Union First Line Index of English Verse

13th-19th Century (bulk 1500-1800)


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Hail, genial goddess! Bloomy spring  Ferrar, Martha, of Huntingdon (later Mrs. Peter Peckard)  `Ode to the spring' [pr. Dodsley 1758]  And suns eternal rise.  Bodley  Eng. poet. e. 18  p. 28 
Hail lovely power! Whose bosom heaves the sigh,      Beneath thy feet no hapless insect dies...(incomplete).  Bodley  Eng. poet. e. 18  p. 30 
Locked in the arms of balmy sleep  Amherst, Elizabeth, later Mrs. John Thomas (1714_1779)  `A sacred lyric...on being awakened in the night of Feby. 3. 1749-50 by a...storm'  That flash which melts the world.  Bodley  Eng. poet. e. 18  p. 24 
My son, attentive hear the voice of truth  Fawkes, Francis  `The picture of old age' [Eccles. Xii. 1-7]  The soul shall soar sublime, and wing its way to heaven.  Bodley  Eng. poet. e. 18  p. 22 
Oft I've implored the gods in vain  Greville, Fanny  `An ode to indifference'  Content but half to please.  Bodley  Eng. poet. e. 18  p. 19 
Struck with religious awe, and solemn dread  Moore, Revd. [ ], of Cornwall  `A soliloquy written in a country churchyard'  And all the horrors of the grave defy.  Bodley  Eng. poet. e. 18  p. 13 
The goddesses once, as the old poets tell us  C., S.  `Verses by a Westminster boy (S. C.) on...a turkey...from Mrs. Mattocks'  The way thro' the stomach's the way to the heart.  Bodley  Eng. poet. e. 18  p. 17 
When the last of all knights is the first of all knaves    `A prophecy...12th June [1694]...carried to my Lord Chamberlain [the earl of Dorset] by Serjeant Barecroft' [pr. POAS, I, 1703]  What beast may not hope at Whitehall for a place.  Bodley  Eng. poet. e. 18  f. 139v