Poem Genre / Form: Epigram / Related People: Matthew Prior

1. As Chloe came into the room the other day

First Line:: As Chloe came into the room the other day
Last Line:: And forgot every word I designed to have said
Author:: Matthew Prior (Absolute)
DMI number:: 12282

2. Blessed be the princes who have fought

First Line:: Blessed be the princes who have fought
Last Line:: That happiness is but opinion
Author:: Matthew Prior (Absolute)
DMI number:: 12389

3. Blind plaintiff lame defendant share

First Line:: Blind plaintiff lame defendant share
Last Line:: And Magna Carta is a paper-kite
Author:: Matthew Prior (Absolute)
DMI number:: 16897

4. Blind plaintiff lame defendant share

First Line:: Blind plaintiff lame defendant share
Last Line:: The middle is the lawyer's fee
Author:: Matthew Prior (Absolute)
DMI number:: 30617

5. Democritus dear droll revisit earth

First Line:: Democritus dear droll revisit earth
Last Line:: Hurt can I laugh and honest need I cry
Author:: Matthew Prior (Absolute)
DMI number:: 13509

6. Frank carves very ill yet will palm all the meats

First Line:: Frank carves very ill yet will palm all the meats
Last Line:: For of late I invite him but four times a week
Author:: Matthew Prior (Absolute)
DMI number:: 12424

7. For what tomorrow shall disclose

First Line:: For what tomorrow shall disclose
Last Line:: Love and life are for today
Author:: Matthew Prior (Absolute)
DMI number:: 25006

8. From her own native France as old Alison past

First Line:: From her own native France as old Alison past
Last Line:: Her lady's complexion and eyebrows at Calais
Author:: Matthew Prior (Absolute)
DMI number:: 12393

9. Go for I'm impatient grown

First Line:: Go for I'm impatient grown
Last Line:: But with haste devour the way
Author:: Matthew Prior (Speculation)
DMI number:: 4783

10. Full oft doth Mat with Topaz dine

First Line:: Full oft doth Mat with Topaz dine
Last Line:: Full hardly earneth Mat his dinner
Author:: Matthew Prior (Absolute)
DMI number:: 16099

11. Great Bacchus born in thunder and in fire

First Line:: Great Bacchus born in thunder and in fire
Last Line:: The moral says mix water with your wine
Author:: Matthew Prior (Absolute)
DMI number:: 12421

12. Her eyebrow box one morning lost

First Line:: Her eyebrow box one morning lost
Last Line:: For what's an eye without a brow
Author:: Matthew Prior (Absolute)
DMI number:: 13510

13. How capricious were nature and art to poor Nell

First Line:: How capricious were nature and art to poor Nell
Last Line:: She was painting her cheeks at the time her nose fell
Author:: Matthew Prior (Absolute)
DMI number:: 13100

14. How old may Phyllis be you ask

First Line:: How old may Phyllis be you ask
Last Line:: And Phyllis is some forty-three
Author:: Matthew Prior (Absolute)
DMI number:: 12489

15. I have no hopes the Duke he says and dies

First Line:: I have no hopes the Duke he says and dies
Last Line:: And who can say the reverend prelate lies
Author:: Matthew Prior (Absolute)
DMI number:: 12186

16. In a dark corner of the house

First Line:: In a dark corner of the house
Last Line:: She'll even weep out her eyes
Author:: Matthew Prior (Absolute)
DMI number:: 13500

17. Jove once resolved the females to degrade

First Line:: Jove once resolved the females to degrade
Last Line:: The god took snuff and out the goddess flew
Author:: Matthew Prior (Absolute)
DMI number:: 16967

18. Lie Philo untouched on my peaceable shelf

First Line:: Lie Philo untouched on my peaceable shelf
Last Line:: There may be a little from what thou shalt swear
Author:: Matthew Prior (Absolute)
DMI number:: 31007

19. I sent for Radcliffe was so ill

First Line:: I sent for Radcliffe was so ill
Last Line:: I died last night of my physician
Author:: Matthew Prior (Absolute)
DMI number:: 12185

20. I know that fortune long has wanted sight

First Line:: I know that fortune long has wanted sight
Last Line:: And gives success in every suit but hearts
Author:: Matthew Prior (Absolute)
DMI number:: 16924

21. O Boileau had it been Apollo's will

First Line:: O Boileau had it been Apollo's will
Last Line:: And fix the jarring world with equal laws
Author:: Matthew Prior (Absolute)
DMI number:: 5043

22. O death how thou spoilst the best project of life

First Line:: O death how thou spoilst the best project of life
Last Line:: Full sorry to die till he made up his dozen
Author:: Matthew Prior (Absolute)
DMI number:: 15526

23. No no for my virginity

First Line:: No no for my virginity
Last Line:: Rose were you not extremely sick
Author:: Matthew Prior (Absolute)
DMI number:: 13652

24. O with what woes am I oppressed

First Line:: O with what woes am I oppressed
Last Line:: You'll hardly laugh before you die
Author:: Matthew Prior (Absolute)
DMI number:: 16864

25. Ovid is the surest guide

First Line:: Ovid is the surest guide
Last Line:: Who intends to go astray
Author:: Matthew Prior (Absolute)
DMI number:: 12376

26. On his deathbed poor Lubin lies

First Line:: On his deathbed poor Lubin lies
Last Line:: His wife that he may live
Author:: Matthew Prior (Absolute)
DMI number:: 12416

27. On his deathbed poor Simon lies

First Line:: On his deathbed poor Simon lies
Last Line:: His wife that he may live
Author:: Matthew Prior (Absolute)
DMI number:: 24631

28. Prometheus forming Mr Day

First Line:: Prometheus forming Mr Day
Last Line:: To prove all poetry but fable
Author:: Matthew Prior (Absolute)
DMI number:: 16855

29. Poor Hall caught his death standing under a spout

First Line:: Poor Hall caught his death standing under a spout
Last Line:: Make love at home and go to bed betimes
Author:: Matthew Prior (Absolute)
DMI number:: 16854

30. Phillis you boast of perfect health in vain

First Line:: Phillis you boast of perfect health in vain
Last Line:: I tell thee tis incurable tis age
Author:: Matthew Prior (Absolute)
DMI number:: 16877

31. Quoth Richard in jest looking wistly at Nelly

First Line:: Quoth Richard in jest looking wistly at Nelly
Last Line:: Most secretly Nell I never thought thou wert married
Author:: Matthew Prior (Absolute)
DMI number:: 15528

32. Says Pontius in rage contradicting his wife

First Line:: Says Pontius in rage contradicting his wife
Last Line:: You're a cuckold says she do I tell you truth now
Author:: Matthew Prior (Absolute)
DMI number:: 16891

33. Reading ends in melancholy

First Line:: Reading ends in melancholy
Last Line:: Farewell all if friendship ceases
Author:: Matthew Prior (Absolute)
DMI number:: 15522

34. Seeing aright we see our woes

First Line:: Seeing aright we see our woes
Last Line:: The only wretched are the wise
Author:: Matthew Prior (Absolute)
DMI number:: 5544

35. Suffenus whom you know the witty

First Line:: Suffenus whom you know the witty
Last Line:: But see not our own load behind
Author:: Matthew Prior (Speculation)
DMI number:: 4781

36. That all from Adam first begun

First Line:: That all from Adam first begun
Last Line:: And ours in the afternoon
Author:: Jonathan Swift (Speculation) & Matthew Prior (Speculation)
DMI number:: 7423

37. The amorous youth whose tender breast

First Line:: The amorous youth whose tender breast
Last Line:: She deep will mark her new disgrace
Author:: Matthew Prior (Absolute)
DMI number:: 24997

38. The Trojan swain had judged the great dispute

First Line:: The Trojan swain had judged the great dispute
Last Line:: By Mars himself that armour has been tried
Author:: Matthew Prior (Absolute)
DMI number:: 12580

39. Though doomed to small coal yet to arts allied

First Line:: Though doomed to small coal yet to arts allied
Last Line:: Had Kneller painted and had virtue graved
Author:: Matthew Prior (Absolute)
DMI number:: 35057

40. Thy nags the leanest things alive

First Line:: Thy nags the leanest things alive
Last Line:: It cost thee more in whips than hay
Author:: Matthew Prior (Absolute)
DMI number:: 12391

41. To heal a wound a bee had made

First Line:: To heal a wound a bee had made
Last Line:: The sting within my heart
Author:: John Hervey (Absolute) & Matthew Prior (Speculation)
DMI number:: 17697

42. To John I owed great obligation

First Line:: To John I owed great obligation
Last Line:: Sure John and I are more than quit
Author:: Matthew Prior (Absolute)
DMI number:: 12274

43. Venus take my votive glass

First Line:: Venus take my votive glass
Last Line:: Venus let me never see
Author:: Matthew Prior (Absolute)
DMI number:: 13656

44. Vain the concern which you express

First Line:: Vain the concern which you express
Last Line:: But to secure our rest
Author:: Matthew Prior (Absolute)
DMI number:: 12396

45. What a frail thing is beauty says baron le Cras

First Line:: What a frail thing is beauty says baron le Cras
Last Line:: She dropped the eye and broke it
Author:: Matthew Prior (Absolute)
DMI number:: 12418

46. When Chloe's picture was to Venus shown

First Line:: When Chloe's picture was to Venus shown
Last Line:: But Howard's genius fancied all the rest
Author:: Matthew Prior (Absolute)
DMI number:: 25380

47. When Chloe's picture was to Venus shown

First Line:: When Chloe's picture was to Venus shown
Last Line:: Friend Howard's genius fancied all the rest
Author:: Matthew Prior (Absolute)
DMI number:: 12231

48. What trifling coil do we poor mortals keep

First Line:: What trifling coil do we poor mortals keep
Last Line:: Wake eat and drink evacuate and sleep
Author:: Matthew Prior (Absolute)
DMI number:: 16899

49. What trifling toil do we poor mortals keep

First Line:: What trifling toil do we poor mortals keep
Last Line:: Wake eat and drink evacuate and sleep
Author:: Matthew Prior (Absolute)
DMI number:: 24849

50. When future ages shall with wonder view

First Line:: When future ages shall with wonder view
Last Line:: A fairer column to the father's praise
Author:: Matthew Prior (Absolute)
DMI number:: 24916

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1. As Chloe came into the room the other day

2. Blessed be the princes who have fought

3. Blind plaintiff lame defendant share

4. Blind plaintiff lame defendant share

5. Democritus dear droll revisit earth

6. Frank carves very ill yet will palm all the meats

7. For what tomorrow shall disclose

8. From her own native France as old Alison past

9. Go for I'm impatient grown

10. Full oft doth Mat with Topaz dine

11. Great Bacchus born in thunder and in fire

12. Her eyebrow box one morning lost

13. How capricious were nature and art to poor Nell

14. How old may Phyllis be you ask

15. I have no hopes the Duke he says and dies

16. In a dark corner of the house

17. Jove once resolved the females to degrade

18. Lie Philo untouched on my peaceable shelf

19. I sent for Radcliffe was so ill

20. I know that fortune long has wanted sight

21. O Boileau had it been Apollo's will

22. O death how thou spoilst the best project of life

23. No no for my virginity

24. O with what woes am I oppressed

25. Ovid is the surest guide

26. On his deathbed poor Lubin lies

27. On his deathbed poor Simon lies

28. Prometheus forming Mr Day

29. Poor Hall caught his death standing under a spout

30. Phillis you boast of perfect health in vain

31. Quoth Richard in jest looking wistly at Nelly

32. Says Pontius in rage contradicting his wife

33. Reading ends in melancholy

34. Seeing aright we see our woes

35. Suffenus whom you know the witty

36. That all from Adam first begun

37. The amorous youth whose tender breast

38. The Trojan swain had judged the great dispute

39. Though doomed to small coal yet to arts allied

40. Thy nags the leanest things alive

41. To heal a wound a bee had made

42. To John I owed great obligation

43. Venus take my votive glass

44. Vain the concern which you express

45. What a frail thing is beauty says baron le Cras

46. When Chloe's picture was to Venus shown

47. When Chloe's picture was to Venus shown

48. What trifling coil do we poor mortals keep

49. What trifling toil do we poor mortals keep

50. When future ages shall with wonder view