Union First Line Index of English Verse

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


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Advantages of ancestry and birth        Harvard  MS Eng 584  f. 28v 
Arise, my muse, and take thy lyre        Harvard  MS Eng 584  f. 66v 
As foreign Indian plants will sometimes live        Harvard  MS Eng 584  f. 23v 
Behold the man! Inhuman Pilate! no        Harvard  MS Eng 584  f. 91 
Bold without rashness, without fury, warm        Harvard  MS Eng 584  f. 27v 
But in this thankless world, the givers (incomplete)        Harvard  MS Eng 584  f. 43 
Come, honest sexton, take thy spade        Harvard  MS Eng 584  f. 39v 
Dear Savior, oh! what ails this heart        Harvard  MS Eng 584  f. 40 
Discord and plots which have undone our age  Dryden, John      Harvard  MS Eng 584  f. 38v 
Earth trembled, and heaven's closing eye        Harvard  MS Eng 584  f. 40 
Enough, my muse, of earthly things  Cowley, Abraham      Harvard  MS Eng 584  f. 90 
God ne'er necessitates to good or ill        Harvard  MS Eng 584  f. 80v 
Grave in his words, wise, thoughtful, slow        Harvard  MS Eng 584  f. 80v 
His own estate's too narrow for his mind        Harvard  MS Eng 584  f. 35v 
I leave mortality and things below  Cowley, Abraham      Harvard  MS Eng 584  f. 88 
Illustrious James, Albion's great monarch's son        Harvard  MS Eng 584  f. 64v 
In mad extremes the superstitious own        Harvard  MS Eng 584  f. 34v 
In the black dismal dungeon of despair        Harvard  MS Eng 584  f. 14 
King David and the sybil name        Harvard  MS Eng 584  f. 93v 
Let the night perish, curs'd be the morn        Harvard  MS Eng 584  f. 24v 
My friend, I'll not pretend the least your praise        Harvard  MS Eng 584  f. 68 
My home-bred Muse, kind, glorious saint forgive        Harvard  MS Eng 584  f. 95 
Nay, start not at that skeleton        Harvard  MS Eng 584  f. 14v 
No grief like your so great appears        Harvard  MS Eng 584  f. 7 
Not all the precepts of philosophy        Harvard  MS Eng 584  f. 82 
Of all things, sir, I hate a parasite        Harvard  MS Eng 584  f. 68 
O Happy revolution of a day        Harvard  MS Eng 584  f. 38 
Oh, life, thou nothing's younger brother        Harvard  MS Eng 584  f. 89v 
Oh! that mine eyes would melt into a flood        Harvard  MS Eng 584  f. 24 
O would mine eyes distill into a flood        Harvard  MS Eng 584  f. 64 
Our vows are heard betimes! and Heaven takes care        Harvard  MS Eng 584  f. 17 
Praise from the eternal King        Harvard  MS Eng 584  f. 92 
Should I pretend to sing your praise        Harvard  MS Eng 584  f. 67v 
Sir, when your noble verse I read        Harvard  MS Eng 584  f. 67 
Sir, when your verse and lofty style I meet        Harvard  MS Eng 584  f. 67 
Speak, satyr, for there's none can tell like thee        Harvard  MS Eng 584  f. 43 
The envious feeds upon his neighbor's ills        Harvard  MS Eng 584  f. 37 
The fertile Nile which creatures new doth frame (incomplete)        Harvard  MS Eng 584  f. 96 
The hypocrite to sadness can convert        Harvard  MS Eng 584  f. 32 
The laurel, meed of mighty conquerors (incomplete)        Harvard  MS Eng 584  f. 94v 
The man that's wise, to know all things aspires        Harvard  MS Eng 584  f. 26v 
The patient man has so much strength attain'd        Harvard  MS Eng 584  f. 30 
The sailing pine, the cedar proud and tall (incomplete)        Harvard  MS Eng 584  f. 94v 
The world's a theater of noise and vice        Harvard  MS Eng 584  f. 98 
There was Ixion turned on a wheel        Harvard  MS Eng 584  f. 94v 
There's no disturbance in the heavens above        Harvard  MS Eng 584  f. 24 
There's nothing in the world which I can name        Harvard  MS Eng 584  f. 79 
Thespis, the first professor of our arts  Dryden, John      Harvard  MS Eng 584  f. 39 
Three things must be resolved in mind        Harvard  MS Eng 584  f. 79v 
Too often preaching shows a vicious mind        Harvard  MS Eng 584  f. 80v 
Traitor to God, doom'd source of blasphemy        Harvard  MS Eng 584  f. 39v 
United, yet divided is his breast        Harvard  MS Eng 584  f. 31 
Were I a spirit free (which thought's as vain        Harvard  MS Eng 584  f. 86v 
Were I, who to my cost already am  Rochester, John Wilmot, 2nd earl      Harvard  MS Eng 584  f. 81v 
What monster, superstition, is like thee        Harvard  MS Eng 584  f. 33 
What? shall the crowd his injur'd name blaspheme        Harvard  MS Eng 584  f. 8 
When Adam proper names on beasts conferred        Harvard  MS Eng 584  f. 39v 
When from profound abyss of endless thought        Harvard  MS Eng 584  f. 68v 
Wherever God erects a house of prayer  Defoe, Daniel      Harvard  MS Eng 584  f. 44