Poems by 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: ...
Erle Robert's Mice. In Chaucer's Style
... and Charles. Bad as Sir Topaz, or 'Squire Quarles ...
Songs Set To Music: 20. Set By Mr. De Fesch
... And snatch'd so soon from those dear arms, ...
Mercury And Cupid
... For Heav'n sake keep Your Darts: Good Night ...
Pallas And Venus. An Epigram
... Dreadful like thine my shield, and terrible my crest! ...
Cupid Turned Ploughman. - From Moschus
... Feel the sharp goad, and draw the servile plough ...
