William Shenstone (1714-1763)
English poet

Poems by William Shenstone

• A Pastoral Ballad
• A Pastoral Ode. To the Hon. Sir Richard Lyttleton
• A Simile
• An Irregular Ode, After Sickness
• Anacreontic
• Charms of Precedence
• Colemira: A Culinary Eclogue
• Comparison
• Cupid and Plutus
• Daphne's Visit
• Economy, A Rhapsody, Addressed to Young Poets
• Elegy 1. He Arrives at His Retirement in the Country
• Elegy 2. On Posthumous Reputation - To a Friend
• Elegy 3. On the Untimely Death of a Certain Learned Acquainance
• Elegy 4. Ophilia's Urn. To Mr. Graves
• Elegy 5. He Compares the Turbulence of Love with the Tranquillity of Friendship
• Elegy 8. He Describes His Early Love of Poetry, and Its Consequences
• Elegy 9. He Describes His Disinterestedness to a Friend
• Elegy 10. To Fortune, Suggesting His Motive for Repining at Her Dispensations
• Elegy 11. He Complains How Soon the Pleasing Novelty of Life Is Over
• Elegy 12. His Recantation
• Elegy 13. To a Friend, on Some Slight Occasion Estranged from Him
• Elegy 15. In Memory of a Private Family in Worcestershire
• Elegy 16. He Suggests the Advantage of Birth to a Person of Merit
• Elegy 20. He Compares His Humble Fortune with the Distress of Others
• Elegy 25. To Delia, with Some Flowers
• Epilogue - To the Tragedy of Cleone
• Extent of Cookery
• Flirt and Phil
• Hint from Voiture
• Impromptu to Miss Utrecia Smith
• Jemmy Dawson
• Nancy of the Vale
• Ode to Memory
• On Miss M--'s's Dancing
• Song (I told my nymph, I told her true)
• Song (On every tree, in every plain)
• The Attribute of Venus
• The Invidious
• The Judgement of Hercules
• The Landskip
• The Price of an Equipage
• The Rose-Bud
• The School-Mistress
• The Schoolmistress
• The Skylark
• The Speeches of Sloth and Virtue
• To a Friend
• To the Virtuosi
• Valentine's Day
• Written at an Inn at Henley

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