Matthew Prior poet from United Kingdom was born on July 21, 1664, had 57 years and died on September 18, 1721. Poems were written in Modern age mainly in English language. Dominant movement is political.
Top ten poems Matthew Prior
The Chameleon
... Smear'd with the colours which they lend him ...
An Ode : On Exodus iii. 14
... Can tell us whence all beings are, and how they move and live ...
The Wandering Pilgrim
... The gracious knight full well does weet ...
An Ode To Mr. Howard
... Though, to convince thee that the friend did feel ...
The Old Gentry
... Kingsale! eight hundred years have roll'd ...
The Mice. A Tale - To Mr. Adrian Drift
... How your first care, by numerous griefs oppress'd, ...
Solomon on the Vanity of the World, A Poem. In Three Books. - Pleasure. Book II.
... cludes that, as to the pursuit of pleasure and sensual delight, All Is Vanity and Vexation of Spirit ...
Democritus And Heraclitus
... And with our follies glut thy heighten'd mirth: ...
An Ode. The Merchant, To Secure
... I sung, and gazed: I play'd, and trembled: ...
A Dutch Proverb
... This Spring the Rains o'erflow'd my Ground: ...
