Union First Line Index of English Verse

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


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A knife, dear girl, cuts love, they say;  Bishop, Samuel, 1732_1795  `With a present of a knife'  Save only__cut and come again.  Yale  c.82  p. 27 
Ben Block was a veteran of naval renown,    `The naval subaltern'  `That to see me quick scalp'd were no wonder.'  Yale  c.82  p. 7 
Beneath a sleeping infant lies  Wesley, Samuel, the younger  `Epitaph'  Learn what it is to die.  Yale  c.82  p. 26 (var.) 
Dear Chloe, while the busy crowd,    `The fireside'  And smooth the bed of death.  Yale  c.82  p. 2 
Did he, whose hand inscrib'd this wall,    `Over the door of the Duke of Richmond's vault, at Richmond Domus ultima a person observing the above, wrote under'  That house is not a House of Lords.  Yale  c.82  p. 28 
God bless the King.__God bless the faith's defender.  Byrom, John, 1692_1763  `The Manchester blessing. 1745'  God bless us all!__that's quite another thing.  Yale  c.82  p. 5 
Here an old volume lies,    `Mr. James Leah, an eminent bookseller of Bath, desired a gentleman, in 1750, to writh an epitaph upon him, and presented him with an elegant Greek testament for the following impromptu'  'A neat new, corrected edition!'  Yale  c.82  p. 22 
His card is cut__long days he shuffled through    `Epitaph on a card maker'  When the last trump is play'd his tricks will count.  Yale  c.82  p. 26 
His last steak done, his fire rak'd out and dead,  Morris, Thomas, capt., b. 1732  `Epitaph on Edwd. Handson, thirty years cook to the Beefsteak Society'  `Oh! At your feet, dear masters, let me die!'  Yale  c.82  p. 1 
His time was short, his touch was neat,    `On a runaway musician'  To change his notes for cash.  Yale  c.82  p. 23 
Humid seat of soft affection    `The kiss'  Of a tender parting kiss.  Yale  c.82  p. 13 
Life's business ended, and each task complete,    `On the death of Henrietta youngest daughter of the Revd. Mr. Archer Leigh who died at the age of fifteen on April 12th 1793'  Now hard to feel the loss, and not repine.  Yale  c.82  p. 14 
May heaven in mercy blessings pour,  Stewart, C. E.  `To Mr. [Edmund] Burke on the loss of his son [Richard, d. 1794]...1797'  God cannot be unjust.  Yale  c.82  p. 25 
Now stood Eliza, on the wood-crown'd height,  Darwin, Erasmus, 1731_1802  `Eliza'  And clasp'd them sobbing to his aching breast.  Yale  c.82  p. 16 
One day when the gods were engaged in chat,  Wilson, Thomas  `The search for content'  When patience has rendered them worthy of heaven.  Yale  c.82  p. 8 
Stay lady! Stay, for pity's sake,  Opie, Amelia Alderson, 1769_1853  `The orphan boy's tale'  Your happy, happy orphan boy!  Yale  c.82  p. 30 
Sweet wrecks of beauty! Though with aspic eye,  Wolcot, John (`Peter Pindar'), 1738_1819  `On that unhappy class of females, women of the town'  Too fondly trusting, falls the simple maid!  Yale  c.82  p. 23 
The rose had been wash'd (just wash'd in a show'r)  Cowper, William, 1731_1800  `The rose'  May be followed perhaps by a smile.  Yale  c.82  p. 6; see also `I pluck'd the sweet roseà'. 
What I shall leave thee none can tell,  Corbett, Richard, bishop, 1582_1635  `To his son Vincent Corbett two years of age'  As innocent as now thou art.  Yale  c.82  p. 29 
Why flow my tears? Why pensive do I stray?    `In memory of Domville Poole esq. of Dane Bank Lyme near Warrington, who died at Bristol hot wells, 19th of April (1795)'  And hail no unkind monitor in me.  Yale  c.82  p. 15 
With sorrow and repentance true,    `The confession'  And send him to me to confess.  Yale  c.82  p. 20 
You ask me, Emma, for a seal,    `From a gentleman to a lady with a present of a seal'  And stamp it there forever.  Yale  c.82  p. 19