Whilst round in wild rotations hurl'd,
These glittering forms I view,
Methinks the busy restless world
Is pictured in a few.

So may the busy world advance,
Since thus the Fates decree
It still may have its busy dance,
Whilst I retire with thee.

(C) William Shenstone
03/10/2017


Best Poems of William Shenstone

• Elegy Ii. On Posthumous Reputation - To A Friend
• The Rose-bud
• To A Lady, With Some Coloured Patterns Of Flowers
• Elegy Xix. - Written In Spring, 1743
• On Certain Pastorals
• Elegy Xxv. To Delia, With Some Flowers
• The Invidious
• Ode To Health, 1730
• Love And Honor
• A Parody
• Impromptu To Miss Utrecia Smith
• The Progress Of Taste, Or The Fate Of Delicacy
• The Judgement Of Hercules
• The Ruined Abbey, Or, The Affects Of Superstition
• Written In A Collection Of Bacchanalian Songs
• Charms Of Precedence - A Tale
• Song Xi. - Perhaps It Is Not Love
• Jemmy Dawson