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Original text edited by John Goodridge
Online text edited by Simon Kövesi
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Part 1: The Village Minstrel, Stanzas I to
LX
Part 2: The Village Minstrel, Stanzas LXI
to CXIX
Part 3:
Effusion
Address to my Father
Holywell
Description of a Thunder-Storm
To an early Cowslip
After reading in a Letter proposals for building a Cottage
Autumn
Part 4:
Ballad - "A weedling wild"
On the Sight of Spring
A Pastoral - "Surely, Lucy, love returns"
Ballad - "Where the dark ivy"
Song - "Swamps of wild rush - beds"
Song - "The sultry day"
Cowper Green
Song - "One gloomy eve"
The Gipsy's Camp
Recollections after a Ramble
A Sigh - "Again freckled cowslips"
Part 5:
To a Bower
Ballad - "When nature's beauty shone complete"
To Poesy
To the Clouds
Song - " Dropt here and there upon the flower"
To a dead Tree
The Disappointment
To an infant Daughter
Langley Bush
Sorrows for a favourite tabby Cat
The Widower's Lament
Sunday
A look at the Heavens
To a city Girl
To Health
Absence
May-Day
William and Robin
Ballad - "I love thee, sweet Mary "
Winter Rainbow
The Request
Solitude
ROSY JANE
Childish Recollections
Song - "A beautiful flower"
The Woodman
Impromptu - "Where art thou wandering, little child?"
Recollections after an evening Walk,
Ballad - "Winter's gone, the summer breezes"
A Sigh in a Play - ground
Narrative Verses
Song - "Of all the days in memory's list"
Helpstone Green
To the Violet
The Wood-cutter's night Song
Song of Praise
To the Butterfly
Rural Morning
Rural Evening
The Cross Roads; or, the Haymaker's Story
Rustic Fishing
Sunday Walks
The Cress Gatherer
The Last of March
Man's Mortality
To the Right Honourable Admiral Lord Radstock
The Wild - Flower Nosegay
Song - "There was a time"
Song - "There's the daisy"
Song - "Mary, the day of love's pleasure"
Song - "Fill the foaming cups again"
To the Rural Muse
Sonnets
1. Home
2. The Tomb
3. Sorrows for a Friend
4. My Cottage
5. Poverty
6. To My Mother
7. The Snowdrop
8. Life
9. Written in Autumn
10. On Death
11. Native Scenes
12. Peace
13. Morning
14. To an Hour - Glass
15. To on Angry Bee
16. Day - Break
17. To the Ivy
18. Hope
19. The Arbour
20. Nature
21. A Wish
22. The Last of April
23. Hereafter
24. Early Spring
25. Summer
26. The Ants
27. Milton Abbey
28. In Hilly - Wood
29. A Copse in Winter
30. To a Red Clover Blossom
31. Night
32. Noon
33. Autumn
34. To Time
35. Winter
36. Twilight
37. Spring
38. Early Sorrows
39. Evening
40. Expression
41. Childhood
42. A Lair at Noon
43. Woman
44. On Seeing a Picture of Sacred Contemplation
45. Written in November
46. Summer Tints
47. On Hearing a Lady Play on the Musical Glasses
48. Summer Morning
49. Joys of Youth
50. Wild Nosegays
51. Sabbath Walks
52. On Taste
53. May - Noon
54. Summer Evening
55. To ******
56. Pleasures Past
57. Helpstone Church-yard
58. To an early Butterfly
59. To the Memory of John Keats
60. To Autumn
Glossary