Poems by Matthew Prior
Songs Set To Music: 16. Set By Mr. Smith
... Then take it kindly, as 'twas meant, ...
By Mons. Fontenelle
... Tu t'en vas donc, má fille, et Dieu scache ou tu vas: ...
The Second Hymn Of Callimachus. To Apollo
... Apollo Spurn'd Envy with his foot, and thus the god: ...
An English Ballad, On The Taking Of Namur, By The King Of Great Britain
... Of Death, Pikes, Rocks, Arms, Bricks, and Fire: ...
Full Oft Doth Matt. With Topaz Dine - In Chaucer's Style
... Now shure as priest did e'er shrive sinner, ...
To Dr. Sherlock, On His Practical Discourse Concerning Death
... To its last height mad Britain's guilt was rear'd, ...
To A Young Lady, Who Was Fond Of Fortune-Telling
... This secret then I dare not know, ...
Songs Set To Music: 15. Set By Mr. De Fesch
... Think in what perfect bliss you reign'd, ...
Songs Set To Music: 5. Set By Mr. De Fesch
... For ne'er 'twas found (though often tried) ...
Songs Set To Music: 18. Set By Mr. Smith
... Then, Phillis, heal my wounded heart, ...
Cloe Jealous
... Or withering Wreath, or fleeting Youth: ...
Alma; or, The Progress of the Mind. In Three Cantos. - Canto I.
... His thought quite changes the stripling finds ...
Henry And Emma. A Poem.
... Emma. Are there not poisons, racks, and flames, and swords, ...
To a Child of Quality, Five Years Old, the Author Suppos'd Forty
... ordain'd (would Fate but mend it)That I shall be past making love, When she begins to comprehend it ...
To A Lady, She Refusing to Continue a Dispute with me, and Leaving me in the Argument: An Ode
... wound, she shuns the fight: She drops her arms, to gain the field:Secures her conquest by her flight ...