Poet
William Shenstone
1714–1763
English
- A Familiar Epistle, from a Clergyman to a young Gentleman of the Law
- A Pastoral Ballad
- A Pastoral Ode, to the Honourable Sir Richard Lyttleton
- A Simile
- Alboque simillima cygno
- AN IRREGULAR ODE, After sickness, 1749
- Anacreontic, 1738
- Anacreontick
- Colemira. a Culinary Eclogue
- Comparison
- CUPID and PLUTUS
- Economy, a Rhapsody, Addressed to Young Poets, Part the First
- Economy, a Rhapsody, Addressed to Young Poets, Part the Third
- ELEGY I. He arrives at his retirement in the country, and takes occasion to expatiate in praise of…
- ELEGY II. On posthumous reputation. To a Friend
- ELEGY III. On the untimely death of a certain learned acquaintance
- ELEGY IV. Ophelia's urn. To Mr. G
- ELEGY IX. He describes his disinterestedness to a friend
- ELEGY V. He compares the turbulence of love with the tranquillity of friendship. To Melissa his friend
- ELEGY VII. He describes his vision to an acquaintance
- ELEGY VIII. He describes his early love of poetry, and its consequences. To Mr. G—, 1745
- ELEGY X. To Fortune, suggesting his motive for repining at her dispensations
- ELEGY XI. He complains how soon the pleasing novelty of life is over
- ELEGY XII. His recantation
- ELEGY XIII. To a friend, on some slight occasion estranged from him
- ELEGY XIV. Declining an invitation to visit foreign countries, he takes occasion to intimate the advantages…
- ELEGY XIX. Written in spring 1743
- ELEGY XV. In memory of a private family in Worcestershire
- ELEGY XVI. He suggests the advantages of birth to a person of merit, and the folly of a superciliousness that…
- ELEGY XVII. He indulges the suggestions of spleen: an Elegy to the winds
- ELEGY XVIII. He repeats the song of Colin, a discerning shepherd, lamenting the state of the woollen…
- ELEGY XXI. Taking a view of the country from his retirement, he is led to meditate on the character of the…
- ELEGY XXII. Written in the year — when the rights of sepulture were so frequently violated
- ELEGY XXIII. Reflections suggested by his situation
- ELEGY XXIV. He takes occasion, from the fate of Eleanor of Bretagne, to suggest the imperfect pleasures of a…
- ELEGY XXV. To Delia, with some flowers; complaining how much his benevolence suffers on account of his humble…
- ELEGY XXVI. Describing the sorrow of an ingenuous mind on the melancholy event of a licentious amour
- Epilogue to Cleone
- Epilogue to the Tragedy of Cleone
- EVE'S Speech in Milton, upon her Expulsion out of PARADISE
- Flirt and Phil: a Decision for the Ladies
- Hint from Voiture
- Je-ne-sçai-quoi
- JEMMY DAWSON. A BALLAD. Written about the time of his execution, in the year 1745
- Judith's Song
- LOVE and MUSICK
- Nancy of the Vale. a Ballad
- ODE TO A YOUNG LADY, Somewhat too solicitous about her manner of expression
- Ode to Health, 1730
- Ode to Indolence, 1750
- Ode to Memory, 1748
- ODE. To be performed by Dr. Brettle, and a chorus of Hales Owen citizens. The instrumental part a Viol d'Amour
- ODE. Written 1739
- ODES, &c, ODE
- On Certain Pastorals
- On the Discovery of an Echo at Edgbaston
- RURAL ELEGANCE, AN ODE TO THE LATE DUCHESS OF SOMERSET. Written 1750
- Slender's Ghost. Vide Shakespeare
- Song, 1742
- Song, 1743
- Song, 1744
- Song, 1744
- Song, 1744
- Song. Daphne's Visit
- SONG. Imitated from the French
- SONG. The attribute of Venus
- Song. the Landscape
- Song. the Rose-bud
- Song. the Scholar's Relapse
- Song. the Skylark
- Song. Valentine's Day, 1743
- Song. Winter, 1746
- SONG. Written in a Collection of Bacchanalian Songs
- Songs and Ballads, a Ballad
- Songs and Ballads, Song
- Songs and Ballads, Song
- Songs and Ballads, Song
- Songs and Ballads, Song
- Songs and Ballads, Song
- STANZAS To the memory of an agreeable Lady, buried in marriage to a person undeserving her
- The Charms of Precedence. a Tale
- The Dying Kid
- The ENCHANTRESS
- The Extent of Cookery
- The Halcyon
- The Invidious
- The Poet and the Dun, 1741
- The Price of an Equipage
- THE PRINCESS ELIZABETH, A Ballad, alluding to a story recorded of her when she was prisoner at Woodstock, 1554
- The Progress of Advice. a Common Case
- The Progress of Taste: or, the Fate of Delicacy, Part the Fourth
- The Progress of Taste: or, the Fate of Delicacy, Part the Second
- The Progress of Taste: or, the Fate of Delicacy, Part the Third
- The Rape of the Trap. a Ballad, 1737
- The Ruin'd Abbey: or, the Effects of Superstition
- The SNUFF-BOX
- To a Friend
- To a Lady of Quality, Fitting Up Her Library, 1738
- To Mr POPE, ON His DUNCIAD
- To Mr. R. D. on the Death of Mr. Shenstone
- To SELINDA
- To SELINDA Sailing
- To the Virtuosi
- UPON A VISIT TO A LADY OF QUALITY, In winter 1748
- Verses by Mr. Dodsley, on His First Arrival at the Leasowes, 1754
- Verses Left on a Seat
- Verses Received by the Post
- VERSES to a LADY
- VERSES Written towards the close of the year 1748, TO WILLIAM LYTTLETON, ESQ
- Written at an Inn at Henley
- WRITTEN IN A FLOWER BOOK Of my own colouring, designed for Lady Plymouth, 1753-4
- Written under a LADY'S Name on a Window