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Prior, Matthew, 1664-1721. Poems on Several Occasions [English poems only]. London: Printed for JACOB TONSON at Shakespear's-Head over against Katharine-Street in the Strand, and JOHN BARBER upon Lambeth-Hill. MDCCXVIII., 1718, pp. 314-315. [42],506,[6]p.: ill.; 2°. (ESTC T075639) (Page images digitized from a copy in the Bodleian Library [H 6.8 Art.].)

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• ADRIANI MORIENTIS ad Animam Suam. IMITATED. ()
• ALMA: OR, THE PROGRESS OF THE MIND. In Three Cantos. ()
• Another Reasonable Affliction. ()
• ANOTHER [EPIGRAM]. ()
• ANOTHER [EPIGRAM]. ()
• ANOTHER [EPIGRAM]. ()
• ANOTHER [Reasonable Affliction]. ()
• ANOTHER [TRUE MAID]. ()
• Answer to CLOE Jealous, in the same Stile. The AUTHOR sick. ()
• A Better Answer. ()
• CANTATA. ()
• CARMEN SECULARE, For the Year 1700. TO THE KING. ()
• CELIA TO DAMON. ()
• THE CHAMELEON. ()
• CHARITY. A PARAPHRASE On the Thirteenth Chapter of the First Epistle TO THE CORINTHIANS. ()
• CLOE HUNTING. ()
• CLOE JEALOUS. ()
• A Critical Moment. ()
• CUPID and GANYMEDE. ()
• CUPID Mistaken. ()
• Democritus and Heraclitus. ()
• THE DESPAIRING SHEPHERD. ()
• The DOVE. ()
• A Dutch Proverb. ()
• An English BALLAD, On the Taking of NAMUR By the King of Great Britain, 1695. ()
• AN ENGLISH PADLOCK. ()
• Engraven on a COLUMN In the Church of Halstead in Essex, The spire of which, burnt down by Lightning, was rebuilt at the Expense of Mr. Samuel Fiske, 1717. ()
• EPIGRAM. ()
• An EPIGRAM. Written to the Duke de Noailles. ()
• EPILOGUE TO LUCIUS. ()
• EPILOGUE TO PHÆDRA. ()
• AN EPISTLE TO FLEETWOOD SHEPHARD, Esq ()
• An EPITAPH. ()
• Erle ROBERT's MICE. In Chaucer's Stile. ()
• An Extempore Invitation TO THE EARL of OXFORD, Lord High Treasurer. 1712. ()
• THE FIRST HYMN OF CALLIMACHUS. TO JUPITER. ()
• The FLIES. ()
• A FLOWER, Painted by SIMON VARELST. ()
• For my own Tomb-stone. ()
• FOR THE NEW YEAR: TO THE SUN. Intended To be Sung before Their Majesties on New-Years Day. 1693/4. (); HYMN to the SUN. Set by Dr. PURCEL, And Sung before their Majesties On New-Years-Day, 1694. ()
• FOR The Plan of a Fountain, On which is The Effigies of the Queen on a Triumphal Arch, The Figure of the Duke of Marlborough, beneath, and The Chief Rivers of the World round the whole Work. ()
• Forma Bonum Fragile. ()
• From the Greek. ()
• The Garland. ()
• GUALTERUS DANISTONUS. Ad Amicos. IMITATED. ()
• HANS CARVEL. ()
• HENRY and EMMA, A POEM, Upon the Model of The Nut-brown Maid. To CLOE. ()
• Her Right Name. ()
• Horace Lib. I. Epist. IX. Septimius, Claudi, nimirum intelligit unus, Quanti me facias: &c. Imitated. To the Right Honorable Mr. HARLEY. ()
• IN IMITATION OF ANACREON. ()
• In the same [Chaucer's] Style. ()
• In the same [Chaucer's] Style. ()
• THE LADLE. ()
• The Lady who offers her Looking-Glass to Venus. ()
• THE LADY's LOOKING-GLASS. ()
• A LETTER TO Monsieur Boileau Despreaux; Occasion'd by the VICTORY at BLENHEIM, 1704. ()
• Lisetta's Reply. ()
• LOVE Disarm'd. ()
• A LOVER's ANGER. ()
• MERCURY and CUPID. ()
• MERRY ANDREW. ()
• AN ODE, &c. ()
• AN ODE, Humbly Inscrib'd to the QUEEN. ON THE Glorious Success OF Her MAJESTY's Arms, 1706. Written in Imitation of Spencer's Style. ()
• An ODE. ()
• An ODE. ()
• An ODE. ()
• An ODE. Inscribed to the Memory of the Honble Col. George Villiers, Drowned in the River Piava, in the Country of Friuli. 1703. In Imitation of Horace, Ode 28. Lib. 1. ()
• On BEAUTY. A RIDDLE. ()
• On Exodus iii. 14. I am that I am. An ODE. Written in 1688, as an Exercise at St. John's College, Cambridge. ()
• On the Same Person. ()
• On the same Subject. ()
• On the Same. ()
• PALLAS and VENUS. AN EPIGRAM. ()
• A Passage in the MORIÆ ENCOMIUM of Erasmus Imitated. ()
• PAULO PURGANTI AND His WIFE: An Honest, but a Simple Pair. ()
• PHYLLIS's AGE. ()
• Picture of Seneca dying in a Bath. By Jordain. At the Right Honorable the Earl of Exeter's at Burleigh-House. ()
• A PINDARIQUE ON His Majesties Birth-Day. By Mr. PRIOR Sung before Their Majesties at WHITEHALL, The Fourth of November 1690. A Prophecy by APOLLO. ()
• PROLOGUE, SPOKEN AT COURT before the QUEEN, On Her Majesty's Birth-Day, 1704. ()
• Protogenes and Apelles. ()
• The Question, to Lisetta. ()
• Quid sit futurum Cras fuge quærere. ()
• A Reasonable Affliction. ()
• THE SECOND HYMN OF CALLIMACHUS. TO APOLLO. ()
• SEEING THE DUKE of ORMOND's PICTURE, AT Sir GODFREY KNELLER's. ()
• A SIMILE. ()
• SOLOMON ON THE VANITY OF THE WORLD. A POEM In THREE BOOKS. ()
• A SONG. ()
• A SONG. ()
• The THIEF AND THE CORDELIER, A BALLAD. ()
• To a LADY: She refusing to continue a Dispute with me, and leaving me in the Argument. An ODE. ()
• To a Person who wrote Ill, and spake Worse against Me. ()
• TO A Young Gentleman in Love. A TALE. ()
• To CLOE Weeping. ()
• TO Dr. SHERLOCK, ON HIS PRACTICAL DISCOURSE Concerning Death. ()
• To Mr. HARLEY. Wounded by Guiscard. 1711. ()
• TO Mr. HOWARD: An ODE. ()
• TO My LORD BUCKHURST, Very Young, Playing with a CAT. ()
• TO THE AUTHOR OF THE Foregoing PASTORAL. ()
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• TO THE COUNTESS of EXETER, Playing on the Lute. ()
• To the Honorable CHARLES MONTAGUE, Esq ()
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• TO THE LADY DURSLEY On the same Subject. ()
• TO THE Lady Elizabeth Harley, Since Marchioness of Carmarthen, On a Column of Her Drawing. ()
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• VENUS Mistaken. ()
• VERSES Humbly presented to the KING At His Arrival in HOLLAND: After the DISCOVERY Of the late horrid CONSPIRACY Against His most Sacred Person. (); Presented to the KING, AT HIS ARRIVAL in HOLLAND, AFTER THE Discovery of the Conspiracy 1696. ()
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