List of poems by William Shenstone 106 total
Sort:PopularA - ZChronologically
| A Simile | 137 Views added by anonymous 12 years ago | Rate it |
| The Ruined Abbey, or, The Affects of Superstition | 131 Views added by anonymous 12 years ago | Rate it |
| Song XIII. - Winter | 130 Views added by anonymous 12 years ago | Rate it |
| Elegy XV. In Memory of a Private Family in Worcestershire | 128 Views added by anonymous 12 years ago | Rate it |
| Elegy XXII. Written in the Year ----, When the Rights of Sepulture Were So Frequently Violated | 127 Views added by anonymous 12 years ago | Rate it |
| Elegy XXVI. Describing the Sorrow of An Ingeneous Mind | 127 Views added by anonymous 12 years ago | Rate it |
| Jemmy Dawson | 127 Views added by anonymous 12 years ago | Rate it |
| Song IX. - The fatal hours are wondrous near | 123 Views added by anonymous 12 years ago | Rate it |
| The Rape of the Trap. A Ballad | 123 Views added by anonymous 12 years ago | Rate it |
| Elegy XIX. - Written in Spring, 1743 | 122 Views added by anonymous 12 years ago | Rate it |
| A Parody | 120 Views added by anonymous 12 years ago | Rate it |
| Comparison | 120 Views added by anonymous 12 years ago | Rate it |
| Elegy V. He Compares the Turbulence of Love With the Tranquillity of Friendship | 119 Views added by anonymous 12 years ago | Rate it |
| Written in a Collection of Bacchanalian Songs | 118 Views added by anonymous 12 years ago | Rate it |
| Written in a Flower Book, of my own Colouring, designed for Lady Plymouth | 113 Views added by anonymous 12 years ago | Rate it |
| To the Virtuosi | 111 Views added by anonymous 12 years ago | Rate it |
| Elegy IX. He Describes His Disinterestedness to a Friend | 108 Views added by anonymous 12 years ago | Rate it |
| Song XVIII. - Imitated from the French | 108 Views added by anonymous 12 years ago | Rate it |
| Elegy XX. He Compares His Humble Fortune With the Distress of Others | 107 Views added by anonymous 12 years ago | Rate it |
| Love and Honor | 105 Views added by anonymous 12 years ago | Rate it |
| On Mr. C -- Of Kidderminster's Poetry | 104 Views added by anonymous 12 years ago | Rate it |
| Song XIX. - When bright Ophelia treads the green | 104 Views added by anonymous 12 years ago | Rate it |
| Elegy X. To Fortune, Suggesting His Motive for Repining at Her Dispensations | 103 Views added by anonymous 12 years ago | Rate it |
| Ode to Health, 1730 | 103 Views added by anonymous 12 years ago | Rate it |
| Song II. The Landscape | 102 Views added by anonymous 12 years ago | Rate it |
| To a Friend | 102 Views added by anonymous 12 years ago | Rate it |
| To a Lady, with Some Coloured Patterns of Flowers | 100 Views added by anonymous 12 years ago | Rate it |
| Elegy VI. To a Lady, On the Language of Birds | 99 Views added by anonymous 12 years ago | Rate it |
| Elegy I. He Arrives at His Retirement in the Country | 97 Views added by anonymous 12 years ago | Rate it |
| Elegy III. On the Untimely Death of a Certain Learned Acquainance | 96 Views added by anonymous 12 years ago | Rate it |
| Rural Elegance, An Ode to the Late Duchess of Somerset | 96 Views added by anonymous 12 years ago | Rate it |
| Love and Music. Written at Oxford, When Young | 95 Views added by anonymous 12 years ago | Rate it |
| The Princess Elizabeth, when a prisoner at Woodstock, 1554 | 95 Views added by anonymous 12 years ago | Rate it |
| Flirt and Phil | 93 Views added by anonymous 12 years ago | Rate it |
| The Price of An Equipage | 92 Views added by anonymous 12 years ago | Rate it |
| To a Lady of Quality, Fitting Up Her Library | 91 Views added by anonymous 12 years ago | Rate it |
| Inscription for a Medicinal Fountain at the Leasowes | 89 Views added by anonymous 12 years ago | Rate it |
| Elegy XI. He Complains How Soon the Pleasing Novelty of Life Is Over | 88 Views added by anonymous 12 years ago | Rate it |
| Verses, To William Lyttleton, Esq. | 87 Views added by anonymous 12 years ago | Rate it |
| Elegy XII. His Recantation | 86 Views added by anonymous 12 years ago | Rate it |
| Song X. - The lovely Delia smiles again! | 86 Views added by anonymous 12 years ago | Rate it |
| Elegy XVI. He Suggests the Advantage of Birth To a Person of Merit | 85 Views added by anonymous 12 years ago | Rate it |
| On Certain Pastorals | 85 Views added by anonymous 12 years ago | Rate it |
| On Miss M--'s's Dancing | 82 Views added by anonymous 12 years ago | Rate it |
| The Extent of Cookery | 82 Views added by anonymous 12 years ago | Rate it |
| The Halcyon | 81 Views added by anonymous 12 years ago | Rate it |
| The Invidious | 79 Views added by anonymous 12 years ago | Rate it |
| An Irregular Ode, After Sickness | 76 Views added by anonymous 12 years ago | Rate it |
| Elegy XVIII. He Repeats the Song of Colin, a Discerning Shepherd | 75 Views added by anonymous 12 years ago | Rate it |
| Ode, written 1739 | 75 Views added by anonymous 12 years ago | Rate it |
| Song III. - Ye gentle Nymphs and generous Dames | 74 Views added by anonymous 12 years ago | Rate it |
| Song | 73 Views added by anonymous 12 years ago | Rate it |
| The Speeches of Sloth and Virtue | 73 Views added by anonymous 12 years ago | Rate it |
| Elegy XIV. Declining an Invitation To Visit Foreign Countries | 72 Views added by anonymous 12 years ago | Rate it |
| Elegy XXIV. He Takes Occasion, From the Fate of Eleanor of Bretagne | 72 Views added by anonymous 12 years ago | Rate it |
| Charms of Precedence - A Tale | 69 Views added by anonymous 12 years ago | Rate it |
| Economy, A Rhapsody, Addressed to Young Poets | 69 Views added by anonymous 12 years ago | Rate it |
| The Judgement of Hercules | 69 Views added by anonymous 12 years ago | Rate it |
| The Progress of Taste, or the Fate of Delicacy | 69 Views added by anonymous 12 years ago | Rate it |
| Song V. - On every tree, in every plain | 65 Views added by anonymous 12 years ago | Rate it |
| Song XI. - Perhaps it is not love | 64 Views added by anonymous 12 years ago | Rate it |
| Ode - So dear my Lucio is to me | 63 Views added by anonymous 12 years ago | Rate it |
| A Pastoral Ballad | 62 Views added by anonymous 12 years ago | Rate it |
| Elegy IV. Ophilia's Urn. To Mr. Graves | 62 Views added by anonymous 12 years ago | Rate it |
| A Pastoral Ballad II: Hope | 60 Views added by anonymous 12 years ago | Rate it |
| Ode to Indolence | 60 Views added by anonymous 12 years ago | Rate it |
| Epilogue - To the Tragedy of Cleone | 59 Views added by anonymous 12 years ago | Rate it |
| Upon a Visit to a Lady of Quality | 59 Views added by anonymous 12 years ago | Rate it |
| Anacreontic | 58 Views added by anonymous 12 years ago | Rate it |
| Elegy II. On Posthumous Reputation - To a Friend | 58 Views added by anonymous 12 years ago | Rate it |
| Elegy XVII. He Indulges the Suggestions of Spleen.-- An Elegy to the Winds | 57 Views added by anonymous 12 years ago | Rate it |
| The Rose-Bud | 57 Views added by anonymous 12 years ago | Rate it |
| Daphne's Visit | 55 Views added by anonymous 12 years ago | Rate it |
| Ode to Memory | 55 Views added by anonymous 12 years ago | Rate it |
| The Attribute of Venus | 55 Views added by anonymous 12 years ago | Rate it |
| Colemira. A Culinary Eclogue | 54 Views added by anonymous 12 years ago | Rate it |
| Written at an Inn at Henley | 54 Views added by anonymous 12 years ago | Rate it |
| Elegy VII. He Describes His Vision to An Acquaintance | 53 Views added by anonymous 12 years ago | Rate it |
| Elegy XXI. Taking a View of the Country From His Retirement | 52 Views added by anonymous 12 years ago | Rate it |
| Elegy XIII. To a Friend, On Some Slight Occasion Estranged From Him | 51 Views added by anonymous 12 years ago | Rate it |
| Elegy XXV. To Delia, With Some Flowers | 51 Views added by anonymous 12 years ago | Rate it |
| Nancy of the Vale | 51 Views added by anonymous 12 years ago | Rate it |
| Slender's Ghost | 51 Views added by anonymous 12 years ago | Rate it |
| Ode to Cynthia, on the Approach of Spring | 49 Views added by anonymous 12 years ago | Rate it |
| The Poet and the Dun | 49 Views added by anonymous 12 years ago | Rate it |
| A Pastoral Ballad III: Solicitude | 48 Views added by anonymous 12 years ago | Rate it |
| Elegy VIII. He Describes His Early Love of Poetry, and Its Consequences | 46 Views added by anonymous 12 years ago | Rate it |
| The Beau to the Virtuosos | 45 Views added by anonymous 12 years ago | Rate it |
| The School-mistress. In Imitation of Spenser (excerpt) | 45 Views added by anonymous 12 years ago | Rate it |
| Stanzas - To the Memory of an agreeable Lady, buried in marriage to a Person undeserving her | 41 Views added by anonymous 12 years ago | Rate it |
| Song VII. - When bright Roxana treads the green | 40 Views added by anonymous 12 years ago | Rate it |
| A Pastoral Ode. To the Hon. Sir Richard Lyttleton | 39 Views added by anonymous 12 years ago | Rate it |
| Colemira : A Culinary Eclogue | 39 Views added by anonymous 12 years ago | Rate it |
| Impromptu to Miss Utrecia Smith | 39 Views added by anonymous 12 years ago | Rate it |
| The Landskip | 39 Views added by anonymous 12 years ago | Rate it |
| Extent of Cookery | 37 Views added by anonymous 12 years ago | Rate it |
| Valentine's Day | 37 Views added by anonymous 12 years ago | Rate it |
| A Pastoral Ballad IV: Disappointment | 36 Views added by anonymous 12 years ago | Rate it |
| Elegy XXIII. Reflections Suggested By His Situation | 36 Views added by anonymous 12 years ago | Rate it |
| The Skylark | 34 Views added by anonymous 12 years ago | Rate it |
| A Pastoral Ballad I: Absence | 33 Views added by anonymous 12 years ago | Rate it |
| Song XII. - O'er desert plains, and rushy meres | 31 Views added by anonymous 12 years ago | Rate it |
| Ode to a Young Lady | 30 Views added by anonymous 12 years ago | Rate it |
| The Dying Kid | 27 Views added by anonymous 12 years ago | Rate it |
| Hint From Voiture | 26 Views added by anonymous 12 years ago | Rate it |
| Cupid and Plutus | 25 Views added by anonymous 12 years ago | Rate it |
Citation
Use the citation below to add this poet to your bibliography:
Style:MLAChicagoAPA
"William Shenstone" Poetry.com. STANDS4 LLC, 2023. Web. 6 Jun 2023. <https://www.poetry.com/poet/William+Shenstone>.
Powered by CITE.ME
Share your thoughts on William Shenstone's poems with the community:
Report Comment
We're doing our best to make sure our content is useful, accurate and safe.
If by any chance you spot an inappropriate comment while navigating through our website please use this form to let us know, and we'll take care of it shortly.
Attachment
You need to be logged in to favorite.
Log In