Nonpareil (Matthew Prior Poems)
Let others from the Town retire,And in the fields seek new delight;My Phillis does such joys inspire,No other objects please ...
Matthew Prior Poems on Fairness (50 Poems)
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 ...
Songs Set To Music: 28. Nelly. (Matthew Prior Poems)
Whilst others proclaimThis nymph or that swain,Dearest Nelly the lovely I'll sing:She shall grace every verse,I'll her beauties rehearse,Which lovers ...
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 ...
To The Lady Dursley (Matthew Prior Poems)
Here reading how fond Adam was betray'd,And how by sin Eve's blasted charms decay'd,Our common loss unjustly you complain,So small ...
An Ode : While From Our Looks, Fair Nymph, You Guess (Matthew Prior Poems)
While from our looks, fair nymph, you guessThe secret passions of our mind;My heavy eyes, you say, confessA heart to ...
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 ...
Songs Set To Music: 12. Set By Mr. Smith (Matthew Prior Poems)
Since my words, though ne'er so tender,With sincerest truth express'd,Cannot make your heart surrender,Nor so much as warm your breast;What ...
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, ...
In Imitation Of Anacreon (Matthew Prior Poems)
Let 'em Censure: what care I?The Herd of Criticks I defie.Let the Wretches know, I writeRegardless of their Grace, or ...
Songs Set To Music: 9. Set By Mr. De Fesch (Matthew Prior Poems)
Is it, O love, thy want of eyes,Or by the Fates decreed,That hearts so seldom sympathise,Or for each other bleed?If ...
Songs Set To Music: 22. Set By Mr. De Fesch (Matthew Prior Poems)
In vain, alas! poor Strephon triesTo ease his tortured breast,Since Amoret the cure denies,And makes his pain a jest.Ah! fair ...
Fair Susan Did Her Wif-Hede Well Menteine – In Chaucer’s Style (Matthew Prior Poems)
Fair Susan did her wif-hede well menteine,Algates assaulted sore by letchours tweine;Now, and I read aright that auncient song,Olde were ...
On A Fart – Let In The House Of Commons (Matthew Prior Poems)
Reader, I was born, and cried;I crack'd, I smelt, and so I died.Like Julius Caesar's was my death,Who in the ...
The Question to Lisetta (Matthew Prior Poems)
WHAT nymph should I admire or trust, But Chloe beauteous, Chloe just? What nymph should I desire to see, But ...
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 ...
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 ...
Song (Matthew Prior Poems)
How old may Phyllis be, you ask, Whose beauty thus all hearts engages? To answer is no easy task; For ...
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 ...
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 ...