The Poetry Corner

Matthew Prior

Poems

A Better Answer

A Dutch Proverb

A Flower. Painted By Simon Varelst

A Letter To Lady Margaret Cavendish Holles-Harley, When A Child

A Letter To Monsieur Boileau Despreaux, Occasioned By The Victory At Blenheim

A Lover's Anger

A Passage In The Moriae Encomium Of Erasmus. Imitated

A Reasonable Affliction

A Sailor's Wife

A Song. If Wine And Music Have The Power

A Song. In Vain You Tell Your Parting Lover

Alma; or, The Progress of the Mind. In Three Cantos. - Canto I.

Alma; or, The Progress of the Mind. In Three Cantos. - Canto II.

Alma; or, The Progress of the Mind. In Three Cantos. - Canto III.

An English Ballad, On The Taking Of Namur, By The King Of Great Britain

An Epistle To Fleetwood Shephard, Esq.

An Epistle To Fleetwood Shephard, Esq. Burleigh, May 14, 1689

An Epistle. Desiring The Queen's Picture, But Left Unfinished, By The Sudden News Of Her Majesty's Death

An Extempore Invitation To The Earl Of Oxford, Lord High Treasurer

An Ode - Humbly Inscribed To The Queen, On the Glorious Success of Her Majesty's Arms

An Ode - In Imitation of Horace, Book III. Ode II.

An Ode - Inscribed To The Memory Of The Hon. Colonel George Villiers

An Ode - Presented To The King, On His Majesty's Arrival In Holland, After The Queen's Death

An Ode : On Exodus III. 14

An Ode : While Blooming Youth And Gay Delight

An Ode : While From Our Looks, Fair Nymph, You Guess

An Ode To A Lady. She Refusing To Continue A Dispute With Me, And Leaving Me In The Argument

An Ode To Mr. Howard

An Ode. The Merchant, To Secure

Answer To Cloe Jealous. The Author Sick

Bibo And Charon

By Mons. Fontenelle

Cantata. Set By Mons. Galliard

Carmen Seculare. For the Year 1700. To The King

Chanson. - And Imitation

Charity : A Paraphrase On 1 Cor. Chap. 13

Chaste Florimel

Colin's Mistakes. Written In Imitation Of Spenser's Style

Considerations - On Part Of The 88th Psalm. A College Exercise

Cupid And Ganymede

Cupid In Ambush

Cupid Turned Ploughman. - From Moschus

Cupid Turned Stroller. - From Anacreon

Cupid's Promise - Paraphrased

Daphne to Apollo. Imitated From The First Book Of Ovid's Metamorphosis

Democritus And Heraclitus

Down-Hall. A Ballad.

Epigram - Frank Carves Very Ill

Epigram - Thy Nags, The Leanest Things Alive

Epigram - To John I Owed Great Obligation

Epigram - Yes, Every Poet Is A Fool

Epitaph - On Himself

Epitaph Extempore

Erle Robert's Mice. In Chaucer's Style

Fair Susan Did Her Wif-Hede Well Menteine - In Chaucer's Style

For My Own Monument

For My Own Tombstone

Full Oft Doth Matt. With Topaz Dine - In Chaucer's Style

Gualterus Danistonus, Ad Amicos. - And Imitation

Henry And Emma. A Poem.

Horace, Lib. I, Epist. IX, Imitated. To The Right Honourable Mr. Harley

Hymn To The Sun

In Imitation Of Anacreon

In The Beginning Of Robe's Geography. Written At Paris, 1700.

Lisetta's Reply

Mercury And Cupid

Ode - Promesse De L'Amour

On A Fart - Let In The House Of Commons

On A Picture Of Seneca Dying In A Bath, By Jordain

On Beauty. A Riddle

On Bishop Atterbury's Burying The Duke Of Buckingham

On My Birthday, July 21

On The Same Person (Who Wrote Ill, And Spake Worse, Against Me)

Pallas And Venus. An Epigram

Paulo Purganti And His Wife: An Honest, But A Simple Pair

Presented To The King, At His Arrival In Holland, After The Discovery Of The Conspiracy. 1696

Remedy Worse Than The Disease, A

Seeing The Duke Of Ormond's Picture, At Sir Godfrey Kneller's

Solomon On The Vanity Of The World, A Poem. In Three Books. - Knowledge. Book I.

Solomon on the Vanity of the World, A Poem. In Three Books. - Pleasure. Book II.

Solomon on the Vanity of the World, A Poem. In Three Books. - Power. Book III.

Songs Set To Music: 1. Set By Mr. Abel

Songs Set To Music: 10. Set By Mr. Smith

Songs Set To Music: 11. Set By Mr. De Fesch

Songs Set To Music: 12. Set By Mr. Smith

Songs Set To Music: 13. Set By Mr. De Fesch

Songs Set To Music: 14. Set By Mr. Smith

Songs Set To Music: 15. Set By Mr. De Fesch

Songs Set To Music: 16. Set By Mr. Smith

Songs Set To Music: 17. Set By Mr. De Fesch

Songs Set To Music: 18. Set By Mr. Smith

Songs Set To Music: 19. Set By Mr. C. R.

Songs Set To Music: 2. Set By Mr. Purcell

Songs Set To Music: 20. Set By Mr. De Fesch

Songs Set To Music: 21. Set By Mr. De Fesch

Songs Set To Music: 22. Set By Mr. De Fesch

Songs Set To Music: 23. Set By Mr. De Fesch

Songs Set To Music: 24. Set By Mr. C. R.

Songs Set To Music: 25.

Songs Set To Music: 26.

Songs Set To Music: 27.

Songs Set To Music: 28. Nelly.

Songs Set To Music: 3. Set By Mr. De Fesch

Songs Set To Music: 4. Set By Mr. Smith

Songs Set To Music: 5. Set By Mr. De Fesch

Songs Set To Music: 6. Set By Mr. Smith

Songs Set To Music: 7. Set By Mr. De Fesch

Songs Set To Music: 8. Set By Mr. Smith

Songs Set To Music: 9. Set By Mr. De Fesch

The Conversation. A Tale

The Despairing Shepherd

The Dying Adrian To His Soul

The English Padlock

The Female Phaeton

The First Hymn Of Callimachus. To Jupiter

The Honest Shepherd

The Judgement Of Venus

The Ladle. A Tale

The Lady Who Offers Her Looking-Glass To Venus

The Lady's Looking-Glass

The Merchant, To Secure His Treasure

The Mice. A Tale - To Mr. Adrian Drift

The Modern Saint

The New Year's Gift To Phyllis

The Nut-Brown Maid. A Poem.

The Question To Lisetta

The Remedy Worse Than The Disease

The Second Hymn Of Callimachus. To Apollo

The Thief And Cordelier. A Ballad

The Turtle And Sparrow. An Elegiac Tale

The Viceroy. A Ballad.

The Wandering Pilgrim

To A Child Of Quality, Five Years Old. The Author Then Forty

To A Friend On His Nuptials

To A Person Who Wrote Ill, And Spake Worse, Against Me

To A Poet Of Quality. Praising The Lady Hinchinbroke

To A Young Gentleman In Love. A Tale

To A Young Lady, Who Was Fond Of Fortune-Telling

To Chloe Jealous

To Chloe Weeping

To Dr. Sherlock, On His Practical Discourse Concerning Death

To Mr. Harley - Wounded By Guiscard

To My Lord Buckhurst, Very Young, Playing With A Cat

To The Author Of The Foregoing Pastoral - (Love And Friendship)

To The Countess Of Exeter. Playing On The Lute

To The Honourable Charles Montague, Esq.

To The Lady Dursley

To The Lady Elizabeth Harley, Since Marchioness Of Carmarthen, On A Column Of Her Drawing

To the Right Honourable The Countess Dowager Of Devonshire, On A Piece Of Wiessen's

Truth And Falsehood. A Tale

Upon Playing At Ombre With Two Ladies

Upon This Passage In Scaligeriana

Venus' Advice To The Muses

Verses - Spoken to Lady Henrietta Cavendish Holles-Harley, Countess of Oxford

Wives By The Dozen

Written In An Ovid

Written In Montaignes Essays. Given To The Duke Of Shrewsbury In France, After The Peace

Written In The Beginning Of Mezeray's History Of France

Written In The Nouveaux Interests Des Princes De L'Europe