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The Works of William Cowper, Esq., Comprising His Poems This is a reproduction of a library book that was digitized by Google as part of an ongoing effort to preserve the information in books and make it universally accessible. https://books.google.com TheWorksofWilliamCowper,Esq.,ComprisingHisPoems,Correspondence,andTranslations WilliamCowper,RobertSouthey _J|IIII!II1IIII| 901 5 02798 UNIVERSITY Of UK 3 9015 0279 #2r THE WORKS or WILLIAM COWPER, Esq. COMPRISING HIS POEMS, CORRESPONDENCE, AND TRANSLATIONS. WITH A LIFE OF THE AUTHOR, BY THE EDITOR, ROBERT SOUTHEY, Esq. LL. D. POET LAUREATE, ETC. VOL. T.. LONDON: BALDWIN AND CRADOCK, PATERNOSTER ROW. 1837. CHISWICK PRESS: WHITTINGHAM, COLLEGE HOUSE. ADVERTISEMENT. This volume contains the remainder of Cowper's posthumous Poems, and the Translation of Andreini's Adamo, the joint work of Cowper and Hayley at Eartham, when Johnny of Norfolk " acted as Secre tary, and committed the composition to paper, as it proceeded from the lips of the two social translators." The version was made from one of the Milan editions, (1613. 1617.) There are great alterations in the later one of Perugia, (1640 ;) but if the transla tors had been aware of this when they commenced this work, they would still, says Hayley, have preferred the earlier copy, as best answering their " main purpose of enabling the reader to judge how far it is probable that the imagination of Milton might have caught fire from the ideas of Andreini, since the translation exhibits those ideas just as they appeared in that copy of the Adamo which Milton must have read, if he read any, during his travels in Italy. For the edition of Perugia IV ADVERTISEMENT. was not printed till several years after the return of our great poet to his own country." The translation was first published by Hayley in that edition of Milton's Poetical Works which con tained his own life of the poet, with Cowper's trans lations of the Latin and Italian poems, and Cowper's annotations ; and which he entitled Cowper's Milton. It was printed at Chichester, in four volumes crown octavo, 1810. CONTENTS. VOL. X. Page On the Loss of the Royal George 1 In Submersionem Navigii, cai Georgius Regale Nomen, inditum " 3 The Negro's Complaint 4 Pity for poor Africans 6 The Morning Dream 8 Sweet Meat has sour Sauce : or, the Slave-trader in the Dumps . 10 The Valediction 11 On the Queen's Visit to London 15 Annus Memorabilis. 1789. Written in Commemoration of his Majesty's happy Recovery 18 The Cockfighter's Garland 20 On the Benefit received by his Majesty from Sea-bathing, in the Year 1789 23 To Mrs. Throckmorton, on her beautiful Transcript of Ho race's Ode Ad Librum suum 23 Inscription for a Stone erected at the Sowing of a Grove of Oaks at Chillington, the Seat of T. Giffard, Esq. 1790 . 24 Another, for a Stone erected on a similar Occasion at the same Place in the following Year. Anno 1791 ... 25 Hymn for the Use of the Sunday School at Olney ... 25 VI CONTENTS. Page Stanzas on (he late indecent Liberties taken with the Re mains of the great Milton,— Anno 1790 26 To Mrs. King, on her kind Present to the Author, a Patch work Counterpane of her own making 27 In Memory of the late John Thornton, Esq 29 To Warren Hastings, Esq. By an old Schoolfellow of his at Westminster 30 The Four Ages. A brief Fragment of an extensive pro jected Poem 31 The Judgement of the Poets 32 The Moralizar corrected. A Tale 34 The Faithful Bird 3d The Needless Alarm. A Tale . , 37 Inscription for the Tomb of Mr. Hamilton 41 Epitaph on Mrs. M. Higgins, of Weston ...... 42 The Retired Cat 42 Yardley Oak 46 To the Nightingale, which the Author heard sing on New Year's Day, 1792 52 Lines written for Insertion in a Collection of Handwritings and Signatures made by Miss Patty, Sister of Hannah More 53 Epitaph on a free but tame Redbreast, a Favourite of Miss Sally Hurdis 53 Sonnet to William Wilberforce, Esq 54 Epigram, printed in the Northampton Mercury , ... 55 To Dr. Austin, of Cecil Street, London 55 Sonnet addressed to William Hayley, Esq 56 Mary and John 56 To Sir Joshua Reynolds , . 57 On the Author of Letters on Literature 58 To the Rev. William Bull 59 Catharina. To Miss Stapleton, now Mrs. Courtenay . 61 contents: vh Page Catharina : the Second Part. On her Marriage to George Courtenay, Esq 63 On the Receipt of my Mother's Picture out of Norfolk, the Gift of my Cousin, Ann Bodham 65 The Poplar Field 69 On a mischievous Bull, which the Owner of him sold at the Author's instance 70 An Epitaph 71 Epitaph on Fop, a Dog belonging to Lady Throckmorton . 71 Sonnet to George Romney, Esq 72 On receiving Hayley's Picture 73 Epitaph on Mr. Chester, of Chicheley 73 On a Plant of Virgin's Bower, designed to cover a Garden- seat 73 To my Cousin, Ann Bodham, on receiving from her a net work Purse, made by herself 74 Inscription for an Hermitage in the Author's Garden . 75 To Mrs. Unwin 75 To John Johnson, on his presenting me with an antique Bust of Homer 76 To a Young Friend, on his arriving at Cambridge wet, when no Rain had fallen there 76 A Tale 77 To William Hayley, Esq 80 On a Spaniel, called Beau, killing a young Bird .... 81 Beau's Reply 82 Answer to Stanzas addressed to Lady Hesketh, by Miss Catharine Fanshawe 83 To the Spanish Admiral Count Gravina, on his translating the Author's Song on a Rose into Italian Verse ... 84 On Flaxman's Penelope 84 On receiving Heyne's Virgil from Mr. Hayley .... 84 To Mary 85 Viii ' CONTENTS. Page On the Ice Islands, seen floating in the German Ocean . 8? Montes Glaciales, in Oceano Gennanico natantes ... 89 The Salad. By Virgil 91 The Cast-away 96 Monumental Inscription to William Northcot .... 98 Translation 99 A Riddle 99 Answer. From the Gentleman's Magazine 99 In Seditionem horrendam, corruptelis Gallicis, ut fertur, Londini imper exortam 100 Translation 100 " Cowper had sinn'd with some excuse," 100 Stanzas subjoined to the yearly Bill of Mortality of the Parish of All-Saints, Northampton, Anno Domini 1787 101 On a similar Occasion, for the Year 1788 103 On a similar Occasion, for the Year 1789 104 On a similar Occasion, for the Year 1790 106 On a similar Occasion, for the Year 1792 108 On a similar Occasion, for the Year 1793 ...... 110 TRANSLATIONS FROM VINCENT BOURNE. The Thracian 112 Reciprocal Kindness the primary Law of Nature . .112 A Manual, more ancient than the Art of Printing, and not to be found in any Catalogue 114 An Enigma 116 Sparrows self-domesticated in Trinity College, Cambridge 117 Familiarity dangerous 118 Invitation to the Redbreast 119 Strada's Nightingale , 120 Ode on the Death of a Lady, who lived One Hundred Years, and died on her Birthday, 1728 121 CONTENTS. 1* Page The Cause won , 122 The Silk-worm 123 The innocent Thief 124 Denner's Old Woman 125 The Tears of a Painter 126 The Maze , 127 No Sorrow peculiar to the Sufferer 127 The Snail 128 The Cantab 129 TRANSLATIONS OF THE LATIN ELEGIES. AND ITALIAN POEMS OF MILTON. 1. To Charles Deodati 130 2. On the Death of the University Beadle at Cambridge . 1S3 3.4. ToOn bis the Tutor, Death Thomas of the Bishop Young, of Chaplain Winchester to the .... English 135 Factory at Hamburgh 137 5. On the Approach of Spring 141 6. To Charles Deodati 146 7. Composed in the Author's nineteenth Year .... 149 EPIGRAMS. On the Inventor of Guns 153 To Leonora singing at Rome 153 To the same 154 The Cottager and his Landlord. A Fable 1 54 To Christina, Queen of Sweden, with Cromwell's Picture 155 MISCELLANEOUS POEMS. On the Death of the Vice-Chancellor, a Physician . .155 On the Death of the Bishop of Ely 157 X CONTENTS. Page Nature unimpaired by Time 1 o9 On the Platonic Idea, as it was understood by Aristotle . 162 To his Father 16* To Salsillus, a Roman Poet, much indisposed .... 169 To Giovanni Battista Manso 171 On the Death of Damon 175 An Ode addressed to Mr. John Rouse, Librarian of the University of Oxford 185 Sonnets 189 Canzone 190 Sonnet. To Charles Diodati 190 Sonnet 191 Sonnet 192 Translation from Virgil. ^Eneid, Book viii. line 18. 192 Ovid. Trist. Lib. v. Eleg. xii 206 Hor. Lib. i. Ode ix 208 Hor. Lib. i. Ode xxxviii 209 Another Version of the same Ode 209 Hor. Lib. ii. Ode xvi 209 EPIGRAMS, TRANSLATED FROM THE LATIN OF OWEN. On one ignorant and arrogant 211 Prudent Simplicity 211 To a Friend in Distress 211 Retaliation 211 « When little more than boy in age" 212 Sunset and Sunrise 212 In Brevitatem Vita: Spatii Hominibus concessi. By Dr. Jortin 212 On the Shortness of Human Life. Translation of the above 213 Verses to the Memory of Dr. Lloyd 213 The same in English 215 CONTENTS. XI TRANSLATIONS OF GREEK VERSES. Page From the Greek of Julianus 216 On the same by Palladius 216 Epitaphs 217 By Callimachus 218 On Miltiades 218 On an Infant 218 By Heraclides 218 On the Reed 219 To Health 219 On Invalids 220 On the Astrologers 220 On an Old Woman 220 On Flatterers 221 On a true Friend 221 On the Swallow 221 On late acquired Wealth 222 On a Bath, by Plato 222 On a Fowler, by Isiodorus 222 On Niobe ' 222 On a Good Man 223 On a Miser 223 Another 223 Another 224 On Female Inconstancy 224 On the Grasshopper 225 On Hermocratia 225 From Menander 226 On Pallas bathing, from a Hymn of Callimachus .
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