Falsafa

Comma for either/or — dharma, courage. Spelling forgiving — corage finds courage.

    18th Century · English

    Poems

    Matthew Prior

    Chapters
    117
    Variants
    117
    Genre
    Poetry

    Chapters

    1. 01A PINDARIQUE ON His Majesties Birth-Day. By Mr. PRIOR Sung before Their Majesties at WHITEHALL, The Fourth of November 1690. A Prophecy by APOLLO.verse
    2. 02AN ODE, &c.verse
    3. 03FOR THE NEW YEAR: TO THE SUN. Intended To be Sung before Their Majesties on New-Years Day. 1693/4.verse
    4. 04TO THE KING, AN ODE, &c.verse
    5. 05VERSES Humbly presented to the KING At His Arrival in HOLLAND: After the DISCOVERY Of the late horrid CONSPIRACY Against His most Sacred Person.verse
    6. 06On Exodus iii. 14. I am that I am. An ODE. Written in 1688, as an Exercise at St. John's College, Cambridge.verse
    7. 07TO THE COUNTESS of EXETER, Playing on the Lute.verse
    8. 08Picture of Seneca dying in a Bath. By Jordain. At the Right Honorable the Earl of Exeter's at Burleigh-House.verse
    9. 09An ODE.verse
    10. 10AN EPISTLE TO FLEETWOOD SHEPHARD, Esqverse
    11. 11TO THE COUNTESS of DORSET. Written in her Milton.verse
    12. 12TO THE LADY DURSLEY On the same Subject.verse
    13. 13TO My LORD BUCKHURST, Very Young, Playing with a CAT.verse
    14. 14An ODE.verse
    15. 15A SONG.verse
    16. 16THE DESPAIRING SHEPHERD.verse
    17. 17To the Honorable CHARLES MONTAGUE, Esqverse
    18. 18HYMN to the SUN. Set by Dr. PURCEL, And Sung before their Majesties On New-Years-Day, 1694.verse
    19. 19THE LADY's LOOKING-GLASS.verse
    20. 20TO THE AUTHOR OF THE Foregoing PASTORAL.verse
    21. 21To a LADY: She refusing to continue a Dispute with me, and leaving me in the Argument. An ODE.verse
    22. 22SEEING THE DUKE of ORMOND's PICTURE, AT Sir GODFREY KNELLER's.verse
    23. 23CELIA TO DAMON.verse
    24. 24An ODE. Presented to the KING, on his Majesty's Arrival in Holland, AFTER The QUEEN's Death. 1695.verse
    25. 25IN IMITATION OF ANACREON.verse
    26. 26An ODE.verse
    27. 27An English BALLAD, On the Taking of NAMUR By the King of Great Britain, 1695.verse
    28. 28Presented to the KING, AT HIS ARRIVAL in HOLLAND, AFTER THE Discovery of the Conspiracy 1696.verse
    29. 29To CLOE Weeping.verse
    30. 30TO Mr. HOWARD: An ODE.verse
    31. 31LOVE Disarm'd.verse
    32. 32CLOE HUNTING.verse
    33. 33CUPID and GANYMEDE.verse
    34. 34CUPID Mistaken.verse
    35. 35VENUS Mistaken.verse
    36. 36A SONG.verse
    37. 37The DOVE.verse
    38. 38A LOVER's ANGER.verse
    39. 39MERCURY and CUPID.verse
    40. 40On BEAUTY. A RIDDLE.verse
    41. 41The Question, to Lisetta.verse
    42. 42Lisetta's Reply.verse
    43. 43The Garland.verse
    44. 44The Lady who offers her Looking-Glass to Venus.verse
    45. 45CLOE JEALOUS.verse
    46. 46Answer to CLOE Jealous, in the same Stile. The AUTHOR sick.verse
    47. 47A Better Answer.verse
    48. 48PALLAS and VENUS. AN EPIGRAM.verse
    49. 49TO A Young Gentleman in Love. A TALE.verse
    50. 50AN ENGLISH PADLOCK.verse
    51. 51HANS CARVEL.verse
    52. 52A Dutch Proverb.verse
    53. 53PAULO PURGANTI AND His WIFE: An Honest, but a Simple Pair.verse
    54. 54THE LADLE.verse
    55. 55Written at Paris, 1700. In the Beginning of ROBE's GEOGRAPHY.verse
    56. 56Written in the Beginning of MEZERAY's History of FRANCE.verse
    57. 57Written in the Nouveaux Interests des Princes de l'Europe.verse
    58. 58ADRIANI MORIENTIS ad Animam Suam. IMITATED.verse
    59. 59A Passage in the MORIÆ ENCOMIUM of Erasmus Imitated.verse
    60. 60TO Dr. SHERLOCK, ON HIS PRACTICAL DISCOURSE Concerning Death.verse
    61. 61CARMEN SECULARE, For the Year 1700. TO THE KING.verse
    62. 62An ODE. Inscribed to the Memory of the Honble Col. George Villiers, Drowned in the River Piava, in the Country of Friuli. 1703. In Imitation of Horace, Ode 28. Lib. 1.verse
    63. 63PROLOGUE, SPOKEN AT COURT before the QUEEN, On Her Majesty's Birth-Day, 1704.verse
    64. 64A LETTER TO Monsieur Boileau Despreaux; Occasion'd by the VICTORY at BLENHEIM, 1704.verse
    65. 65FOR The Plan of a Fountain, On which is The Effigies of the Queen on a Triumphal Arch, The Figure of the Duke of Marlborough, beneath, and The Chief Rivers of the World round the whole Work.verse
    66. 66THE CHAMELEON.verse
    67. 67MERRY ANDREW.verse
    68. 68A SIMILE.verse
    69. 69The FLIES.verse
    70. 70From the Greek.verse
    71. 71EPIGRAM.verse
    72. 72ANOTHER [EPIGRAM].verse
    73. 73ANOTHER [EPIGRAM].verse
    74. 74ANOTHER [EPIGRAM].verse
    75. 75To a Person who wrote Ill, and spake Worse against Me.verse
    76. 76On the Same Person.verse
    77. 77Quid sit futurum Cras fuge quærere.verse
    78. 78HENRY and EMMA, A POEM, Upon the Model of The Nut-brown Maid. To CLOE.verse
    79. 79AN ODE, Humbly Inscrib'd to the QUEEN. ON THE Glorious Success OF Her MAJESTY's Arms, 1706. Written in Imitation of Spencer's Style.verse
    80. 80CANTATA.verse
    81. 81Her Right Name.verse
    82. 82Written in an OVID.verse
    83. 83A TRUE MAID.verse
    84. 84ANOTHER [TRUE MAID].verse
    85. 85A Reasonable Affliction.verse
    86. 86Another Reasonable Affliction.verse
    87. 87ANOTHER [Reasonable Affliction].verse
    88. 88On the same Subject.verse
    89. 89On the Same.verse
    90. 90PHYLLIS's AGE.verse
    91. 91Forma Bonum Fragile.verse
    92. 92A Critical Moment.verse
    93. 93An EPIGRAM. Written to the Duke de Noailles.verse
    94. 94EPILOGUE TO PHÆDRA.verse
    95. 95EPILOGUE TO LUCIUS.verse
    96. 96The THIEF AND THE CORDELIER, A BALLAD.verse
    97. 97An EPITAPH.verse
    98. 98Horace Lib. I. Epist. IX. Septimius, Claudi, nimirum intelligit unus, Quanti me facias: &c. Imitated. To the Right Honorable Mr. HARLEY.verse
    99. 99To Mr. HARLEY. Wounded by Guiscard. 1711.verse
    100. 100An Extempore Invitation TO THE EARL of OXFORD, Lord High Treasurer. 1712.verse
    101. 101Erle ROBERT's MICE. In Chaucer's Stile.verse
    102. 102In the same [Chaucer's] Style.verse
    103. 103In the same [Chaucer's] Style.verse
    104. 104A FLOWER, Painted by SIMON VARELST.verse
    105. 105TO THE Lady Elizabeth Harley, Since Marchioness of Carmarthen, On a Column of Her Drawing.verse
    106. 106Protogenes and Apelles.verse
    107. 107Democritus and Heraclitus.verse
    108. 108For my own Tomb-stone.verse
    109. 109GUALTERUS DANISTONUS. Ad Amicos. IMITATED.verse
    110. 110THE FIRST HYMN OF CALLIMACHUS. TO JUPITER.verse
    111. 111THE SECOND HYMN OF CALLIMACHUS. TO APOLLO.verse
    112. 112CHARITY. A PARAPHRASE On the Thirteenth Chapter of the First Epistle TO THE CORINTHIANS.verse
    113. 113Engraven on a COLUMN In the Church of Halstead in Essex, The spire of which, burnt down by Lightning, was rebuilt at the Expense of Mr. Samuel Fiske, 1717.verse
    114. 114Written in Montaigne's Essays, Given to the Duke of Shrewsbury in France, after the Peace, 1713.verse
    115. 115An EPISTLE, Desiring the Queen's Picture. Written at Paris, 1714. But left unfinish'd by the sudden News of Her Majesty's Death.verse
    116. 116ALMA: OR, THE PROGRESS OF THE MIND. In Three Cantos.verse
    117. 117SOLOMON ON THE VANITY OF THE WORLD. A POEM In THREE BOOKS.verse