Union First Line Index of English Verse

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'Tis strange what different thoughts inspire,    `Desire, and possession'  Regardless of his dying groans.  Yale  c.481  p. 249 
A solitary walk my steps convey'd    `The rural philosopher'  Belov'd by few, and yet approv'd by all.  Yale  c.481  p. 141 
All Rome was still and nations stood at gaze,  Davies, Dr. [ ]  `Lines composed by...of Kingsland in the year 1757 in honor of Caraitacus, spoke on the 10th August 1773 at the Caraitacan meeting, before that society'  Victorious; peace returns and Albion smiles.  Yale  c.481  p. 11 
As great Alcides in the prime of years,    `The judgment of Hercules taken from a print in the Earl of Shaftesbury's Characteristics'  The deathless labors of his life begun.  Yale  c.481  p. 234 
As in the moral world we wond'ring see,    `A poem'  And happy judgment crowns its rising worth.  Yale  c.481  p. 146 (incomplete) 
Awake, Aeolian lyre, awake  Gray, Thomas, 1716_1771  `Ode'  Beneath the good how far__but far above the great.  Yale  c.481  p. 304 
Be kind to my remains and O defend,    `Epitaph'  And whom it most afflicts, it most rewards.  Yale  c.481  p. 275 
Beneath lies in turd the remains of a bird,    `Epitaph on a parrot, that Betty the servant threw down the necessary'  But she'll always leave something behind her.  Yale  c.481  p. 222 
Charm'd with its happy and experience'd ease,    `In praise of a country life'  And dies a stranger to himself alone.  Yale  c.481  p. 97; see also `No, I shan't envyà'. 
Daughter of beauty, who enraptur'd hail  Wheeler, Dr. [ ]  `Ode, at the encaenia held at Oxford July 1773 for the reception of the Rt. Honable Frederick Lord North Chancellor of the University [later earl of Guilford], the words by...set to music by Dr. Hayes'  With rival ardor catch'd the instructive theme.  Yale  c.481  p. 14 
Dear Jesus when, when shall it be    `An hymn, or divine song'  But thou shalt live and die no more.  Yale  c.481  p. 241 
Didst thou but know thy destin'd race,  Swift, Jonathan, 1667_1745  `An inscription on the house called the Golden Cross near Sutton Colefield, said to be originally written on a pane of glass there by Dean Swift'  And thou mayst die tomorrow.  Yale  c.481  p. 134 
Far from her hallow'd grot where mildly bright  Mason, William, 1725_1797  `Isis: an elegy written by...1748'  And pleas'd, prefer, oblivion to disgrace.  Yale  c.481  p. 260; see also `Close in her hallowed grotà'. 
First to the gods, thy humble homage pay,    `Moral precepts collected from the golden verses of Pythagoras'  Immortal, incorruptible divine.  Yale  c.481  p. 226 
Great God! Whose pow'r o'er earth and heav'n presides    `Wrote by a person in distress'  My wealth contentment, silence__peace my lot.  Yale  c.481  p. 224 
Hail Indian plant to ancient times unknown    `On tobacco'  In smoke thou'rt wisdom__and in s[?] thou'rt wit.  Yale  c.481  p. 223 
Love is the life of friendship letters are,    `Valentine's Day'  Or else all commerce and all love would die.  Yale  c.481  p. 272 
Never weather-beaten sail more willing bent to shore,  Campion, Thomas, 1567_1620  `The black hymn'  Oh how do I long to see that place of rest.  Yale  c.481  p. 273 
Now when a limb is lopt away,    `On quackery'  To cut away, the useless testes.  Yale  c.481  p. 108 
Of truths involv'd we vainly wish to know,    `An essay on the weakness of human knowledge'  Then join'd the hymn, and their first work was praise.  Yale  c.481  p. 154 
O be thou blest with all that heaven can send  Pope, Alexander, 1688_1744  `Verses by...to a lady on her birthday'  And be thy latest gasp a sigh of love.  Yale  c.481  p. 33 
O! hear a pensive captive's pray'r  Barbauld, Anna Laetitia Aikin, 1743_1825  `The mouse's petition. Found in a trap where he had been confined all night'  And break the hidden snare.  Yale  c.481  p. 9 
O poverty! of pale consumptive hue,  Fox, Charles James, 1749_1806  `An invocation to poverty'  And dress in smiles the tyrant hour of death.  Yale  c.481  p. 294 
Oh! sure the greedy wretch is spent    `A panagyric on salt water'  Than the first roses of the year shall blow.  Yale  c.481  p. 18 
Oh yet a moment to this pensive tale    `Elegy on the death of the Lord Lyttelton A. D. 1773'  But oh! Reflect that Lyttelton is dead.  Yale  c.481  p. 54 
Old Homer's fancied face a form unknown,  Tollett, Elizabeth, 1694_1754  `On Shakespeare's monument by...daughter of Geo: Tollett who as a commissioner of the navy had a house in the Tower in the reigns of William and Anne; her works published after her death in 1754...'  With patriot virtue to inspire the stage!  Yale  c.481  p. 300 
On infant's wings, for distant heights o'erspread,    `A visionary ode'  Blends with immortal Plato's warranty divine.  Yale  c.481  p. 161 
Owen's praise demands my song,  Gray, Thomas, 1716_1771  `The triumphs of Owen Gwynedd a fragment'  Despair, and honorable death.  Yale  c.481  p. 45 
Pity the sorrows of a poor blind man!    `The beggar'  Oh! Give relief__and heaven will bless your store.  Yale  c.481  p. 34 
Prevailing vice still fattens sordid souls,    `A poem on youth'  Who seeks a crown must gen'rous toils endure.  Yale  c.481  p. 145 (incomplete) 
Rash mortals ere you take a wife      Shall never but with life expire.  Yale  c.481  p. 60 
Ruin seize thee, ruthless king!  Gray, Thomas, 1716_1771  `The bard; a Pindaric ode, by...founded on a tradition current in Wales that Edward the 1st ordered all the bards that fell into his hands to be put to death'  Deep in the roaring tide he plung'd to endless night.  Yale  c.481  p. 36 
Since good Master Prior    `On Mr. [Thomas] Prior's treatise on tar water' [pr. 1747 (Foxon T39)]  Can't know a c__t from a cart wheel.  Yale  c.481  p. 264 
Since knaves are captious, and since fools are dull,    `Poem on stupidity'  Guides our frail barks, and points to wisdom's shores.  Yale  c.481  p. 165 
Stay passenger and lend a tear,    `A epitaph on an hopeful youth'  Then like this youth embalm thy dust.  Yale  c.481  p. 226; see also `Stay passenger, and shedà'. 
Such virtue scorn'd on cowards' terms to please    `Lucan's great character of Cato'  And when Jove told the truth, he told us all.  Yale  c.481  p. 232 
Take youth that's genteel, no matter for face,    `A recipe to soften the hardest female heart'  Which harden'd by virtue, will ne'er reach the heart.  Yale  c.481  p. 223 
The ancient columns are so fine,    `Epigram in praise of the ancients'  Is only a tobacco stopper.  Yale  c.481  p. 225 
The annual day, once more with joy returns,    `An ode to be sung on the annual feast time (the early hour)'  All, all applaud the enliv'ning sound.  Yale  c.481  p. 69 
The curfew tolls, the knell of parting day,  Gray, Thomas, 1716_1771  `Elegy written in a country churchyard'  The bosom of his father and his God.  Yale  c.481  p. 47 
The dawning light scarce hover'd in the east    `The enchanted forest'  While from its trunk a blooming virgin starts.  Yale  c.481  p. 275 
The fatal effects of luxury are these    `Medicina dietetica'  'Tis this__tho' man's a fool, yet God is wise.  Yale  c.481  p. 59 
The gods on a day, when their worships were idle,    [mock-panegyric on Bacchus]  Her honor smelt worse than a stinking red herring.  Yale  c.481  p. 271 
Thee I love, and thee alone:    `Soliloquy'  Or statesmen['s] pow'r__I love myself.  Yale  c.481  p. 126 
Thou who dost all my earthly thoughts employ  Monck, Mary (Molesworth), c. 1678_1715  `Letter from a lady at Bath'  And thy soft slumbers only ease the brave....  Yale  c.481  p. 271 (incomplete) 
Thrice happy Job long liv'd in regal state,  Young, Edward, 1683?_1765  `A paraphrase on the book of Job' [pr. 1719 (Foxon Y100)]  Man was not made to question, but adore.  Yale  c.481  p. 71 
To science sacred muse exalt thy lays;  Jones, Henry, bricklayer, 1721_1770  `Philosophy a poem' [pr. Dublin 1746 (Foxon J94)]  A life celestial and begun in this.  Yale  c.481  p. 149 (incomplete) 
To Sion's mount my soul ascends    `Psalm the 121st'  His favor crowns with endless rest.  Yale  c.481  p. 251 
Underneath this marble hearse    `Epitaph on Sir Henry Sidney's lady who died Sepr. 25th 1621 buried in Salisbury church'  Time shall throw a dart at thee.  Yale  c.481  p. 53 (ll. 1_6) 
Welcome peaceful calm retreat!  Brooks, Dr. [ ]  `The retirement'  Till my latest sand falls down.  Yale  c.481  p. 255 
What are the falling rills, the pendant shades  Pope, Alexander, 1688_1744  `Solitude'  Inly he bleeds, and pants his soul away.  Yale  c.481  p. 33 
When Louis strove as all agree    `On the taking of Saint Maries [Puerto de Santa Maria, opposite Cadiz]. A poem' [pr. 1703, in Letters from the living (Foxon P643)]  A nun, oh fie, a nun, a nun.  Yale  c.481  p. 1 
When man had disobey'd his Lord,    `Ode on the nativity of the Messiah'  In visions of eternal day.  Yale  c.481  p. 252 
With trembling artless hand again I strike,    `An epithalamium'  Virtue's the base, of friendship and of love.  Yale  c.481  p. 243 
Ye fairest muse! Assist a daring bard,  Woty, William, 1731?_1791  `Campanologia a poem in praise of ringing, by the author of The shrubs of Parnassus, 1761'  No skill is wanting from a foreign land.  Yale  c.481  p. 61