Carmen Seculare. For the Year 1700. To The King (Matthew Prior Poems)
Thy elder Look, Great Janus, castInto the long Records of Ages past:Review the Years in fairest Action drestWith noted White, ...
Matthew Prior Poems on Fear (29 Poems)
Alma; or, The Progress of the Mind. In Three Cantos. – Canto III. (Matthew Prior Poems)
Richard, who now was half asleep,Roused, nor would longer silence keep;And sense like this, in vocal breath,Broke from his twofold ...
Alma; or, The Progress of the Mind. In Three Cantos. – Canto II. (Matthew Prior Poems)
But shall we take the Muse abroad,To drop her idly on the road,And leave our subject in the middle,As Butler ...
Alma; or, The Progress of the Mind. In Three Cantos. – Canto I. (Matthew Prior Poems)
Matthew met Richard, when or whereFrom story is not mighty clear:Of many knotty points they spoke,And pro and con by ...
The Turtle And Sparrow. An Elegiac Tale (Matthew Prior Poems)
Behind an unfrequented glade,Where yew and myrtle mix their shade,A widow Turtle pensive sat,And wept her murder'd lover's fate.The Sparrow ...
An Ode – Humbly Inscribed To The Queen, On the Glorious Success of Her Majesty’s Arms (Matthew Prior Poems)
When great Augustus govern'd ancient Rome,And sent his conquering bands to foreign wars,Abroad when dreaded, and beloved at home,He saw ...
An Ode – In Imitation of Horace, Book III. Ode II. (Matthew Prior Poems)
How long, deluded Albion, wilt thou lieIn the lethargic sleep, the sad reposeBy which thy close thy constant enemyHas softly ...
A Letter To Monsieur Boileau Despreaux, Occasioned By The Victory At Blenheim (Matthew Prior Poems)
Since hired for life, thy servile Muse must singSuccessive conquests and a glorious King;Must of a man immortal vainly boast,And ...
The Viceroy. A Ballad. (Matthew Prior Poems)
Tune — "Lady Isabella's Tragedy." or "The Stepmother's cruelty."Of Nero, tyrant, petty king,Who heretofore did reignIn famed Hibernia, I will ...
An English Ballad, On The Taking Of Namur, By The King Of Great Britain (Matthew Prior Poems)
Dulce est desipere in loco.Some Folks are drunk, yet do not know it:So might not Bacchus give You Law?Was it ...
Hans Carvel (Matthew Prior Poems)
Hans Carvel, impotent and old,Married a lass of London mould.Handsome? Enough; extremely gay;Loved music, company, and play:High flights she had, ...
Celia To Damon (Matthew Prior Poems)
What can I say? What Arguments can proveMy Truth? What Colors can describe my Love?If it's Excess and Fury be ...
Daphne to Apollo. Imitated From The First Book Of Ovid’s Metamorphosis (Matthew Prior Poems)
Apollo.Abate, fair fugitive, abate thy speed,Dismiss thy fears, and turn thy beauteous head;With kind regard a panting lover view;Less swiftly ...
The Dove (Matthew Prior Poems)
In Virgil's Sacred Verse we find,That Passion can depress or raiseThe Heav'nly, as the Human Mind:Who dare deny what Virgil ...
An Ode – Inscribed To The Memory Of The Hon. Colonel George Villiers (Matthew Prior Poems)
Say, dearest Villiers, poor departed friend,(Since fleeting life thus suddenly must end)Say, what did all thy busy hopes avail,That anxious ...
Cupid And Ganymede (Matthew Prior Poems)
In Heav'n, one Holy-day, You readIn wise Anacreon, GanymedeDrew heedless Cupid in, to throwA Main, to pass an Hour, or ...
To A Young Gentleman In Love. A Tale (Matthew Prior Poems)
From publick Noise and factious Strife,From all the busie Ills of Life,Take me, My Celia, to Thy Breast;And lull my ...
Truth And Falsehood. A Tale (Matthew Prior Poems)
Once on a time, in sunshine weather,Falsehood and Truth walk'd out together,The neighbouring woods and lawns to view,As opposites will ...
The Lady’s Looking-Glas (Matthew Prior Poems)
Celia and I the other DayWalk'd o'er the Sand-Hills to the Sea:The setting Sun adorn'd the Coast,His Beams entire, his ...
To A Child Of Quality, Five Years Old. The Author Then Forty (Matthew Prior Poems)
Lords, knights, and squires, the numerous band That wear the fair Miss Mary's fetters,Were summoned by her high command To show their ...
An Ode To A Lady. She Refusing To Continue A Dispute With Me, And Leaving Me In The Argument (Matthew Prior Poems)
Spare, generous victor, spare the slave,Who did unequal war pursue;That more than triumph he might have,In being overcome by you.In ...
Seeing The Duke Of Ormond’s Picture, At Sir Godfrey Kneller’s (Matthew Prior Poems)
Out from the injured canvas, Kneller, strikeThese lines too faint; the picture is not like.Exalt thy thought, and try thy ...
The Judgement Of Venus (Matthew Prior Poems)
When Kneller's works, of various grace,Were to fair Venus shown,The Goddess spied in every faceSome features of her own.Just so, ...
Songs Set To Music: 8. Set By Mr. Smith (Matthew Prior Poems)
Still, Dorinda, I adore;Think I mean not to deceive you,For I loved you much before,And, alas! now love you moreThough ...
A Passage In The Moriae Encomium Of Erasmus. Imitated (Matthew Prior Poems)
In awful pomp and melancholy state,See settled Reason on the judgement-seat;Around her crowd Distrust, and Doubt, and Fear,And thoughtful Foresight, ...
An Epitaph (Matthew Prior Poems)
Interr'd beneath this marble stone, Lie saunt'ring Jack and idle Joan. While rolling threescore years and one Did round this ...
To a Lady (Matthew Prior Poems)
Spare, gen'rous victor, spare the slave, Who did unequal war pursue; That more than triumph he might have, In being ...
To a Child of Quality, Five Years Old, 1704. The Author then Forty (Matthew Prior Poems)
LORDS, knights, and squires, the numerous band That wear the fair Miss Mary's fetters, Were summoned by her high command ...
For my own Monument (Matthew Prior Poems)
AS doctors give physic by way of prevention, Mat, alive and in health, of his tombstone took care; For delays ...