William Shenstone (1714-1763)

The Rating of William Shenstone's Poems

1. Written at an Inn at Henley
2. Elegy 11. He Complains How Soon the Pleasing Novelty of Life Is Over
3. To a Friend
4. The Skylark
5. Cupid and Plutus
6. Elegy 5. He Compares the Turbulence of Love with the Tranquillity of Friendship
7. Jemmy Dawson
8. Nancy of the Vale
9. A Simile
10. Elegy 1. He Arrives at His Retirement in the Country
11. To the Virtuosi
12. Elegy 4. Ophilia's Urn. To Mr. Graves
13. Anacreontic
14. The Rose-Bud
15. A Pastoral Ballad
16. Elegy 15. In Memory of a Private Family in Worcestershire
17. Elegy 10. To Fortune, Suggesting His Motive for Repining at Her Dispensations
18. Elegy 9. He Describes His Disinterestedness to a Friend
19. Elegy 16. He Suggests the Advantage of Birth to a Person of Merit
20. Elegy 20. He Compares His Humble Fortune with the Distress of Others
21. Elegy 13. To a Friend, on Some Slight Occasion Estranged from Him
22. Daphne's Visit
23. Hint from Voiture
24. Flirt and Phil
25. Epilogue - To the Tragedy of Cleone
26. The Price of an Equipage
27. A Pastoral Ode. To the Hon. Sir Richard Lyttleton
28. Comparison
29. Ode to Memory
30. On Miss M--'s's Dancing
31. Elegy 12. His Recantation
32. Elegy 8. He Describes His Early Love of Poetry, and Its Consequences
33. Elegy 2. On Posthumous Reputation - To a Friend
34. The Landskip
35. Song (On every tree, in every plain)
36. Economy, A Rhapsody, Addressed to Young Poets
37. An Irregular Ode, After Sickness
38. The Attribute of Venus
39. The Speeches of Sloth and Virtue
40. Valentine's Day
41. Colemira: A Culinary Eclogue
42. Elegy 3. On the Untimely Death of a Certain Learned Acquainance
43. Extent of Cookery
44. Impromptu to Miss Utrecia Smith
45. Charms of Precedence
46. Song (I told my nymph, I told her true)
47. The Invidious
48. The Schoolmistress
49. Elegy 25. To Delia, with Some Flowers
50. The Judgement of Hercules
51. The School-Mistress

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