The Oxford Dictionary of Quotations Preface

‘Say, poor sinner, lov’st thou me?’
‘Olney Hymns’ (1779) ‘Lovest Thou Me?’
There is a fountain filled with blood
Drawn from Emmanuel’s veins,
And sinners, plunged beneath that flood,
Lose all their guilty stains.
‘Olney Hymns’ (1779) ‘Praise for the Fountain Opened’
Oh! for a closer walk with God,
A calm and heav’nly frame;
A light to shine upon the road
That leads me to the Lamb!
‘Olney Hymns’ (1779) ‘Walking with God’
My dog! what remedy remains,
Since, teach you all I can,
I see you, after all my pains,
So much resemble man!
‘On a Spaniel called Beau, killing a young bird’ (written 1793)
Toll for the brave—
The brave! that are no more:
All sunk beneath the wave,
Fast by their native shore.
‘On the Loss of the Royal George’ (written 1782)
Oh, fond attempt to give a deathless lot
To names ignoble, born to be forgot!
‘On Observing Some Names of Little Note Recorded in the Biographia Britannica’ (1782)
Thy morning bounties ere I left my home,
The biscuit, or confectionary plum.
‘On the Receipt of My Mother’s Picture out of Norfolk’ (written 1790, published 1798) l. 60
Me howling winds drive devious, tempest-tossed,
Sails ripped, seams op’ning wide, and compass lost.
‘On the Receipt of My Mother’s Picture out of Norfolk’ (written 1790, published 1798) l. 102
I shall not ask Jean Jacques Rousseau,
If birds confabulate or no.
‘Pairing Time Anticipated’ (written c.1788, published 1795)
The poplars are felled, farewell to the shade
And the whispering sound of the cool colonnade.
‘The Poplar-Field’ (written 1784)
Oh, laugh or mourn with me the rueful jest,
A cassocked huntsman and a fiddling priest!
‘The Progress of Error’ (1782) l. 110