THE POEMS.

Preface to the Poems[499]
Table Talk[501]
The Progress of Error[507]
Truth[512]
Expostulation[516]
Hope[522]
Charity[528]
Conversation[533]
Retirement[540]
The Task, in Six Books:—
Book I. The Sofa[547]
II. The Time-Piece[553]
III. The Garden[559]
IV. The Winter Evening[566]
V. The Winter Morning Walk[572]
VI. The Winter Walk at Noon[579]
Epistle to Joseph Hill, Esq.[587]
Tirocinium; or, a Review of Schools[587]
The Yearly Distress, or Tithing Time at Stock, in Essex[594]
Sonnet addressed to Henry Cowper, Esq.[595]
Lines addressed to Dr. Darwin[595]
On Mrs. Montagu's Feather Hangings[595]
Verses supposed to be written by Alexander Selkirk, during his solitary Abode in the Island of Juan Fernandez[596]
On observing some Names of little note in the Biographia Britannica[596]
Report of an adjudged Case[597]
On the Promotion of Edward Thurlow, Esq. to the Lord High Chancellorship of England[597]
Ode to Peace[597]
Human Frailty[597]
The Modern Patriot[598]
On the Burning of Lord Mansfield's Library, &c.[598]
On the same[598]
The Love of the World Reproved[598]
On the Death of Mrs. (now Lady) Throckmorton's Bullfinch[599]
The Rose[599]
The Doves[599]
A Fable[600]
Ode to Apollo[600]
A Comparison[600]
Another, addressed to a Young Lady[601]
The Poet's New Year's Gift[601]
Pairing-time anticipated[601]
The Dog and the Water Lily[601]
The Winter Nosegay[602]
The Poet, the Oyster, and the Sensitive Plant[602]
The Shrubbery[602]
Mutual Forbearance necessary to the Married State[603]
The Negro's Complaint[603]
Pity for Poor Africans[604]
The Morning Dream[604]
The Diverting History of John Gilpin[604]
The Nightingale and Glow-worm[607]
An Epistle to an afflicted Protestant Lady in France[607]
To the Rev. W. Cawthorne Unwin[607]
To the Rev. Mr. Newton[608]
Catharina[608]
The Moralizer corrected[608]
The Faithful Bird[609]
The Needless Alarm[609]
Boadicea[610]
Heroism[611]
On the Receipt of my Mother's Picture out of Norfolk[611]
Friendship[612]
On a mischievous Bull, which the Owner of him sold at the Author's instance[614]
Annus memorabilis, 1789. Written in Commemoration of his Majesty's happy recovery[614]
Hymn for the use of the Sunday School at Olney[615]
Stanzas subjoined to a Bill of Mortality for the year 1787[615]
The same for 1788[616]
The same for 1789[616]
The same for 1790[616]
The same for 1792[617]
The same for 1793[617]
On a Goldfinch starved to Death in his Cage[617]
The Pineapple and the Bee[618]
Verses written at Bath, on finding the Heel of a Shoe[618]
An Ode, on reading Richardson's History of Sir Charles Grandison[618]
An Epistle to Robert Lloyd, Esq.[619]
A Tale, founded on a Fact, which happened in Jan. 1779[619]
To the Rev. Mr. Newton, on his Return from Ramsgate[620]
Love Abused[620]
A Poetical Epistle to Lady Austen[620]
The Colubriad[621]
Song. On Peace[621]
Song—"When all within is Peace"[622]
Verses selected from an occasional Poem entitled "Valediction"[622]
Epitaph on Dr. Johnson[622]
To Miss C——, on her Birthday[622]
Gratitude[622]
Lines composed for a Memorial of Ashley Cowper, Esq.[623]
On the Queen's Visit to London[623]
The Cockfighter's Garland[624]
To Warren Hastings, Esq.[625]
To Mrs. Throckmorton[625]
To the Immortal Memory of the Halibut, on which I dined[625]
Inscription for a Stone erected at the sowing of a Grove of Oaks[625]
Another[625]
To Mrs. King[625]
In Memory of the late John Thornton, Esq.[626]
The Four Ages[626]
The Retired Cat[626]
The Judgment of the Poets[627]
Yardley Oak[628]
To the Nightingale which the Author heard sing on New Year's Day[629]
Lines written in an Album of Miss Patty More's[629]
Sonnet to William Wilberforce, Esq.[629]
Epigram on Refining Sugar[630]
To Dr. Austin, of Cecil Street, London[630]
Catharina: on her Marriage to George Courtenay, Esq.[630]
Epitaph on Fop, a dog belonging to Lady Throckmorton[630]
Sonnet to George Romney, Esq.[630]
Mary and John[630]
Epitaph on Mr. Chester, of Chicheley[630]
To my Cousin, Anne Bodham[631]
Inscription for a Hermitage in the Author's Garden[631]
To Mrs. Unwin[631]
To John Johnson, on his presenting me with an antique Bust of Homer[631]
To a young Friend[631]
On a Spaniel called Beau, killing a young bird[631]
Beau's Reply[631]
To William Hayley, Esq.[632]
Answer to Stanzas addressed to Lady Hesketh, by Miss Catharine Fanshawe[632]
On Flaxman's Penelope[632]
To the Spanish Admiral Count Gravina[632]
Inscription for the Tomb of Mr. Hamilton[632]
Epitaph on a Hare[632]
Epitaphium Alterum[633]
Account of the Author's Treatment of his Hares[633]
A Tale[634]
To Mary[635]
The Castaway[635]
To Sir Joshua Reynolds[636]
On the Author of "Letters on Literature"[636]
The Distressed Travellers; or, Labour in Vain[636]
Stanzas on Liberties taken with the Remains of Milton[637]
To the Rev. William Bull[637]
Epitaph on Mrs. Higgins[638]
Sonnet to a Young Lady on her Birth-day[638]
On a Mistake in his Translation of Homer[638]
On the Benefit received by his Majesty from Sea-bathing[638]
Addressed to Miss —— on reading the Prayer for Indifference[638]
From a Letter to the Rev. Mr. Newton[639]
The Flatting Mill[639]
Epitaph on a free but tame Redbreast[640]
Sonnet addressed to W. Hayley, Esq.[640]
An Epitaph[640]
On receiving Hayley's Picture[640]
On a Plant of Virgin's Bower[640]
On receiving Heyne's Virgil[640]
Stanzas by a Lady[641]
Cowper's Reply[641]
Lines addressed to Miss T. J. Cowper[641]
To the same[641]
On a sleeping Infant[641]
Lines[641]
Inscription for a Moss-house in the Shrubbery at Weston[641]
Lines on the Death of Sir William Russel[642]
On the high price of Fish[642]
To Mrs. Newton[642]
Verses printed by himself on a flood at Olney[642]
Extract from a Sunday-school Hymn[642]
On the receipt of a Hamper (in the manner of Homer)[643]
On the neglect of Homer[643]
Sketch of the Life of the Rev. John Newton[643]

OLNEY HYMNS.

Preliminary Remarks on the Olney Hymns[652]
Hymn I.Walking with God[656]
II.Jehovah-Jireh. The Lord will provide[656]
III.Jehovah-Rophi. I am the Lord that healeth thee[656]
IV.Jehovah-Nissi. The Lord my Banner[657]
V.Jehovah-Shalom. The Lord send Peace[657]
VI.Wisdom[657]
VII.Vanity of the World[657]
VIII.O Lord, I will praise thee[658]
IX.The contrite Heart[658]
X.The future Peace and Glory of the Church[658]
XI.Jehovah our Righteousness[658]
XII.Ephraim repenting[659]
XIII.The Covenant[659]
XIV.Jehovah-Shammah[659]
XV.Praise for the Fountain opened[659]
XVI.The Sower[659]
XVII.The House of Prayer[660]
XVIII.Lovest thou me?[660]
XIX.Contentment[660]
XX.Old Testament Gospel[661]
XXI.Sardis[661]
XXII.Praying for a Blessing on the Young[661]
XXIII.Pleading for and with Youth[661]
XXIV.Prayer for Children[661]
XXV.Jehovah-Jesus[662]
XXVI.On opening a Place for social Prayer[662]
XXVII.Welcome to the Table[662]
XXVIII.Jesus hasting to suffer[662]
XXIX.Exhortation to Prayer[663]
XXX.The Light and Glory of the Word[663]
XXXI.On the Death of a Minister[663]
XXXII.The shining Light[663]
XXXIII.Seeking the Beloved[663]
XXXIV.The Waiting Soul[664]
XXXV.Welcome Cross[664]
XXXVI.Afflictions sanctified by the Word[664]
XXXVII.Temptation[664]
XXXVIII.Looking upwards in a Storm[664]
XXXIX.The Valley of the Shadow of Death[665]
XL.Peace after a Storm[665]
XLI.Mourning and Longing[665]
XLII.Self-Acquaintance[665]
XLIII.Prayer for Patience[666]
XLIV.Submission[666]
XLV.The happy Change[666]
XLVI.Retirement[666]
XLVII.The hidden Life[667]
XLVIII.Joy and Peace in Believing[667]
XLIX.True Pleasures[667]
L.The Christian[667]
LI.Lively Hope and Gracious Fear[668]
LII.For the Poor[668]
LIII.My Soul thirsteth for God[668]
LIV.Love constraining to Obedience[668]
LV.The Heart healed and changed by Mercy[668]
LVI.Hatred of Sin[669]
LVII.The new Convert[669]
LVIII.True and false Comforts[669]
LIX.A living and a dead Faith[669]
LX.Abuse of the Gospel[669]
LXI.The narrow Way[670]
LXII.Dependence[670]
LXIII.Not of Works[670]
LXIV.Praise for Faith[670]
LXV.Grace and Providence[670]
LXVI.I will praise the Lord at all times[671]
LXVII.Longing to be with Christ[671]
LXVIII.Light shining out of darkness[671]

TRANSLATIONS FROM THE FRENCH OF MADAME DE LA MOTHE GUION.

Brief Account of Madame Guion, and of the Mystic Writers[672]
The Nativity[677]
God neither known nor loved by the World[679]
The Swallow[679]
The Triumph of Heavenly Love desired[679]
A Figurative Description of the Procedure of Divine Love[679]
A Child of God longing to see him beloved[680]
Aspirations of the Soul after God[680]
Gratitude and Love to God[680]
Happy Solitude—Unhappy Men[680]
Living Water[680]
Truth and Divine Love rejected by the World[681]
Divine Justice amiable[681]
The Soul that Loves God finds him everywhere[682]
The Testimony of Divine Adoption[682]
Divine Love endures no rival[682]
Self-Diffidence[683]
The Acquiescence of Pure Love[683]
Repose in God[683]
Glory to God alone[683]
Self-Love and Truth incompatible[684]
The Love of God, the End of Life[684]
Love faithful in the Absence of the Beloved[684]
Love pure and fervent[684]
The entire Surrender[685]
The perfect Sacrifice[685]
God hides his People[685]
The Secrets of Divine Love are to be kept[685]
The Vicissitudes experienced in the Christian Life[686]
Watching unto God in the Night Season[687]
On the same[688]
On the same[688]
The Joy of the Cross[689]
Joy in Martyrdom[689]
Simple Trust[689]
The necessity of Self-Abasement[690]
Love increased by Suffering[690]
Scenes favourable to Meditation[691]

TRANSLATIONS OF THE LATIN AND ITALIAN POEMS OF MILTON.

Elegy I.To Charles Deodati[691]
II.On the Death of the University Beadle at Cambridge[692]
III.On the Death of the Bishop of Winchester[692]
IV.To his Tutor, Thomas Young[693]
V.On the Approach of Spring[694]
VI.To Charles Deodati[695]
VII. [696]
Epigrams. On the Inventor of Guns[697]
To Leonora singing at Rome[697]
To the same[697]
The Cottager and his Landlord. A Fable[697]
To Christina, Queen of Sweden, with Cromwell's Picture[697]
On the Death of the Vice-Chancellor, a Physician[697]
On the Death of the Bishop of Ely[698]
Nature unimpaired by Time[698]
On the Platonic Idea as it was understood by Aristotle[699]
To his Father[699]
To Salsillus, a Roman poet, much indisposed[700]
To Giovanni Battista Manso, Marquis of Villa[701]
On the Death of Damon[701]
An Ode, addressed to Mr. John Rouse, Librarian of the University of Oxford[704]
Sonnet—"Fair Lady! whose harmonious name"[705]
Sonnet—"As on a hill-top rude, when closing day"[705]
Canzone—"They mock my toil"[705]
Sonnet—To Charles Deodati[705]
Sonnet—"Lady! it cannot be but that thine eyes"[705]
Sonnet—"Enamour'd, artless, young, on foreign ground"[705]
Simile in Paradise Lost[706]
Translation of Dryden's Epigram on Milton[706]

TRANSLATIONS FROM VINCENT BOURNE.

The Glowworm[706]
The Jackdaw[706]
The Cricket[706]
The Parrot[707]
The Thracian[707]
Reciprocal Kindness the Primary Law of Nature[707]
A Manual more ancient than the Art of Printing[708]
An Enigma—"A needle, small as small can be"[708]
Sparrows self-domesticated in Trinity Coll. Cambridge[708]
Familiarity dangerous[709]
Invitation to the Redbreast[709]
Strada's Nightingale[709]
Ode on the Death of a Lady who lived one hundred years[709]
The Cause won[710]
The Silkworm[710]
The Innocent Thief[710]
Denner's Old Woman[710]
The Tears of a Painter[710]
The Maze[711]
No Sorrow peculiar to the Sufferer[711]
The Snail[711]
The Cantab[711]