Poems by Matthew Prior
Epitaph Extempore
... Here lies what once was Matthew Prior, ...
The Honest Shepherd
... Though troth, to me there seems but little odds ...
Paulo Purganti And His Wife: An Honest, But A Simple Pair
... He rang'd his Tropes, and preach'd up Patience ...
On A Picture Of Seneca Dying In A Bath, By Jordain
... And lives and speaks restored and whole ...
An Ode To A Lady. She Refusing To Continue A Dispute With Me, And Leaving Me In The Argument
... So when the Parthian turn'd his steed, ...
To A Friend On His Nuptials
... May this auspicious night with that compare, ...
To A Person Who Wrote Ill, And Spake Worse, Against Me
... Then why should I answer since first I must read thee ...
Solomon on the Vanity of the World, A Poem. In Three Books. - Power. Book III.
... by an angel what shall happen to himself, his family, and his kingdom, till the redemption of Israel ...
Lisetta's Reply
... Yet dare not tell Her whence they spring ...
Nell and John
... When you lost your white heifer, and I my brown mare ...
Alma; or, The Progress of the Mind. In Three Cantos. - Canto III.
... Breaks watchmen's heads and chairmen's glasses, ...
An Epistle. Desiring The Queen's Picture, But Left Unfinished, By The Sudden News Of Her Majesty's D
... Thus great, thus gracious, look'd Britannia's Queen, ...
To Chloe Weeping
... Strange Tears! whose Pow'r can soften All, ...
The Ladle. A Tale
... Thought they were folks that lost their way, ...
Songs Set To Music: 3. Set By Mr. De Fesch
... Since your charms I so much prize ...
