Matthew Prior

Poems (6)

• A Letter

  My noble, lovely, little Peggy, / Let this my First Epistle beg ye, …

• For my own Monument

  As doctors give physic by way of prevention, / Mat, alive and in health, of his tombstone took care; …

• On My Birthday, July 21

  I, MY dear, was born to-day— / So all my jolly comrades say: …

• The Lady who offers her Looking-Glass to Venus

  Venus, take my votive glass: / Since I am not what I was, …

• The Question to Lisetta

  What nymph should I admire or trust, / But Chloe beauteous, Chloe just? …

• To a Child of Quality

  Lords, knights, and squires, the numerous band / That wear the fair Miss Mary's fetters, …