Union First Line Index of English Verse

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


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As after noon one summer's day Venus stood bathing in a river  Prior, Matthew  Cupid mistaken  Alass how easy my mistake I took you for your likeness Cloe  U. Leeds, Brotherton  Lt 61  f. 18r-v 
Careful observers may foret'll the hour By sure prognosticks when to dread a show'r  Swift, Jonathan  The city showr  Drown'd puppies stinking sprats all drench'd in mud Dead cats and turnip tops come tumbling down the flood  U. Leeds, Brotherton  Lt 61  f. 2r-3r 
Celia and I the other day Walk'd o'er the sand-hills to the sea  Prior, Matthew  The ladies looking-glass  Wretched when from thee vext when nigh I with thee or without thee dye  U. Leeds, Brotherton  Lt 61  f. 38r-39r 
Dear Thomas didst thou never pop Thy head into a tinman's shop  Prior, Matthew  A simile  Brought back how fast so e're they go Always aspiring always low  U. Leeds, Brotherton  Lt 61  f. 32r 
First was the world as one great cymbal made Where jarring winds to infant nature plaid  Marvell, Andrew  Musicks empire  Who thought h [sic] flies the musick of his praise Would with you heavns hallelujahs raise  U. Leeds, Brotherton  Lt 61  f. 18v-19r 
From frozen climes and endless tracts of snow From streams that northern winds forbid to blow  Philips, Ambrose  Winter  A tedious road the weary wretch returns And as he goes the transient vision mourns  U. Leeds, Brotherton  Lt 61  f. 30r-31v 
Had we but world enough and time This coyness lady were no crime  Marvell, Andrew  To a coy mistress  Thus though we cannot make our sun Stand still yet we will make him run  U. Leeds, Brotherton  Lt 61  f. 24v-25v 
If e'er my humble muse melodious sings Tis when you animate and tune her strings  Anonymous  To a gentleman who corrected some verses for me  Then accents more than mortal from her broke And what the god inspir'd the priestess spoke  U. Leeds, Brotherton  Lt 61  f. 27v-28v 
In these gay thoughts the loves and graces shine And all the writer lives in evry line  Pope, Alexander  Voiture  Criticks in wit or life are hard to please Few write to those and none can live to these  U. Leeds, Brotherton  Lt 61  f. 3v-4v 
Last night my hours on friendship I bestow'd And wine and mirth a while profusely flow'd  Motteux, Peter Anthony  Tea compar'd with wine  So its bright parent with prevailing light Recalls distinction and displaces night  U. Leeds, Brotherton  Lt 61  f. 17r-18r 
Miss Molly a fam'd toast was fair and young Had wealth and charms but then she had a tongue  Harrison, William  The medicin, a tale for the ladies  Be silent and complying you'l soon find Sir John without a med'cin will be kind  U. Leeds, Brotherton  Lt 61  f. 34r-36v 
Now hardly here and there an Hackney coach Appearing showd the ruddy morn's approach  Swift, Jonathan  Morning  The watchfull bailiffs take their silent stands And school-boys lag with satchels in their hands  U. Leeds, Brotherton  Lt 61  f. 16v-17r 
O why is man so thoughtless grown? Why guilty souls in hast to die?  Watts, Isaac  The hardy soldier  Than swears by heav'n and scales the walls Drops in the ditch despairs and dies  U. Leeds, Brotherton  Lt 61  f. 33r-34r 
Phyllis why should we delay Pleasures shorter than the day  Waller, Edmund  Wooing  For the joys we now may prove Take advice of present love  U. Leeds, Brotherton  Lt 61  f. 28v-29r 
Say mighty love and teach my song To whom thy sweetest joys belong  Watts, Isaac  Few happy matches  Is drawn by gentlest birds alone And Cupid's yoke the doves  U. Leeds, Brotherton  Lt 61  f. 36v-38r 
See whilst thou weep'st fair Chloe see The world in sympathy with thee  Prior, Matthew  To Chloe, weeping  Strange fears [i.e. tears] whose powr can soften all But that dear breast on which they fall  U. Leeds, Brotherton  Lt 61  f. 3v 
Soon as the day in orient climes is born The wise Chinese with tea salute the morn  Motteux, Peter Anthony  Tea  But the blest leaf extent of life can give And bids mankind emphatically live  U. Leeds, Brotherton  Lt 61  f. 25v-27v 
Such moving sounds from such a careless touch So unconcern'd herself and we so much  Waller, Edmund  On my Lady Isabella playing on the lute  So Nero once with harp in hand survey'd His flaming Rome and as it burnt he play'd  U. Leeds, Brotherton  Lt 61  f. 29v-30r 
That which her slender waist confin'd Shall now my joyfull temples bind  Waller, Edmund  On a girdle  Give me but what this riban bound Take all the rest the sun goes round  U. Leeds, Brotherton  Lt 61  f. 29r-v 
The sceptics think 'twas long ago Since gods came down incognito  Prior, Matthew  The ladle  And to the coffin from the cradle 'Tis all a wish and all a ladle  U. Leeds, Brotherton  Lt 61  f. 20r-24r 
Unequal how shall I the search begin Or paint with artless hand the awfull scene  Anonymous  The progress of poetry  From each the same quick living splendors fly And undistinguish'd brightness charms the eye  U. Leeds, Brotherton  Lt 61  f. 5r-7v, 9r-13r 
What beast of a glutton can give a good word To a pudding whose bag is the skin of a t-d?  Ward, Edward ?  Hogs puddings  For who but a dog would contentedly dine On the heart's blood and guts of a damnd nasty swine  U. Leeds, Brotherton  Lt 61  f. 18r 
When the fierce north wind with his airy forces Rears up the Baltick to a foaming fury  Watts, Isaac  The day of judgment  While our hosannahs all along the passage Shout the redeemer  U. Leeds, Brotherton  Lt 61  f. 32v-33r 
Ye nymphs of Solyma! Begin the song To heavnly themes sublimer strains belong  Pope, Alexander  Messiah, a sacred eclogue in imitation of Virgil's Pollio  But fix'd his word his saving power remains Thy realm for ever lasts thy own Mesiaha reigns  U. Leeds, Brotherton  Lt 61  f. 14r-16v 
You ask my friend how can Delia prize When Myra's shape I view or Cynthia's eyes  Eusden, Laurence  An agreeable wife  An earthly mind ill suits a heav'nly voice What tho' my Delia not decay'd appears  U. Leeds, Brotherton  Lt 61  f. 39r-v