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

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