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The Times Past or the Chester Bridge Looking North by Louise Ingram Rayner (1832 – 1924)

On An Infant (From The Greek) by William Cowper
On A True Friend (From The Greek) by William Cowper
On A Thief (From The Greek) by William Cowper
On A Spaniel, Called Beau, Killing A Young Bird by William Cowper
On A Similar Character (From The Greek) by William Cowper
On A Plant Of Virgin’s-Bower, Designed To Cover A Garden-seat by William Cowper
On A Mistake In His Translation Of Homer by William Cowper
On A Miser (From The Greek) by William Cowper
On A Miser, 3 (From The Greek) by William Cowper
On A Miser, 2 (From The Greek) by William Cowper
On A Mischievous Bull, Which The Owner Him Sold At The Author’s Instance by William Cowper
On A Good Man (From The Greek) by William Cowper
On A Goldfinch, Starved To Death In His Cage by William Cowper
On A Fowler, By Isidorus by William Cowper
On A Battered Beauty (From The Greek) by William Cowper
On A Bath, By Plato by William Cowper
Olney Hymn 9: The Contrite Heart by William Cowper
Olney Hymn 7: Vanity of the World by William Cowper
Olney Hymn 68: Light Shining Out Of Darkness by William Cowper
Olney Hymn 67: Longing To Be With Christ by William Cowper
Olney Hymn 66: I Will Praise The Lord At All Times by William Cowper
Olney Hymn 64: Praise For Faith by William Cowper
Olney Hymn 63: Not Of Works by William Cowper
Olney Hymn 61: The Narrow Way by William Cowper
Olney Hymn 60: Abuse Of The Gospel by William Cowper
Olney Hymn 59: A Living And A Dead Faith by William Cowper
Olney Hymn 57: The New Convert by William Cowper
Olney Hymn 56: Hatred Of Sin by William Cowper
Olney Hymn 55: The Heart Healed And Changed By Mercy by William Cowper
Olney Hymn 54: Love Constraining To Obedience by William Cowper
Olney Hymn 53: My Soul Thirsteth For God by William Cowper
Olney Hymn 52: For The Poor by William Cowper
Olney Hymn 50: The Christian by William Cowper
Olney Hymn 5: Jehovah-Shalom: The Lord Send Peace by William Cowper
Olney Hymn 48: Joy And Peace In Believing by William Cowper
Olney Hymn 47: The Hidden Life by William Cowper
Olney Hymn 45: The Happy Change by William Cowper
Olney Hymn 43: Prayer For Patience by William Cowper
Olney Hymn 40: Peace After A Storm by William Cowper
Olney Hymn 4: Jehovah-Nissi: The Lord My Banner by William Cowper
Olney Hymn 39: The Valley Of The Shadow Of Death by William Cowper
Olney Hymn 38: Looking Upwards In A Storm by William Cowper
Olney Hymn 36: Afflictions Sanctified By The Word by William Cowper
Olney Hymn 34: The Waiting Soul by William Cowper
Olney Hymn 33: Seeking The Beloved by William Cowper
Olney Hymn 32: The Shining Light by William Cowper
Olney Hymn 31: On The Death Of A Minister by William Cowper
Olney Hymn 30: The Light And Glory Of The Word by William Cowper
Olney Hymn 3: Jehovah-Rophi: I Am the Lord That Healeth Thee by William Cowper
Olney Hymn 29: Exhortation To Prayer by William Cowper
Olney Hymn 28: Jesus Hasting To Suffer by William Cowper
Olney Hymn 27: Welcome To The Table by William Cowper
Olney Hymn 26: On Opening A Place For Social Prayer by William Cowper
Olney Hymn 24: Prayer For Children by William Cowper
Olney Hymn 23: Pleading For And With Youth by William Cowper
Olney Hymn 22: Prayer For A Blessing In The Young by William Cowper
Lines Addressed To Dr. Darwin, Author Of The ‘Botanic Garden.’ by William Cowper
Joy In Martyrdom by William Cowper
Invitation To The Redbreast by William Cowper
Inscription For The Tomb Of Mr. Hamilton by William Cowper
Inscription For A Stone Erected At The Sowing Of A Grove Of Oaks At Chillington, Anno 1791 by William Cowper
Inscription For A Stone Erected At The Sowing Of A Grove Of Oaks At Chillington, Anno 1790 by William Cowper
Inscription For A Moss-House In The Shrubbery At Weston by William Cowper
Inscription For A Hermitage In The Author’s Garden by William Cowper
In Seditionem Horrendam, Corruptelis Gallicus Ut Fertue, Londini Nuper Exortam by William Cowper
In Memory Of The Late John Thornton, Esq. by William Cowper
In A Letter To C. P. Esq. In Imitation Of Shakspeare by William Cowper
In A Letter To C. P. Esq. Ill With The Rheumatism by William Cowper
Hymn For The Use Of The Sunday School At Olney by William Cowper
Hope, Like The Short-lived Ray That Gleams Awhile by William Cowper
Gratitude And Love To God by William Cowper
Gratitude, Addressed To Lady Hesketh by William Cowper
God Neither Known Nor Loved By The World by William Cowper
Glory To God Alone by William Cowper
From The Greek Of Julianus by William Cowper
From Menander by William Cowper
Epitaph On Mrs. M. Higgins, Of Weston by William Cowper
Epitaph On Johnson by William Cowper
Epitaph On Fop, A Dog Belonging To Lady Throckmorton by William Cowper
Epitaph On A Free But Tame Redbreast, A Favourite Of Miss Sally Hurdis by William Cowper
Epitaph On Mr. Chester Of Chicheley by William Cowper
Epigram : To Leonora Singing At Rome (Translated From Milton) by William Cowper
Epigram : To Christina, Queen Of Sweden, With Cromwell’s Picture (Translation) by William Cowper
Epigram : The Cottager And His Landlord. A Fable (Translated From Milton) by William Cowper
Epigram : On The Inventor Of Gunpowder (Translated From Milton) by William Cowper
Epigram : To Leonora Singing At Rome 2 (Translated From Milton) by William Cowper
Elegy VII. Anno Aetates Undevigesimo (Translated From Milton) by William Cowper
Elegy VI. To Charles Diodati, When He Was Visiting In The Country (Translated From Milton) by William Cowper
Elegy V. Anno Aet. 20. On The Approach Of Spring (Translated From Milton) by William Cowper
Elegy III. Anno Aet. 17. On The Death Of The Bishop Of Winchester (Translated From Milton) by William Cowper
Elegy II. On The Death Of The University Beadle At Cambridge (Translated From Milton) by William Cowper
Elegy I. To Charles Deodati (Translated From Milton) by William Cowper
Denner’s Old Woman by William Cowper
On The Death Of The Vice-Chancellor, A Physician (Translated From Milton) by William Cowper
Catharina : The Second Part. On Her Marriage To George Courtenay, Esq. by William Cowper
By Philemon by William Cowper
By Moschus by William Cowper
By Heraclides by William Cowper
By Callimachus by William Cowper
On the Burning of Lord Mansfield’s Library by William Cowper
Boadicea. An Ode by William Cowper
Aspirations Of The Soul After God by William Cowper
Apology to Delia by William Cowper
Anti-Thelyphthora. A Tale In Verse by William Cowper
Answer To Stanzas Addressed To Lady Hesketh By Miss Catharine Fanshawe, In Returning A Poem by William Cowper
Annus Memorabilis : Written in Commemoration of His Majesty’s Happy Recovery by William Cowper
An Ode, On Reading Mr. Richardson’s History Of Sir Charles Grandison by William Cowper
An Epitaph by William Cowper
An Epitaph (From The Greek) by William Cowper
An Epitaph 4 (From The Greek) by William Cowper
An Epitaph 3 (From The Greek) by William Cowper
An Epitaph 2 (From The Greek) by William Cowper
An Epistle To Robert Lloyd, Esq. by William Cowper
An Epistle To Joseph Hill, Esq. by William Cowper
An Epigram From Homer by William Cowper
An Enigma by William Cowper
An Attempt At The Manner Of Waller by William Cowper
An Apology For Not Showing Her What I Had Wrote by William Cowper
Addressed To Miss Macartney, Afterwards Mrs. Greville, On Reading The Prayer For Indifference by William Cowper
Adam: A Sacred Drama. Act 5. by William Cowper
Adam: A Sacred Drama. Act 4. by William Cowper
Adam: A Sacred Drama. Act 3. by William Cowper
Adam: A Sacred Drama. Act 2. by William Cowper
Adam: A Sacred Drama. Act 1. by William Cowper
A Tale. June 1793 by William Cowper
A Tale, Founded On A Fact, Which Happened In January, 1779 by William Cowper
A Song : The Sparkling Eye by William Cowper
A Song : On The Green Margin by William Cowper
A Riddle by William Cowper
A Poetical Epistle To Lady Austen by William Cowper
A Manual, More Ancient Than The Art Of Printing, And Not To Be Found In Any Catalogue by William Cowper
A Figurative Description Of The Procedure Of Divine Love by William Cowper
A Fable by William Cowper
A Comparison by William Cowper
A Comparison. Addressed To A Young Lady by William Cowper
A Child Of God Longing To See Him Beloved by William Cowper
Zunsheen In The Winter by William Barnes
Zummer Thoughts In Winter Time by William Barnes
Zummer Evenèn Dance by William Barnes
A Zong by William Barnes
Zitten Out The Wold Year by William Barnes
Zellen Woone’s Honey To Buy Zome’hat Sweet by William Barnes
Woodcom’ Feast by William Barnes
Wold Friends A-Met by William Barnes
A Wold Friend by William Barnes
A Witch by William Barnes
Whitsuntide An’ Club Walken by William Barnes
Vo’k A-Comèn Into Church by William Barnes
Vellen O’ The Tree by William Barnes
Uncle An’ Aunt by William Barnes
Treat Well Your Wife by William Barnes
To Me by William Barnes
The Zilver-Weed by William Barnes
The Woodlands by William Barnes
The Wold Wall by William Barnes
The Wold Waggon by William Barnes
The Wold Vo’k Dead by William Barnes
The Woddy Hollow by William Barnes
The Winter’s Willow by William Barnes
The Window Freäm’d Wi’ Stwone by William Barnes
The Wind In Woone’s Feäce by William Barnes
The Wind At The Door by William Barnes
The Widow’s House by William Barnes
The White Road Up Athirt The Hill by William Barnes
The Wheel Routs by William Barnes
The Welshnut Tree by William Barnes
The Weepen Leady by William Barnes
The Weather-Beaten Tree by William Barnes
The Water-Spring In The Leäne by William Barnes
The Water Crowvoot by William Barnes
The Waggon A-Stooded by William Barnes
The Vrost by William Barnes
The Vier-Zide by William Barnes
The Veairy Veet That I Do Meet by William Barnes
The Vaïces That Be Gone by William Barnes
The Two Churches by William Barnes
The Turnstile by William Barnes
The Turn O’ The Days by William Barnes
The Thorns In The Geäte by William Barnes
The Stwonen Bwoy Upon The Pillar by William Barnes
The Stwonèn Pworch by William Barnes
The Stage Coach by William Barnes
The Sparrow Club by William Barnes
The Slantèn Light O’ Fall by William Barnes
The Sky A-Clearen by William Barnes
The Shy Man by William Barnes
The Shepherd O’ The Farm by William Barnes
The Settle An’ The Girt Wood Vire by William Barnes
The Scud by William Barnes
The Rwose In The Dark by William Barnes
The Railroad by William Barnes
The Poplars by William Barnes
The Pleäce Our Own Ageän by William Barnes
The Pleäce A Teäle’s A-Twold O’ by William Barnes
The Pillar’d Geäte by William Barnes
The Peasant’s Return by William Barnes
The New House A-Gettèn’ Wold by William Barnes
The Neäme Letters by William Barnes
The Music O’ The Dead by William Barnes
The Motherless Child by William Barnes
The Milk-Maid O’ The Farm by William Barnes
The Mead A-Mow’d by William Barnes
The Meäd In June by William Barnes
The May-Tree by William Barnes
The Maid Vor My Bride by William Barnes
The Maid O’ Newton by William Barnes
The Lovely Maïd Ov Elwell Meäd by William Barnes
The Love Child by William Barnes
The Little Worold by William Barnes
The Linden On The Lawn by William Barnes
The Lilac by William Barnes
The Lew O’ The Rick by William Barnes
The Leäne by William Barnes
The Leädy’s Tower by William Barnes
The Lark by William Barnes
The Ivy by William Barnes
The Hwomestead A-Vell Into Hand by William Barnes
The Humstrum by William Barnes
The Homestead by William Barnes
The Hollow Woak by William Barnes
The Hedger by William Barnes
The Heäre by William Barnes
The Guide Post by William Barnes
The Girt Wold House O’ Mossy Stwone by William Barnes
The Giants In Treädes by William Barnes
The Flood In Spring by William Barnes
The Farmer’s Woldest D’ter by William Barnes
The Fancy Feäir At Maïden Newton by William Barnes
The Fall by William Barnes
The Evenèn Star O’ Zummer by William Barnes
The Echo by William Barnes
The Dree Woaks by William Barnes
The Drèven O’ The Common by William Barnes
The Do’set Militia by William Barnes
The Common A-Took In by William Barnes
The Clote (Water-Lily) by William Barnes
The Church An’ Happy Zunday by William Barnes
The Child’s Greäve by William Barnes
The Child an’ the Mowers by William Barnes
The Castle Ruins by William Barnes
The Carter by William Barnes
The Bwoat by William Barnes
The Brook That Ran By Gramfer’s by William Barnes
The Bells Ov Alderburnham by William Barnes
The Bean Vield by William Barnes
The Beam In Grenley Church by William Barnes
The Beäten Path by William Barnes
The Bachelor by William Barnes
Thatchen O’ The Rick by William Barnes
Teaken In Apples by William Barnes
Sweet Music In The Wind by William Barnes
Sound O’ Water by William Barnes
A Snowy Night by William Barnes
Slow To Come, Quick Agone by William Barnes
Sleep Did Come Wi’ The Dew by William Barnes
Shrodon Feäir by William Barnes
Shaftesbury Feäir by William Barnes
Ruth A-Ridèn by William Barnes
Rivers Don’t Gi’e Out by William Barnes
Riden Hwome At Night by William Barnes
Readen Ov A Head-Stwone by William Barnes
“The Girt Woak Tree That’s In the Dell” by William Barnes
Praise O’ Do’set by William Barnes
Polly Be-en Upzides Wi’ Tom by William Barnes
Poll’s Jack-Daw by William Barnes
A Pleäce In Zight by William Barnes
Pentridge By The River by William Barnes
Out At Plough by William Barnes
Out A-Nuttèn by William Barnes
Our Father’s Works by William Barnes
Our Be’thplace by William Barnes
Our Abode In Arby Wood by William Barnes
Not Goo Hwome To-Night by William Barnes
Night A-Zetten In by William Barnes
Nanny’s New Abode by William Barnes
Nanny’s Cow by William Barnes
Naighbour Pla Meätes by William Barnes
My Love’s Guardian Angel by William Barnes
My Love Is Good by William Barnes
Mornèn by William Barnes
Moonlight On The Door by William Barnes
Me’th Below The Tree by William Barnes
Meary-Ann’s Child by William Barnes
Meaken Up A Miff by William Barnes
Meäry’s Smile by William Barnes
Meäry Wedded by William Barnes
Martin’s Tide by William Barnes
Married Peäir’s Love Walk by William Barnes
Looks A-Know’d Avore by William Barnes
Linda Deäne by William Barnes
Light Or Sheäde by William Barnes
Leaves A-Vallèn by William Barnes
Leady-Day, An’ Ridden House by William Barnes
Keepen Up O’ Chris’mas by William Barnes
John Bloom In Lon’on by William Barnes
John Bleäke At Hwome At Night by William Barnes
Jeane’s Wedden Day In Mornen by William Barnes
In The Stilness O’ The Night by William Barnes
I’m Out O’ Door by William Barnes
Hope In Spring by William Barnes

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