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

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