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Winthrop Mackworth Praed

1802–1839

Winthrop Mackworth Praed (1802–1839) was an English poet and Tory politician, educated at Eton and Trinity College, Cambridge. He is remembered for light, polished society verse such as 'The Belle of the Ball' and 'The Vicar', in which a quick comic rhythm carries a gentle irony.

His poems were collected only after his death. The pieces here are the ones that James Parton chose for his anthology of English humorous verse.

Poems (100)

  1. School and School-Fellows
  2. The Vicar
  3. My Partner
  4. The Belle of the Ball
  5. The Red Fisherman; or, The Devil's Decoy
  6. The Legend of the Drachenfels
  7. The Legend of the Teufel-haus
  8. The Legend of the Haunted Tree
  9. The Bridal of Belmont
  10. Chivalry at a Discount
  11. The Conjurer
  12. Cousins
  13. Bagatelles
  14. There's Nothing New Beneath the Sun
  15. Peace Be Thine
  16. The Confession of Don Carlos
  17. Marriage
  18. The Bachelor
  19. How to Rhyme for Love
  20. Surly Hall
  21. My First Folly
  22. Songs from The Troubadour
  23. The Separation
  24. An Invitation
  25. A Discourse Delivered by a College Tutor
  26. Good Night
  27. Hobbledehoys
  28. A Classical Walk
  29. Stanzas ("The songs she sung")
  30. Because
  31. Song to a Serenader in February
  32. The Childe's Destiny
  33. The Modern Nectar
  34. An Epitaph on the Late King of the Sandwich Islands
  35. The Chaunt of the Brazen Head
  36. My Own Funeral
  37. L'Inconnue
  38. Song from Lidean's Love
  39. Josephine
  40. Song for the Fourteenth of February
  41. Palinodia
  42. Time's Song
  43. The Hoopoe's Invocation to the Nightingale
  44. Good Night to the Season
  45. Song: Yes or No
  46. Utopia
  47. Marriage Chimes
  48. Remember Me
  49. The Fancy Ball
  50. A Letter of Advice
  51. Quince
  52. Portrait of a Lady in the Exhibition of the Royal Academy, 1831
  53. April Fools
  54. Arrivals at a Watering-Place
  55. Twenty-Eight and Twenty-Nine
  56. Letters from Teignmouth: I. Our Ball
  57. Letters from Teignmouth: II. Private Theatricals
  58. Song: Tell Him I Love Him Yet
  59. Confessions
  60. Song: Lord Roland
  61. Childhood and His Visitors
  62. Love at a Rout
  63. Beauty and Her Visitors
  64. The Forsaken
  65. Second Love
  66. Hope and Love
  67. Stanzas ("O'er yon Churchyard the storm may lower")
  68. Cassandra
  69. Sir Nicholas at Marston Moor
  70. The Covenanter's Lament for Bothwell Bridge
  71. Written under a Picture of King's College Chapel, Cambridge
  72. Anticipation
  73. Mars Disarmed by Love
  74. Waterloo
  75. The New Order of Things
  76. Song: Where Is Miss Myrtle?
  77. The Confession
  78. Stanzas Written in Lady Myrtle's "Boccaccio"
  79. How Poetry Is Best Paid For
  80. Old Wine
  81. The Talented Man
  82. Plus de Politique
  83. Tales Out of School
  84. Stanzas to the Speaker Asleep
  85. Latin Hymn to the Virgin
  86. The Newly-Wedded
  87. Sketch of a Young Lady Five Months Old
  88. To Helen (July 1836)
  89. To Helen (With a Small Candlestick)
  90. To Helen (Third)
  91. God Save the Queen
  92. Charade I: Good Night
  93. Charade II: Rainbow
  94. Charade III: Knighthood
  95. Charade IV: Death Watch
  96. Charade V: Bowstring
  97. Charade VI: Moonlight
  98. Charade VII: Peacock
  99. My Little Cousins
  100. We met but in one giddy dance

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