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Matthew Prior
July 21, 1664 – September 18, 1721
Poetry Listing
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| Poem Title | First Lines | Period | # Lines | # Reads | | A Better Answer | Dear Cloe, how blubber'd is that pretty Face? | | | 971 | | A Dutch Proverb | Fire, Water, Woman, are Man's Ruin; | | | 893 | | A Flower. Painted By Simon Varelst | When famed Varelst this little wonder drew, | | | 467 | | A Letter To Lady Margaret Cavendish Holles-Harley, When A Child | My noble, lovely, little Peggy, | | | 481 | | A Letter To Monsieur Boileau Despreaux, Occasioned By The Victory At Blenheim | Since hired for life, thy servile Muse must sing | 1704 | | 750 | | A Lover's Anger | As Cloe came into the Room t'other Day, | | | 470 | | A Passage In The Moriae Encomium Of Erasmus. Imitated | In awful pomp and melancholy state, | | | 475 | | A Reasonable Affliction | On his death-bed poor Lubin lies: | | | 453 | | A Sailor's Wife | Quoth Richard in jest looking wistly at Nelly, | | | 683 | | A Simile | Dear Thomas, didst thou never pop | | | 550 | | A Song. If Wine And Music Have The Power | If wine and music have the power | | | 487 | | A Song. In Vain You Tell Your Parting Lover | In vain you tell your parting lover | | | 782 | | A True Maid | No, no; for my virginity, | | | 472 | | Alma; or, The Progress of the Mind. In Three Cantos. - Canto I. | Matthew met Richard, when or where | | | 507 | | Alma; or, The Progress of the Mind. In Three Cantos. - Canto II. | But shall we take the Muse abroad, | 1718 | | 472 | | Alma; or, The Progress of the Mind. In Three Cantos. - Canto III. | Richard, who now was half asleep, | 1718 | | 478 | | An English Ballad, On The Taking Of Namur, By The King Of Great Britain | Some Folks are drunk, yet do not know it: | 1695 | | 538 | | An Epistle To Fleetwood Shephard, Esq. | When crowding folks, with strange ill faces, | | | 551 | | An Epistle To Fleetwood Shephard, Esq. Burleigh, May 14, 1689 | As once a twelvemonth to the priest, | 1689 | | 789 | | An Epistle. Desiring The Queen's Picture, But Left Unfinished, By The Sudden News Of Her Majesty's Death | The train of equipage and pomp of state, | 1714 | | 663 | | An Epitaph | Interr'd beneath this marble stone, | | | 684 | | An Extempore Invitation To The Earl Of Oxford, Lord High Treasurer | My Lord, Our weekly friends to-morrow meet | 1712 | | 752 | | An Ode | The merchant, to secure his treasure, | | | 514 | | An Ode - Humbly Inscribed To The Queen, On the Glorious Success of Her Majesty's Arms | When great Augustus govern'd ancient Rome, | 1706 | | 538 | | An Ode - In Imitation of Horace, Book III. Ode II. | How long, deluded Albion, wilt thou lie | 1692 | | 471 | | An Ode - Inscribed To The Memory Of The Hon. Colonel George Villiers | Say, dearest Villiers, poor departed friend, | 1703 | | 492 | | An Ode - Presented To The King, On His Majesty's Arrival In Holland, After The Queen's Death | At Mary's tomb (sad sacred place!) | 1695 | | 570 | | An Ode : On Exodus III. 14 | Man! foolish man! | | | 677 | | An Ode : While Blooming Youth And Gay Delight | While blooming youth and gay delight | | | 526 | | An Ode : While From Our Looks, Fair Nymph, You Guess | While from our looks, fair nymph, you guess | | | 481 | | An Ode To A Lady. She Refusing To Continue A Dispute With Me, And Leaving Me In The Argument | Spare, generous victor, spare the slave, | | | 681 | | An Ode To Mr. Howard | Dear Howard, from the soft assaults of love | | | 681 | | An Ode. The Merchant, To Secure | The merchant, to secure his treasure, | | | 445 | | Answer To Cloe Jealous. The Author Sick | Yes, fairest Proof of Beauty's Pow'r, | | | 516 | | Bibo And Charon | When Bibo thought fit from the world to retreat, | | | 455 | | By Mons. Fontenelle | Poor, little, pretty, fluttering thing, | | | 698 | | Cantata. Set By Mons. Galliard | Beneath a verdant laurel's ample shade | | | 454 | | Carmen Seculare. For the Year 1700. To The King | Thy elder Look, Great Janus, cast | 1700 | | 483 | | Celia To Damon | What can I say? What Arguments can prove | | | 476 | | Chanson. - And Imitation | Why thus from the plain does my sheperdess rove, | | | 540 | | Charity : A Paraphrase On 1 Cor. Chap. 13 | Did sweeter Sounds adorn my flowing Tongue, | | | 473 | | Chaste Florimel | No, I'll endure ten thousand deaths | | | 561 | | Cloe Jealous | Forbear to ask Me, why I weep; | | | 475 | | Colin's Mistakes. Written In Imitation Of Spenser's Style | Fast by the banks of Cam was Colin bred, | | | 457 | | Considerations - On Part Of The 88th Psalm. A College Exercise | Heavy, O Lord, on my thy judgements lie; | 1690 | | 456 | | Cupid And Ganymede | In Heav'n, one Holy-day, You read | | | 434 | | Cupid In Ambush | It oft to many has successful been | | | 516 | | Cupid Mistaken | As after noon, one summer's day, | | | 541 | | Cupid Turned Ploughman. - From Moschus | His lamp, his bow, and quiver laid aside, | | | 483 | | Cupid Turned Stroller. - From Anacreon | At dead of night, when stars appear, | | | 503 |
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About:
Matthew Prior (July 21, 1664 – September 18, 1721) was an English poet and diplomat.
Prior was the son of a Nonconformist joiner at Wimborne Minster, East Dorset. His father moved to London, and sent him to Westminster School, under Dr. Busby. On his father's death, he left school, and was cared for by his uncle, a vintner in Channel Row.
Here Lord Dorset found him reading Horace, and set him to translate an ode. He did so well that the earl offered to contribute to the continuation of his education at Westminster. One of his schoolfellows and friends was Charles Montagu, 1st Earl of Halifax.
It was to avoid being separated from Montagu and his brother James that Prior accepted, against his patron's wish, a scholarship recently founded at St John's College, Cambridge. He took his B.A. degree in 1686, and two years later became a fellow.
In collaboration with Montagu he wrote in 1687 the City Mouse and Country Mouse, in ridicule of John Dryden's The Hind and the Panther.
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