William Cowper Poems

1. True Pleasures.
2. Report Of An Adjudged Case, Not To Be Found In Any Of The Books.
3. Temptation.
4. The House Of Prayer. - Mark Xi.17.
5. Heroism.
6. To The Reverend Mr. Newton. An Invitation Into The Country.
7. On The Fifth Of November. Anno Aetates 17.
8. Translation Of: The Odyssey Of Homer: Book Iii
9. On A Similar Occasion. For The Year 1792.
10. The Hidden Life.
11. On Flaxman's Penelope.
12. On The Queen's Visit To London. The Night Of The Seventeenth Of March 1789.
13. Abuse Of The Gospel.
14. Not Of Works.
15. On A Mistake In His Translation Of Homer.
16. Jehovah-shalom. The Lord Send Peace. - Judges Vi.24.
17. Elegy Ii. On The Death Of The University Beadle At Cambridge.[1]
18. Welcome To The Table.
19. The Task. Book I. The Sofa.
20. The Sower. - Matthew Xiii.3.
21. Translation Of: The Odyssey Of Homer: Book Xix
22. On The Death Of A Minister.
23. Ode To Apollo. On An Inkglass Almost Dried In The Sun.
24. Translation Of: The Odyssey Of Homer: Book X
25. The Progress Of Error.
26. True And False Comforts.
27. To Sir Joshua Reynolds.
28. Prayer For Children.
29. Human Frailty.
30. On Receiving Heyne's Virgil From Mr. Hayley.
31. Praise For The Fountain Opened. - Zechariah Xiii.1.
32. On The High Price Of Fish.
33. The Retired Cat.
34. Afflictions Sanctified By The Word.
35. Sardis. - Revelation Iii.1-6.
36. The Pine-apple And The Bee.
37. To Mrs. King, On Her Kind Present To The Author, A Patchwork Counterpane Of Her Own Making.
38. Translations Of The Italian Poems
39. To Mrs. Throckmorton, On Her Beautiful Transcript Of Horace's Ode, "ad Librum Suum."
40. Truth.
41. Love Constraining To Obedience.
42. On The Loss Of The Royal George.
43. Verses To The Memory Of Dr. Lloyd.
44. To Mrs. Unwin.
45. Lines.
46. Sonnet, Addressed To William Hayley, Esq.
47. Welcome Cross.
48. Prayer For Patience.
49. The Rose.
50. To Giovanni Battista Manso, Marquis Of Villa.

Total 532 poems written by William Cowper

Poem of the day

In The Grass.
by Robert Crawford

'Tis as if I saw it all — sat now in the grass, and heard
The soft warm wind in my ears like the lilt of a lonely bird;
Sat now in the grasses so — saw, but said never a word.
The two of them in the wood, below me there by the rill;
He with the light on his brow, she in the shadow still;
And a cloud so white goes over the blue on the gleaming hill.
My nest in the grass was good: they deemed that none might see —
Ah God in heaven! my eyes looked out of the hell in me,
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