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

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