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

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