Matthew Prior (1664-1721)
English poet and diplomat

Poems by Matthew Prior

• A Better Answer
• A Dutch Proverb
• A Letter to Lady Margaret Cavendish Holles-Harley, When a Child
• A Lover's Anger
• A Reasonable Affliction
• A Sailor's Wife
• A Simile
• A Song (In vain you tell your parting lover)
• An Epitaph
• 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 - 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 to Mr. Howard
• An Ode
• Answer to Cloe Jealous. The Author Sick
• Bibo and Charon
• Celia to Damon
• Chaste Florimel
• Cloe Jealous
• Cupid and Ganymede
• Cupid Mistaken
• Epigram («YES, every poet is a fool»)
• Epitaph Extempore
• Fatal Love
• For My Own Monument
• Henry and Emma
• Hymn to the Sun
• “If Wine and Music Have the Power”
• Jinny The Just
• Love Disarmed
• Merry Andrew
• On a Fart - Let in the House of Commons
• On Hall’s Death
• On My Birthday, July 21
• Partial Fame
• Phyllis's Age
• Seeing the Duke of Ormond's Picture, at Sir Godfrey Kneller's
• Songs Set to Music: 1. Set by Mr. Abel
• The Judgement of Venus
• The Old Gentry
• The Thief and Cordelier
• The Turtle and Sparrow
• To a Lady
• To the Author of the Foregoing Pastoral - (Love and Friendship)
• To the Lady Dursley
• Upon This Passage In Scaligeriana
• Wives by the Dozen
• Written in an Ovid

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