Poems by William Shenstone
Elegy IX. He Describes His Disinterestedness to a Friend
... But come, my Friend! with taste, with science blest, ...
Elegy XXIV. He Takes Occasion, From the Fate of Eleanor of Bretagne
... ccasion, From the Fate of Eleanor of Bretagne, To Suggest the Imperfect Pleasures of a Solitary Life ...
Song XIII. - Winter
... The Naiads, o'er their frozen urns, ...
Song X. - The lovely Delia smiles again!
... The flowers, that hung their languid head, ...
The Progress of Taste, or the Fate of Delicacy
... AND HOW GREAT A MISFORTUNE IT IS FOR A MAN OF SMALL ESTATE TO HAVE MUCH TASTE ...
Progress of Advice
... Thou wouldst choose out a whipping-post first to be tied to ...
Elegy III. On the Untimely Death of a Certain Learned Acquainance
... As though the Virtues had not warm'd his breast, ...
The School-Mistress
... And, through the thatch, his cries each falling stroke proclaim ...
Song XI. - Perhaps it is not love
... Where wit and sense like hers agree, ...
The Rose-Bud
... " The nymph replied!-"You first, my Swain! ...
Charms of Precedence - A Tale
... "He's honest, faith,"-have patience, Neighbours, ...
Impromptu to Miss Utrecia Smith
... Whilst round in wild rotations hurl'd, ...
Ode, written 1739
... Since frowns could never wound his heart ...
Ode to a Young Lady
... Somewhat Too Solicitous about Her Manner of Expression ...
Written in a Flower Book, of my own Colouring, designed for Lady Plymouth
... Whose thoughts and accents form'd to soothe, ...
