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

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