Union First Line Index of English Verse

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

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First Line Author Title Last Line Library Shelfmark Folio

Approach ye wise of soul! With awe divine `Designed for the monument of Sir Isaac Newton' And but forsook one world to know the laws of more. Yale c.165 p. 54

Consider well my soul, why hast thou breath Watkins, Anne Disdain not such as are to good inclined. Yale c.165 p. 31

Deign heavenly muses, to assist my song: Duck, Stephen, 1705_1756 `The Shunamite' His powerful works, his daily praise renew. Yale c.165 p. 1

I have before the time prescrib'd by you, Duck, Stephen, 1705_1756 `A letter from...to Mr. Clark...aged 25' And be propitious to your humble slave. Yale c.165 p. 27

Once more the ever-circling sun Cibber, Colley, 1671_1757 `Ode [to the King] for New Year's Day' [printed in Gentleman's magazine, January 1731] Maternal charms of softer kind. Yale c.165 p. 29 (ll. 1_34)

The grateful tribute of these rural lays, Duck, Stephen, 1705_1756 `The thresher's labor' [pr. in his Poems, 1730] And growing always new, must always last. Yale c.165 p. 13

There is no ill on earth which mortals fly Duck, Stephen, 1705_1756 `On poverty' Lord, give me neither, give me but content. Yale c.165 p. 24

This modest stone what few vain marbles can Pope, Alexander, 1688_1744 `Another on Mr. Congreve' [actually on Elijah Fenton, d. 1730] Thank'd heaven that he had lived__and that he died. Yale c.165 p. 54