Union First Line Index of English Verse

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


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Before the altar the devoted maid With garlands crown'd and in white robe array'd  Anonymous  Jeptha's vow  In innocence your sorrow finds releif I bear the double guilt of load and greif  U. Leeds, Brotherton  Lt 103  f. 45r-48r (rectos only) 
Begin my lyre thy great creator's praise Who crowned with glory and immortal rays  Trapp, Joseph  A paraphrase on psalm the 114 [sic]  That imitates in various sounding lays Th'harmonious discord which it strives to praise  U. Leeds, Brotherton  Lt 103  f. 1r-10r (rectos only) 
Could mournful sighs or floods of tears prevent The ills unhappy men lament  Yalden, Thomas  Against immoderate greif: to a young lady weeping  For fate is aw'd and adverse fortunes flie A chearfull look and an unconquered eye  U. Leeds, Brotherton  Lt 103  f. 11r, 12r 
Curs'd be the verse how smooth soe'er it flow That tends to make one worthy man my foe  Pope, Alexander      U. Leeds, Brotherton  Lt 103  f. 81v 
Darkness thou first kind parent of us all Thou art our great originall  Yalden, Thomas  A hymn to darkness  An universall ruin shall erect thy throne And fate confirm thy kingdom, evermore thy own  U. Leeds, Brotherton  Lt 103  f. 26r-30r (rectos only) 
Ethereal sweets shall next my muse engage And this Maecaenas claims your patronage  Anonymous  A translation of Virgil's fourth Georgick  When gay and young my rual [sic, i.e. rural?] lays I played And sett my Titryus beneath his shade  U. Leeds, Brotherton  Lt 103  f. 49r-70r (rectos only) 
Flavia the least and slightest joy Can with resistless arts imploy  Anonymous  Written in the leaves of a lady's fann  Gives coolness to the matchless dame To ev'ry other breast a flame  U. Leeds, Brotherton  Lt 103  f. 43r 
Heavy on me O Lord thy judgments lie And cursed am I for God neglects my cry  Anonymous  Considerations on the Eighty Eight Psalm  Receive the son thou didst so long reprove Thou that art the god of love  U. Leeds, Brotherton  Lt 103  f. 31r, 32r 
Here sleeps what once was beauty once was grace Grace that with tenderness and sense combin'd  Mason, William ?  On Abigal Drummond, daughter of Robert, Archbishop of York, who lived alas! only xvi years  The father mourns his child upon her bier The Christian yeilds an angel to his God  U. Leeds, Brotherton  Lt 103  f. 86v 
How soon alas their bosoms bleed again See Charlotte in the dawn of life expire  Smith, Dr  On the death of Miss C. Drummond aged 11 months  She's called thus early to yon brighter sphere With native sweetness smiles on cherub there  U. Leeds, Brotherton  Lt 103  f. 87r 
If righteous souls in their blest mansions know Or what we do or suffer here below  Anonymous  The dream occasioned by the death of the most noble and virtuous Lady Elizabeth Seymour, mother to his Grace Duke of Sommersett  All blest the noble pair and took their flight To the bright regions of unfained light  U. Leeds, Brotherton  Lt 103  f. 17r-22r (rectos only) 
In golden times contending poets vied To sing the hero of their countrys birth  Lemoine, Henry  To Sylvanus Urban Gent on the completion of his seventy fourth volume  Proud as Scamander when Joves offspring said "Rise, Ilion, rise! and Ilion rear'd her head  U. Leeds, Brotherton  Lt 103  f. 172r,171v,171r (inverted) 
In youths 'tis said, you easily may scan Strong stamp'd the outlines of the future man  Howard, Frederick, Lord Carlisle    In mirth in sadness sing him how I will Sense and good nature attend him still  U. Leeds, Brotherton  Lt 103  f. 83r-86r (rectos only) 
Joy, Sylvan Urb to thee I give Well knowing thou hast long to live  Anonymous  To the same, on the same occasion [i.e. To Sylvanus Urban, Gent., on compleating his 73 Vol. Gent. Mag.]  Till nature we no more can trace Sylv. Urban will prevail  U. Leeds, Brotherton  Lt 103  f. 175r, 174v (inverted) 
Lovely lasting peace of mind Sweet delight of human kind  Anonymous  An hymn to contentment  And find a life of equal bliss Or own the next begun in this  U. Leeds, Brotherton  Lt 103  f. 74r-78r (rectos only) 
My friend, thy poet once so gay Blythe as the Laureate on New Years Day  Lemoine, Henry  To Sylvanus Urban, Gent., on compleating his 73 Vol. Gent. Mag.  And push from our uncertain feet, This false enamour'd ball  U. Leeds, Brotherton  Lt 103  f. 176v,176r,175v,175r (inverted) 
My muse like a weathercock turns round its joint But she never finds at any one point  Hutton, William  Remarks upon various subjects  For fear in wrath you play the fool Take four and twenty hours to cool  U. Leeds, Brotherton  Lt 103  f. 174r,173v,173r,172v 
Now let the fatall banner be displayed Upon some lofty mountains top  Yalden, Thomas  The curse of Babylon, paraphrased from the 13 chapter of Isaiah  Beneath the reach of miseries fell Thou need'st no desolation dread nor greater curses fear  U. Leeds, Brotherton  Lt 103  f. 33r-42r (rectos only) 
O here if ever holy patience bend Thy dutious knee, the hand of heaven severe  Mason, William ?  In memory of Thomas Charles Fountayne Esquire, only son of John Fountayne, Dean of York, by Ann daughter of Charles Montague Esquire of Papplewick in the County of Nottingham. Born June 15th 1758, died January 1st 1780.  Be your's a while to pace this vale of care Be his to soar with seraphs in the skyes  U. Leeds, Brotherton  Lt 103  f. 88r 
Parent of day! Where beauteous beams of light Spring from the darksome womb of night  Yalden, Thomas  A hymn to the morning in praise of light  With night said he divide the imperiall sway Thou my first labour art and thou shalt bless the day  U. Leeds, Brotherton  Lt 103  f. 23r, 24r, 25r 
Since all must certainly to death resign Why should we make it dreadfull or repine  Anonymous  Against the fear of death  We all must pass thro' death's dead sea of night To reach the haven of eternall light  U. Leeds, Brotherton  Lt 103  f. 14r, 15r, 16r 
Stranger behold this little beechen grove The seat of beauty innocence and love  Anonymous  Verses on the planting five trees on an eminance at Berring Castle, the seat of the Right Honourable Thomas Harley in Herefordshire, 1775  So future ages shall extend their fame And the five happy sisters be their name  U. Leeds, Brotherton  Lt 103  f. 90r, 91r, 92r 
This plunder O indulgent Pope forgive And in thy words my sentiments receive  Howard, Frederick, Lord Carlisle  Verses composed by Lord Carlisle in praise of his select school-fellow friends, on leaving Eaton  Not so with me; your virtues as they shine And you my friends to paint the task be mine  U. Leeds, Brotherton  Lt 103  f. 81v, 82v 
To view the tombs of ancient chiefs we came To bow where valour sleeps on glorys bed  Anonymous  Elegy written at Stanton Harcourt in Oxfordshire, the 24th of Sept. 1777  Shall ne'er be pressed again by strangers feet But memory shall awaken Harcourts fate  U. Leeds, Brotherton  Lt 103  f. 89r 
Welcome thou glorious spring of light and heat Where hast thou made thy long retreat  H., J.  To the returning sun  The duller brutes feel the soft flames The fishes leap for joy and wanton in their streams  U. Leeds, Brotherton  Lt 103  f. 13r, [13A]r 
While night in solemn shades invests the pole And calm reflection soothes the pensive soul  Carter, Mrs    Wak'd from the sleep of death with joy survey The opening splendors of eternall day  U. Leeds, Brotherton  Lt 103  f. 71r-74r (rectos only) 
Ye echos my sentiments hear While Churchill I truly deplore  Howard, Frederick, Lord Carlisle ?  The feast of fancy - pastoral elegy  And engaged by his merit alone Strive to imatate [sic] that if we can  U. Leeds, Brotherton  Lt 103  f. 79r-82r (rectos only) 
Ye virgin powers defend my heart From am'rous looks and smiles  Anonymous  A song  And the who thinks herself secure The soonest is betrayed  U. Leeds, Brotherton  Lt 103  f. 44r