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

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