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

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