Reading ends in melancholy,
Wine breeds vices and diseases,
Wealth is but care, and love but folly,
Only friendship truly pleases.
My wealth, my books, my flask, my Molly,
Farewell all if friendship ceases.

(C) Matthew Prior
03/07/2017


Best Poems of Matthew Prior

• The Dove
• Songs Set To Music: 1. Set By Mr. Abel
• Nonpareil
• The Judgement Of Venus
• Written In Montaignes Essays. Given To The Duke Of Shrewsbury In France, After The Peace
• Songs Set To Music: 8. Set By Mr. Smith
• To Cloe
• The Ladle. A Tale
• The Flies
• To A Lady
• The Chameleon
• The Parallel
• An Epitaph
• To A Child Of Quality Of Five Years Old
• The Modern Saint
• Fatal Love
• The Old Gentry
• For My Own Monument
• Horace, Lib. I, Epist. Ix, Imitated
• A Letter To Lady Margaret Cavendish Holles-harley, When A Child