An Ode To Mr. Howard (Matthew Prior Poems)
Dear Howard, from the soft assaults of lovePoets and painters never are secure;Can I untouch'd the fair one's passions move,Or ...
Poems about cloe (21 Poems)
Cantata. Set By Mons. Galliard (Matthew Prior Poems)
Recit.Beneath a verdant laurel's ample shadeHis lyre to mournful numbers strung,Horace, immortal bard supinely laid,To Venus thus address'd the song;Ten ...
Her Right Name (Matthew Prior Poems)
As Nancy at her toilette sat,Admiring this, and blaming that,Tell me, she said, but tell me true,The nymph who could ...
Horace: Book 1, Ode 22 (Samuel Johnson Poems)
The man, my friend, whose conscious heartWith virtue's sacred ardour glows,Nor taints with death the envenom'd dart,Nor needs the guard ...
Cupid’s Promise – Paraphrased (Matthew Prior Poems)
Soft Cupid, wanton, amorous boy,The other day, moved with my lyre,In flattering accents spoke his joy,And uttered thus his fond ...
A Lover’s Anger (Matthew Prior Poems)
As Cloe came into the Room t'other Day,I peevish began; Where so long cou'd You stay?In your Life-time You never ...
Jupiter And Cloe. (Nicholas Amhurst Poems)
Young Cloe, frolicksome and gay,Was reading, once upon a Day,How Jove, as Ovid's Lines record(And Ladies will take Ovid's Word)Us'd ...
Songs Set To Music: 24. Set By Mr. C. R. (Matthew Prior Poems)
Cloe beauty has, and wit,And an air that is not common;Every charm in her does meet,Fit to make a handsome ...
An Ode. The Merchant, To Secure (Matthew Prior Poems)
The merchant, to secure his treasure,Conveys it in a borrow'd name:Euphelia serves to grace my measure:But Cloe is my real ...
A Song. If Wine And Music Have The Power (Matthew Prior Poems)
If wine and music have the powerTo ease the sickness of the soul,Let Phoebis every string explore,And Bacchus fill the ...
Damon And Cloe (Henry Baker Poems)
Damon.Love's an idle childish Passion,Only fit for Girls and Boys;Marriage is a cursed Fashion,Women are but foolish Toys.Spight of all ...
To Chloe Weeping (Matthew Prior Poems)
See, whilst Thou weep'st, fair Cloe, seeThe World in Sympathy with Thee.The chearful Birds no longer sing,Each drops his Head, ...
Lisetta’s Reply (Matthew Prior Poems)
Sure Cloe Just, and Cloe FairDeserves to be Your only Care:But when You and She to-dayFar into the Wood did ...
On the Same. (Catullus Imitated. Ep. .) (Nicholas Amhurst Poems)
Cloe, as soon as she has plaid the Whore,Repents the Deed, and vows to do't no more;With the next Man ...
Venus Mistaken (Matthew Prior Poems)
When Cloe's Picture was to Venus shown;Surpriz'd, the Goddess took it for Her own.And what, said She, does this bold ...
Sotweed redivivus (Benjamin Colman Poems)
{TO THE Generous SUBSCRIBERS, &c}. The Author finding all Attempts prove vain,Those glittering Smiles from Fortune to obtain:That purblind Goddess ...
The Butterfly And Ant: A Fable (Cornelius Arnold Poems)
Fair Cloe! when thou deign'st to come,To any neighb'ring Rout or Drum;The Belles who shin'd before so bright,Dazzl'd each Petit ...
Song from ‘Lycidus’ (Aphra Behn Poems)
"A CONSTANCY in love I'll prize, And be to beauty true: And doat on all the lovely eyes, ...
Cupid Mistaken (Matthew Prior Poems)
As after noon, one summer's day, Venus stood bathing in a river; Cupid a-shooting went that way, New strung his ...
The Merchant, To Secure His Treasure (Matthew Prior Poems)
The merchant, to secure his treasure, Conveys it in a borrowed name: Euphelia serves to grace my measure, But Cloe ...
An Ode (Matthew Prior Poems)
The merchant, to secure his treasure, Conveys it in a borrowed name: Euphelia serves to grace my measure; But Cloe ...