Union First Line Index of English Verse

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A married man can't single be  Hyde, [ ]  `Celibacy'    Folger  W.a.119  p. 3 
Absent or dead still let a friend be dear        Folger  W.a.119  p. 80 
Admit whatever trifles come        Folger  W.a.119  p. 81 
After grave plays pert epilogues advance  Piozzi, Hester (Thrale)  `Conclusion'    Folger  W.a.119  p. 40 
And is there a past day? and must there come        Folger  W.a.119  p. 81 
Be vain my lord you have a right  Hyde, [ ]  `Vanity'    Folger  W.a.119  p. 1 
Censure none rashly Nature's apt to halt        Folger  W.a.119  p. 72 
Conyers dissemble! let me see  Hyde, [ ]  `Dissimulation'    Folger  W.a.119  p. 4 
For heaven's supreme eternal Lord  Fellow, [ ]  `From Fellow's history of the Bible'    Folger  W.a.119  p. 82 
For home he had not home is the resort  Thomson, James  `Extract from Thomson's Seasons'    Folger  W.a.119  p. 40 
From earth retir'd and all its empty cares  Parsons, William  `Verses to Mrs. Piozzi'    Folger  W.a.119  p. 37 
Go happy trifle constantly attend        Folger  W.a.119  p. 85 
If she for Legge a blank designed  Hyde, [ ]      Folger  W.a.119  p. 4 
Inconstancy there is no harm in  Hyde, [ ]  `Inconstancy'    Folger  W.a.119  p. 2 
Insensible can Marsham be!  Hyde, [ ]  `Insensibility'    Folger  W.a.119  p. 2 
Intemperance implies excess  Hyde, [ ]  `Intemperance'    Folger  W.a.119  p. 3 
It is true I am ill but I should not complain  Erskine, Thomas      Folger  W.a.119  p. 4 
Most soldiers cowardice disclaim  Hyde, [ ]  `Cowardice'    Folger  W.a.119  p. 3 
Most writers agree and I know it a truth    `Lines on a late Piozzified marriage' [by `Martial, junior']    Folger  W.a.119  p. 90 
Neglect not thou the voice of fame        Folger  W.a.119  p. 81 
Oh let me haunt this peaceful shade!  Shenstone, William  `Transcribed from a seat in the Occluse valley at the Leasows 1750' [pencil note: `Dodsley [3rd edition 1768 vol 1] p. 316.' Taken from a ms lent by coz. widow Davis about the beginning of 1752]    Folger  W.a.119? or w118?  f. 3v 
Oh that those lips had language! life has past  Cowper, William  `On the receipt of my mother's picture sent me from Norfolk by my cousin Ann Botham'    Folger  W.a.119  p. 65 
St. John your vice you can't disown  Hyde, [ ]  `Impudence'    Folger  W.a.119  p. 2 
The hues of bliss more brightly glow        Folger  W.a.119  p. 85 
The poor parson of Bourne  Lushington, Rev. Dr. [ ]  `June 3, 1773'    Folger  W.a.119  p. 86 
Tho' sooth'd by soft music's seducing delights  Parsons, William  `To Mrs. Piozzi in reply [to her previous poem__While Venus inspires and such verses you sing; taken from The Florence miscellany, 1785]    Folger  W.a.119  p. 34 
Thus a adown [sic] the slope of life I bend    `Extract from a monody on the death of Dr. Oliver Goldsmith'    Folger  W.a.119  p. 87 
Twixt art or nature long has been the strife  Parsons, William  `On some flowers painted by a lady' [taken from The Florence miscellany, 1785]    Folger  W.a.119  p. 36 
Uncouth is this moss-covered grotto of stone  Sheridan, Richard Brinsley Butler  `To his wife'    Folger  W.a.119  p. 59 
When friends sincere together meet    `To a friend'    Folger  W.a.119  p. 88 
While Venus inspires and such verses you sing  Piozzi, Hester (Thrale)  `To [William] Parsons esq.' [taken from The Florence miscellany, 1785]    Folger  W.a.119  p. 32 
Who fed me from her gentle breast    `My mother'    Folger  W.a.119  p. 74 
Yet why my muse attune the woeful lay        Folger  W.a.119  p. 91