Union First Line Index of English Verse

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All hail, ye fields, where constant peace attends!  Walsh, William, 1663_1700  `The retirement'  And sees his errors while there's time to mend.  Yale  c.351  p. 87 
Amelia, beauteous princess, deign to view  Chandler, Mary, 1687_1745  `A description of Bath inscribed to the Princess Amelia' [pr. 1733 (Foxon C108)]  The task to abler poets I resign.  Yale  c.351  p. 120 
At dead of night imperial reason sleeps,  Stepney, George, 1663_1707  `Poems...The nature of dreams'  For sleep, like death, its image, equals all.  Yale  c.351  p. 73 
Begone you slaves, you idle vermin go,  Roscommon, Wentworth Dillon, 4th earl, 1633?_1685  `On Mr. Dryden's Religio laici'  A convert free from malice and from pride.  Yale  c.351  p. 54 
Bright star! By Venus fix'd above,  Stepney, George, 1663_1707  `To the evening star English'd, from a Greek idyllium'  Who lately stole my heart away.  Yale  c.351  p. 78 
Can this be he!__could Charles the good, the great,  Tickell, Thomas, 1686_1740  `Thoughts__occasioned by the sight of an original picture of King Charles I. taken at the time of his trial'  And one destroy'd, a thousand kings defend.  Yale  c.351  p. 90 
Dear Molly, why so oft in tears?  Stepney, George, 1663_1707  `The 7th ode of the 3d: book of Horace imitated'  Discharge the jordan at him.  Yale  c.351  p. 74 
Distracted with care,  Walsh, William, 1663_1700  `The despairing lover'  To his cottage again.  Yale  c.351  p. 88 
Farewell awhile to mortal things__  Chandler, Mary, 1687_1745  `To the Revd. Mr. Sam. Chandler__On wisdom'  Shall ev'ry grief defy.  Yale  c.351  p. 134 
Friendship!__the heav'nly theme I sing;  Chandler, Mary, 1687_1745  `A poem__on friendship'  As light we haste away.  Yale  c.351  p. 137 (attr. Mary Chandler) 
Hail, sacred solitude!__from this calm bay,  Roscommon, Wentworth Dillon, 4th earl, 1633?_1685  `Ode upon solitude'  With ease convey me to a better shade.  Yale  c.351  p. 50 
Horses and hounds, their care, their various race,  Tickell, Thomas, 1686_1740  `A fragment__of a poem on hunting'  And his pale master flies the dang'rous ground.  Yale  c.351  p. 93 
How charming is this little spot,  Chandler, Mary, 1687_1745  `To Mrs. Boteler. A description of her garden'  And ev'ry action guides.  Yale  c.351  p. 131 
I'm often drawn to make a stop,  Rich, Charles  `Religion__a simile'  And peace and joy at once an entrance find.  Yale  c.351  p. 146 (attr. R. Dodsley) 
If aught of oaten stop, or pastoral song  Collins, William, 1721_1759  `Ode to evening'  And love thy favorite name!  Yale  c.351  p. 167 
In virtue's cause to draw a daring pen;  Dodsley, Robert, 1703_1754  `To Mr. Pope__on good and ill-nature'  The most ill-natur'd man alive,__is you.  Yale  c.351  p. 145 
Let the dull merchant curse his angry fate,  Walsh, William, 1663_1700  `Elegy__the unrewarded lover'  And reap no fruit, no favor, no reward.  Yale  c.351  p. 82 
Man's a poor deluded bubble,  Dodsley, Robert, 1703_1754  `Song'  Lost in error, lives and dies.  Yale  c.351  p. 148 
O azure vaults! O crystal sky!  Roscommon, Wentworth Dillon, 4th earl, 1633?_1685  `Poems by the Wentworth Dillon, 4th earl of Roscommon. CXLVIIIth Psalm'  And with His glory recompense your praise.  Yale  c.351  p. 47 
O thou by nature taught,  Collins, William, 1721_1759  `Ode on simplicity'  And all thy sons, O nature, learn my tale.  Yale  c.351  p. 164 
O thou, the friend of man assign'd  Collins, William, 1721_1759  `Ode to pity'  To hear a British shell!  Yale  c.351  p. 160 
O under various sacred names ador'd!  West, Gilbert, 1703_1756  `To Jove__a hymn of Cleanthes__translated by...'  The subject may transport a breast divine.  Yale  c.351  p. 31 
Rich Gripe does all his thoughts and cunning bend,  Walsh, William, 1663_1700  `Epigram__Gripe and Shifter'  And of two wretches make one happy man.  Yale  c.351  p. 86 
The day of wrath, that dreadful day,  Roscommon, Wentworth Dillon, 4th earl, 1633?_1685  `On the day of judgment'  Let guilty man compassion find.  Yale  c.351  p. 58 
The man that's resolute and just,  Walsh, William, 1663_1700  `The 3d. ode of the 3d. book of Horace__imitated 1705'  Not alter our design.  Yale  c.351  p. 89 (stanzas 1_4) 
The piercing cold, the stormy wind,  Chandler, Mary, 1687_1745  `To the Revd. Dr. S___ __an invitation to a morning walk in the spring'  Remember, time is on the wing.  Yale  c.351  p. 133 
Those ills your ancestors have done,  Roscommon, Wentworth Dillon, 4th earl, 1633?_1685  `The sixth ode of the third book of Horace. On the corruption of the times'  (With all the pains we take) have skill enough to be.  Yale  c.351  p. 60 
Thou, to whom the world unknown  Collins, William, 1721_1759  `Ode to fear'  And I, O fear, will dwell with thee!  Yale  c.351  p. 162 
To your commands I own obedience due,  Chandler, Mary, 1687_1745  `On Mr. B___'s garden__to Mrs. S___'  Within these walls such happiness resides: &c.  Yale  c.351  p. 138 
Unhappy man!__by nature made to sway  Sprat, Thomas, bp., 1635_1713  `The plague of Athens' [pr. 1703 (Foxon S663)]  Here having felt one hell, they thought there was no more.  Yale  c.351  p. 99 
Verses immortal as my bays I sing,  Stepney, George, 1663_1707  `The 9th ode of the 4th book of Horace'  And seal their country's love with their departing.  Yale  c.351  p. 76 
Virtue, dear friend, needs no defense,  Roscommon, Wentworth Dillon, 4th earl, 1633?_1685  `[the 22d. ode of the 1st book of Horace] imitated'  They seem submissively to roar in verse.  Yale  c.351  p. 53 
Virtue, dear friend, needs no defense,  Roscommon, Wentworth Dillon, 4th earl, 1633?_1685  `The 22d. ode of the 1st book of Horace'  And dare all heat but that in Celia's eyes.  Yale  c.351  p. 52 
Welcome fair scene;__welcome thou lov'd retreat,  Dodsley, Robert, 1703_1754  `Mrs. Pearse's salutation to her garden in the country'  Fix then, my heart, thy happiness is here.  Yale  c.351  p. 144 
What fortunes can there be in hell,  Walsh, William, 1663_1700  `Cure of jealousy'  Who would not have the sickness for the cure!  Yale  c.351  p. 85 
What has this bugbear Death that's worth our care?  Walsh, William, 1663_1700  `Death__a sonnet'  'Tis nothing, Celia, but the losing thee.  Yale  c.351  p. 86 
What irony has of late possess'd the brain!  Garth, Sir Samuel, 1661_1719  `Claremont'  The place shall live in song, and Claremont be the name.  Yale  c.351  p. 63 
Whence comes it, L___ that every fool,  Dodsley, Robert, 1703_1754  `Modern reasoning. An epistle to Mr. L___' [pr. 1734 (Foxon D385)]  Rose in a passion, and away he went.  Yale  c.351  p. 140 
Whence, without wounds proceeds this horrid pain,  West, Gilbert, 1703_1756  `The triumphs of the gout. Translated from the Greek of Lucian by Gilbert West'  Such is the decree of Jove.  Yale  c.351  p. 10 
Who could more happy, who more blest could live,  Walsh, William, 1663_1700  `Jealousy'  That fills me with excess of grief, this with excess of joy.  Yale  c.351  p. 82 
Winter thy cruelty extend,  Roscommon, Wentworth Dillon, 4th earl, 1633?_1685  `Song on a young lady who sung finely, and was afraid of the cold'  All taste we have of heav'nly joy.  Yale  c.351  p. 57