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PAGE
MEMOIR
xüi
MR. NEWTON'S PREFACE
1
TABLE TALK
4
THE PROGRESS OF ERROR
21
TRUTH
40
EXPOSTULATION
55
HOPE
75
CHARITY
95
CONVERSATION
112
RETIREMENT
135
THE TASK
157
AN EPISTLE TO JOSEPH HILL, Esq.
307
TIROCINIUM
309
JOHN GILPIN
333
ANTI-THELYPHTHORA
340
MISCELLANEOUS POEMS.
Verses on finding the heel of a shoe
346 An Ode on reading Sir Charles Grandison 347
*In a Letter to C. P. Esq. ill with the Rheumatism 348
*In a Letter to the same. In imitation of Shak-
speare
349
Psalm cxxxvii.
ib.
Song. With my fa la la .
350
*An Attempt in the Manner of Waller
351
*Song. The sparkling eye
352
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21 x
MISCELLANEOUS POEMS continued.
*Song. On the green margin of the brook 352
*Upon a venerable Rival .
353
*Mortals, around your destined heads
354
An Epistle to Robert Lloyd, Esq. .
*Of Himself. To Miss Theodora Jane Cowper 357
*An Apology for not showing her what I had
wrote. 1752
358
*Delia, the unkindest girl on earth
*This evening, Delia, you and I
359
*Written in a' Quarrel (the delivery of it pre-
vented by a reconciliation)
360
*The Symptoms of Love
361
*See where the Thames
*How bless'd the youth
362
*Bid adieu, my sad heart .
363
Written after leaving New Burns
364
*On her endeavouring to conceal her Grief 365
*Hope, like the short-lived ray:
366
*All-worshipped gold, thou mighty mystery! 367
*Written in a fit of illness
368
*To Delia. 1755
369
*Ode. Supposed to be written on the Marriage
of a Friend
370
To Mrs. Greville, on reading the Prayer for
Indifference
371
The Doves .
374
A Fable
375
Comparison
376
Another, addressed to a young Lady
377
Verses supposed to be written by Alexander
Selkirk
On the Promotion of Lord Thurlow
379
Ode to Peace
Human Frailty
380
The modern Patriot
381
On some Names of little note in the Biographia
Britannica .
382
Report of an adjudged Case not to be found in
any of the Books
On the burning of Lord Mansfield's Library
383
On the same
The Love of the World reproved
384
The Nightingale and Glow-worm .
385
On a Goldfinch starved to Death in his Cage 386
The Pine-apple and the Bee
387
The Shrubbery
388
The Winter Nosegay
389
Mutual Forbearance necessary to the Happi-
ness of the Marriage State
To the Rev. Mr. Newton.
Invitation into the
Country
391
Boadicea. An Ode .
392
Heroism
393
The Poet, the Oyster, and the Sensitive Plant 395
To the Rev. William Cawthorne Unwin 397
The Distressed Travellers
398
A Tale founded on Fact
400
To the Rev. Mr. Newton on his return from
Ramsgate
402
Love abused
A Poetical Epistle to Lady Austen
403
To the Rev. Mr. Newton
406
The Colubriad
On Friendship
408
To an afflicted Protestant Lady in France
413
The Yearly Distress
414
To Dr. Darwin .
416
On Mrs. Montagu's Feather Hangings . 417
On the Death of Mrs. Throckmorton's Bulfinch 418
The Rose
420
On the Death of Sir William Russell
421
Ode to Apollo, on an Inkstand almost dried in
the Sun
The Poet's New-year's Gift
422
Pairing Time anticipated
423
The Dog and the Water-lily
425
To the immortal Memory of the Halibut on
which I dined
426
Gratitude
427
Lines composed for a Memorial of Ashley Cow-
per, Esq.
429
Song on Peace
Song written at the request of Lady Austen 430
Epitaph on Johnson
To Miss C
on her Birthday
431
The Flatting Mil?
.
Epitaph on a Hare
432
Epitaphium alterum
433
Account of the Treatment of his Hares : 434
The Negro's Complaint
437
Pity for Poor Africans
439
The Morning Dream
440
*Sweet Meat has sour Sauce: or, the Slave-
trader in the Dumps
442
*The Valedictiont
On the Queen's Visit to London
445
Annus Memorabilis, 1789
448
The Cockfighter's Garland
450
On the Benefit received by his Majesty from
Sea-bathing
452
To Mrs. Throckmorton, on her beautiful
Transcript of Horace's Ode
Inscription for a Stone erected at the Sowing
of a Grove of Oaks at Chillington
453
Another, on a similar Occasion
Hymn for the Use of the Sunday School at
Olney.
451
Stanzas on the Liberties taken with the Re-
mains of Milton. To Mrs. King, on her Present to the Author, a Patch-work Counterpane
In Memory of the late John Thornton, Esq. 456
To Warren Hastings, Esq.
458
The Four Ages. A Fragment
The Judgment of the Poets
459
The Moralizer corrected. A Tale .
460
The Faithful Bird
462
The Needless Alarm. A Tale
463
Inscription for the Tomb of Mr. Hamilton 466
Epitaph on Mrs. M. Higgins, of Weston 467
The Retired Cat
Yardley Oak
470
To the Nightingale which the Author heard
sing on New Year's Day
474
Lines for insertion in a Collection of Hand-
writings made by Miss Patty More 475
Epitaph on a Redbreast
476
+ The first lines of " The Valediction
are copyright.
479
Epigram
To Dr. Austin
477
Mary and John.
To Sir Joshua Reynolds
On the Author of Letters on Literature
To the Rev. William Bull
Catherina. To Miss Stapleton, afterwards Mrs.
Courtenay
481
The Second Part
483
On the Receipt of my Mother's Picture.
484
On a mischievous Bull
487
An Epitaph
488
Epitaph on Fop
On receiving Hayley's Picture
489
Epitaph on Mr. Chester, of Chichely
On a Plant of Virgin's-bower .
To my Cousin, Ann Bodham, on receiving from
her a net-work Purse
490
Inscription for a Hermitage in the Author's
Garden
To a Young Friend, on his arriving at Cam-
bridge wet, when no rain had fallen there ib.
A Tale
491
On a Spaniel, called Beau, killing a young Bird
493
Beau's Reply
494
Answer to Stanzas addressed to Lady Hesketh,
by Miss Catharine Fanshawe .
495
To the Spanish Admiral Count Gravina, on his
translating the Author's Song into Italian ib.
On Flaxman's Penelope
On receiving Heyne's Virgil from Mr. Hayley
496
To Mary
The Cast-away.
497
A Riddle
499
Answer. From the Gentleman's Magazine . ib.
Epigram on his Mistake in Translating Homer 500
An Ode addressed to Mr. John Rouse, Libra-
rian of the University of Oxford
Stanzas subjoined to the yearly Bill of Mortality
of the Parish of All Saints, Northampton,
1787
503
On a similar Occasion, for the Year 1788
504
On a similar Occasion, for the Year 1789
506