Union First Line Index of English Verse

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


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A day more lucky than the rest Some nymphs together met  Anonymous  On a young gentleman who slept in company with his mistress  They'd die unwed before they wou'd Accept of such a drone  U. Leeds, Brotherton  Lt 93  f. 35r-v 
A northern pair we wave the name Rich young and not unknown to fame  Anonymous  The power of innocence  Ye that have passions for a tear Give nature vent and drop it here  U. Leeds, Brotherton  Lt 93  f. 8r-9v 
A zealous locksmith died of late And did arrive at heaven's gate  Anonymous  Epitaph on a puritanical lock-smith  He stood without and wou'd not knock Because he meant to pick the lock  U. Leeds, Brotherton  Lt 93  f. 12v 
Accept these lines which he who durst not bring Presents by your too happy fav'rite Spring  Anonymous  An epistle to Miss B- after the manner of Ovid designed to have been slipt on the collar of a grayhound which frequently traversed the way between her house and the authors  Here Cupid ceas'd tho' more he wou'd have said But Spring was going and with him he fled  U. Leeds, Brotherton  Lt 93  f. 33v-34v 
Alas how little of ourselves we know How small a part perform'd of what we owe  Anonymous  To the too forgetful Marcus  And 'twill inform you for you can't but see They were to you design'd and writ by me  U. Leeds, Brotherton  Lt 93  f. 7r-v 
Almeria with an angel face Her form with pride surveys  Boyse, Samuel  The parallel. Ode.  One sister's smiles relieve the wound The others charms bestow  U. Leeds, Brotherton  Lt 93  f. 24v-25r 
Ambition charms not good Clarinda's mind No pride a place in her chaste heart can find  Anonymous    Duly advancing his eternal praise Divinely good are all Clarinda's ways  U. Leeds, Brotherton  Lt 93  f. 58r 
As some fond virgin whom her mother's care Drags from the town to wholesome country air  Pope, Alexander  To a lady, on her leaving the Town  Vext to be still in town I knit my brow Look sour and hum a song as you may now  U. Leeds, Brotherton  Lt 93  f. 36r-37r 
Blithe Jockey's blest art Hath bewitch'd my young heart  Anonymous    But I long for the day Oh he'll marry me one time or other  U. Leeds, Brotherton  Lt 93  f. 52v-53r 
Cast my love thine eyes around See the sprotive [sic] lambkins play  Cooke, Thomas  Song  Like the sparrow and the dove Listen to the voice of love  U. Leeds, Brotherton  Lt 93  f. 44v-45r 
Chaste Celia's mirth transports me more and more Grave Delia's wisdom justly I adore  Anonymous  W. Williams's difficulty  In such distress assist ye gods above To one I know not which direct my love  U. Leeds, Brotherton  Lt 93  f. 10v 
Come all ye youths whose hearts e'er bled By cruel beauty's pride  Anonymous  The dying lover's complaint  Tho' bright as heav'n whose stamp she bears Think on my fate and shun her snares  U. Leeds, Brotherton  Lt 93  f. 46v 
Dear Peggy since the single state You've left and chose your self a mate  Anonymous  To a lady lately married  I own you've ample cause to chide And blushing throw my pen aside  U. Leeds, Brotherton  Lt 93  f. 14v-15v 
Fair Kitty beautiful and young And wild as colt untamed  Prior, Matthew; or Harcourt, Simon  Song  Obtain'd the chariot for a day And set the world on fire  U. Leeds, Brotherton  Lt 93  f. 54v 
Friendship adieu thou vain deceitful good So much profess'd so little understood  Boyse, Samuel  The farewell to friendship  Soon we behold the treach'rous insects gone And find ourselves deserted and undone  U. Leeds, Brotherton  Lt 93  f. 9v 
From sweet bewitching tricks of love Young men your hearts secure  Anonymous  Song moderniz'd from Chaucer  Gallants beware look sharp take care The blind eat many a fly  U. Leeds, Brotherton  Lt 93  f. 38r 
Had I but a palfry to Tunbridge I'd go To see if my fair one wou'd now buckle to  Anonymous  To Miss Biddy Floyd  I hope you've a place in your breast that is void Where Bob may creep in to his bright Biddy Floyd  U. Leeds, Brotherton  Lt 93  f. 45r-v 
He that hath eyes now wake and weep He whose waking was our cleap [sleep?]  Morley, George ?  On K. James 1st  Princes are gods oh do not then Rake in their graves to prove them men  U. Leeds, Brotherton  Lt 93  f. 46v 
How vain are all the joys of man By nature born to certain sorrow  Yonge, Sir William  On the loss of an eye by a blow of a tennes-ball  Tho' deaf and blind her balmy kiss Wou'd ravish the remaining senses  U. Leeds, Brotherton  Lt 93  f. 49r 
I live for those who love me For those I know are true  Anonymous  What I live for  For the future in the distance And the good that I can do  U. Leeds, Brotherton  Lt 93  f. 75v-77v 
I remember I remember When a chubby little boy  Barham, Richard Harris    That when little boys are naughty They should be whipt and sent to bed  U. Leeds, Brotherton  Lt 93  f. 65r-66r 
I said to my heart between sleeping and waking Thou wild thing that always art leaping or aking  Mordaunt, Charles; later Earl of Peterborough  Song. By a person of quality.  When so easy to guess who this angel should be Would one think Mrs H-d ne'er dreamt it was she  U. Leeds, Brotherton  Lt 93  f. 30v-31r 
I saw a happy bride within a home Of wedded bliss she smiled on one who loved  Anonymous  Sonnet  To a lone grave and mourned in deep despair For this once happy bride who slumbered there  U. Leeds, Brotherton  Lt 93  f. 75r 
I think 'tis years just twenty-one My maiden glass has slowly run  Anonymous  Dolly musing  Now Hodge may have her if he will For Dolly must be Dolly still  U. Leeds, Brotherton  Lt 93  f. 51r-52v 
If e'er I'm doom'd the marriage bands to wear Kind heaven propitious hear my virgin pray'r  Anonymous  A choice  Be this my fate if e'er I'm made a wife Or keep me happy in a single life  U. Leeds, Brotherton  Lt 93  f. 35r 
If XYZ has but spoken true That finding a wife is his object in view  Anonymous  Answer to 'Not an advertisement'  He a line can drop in a post or two To the care of the editor for OPQ  U. Leeds, Brotherton  Lt 93  f. 108v-r (inverted) 
Immortal Newton never spoke A greater truth refind  Stanhope, Philip Dormer, Earl of Chesterfield  Writen under the picture of Beau Nash that was placed between the busts of Sir Isaac Newton and Alexander Pope Esquire in the Long Roome at Bath  Wisdom and wit are little seen But folly at full length  U. Leeds, Brotherton  Lt 93  f. 34v 
Impress'd by love and bred with pain Soft offspring of desire  Hamilton, Jenny ?  Aenigma  Cloe in private brings forth Yet Cloe's still a maid  U. Leeds, Brotherton  Lt 93  f. 25v-26r 
Imprimis my departed shade I trust To heav'n my body to the silent dust  Leapor, Mary  Mira's will, by the late Mrs Leapor  Who was when she these legacies design'd In body healthy and compos'd in mind  U. Leeds, Brotherton  Lt 93  f. 10r-v 
In amaze Lost I gaze  Pope, Alexander  To Quinbus Flestrin, the man-mountain. A Lilliputian ode.  So shall I Lofty poet touch the sky  U. Leeds, Brotherton  Lt 93  f. 31v-32r 
Is not my measter here among you pray Nay speak my measter wrote this fine new play  Garrick, David  Prologue to Barbarossa [by John Brown, d. 1766] written by Mr Garrick and spoken by him in the character of a country boy  E'feck I'll trust no more to measter's brain But pack up all and whistle whoame again  U. Leeds, Brotherton  Lt 93  f. 41r-42r 
Is there a place where the souls of the just Forsaking mortality's loathsome dust  Bayly, Nathaniel Thomas Haynes  A sea-side reverie  To follow their steps in death's awful track Without one selfish wish to call them back  U. Leeds, Brotherton  Lt 93  f. 73r-74v 
Ladies observe I am a lifeless tool Doom'd to be made by the whole sex a fool  Hamilton, Jenny ?  Aenigma  Like rays emerging from the radiant sun Transmitted thro' a convex fiercely burn  U. Leeds, Brotherton  Lt 93  f. 18v 
Let my fair one only be Female sex and she's for me  Anonymous  General lover  Sigh for her whoe'er she be If woman thats enough for me  U. Leeds, Brotherton  Lt 93  f. 64r-v 
Madam I cannot but congratulate Your inclination to a single state  Anonymous  Letter to a single lady  Suppress wild nature if she does rebell There's no such thing as leading apes in hell  U. Leeds, Brotherton  Lt 93  f. 13r-14r 
March with his wind hath struck a cedar tall And weeping April mourns the cedar's fall  Anonymous  On the death of Q. Anne  Thus March's wind has caused April show'rs And yet sad May must lose her flower of flow'rs  U. Leeds, Brotherton  Lt 93  f. 46r 
Mark how the bashful morn in vain Courts the amorous marigold  Carew, Thomas  Boldness in love  Thy Celia shall receive those charms With open ears and with unfolded arms  U. Leeds, Brotherton  Lt 93  f. 63v 
My constant thought my better part Learn from these faithful lines my pain  Anonymous  Letter from a clergyman to his lady whilst she was absent from him on a visit  With you all comforts fled away With you alone will all return  U. Leeds, Brotherton  Lt 93  f. 4r-5r 
My time O ye muses was happily spent When Phebe went with me whereever I went  Byrom, John  A song  Ah what shall I do I shall die with dispair Take heed o ye swains how ye love one so fair  U. Leeds, Brotherton  Lt 93  f. 11r-12v 
O love thou softest passion of the mind Whose easy chains the willing captive bind  Anonymous  On love  Slaves to thy power to freedom born in vain We love the misery and hug the chain  U. Leeds, Brotherton  Lt 93  f. 57v 
Oh be thou blest with all that heav'n can send Long health long youth long pleasure and a friend  Pope, Alexander  To a lady. Sent on her birth-day.  Peaceful sleep out the sabbath of the tomb And awake to raptures in a life to come  U. Leeds, Brotherton  Lt 93  f. 32v 
Old Chaucer once to this re-echoing grove Sung of the sweet bewitching tricks of love  Anonymous  A panegyrick on the ladies: being Chaucer's recantation for the foregoing song [BCMSV 3565]  Your praise sweet nymphs shall sing and say And those that will believe it may  U. Leeds, Brotherton  Lt 93  f. 38v-39v 
On Celia's eyes with pleasure as I gaz'd And thence a thousand doubts and raptures rais'd  Anonymous  On seeing a very aimable young lady blush  There doom'd to live the vanquish'd still remains Whilst in her cheeks th'insulting conqu'ror reigns  U. Leeds, Brotherton  Lt 93  f. 54r-v 
On you our constant theme of praise The humble bashful muse attends  Anonymous  To Miss Gore, Lady Patroness of the Amicable Society at Wolford in Warwickshire  We're pleas'd our patroness is one Whom the like acts will make divine  U. Leeds, Brotherton  Lt 93  f. 26v-27r 
Pshaw damn your epilogue and hold your tongue Shall we of rank be told what's right and wrong  Garrick, David  Epilogue written by Mr Garrick. Spoken by Mr Woodward in the character of a fine gentleman  Reserve alone to bless these golden times A farce or two and Woodward's pantomimes  U. Leeds, Brotherton  Lt 93  f. 42r-43r 
Returning home at close of day Who gently chides my long delay  Anonymous  The bachelors complaint  And will to Hymen's altar take Somebody  U. Leeds, Brotherton  Lt 93  f. 71v-72r 
She first deceas'd he for a little tried To live without her lik'd it not and dy'd  Wotton, Sir Henry  Epitaph on two lovers who were contracted, both dying before marriage    U. Leeds, Brotherton  Lt 93  f. 15v 
Since Celia dear Octavio proves unkind Accept this present for the fair design'd  Boyse, Samuel  To a friend. With Cato and Tamerlane.  And fly Octavio fly his hapless fate Lest you like him repent alas too late  U. Leeds, Brotherton  Lt 93  f. 25r-v 
Since wedlock's in vogue and stale virgins despis'd To all batchelors greeting these lines are premised  Cunningham, John  Song  In whose heart love and truth are with honour conjoin'd This this and no other's the man to my mind  U. Leeds, Brotherton  Lt 93  f. 43r-v 
Stay reader and observe death's partial doom A spreading virtue in a narrow tomb  Anonymous  In Stregleton Church near Newark upon Trent, Lincolnshire  A double dissolution there appears He into dust dissolves she into tears  U. Leeds, Brotherton  Lt 93  f. 47v 
Tell me my Delia tell me why My kindest fondest looks you fly  Lyttleton, George, 1st baron  Damon and Delia  Reason this faith may disapprove But I believe because I love  U. Leeds, Brotherton  Lt 93  f. 37r-v 
The farmer's goose who in the stubble Has fed without restraint or trouble  Anonymous  The progress of poetry  He singing flies and flying sings While from below all Grub Street rings  U. Leeds, Brotherton  Lt 93  f. 29v-30v 
The morn her rosy wings had spread And gilded ev'ry mountain's head  Anonymous  Flavia's birthday. To Miss H-.  Nor need you far for wisdom roam Your best examples are at home  U. Leeds, Brotherton  Lt 93  f. 48r-v 
The things that make a virgin please She that seeks will find them these  Philips, Katherine  The virgin  And whose religion's strong and plain Not superstitious nor prophane  U. Leeds, Brotherton  Lt 93  f. 6v 
They were treasured up and hoarded Hour by hour and day by day  Anonymous  The love letters  Were those records loved and voiceless Of hours long passed away  U. Leeds, Brotherton  Lt 93  f. 72r-v 
Thou traitor who with the fair sex hast made war Come hither and hold up your hand at the bar  Anonymous  The trial of Chaucer's ghost. Sung by Mr Lowe, Miss Norris and Miss Stephenson  To some musty old maid that's the de'il of a shrew That will scold him and beat him and cuckold him too  U. Leeds, Brotherton  Lt 93  f. 39v-40v 
To warm his nose from Michaelmas to Lent A father to his son a present sent  Anonymous  A riddle  Such things are dug in subterraneous holes You'll think it was but 'twa'n't a load of coals  U. Leeds, Brotherton  Lt 93  f. 14r 
What can I say what arguments can prove My truth what colours can describe my love  Prior, Matthew  Celia to Damon  And can you not for her you love do more Than any youth for any nymph before  U. Leeds, Brotherton  Lt 93  f. 16r-18r 
What charms what graces in that woman shine Whose lovely form contains a soul divine  Anonymous    To Phabus therefore I resign my lays The gods should write where mortals cannot praise  U. Leeds, Brotherton  Lt 93  f. 63r 
When Apollo pursu'd his coy mistress of old If his harp as they tell us was made of right gold  Boyse, Samuel  Phoebus mistaken  Comply'd with his flame granted all his desire And surrender'd her charms in exchange for his lyre  U. Leeds, Brotherton  Lt 93  f. 7v 
When eastern lovers feed the funeral fire On the same pile the faithful pair expire  Pope, Alexander    Hearts so sincere th'almighty saw well pleas'd Sent his own lightning and the victims seiz'd  U. Leeds, Brotherton  Lt 93  f. 57v 
When strong perfumes and noisome scents The suff'ring nose invade  Anonymous  A young lady's six reasons for taking a pinch of snuff to a gentleman that wou'd dissuade her from it  Think that in granting my request You benefit mankind  U. Leeds, Brotherton  Lt 93  f. 49v-50r 
Where Kelvin's winding streams in murmurs play And thro' the meads to join fair Glotta stray  Boyse, Samuel  The force of love. A pastoral essay.  These endless pains must I for ever prove And yeild a victim to the force of love  U. Leeds, Brotherton  Lt 93  f. 19r-24r 
Whilst here in the parlor I mopishly sit Unconscious of pleasure and tasteless of wit  Anonymous  On two different scenes of the same night  But when the poor bed-ridden cripple I meet I thank God that I'm able to walk on my feet  U. Leeds, Brotherton  Lt 93  f. 47r-v 
Who is it when I do crochet Declares its trifling time away  Hall or Hale, Spinster ?  The contented maidens soliloquy  But love my tabby cat and fire And care for nobody  U. Leeds, Brotherton  Lt 93  f. 70v-71r 
Why with your wailings do these groves resound My mate my turtle's no where to be found  Anonymous  The turtle and traveller  Why thro' these solitudes chuse you to roam Because my turtle's to be found at home  U. Leeds, Brotherton  Lt 93  f. 43v 
Wife and servant are the same But only differ in the name  Chudleigh, Lady Mary  A satyr upon marriage  Value yourselves and men despise You must be proud if you'll be wise  U. Leeds, Brotherton  Lt 93  f. 33r 
Would you think it my Duck for the fault I must own Your Jenny of late is quite coveteous grown  Hamilton, Jenny  Miss Ham--n to Miss Duck  But you shan't know his name tho' I told you before It begins with an M but I dare not say More  U. Leeds, Brotherton  Lt 93  f. 3r-v 
XYZ is open to wed Any young lady who's very well bred  James, Luke  Not an advertisement  And ready-made husband a model 'tis said By posting a letter to XYZ  U. Leeds, Brotherton  Lt 93  f. 109r-108v (inverted) 
XYZ is still upon view And is really dog cheap at three times two  James, Luke  From 'XYZ' to 'OPQ'  And will woo And worship and wed and adieu  U. Leeds, Brotherton  Lt 93  f. 108r-107r (inverted) 
Ye learned of wisdom who boast Ye fair ones who wise wou'd be thought  Hamilton, Jenny ?  Aenigma  In your hand you may see one what's best I'm certainly now in your head  U. Leeds, Brotherton  Lt 93  f. 5r-6r