So rude and tuneless are thy lays,
The weary audience vow
'Tis not th' Arcadian swain that sings,
But 'tis his herds that low.

(C) William Shenstone
03/31/2017


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