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Matthew Prior: Selected Poems

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  • A Better Answer
  • A Dutch Proverb
  • A Flower. Painted By Simon Varelst
  • A Letter To Lady Margaret Cavendish Holles-Harley, When A Child
  • A Letter To Monsieur Boileau Despreaux, Occasioned By The Victory At Blenheim
  • A Lover's Anger
  • A Passage In The Moriae Encomium Of Erasmus. Imitated
  • A Reasonable Affliction
  • A Simile
  • A Song. If Wine And Music Have The Power
  • A Song. In Vain You Tell Your Parting Lover
  • Alma; Or, The Progress Of The Mind. In Three Cantos. - Canto I.
  • Alma; Or, The Progress Of The Mind. In Three Cantos. - Canto Ii.
  • An English Ballad, On The Taking Of Namur, By The King Of Great Britain
  • An Epistle To Fleetwood Shephard, Esq.
  • An Epistle To Fleetwood Shephard, Esq. Burleigh, May 14, 1689
  • An Epistle. Desiring The Queen's Picture, But Left Unfinished, By The Sudden News Of Her Majesty's Death
  • An Epitaph
  • An Extempore Invitation To The Earl Of Oxford, Lord High Treasurer
  • An Ode
  • An Ode - Humbly Inscribed To The Queen, On The Glorious Success Of Her Majesty's Arms
  • An Ode - In Imitation Of Horace, Book Iii. Ode Ii.
  • An Ode - Inscribed To The Memory Of The Hon. Colonel George Villiers
  • An Ode - Presented To The King, On His Majesty's Arrival In Holland, After The Queen's Death
  • An Ode : On Exodus Iii. 14
  • An Ode : While Blooming Youth And Gay Delight
  • An Ode : While From Our Looks, Fair Nymph, You Guess
  • An Ode To A Lady. She Refusing To Continue A Dispute With Me, And Leaving Me In The Argument
  • An Ode To Mr. Howard
  • An Ode. The Merchant, To Secure
  • Answer To Cloe Jealous. The Author Sick
  • Bibo And Charon
  • By Mons. Fontenelle
  • Cantata. Set By Mons. Galliard
  • Carmen Seculare. For The Year 1700. To The King
  • Celia To Damon
  • Chanson. - And Imitation
  • Charity : A Paraphrase On 1 Cor. Chap. 13
  • Chaste Florimel
  • Cloe Jealous
  • Colin's Mistakes. Written In Imitation Of Spenser's Style
  • Considerations - On Part Of The 88th Psalm. A College Exercise
  • Cupid And Ganymede
  • Cupid In Ambush
  • Cupid Mistaken
  • Cupid Turned Ploughman. - From Moschus
  • Cupid Turned Stroller. - From Anacreon
  • Cupid's Promise - Paraphrased
  • Daphne To Apollo. Imitated From The First Book Of Ovid's Metamorphosis
  • Democritus And Heraclitus
  • Down-Hall. A Ballad.
  • Epigram - Frank Carves Very Ill
  • Epigram - Thy Nags, The Leanest Things Alive
  • Epigram - To John I Owed Great Obligation
  • Epigram - Yes, Every Poet Is A Fool
  • Epitaph - On Himself
  • Epitaph Extempore
  • Erle Robert's Mice. In Chaucer's Style
  • Fair Susan Did Her Wif-Hede Well Menteine - In Chaucer's Style
  • Fatal Love
  • For My Own Monument
  • For My Own Tombstone
  • Full Oft Doth Matt. With Topaz Dine - In Chaucer's Style
  • Gualterus Danistonus, Ad Amicos. - And Imitation
  • Hans Carvel
  • Henry And Emma. A Poem.
  • Her Right Name
  • Hymn To The Sun
  • In Imitation Of Anacreon
  • Jinny The Just
  • Lisetta's Reply
  • Love Disarmed
  • Mercury And Cupid
  • Merry Andrew
  • Nell And John
  • Nonpareil
  • Ode - Promesse De L'Amour
  • On A Fart - Let In The House Of Commons
  • On A Picture Of Seneca Dying In A Bath, By Jordain
  • On Beauty. A Riddle
  • On Bishop Atterbury's Burying The Duke Of Buckingham, 1721
  • On My Birthday, July 21
  • On The Same Person (Who Wrote Ill, And Spake Worse, Against Me)
  • Pallas And Venus. An Epigram
  • Partial Fame
  • Paulo Purganti And His Wife: An Honest, But A Simple Pair
  • Phyllis's Age
  • Presented To The King, At His Arrival In Holland, After The Discovery Of The Conspiracy. 1696
  • Protogenes And Apelles
  • Seeing The Duke Of Ormond's Picture, At Sir Godfrey Kneller's
  • Solomon On The Vanity Of The World, A Poem. In Three Books. - Knowledge. Book I.
  • Solomon On The Vanity Of The World, A Poem. In Three Books. - Pleasure. Book Ii.
  • Solomon On The Vanity Of The World, A Poem. In Three Books. - Power. Book Iii.
  • Song
  • Songs Set To Music: 1. Set By Mr. Abel
  • Songs Set To Music: 10. Set By Mr. Smith
  • Songs Set To Music: 11. Set By Mr. De Fesch
  • Songs Set To Music: 12. Set By Mr. Smith
  • Songs Set To Music: 13. Set By Mr. De Fesch
  • Songs Set To Music: 14. Set By Mr. Smith
  • Songs Set To Music: 15. Set By Mr. De Fesch
  • Songs Set To Music: 16. Set By Mr. Smith
  • Songs Set To Music: 17. Set By Mr. De Fesch
  • Songs Set To Music: 18. Set By Mr. Smith
  • Songs Set To Music: 19. Set By Mr. C. R.
  • Songs Set To Music: 2. Set By Mr. Purcell
  • Songs Set To Music: 20. Set By Mr. De Fesch
  • Songs Set To Music: 21. Set By Mr. De Fesch
  • Songs Set To Music: 22. Set By Mr. De Fesch
  • Songs Set To Music: 23. Set By Mr. De Fesch
  • Songs Set To Music: 24. Set By Mr. C. R.
  • Songs Set To Music: 25.
  • Songs Set To Music: 26.
  • Songs Set To Music: 27.
  • Songs Set To Music: 28. Nelly.
  • Songs Set To Music: 3. Set By Mr. De Fesch
  • Songs Set To Music: 4. Set By Mr. Smith
  • Songs Set To Music: 5. Set By Mr. De Fesch
  • Songs Set To Music: 6. Set By Mr. Smith
  • Songs Set To Music: 7. Set By Mr. De Fesch
  • Songs Set To Music: 8. Set By Mr. Smith
  • Songs Set To Music: 9. Set By Mr. De Fesch
  • The Chameleon
  • The Conversation. A Tale
  • The Despairing Shepherd
  • The Dove
  • The Dying Adrian To His Soul
  • The English Padlock
  • The Female Phaeton
  • The First Hymn Of Callimachus. To Jupiter
  • The Flies
  • The Garland
  • The Honest Shepherd
  • The Judgement Of Venus
  • The Ladle. A Tale
  • The Lady Who Offers Her Looking-Glass To Venus
  • The Lady's Looking-Glass
  • The Merchant, To Secure His Treasure
  • The Modern Saint
  • The New Year's Gift To Phyllis
  • The Nut-Brown Maid. A Poem.
  • The Old Gentry
  • The Parallel
  • The Pedant
  • The Question To Lisetta
  • The Remedy Worse Than The Disease
  • The Second Hymn Of Callimachus. To Apollo
  • The Secretary
  • The Thief And Cordelier. A Ballad
  • The Turtle And Sparrow. An Elegiac Tale
  • The Viceroy. A Ballad.
  • The Wandering Pilgrim
  • To A Child Of Quality, Five Years Old, 1704. The Author Then Forty
  • To A Child Of Quality, Five Years Old, The Author Suppos'D Forty
  • To A Friend On His Nuptials
  • To A Lady
  • To A Person Who Wrote Ill, And Spake Worse, Against Me
  • To A Poet Of Quality. Praising The Lady Hinchinbroke
  • To A Young Gentleman In Love. A Tale
  • To A Young Lady, Who Was Fond Of Fortune-Telling
  • To Chloe Jealous
  • To Chloe Weeping
  • To Cloe
  • To Dr. Sherlock, On His Practical Discourse Concerning Death
  • To Fortune
  • To Mr. Harley - Wounded By Guiscard
  • To My Lord Buckhurst, Very Young, Playing With A Cat
  • To The Author Of The Foregoing Pastoral - (Love And Friendship)
  • To The Countess Of Exeter. Playing On The Lute
  • To The Honourable Charles Montague, Esq.
  • To The Lady Dursley
  • To The Lady Elizabeth Harley, Since Marchioness Of Carmarthen, On A Column Of Her Drawing
  • To The Right Honourable The Countess Dowager Of Devonshire, On A Piece Of Wiessen's
  • Truth And Falsehood. A Tale
  • Two Riddles. -- 1710
  • Upon Honour. A Fragment.
  • Upon Playing At Ombre With Two Ladies
  • Upon This Passage In Scaligeriana
  • Venus Mistaken
  • Venus' Advice To The Muses
  • Verses - Spoken To Lady Henrietta Cavendish Holles-Harley, Countess Of Oxford
  • Wives By The Dozen
  • Written At Paris, 1700. In The Beginning Of Robe's Geography
  • Written In An Ovid
  • Written In Montaignes Essays. Given To The Duke Of Shrewsbury In France, After The Peace
  • Written In The Beginning Of Mezeray's History Of France
  • Written In The Nouveaux Interests Des Princes De L'Europe

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