First Line Index

All your sighs, to air are turning, Winchilsea, Anne Finch, countess `The song in The triumphs of love and innocence: a tragicomedy' Folger N.b.3 p. 86

An epilogue, after a tedious play Winchilsea, Anne Finch, countess `Epilogue to Aristomenes or the royal shepherd a tragedy' Folger N.b.3 p. 194

Apollo, as lately, a circuit he made, Winchilsea, Anne Finch, countess `The circuit of Apollo' Folger N.b.3 p. 43

As when the Macedonian conqu'ror died Randolph, Mrs. [ ] `An epistle from...to Mrs. Finch; upon her presenting her with some of her poems' Folger N.b.3 p. xi

At last, my old inveterate foe Winchilsea, Anne Finch, countess `Ardelia to Melancholy' Folger N.b.3 p. 16

Bacchus, to thee that turn'st the brain, Winchilsea, Anne Finch, countess `The bargain a song in dialogue between Bacchus and Cupid' Folger N.b.3 p. 34

Be [by?] near resemblance see that bird betray'd Winchilsea, Anne Finch, countess `Some occasional reflections digested (though not with great regularity) into a poem' Folger N.b.3 p. 291

Bid me expire__then, to my father go, Winchilsea, Anne Finch, countess `In Aristomenes or the royal shepherd a tragedy' Folger N.b.3 p. 163

Blest be the man, his memory at least, Winchilsea, Anne Finch, countess `To a friend in praise of the invention of writing letters' Folger N.b.3 p. 12

But that's a blessing which I must not know, Winchilsea, Anne Finch, countess [in Aristomenes or the royal shepherd a tragedy] Folger N.b.3 p. 165

By all the hearts, that bleed without return, Winchilsea, Anne Finch, countess [in The triumphs of love and innocence: a tragicomedy] Folger N.b.3 p. 70

By love pursued, in vain I fly Winchilsea, Anne Finch, countess `A song' Folger N.b.3 p. 29

Could our first father at his toilsome plow Winchilsea, Anne Finch, countess `Adam posed' Folger N.b.3 p. 250

Could rivers weep (as sometimes poets dream) Winchilsea, Anne Finch, countess `Upon the death of Sir William Twisden' Folger N.b.3 p. 229

Could we stop the time that's flying Winchilsea, Anne Finch, countess `The unequal fetters' Folger N.b.3 p. 257

Cupid e'er depriv'd of sight Winchilsea, Anne Finch, countess `Cupid and Folly a fable imitated from the French' Folger N.b.3 p. 248

Damon, whilst thus, we nightly watches keep, Winchilsea, Anne Finch, countess `A pastoral between Menalcus and Damon on the appearance of the angels to the shepherds on Our Savior's birthday' Folger N.b.3 p. 199

Did I my lines intend for public view Winchilsea, Anne Finch, countess `The introduction' Folger N.b.3 p. 1

Dorinda since you must decay Winchilsea, Anne Finch, countess `Timely advice to Dorinda' Folger N.b.3 p. 257

Exert thy voice, sweet harbinger of spring, Winchilsea, Anne Finch, countess `To the nightingale' Folger N.b.3 p. 294

Fair tree, for thy delightful shade, Winchilsea, Anne Finch, countess `The tree' Folger N.b.3 p. 18

Fallen wretch, make haste, and die; Winchilsea, Anne Finch, countess [in Aristomenes or the royal shepherd a tragedy] Folger N.b.3 p. 154

Far, from societies, where I have place Winchilsea, Anne Finch, countess `The jester, and the little fishes, a fable, imitated from the French' Folger N.b.3 p. 288

Fate till the day was ours, would not dispense Winchilsea, Anne Finch, countess `Upon the death of the right honorable William Lord Maidstone who was a volunteer in the Sol-Bay fight and killed by a random shot after the fight was over and the fleets parted on May the 28th: 1672' Folger N.b.3 p. 50

From the best wit of France, receive Winchilsea, Anne Finch, countess `A maxim for the ladies translated from Monsr. Du Bussy' Folger N.b.3 p. 21

From the park, and the play, Winchilsea, Anne Finch, countess `A song for my br: Les: Finch upon a punchbowl' Folger N.b.3 p. 35

Gentlest air thou breath of lovers Winchilsea, Anne Finch, countess `A sigh' Folger N.b.3 p. 254

Give me, O! indulgent fate, Winchilsea, Anne Finch, countess `The petition for an absolute retreat inscribed to the right honorable Catharine countess of Thanet; mentioned in the poem, under the name of Arminda' Folger N.b.3 p. 220

Hark! Sure I heard Urania play, Winchilsea, Anne Finch, countess `On Easter Day' Folger N.b.3 p. 203

Hither, Ardelia, I your steps pursue Winchilsea, Anne Finch, countess `Some reflections in a dialogue. Between Teresa, and Ardelia. On the 2nd and 3rd verses, of the 73d Psalm' Folger N.b.3 p. 206

How dear is reputation bought Winchilsea, Anne Finch, countess `Honor a song' Folger N.b.3 p. 275

How gaily is at first begun Winchilsea, Anne Finch, countess `Life's progress' Folger N.b.3 p. 254

How, shall I woo thee gentle rest, Winchilsea, Anne Finch, countess `An invocation to sleep' Folger N.b.3 p. 290

How vain is life which rightly we compare Winchilsea, Anne Finch, countess `All is vanity' Folger N.b.3 p. 233

How weak is man, that would himself persuade Winchilsea, Anne Finch, countess `The second chapter of the Wisdom of Solomon, paraphrased. The first twelve verses, being an introduction' Folger N.b.3 p. 217

I grant thee not pretense to bays, Winchilsea, Anne Finch, countess? Folger N.b.3 p. xiii

I know too well! That no more, than the man Beaumont, [ ] `The preface' Folger N.b.3 p. xiii

I thy evil genius am, Winchilsea, Anne Finch, countess [in Aristomenes or the royal shepherd a tragedy] Folger N.b.3 p. 155

I'll to some holy, secret cell remove, Winchilsea, Anne Finch, countess `The triumphs of love and innocence: a tragicomedy' Folger N.b.3 p. 95

If all th'appointed days of man were fair Winchilsea, Anne Finch, countess `Gold is tried in the fire, and acceptable men, in the time of adversity' Folger N.b.3 p. 211

If for a woman I would die, Winchilsea, Anne Finch, countess `A song' Folger N.b.3 p. 35

If from some lonely and obscure recess Winchilsea, Anne Finch, countess `To the honorable the Lady Worsley at Longleat who had most obligingly desired my corresponding with her by letters' Folger N.b.3 p. 262

If the possession of imperial sway Winchilsea, Anne Finch, countess `Upon the death of King James the Second' Folger N.b.3 p. 300

If we those gen'rous sons, deserv'dly praise Winchilsea, Anne Finch, countess `Upon my Lord Winchilsea's converting the mount in his garden to a terrace, and other alterations, and improvements, in his house, park, and gardens' Folger N.b.3 p. 46

In love, who to a cure aspires, Winchilsea, Anne Finch, countess `Written before a French book entitled Les moyens de se guerir d'amour' Folger N.b.3 p. 21

It must not be; not [nor?] can the grave Winchilsea, Anne Finch, countess `On the Lord Dundee' Folger N.b.3 p. 19

Kind bird, thy praises I design, Winchilsea, Anne Finch, countess `The bird' Folger N.b.3 p. 15

Let no bold pray'r, presume to rise, Winchilsea, Anne Finch, countess `A preparation to prayer' Folger N.b.3 p. 198

Let the fool still be true, Winchilsea, Anne Finch, countess `A song' Folger N.b.3 p. 36

Love, give thy train of slaves away, Winchilsea, Anne Finch, countess `A song in The triumphs of love and innocence: a tragicomedy' Folger N.b.3 p. 91

Love, thou art the best of human joys, Winchilsea, Anne Finch, countess `A song' Folger N.b.3 p. 31

Lovely viper, haste not on, Winchilsea, Anne Finch, countess `A song of the cannibals, or mountain's essays; done into English verse, paraphrased. The French [beginning] Coleure, arest toy;...' Folger N.b.3 p. 4

Madam accept, at least excuse, Shippen, William `To the most ingenious Mrs. Finch on her incomparable poems' Folger N.b.3 p. x

Madam__'till pow'rfully convinc'd by you Winchilsea, Anne Finch, countess `An epistle from Ardelia to Mrs. Randolph - In answer to her poem, upon her verses' Folger N.b.3 p. 48

Me, dear Ephelia, me, in vain you court Winchilsea, Anne Finch, countess `Ardelia's answer to Ephelia, who had invited her to come to her in town -reflecting on the coquetry and detracting humor of the age' Folger N.b.3 p. 6

Miranda, hides her from the sun, Winchilsea, Anne Finch, countess `A song' Folger N.b.3 p. 29

More than a sea of tears, can show, Winchilsea, Anne Finch, countess `A song for a play Alcander to Melinda' Folger N.b.3 p. 28

Never did Brown trifle with a disease Winchilsea, Anne Finch, countess `For the better a fable' Folger N.b.3 p. 286

No sooner Flavio was you gone, Winchilsea, Anne Finch, countess `To Daphnis, who going abroad, had desired Ardelia to write some verses, upon whatever subject she thought fit, against his return in the evening' Folger N.b.3 p. 56

Now, age came on, and all the dismal train Winchilsea, Anne Finch, countess `Clarinda's indifference at parting with her beaauty' Folger N.b.3 p. 13

Now away, away I fly, Winchilsea, Anne Finch, countess [song from Aristomenes or the royal shepherd] Folger N.b.3 p. 155

Now, spent the alter'd king, in am'rous care Winchilsea, Anne Finch, countess `The poor man's lamb, or Nathan's parable to David, after the murder of Uriah, and his marriage with Bathsheba. Turn'd into verse, and paraphrased' Folger N.b.3 p. 212

Observe this piece, which to our sight does bring Winchilsea, Anne Finch, countess `Verses written under the King of Sweden's picture' Folger N.b.3 p. 295

O grief! Why hast thou so much pow'r, Winchilsea, Anne Finch, countess `A song on grief set by Mr: Estwick' Folger N.b.3 p. 32

Oh king of terrors, whose unbounded sway Winchilsea, Anne Finch, countess `To death' Folger N.b.3 p. 208

Oh! Ne'er believe that she will stoop so low, Winchilsea, Anne Finch, countess [in The triumphs of love and innocence: a comedy] Folger N.b.3 p. 121

Oh! Praise the Lord, and let his fame be told, Winchilsea, Anne Finch, countess `The 146th Psalm paraphrased' Folger N.b.3 p. 209

Oh! Yet look down, and thy Aristor know, Winchilsea, Anne Finch, countess [in Aristomenes or the royal shepherd a tragicomedy] Folger N.b.3 p. 190

Peace, where art thou to be found, Winchilsea, Anne Finch, countess `Verses, inserted in a letter to my lady Thanet; being an inquiry after peace; and showing that what the world generally pursues, is contrary to it' Folger N.b.3 p. 65

Persuade me not, there is a grace Winchilsea, Anne Finch, countess `A song' Folger N.b.3 p. 30

Poor River, now thou'rt almost dry Winchilsea, Anne Finch, countess `The change' Folger N.b.3 p. 22

Pretty nymph within this shade Winchilsea, Anne Finch, countess `A pastoral dialogue between two shepherdesses' Folger N.b.3 p. 246

Proud Babylon, thou saw'st us weep, Winchilsea, Anne Finch, countess `Psalm the 137th: paraphrased to the 7th verse' Folger N.b.3 p. 197

Quickly Delia, learn my passion, Winchilsea, Anne Finch, countess `A song' Folger N.b.3 p. 32

Reputation, love, and death, Winchilsea, Anne Finch, countess `Love death and reputation a fable' Folger N.b.3 p. 278

Say lovely nymph, where dost thou dwell? Winchilsea, Anne Finch, countess `To the echo. In a clear night upon Astrop walks' Folger N.b.3 p. 18

See Phoebus breaking from the willing skies, Winchilsea, Anne Finch, countess `The consolation' Folger N.b.3 p. 17

Seraphic sound! Eternal praise! Winchilsea, Anne Finch, countess `Hallelujah' Folger N.b.3 p. 205

She sigh'd! but soon, it mix'd with common air Winchilsea, Anne Finch, countess `The loss' Folger N.b.3 p. 17

Since man, by swift returns of good and ill, Winchilsea, Anne Finch, countess [in Aristomenes or the royal shepherd a tragedy] Folger N.b.3 p. 194

Since the road of life's so ill Winchilsea, Anne Finch, countess `The equipage written originally in French by L'Abbe Reigner' Folger N.b.3 p. 256

So, from his few short moment, calls away Winchilsea, Anne Finch, countess [in Aristomenes or the royal shepherd a tragedy] Folger N.b.3 p. 152

So gazes on the low descending sun, Winchilsea, Anne Finch, countess [in The triumphs of love and innocence: a tragicomedy] Folger N.b.3 p. 122

So quits the dying miser, that rich store Winchilsea, Anne Finch, countess [in The triumphs of love and innocence: a tragicomedy] Folger N.b.3 p. 119

Stay, O! stay, 'tis all delusion Winchilsea, Anne Finch, countess [in Aristomenes or the royal shepherd a tragedy] Folger N.b.3 p. 154

Strephon, whose person ev'ry grace Winchilsea, Anne Finch, countess `A song' Folger N.b.3 p. 37

Suit to my alter'd state, my low desire; Winchilsea, Anne Finch, countess [in Aristomenes or the royal shepherd, a tragedy] Folger N.b.3 p. 143

Sure of success, to you I boldly write, Winchilsea, Anne Finch, countess `A letter to Daphnis' Folger N.b.3 p. 4

Sylvia let's from the crowd retire Winchilsea, Anne Finch, countess `The cautious lovers' Folger N.b.3 p. 258

Tell not me of the killing, Winchilsea, Anne Finch, countess [in The triumphs of love and innocence: a tragicomedy] Folger N.b.3 p. 94

The isle of Rhodes shall be of peace bereft Winchilsea, Anne Finch, countess [in Aristomenes or the royal shepherd a tragedy] Folger N.b.3 p. 136

The nymph in vain, bestows her pains, Winchilsea, Anne Finch, countess `A song' Folger N.b.3 p. 33

The tree of knowledge, we in Eden prov'd; Winchilsea, Anne Finch, countess `Hope' Folger N.b.3 p. 291

Then, by some fountain's flow'ry side Winchilsea, Anne Finch, countess [from the French translation of the Aminta of Tasso, part of the description of the Golden Age] Folger N.b.3 p. 3

Then, to the snowy ewe, in thy esteem, Winchilsea, Anne Finch, countess `Some pieces out of the first act of the Aminta of Tasso. Daphne's answer to Sylvia, declaring she should esteem all as enemies who should talk to her of love, or endeavor to persuade her from her virgin life' Folger N.b.3 p. 60

This day, says Ralpho, I was free, Winchilsea, Anne Finch, countess `Ralpho's reflections upon the anniversary of his wedding' Folger N.b.3 p. 27

This to the crown, and blessing of my life, Winchilsea, Anne Finch, countess `A letter to Daphnis April: 2nd: 1685' Folger N.b.3 p. 4

Though Caesar falling, show'd no sign of fear, Winchilsea, Anne Finch, countess `Caesar and Brutus' Folger N.b.3 p. 17

Tho' to antiquity, the praise we yield Winchilsea, Anne Finch, countess `A miller, to his son, and their ass. A fable translated from Monsr: de la Fontaine' Folger N.b.3 p. 24

Though we of small proportion see Winchilsea, Anne Finch, countess [from the French translation of Aminta of Tasso] Folger N.b.3 p. 2

Through every age some tyrant passion reigns Winchilsea, Anne Finch, countess `The king and the shepherd a fable imitated from the French' [two copies, one incomplete] Folger N.b.3 p. 282

Thy workmanship, O Lord, I am, Winchilsea, Anne Finch, countess `The 16th part of the 119th Psalm paraphrased. In the manner of a prayer the 1st to the 6th verse' Folger N.b.3 p. 209

Thyrsis, to thee I mean that name to show, Winchilsea, Anne Finch, countess `Amintor being asked by Thyrsis who is the object of his love speaks as follows' Folger N.b.3 p. 61

Tis fit Serena should be sung Winchilsea, Anne Finch, countess `A poem for the birthday of the right honorable the Lady Catherine Tufton. Occasioned by sight of some verses upon that subject for the preceding year composed by no eminent hand' Folger N.b.3 p. 242

Tis luxury, not honor I desire, Winchilsea, Anne Finch, countess [in The triumphs of love and innocence: a tragicomedy] Folger N.b.3 p. 90

Tis strange, this heart within my breast, Winchilsea, Anne Finch, countess `A song' Folger N.b.3 p. 33

Tis true I write and tell me by what rule Winchilsea, Anne Finch, countess `The apology' Folger N.b.3 p. 250

Tis true Myrtillo 'twas a fault Winchilsea, Anne Finch, countess `To Dr. Waldron a fellow of All Souls College in Oxford who in a leter acknowledged his mistake in having left that society and the muses to follow the practice of physic' Folger N.b.3 p. 244

To harmless revels, let us now repair, Winchilsea, Anne Finch, countess [in The triumphs of love and innocence: a tragicomedy] Folger N.b.3 p. 129

To laugh, to sing, to dance, to play Winchilsea, Anne Finch, countess [in Aristomenes or the royal shepherd a tragedy] Folger N.b.3 p. 170

To love, yet from the object fly, Winchilsea, Anne Finch, countess [in Aristomenes or the royal shepherd a tragedy] Folger N.b.3 p. 171

To write in verse has been my pleasing choice Winchilsea, Anne Finch, countess `To the right honble. The Lady C - Tufton upon addressing to me the first letter that ever she writ at the age of [ ]' [in pencil] Folger N.b.3 p. 296

Twas long debated, whether to a play Winchilsea, Anne Finch, countess `A prologue, to Don Carlos; acted by young ladies. An: 1696' Folger N.b.3 p. 50

Twice in our solitude has now appear'd Winchilsea, Anne Finch, countess `A poem. Occasioned by the sight of the 4th: epistle lib. Epist. 1. of Horace; imitated and inscribed to Richard Thornhill esqr. by Mr. Rowe, who had before sent hither, another translation from Horace' Folger N.b.3 p. 260

Two long have lov'd and now the nymph desir'd Winchilsea, Anne Finch, countess `There's no tomorrow a fable from L'Estrange' Folger N.b.3 p. 284

Vain love, why dost thou boast of wings, Winchilsea, Anne Finch, countess `A song' Folger N.b.3 p. 31

Welcome, whate'er my tender flesh may say, Winchilsea, Anne Finch, countess `On affliction' Folger N.b.3 p. 212

What art thou Spleen, which ev'rything dost ape? Winchilsea, Anne Finch, countess `The spleen' Folger N.b.3 p. 52

What fate within its bosom carries Winchilsea, Anne Finch, countess `Upon Ardelia's return home (after too long a walk in Eastwell Park) in a watercart driven by one of the underkeepers in his green coat, with a hazel bough for a whip. July. 1689' Folger N.b.3 p. 251

What friendship is, Ardelia show? Winchilsea, Anne Finch, countess `Friendship between Ephelia and Ardelia' Folger N.b.3 p. 22

When dear Teresa, shall I be Winchilsea, Anne Finch, countess `To my sister Ogle Decbr-31-1688-' Folger N.b.3 p. 5

When first upon the stage a play appears, Winchilsea, Anne Finch, countess `Prologue to my Lord Winchilsea, upon the first reading the play to him, at Estwell in Kent the play being Aristomenes or the royal shepherd a tragedy' Folger N.b.3 p. 133

When from th'infernal pit two furies rose Winchilsea, Anne Finch, countess `The gout and spider a fable imitated from Monsr. De la Fontaine and inscribed to Mr. Finch after his first fit of that distemper' Folger N.b.3 p. 276

When next we meet, if heav'n that moment sends, Winchilsea, Anne Finch, countess [in Aristomenes or the royal shepherd a tragedy] Folger N.b.3 p. 158

When Phoebus, at declining of the day Winchilsea, Anne Finch, countess `From the French, of the 188th: Sonnet of Petrarch' Folger N.b.3 p. 26

When poets gave their god in Crete a birth Winchilsea, Anne Finch, countess `Jupiter and the farmer. A fable' Folger N.b.3 p. 285

When such a day, blest the Arcadian plain, Winchilsea, Anne Finch, countess `An invitation to Daphnis to leave his handy and usual employments - mathematics printing &c and to take the pleasures of the field with Ardelia' Folger N.b.3 p. 41

Whilst life by fate, is lent to me, Folger N.b.3 p. xviii

Whilst monarchs in stern battles strove Winchilsea, Anne Finch, countess `Alcidor' Folger N.b.3 p. 280

Whilst Thyrsis, in his pride of youth Winchilsea, Anne Finch, countess `A song' Folger N.b.3 p. 29

Whilst with his falling wings, the courtly dove Winchilsea, Anne Finch, countess `Jealousy is the rage of a man' Folger N.b.3 p. 51

Why dost thou still give way to such despair? Winchilsea, Anne Finch, countess `Thyrsis persuades Amintor not to despair upon the predictions of Mopsus, discovering him to be an impostor' Folger N.b.3 p. 62

Wit, as free, and unconfin'd Winchilsea, Anne Finch, countess `A song Melinda to Alcandor' Folger N.b.3 p. 28

With such a pulse, with such disorder'd veins, Winchilsea, Anne Finch, countess `An epistle from Alexander to Ephestion in his sickness' Folger N.b.3 p. 39

Wonder not, Madam, that the muses pay Winchilsea, Anne Finch, countess `From the muses, at Parnassus (a hill so called in Eastwell Park) to the right honorable the Lady Maidston on my Lord Winchilsea's birthday' Folger N.b.3 p. 14

Would we attain the happiest state Winchilsea, Anne Finch, countess `A moral song' Folger N.b.3 p. 38

Wretched Amintor with a flame Winchilsea, Anne Finch, countess `A song designed to have been brought into the part between Climander and Herminia in Aristomenes or the royal shepherd a tragedy' Folger N.b.3 p. 194

Yet shall my duty o'er my temper rise; Winchilsea, Anne Finch, countess [in Aristomenes or the royal shepherd a tragedy] Folger N.b.3 p. 137

Yet to some spicy land it sure will fly, Winchilsea, Anne Finch, countess [in Aristomenes or the royal shepherd a tragedy] Folger N.b.3 p. 189

You, when your body, life shall leave Winchilsea, Anne Finch, countess `Melinda on an insipid beauty in imitation of a fragment of Sappho's' Folger N.b.3 p. 27

Union First Line Index of English Verse

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

Union First Line Index of English Verse

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

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