Poetical Works Frequently Anthologized and Studied Poems  (Alphabetical) Boadicea The Castaway The Colubriad The Distressed Travellers; or, Labour in Vain The Dog and the Water-Lily Epitaph on a Hare The Flatting Mill The Lily and the Rose The Morning Dream The Negro's Complaint The Nightingale and Glow-Worm Ode to Apollo On Her Endeavouring to Conceal Her Grief at Parting On Receipt Of My Mother's Picture On the Grasshopper On the Loss of the Royal George The Poplar Field The Retired Cat The Rose The Shrubbery The Snail Sonnet to William Wilberforce, Esq. Sweet Meat has Sour Sauce, or, the Slave-Trader in the Dumps To Mary To Mrs. Unwin To the Immortal Memory of the Halibut, on Which I Dined this Day To the Rev. Mr. Newton; An Invitation into the Country Verses supposed to be written by Alexander Selkirk The Winter Nosegay Olney Hymns  (1779) [67 by Cowper, rest by John Newton] Complete - Google Books Complete - CCEL Walking with God Jehovah-Jesus On Opening a Place for Social Prayer Exhortation to Prayer Light Shining Out of Darkness The Heart Healed and Changed by Mercy Grace and Providence Peace after a Storm Self-Acquaintance Anti-Thelyphthora: A Tale, in Verse  (1781) Complete - Google Books Poems by William Cowper  (1782) Table Talk The Progress of Error Truth Expostulation Hope Charity Conversation Retirement Tirocinium; or, A Review of Schools  (1784) Complete - Google Books The Task: A Poem in Six Books  (1785) Complete - Google Books The Sofa The Time-Piece The Garden The Winter Evening The Winter Morning Walk The Winter Walk at Noon The Diverting History of John Gilpin  (1785) Complete - Google Books Complete - Roger Blackwell Bailey The Iliad and Odyssey of Homer  (1791) Complete (1850 ed. Southey) - Google Books The Iliad - Project Gutenberg Original poems on various occasions, by a lady, revised by William Cowper  (1792) Complete - Google Books Poems translated from the French of Madame de la Mothe Guion by the late William Cowper... To which are added some original poems of Mr. Cowper, not inserted in his works  (1801) Complete - Google Books Complete - CCEL Prose Works Contributions to Connoisseur  (1756) Billy Suckling [no. 111, 11 March 1756] Complaints of an old Bachelor [no. 115, 8 April 1756] On keeping a secret [no. 119, 6 May 1756] Letter from Mr. Village [no. 134, 19 Aug 1756] On conversation [no. 138, 16 Sept 1756] Letter on his Hares  (1784) [Gentleman's Magazine, June 1784] Complete - Google Books Collected Works The Life and Posthumous Writings of William Cowper, William Hayley, ed. [3v.] (1803-04) Vol I - GB Vol II - GB Vol III - GB Cowper's Milton, William Haley, ed. [4v.] (1808; 1810) Vol II - GB Vol III - GB Vol IV - GB Poems by the late William Cowper, John Newton, ed. [2v.] [Illustrated by Richard Westall] Vol II - GB Poems: Containing his Posthumous poetry; and a sketch of his life by John Johnson [3v.]  (1815) Complete - Google Books Memoir of the early life of William Cowper, Esq, written by himself, and never before published. With an appendix containing some of Cowper's religious letters, and other interesting documents, illustrative of the memoir  (1816) Complete - Google Books The Works of William Cowper, Esq, Robert Southey, ed. [15v.]  (1836-37) Vol I - GB Vol II - GB Vol III - GB Vol IV - GB Vol V - GB Vol VI - GB Vol VII - GB Vol VIII - GB Vol IX - GB Vol X - GB Vol XI - GB Vol XII - GB Vol XIII - GB Vol XIV - GB The Works of William Cowper: His Life, Letters, and Poems, Grimshawe, ed.  (1851) Complete - Google Books The Unpublished and Uncollected Poems of William Cowper, Wright, ed.  (1900) Complete - Google Books The Correspondence of William Cowper, Wright, ed. [4v.]  (1900) Vol I - GB Vol II - GB Vol III - GB Vol IV - GB Cowper | Biography | Works | Resources | Essays | 18th C. Lit to William Cowper to Restoration and 18th-C. Literature to Luminarium Site copyright ©1996-2006 Anniina Jokinen. All Rights Reserved. Created by Anniina Jokinen on November 22, 2006.