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Matthew Prior. Dialogues of the Dead and Other Works

in Prose and Verse. The Text Edited by A. R. Waller
Prior, Matthew (1664-1721)

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DIALOGUES OF THE DEAD AND OTHER WORKS IN PROSE AND VERSE
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A SUPPLEMENT TO Mr. Prior's POEMS. Consisting Of such Pieces as are Omitted in the late Collection of his Works, and Others, now first Published, from his Original Manuscripts, in the Custody of his Friends.
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[POEMS FROM THE New Collection, 1725]
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[MISCELLANEOUS POEMS ETC., FROM THE COLLECTION OF DRIFT]
  
Considerations on part of the 88th Psalm.
  
ON THE TAKING OF NAMUR, 1692.
  
TO A CHILD of QUALITY, FIVE YEARS OLD, The AUTHOR Forty.
  
TWO RIDDLES.
  
A FABLE.
  
A SONG.
  
CONSUMMATION.
  
THE FORTUNE-TELLER.
  
AN ENIGMA.
  
CUPID Turned STROLLER.
  
SNUFF.
  
DAPHNE and APOLLO.
  
PROLOGUE, SPOKEN BY Lord BUCKHURST, AT WESTMINSTER-SCHOOL,
  
[THE SECRETARY.]
  
THE MICE
  
THE VICEROY.
  
UPON THIS PASSAGE IN SCALIGERIANA.
  
Nell and John.
  
Bibo.
  
Gabriel and his Wives.
  
Silvia.
  
Richard and Nelly.
  
CUPID IN AMBUSH.
  
Nannette.
  
The Priest and the Shepherd.
  
ON A FART, LET IN THE HOUSE of COMMONS.
  
On Hall's Death.
  
Prometheus.
  
THE WANDERING PILGRIM.
  
THE ADVICE OF VENUS.
  
CUPID TURNED PLOWMAN.
  
HUSBAND AND WIFE.
  
TO FORTUNE.
  
CHAST FLORIMEL.
  
PARTIAL FAME.
  
A SONG.
  
NON PAREIL.
  
UPON HONOUR.
  
THE OLD GENTRY.
  
THE INCURABLE.
  
THE Insatiable PRIEST.
  
DOCTORS Differ.
  
PONTIUS AND PONTIA.
  
Cautious Alice.
  
TO A POET of Quality, PRAISING THE Lady HINCHINBROKE.
  
The PRATER.
  
TRUTH TOLD AT LAST.
  
AN ENIGMA.
  
TWO BEGGARS Disputing their Right to an Oyster they had Found; a Lawyer thus decides the Cause.
  
A FRENCH SONG.
  
HUMAN LIFE.
  
A CASE STATED.
  
FOR My own Monument.
  
TO My Lord HARLEY.
  
A LETTER TO The Honourable LADY Miss Margaret-Cavendish-Holles-Harley.
  
TRUTH AND FALSHOOD.
  
Nelly's Picture.
  
PROLOGUE FOR DELIA's PLAY.
  
AMARYLLIS.
  
CUPID's Promise.
  
Lamentation for DORINDA.
  
On Absence.
  
TO LEONORA.
  
ON A PRETTY MADWOMAN.
  
The Torment of ABSENCE.
  
THE NEW-YEAR'S GIFT TO PHYLLIS.
  
Coy Jenny.
  
TO CELIA.
  
Upon a FRIEND, WHO HAD A Pain in his Left-Side.
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THE EXAMINER. 7 SEPTEMBER 1710
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[MISCELLANEOUS POEMS, FROM THE COLLECTION OF EVANS, INCLUDING TWENTY-FOUR SONGS.]
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POEMS FROM THE LONGLEAT MSS.
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FRAGMENTS FROM PRIOR'S LETTERS, ETC.
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POEMS ATTRIBUTED TO PRIOR

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143

The Torment of ABSENCE.

I

What a tedious day is past!
Loving, thinking, wishing, weeping:
Gods! if this be not the last,
Take a life not worth my keeping.

II

Love, ye Gods, is Life alone!
In the length is little pleasure:
Be but ev'ry day Our-Own,
We shall ne'er complain of measure.
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