Matthew Prior Poems on Name (28 Poems)
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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, Superior to the rest;Aera’s deriv’d, and Chronicles begunFrom Empires founded, and from Battels won:Show all the Spoils by valiant Kings … Continue reading
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 did his Bear and Fiddle?Yet he, consummate master, knewWhen to recede and where pursue:His noble negligence teachWhat others’ toils despair … Continue reading
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 his fame increasing with his years,Horace, great bard, (so fate ordain’d) arose,And, bold as were his countryman in fight,Snatch’d their … Continue reading
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 lull’d thee to thy woes?Or wake, degenerate isle, or cease to ownWhat thy old kings in Gallic camps have done,The … Continue reading
The Nut-Brown Maid. A Poem. (Matthew Prior Poems)
Written three hundred years since. Be it right or wrong, these men amongOn women do complayne;Affyrmynge this, how that it isA labour spent in vaineTo love them wele; for never a deleThey love a man againe:For lete a man do … Continue reading
Down-Hall. A Ballad. (Matthew Prior Poems)
Tune. — “King John and the Abbot of Canterbury.” I sing not old Jason who travell’d through GreeceTo kiss the fair maids and possess the rich fleece,Nor sing I AEneas, who, led by his mother,Got rid of one wife and … Continue reading
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 bring him laurels whatsoe’er they cost,What turn wilt thou employ, what colours lay,On the event of that superior day,In which … Continue reading
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 sing,And in a ditty plain. He hated was by rich and poorFor reasons you shall hear;So ill he exercised … Continue reading
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 a Muse, O lofty Poet,Or Virgin of St. Cyr, You saw?Why all this Fury? What’s the Matter,That Oaks must … Continue reading
Paulo Purganti And His Wife: An Honest, But A Simple Pair (Matthew Prior Poems)
Beyond the fix’d and settl’d RulesOf Vice and Virtue in the Schools,Beyond the Letter of the Law,Which keeps our Men and Maids in Awe,The better Sort should set before ’emA Grace, a Manner, a Decorum;Something, that gives their Acts a … Continue reading
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