Union First Line Index of English Verse

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A deacon write epigrams! why should he not?    `On a deacon writing epigrams'  A deacon shall then an archdeacon be thought.  Yale  c.152  p. 75 
A female bird who tends her young with care,    `A rebus'  The Christian name of her who reads you this.  Yale  c.152  p. 71 
A love-sick Damon lay along  Jacobs, [ ]  `Damon to Philomel'  Complaining still of hopeless love.  Yale  c.152  p. 38 
A pleasing subject, first with care provide;  Chesterfield, Philip Dormer Stanhope, 4th earl, 1694_1773  `A receipt to make an epigram'  And sure to please, altho' ten times repeated.  Yale  c.152  p. 37 
As at the solemn noon of night  Jacobs, [ ]  `The foolish shepherd'  Who laughs at all my care.  Yale  c.152  p. 40 
As moon round-faced, complexion white,    `An enigma'  And, now, pray ladies what's my name.  Yale  c.152  p. 72 
Awake O muse thy softest lyre  Madan, Judith (Cowper), 1702_1781  `On Lysander's birthday July 1, 1724'  Happy darling boy be thine.  Yale  c.152  p. 48 
Behold the parent flower decline,    `From the Whitehall evening post June the 8th 1773 On the death of Lady Caroline Seymour'  Joint themes to late posterity.  Yale  c.152  p. 70 
Come gentle god of soft desire!  Thomson, James, 1700_1748  `A song'  Put on Amanda's winning form.  Yale  c.152  p. 33 
Cries Celia to a reverend Dean,    `Epigram'  They cannot find a priest.  Yale  c.152  p. 44 
Dear Colin prevent my warm blushes  Montagu, Lady Mary (Wortley), 1689_1762  `A song to the tune of Colin's complaint'  What I in my breast do confine.  Yale  c.152  p. 22 
From Britain's isle to Cyprian groves  Harding, Nicholas  `Upon the death of Mr. Page's dove'  A short-liv'd minion's deathless fame.  Yale  c.152  p. 26 
From place to place forlorn I go,  Steele, Sir Richard, 1672_1729  `A song'  Why speaks not he who may?  Yale  c.152  p. 16 
Hark! How the op'ning hand, and cheerful horn  Hay, [ ]  `The chase'  Prevent his flight and end in death his woes.  Yale  c.152  p. 35 
He that would wear a watch, this must he do,    `On hearing that a pocket had been picked of a watch'  Pocket his watch, and watch his pocket too.  Yale  c.152  p. 75; see also `He that a watch would wear...'. 
He who by choice, or kinder influence led,  Pauncefort, Robert  `The character of a good wife, from the 31st chap. of Proverbs, verse the 10th to the end'  Tell but her deeds and they'll declare her fame.  Yale  c.152  p. 8 
How was Aminta, sprightly as the morn      With just such dignity of virtue joined.  Yale  c.152  p. 168 (incomplete?) 
If not convinc'd, learned Penny, by the schools,  Harvey, John, capt., 1740_1794  `To the Rev. Doctor Penny, Dean of Lichfield, on his elegant discourse of a God and attributes proved'  And can there be an argument more fair?  Yale  c.152  p. 6 
Look gently down, almighty Grace      And let thy power my love confine.  Yale  c.152  p. 113 
Lysander whom you know the gay  Madan, Judith (Cowper), 1702_1781  `The theft of Lysander' [1724]  And spotless as thy whitest dove.  Yale  c.152  p. 50 
Mistaken fair lay Sherlock by  Chesterfield, Philip Dormer Stanhope, 4th earl, 1694_1773  `On the right honble Countess of Walsingham's reading Sherlock upon death'  'Tis I must live [i.e., learn] to die.  Yale  c.152  p. 31 
My system, Doctor, 's all my own  Cheyne, George  `[`Tell me from whom...'] answered'  That you__yourself might live.  Yale  c.152  p. 15 
O thou whose friendship is my joy and pride,  Lyttelton, George Lyttelton, 1st baron, 1709_1791  `To Stephen Poyntz esq. at Paris in the year 1728'  That happiness is near allied to love.  Yale  c.152  p. 17 
Quoth the screw to the cork, what misfortunes accrue    `The cork and the screw. An epigram'  Thus we all are reliev'd by a hair of the same dog.  Yale  c.152  p. 7 
Stay, passenger, until my life you read,    `Curious epitaph from a monument in Dunkeld Abbey Scotland Marion Scott [d. 28 November 1727]'  An end to all perfection I have seen.  Yale  c.152  p. 76; see also `Stop, passengerà'. 
Sweet tyrant love but hear me now!  Thomson, James, 1700_1748  `A song by the same'  And make the bashful lover known.  Yale  c.152  p. 34 
Tell me from whom, fatheaded Scot,  Winter, John  `On Doctor Cheyne' [answered by `My system, Doctor...']  Your patients then may live.  Yale  c.152  p. 14 
The fifth day of May,  Hedges, John, d. 1737  `The copy of a will, being that of the late John Hedges...brought into the Commons. From the London evening post. July 16th 1737'  Of his brother, John Hedges.  Yale  c.152  p. 44 
The first word of an epitaph join to the same    `A rebus'  Of a loyal old city that beat off the Scot.  Yale  c.152  p. 71 
The Queen was brought by water to Whitehall,    `Upon the removal of Queen Elizabeth's body from Richmond where she died to Whitehall, by water where she lay in state'  Sh' had come by water had she come by land.  Yale  c.152  p. 43 
Through all the changes of the day,  Horne, George, bishop, 1730_1792  `The flowers' [in several parts]  You'll find an Eden here.  Yale  c.152  p. 74; see also `The flow'r of innocenceà'. 
Under this sacred marble Newton lies,    `On Sr Isaac Newton'  He died__and helps attraction by his dust.  Yale  c.152  p. 16 
When, Chloe, I your charms survey,    `A song'  I'll speak in terms most feeling.  Yale  c.152  p. 12 
When Delia on the plain appears  Lyttelton, George Lyttelton, 1st baron, 1709_1780  `The doubtful shepherd'  Tell me my heart, if this be love.  Yale  c.152  p. 32 
Your sermon preach'd at Bow  Heidegger, John James, 1659?_1749  `Heidegger's letter to the Bishop of London' [1724]  For shameless vice is want of sense.  Yale  c.152  p. 23