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Poem by Matthew Prior


Written in an Ovid


Ovid is the surest guide
You can name to show the way
To any woman, maid, or bride,
Who resolves to go astray. 



Matthew Prior


Matthew Prior's other poems:
  1. To the Author of the Foregoing Pastoral - (Love and Friendship)
  2. Seeing the Duke of Ormond's Picture, at Sir Godfrey Kneller's
  3. A Letter to Lady Margaret Cavendish Holles-Harley, When a Child
  4. Cupid Mistaken
  5. An Extempore Invitation to the Earl of Oxford, Lord High Treasurer


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