Sugar 630
To Dr. Austin, of Cecil Street, London 630
Catharina: on her Marriage to George Courtenay, Esq. 630
Epitaph on Fop, a dog belonging to Lady Throckmorton 630
Sonnet to George Romney, Esq. 630
Mary and John 630
Epitaph on Mr. Chester, of Chicheley 630
To my Cousin, Anne Bodham 631
Inscription for a Hermitage in the Author's Garden 631
To Mrs. Unwin 631
To John Johnson, on his presenting me with an antique Bust of Homer 631
To a young Friend 631
On a Spaniel called Beau, killing a young bird 631
Beau's Reply 631
To William Hayley, Esq. 632
Answer to Stanzas addressed to Lady Hesketh, by Miss Catharine Fanshawe 632
On Flaxman's Penelope 632
To the Spanish Admiral Count Gravina 632
Inscription for the Tomb of Mr. Hamilton 632
Epitaph on a Hare 632
Epitaphium Alterum 633
Account of the Author's Treatment of his Hares 633
A Tale 634
To Mary 635
The Castaway 635
To Sir Joshua Reynolds 636
On the Author of "Letters on Literature" 636
The Distressed Travellers; or, Labour in Vain 636
Stanzas on Liberties taken with the Remains of Milton 637
To the Rev. William Bull 637
Epitaph on Mrs. Higgins 638
Sonnet to a Young Lady on her Birth-day 638
On a Mistake in his Translation of Homer 638
On the Benefit received by his Majesty from Sea-bathing 638
Addressed to Miss ---- on reading the Prayer for Indifference 638
From a Letter to the Rev. Mr. Newton 639
The Flatting Mill 639
Epitaph on a free but tame Redbreast 640
Sonnet addressed to W. Hayley, Esq. 640
An Epitaph 640
On receiving Hayley's Picture 640
On a Plant of Virgin's Bower 640
On receiving Heyne's Virgil 640
Stanzas by a Lady 641
Cowper's Reply 641
Lines addressed to Miss T. J. Cowper 641
To the same 641
On a sleeping Infant 641
Lines 641
Inscription for a Moss-house in the Shrubbery at Weston 641
Lines on the Death of Sir William Russel 642
On the high price of Fish 642
To Mrs. Newton 642
Verses printed by himself on a flood at Olney 642
Extract from a Sunday-school Hymn 642
On the receipt of a Hamper (in the manner of Homer) 643
On the neglect of Homer 643
Sketch of the Life of the Rev. John Newton 643
OLNEY HYMNS.
Preliminary Remarks on the Olney Hymns 652
Hymn I. Walking with God 656
II. Jehovah-Jireh. The Lord will provide 656
III. Jehovah-Rophi. I am the Lord that healeth thee 656
IV. Jehovah-Nissi. The Lord my Banner 657
V. Jehovah-Shalom. The Lord send Peace 657
VI. Wisdom 657
VII. Vanity of the World 657
VIII. O Lord, I will praise thee 658
IX. The contrite Heart 658
X. The future Peace and Glory of the Church 658
XI. Jehovah our Righteousness 658
XII. Ephraim repenting 659
XIII. The Covenant 659
XIV. Jehovah-Shammah 659
XV. Praise for the Fountain opened 659
XVI. The Sower 659
XVII. The House of Prayer 660
XVIII. Lovest thou me? 660
XIX. Contentment 660
XX. Old Testament Gospel 661
XXI. Sardis 661
XXII. Praying for a Blessing on the Young 661
XXIII. Pleading for and with Youth 661
XXIV. Prayer for Children 661
XXV. Jehovah-Jesus 662
XXVI. On opening a Place for social Prayer 662
XXVII. Welcome to the Table 662
XXVIII. Jesus hasting to suffer 662
XXIX. Exhortation to Prayer 663
XXX. The Light and Glory of the Word 663
XXXI. On the Death of a Minister 663
XXXII. The shining Light 663
XXXIII. Seeking the Beloved 663
XXXIV. The Waiting Soul 664
XXXV. Welcome Cross 664
XXXVI. Afflictions sanctified by the Word 664
XXXVII. Temptation 664
XXXVIII. Looking upwards in a Storm 664
XXXIX. The Valley of the Shadow of Death 665
XL. Peace after a Storm 665
XLI. Mourning and Longing 665
XLII. Self-Acquaintance 665
XLIII. Prayer for Patience 666
XLIV. Submission 666
XLV. The happy Change 666
XLVI. Retirement 666
XLVII. The hidden Life 667
XLVIII. Joy and Peace in Believing 667
XLIX. True Pleasures 667
L. The Christian 667
LI. Lively Hope and Gracious Fear 668
LII. For the Poor 668
LIII. My Soul thirsteth for God 668
LIV. Love constraining to Obedience 668
LV. The Heart healed and changed by Mercy 668
LVI. Hatred of Sin 669
LVII. The new Convert 669
LVIII. True and false Comforts 669
LIX. A living and a dead Faith 669
LX. Abuse of the Gospel 669
LXI. The narrow Way 670
LXII. Dependence 670
LXIII. Not of Works 670
LXIV. Praise for Faith 670
LXV. Grace and Providence 670
LXVI. I will praise the Lord at all times 671
LXVII. Longing to be with Christ 671
LXVIII. Light shining out of darkness 671
TRANSLATIONS FROM THE FRENCH OF MADAME DE LA MOTHE GUION.
Brief Account of Madame Guion, and of the Mystic Writers 672
The Nativity 677
God neither known nor loved by the World 679
The Swallow 679
The Triumph of Heavenly Love desired 679
A Figurative Description of the Procedure of Divine Love 679
A Child of God longing to see him beloved 680
Aspirations of the Soul after God 680
Gratitude and Love to God 680
Happy Solitude--Unhappy Men 680
Living Water 680
Truth and Divine Love rejected by the World 681
Divine Justice amiable 681
The Soul that Loves God finds him everywhere 682
The Testimony of Divine Adoption 682
Divine Love endures no rival 682
Self-Diffidence 683
The Acquiescence of Pure Love 683
Repose in God 683
Glory to God alone 683
Self-Love and Truth incompatible 684
The Love of God, the End of Life 684
Love faithful in the Absence of the Beloved 684
Love pure and fervent 684
The entire Surrender 685
The perfect Sacrifice 685
God hides his People 685
The Secrets of Divine Love are to be kept 685
The Vicissitudes experienced in the Christian Life 686
Watching unto God in the Night Season 687
On the same 688
On the same 688
The Joy of the Cross 689
Joy in Martyrdom 689
Simple Trust 689
The necessity of Self-Abasement 690
Love increased by Suffering 690
Scenes favourable to Meditation 691
TRANSLATIONS OF THE LATIN AND ITALIAN POEMS OF MILTON.
Elegy I. To Charles Deodati 691
II. On the Death of the University Beadle at Cambridge 692
III. On the Death of the Bishop of Winchester 692
IV. To his Tutor, Thomas Young 693
V. On the Approach of Spring 694
VI. To Charles Deodati 695
VII. 696
Epigrams. On the Inventor of Guns 697
To Leonora singing at Rome 697
To the same 697
The Cottager and his Landlord. A Fable 697
To Christina, Queen of Sweden, with Cromwell's Picture 697
On the Death of the Vice-Chancellor, a Physician 697
On the Death of the Bishop of Ely 698
Nature unimpaired by Time 698
On the Platonic Idea as it was understood by Aristotle 699
To his Father 699
To Salsillus, a Roman poet, much indisposed 700
To Giovanni Battista Manso, Marquis of Villa 701
On the Death of Damon 701
An Ode, addressed to Mr. John Rouse, Librarian of the University of Oxford 704
Sonnet--"Fair Lady! whose harmonious name" 705
Sonnet--"As on a hill-top rude, when closing day" 705
Canzone--"They mock my toil" 705
Sonnet--To Charles Deodati 705
Sonnet--"Lady! it cannot be but that thine eyes" 705
Sonnet--"Enamour'd, artless, young, on foreign ground" 705
Simile in Paradise Lost 706
Translation of Dryden's Epigram on Milton 706
TRANSLATIONS FROM VINCENT BOURNE.
The Glowworm 706
The Jackdaw 706
The Cricket 706
The Parrot 707
The Thracian 707
Reciprocal Kindness the Primary Law of Nature 707
A Manual more ancient than the Art of Printing 708
An Enigma--"A needle, small as small can be" 708
Sparrows self-domesticated in Trinity Coll. Cambridge 708
Familiarity dangerous 709
Invitation to the Redbreast 709
Strada's Nightingale 709
Ode on the Death of a Lady who lived one hundred years 709
The Cause won 710
The Silkworm 710
The Innocent Thief 710
Denner's Old Woman 710
The Tears of a Painter 710
The Maze 711
No Sorrow peculiar to the Sufferer 711
The Snail 711
The Cantab 711
TRANSLATIONS OF GREEK VERSES.
From the Greek of Julianus 712
On the same by Palladas 712
An Epitaph 712
Another 712
Another 712
Another 712
By Callimachus 712
On Miltiades 712
On an Infant 712
By Heraclides 712
On the Reed 712
To Health 712
On Invalids 713
On the Astrologers 713
On an Old Woman 713
On Flatterers 713
On a true Friend 713
On the Swallow 713
On late acquired Wealth 713
On a Bath, by Plato 713
On a Fowler, by Isidorus 713
On Niobe 713
On a good Man 713
On a Miser 713
Another 713
Another 713
On Female Inconstancy 714
On the Grasshopper 714
On Hermocratia 714
From Menander 714
On Pallas bathing, from a Hymn of Callimachus 714
To Demosthenes 714
On a similar Character 714
On an ugly Fellow 714
On a battered Beauty 714
On a Thief 714
On Pedigree 715
On Envy 715
By Moschus 715
By Philemon 715
TRANSLATIONS FROM THE FABLES OF GAY.
Lepus multis Amicus 715
Avarus et Plutus 716
Papilio et Limax 716
EPIGRAMS TRANSLATED FROM THE LATIN OF OWEN.
On one ignorant and arrogant 716
Prudent Simplicity 716
To a Friend in Distress 716
Retaliation 716
"When little more than Boy in Age" 717
Sunset and Sunrise 717
TRANSLATIONS FROM VIRGIL, OVID, HORACE, AND HOMER.
The Salad, by Virgil 717
Translation from Virgil, Æneid, Book VIII . Line 18 718
Ovid. Trist. Book V . Eleg. XII. 721
Hor. Book I . Ode IX. 722
Hor. Book I . Ode XXXVIII. 722
Hor. Book II . Ode X. 722
A Reflection on the foregoing Ode 722
Hor.