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WILLIAM SHENSTONE

Poet Analysis

Poems found: 124

WRITTEN AT AN INN AT HENLEY

A SOLEMN MEDITATION

ELEGY: 11. HE COMPLAINS HOW SOON THE NOVELTY OF LIVE IS OVER

HINT FROM VOITURE

INSCRIPTION: ON A TABLET AGAINST A ROOT-HOUSE

INSCRIPTION: ON THE BACK OF A GOTHIC SEAT

JEMMY DAWSON

SLENDER'S GHOST

SONG: 1

SONG: 11

SONG: 12

SONG: 2. THE LANDSCAPE

SONG: 4. THE SKYLARK

THE SCHOOLMISTRESS; IN IMITATION OF SPENSER

BALLAD

PARODY

PASTORAL BALLAD

PASTORAL ODE

SIMILE

IRREGULAR ODE, AFTER SICKNESS

ANACREONTIC, 1738

COLEMIRA; A CULINARY ECLOGUE

COMPARISON

CUPID AND PLUTUS

ECONOMY

ELEGY: 1. HE ARRIVES AT HIS RETIREMENT IN THE COUNTRY

ELEGY: 10. TO FORTUNE

ELEGY: 12. HIS RECANTATION

ELEGY: 13. TO A FRIEND

ELEGY: 14. TO A FRIEND

ELEGY: 15. DECLINING AN INVITATION

ELEGY: 16. HE SUGGESTS THE ADVANTAGE OF BIRTH

ELEGY: 17. HE INDULGES THE SUGGESTION OF SPLEEN

ELEGY: 18. HE REPEATS THE SONG OF COLIN

ELEGY: 19. WRITTEN IN SPRING, 1743

ELEGY: 2. ON POSTHUMOUS REPUTATION

ELEGY: 20: HE COMPARES HIS HUMBLE FORTUNE

ELEGY: 21. TAKING A VIEW OF THE COUNTRY

ELEGY: 22

ELEGY: 23. REFLECTIONS SUGGESTED BY HIS SITUATION

ELEGY: 24. HE TAKES OCCASION, FROM THE FATE

ELEGY: 25. TO DELIA

ELEGY: 26. BLOOM THE JASMINES

ELEGY: 26. DESCRIBING THE SORROW

ELEGY: 3. ON THE UNTIMELY DEATH

ELEGY: 4. OPHELIA'S URN

ELEGY: 5. HE COMPARES THE TURBULENCE OF LOVE

ELEGY: 6. TO A LADY, ON THE LANGUAGE OF BIRDS

ELEGY: 7. HE DESCRIBES HIS VISION TO AN ACQUAINTENCE

ELEGY: 8. HE DESCRIBES HIS EARLY LOVE OF POETRY

ELEGY: 9. HE DESCRIBES HIS DISINTEREDNESS TO A FRIEND

EPILOGUE TO THE TRAGEDY OF CLEONE

EPITAPH IN HALES-OWEN CHURCHYARD, ON MISS ANNE POWELL

FLIRT AND PHIL

IMPROMPTU TO MISS UTRECIA SMITH

INSCRIPTION

INTENDED TO BE WRITTEN AT THE BEGINNING OF A COLLECTION

LINES WRITTEN ON A WINDOW AT THE LEASOWES AT A TIME OF VERY DEEP SNOW

LOVE AND HONOUR

LOVE AND MUSIC

NANCY OF THE VALE

ODE

ODE

ODE TO A YOUNG LADY

ODE TO CYNTHIA

ODE TO HEALTH, 1730

ODE TO INDOLENCE, 1750

ODE TO MEMORY

ODE. TO BE PERFORMED BY DR. BRETTLE

ON A SEAT

ON A SEAT, UNDER A SPREADING BEECH

ON A SEAT. CELEBERRIMO POETAE

ON A SEAT. ON THE BOTTOM OF A LARGE ROOT

ON A SMALL OBELISK IN VIRGIL'S GROVE

ON A STATUE OF VENUS DE MEDICIS

ON A STONE SEAT, MAKING PART OF A CAVE

ON A STONE, BY A CHALYBEAT SPRING

ON AN ORNAMENTED URN

ON AN URN

ON CERTAIN PASTORALS

ON MISS M - S'S DANCING

ON MR. C

ON THE ASSIGNATION SEAT

ON THE BACK OF A GOTHIC ALCOVE

ON TWO SEATS, TO TWO OF HIS MOST PARTICULAR FRIENDS

PROPOSED TO MR. GRAVES BY MR. SHENSTONE

RURAL ELEGANCE

SONG: 10

SONG: 13. WINTER

SONG: 14. THE SCHOLAR'S RELAPSE

SONG: 15. THE RODE-BUD

SONG: 16. DAPHNE'S VISIT

SONG: 17. WRITTEN IN A COLLECTION OF BACCHANALIAN SONGS

SONG: 18. IMITATED FROM THE FRENCH

SONG: 19

SONG: 3

SONG: 5

SONG: 6. THE ATTRIBUTE OF VENUS

SONG: 7

SONG: 8. VALENTINE'S DAY

SONG: 9

STANZAS TO THE MEMORY OF AN AGREEABLE LADY

SUFFERING AND SYMPATHY

CHARMS OF PRECEDENCE

DYING KID

EXTENT OF COOKERY

HALYCON

INVIDUOUS

JUDGEMENT OF HERCULES

PEPPER-BOX AND SALT-CELLAR

POET AND THE DUN, 1741

PRICE OF AN EQUIPAGE

PRINCESS ELIZABETH

PROGRESS OF ADVICE

PROGRESS OF TASTE

RAPE OF THE TRAP

RUINED ABBEY

TO A LADY OF QUALITY

TO A LADY. WITH SOME COLOURED PATTERNS OF FLOWERS

TO MR. DODSLEY

TO THE VIRTUOSI

UPON A VISITATION TO A LADY OF QUALITY

VERSES WRITTEN TOWARD THE CLOSE OF THE YEAR 1748

WRITTEN IN A FLOWER BOOK OF MY OWN COLOURING



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