William Cowper (1731-1800)
English poet and hymnwriter

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Poems by William Cowper

• A Child of God Longing to See Him Beloved
• A Comparison
• A Fable
• A Figurative Description of the Procedure of Divine Love
• A Poetical Epistle to Lady Austen
• A Riddle
• Abuse of the Gospel
• Afflictions Sanctified by the Word
• An Attempt at the Manner of Waller
• An Enigma
• Aspirations of the Soul after God
• Boadicea
• By Callimachus
• By Heraclides
• By Moschus
• By Philemon
• Catharina
• Charity
• Contentment
• Conversation
• Denner's Old Woman
• Dependence
• Divine Justice Amiable
• Ephraim Repenting
• Epitaph on a Hare
• Epitaphium Alterum
• Familiarity Dangerous
• For the Poor
• Friendship
• God Hides His People
• “God Moves in a Mysterious Way”
• God Neither Known Nor Loved by the World
• Grace and Providence
• Hatred of Sin
• Heroism
• Human Frailty
• I Will Praise the Lord at All Times
• Inscription for a Stone
• Joy in Martyrdom
• Lines Written during a Period of Insanity
• Lively Hope and Gracious Fear
• Love Constrained to Obedience
• Mary and John
• Mourning and Longing
• My Soul Thirsteth for God
• No Sorrow Peculiar to the Sufferer
• Not Works
• Of Himself
• On Flaxman's Penelope
• On Miltiades
• On Opening a Place for Social Prayer
• On Receipt of My Mother's Picture
• On the Burning of Lord Mansfield's Library
• On The Death of a Minister
• On the High Price of Fish
• On the Loss of the “Royal George”
• On the Neglect of Homer
• Peace after a Storm
• Pleading for and with Youth
• Praise for Faith
• Report of an Adjudged Case
• Repose in God
• Retirement
• Sardis
• Seeking the Beloved
• Simple Trust
• Sonnet to a Young Lady on Her Birth-Day
• The Cantab
• The Castaway
• The Christian
• The Cricket
• The Diverting History of John Gilpin
• The Dog and the Water Lily
• The Doves
• The Glowworm
• The Ice Palace
• The Lily and the Rose
• The Maze
• The Narrow Way
• The Nativity
• The Negro's Complaint
• The New Convert
• The Nightingale and Glow-worm
• The Parrot
• The Perfect Sacrifice
• The Poplar Field
• The Rose
• The Secrets of Divine Love Are to Be Kept
• The Snail
• The Solitude of Alexander Selkirk
• The Sower
• The Swallow
• To Mary
• To Mrs. Newton
• To Sir Joshua Reynolds
• To The Rev. Mr. Newton
• Walking with God
• Welcome Cross
• Welcome to the Table
• Wisdom
• Written in a Quarrel
• Yardley Oak

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