Union First Line Index of English Verse

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'Tis I, Timon, not here, prithee, begone,  Montagu, George, 1751_1815  `On Timon the misanthrope'  I ask no tears, only to be alone.  Yale  fc.135  p. 11 
'Tis night, and now the flowers fresh odors send  Montagu, George, 1751_1815  `Upon a lady singing to an echo. Wrote on Miss Molly Trevor at Glynd from Cambridge'  And the ambitious joy of being once a god.  Yale  fc.135  p. 18 
A glorious immortal prize    `A receipt for friendship'  Leaving both common souls and common clay.  Yale  fc.135; see also `He who would great in scienceà'.   
Arise O George! Why sleepest thou! Awake!    `Wrote in 1745'  Take heart and like thy ministers resign.  Yale  fc.135   
As Anstis was trotting away from the chapel    `A ballad on the installation of the Knights of the Garter in 1741'  So the King saves his money and God save the King.  Yale  fc.135   
As I once a chaplet bound,  Montagu, George, 1751_1815  `From Anacreon'  His fluttering wings make in my heart.  Yale  fc.135  p. 12 
As I stroll the city oft I  Swift, Jonathan, 1667_1745  `On the Parliament House' [1736]  May their god, the devil, confound 'em.  Yale  fc.135   
As near Portsmouth harbor lying  *Sandwich, Edward Montagu, 3rd earl, d. 1729; Halifax, Charles Montagu, 1st earl, 1661_1715  `Britannia's ghost' [parody of previous]  And lament its fate with me.  Yale  fc.135   
As words can't express or fancy e'er frame  Sunbury, Lord [ ]    May the fair miss our passion approve.  Yale  fc.135   
At last sad proof of a degenerate age    `On the Hermitage at Richmond'  And think of love and politics no more.  Yale  fc.135; see also `When Yorkà', `When Youngà'.   
Attempting once Eunica to salute  Montagu, George, 1751_1815  `Translation of an idyllium of Theocritus at Eton School'  But die an unlamented spotless maid!  Yale  fc.135  p. 13 
Beauteous handmaid of the spring,  Montagu, George, 1751_1815  `On a violet an anacreontic'  Thy sweets, most worthy of Jove's cup.  Yale  fc.135  p. 5 
Bring to the Lord, the mighty, to your King  Montagu, George, 1751_1815  `Psalm the 29th paraphrased'  The Lord shall shower his blessing down of peace.  Yale  fc.135  p. 5 
Brisk god of love assist a maid  Orford, Horace Walpole, 4th earl, 1717_1797  `Translation of a French song applied to Lady Caroline Fitzroy and Mr. Conway'  Too little if 'tis tout de bon.  Yale  fc.135   
Come hither, painter, thou that art  Montagu, George, 1751_1815  `Advice to a painter from Anacreon'  And presently the paint will talk.  Yale  fc.135  p. 2 
Come my dear goddesses    `The paraphrase' [of French verses by the Prince of Wales addressed to Lady Middlesex (later duchess of Dorset), Lady Catherine Hanmer, and Lady Faulcon who represented Venus, Juno and Minerva in Congreve's masque The judgment of Pano, 1755]  With us forever and for aye.  Yale  fc.135   
Hail mighty monarch at whose happy birth,    `To his sacred Majesty [Charles II] on his coronation'  Since heav'n your triumphs by its smiles does own.  Yale  fc.135   
Happy beauteous fugitive!  Montagu, George, 1751_1815  `On a swallow from Anacreon [Ode 10]'  One tongue ineffectual proves.  Yale  fc.135  p. 1 
He who would great in science grow  Titley, Walter, 1700_1768  `The 2nd. ode of the 3rd. book of Horace imitated by...to Dr. Bentley' [answered by `Who strives to mount...']  Leaving both common souls and common clay.  Yale  fc.135   
Here Grubbinol lies  Dorset, Lionel Cranfield Sackville, 1st duke, 1688_1765  `On the Duke of Bolton's dying from too large a dose of cathartics'  A friend, yet was dead long before him.  Yale  fc.135   
Here lies unpitied both by church and state    `Epitaph'  And unforgiving unforgiven dies.  Yale  fc.135   
I march'd three miles thro' scorching sand,    `Swift upon his curate complaining of hard duty (extempore)' [spurious]  What mortal else could e'er go through it.  Yale  fc.135   
I said to my heart between sleeping and waking  Peterborough, Charles Mordaunt, earl  `To Mrs. Howard' [afterward Countess of Suffolk]  Would one think Mrs. Howard never thought it was she?  Yale  fc.135   
I sing of sad discords, that happen'd of late,    `The Italian opera's downfall'  And so farewell to Bravo, farewell to Encore. | Derry down down hey derry down.  Yale  fc.135   
I want but a monarch to play for the vole    `Quadrille, as now played at Soissons'  I tremble to lose all my capital stock.  Yale  fc.135   
I weep not those who life's sweet light have lost,  Montagu, George, 1751_1815  `Another [translation of Greek epigrams]'  But those, in constant fear of dying tost.  Yale  fc.135  p. 11 
If to relieve the wants of humankind,    `Prologue'  Springs up afresh and lives a longer day.  Yale  fc.135   
If, while the streams of Cam no more inspire  Montagu, Frederick, 1733_1800  `To George Montagu esqr.'  And beam, my friend, from every thought of thine.  Yale  fc.135   
I'll tell you a story, a story so merry    `A song on the Duke of Marlborough's funeral'  And he'd spoke truth, 't had been well worth a thousand.  Yale  fc.135   
In each ambitious measure crost  Jenyns, Soame,1704_1787  `Horace Lib. II Ode XVI...imitated inscribed to the Earl of Bath' [pr. Dublin 1747, in Foxon J65]  As shamefully as they came in.  Yale  fc.135   
In the days of Dean Jon if you came here to dine  Delany, Patrick, 1685?_1768  `Wrote on Swift's window'  Instead of the deans make the deanery double.  Yale  fc.135   
In this most solemn mournful hour,      To guard the place where Lambert lies.  Yale  fc.135   
In vain with riches you would try  Middlesex, Lord [ ]    All other bribes are vain.  Yale  fc.135   
It is the Lord that rules the world, which he  Montagu, George, 1751_1815  `Psalm the 97th paraphrased'  We strove, at least, our gratitude to pay.  Yale  fc.135  p. 8 
Let joy flourish round Anacreon's urn,  Montagu, George, 1751_1815  `On Anacreon'  If any pleasure reaches to the grave.  Yale  fc.135  p. 12 
Like as the hart explores with curious eyes  Montagu, George, 1751_1815  `Psalm the 42d: paraphrased'  Light of my countenance, my joy and endless peace!  Yale  fc.135  p. 9 
My glass is false, for were it true to thee,  Montagu, George, 1751_1815  `Another [translation of Greek epigrams]'  You'd look no more, for you yourself would see.  Yale  fc.135  p. 11 
My title O my Lord did you but know    `Translation of Mirtillo Mirtillo anima mea of Pastor fido'  And all your racks and torments are my own.  Yale  fc.135   
Namby Pamby aid my verse  Dorset, Lionel Cranfield Sackville, 1st duke, 1688_1765  `Jack-a-Dandy a satire on Lord [ ] Raymond'  Or make him some two inches higher.  Yale  fc.135   
Near to Northampton's ancient town    `A tale'  The example of a goodly mother.  Yale  fc.135   
No longer, Orpheus, shall the oaks obey,  Montagu, George, 1751_1815  `On Orpheus'  A goddess, could not alter fate's decree.  Yale  fc.135  p. 12 
Oh what do I hear my Nassau had been fighting    `Song on the Prince of Orange serving a volunteer on the Rhine'  Had the bully by chance stuck it in my Nassau.  Yale  fc.135   
Old Islay, to show his fine delicate taste,  Chesterfield, Philip Dormer Stanhope, 4th earl, 1694_1773    By a clump of Scotch firs instead of a screen.  Yale  fc.135   
One favor, Chloe, let me see  Orford, Horace Walpole, 4th earl, 1717_1797  `Translation of a French song by...1739'  No Chloe no you love me not.  Yale  fc.135   
Plague of all cowards say I! Why bless my eyes!    `An epilogue designed to have been spoke by Mrs. Woffington after The castle of Falkirk' [pr. 1746 (Foxon F102)]  Is't fit we lose our benefit of clergy?  Yale  fc.135   
Quoth the King to the Queen    `On a medal of the King and Queen'  That one is scarce better than none.  Yale  fc.135   
Saint John a quondam statesman out of place,      He never used one drop of English spirit.  Yale  fc.135   
See a new progeny descends  Hanbury Williams, Sir Charles, 1708_1759  `1742 a new ode to a great number of great men' [i.e., the ministry which succeeded Walpole's, 1742]  My pride shall be to sing them.  Yale  fc.135 (attr. [Robert] Nugent)   
See how the virgin rose with modest eyes  Montagu, George, 1751_1815  `The rose from Tasso'  A thousand nymphs, with grief, who thousand swains admired.  Yale  fc.135  p. 16 
Serene the morn the season fine    `The review' [on George II]  Nor courage let him fight!  Yale  fc.135   
Sincerest critic of my prose or rhyme,  Congreve, William, 1670_1729  `Albi, nostrorum sermonum candide index. Hor. Ep. 3...Mr. Congreve's letter to Ld. Cobham' [pr. 1729 (Foxon C375)]  And oh the golden age is but a dream.  Yale  fc.135   
Still hovering o'er the fair at fifty-four  Montagu, Lady Mary (Pierrepoint) Wortley, 1689_1762  `Wrote under General Churchill's picture at Vanloos'  A teasing ghost of the departed man.  Yale  fc.135   
Still in our ears Andromache complains;    `On Homer'  Who made the world his country by his fame.  Yale  fc.135  p. 11 
Still, my dear Lord, do fair Italia's shores  Stone, [ ], dean  `Horace Ep. 11 Lib. 1mo...Imitated by...to Lord Middlesex [later duke of Dorset]'  Your Lordship might be happy even at Derry.  Yale  fc.135   
Success and plenty to the Kentish plains,  Montagu, Frederick, 1733_1800  `To George Montagu esqr. at Hawkhurst in Kent'  And who not own, that Montagu was he.  Yale  fc.135   
The college now thy secret's out    `Upon Ward's pill in The craftsman'  We'll ever take thy powder.  Yale  fc.135   
The gods, the gods have heard my prayers,  Davys, [ ]  `Occasioned by a person's searching the registers for Molly Fowl's age and finding her born 1702'  Thou'rt old upon record.  Yale  fc.135   
The night in sweet slumbers roll'd swiftly away  Macartney, Fanny  `Fanny Macartney to Peggy Banks'  Their province is railing whilst ours is pleasure.  Yale  fc.135   
The stepdame's self the artist formed, and so  Montagu, George, 1751_1815  `On a statue of Juno suckling Hercules'  Forbid the milk i' th' bastard's mouth to flow.  Yale  fc.135  p. 11 
There is a place by nature seemed designed  Montagu, George, 1751_1815  `A description of Diana's temple at Nismes and the prospect round about wrote 1737 by...and sent to Mr. Barrett now Lord Dacre'  Our glory's to be free and render others so.  Yale  fc.135  after p. 20 (2 copies) 
They who are happy find their life a span  Montagu, George, 1751_1815  `Translations of Greek epigrams at Eton school'  One night's an age to the unhappy man.  Yale  fc.135  p. 11 
This roof that rose by Caroline's command      So great in public or so great alone.  Yale  fc.135   
Tho' Delia oft retires  Irwin, Anne (Howard) Ingram, viscountess, d. 1764  `Lady Irwin's answer' [to `Why with Delia thus retire...']  Often finds the dose too much.  Yale  fc.135   
To curb our joys with vain pretense  Berkeley, Henry, capt.  `Translation of the regent's song L'austere philosophie'  When we, alas! shall cease to be.  Yale  fc.135   
Unhappy England still in forty-one    `1741'  And perish'd by a villain that he knew.  Yale  fc.135   
When here Lucinda first we came.  Dorset, Lionel Cranfield Sackville, 1st duke, 1688_1765  `A song on the death of the Grand Duke of Tuscany'  Adieu the sweets of Arno's vale.  Yale  fc.135   
When little Raymond shall acquire the art    `A New Year's gift for the English at Paris 1739'  And fools in thirty-eight grow wise in thirty-nine.  Yale  fc.135   
When Robin rul'd the British land,    `[Isaac] Le Heup at Hanover, a song' [pr. 1727 (Foxon L94.3)]  They will have cause to rue it.  Yale  fc.135   
When Venus had with tears survey'd  Montagu, George, 1751_1815  `The death of Adonis translated from Theocritus'  The instruments of his desires.  Yale  fc.135  p. 3 
When vice prevail'd and impious discord reign'd  Montagu, Frederick, 1733_1800  `Wrote by...at Eton School. He acted the part of Lucius with the Prince of Wales' children'  And Rome's great Cato yield to Britain's king.  Yale  fc.135   
Who strives to mount Parnassus Hill  Bentley, Richard, 1662_1742  `An answer by Dr. Bentley' [to `He who would great...']  Rich without patron great without South-sea.  Yale  fc.135   
Why will Delia thus retire  Montagu, Lady Mary (Pierrepoint) Wortley, 1689_1762  `To Lady [Isabella (Machell) Ingram] Irwin' [answered by `Tho' Delia oft retires...']  I believe the dose will [blank].  Yale  fc.135 (incomplete)   
With mimic art to help the printer's skill    `To Lady Beaulieu's daughter who sent some dressed pictures 1769'  Should draw yourself, not give us but a part.  Yale  fc.135   
With my own milk unwittingly I nurse,  Montagu, George, 1751_1815  `On a shepherdess suckling a young wolf'  Kindness can't nature change, tho' it gains love.  Yale  fc.135  p. 11 
Within this cavern rough there is    `On the Hermitage at Richmond'  In which the King has often been.  Yale  fc.135   
Ye ladies fair of Britain's isles    [pr. 1730 (Foxon A92)]  When her mama can do the same.  Yale  fc.135   
You little know the heart which you advise  Montagu, Lady Mary (Pierrepoint) Wortley, 1689_1762  `Verses by...'  To one great Being merciful and just.  Yale  fc.135