Lysander talks extremely well;
On any subject let him dwell
His tropes and figures will content ye
He should possess to all degrees
The art of talk; he practises
Full fourteen hours in four-and-twenty.

(C) Matthew Prior
04/02/2015


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