Poem by Matthew Prior

Epigram («YES, every poet is a fool»)

YES, every poet is a fool:	
  By demonstration Ned can show it:	
Happy, could Ned’s inverted rule	
  Prove every fool to be a poet.

1. An Extempore Invitation to the Earl of Oxford, Lord High Treasurer
2. A Song (In vain you tell your parting lover)
3. An Ode - Presented to the King, on His Majesty's Arrival in Holland, after the Queen's Death
4. An Ode - Inscribed to the Memory of the Hon. Colonel George Villiers
5. If Wine and Music Have the Power

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