Poet

Matthew Prior

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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 Sailor's Wife
• A Simile
• A Song. If Wine And Music Have The Power
• A Song. In Vain You Tell Your Parting Lover
• A True Maid
• 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 - 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
• Celia To Damon
• Chanson. - And Imitation
• Charity : A Paraphrase On 1 Cor. Chap. 13
• Chaste Florimel
• Chloe Hunting
• 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
• Her Right Name
• Horace, Lib. I, Epist. IX, Imitated. To The Right Honourable Mr. Harley
• Hymn To The Sun
• In Imitation Of Anacreon
• In The Beginning Of Robe's Geography. Written At Paris, 1700.
• 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
• 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
• Remedy Worse Than The Disease, A
• Seeing The Duke Of Ormond's Picture, At Sir Godfrey Kneller's
• 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 Mice. A Tale - To Mr. Adrian Drift
• The Modern Saint
• The New Year's Gift To Phyllis
• The Parallel
• The Pedant
• The Question To Lisetta
• The Second Hymn Of Callimachus. To Apollo
• The Secretary
• The Thief And Cordelier. A Ballad
• The Wandering Pilgrim
• To a Child of Quality, Five Years Old, 1704. The Author then 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 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.
• Upon Honour.
• 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 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