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Discover our Poem Explanations and Poet Analyses!Searching... Author: cowper, william Matches Found: 309 Cowper, William Poet's Biography 309 poems available by this author A CARD Poem Text First Line: Poor vestris, grieved beyond all measure Last Line: And jump into the former favour. A COMPARISON Poem Text First Line: The lapse of time and rivers is the same Last Line: Neglected, leaves a dreary waste behind. Subject(s): Time A COMPARISON [ADDRESSED] TO A YOUNG LADY Poem Text First Line: Sweet stream that winds through yonder glade Last Line: And heaven reflected in her face. Variant Title(s): The Stream;to A Young Lady;addressed To A Young Lady Subject(s): Brooks; Youth; Streams; Creeks A FABLE Poem Text First Line: A raven, while with glossy breast Last Line: But in the sunshine strikes the blow. Subject(s): Fate; Ravens; Destiny A GOOD SONG Poem Text First Line: Here's a health to honest john bull Last Line: Tis our pride, to be loyal and free. A HYMN FOR A CHILD THAT HAS UNGODLY PARENTS Poem Text First Line: How happy are those little ones Last Line: And supplication heard. Subject(s): Parents; Parenthood A POETICAL EPISTLE TO LADY AUSTEN Poem Text First Line: Dear anna - between friend and friend Last Line: "a threefold cord is not soon broken." Subject(s): Friendship A REFLECTION ON ODES: BOOK II, 10 BY HORACE Poem Text First Line: And is this all? Can reason do no more Last Line: And, trusting in his god, surmounts them all. A SONG Poem Text First Line: The sparkling eye, the mantling cheek Last Line: But glow with more prevailing heat. A SONG Poem Text First Line: On the green margin of the brook Last Line: "ah! Thyrsis, I am won." A SONG OF MERCY AND JUDGMENT Poem Text First Line: Lord, I love the habitation Last Line: Sweet the grace which makes me thine. A SONNET; ADDRESSED TO MR. PHILLIPS Poem Text First Line: Phillips! The suff'rer less by law than pow'r Last Line: Scorn is his meed, commiseration thine. Subject(s): Censorship; Phillips, Sir Richard (1767-1840) A TALE Poem Text First Line: In scotland's realm, where trees are few Last Line: Instruct us how to love! Subject(s): Scotland A TALE, FOUNDED ON A FACT WHICH HAPPENED IN JANUARY 1779 Poem Text First Line: Where humber pours his rich commercial stream Last Line: "thy presence, thy embrace!""--he spoke, and died!" A THUNDER STORM Poem Text First Line: The sky begins to lower and thick'ning clouds Last Line: And harmony once more revisits earth. ADDRESSED TO MISS MACARTNEY, AFTERWARDS MRS. GREVILLE Poem Text First Line: And dwells there in a female heart Last Line: Or lively fancy guess. Subject(s): Greville, Francis (fanny) (1724-1789); Women AGAINST INTERESTED LOVE Poem Text First Line: Who does not blush when charged with selfish views Last Line: A maxim all have stamp'd with their applause. AN ADDRESS TO THE MOB ON OCCASION OF THE LATE RIOT ... HUGH PALLISER Poem Text First Line: And is it thus, ye base and blind Last Line: Who fought and would have died for you. Subject(s): Palliser, Sir Hugh (1722-1796) AN APOLOGY FOR NOT SHOWING HER WHAT I HAD WROTE Poem Text First Line: Did not my muse (what can she less?) Last Line: The terror of offending thee. AN ATTEMPT AT THE MANNER OF WALLER Poem Text First Line: Did not thy reason and thy sense Last Line: Then scorn our freedom, and by choice obey. Subject(s): Obedience; Waller, Edmund (1606-1687) AN EPIGRAM IS BUT A FEEBLE THING AN EPISTLE TO AN AFFLICTED PROTESTANT LADY IN FRANCE Poem Text First Line: Madam, - a stranger's purpose in these lays Last Line: And drought on all the drooping herbs around. AN EPISTLE TO JOSEPH HILL, ESQ Poem Text First Line: Dear joseph - five and twenty years ago Last Line: Broadcloth without, and a warm heart within. Subject(s): Friendship AN EPISTLE TO ROBERT LLOYD, ESQ Poem Text First Line: Tis not that I design to rob Last Line: "tis ready polished from the mine." AN EPITAPH Poem Text First Line: Here lies one who never drew / blood himself, yet many slew Last Line: Pointer to sir john throckmorton. Subject(s): Buckinghamshire, England; Epitaphs AN ODE: SECUNDEM ARTEM Poem Text First Line: Shall I begin with ah, or oh? Last Line: To bind the poet's brow, or please the critic's nose. ANNUS MEMORABILIS, 1789 Poem Text First Line: I ransack'd, for a theme of song Last Line: Who is beloved where never seen. ANSWER TO STANZAS TO LADY HESKETH, BY CATHERINE FANSHAWE Poem Text First Line: To be remembered thus is fame Last Line: But never lodged so well. Subject(s): Fame; Reputation ANTI-THELYPHTHORA Poem Text First Line: Airy del castro was as bold a knight Last Line: The spot he loathed so much for ever cleansed away. AWAY GOES SUSSEX WILLIAM WITH HIS PACK BEAU'S REPLY Poem Text First Line: Sir, when I flew to seize the bird Last Line: With verse addressed to me? Subject(s): Animals; Dogs BID ADIEU, MY SAD HEART, BID ADIEU TO THY PEACE BOADICEA; AN ODE Poem Text First Line: When the british warrior queen Last Line: "shame and ruin wait for you!" Subject(s): Boudicca (d. 60 A.d.); Great Britain - Roman Conquest; Boudica; Boadicea CATHARINA: SECOND PART; ON HER MARRIAGE TO GEORGE COURTENAY Poem Text First Line: Believe it or not, as you chuse Last Line: How soon I can make her a mother Subject(s): Marriage; Weddings; Husbands; Wives CATHARINA; ADDRESSED TO MISS STAPLETON (MRS. COURTENAY) Poem Text First Line: She came - she is gone - we have met Last Line: Might we view her enjoying it here. CHARITY Poem Text First Line: Fairest and foremost of the train that wait Last Line: And spare the poet for his subject sake. Subject(s): Charity; Philanthropy CONVERSATION Poem Text First Line: Though nature weigh our talents, and dispense Last Line: It sounds jehovah's name, and pours his praise along. Subject(s): Friendship CRAZY KATE First Line: There often wanders one, whom better days Last Line: Though pinched with cold, asks never-kate is crazed CUM RATIONE INSANIRE Poem Text First Line: I am a caledonian born Last Line: You, my good friend, or I. Subject(s): Treason & Traitors DELIA, THE UNKINDEST GIRL ON EARTH DINNER PARTY First Line: Adieu, vinoso cries, ere yet he sips EPIGRAM Poem Text First Line: To purify their wine some people bleed Last Line: Good cause why planters never try their own. Subject(s): Innocence EPIGRAM ON HIS GARDEN SHED (1) Poem Text First Line: Beware of building! I intended Last Line: Rough logs and thatch,--and thus it ended. EPIGRAM ON HIS GARDEN SHED (2) Poem Text First Line: Instead of a pound or two, spending a mint Last Line: At last out of doors, and have no house to live in. EPITAPH ON A FREE BUT TAME REDBREAST Poem Text First Line: These are not dew-drops, these are tears Last Line: But always in a flame. Subject(s): Robins EPITAPH ON A HARE Poem Text First Line: Here lies, whom hound did ne'er pursue, / nor swifter greyhound follow Last Line: Must soon partake his grave. Subject(s): Animals; Mourning; Rabbits; Bereavement; Hares EPITAPH ON DR. JOHNSON Poem Text First Line: Here johnson lies, a sage by all allowed Last Line: By fame on earth, by glory in the skies! Subject(s): Epitaphs EPITAPH ON FOP, A DOG BELONGING TO LADY THROCKMORTON Poem Text First Line: Though once a puppy, and though fop by name Last Line: "and worn with vain pursuit man also dies." Subject(s): Animals; Dogs EPITAPH ON MR. CHESTER, OF CHICHELEY Poem Text First Line: Tears flow, and cease not, where the good man lies Last Line: As husband, parent, brother, master, friend. EPITAPH ON MRS. M. HIGGINS, OF WESTON Poem Text First Line: Laurels may flourish round the conqueror's tomb Last Line: And all those triumphs, mary, now are thine. EXPOSTULATION Poem Text First Line: Why weeps the muse for england? What appears Last Line: Shall be my chosen theme, my glory to the last. FOREBEARANCE Subject(s): Religion FRAGMENT Poem Text First Line: He came to him in the extasy of pray'r Last Line: How wonderful the lot design'd for him. FRIENDSHIP Poem Text First Line: What virtue, or what mental grace Last Line: Or may my friend deceive me! Subject(s): Friendship GRATITUDE; ADDRESSED TO LADY HESKETH Poem Text First Line: This cap, that so stately appears Last Line: When I sing of the splendour of mine. HEROISM Poem Text First Line: There was a time when aetna's silent fire Last Line: In britain's isle, beneath a george's reign. Subject(s): Great Britain; Heroism; Heroes; Heroines HOPE Poem Text First Line: Ask what is human life - the sage replies Last Line: Repays their work--the gleaning only mine. Subject(s): Hope; Optimism HOPE, LIKE THE SHORT-LIVED RAY THAT GLEAMS AWHILE HOW BLEST THE YOUTH WHOM FATE ORDAINS HUMAN FRAILITY Poem Text First Line: Weak and irresolute is man Last Line: Or all the toil is lost. Subject(s): Mankind; Human Race HYMN FOR THE USE OF THE SUNDAY SCHOOL AT OLNEY Poem Text First Line: Hear, lord, the song of praise and prayer Last Line: Who placed us where it shines. Subject(s): Religious Education; Sunday Schools; Yeshivas; Parochial Schools IMPROMPTU ON READING THE CHAPTER ON POLYGAMY Poem Text First Line: If john marries mary, and mary alone Last Line: It can't be a match--'tis a bundle of matches. Subject(s): Polygamy IMPROMPTU ON WRITING A LETTER WITHOUT HAVING ANYTHING TO SAY Poem Text First Line: So have I seen the maids in vain Last Line: And what was work is changed to play. Subject(s): Letters IN A LETTER TO C.P. ESQ., ILL WITH RHEUMATISM Poem Text First Line: Grant me the muse, ye gods! Whose humble flight Last Line: And sheds soft slumbers on her votary's eyes. IN A LETTER TO C.P., ESQ., IN IMITATION OF SHAKESPEARE Poem Text First Line: Trust me, the meed of praise, dealt thriftily Last Line: And comely guise of ornament disposed. Subject(s): Dramatists; Plays & Playwrights ; Poetry & Poets; Shakespeare, William (1564-1616); Dramatists IN A TIME OF GREAT HEAT; TO HAYLEY Poem Text First Line: Ah! Brother poet, send me of your shade! Last Line: Despatched by sunshine, to the shades below. IN MEMORY OF THE LATE JOHN THORNTON, ESQ Poem Text First Line: Poets attempt the noblest task they can Last Line: Its use and power exemplified in thee. IN SEDITIONEM HORRENDAM Poem Text First Line: False, cruel, disappointed, stung to the heart Last Line: We always spare a coward on his knees. INSCRIPTION FOR A MOSS-HOUSE IN THE SHRUBBERY AT WESTON Poem Text First Line: Here, free from riot's hated noise Last Line: And sweeten my repose. INSCRIPTION FOR A STONE ERECTED AT SOWING OF A GROVE OF OAKS Poem Text First Line: Other stones the era tell Last Line: Stone at heart, and cannot grow, Subject(s): Somerset, England INSCRIPTION FOR A STONE ERECTED ON A SIMILIAR OCCASION Poem Text First Line: Reader! Behold a monument Last Line: Of a great burial here. INSCRIPTION FOR AN ANTIQUE BUST OF HOMER Poem Text First Line: The sculptor? - nameless, though once dear to fame Last Line: But this man bears an everlasting name. Subject(s): Sculpture & Sculptors INSCRIPTION FOR AN HERMITAGE IN THE AUTHOR'S GARDEN Poem Text First Line: This cabin, mary, in my sight appears Last Line: Preliminary to--the last retreat. INSCRIPTION FOR THE TOMB OF MR. HAMILTON Poem Text First Line: Pause here, and think: a monitory rhyme Last Line: "exclaims, ""prepare thee for an early shroud." JINGLE Poem Text First Line: The late dr. Jortin Last Line: Have done into enhlish. Subject(s): Jortin, John (1698-1770); Translating & Interpreting LEGS WITHOUT THE MAN First Line: From every herb and every priry blade LET BANISTER NOW LEND HIS AID LETTER IN VERSE Poem Text First Line: If I write not to you Last Line: Y@4rs obed@4ly stalking horse. LINES ADDRESSED TO DR. DARWIN; AUTHOR OF THE BOTANIC GARDEN Poem Text First Line: Two poets, (poets by report) Last Line: Unworthy of his own. Subject(s): Darwin, Erasmus (1731-1802) LINES AFTER THE MANNER OF HOMER ... OPENING OF A HAMPER Poem Text First Line: The straw-stuffed hamper with his ruthless steel Last Line: Of the fair mother of his friend--the rose. LINES COMPOSED FOR A MEMORIAL OF ASHLEY COWPER, ESQ Poem Text First Line: Farewell! Endued will that could engage Last Line: Love shall be satisfied, and veil the rest. Subject(s): Death; Dead, The LINES FOR .. COLLECTION BY MISS PATTY, SISTER OF HANNAH MORE Poem Text First Line: In vain to live from age to age Last Line: W. Cowper. Variant Title(s): Letter From Cowper To Newton LINES WRITTEN ON A PAGE OF THE MONTHLY REVIEW Poem Text First Line: These critics, who to faith no quarter grant Last Line: Than christ's own servant, or that servant's master. Subject(s): Critics & Criticism LINES WRITTEN ON A WINDOW-SHUTTER AT WESTON Poem Text First Line: Farewell, dear scenes, for ever closed to me Last Line: Whose friend was god, but god swore not to aid me! LOVE ABUSED Poem Text First Line: What is there in the vale of life Last Line: And sighs that heave a breaking heart. Subject(s): Love - Complaints METHINKS I SEE THEE DECENTLY ARRAY'D MONUMENTAL INSCRIPTION TO WILLIAM NORTHCOT Poem Text First Line: Farewell! 'but not for ever,' hope replies Last Line: Thou shalt not wither, nor I weep, again. Variant Title(s): Epitaph To William Northcot MOTTO ON THE KING'S CLOCK Poem Text First Line: Slow comes the hour; its passing speed how great! Last Line: Waiting to seize it--vigilantly wait! Subject(s): Clocks; Time MUTUAL FOREBEARANCE NECESSARY TO ... THE MARRIED STATE Poem Text First Line: The lady thus addressed her spouse Last Line: Or soon expels him if it is. Subject(s): Marriage; Weddings; Husbands; Wives NOR LESS ATTRACTIVE IS THE WOODLAND SCENE Last Line: As bushful, yet impatient to be seen Subject(s): Environment; Trees ODE ON READING RICHARDSON'S HISTORY OF SIR CHARLES GRANDISON Poem Text First Line: Say, ye apostate and profane Last Line: The hero, and the saint! Subject(s): Richardson, Samuel (1689-1761) ODE SUPPOSED TO BE WRITTEN ON THE MARRIAGE OF A FRIEND Poem Text First Line: Thou magic lyre, whose fascinating sound Last Line: And warm our fainting souls with energy divine. Subject(s): Marriage; Weddings; Husbands; Wives ODE TO APOLLO; ON AN INK-GLASS ALMOST DRIED IN THE SUN Poem Text First Line: Patron of all those luckless brains Last Line: With equal grace below. Subject(s): Apollo; Mythology - Classical ODE TO PEACE Poem Text First Line: Come, peace of mind, delightful guest! Last Line: "farewell! We meet no more""?" Subject(s): Despair OF HIMSELF Poem Text First Line: William was once a bashful youth Last Line: E'er claim him for her own. Subject(s): Cowper, William (1731-1800); Modesty; Poetry & Poets OLNEY HYMNS: 1. WALKING WITH GOD Poem Text First Line: Oh! For a closer walk with god Last Line: That leads me to the lamb. Subject(s): God; Religion; Theology OLNEY HYMNS: 10. THE FUTURE PEACE AND GLORY OF THE CHURCH Poem Text First Line: Hear what god the lord hath spoken Last Line: "god your everlasting light." Subject(s): Bible; Religion; Theology OLNEY HYMNS: 11. JEHOVAH OUR RIGHTEOUSNESS Poem Text First Line: My god, how perfect are thy ways! Last Line: The lord for ever mine. Subject(s): Sin OLNEY HYMNS: 12. EPHRAIM REPENTING Poem Text First Line: My god, till I received thy stroke Last Line: "he shall not seek in vain." Subject(s): Ephraim (bible) OLNEY HYMNS: 13. THE COVENANT Poem Text First Line: The lord proclaims his grace abroad! Last Line: "begun and ended in my power." OLNEY HYMNS: 14. JEHOVAH-SHAMMAH Poem Text First Line: As birds their infant brood protect Last Line: Thence? OLNEY HYMNS: 15. PRAISE FOR THE FOUNTAIN OPENED Poem Text First Line: There is a fountain filled with blood Last Line: No other name but thine. Subject(s): Fountains; God OLNEY HYMNS: 16. THE SOWER Poem Text First Line: Ye sons of earth prepare the plough Last Line: Provide a fruitful place! Subject(s): Labor & Laborers; Work; Workers OLNEY HYMNS: 17. THE HOUSE OF PRAYER Poem Text First Line: Thy mansion is the christian's heart Last Line: I give thee what was thine before. OLNEY HYMNS: 18. LOVEST THOU ME? Poem Text First Line: Hark, my soul! It is the lord Last Line: Oh for grace to love thee more! Subject(s): Jesus Christ OLNEY HYMNS: 19. CONTENTMENT Poem Text First Line: Fierce passions discompose the mind Last Line: Have learned to be content. Subject(s): Bible; Contentment; Religion; Mind, The; Theology OLNEY HYMNS: 2. JEHOVAH-JIREH Poem Text First Line: The saints should never be dismay'd Last Line: But cannot come too late. OLNEY HYMNS: 20. OLD-TESTAMENT GOSPEL Poem Text First Line: Israel in ancient days Last Line: To clearer light vouchsafed to me! OLNEY HYMNS: 21. SARDIS Poem Text First Line: Write to sardis,' saith the lord Last Line: "and woe be to the rest!" Subject(s): Bible; Religion; Theology OLNEY HYMNS: 22. PRAYER FOR A BLESSING ON THE YOUNG Poem Text First Line: Bestow, dear lord, upon our youth Last Line: That jesus whom we preach. Subject(s): Youth OLNEY HYMNS: 23. PLEADING FOR AND WITH YOUTH Poem Text First Line: Sin has undone our wretched race Last Line: "prepare to meet thy god!" Subject(s): Sin; Youth OLNEY HYMNS: 24. PRAYER FOR CHILDREN Poem Text First Line: Gracious lord, our children see Last Line: Stoop, and bear the brood away. Subject(s): Children; Prayer; Childhood OLNEY HYMNS: 25. JEHOVAH JESUS Poem Text First Line: My song shall bless the lord of all Last Line: Salvation's sure, and must be mine. OLNEY HYMNS: 26. ON OPENING A PLACE FOR SOCIAL PRAYER Poem Text First Line: Jesus, where'er thy people meet Last Line: And make a thousand hearts thine own. Variant Title(s): Ode: On Opening A Place For Social Prayer OLNEY HYMNS: 27. WELCOME TO THE TABLE Poem Text First Line: This is the feast of heavenly wine Last Line: And I shall see his face! OLNEY HYMNS: 28. JESUS HASTENING TO SUFFER Poem Text First Line: The saviour! What a noble flame Last Line: And hasten to the skies. OLNEY HYMNS: 29. EXHORTATION TO PRAYER Poem Text First Line: What various hindrances we meet Last Line: "hear what the lord has done for me." Subject(s): Prayer OLNEY HYMNS: 3. JEVOHAN-ROPHI Poem Text First Line: Heal us, emmanuel, here we are Last Line: Send none unhealed away! OLNEY HYMNS: 30. THE LIGHT AND THE GLORY OF THE WORD Poem Text First Line: The spirit breathes upon the word Last Line: In brighter worlds above. Subject(s): Jews; Religion; Judaism; Theology OLNEY HYMNS: 31. ON THE DEATH OF A MINISTER Poem Text First Line: His master taken from his head Last Line: Who lives for evermore. OLNEY HYMNS: 32. THE SHINING LIGHT Poem Text First Line: My former hopes are fled Last Line: And watch the rising day. OLNEY HYMNS: 33. THE WAITING SOUL Poem Text First Line: Breathe from the gentle south, o lord Last Line: The lord shall find him there. OLNEY HYMNS: 34. SEEING THE BELOVED Poem Text First Line: To those who know the lord I speak Last Line: I long to see him too. OLNEY HYMNS: 35. LIGHT SHINING OUT OF DARKNESS Poem Text First Line: God moves in a mysterious way, / his wonders to perform Last Line: And he will make it plain. Variant Title(s): Providence;hymn: In A Mysterious Way;mysteries Of Providence Subject(s): Faith; God; Religion; Belief; Creed; Theology OLNEY HYMNS: 36. WELCOME CROSS Poem Text First Line: Tis my happiness below Last Line: Must not,--would not, if he might. OLNEY HYMNS: 37. AFFLICTIONS SANCTIFIED BY THE WORD Poem Text First Line: Oh, how I love thy holy word Last Line: Thy chosen saints for ever rest. OLNEY HYMNS: 38. TEMPTATION Poem Text First Line: The billows swell, the winds are high Last Line: Force back my shattered bark again. Subject(s): Temptation OLNEY HYMNS: 39. LOOKING UPWARDS IN A STORM Poem Text First Line: God of my life, to thee I call Last Line: For whom the lord vouchsafes to plead. OLNEY HYMNS: 4. JEHOVAH-NISSI, THE LORD IS MY BANNER Poem Text First Line: By whom was david taught Last Line: Will help his servant to the end. Subject(s): Jews; Judaism OLNEY HYMNS: 40. THE VALLEY OF THE SHADOW OF DEATH Poem Text First Line: My soul is sad and much dismay'd Last Line: That I am foiled, and thou art grieved! Subject(s): Consolation OLNEY HYMNS: 41. PEACE AFTER A STORM Poem Text First Line: When darkness long has veil'd my mind Last Line: Be shame and self-abhorrence mine. OLNEY HYMNS: 42. MOURNING AND LONGING Poem Text First Line: The saviour hides his face! Last Line: And grant me all my prayer. OLNEY HYMNS: 43. SELF-ACQUAINTANCE Poem Text First Line: Dear lord, accept a sinful heart Last Line: And let me roam no more. OLNEY HYMNS: 44. PRAYER FOR PATIENCE Poem Text First Line: Lord, who hast suffer'd all for me Last Line: But rather weep, remembering thine. Subject(s): Patience OLNEY HYMNS: 45. SUBMISSION Poem Text First Line: O lord, my best desire fulfil Last Line: Drives all these thoughts away. OLNEY HYMNS: 46. THE HAPPY CHANGE Poem Text First Line: How blessed thy creature is, o god Last Line: Can shine upon the heart. Subject(s): God OLNEY HYMNS: 47. RETIREMENT Poem Text First Line: Far from the world, o lord, I flee Last Line: When time shall be no more. OLNEY HYMNS: 48. THE HIDDEN LIFE Poem Text First Line: To tell the saviour all my wants Last Line: For such have all his saints. OLNEY HYMNS: 49. JOY AND PEACE IN BELIEVING Poem Text First Line: Sometimes a light surprises Last Line: I cannot but rejoice. Variant Title(s): In Him Confiding Subject(s): Faith; Belief; Creed OLNEY HYMNS: 5. JEHOBAH-SHALOM, THE LORD SENT PEACE Poem Text First Line: Jesus, whose blood so freely stream'd Last Line: Nor rob me of the lord my peace. Subject(s): Peace OLNEY HYMNS: 50. TRUE PLEASURES Poem Text First Line: Lord, my soul with pleasure springs Last Line: And find his burden light. Subject(s): Jesus Christ OLNEY HYMNS: 51. THE CHRISTIAN Poem Text First Line: Honour and happiness unite Last Line: And shout him welcome to the skies! OLNEY HYMNS: 52. LIVELY HOPE AND GRACIOUS FEAR Poem Text First Line: I was a groveling creature once Last Line: And none shall cast me down. OLNEY HYMNS: 53. FOR THE POOR Poem Text First Line: When hagar found the bottle spent Last Line: You shall not be forgot. Subject(s): Poverty OLNEY HYMNS: 54. MY SOUL THIRSTETH FOR GOD Poem Text First Line: I thirst, but not as once I did Last Line: Or yields him meaner fruit than I. OLNEY HYMNS: 55. LOVE CONSTRAINING TO OBEDIENCE Poem Text First Line: No strength of nature can suffice Last Line: And duty into choice. Subject(s): Faith; Obedience; Belief; Creed OLNEY HYMNS: 56. THE HEART HEALED AND CHANGED BY MERCY Poem Text First Line: Sin enslaved me many years Last Line: "thy sins are done away." Subject(s): Forgiveness; Redemption; Sin; Clemency OLNEY HYMNS: 57. HATRED OF SIN Poem Text First Line: Holy lord god! I love thy truth Last Line: Will strike all sin for ever dead. Subject(s): Sin OLNEY HYMNS: 58. THE NEW CONVERT Poem Text First Line: The newborn child of gospel-grace Last Line: We may not claim the praise we owe. OLNEY HYMNS: 59. TRUE AND FALSE COMFORTS Poem Text First Line: O god, whose favourable eye Last Line: And none can higher fly. OLNEY HYMNS: 6. WISDOM Poem Text First Line: Ere god had built the mountains Last Line: "says, ""sinner, I am thine!" OLNEY HYMNS: 60. A LIVING AND A DEAD FAITH Poem Text First Line: The lord receives his highest praise Last Line: Unless that grace has made him free! Subject(s): Faith; Belief; Creed OLNEY HYMNS: 61. ABUSE OF THE GOSPEL Poem Text First Line: Too many, lord, abuse thy grace Last Line: Till mercy calls us in. OLNEY HYMNS: 62. THE NARROW WAY Poem Text First Line: What thousands never knew the road! Last Line: Against the idol of your trust. OLNEY HYMNS: 63. DEPENDENCE Poem Text First Line: To keep the lamp alive Last Line: Confesses he has none. OLNEY HYMNS: 64. NOT OF WORKS Poem Text First Line: Grace, triumphant in the throne Last Line: But the grace that never can. OLNEY HYMNS: 65. PRAISE FOR FAITH Poem Text First Line: Of all the gifts thine hand bestows Last Line: That makes him precious too. Subject(s): Faith; Belief; Creed OLNEY HYMNS: 66. GRACE AND PROVIDENCE Poem Text First Line: Almighty king! Whose wondrous hand Last Line: An angel's song can do no more. OLNEY HYMNS: 67. I WILL PRAISE THE LORD AT ALL TIMES Poem Text First Line: Winter has a joy for me Last Line: Points to an eternal rest. OLNEY HYMNS: 68. LONGING TO BE WITH CHRIST Poem Text First Line: To jesus, the crown of my hope Last Line: Which binds me, my saviour! To thee. OLNEY HYMNS: 7. VANITY OF THE WORLD Poem Text First Line: God gives his mercies to be spent Last Line: Embraced in everlasting arms. OLNEY HYMNS: 8. O LORD, I WILL PRAISE THEE Poem Text First Line: I will praise thee every day Last Line: God the saviour dwells in thee! OLNEY HYMNS: 9. THE CONTRITE HEART Poem Text First Line: The lord will happiness divine / on contrite hearts below Last Line: And heal it if it be. Variant Title(s): "the Lord Will Happiness Divine""; Subject(s): Repentance; Penitence ON A GOLDFINCH STARVED TO DEATH IN HIS CAGE Poem Text First Line: Time was when I was free as air Last Line: Had been your prisoner still. Subject(s): Goldfinches ON A LETTER OF MISS FANSHAWE Poem Text First Line: Her pen drops eloquence as sweet Last Line: Her want of latin or of greek. Subject(s): Fanshawe, Catherine (1765-1834) ON A MISCHIEVOUS BULL Poem Text First Line: Go! Thou art all unfit to share Last Line: And claps the gate behind thee. Subject(s): Bulls ON A MISTAKE IN HIS TRANSLATION OF HOMER Poem Text First Line: Cowper had sinned with some excuse Last Line: When he translated homer. Subject(s): Translating & Interpreting ON A PLANT OF VIRGIN'S BOWER; DESIGNED TO COVER GARDEN-SEAT Poem Text First Line: Thrive, gentle plant! And weave a bower Last Line: Be crowned with virgin's bower? Subject(s): Virgin's-bower (plant) ON A REVIEW CONDEMNING THELYPHTHORA Poem Text First Line: I have read the review; it is learned and wise Last Line: Clear, candid, and witty -- thelyphthora dies. Subject(s): Critics & Criticism ON A SPANIEL, CALLED BEAU, KILLING A YOUNG BIRD Poem Text First Line: A spaniel, beau, that fares like you Last Line: So much resemble man? Subject(s): Animals; Dogs ON FLAXMAN'S [STATUE OF] PENELOPE Poem Text First Line: The suitors sinned, but with a fair excuse Last Line: Who, for a wife so lovely, slew them all. Subject(s): Flaxman, John (1755-1826); Sculpture & Sculptors ON HAYLEY'S PORTRAIT Poem Text First Line: Achilles and hector and homer and all Last Line: Shall then hide its pick-pocket looks in the dark. ON HER ENDEAVOURING TO CONCEAL HER GRIEF AT PARTING Poem Text First Line: Ah! Wherefore should my weeping maid suppress Last Line: Nor think it weakness what we feel to show. Subject(s): Farewell; Grief; Parting; Sorrow; Sadness ON HIS APPROACHING VISIT TO HAYLEY Poem Text First Line: Through floods and flames to your retreat Last Line: Will echo your huzza. Subject(s): Hayley, William (1745-1820) ON HIS PORTRAIT (IN A LETTER TO HAYLEY) Poem Text First Line: Abbot is painting me so true Last Line: If I were here or there. Subject(s): Paintings & Painters ON MADAN'S ANSWER TO NEWTON'S COMMENTS ON THELYPHTORA Poem Text First Line: M. Quarrels with n., because m. Wrote a book Last Line: If a man must be scolded for loving his own. ON MRS. MONTAGUE'S FEATHER-HANGINGS Poem Text First Line: The birds put off their every hue Last Line: Both poet saves and plume from fading. Subject(s): Feathers ON OBSERVING SOME NAMES OF LITTLE NOTE Poem Text First Line: Oh, fond attempt to give a deathless lot Last Line: And there, scarce less illustrious, goes the clerk! Subject(s): Transience; Impermanence ON RECEIVING HAYLEY'S PICTURE Poem Text First Line: In language warm as could be breathed or penned Last Line: That friend of all a partial friend to me. Subject(s): Friendship; Hayley, William (1745-1820) ON RECEIVING HEYNE'S VIRGIL FROM HAYLEY Poem Text First Line: I should have deemed it once an effort vain Last Line: Since I received him as a gift from thee. Subject(s): Translating & Interpreting ON THE AUTHOR OF 'LETTERS ON LITERATURE' Poem Text First Line: The genius of the augustan age Last Line: "that rots, and stinks, and is abhorred." ON THE BENEFIT RECEIVED BY MIS MAJESTY FROM SEA-BATHING Poem Text First Line: O sovereign of an isle renowned Last Line: Which strength restored to thee. Subject(s): Swimming & Swimmers ON THE BURNING OF LORD MANSFIELD'S LIBRARY (1) Poem Text First Line: So then - the vandals of our isle Last Line: The burning of his own. Subject(s): Books; Great Britain - Gordon Riots (1780); Murray, William. 1st Earl Of Mansfield; Vandalism; Reading ON THE BURNING OF LORD MANSFIELD'S LIBRARY (2) Poem Text First Line: When wit and genius meet their doom Last Line: The honey on his tongue. Subject(s): Books; Great Britain - Gordon Riots (1780); Murray, William. 1st Earl Of Mansfield; Vandalism; Reading ON THE DEATH OF MRS. (NOW LADY) THROCKMORTON'S BULLFINCH Poem Text First Line: Ye nymphs! If e'er your eyes were red Last Line: The cruel death be died. Subject(s): Bullfinches ON THE DEATH OF SIR W. RUSSELL Poem Text First Line: Doomed as I am in solitude to waste Last Line: All that delights the happy--palls with me! Subject(s): Despair ON THE HIGH PRICE OF FISH Poem Text First Line: Cocoa-nut naught Last Line: And as oft as you please. Subject(s): Lobsters ON THE ICE ISLANDS SEEN FLOATING IN THE GERMAN OCEAN Poem Text First Line: What portents, from what distant region, ride Last Line: In no congenial gulf for ever lost! ON THE JOY UNIVERSALLY EXPRESSED ON THE KING'S HAPPY ESCAPE Poem Text First Line: The cloud that frowns on what we prize Last Line: And give him double praise. Subject(s): Assassination; George Iii, King Of England (1738-1820) ON THE LOSS OF THE ROYAL GEORGE Poem Text First Line: Toll for the brave! Last Line: Shall plough the wave no more. Variant Title(s): The Royal George Subject(s): Courage; Disasters; Kempenfelt, Richard (1718-1782); Sea; Shipwrecks; Valor; Bravery; Ocean ON THE PROMOTION OF EDWARD THURLOW, ESQ. Poem Text First Line: Round thurlow's head in early youth Last Line: What all had deemed his own. Subject(s): Thurlow, Edward. 1st Baron Thurlow ON THE QUEEN'S VISIT TO LONDON Poem Text First Line: When, long sequestered from his throne Last Line: Such previous woe the price! Subject(s): George Iii, King Of England (1738-1820) ON THE RECEIPT OF MY MOTHER'S PICTURE [OUT OF NORFOLK] Poem Text First Line: O that those lips had language! Life has passed Last Line: Thyself removed, thy power to soothe me left. Variant Title(s): Lines To My Mother's Picture;mother's Portrait;my Mother's Picture;lines On Receiving His Mother's Picture Subject(s): Mothers ON THE REFUSAL OF OXFORD TO SUBSCRIDBE TO HIS TRANSLATION Poem Text First Line: Could homer come himself, distressed and poor Last Line: "begone! No tramper gets a farthing here!" Subject(s): Hate; Homer (10th Century B.c.); Oxford University; Poetry & Poets; Translating & Interpreting; Iliad; Odyssey ON THE TRIAL OF ADMIRAL KEPPEL Poem Text First Line: Keppel, returning from afar Last Line: To praise him to his face. Subject(s): Keppel, Augustus (1725-1786) ON THURLOW Poem Text First Line: The chancellor once was a tree full of fruit Last Line: Is searching your boughs for plums in the winter. ONE PARSON, ONE POET, ONE BELMAN, ONE CRIER PAIRING TIME ANTICIPATED; A FABLE Poem Text First Line: I shall not ask jean jacques rousseau Last Line: But proper time to marry. Subject(s): Fables; Rousseau, Jean Jacques (1712-1778); Allegories PITY FOR POOR AFRICANS Poem Text First Line: I own I am shocked at the purchase of slaves Last Line: He shared in the plunder, but pitied the man. Subject(s): Africa; Slavery; Serfs R.S.S. Poem Text First Line: All-worshipped gold! Thou mighty mystery! Last Line: Nor delia can avail to make me blessed. Subject(s): Love; Virtue; Wealth; Riches; Fortunes REPORT OF AN ADJUDGED CASE, NOT TO BE FOUND IN ANY BOOKS Poem Text First Line: Between nose and eyes a strange contest arose Last Line: Shut. Variant Title(s): A Law Case;the Nose And The Eyes Subject(s): Eyes; Noses RETIREMENT Poem Text First Line: Hackneyed in business, wearied at that oar Last Line: To close life wisely, may not waste my own. Subject(s): Retirement RIDDLE Poem Text First Line: I am just two and two, I am warm, I am cold Last Line: And yielded with pleasure when taken by force. SEE WHERE THE THAMES, THE PUREST STREAM SONG Poem Text First Line: No more shall hapless celia's ears Last Line: With my fa, la, la. SONG OF PEACE WRITTEN AT THE REQUEST OF LADY AUSTEN Poem Text First Line: No longer I follow a sound Last Line: To the glorified spirits above. SONG WRITTEN AT THE REQUEST OF LADY AUSTEN Poem Text First Line: When all within is peace Last Line: And longs to be at rest. SONNET ADDRESSED TO HENRY COWPER, ESQ Poem Text First Line: Cowper, whose silver voice, tasked sometimes hard Last Line: Of others' speech, but magic of thy own. Subject(s): Hastings, Warren (1732-1818) SONNET TO WILLIAM WILBERFORCE, ESQUIRE Poem Text First Line: Thy country, wilberforce, with just disdain Last Line: From all the just on earth and all the blest above. Subject(s): Wilberforce, William (1759-1833) SOUL'S PROGRESS CHECKED BY TOO ABSORBING LOVE First Line: As wooing weds the plant within STANZAS ON INDECENT LIBERTIES TAKEN WITH REMAINS OF MILTON Poem Text First Line: Me too, perchance, in future days Last Line: As much affronts thee dead. Subject(s): Milton, John (1608-1674) STANZAS PRINTED ON BILLS OF MORTALITY: 1787 Poem Text First Line: While thirteen moons saw smoothly run Last Line: "and answer all--""amen!" Subject(s): Mortality STANZAS PRINTED ON BILLS OF MORTALITY: 1788 Poem Text First Line: Could I, from heaven inspired, as sure presage Last Line: And the next opening grave may yawn for you. Subject(s): Mortality STANZAS PRINTED ON BILLS OF MORTALITY: 1789 Poem Text First Line: O most delightful hour by man Last Line: "such only be your lives." Subject(s): Mortality STANZAS PRINTED ON BILLS OF MORTALITY: 1790 Poem Text First Line: He who sits from day to day Last Line: Make us learn that we must die. Subject(s): Mortality STANZAS PRINTED ON BILLS OF MORTALITY: 1792 Poem Text First Line: Thankless for favours from on high Last Line: And calm descend to yours. Subject(s): Mortality STANZAS PRINTED ON BILLS OF MORTALITY: 1793 Poem Text First Line: He lives who lives to god alone Last Line: And mercy cast away. Subject(s): Mortality STELLA'S BIRTHDAY Poem Text First Line: How many between east and west Last Line: And wish her born once more! Variant Title(s): To Miss Creuze On Her Birthday SWEET MEAT HAS SOUR SAUCE; OR, THE SLAVE-TRADER IN THE DUMPS Poem Text First Line: A trader I am to the african shore Last Line: Which nobody can deny. Subject(s): Africa; African Americans; Slavery; Trade; Negroes; American Blacks; Serfs TABLE TALK Poem Text First Line: You told me, I remember, glory, built Last Line: And should, no doubt, if they were all forgot. Subject(s): Freedom; Poetry & Poets; Liberty TASK (BOOKS 1-6) First Line: I sing the sofa. I, who lately sang Last Line: Whose frown can disappoint the proudest strain, %whose approbation - prosper even mine THANKS FOR A GIFT OF PHEASANTS Poem Text First Line: In copeman's ear this truth let echo tell Last Line: Of golden clients, for his golden birds. Subject(s): Pheasants THE BEE AND THE PINE-APPLE Poem Text First Line: A bee allur'd by the perfume Last Line: Than pleasure coveted in vain. THE CASTAWAY Poem Text First Line: Obscurest night involved the sky, / the atlantic billows roared Last Line: And whelm'd in deeper gulfs than he. Subject(s): Atlantic Ocean; Drowning; Sea; Ocean THE CERTAINTY OF DEATH Poem Text First Line: Mortals! Around your destined heads Last Line: To meet the fatal blow! Subject(s): Death; Dead, The THE COCK-FIGHTER'S GARLAND Poem Text First Line: Muse, hide his name of whom I sing Last Line: Tis hard to read amiss. THE COLUBRIAD Poem Text First Line: Close by the threshold of a door nailed fast Last Line: And taught him never to come there no more. Subject(s): Animals; Cats; Snakes; Serpents; Vipers THE DISTRESSED TRAVELLERS; OR, LABOUR IN VAIN Poem Text First Line: I sing of a journey to clifton Last Line: For the sense and the sound, they say, should be the same. Subject(s): Travel; Journeys; Trips THE DIVERTING HISTORY OF JOHN GILPIN Poem Text First Line: John gilpin was a citizen / of credit and renown Last Line: "may I be there to see!" Variant Title(s): Facetious Story Of John Gilpin;john Gilpin THE DOG AND THE WATER LILY; NO FABLE Poem Text First Line: The noon was shady, and soft airs Last Line: "to him who gives me all." THE DOVES Poem Text First Line: Reasoning at every step he treads Last Line: A lesson for mankind. Subject(s): Doves; Love THE FAITHFUL BIRD Poem Text First Line: The greenhouse is my summer seat Last Line: To liberty without. Variant Title(s): The Faithful Friend Subject(s): Animals; Birds THE FLATTING MILL; AN ILLUSTRATION Poem Text First Line: When a bar of pure silver or ingot of gold Last Line: And unless you adorn it, a nausea follows. THE FOUR AGES Poem Text First Line: I could be well content, allowed the use Last Line: His manna from the ground, or starve, and die. THE GRIEF OF AN HEIR Poem Text First Line: The rich man's heir, his father's spirit fled Last Line: And, could we doubt them, we were fools indeed. Subject(s): Inheritance & Succession; Heirs THE JUDGMENT OF THE POETS Poem Text First Line: Two nymphs, both nearly of an age Last Line: "and pinch your noses blue." Subject(s): Poetry & Poets THE LILY AND THE ROSE Poem Text First Line: The nymph must lose her female friend Last Line: They reign united there. Subject(s): Flowers; Great Britain; Lilies; Roses THE LOVE OF THE WORLD REPROVED; OR, HYPOCRISY DETECTED Poem Text First Line: Thus says the prophet of the turk Last Line: Till quite from tail to snout 'tis eaten. Subject(s): Hypocrisy THE MODERN PATRIOT Poem Text First Line: Rebellion is my theme all day Last Line: Then farewell british freedom. Subject(s): Great Britain; Revolutions THE MORALIZER CORRECTED; A TALE Poem Text First Line: A hermit (or if 'chance you hold) Last Line: "either too early or too late." THE MORNING DREAM (1) Poem Text First Line: Forced from home, and all its pleasures Last Line: Ere you proudly question ours! Variant Title(s): Slave's Complaint;the Negro's Complaint Subject(s): Africa; Blacks; Slavery; Serfs THE MORNING DREAM (2) Poem Text First Line: Twas in the glad season of spring Last Line: Resolves to have none of her own. Subject(s): Freedom; Liberty THE NEEDLESS ALARM; A TALE Poem Text First Line: There is a field through which I often pass Last Line: Live till to-morrow, will have passed away. THE NIGHTINGALE AND THE GLOW-WORM Poem Text First Line: A nightingale, that all day long Last Line: Of him that creeps and him that flies. Subject(s): Birds; Fireflies; Nightingales; Glowworms THE PINEAPPLES AND THE BEE Poem Text First Line: The pineapples, in triple row Last Line: Can gather honey from a weed. Subject(s): Bees; Insects; Pineapples; Truth; Wisdom; Beekeeping; Bugs THE POET'S NEW YEAR'S GIFT TO MRS. THROCKMORTON Poem Text First Line: Maria! I have every good Last Line: I wish it all fulfilled. THE POET, THE OYSTER, AND SENSITIVE PLANT Poem Text First Line: An oyster, cast upon the shore Last Line: And each by shrinking showed he felt it. Subject(s): Oysters THE POPLAR FIELD Poem Text First Line: The poplars are felled, farewell to the shade Last Line: Have a being less durable even than he. Subject(s): Aging; Environment; Fields; Poplar Trees; Trees; Environmental Protection; Ecology; Conservation; Pastures; Meadows; Leas THE PROGRESS OF ERROR Poem Text First Line: Sing, muse, (if such a theme, so dark, so long) Last Line: Bled, groaned and agonized, and died, in vain. Subject(s): Travel; Journeys; Trips THE RETIRED CAT Poem Text First Line: A poet's cat, sedate and grave Last Line: The folly of his expectation. Subject(s): Animals; Cats THE ROSE Poem Text First Line: The rose had been washed, just washed in a shower Last Line: "may be followed perhaps by a smile." Subject(s): Flowers; Roses THE SCHOLAR AT HIS WIT'S END; A TALE Poem Text First Line: In days when the learned, as old stories tell Last Line: Poems, vol. I, p. 110.] THE SHRUBBERY, WRITTEN IN A TIME OF AFFLICTION Poem Text First Line: O happy shades! To me unblest! Last Line: And those of sorrows yet to come. Subject(s): Grief; Sorrow; Sadness THE SYMPTOMS OF LOVE Poem Text First Line: Would my delia know if I love, let her take Last Line: Though herself and the woman I love are the same. Subject(s): Love THE TASK: BOOK 1. THE SOFA Poem Text First Line: I sing the sofa. I, who lately sang Last Line: A mutilated structure, soon to fall. Subject(s): Sofas THE TASK: BOOK 2. THE TIME-PIECE Poem Text First Line: Oh, for a lodge in some vast wilderness Last Line: And the land stank, so numerous was the fry. Subject(s): Clergy; Disasters; Earthquakes; Peace; Universities & Colleges; Priests; Rabbis; Ministers; Bishops THE TASK: BOOK 3. THE GARDEN Poem Text First Line: As one who, long in thickets and in brakes Last Line: For whom god heard his abraham plead in vain. Subject(s): Country Life; Gardens & Gardening; Truth THE TASK: BOOK 4. THE WINTER EVENING Poem Text First Line: Hark! 'tis the twanging horn o'er yonder bridge Last Line: Found here that leisure and that ease I wished. Subject(s): Country Life; Winter THE TASK: BOOK 5. THE WINTER MORNING WALK Poem Text First Line: Tis morning; and the sun with ruddy orb Last Line: And with thee rich, take what thou wilt away. Subject(s): Courts & Courtiers; Morning; Patriotism; Royal Court Life; Royalty; Kings; Queens THE TASK: BOOK 6. THE WINTER WALK AT NOON Poem Text First Line: There is in souls a sympathy with sounds Last Line: Whose approbation prosper--even mine. Subject(s): Animal Rights; Bells; Country Life; Winter; Animal Abuse; Vivisection THE VALEDICTION Poem Text First Line: Farewell, false hearts! Whose best affections Last Line: A soul, an image of himself, and therefore true THE WINTER NOSEGAY Poem Text First Line: What nature, alas! Has denied Last Line: The truth of a friend such as you. Subject(s): Winter THE YEARLY DISTRESS; OR, TITHING TIME AT STOCK IN ESSEX Poem Text First Line: Come, ponder well, for 'tis no jest Last Line: Without the clowns that pay. Subject(s): Tithes THIS EVENING, DELIA, YOU AND I THREE GREAT EPIC POETS, FR. TABLE TALK First Line: Ages elapsed ere homer's lamp appeared Last Line: Then show far off their shining plumes again Variant Title(s): Milto Subject(s): Homer (10th Century B.c.); Poetry And Poets TIROCINIUM: OR, A REVIEW OF SCHOOLS Poem Text First Line: It is not from his form, in which we trace Last Line: Or better managed, or encouraged less. Subject(s): Education TO A LADY WHO WORE A LOCK OF HIS HAIR SET WITH DIAMONDS Poem Text First Line: The star that beams on anna's breast Last Line: But all the honour mine. Subject(s): Hair TO A YOUNG FRIEND ON HIS ARRIVING AT CAMBRIDGE WET Poem Text First Line: If gideon's fleece, which drenched with dew Last Line: Not drought on others, but much dew on thee! TO A YOUNG LADY WHO STOLE A PEN FROM THE PRINCE OF WALES'S STANDISH Poem Text First Line: Sweet nymph, who art, it seems, accused Last Line: Worth more than all his crest. Subject(s): Pens & Pencils TO A YOUNG LADY, WITH A PRESENT OF TWO COCKSCOMBS Poem Text First Line: Two cockscombs wait at your command Last Line: But then, to make amends, they both are mute. Variant Title(s): Lines Sent With Two Coxcombs To Miss Green Subject(s): Cockscombs (plants) TO DELIA Poem Text First Line: Me to whatever state the gods assign Last Line: Would quit that heaven to find a happier place? Subject(s): Absence; Separation; Isolation TO DR. AUSTIN, OF CECIL STREET, LONDON Poem Text First Line: Austin! Accept a grateful verse from me! Last Line: And boldly call thee, being his, my own. Variant Title(s): To Dr. Austen, Of Cecil Street, London Subject(s): Physicians; Doctors TO GEORGE ROMNEY, ESQ Poem Text First Line: Romney! Expert infallibly to trace Last Line: When I was hayley's guest, and sat to thee? Subject(s): Romney, George (1734-1802) TO GRAVINA, ON HIS TRANSLATING THE AUTHOR'S SONG Poem Text First Line: My rose, gravina, blooms anew Last Line: Will never fade again. Subject(s): Gravina, Federico Carlos De (1756-1806); Translating & Interpreting TO HIS COUSIN, LADY HESKETH; REASONS FOR NOT WRITING LETTER Poem Text First Line: My pens are all split, and my ink-glass is dry Last Line: Neither wit, common sense, nor ideas, have I. TO JOHN JOHNSON, ON HIS PRESENTING AN ANTIQUE BUST OF HOMER Poem Text First Line: Kinsman beloved, and as a son, by me! Last Line: Seek heavenly wealth, and work for god alone. Subject(s): Sculpture & Sculptors TO LADY AUSTEN, WRITTEN IN RAINY WEATHER Poem Text First Line: To watch the storms, and hear the sky Last Line: And no ambition to have more. Subject(s): Floods; Storms TO MARY Poem Text First Line: The twentieth year is well nigh past, / since first our sky was overcast Last Line: My mary! Variant Title(s): My Mary;to The Same (mary Unwin) Subject(s): Grief; Love; Sickness; Unwin, Mary; Sorrow; Sadness; Illness TO MARY UNWIN Poem Text First Line: Mary! I want a lyre with other strings Last Line: And since thou own'st that praise, I spare thee mine. Variant Title(s): Sonnet To Mrs. Unwin;to Mrs. Unwin Subject(s): Unwin, Mary TO MRS. KING ON HER KIND PRESENT TO THE AUTHOR, A ... QUILT Poem Text First Line: The bard, if e'er he feel at all Last Line: Who put the whole together. Subject(s): Quilts TO MRS. NEWTON Poem Text First Line: A noble theme demands a noble verse Last Line: We say, good madam, and good sir, adieu! TO MRS. THROCKMORTON, ON HER BEAUTIFUL TRANSCRIPT OF HORACE Poem Text First Line: Maria, could horace have guessed Last Line: Nothing ever was written so well. Subject(s): Horace (65-8 B.c.); Translating & Interpreting TO MY COUSIN ANNE BODHAM, ON RECEIVING FROM HER A PURSE Poem Text First Line: My gentle anne, whom heretofore Last Line: The best things kept within it. TO REV. WALTER BAGOT; EXCUSE FOR DELAY IN WRITING TO HIM Poem Text First Line: It is a maxim of much weight Last Line: Had need do nothing more. Subject(s): Translating & Interpreting TO SIR JOHN FENN Poem Text First Line: Two omens seem propitious to my fame Last Line: Known by those titles, sir, both yours and you. TO SIR JOSHUA REYNOLDS Poem Text First Line: Dear president, whose art sublime Last Line: Britannia gives the world repose. Subject(s): Reynolds, Sir Joshua (1723-1792) TO THE IMMORTAL MEMORY OF THE HALIBUT ON WHICH I DINED Poem Text First Line: Where hast thou floated, in what seas pursued Last Line: To feed a bard, and to be praised in verse. Subject(s): Halibut; Sea; Ocean TO THE NIGHTINGALE WHICH THE AUTHOR HEARD ON NEW YEAR'S DAY Poem Text First Line: Whence is it, that amazed I hear Last Line: And every season spring. Subject(s): Birds; Nightingales TO THE REV. MR. NEWTON [RECTOR OF ST. MARY, WOOLNOTH] Poem Text First Line: Says the pipe to the snuff-box, 'I can't understand' Last Line: "but of any thing else they may choose to put in us." Subject(s): Smoking; Tobacco; Pipes; Cigars; Cigarettes TO THE REV. MR. NEWTON: AN INVITATION TO THE COUNTRY Poem Text First Line: The swallows in their torpid state Last Line: Shall shine, and dry the tear. Subject(s): Newton, John (1725-1807) TO THE REV. WILLIAM BULL Poem Text First Line: My dear friend / if reading verse be your delight Last Line: Be always filling, never full. Subject(s): Poetry & Poets; Smoking; Tobacco; Pipes; Cigars; Cigarettes TO THE REV. WILLIAM CAWTHORNE UNWIN Poem Text First Line: Unwin, I should but ill repay Last Line: I sink the poet in the friend. Subject(s): Friendship TO WARREN HASTINGS, ESQ.; BY AN OLD SCHOOLFELLOW OF HIS Poem Text First Line: Hastings! I knew thee young, and of a mind Last Line: And worried thee, as not themselves the best. Subject(s): Hastings, Warren (1732-1818) TO WILLIAM HAYLEY, ESQ Poem Text First Line: Hayley, thy tenderness fraternal shown Last Line: Not more to admire the bard than love the man. Subject(s): Hayley, William (1745-1820) TO WILLIAM HAYLEY, ESQ. IN REPLY TO HIS SOLICITATION Poem Text First Line: Dear architect of fine chateaux in air Last Line: Which they who need them use, and then despise. Subject(s): Hayley, William (1745-1820) TO [THE REVEREND] MR. NEWTON ON HIS RETURN FROM RAMSGATE Poem Text First Line: That ocean you of late surveyed Last Line: Come home to port no more. TOM RABAN Poem Text First Line: The curate and churchwarden Last Line: Is fiction, yet her song is sometimes true. TRANSLATION Poem Text First Line: Thy counsel sage, maria fair Last Line: I bid adieu to thee! Subject(s): Freedom; Liberty TRUTH Poem Text First Line: Man, on the dubious waves of error tossed Last Line: Humility is crowned, and faith receives the prize. Subject(s): Truth UPON A VENERABLE RIVAL Poem Text First Line: Full thirty frosts since thou wert young Last Line: Who old, though grey, a fool. Subject(s): Love; Middle Age; Youth VERSES SUPPOSED TO BE WRITTEN BY ALEXANDER SELKIRK Poem Text First Line: I am monarch of all I survey Last Line: And reconciles man to his lot. Variant Title(s): Verses By Alexander Selkirk;alexander Selkirk;the Solitude Of Alexander Selkirk Subject(s): Explorers; Memory; Selkirk, Alexander (1676-1721); Solitude; Exploring; Discovery; Discoverers; Loneliness VERSES WRITTEN AT BATH ON FINDING THE HEEL OF A SHOE Poem Text First Line: Fortune! I thank thee: gentle goddess, thanks! Last Line: Drags the dull load of disappointment on. WALK TO EMMAUS First Line: It happened, on a solemn eventinde Last Line: Did not our hearts feel all he deigned to say, %did they not burn within us by the way? Subject(s): Jesus Christ WRITTEN AFTER LEAVING HER AT NEW BURNS Poem Text First Line: How quick the change from joy to woe Last Line: You best may tell who feel the same. Subject(s): Absence; Grief; Separation; Isolation; Sorrow; Sadness WRITTEN IN A FIT OF ILLNESS; R.S.S. Poem Text First Line: In these sad hours, a prey to ceaseless pain Last Line: Hope, joy, and peace, and delia in her train! Subject(s): Sickness; Illness WRITTEN IN A QUARREL (DELIVERY PREVENTED BY RECONCILIATION) Poem Text First Line: Think, delia, with what cruel haste Last Line: Tis madness to forego. WRITTEN UNDER THE INFLUENCE OF DELIRIUM Poem Text First Line: Hatred and vengeance, my eternal portion Last Line: Buried above ground. Variant Title(s): Lines Written During A Period Of Insanity;lines Written Under The Influence Of Delirium Subject(s): Insanity; Madness; Mental Illness YARDLEY OAK Poem Text First Line: Survivor sole, and hardly such, of all Last Line: Eventful, should supply her with a theme. Subject(s): Environment; Oak Trees; Trees; Environmental Protection; Ecology; Conservation YE FALLEN AVENUES! ONCE MORE I MOURN Last Line: Play wanton, every moment, every spot Subject(s): Environment; Trees |
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