William Shenstone (1714-1763)

The Rating of William Shenstone's Poems

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

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