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CELEIAN
28JAN 1952
THE
POEMS
OF
William Cowper.
VOL. II.
Chiswick:
FROM THE PRESS OF C. WHITTINGHAM,
COLLEGE HOUSE.
Verses supposed to be written by Alexander Selkirk.... 196
The Pineapple and Bee
The Poet, the Oyster, and Sensitive Plant.
The Nightingale and Glowworm......
218
220
222
The Dog and the Waterlily. No Fable...
223
On a Spaniel, called Beau, killing a young Bird..
Beau's Reply..
225
226
The Doves....
227
The Faithful Bird.......
228
The Lily and the Rose.....
230
On a Goldfinch, starved to Death in his Cage..
231
...... 246
4. The Parrot...
5. Reciprocal Kindness, the primary Law of Nature..... 247
6. The Thracian....
249
7. A Manual more ancient than the Art of Printing..... 249
8. An Enigma.....
252
9. Sparrows self-domesticated...
253
10. Familiarity dangerous....
254
17. Denner's Old Woman...
11. Invitation to the Redbreast..
12. Strada's Nightingale .....
13. Ode on the Death of a Lady
14. The Cause won........
15. The Silkworm.
16. The Innocent Thief.
18. The Tears of a Painter........
19. The Maze
20. No Sorrow peculiar to the Sufferer....
21. The Snail.....
Hymn for the Use of the Sunday School at Olney......... 266
Stanzas subjoined to a Bill of Mortality for the Year 1787 267
Lines composed for a Memorial of A. Cowper, Esq..
To the Memory of the late John Thornton, Esq.
To the Memory of Dr. Lloyd..........
278
On Fop, a Dog belonging to Lady Throckmorton....