CONTENTS.

THE TASK, IN SIX BOOKS.

BOOK III. THE GARDEN

IV. THE WINTER EVENING

V. THE WINTER MORNING WALK

VI. THE WINTER WALK AT NOON

Epistle to Joseph Hill, Esq.

Tirocinium; or, a Review of Schools

The Yearly Distress, or Tithing Time at Stock, in Essex 173

Sonnet addressed to Henry Cowper, Esq.

Lines addressed to Dr. Darwin

On Mrs. Montagu's Feather Hangings

176

177

178

Verses supposed to be written by Alexander Selkirk,

during his solitary Abode in the Island of Juan Fer-

On observing some Names of little note in the Biogra-
phía Britannica

Report of an adjudged Case

On the Promotion of Edward Thurlow, Esq. to the Lord

High Chancellorship of England

182

185

On the same

On the Burning of Lord Mansfield's Library, &c.

.

The Love of the World Reproved

On the Death of Mrs. (now Lady) Throckmorton's Bull-

The Poet, the Oyster, and the Sensitive Plant

The Morning Dream

. 219

. 221

The Diverting History of John Gilpin

The Nightingale and Glowworm

An Epistle to an afflicted Protestant Lady in France

To the Rev. W. Cawthorne Unwin

. 232

233

. 235

On the Receipt of my Mother's Picture out of Norfolk

Friendship

On a mischievous Bull, which the Owner of him sold at

the Author's instance

Annus memorabilis, 1789. Written in Commemoration

of his Majesty's happy recovery

Hymn for the use of the Sunday School at Olney

266

268

Stanzas subjoined to a Bill of Mortality for the year 1787 272

Stanzas subjoined to a Bill of Mortality for 1793

On a Goldfinch starved to Death in his Cage

The Pineapple and the Bee

286

288

Verses written at Bath, on finding the Heel of a Shoe

An Ode, on reading Richardson's History of Sir Charles

Grandison

An Epistle to Robert Lloyd, Esq.

. 290

A Tale, founded on a Fact, which happened in Jan. 1779 293

To the Rev. Mr. Newton, on his Return from Ramsgate 295

Love Abused

295

A Poetical Epistle to Lady Austen

The Colubriad

Song. On Peace

Song "When all within is Peace"

Verses selected from an occasional Poem entitled "Vale-

303

Lines composed for a Memorial of Ashley Cowper, Esq. 309

To the immortal Memory of the Halibut, on which I dined 318

Inscription for a Stone erected at the sowing of a Grove

of Oaks

Another

To Mrs. King

In Memory of the late John Thornton, Esq.

The Four Ages

The Retired Cat

The Judgment of the Poets

Yardley Oak

To the Nightingale which the Author heard sing on New

Year's Day

Lines written in an Album of Miss Patty More's

Sonnet to William Wilberforce, Esq.

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. 339

. 339

Epigram on refining sugar

To Dr. Austin, of Cecil Street, London

340

Catharina: on her Marriage to George Courtenay, Esq. 341

Epitaph on Fop, a dog belonging to Lady Throckmorton 342

Sonnet to George Romney, Esq.

Mary and John

To John Johnson, on his presenting me with an Antique

Bust of Homer

To a young Friend

On a Spaniel called Beau, killing a young bird

Beau's Reply

Inscription for a Hermitage in the Author's Garden

Account of the Author's Treatment of his Hares

To William Hayley, Esq.

Answer to Stanzas addressed to Lady Hesketh, by Miss

Catharine Fanshawe

On Flaxman's Penelope

To the Spanish Admiral Count Gravina

Inscription for the Tomb of Mr. Hamilton

Epitaph on a Hare

Epitaphium Alterum

THE TASK. BOOK III.

THE GARDEN.

VOL. VII.

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