Author:William Cowper (1731-1800)

Collections

 * The Poetical Works of William Cowper

Individual poems

 * Verses Written at Bath on Finding the Heel of a Shoe
 * An Epistle to Robert Lloyd, Esq.
 * Mortals! around your destin'd heads
 * Of Himself
 * The Symptoms of Love
 * An Apology For Not Showing Her What I Had Wrote
 * Delia, th' unkindest girl on earth
 * This ev'ning, Delia, you and I
 * An Attempt at the Manner of Waller
 * A Song
 * Upon a Venerable Rival
 * Written in a Quarrel
 * See where the Thames, the purest stream
 * How blest the youth whom Fate ordains
 * Ode, Supposed to be Written on the Marriage of a Friend
 * On Her Endeavouring to Conceal Her Grief at Parting
 * Bid adieu, my sad heart
 * On the Death of Sir W. Russell
 * An Address To The Mob On Occasion Of The Late Riot At The House Of Sir Hugh Palliser
 * The Modern Patriot
 * The Distressed Travellers
 * The Poplar-Field
 * The Nightingale and the Glow-worm
 * On a Goldfinch Starved to Death in his Cage
 * Boadicea: An Ode
 * The Negro's Complaint
 * Verses Supposed To Be Written by Alexander Selkirk
 * Care for the Lowest, poem advocating animal-rights
 * Sweet Meat has Sour Sauce
 * Retirement
 * The Winter Nosegay
 * To the Nightingale
 * Sonnet to William Wilberforce, Esq.
 * Epigrams on his Garden Shed
 * To Mary
 * The Castaway
 * Anti-Thelyphthora, satirical attack against the defence of polygamy entitled Thelyphthora
 * The Diverting History of John Gilpin (1782)
 * The Task
 * The Lilly and the Rose quoted in An Argosy of Fables. (1921)
 * On the Receipt of My Mother's Picture
 * Pity the Poor Africans

Anthologized:
 * "Ode to Peace" in Poems and Extracts (1905), by William Wordsworth
 * "The Morning Dream" in Poems Written During the Progress of the Abolition Question In the United States (1837), by John Greenleaf Whittier

Hymns
Olney Hymns (1779)
 * As birds their infant brood protect (Jehovah-Shammah)
 * By whom was David taught (Jehovah Nissi, The Lord my banner)
 * Ere God had built the mountains (Wisdom)
 * God gives his mercies to be spent (Vanity of the world)
 * Heal us, EMMANUEL, here we are (Jehovah Rophi, I am the Lord that healeth thee)
 * Hear what God the LORD hath spoken (The future peace and glory of the church)
 * I Will praise thee every day (O Lord I will praise thee)
 * Jesus, whose blood so freely streamed (Jehovah Shalem, The Lord send peace)
 * My God! how perfect are thy ways! (Jehovah our righteousness)
 * My God! till I received thy stroke (Ephraim repenting)
 * O! for a closer walk with God (Walking with God)
 * The LORD will happiness divine (The contrite heart)
 * The Lord proclaims his grace abroad (The covenant)
 * The saints should never be dismayed (Jehovah Jireh, The Lord will provide)
 * There is a fountain filled with blood (Praise for the fountain opened)
 * Ye sons of earth prepare the plow (The sower)

Translations

 * The Iliad of Homer (1791)
 * The Odyssey of Homer (1791)
 * Poems translated from the French of Madame de la Mothe Guion (1834)

Works about Cowper

 * "Cowper", by George Edward Woodberry from Studies in letters and life (1890).
 * "Introductory Memoir" [biography] from The Poetical Works of William Cowper, 1870 by William Benham
 * A Portrait of William Cowper: His Own Interpreter in Letters and Poems, 2004 by Louise B. Risk
 * A Portrait of William Cowper: His Own Interpreter in Letters and Poems, 2004 by Louise B. Risk