Love! inform thy faithful creature
How to keep his fair one's heart;
Must it be by truth of nature,
Or by poor dissembling art?
Tell the secret, show the wonder,
How we both may gain our ends;
I am lost if we're asunder,
Ever tortured if we're friends.

(C) Matthew Prior
03/10/2017


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