Union First Line Index of English Verse

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


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A due reflection on our state        Harvard  MS Eng 680  f. 58 
A friend sequester'd in a land remote        Harvard  MS Eng 680  f. 10v 
All the distinctions of this little life (incomplete)        Harvard  MS Eng 680, verso of final leaf   
And did the omnipotent eternal mind        Harvard  MS Eng 680  f. 7 
As nipt and wither'd by unfriendly skies        Harvard  MS Eng 680  f. 38v 
But us'd with art and rightly understood (incomplete)        Harvard  MS Eng 680  f. 58 
Could but our tempers move like this machine        Harvard  MS Eng 680  f. 14 
Deluded mortal, turn and view thy store        Harvard  MS Eng 680  f. 45 
Enwrapt in ease my muse in calm repose        Harvard  MS Eng 680  f. 28 
Exalted passion! pure, ethereal flame        Harvard  MS Eng 680  f. 52v 
Far in a wild, unknown to public view  Parnell, Thomas      Harvard  MS Eng 680  f. 14v 
First the great gods thy utmost rev'rence claim        Harvard  MS Eng 680  f. 74 
Forbear, vain man, to launch with reason's eye (incomplete)        Harvard  MS Eng 680, back cover   
From frozen climes and endless tracts of snow (incomplete)  Philips, Ambrose      Harvard  MS Eng 680  f. 36 
Griev'd to behold in youth's enchanting bloom        Harvard  MS Eng 680  f. 57v 
Hark, how the sacred thunder rends the skies        Harvard  MS Eng 680  f. 65v 
How mean that snuff of glory, fortune lights (incomplete)        Harvard  MS Eng 680, verso of last leaf   
How oft the unwary birds have met        Harvard  MS Eng 680  f. 49 
In fading grandeur lo! the trees        Harvard  MS Eng 680  f. 31v 
In such a world, so thorny, and where none (incomplete)        Harvard  MS Eng 680, verso of last leaf   
Late o'er the fields the yellow autumn smil'd        Harvard  MS Eng 680  f. 26v 
Lo! from an acorn grows the lofty oak        Harvard  MS Eng 680  f. 61v 
Mankind may walk unmov'd by strife        Harvard  MS Eng 680  f. 55 
Ne'er let soft slumber seize your eyes        Harvard  MS Eng 680  f. 46v 
Now the brown woods their leafy load resign        Harvard  MS Eng 680  f. 55v 
Now with autumnal glooms the mountains frown (incomplete)        Harvard  MS Eng 680, back cover   
O happiness, say where dost thou reside        Harvard  MS Eng 680  f. 50v 
Oh how I tremble for thy virgin heart (incomplete)        Harvard  MS Eng 680  f. 63 
O thou pale moon! who leads the shining throng        Harvard  MS Eng 680  f. 68v 
Oh, where for shelter will the guilty fly (incomplete)        Harvard  MS Eng 680, back cover   
On parent knees a naked newborn child        Harvard  MS Eng 680  f. 82v 
Say, is there aught that can convey        Harvard  MS Eng 680  f. 31 
Seize wisdom, ere 'tis torment to be wise (incomplete)        Harvard  MS Eng 680, verso of final leaf   
Shall that which rises out of nought complain (incomplete)        Harvard  MS Eng 680, verso of final leaf   
Sinks to the grave with unperceiv'd decay (incomplete)        Harvard  MS Eng 680, back cover   
Tender softness, infant mild        Harvard  MS Eng 680  f. 57 
The curfew tolls the knell of parting day  Gray, Thomas      Harvard  MS Eng 680  f. 79 
This greatens, fills, immortalizes all (incomplete)        Harvard  MS Eng 680  f. 60v 
Though I could speak with perfect mastery        Harvard  MS Eng 680  f. 41v 
Tho plunged in ills and exercised in care        Harvard  MS Eng 680  f. 44 
Tis not too arduous an assay        Harvard  MS Eng 680  f. 44 
Virtue, not rolling suns, the mind matures (incomplete)        Harvard  MS Eng 680  f. 57v 
Virtue, thou ornament of human life        Harvard  MS Eng 680  f. 47 
Vital spark of heav'nly flame  Pope, Alexander      Harvard  MS Eng 680  f. 38 
What now we know is doubtful and obscure        Harvard  MS Eng 680  f. 44v 
What tranquil road, unvex'd by strife        Harvard  MS Eng 680  f. 54v 
When in the crimson cloud of even        Harvard  MS Eng 680  f. 76v 
When soft descending from the lips of age        Harvard  MS Eng 680  f. 73 
Whilst anxious mortals strive in vain        Harvard  MS Eng 680  f. 48 
Who, and where art thou, fond presumptuous man        Harvard  MS Eng 680  f. 33 
Whyt droops the head, why languishes the eye        Harvard  MS Eng 680  f. 2 
Yon lordly pile, the city's pride survey        Harvard  MS Eng 680  f. 20v