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

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