Poems by Matthew Prior
To A Child Of Quality, Five Years Old. The Author Then Forty
... For, though the strictest prudes should know it, ...
The Viceroy. A Ballad.
... Don't Gaphny's blood, which thou hast shed, ...
An Ode - Humbly Inscribed To The Queen, On the Glorious Success of Her Majesty's Arms
... Earth she has freed by arms, and vanquish'd Heaven by prayer ...
Venus Mistaken
... Pleas'd Cupid heard, and check'd His Mother's Pride: ...
The Judgement Of Venus
... Just so, (and pointing with her hand) ...
An Epistle To Fleetwood Shephard, Esq. Burleigh, May 14, 1689
... Here some would scratch their heads, and try ...
An Epistle To Fleetwood Shephard, Esq.
... All this you made me quit, to follow ...
The Parallel
... Day, Carved something like a man in clay: ...
An Ode : While Blooming Youth And Gay Delight
... take care Thy looks, thy thoughts, thy dreams, to guide ...
To A Lady
... Spare, gen'rous victor, spare the slave, ...
A Flower. Painted By Simon Varelst
... The goddess snatch'd the pencil from his hand, ...
To The Countess Of Exeter. Playing On The Lute
... As in some piece while Luke his skill exprest, ...
An Ode : While From Our Looks, Fair Nymph, You Guess
... While from our looks, fair nymph, you guess ...
The Pedant
... he practises Full fourteen hours in four-and-twenty ...
Hymn To The Sun
... Since first Thy Beams were spread, or Genial Power was known ...
