First Line Index

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A lady's heart on Marlb'o' Downs `An advertisement' To any modern man. Yale fc.51 p. 11

A rap at the door, when forth from her chair `A modern visit' I hope I shall see you, when you've naught else to do.' Yale fc.51 p. 115

Accept, much honor'd shade! these artless lays Carter, Elizabeth `On the death of Mrs. Rowe' And spend their bless'd eternity in praise. Yale fc.51 p. 170

Alas! ye fair why from cosmetic art, R., A. `An imitation of Dr. Akenside's style, in his poem entitled `The pleasures of imagination' In briny torrents melt upon your dust. Yale fc.51 p. 16

All attendance apart, Soaper, Miss [ ] `Repentance or second thoughts' [11 July 1730] And do penance in shape of a wife. Yale fc.51 p. 29; see also `All disguisesà'.

And lives there one by canker'd malice led Madan, Judith (Cowper), 1702_1781 `Wrote under the Quaker's letter, to Lothan's' And scorns to tear the unresisting prey. Yale fc.51 p. 157

As men of Athens thought it fit `To the young lady that subscribes herself Hum-Ba a cant word for dullness' But soft, I did but dream__Hum Ba! Yale fc.51 p. 81

As o'er the varied meads I stray Webb, [ ] `A thought on a walk' And pleasure to devotion turns. Yale fc.51 p. 174

As some fair flower which grows in secret pride Evelyn, Rev. [ ] `Catullus Carmen nupt: 63' Dear to the nymphs, or pleasing to the swains. Yale fc.51 p. 271

At length by so much importunity prest Montagu, Lady Mary (Pierrepoint) Wortley, 1689_1762 `The lover, a ballad addressed to Miss S[kerret]t [later Countess of Orford] by the same' We harden like trees and like rivers are cold. Yale fc.51 p. 53

At Se'noak so famed for virginity old, Amherst, Elizabeth `Sevenoaks Nunnery; to the tune of Packington's pound' [1745] The justice desisted, and here ends my tale. Yale fc.51 p. 262

August master of the globe, `Epistle from Yartie to Fr. Wollaston esqr.' Will answer me in kind, as you did Hanger. Yale fc.51 p. 207

Be 't spoke with all submission `The husband's advice to his learned wife. Imitated from MoliFre' And thou shalt be, my best-lov'd spouse. Yale fc.51 p. 255

Beneath the cov'ring of this little stone Hervey of Ickworth, John Hervey, baron, 1696_1743 `By the late...upon Ldy B[ett]y Mansell' Its pride when living, and its grief when dead. Yale fc.51 p. 223

Beneath these moss-grown roots this rustic cell West, Gilbert, 1703_1756 `Over the door, the inside of the hermitage' [at Meresworth, seat of the earl of Westmorland] What drawing room can boast so fair a train! Yale fc.51 p. 42

Come Chloe view with curious eye `To Chloe, on a butterfly' Be something more than butterfly. Yale fc.51 p. 175

Come gentle god of soft repose Lennox, Charlotte (Ramsay) `The dream an ode' Let life be all a dream! Yale fc.51 p. 20

Come, rosy health, celestial maid, `Ode to health' And Harold's beauties yield to thine. Yale fc.51 p. 160

Come, Thomas, give me t'other sonnet; Thomas, Captain [ ] `Capt. Thomas of Batereau's [62nd] Regt...to Capt. Price at Fort Augustus. Upon reading the news of the treaty of peace signed at Aix-la-Chapelle' [1748] Your most obliged humble servant. Yale fc.51 p. 281

Dear Charles this comes to give you warning Boscawen, Frances Glanville, d. 1805 `A Letter from...to Charles Frederick esqr. Oxford Sep. 17th 1748' I rest your faithful F. Boscawen. Yale fc.51 p. 316

Dear Fanny, in your last you jok'd Frederick, Mrs. L. `Epistle from...to Mrs. Boscawen at Englefield Green...15th Aug 1748' Sincere, and ever yours. Yale fc.51 p. 272

Desponding artist, talk no more Orford, Horace Walpole, 4th earl, 1717_1797 `Advice to Eckardt the painter' [printed 1746 (Foxon W31)] Which Emily, might yield to Evelyn's eyes. Yale fc.51 p. 186

Farewell forever he! around whose urn `Epitaph on Dr. Cockman. Master of University Coll. Oxon' 'Tis needless now to say__that Cockman died. Yale fc.51 p. 67

Farewell vain world! and thou the vainest part Ibbot, Benjamin, 1680_1725 `A fit of spleen. In imitation of Shakespeare's style' [see `What are the falling rills...'] Of which the noisy babbling world complains. Yale fc.51 p. 13

Fatigu'd with priTs half the week__ R., A. `An invitation to the Honble Mrs. Boscawen. April 1745' To sense, to virtue, and to you. Yale fc.51 p. 9

For quiet, Yorke, the sailor cries Jenyns, Soame,1704_1787 `Ode 26th of the 2nd book of Horace: imitated by...of Cambridgeshire the day after the general elections' [addressed to Philip Yorke, 1st earl of Hardwicke, 1747; also attr. C. H. Williams] I mean that a'nt freeholders. Yale fc.51 p. 224

For whom are now your airs put on? Montagu, Lady Mary (Pierrepoint) Wortley, 1689_1762 `The 5th ode of Horace imitated by the same' Who snatch'd from ruin, sav'd me at the last. Yale fc.51 p. 51

Friendship that antidote of woe, `Ode on friendship' But dare to act the friend. Yale fc.51 p. 5

From the court to the cottage convey me away But retire from the world as I would to my rest. Yale fc.51 p. 109

Give me great God (said I) a little farm Montagu, Lady Mary (Pierrepoint) Wortley, 1689_1762 `Constantinople by the same' Who dares have virtue in a vicious age. Yale fc.51 p. 126

Here peaceful lies, beneath this marble tomb `Epitaph on Lord Tamworth's tomb in Stanton Church, Leicestershire' But patterns leave, for ages that succeed. Yale fc.51 p. 135

Here she lies, whose spotless fame `Epitaph' [in the temple church in London, for Mrs. Anne Littleton] The grave is but a cabinet. Yale fc.51 p. 80

How happy you! who varied joys pursue, Montagu, Lady Mary (Pierrepoint) Wortley, 1689_1762 `An epistle to Ld. Bat[hurs]t' Deep (tho' unseen) remains the secret wound. Yale fc.51 p. 45

How vain the joys that human pride elate Carter, Elizabeth, 1717_1806 `Epitaph on Master Quested, aged seven years' And yield the spotless off'ring to the skies. Yale fc.51 p. 168

I envy not the proud their wealth Pilkington, Laetitia `The wish' [Grubstreet journal, 7 June 1733] And crown with peace my hours. Yale fc.51 p. 167

I march'd four mile thro' scorching sand Swift, Jonathan, 1667_1745 `Dean Swift upon his curate Robin Hewit' What mortal else, could e'er go through it. Yale fc.51 p. 193

I'll tell you a story, a story most true Prior, Matthew, 1644_1721 `A tale wrote by...but not printed with his works' [spurious?] You might have been sweet, had you been in his coat. Yale fc.51 p. 103

If age, and sickness, poverty and pain Montagu, Lady Mary (Pierrepoint) Wortley, 1689_1762 `By...on her daughter's marriage' [ll. 5_6 not in printed version] If a star fell to set their thatch on flame. Yale fc.51 p. 125

If I am doom'd the marriage chain to wear `The choice...wrote by a young lady at Chester' [1 January 1746/7] Or keep me happy in a single life. Yale fc.51 p. 159

If truth can fix thy wav'ring heart Garrick, David, 1717_1779 `A song to Delia' May gather ev'ry flower. Yale fc.51 p. 315

I'm not high church, nor low church, nor Tory nor Whig, H., A. `To all whom it may concern to know me' I submit to the will of a merciful God! Yale fc.51 p. 31

In ancient times, when sages able `Squerries Park in Kent, flower into Surrey' He only writ what I inspir'd. Yale fc.51 p. 112

In plaintive sounds that tun'd to woe Carter, Elizabeth, 1717_1806 `To Dr [Walwyn] Preb[enda]ry of Canterbury. When he designed cutting down the trees in his garden' Shall harmonize his lyre. Yale fc.51 p. 172

In tender Otway's moving scenes we find Lyttelton, George Lyttelton, 1st baron, 1709_1787 `To a young lady with Venice preserved' Nor reason ever disagree with love. Yale fc.51 p. 23

In this dear place parent of all my joys `Epistle by a gentleman of a narrow fortune in Ireland to his wife some years after marriage occasioned by his being at the place where he first saw her...' But raise my worth by imitating thine. Yale fc.51 p. 177

In this my rural seat how matters go Fitzgerald, Thomas, 1695?_1752 `The 16th epistle of the first book of Horace translated' An honest man! and only held by fear? Yale fc.51 p. 297

In vain, poor sable son of woe, Diggs, Col. [ ] `Verses wrote by...on the statue of a negro slave with tears in his eyes, that supports the dial in Lincoln's Inn...' [pr. Whitehall evening post 7 March 1737/8] The last will do't alive. Yale fc.51 p. 140

In vain the gods benign impart R., A. `Ode on the Hon[or]ble Mrs. Frances Boscawen and Miss Julia Evelyn collecting and transcribing the following poems' [July 1746] And eternize the lay. Yale fc.51 p. 1

In vain thro' all the world I roam, `Acon to Lavinia' To true content, and endless rest. Yale fc.51 p. 17

Iris you ask me how to write `To a lady that asked how to write love letters' Whene'er we look on you. Yale fc.51 p. 141

Is it to me this sad lamenting strain! Montagu, Lady Mary (Pierrepoint) Wortley, 1689_1762 `An answer to a love letter in verse. From Mrs J....n' And all the terror's doubled in their breast. Yale fc.51 p. 62

Let lazy hermits strangers to the day Walsingham, William De Grey, baron, 1719_1781 `On leaving the Merton hunt' And ev'ry soft illusion melts away. Yale fc.51 p. 121

Lo contemplation, best companion; here `Over the door, on the inside' [at Pensoroso] Be humble, and be just. Yale fc.51 p. 101

Made to engage all hearts, and charm all eyes, Lyttelton, George Lyttelton, 1st baron, 1709_1774 `By...soon after his wife's death' [Lucy, Lady Lyttelton, monument erected in the Church of Hagley] Her mind was virtue, by the graces dress'd. Yale fc.51 p. 222

Miser! attend that sound, to thee it spoke `On the moments of the Monitor...a bell in the Pensoroso which strikes every minute' That earthly power must fall, and beauty fade. Yale fc.51 p. 99

Most mighty Sir, the sovereign king Plaistow, William `The humble petition of...chapel warden of Kew in behalf of himself...to the King' To George our sovereign lord and king. Yale fc.51 p. 37

Ne gay attire, ne marble hall, West, Gilbert, 1703_1756 `Verses, wrote on a hermitage at Mereworth the seat of the earl of Westmorland behind the shrine of St. Agnes' My house shall prove an hermitage. Yale fc.51 p. 40

Now, fie upon't quoth Flattery Chesterfield, Philip Dormer Stanhope, 4th earl, 1694_1773 `Truth at court, written in 1761' Said everything I meant to say. Yale fc.51 p. 260

Of gentlest manners, ever form'd to please Gainsborough, Baptist Noel, 4th earl, 1708_1751 `Epitaph on Miss Colleton' Stay gentle passenger and shed it here. Yale fc.51 p. 136

Oft I've implored the gods in vain Greville, Frances (Macartney) `An ode to indifference' Content but half to please. Yale fc.51 p. 306

O gratitude celestial fair! `Gratitude...humbly addressed to her Grace the Duchess of Bedford' Nor blame the muse for want of fire. Yale fc.51 p. 300

Oh how I tremble for thy virgin heart `To a lady' His household guardian, and commodious wife. Yale fc.51 p. 164

O thou! who lab'rest in this rugged mine Madan, Judith (Cowper), 1702_1781 `Wrote by...in her brother's Coke on Littleton' When tenants in fee simple stuff thy coffers. Yale fc.51 p. 158

Pale death who walks, incessant walks his round `Opposite the Monitor' [a bell at Pensoroso] Thou common fame? but common breath. Yale fc.51 p. 100

Patience my Lord, a virtue rare I grant; `Of patience, an epistle to Lord Masham' [husband of Abigail, favorite of Queen Anne] Your Lordship is the patient'st man alive. Yale fc.51 p. 235; see also previous.

Poets are prodigies so greatly rare `The importance of a poet' And bless implicit the supported name. Yale fc.51 p. 8

Read lovely nymph and tremble not to read, Montagu, Lady Mary (Pierrepoint) Wortley, 1689_1762 `Epistle from Arthur Grey to Mrs. M[urra]y' You pay my pangs__nor have I died in vain. Yale fc.51 p. 57

Reader, if thou canst read at all thou'lt find `Epitaph on a lady's lap-dog' That for her species' sake thus greatly fell? Yale fc.51 p. 85

Religion is a generous lively flame Madan, Judith (Cowper), 1702_1781 `On religion' From the wild frenzies of a feverish brain. Yale fc.51 p. 156

See how the panes, where'er we go `Written on a glass window at an inn' Alone can read you there. Yale fc.51 p. 66

Since language never can describe my pain Hervey, John Hervey of Ickworth, baron, 1696_1743 `Monimia, to Philocles...1730' 'Tis all I ask__eternally adieu. Yale fc.51 p. 146

Since you dear doctor, sav'd my life Hanmer, Sir Thomas, 4th bart., 1677_1746 `An epistle from T H to Sir Hans Sloan' To do, as has done, yours, T.H. Yale fc.51 p. 132

So much oblig'd, and in the kindest way! `By [a gentleman of narrow fortune in Ireland] to his Grace the Duke of Dorset on his giving him a living' `And be most bless'd, because you bless the most.' Yale fc.51 p. 181

Soft rest thy dust! and wait th'Almighty's will; `Wrote extempore. In the tomb of a beautiful and very young lady' Then rise unchang'd, and be an angel still. Yale fc.51 p. 68; see also `Sleep soft in dustà', Lie sweet in dustà', `Lie still sweet maidà', `Sleep on blest angelà'.

Stay passenger and though within Merrick, James, 1720_1769 `On a thatched house window [on the grounds at Berwick] extempore' Has fix'd her mansion here. Yale fc.51 p. 84

Such was the man, and such his ev'ry grace `Wrote on the left hand of Lord Petre's tomb in the Pensoroso' That virtue wing'd with thee, to heav'n is fled. Yale fc.51 p. 94

Sweet bird that sing'st on yonder spray West, Gilbert, 1703_1756 `On one side' [of the Hermitage at Mereworth, seat of the earl of Westmorland] In solitude itself is blest. Yale fc.51 p. 41

Th'amorous wind by love inflam'd `On a young lady being blown down by a high wind' Her charms expos'd to view. Yale fc.51 p. 286

Thanks little bird with sleek red breast `Invitation to a robin' And spring invites my guest away. Yale fc.51 p. 155

The counsels of a friend Belinda hear, Lyttelton, George Lyttelton, 1st baron, 1709_1796 `Advice to a young lady' The rules of pleasing, which to you I give. Yale fc.51 p. 197

The curfew tolls the knell of parting day Gray, Thomas, 1716_1771 `Stanzas wrote in a churchyard in the country' The bosom of his father, and his God. Yale fc.51 p. 291

The fifth day [of] May, Hedges, John, d. 1737 `The last will and testament of...who died 1737' [brought into the Commons July 1737] Of his brother John Hedges. Yale fc.51 p. 138

The man who feels the dear disease Montagu, Lady Mary (Pierrepoint) Wortley, 1689_1762 `L'homme qui ne se trove point, et qui ne se trouvera jamais. By the same' Molly you may believe him true. Yale fc.51 p. 56

The man, whose days of youth and ease `The hermitage' And hates the world he made so bad. Yale fc.51 p. 258

The night in sweet slumbers roll'd gently away M., Miss F. `Epistle from...to Miss Peggy Banks' Their province is railing, whilst ours is pleasure. Yale fc.51 p. 26

The old Egyptian[s] hid their wit *Brereton, Jane? or Norris, Henry? `Upon a whole length picture [by William Hoare] of Mr. Nash, placed between the busts of Sr Isaac Newton and Mr. Pope, in Lovelace's great room at Bath, placed so high that they are not well seen' But folly's at full length. Yale fc.51 p. 35

The tithes of Romney, now your great concern `Horace's epistle to Iccius (ep.ii, lib. I) imitated' Wave o'er the banks of Thames, and glad the swain. Yale fc.51 p. 183

The youth whose birth the sisters twain Berenger, Richard, d. 1782 `Lib. 4 ode [3] of Horace, Quem tu Melpomene, imitated' They please from him alone. Yale fc.51 p. 312

Thou, who dost all my worldly thoughts employ Monck, Mary (Molesworth), c. 1678_1715 `Epistle wrote when dying, from...to her husband' And die as I have liv'd, your faithful wife. Yale fc.51 p. 22

Thrice have the muses wept: the tuneful train Evelyn, Rev. [ ] `Verses occasioned by the foregoing addressed to Adml. Boscawen' Again smiles Phoebus, and a Stanhope reigns. Yale fc.51 p. 228

Thro' the close covert of a shady grove `A riddle' Till they themselves like me, are turn'd to dust. Yale fc.51 p. 143

Till beauty, wit and softest strains `On Miss M. S. at Naples' They cannot kill the dead. Yale fc.51 p. 44

To black the soul by various strokes of dirt, `Prologue, to be spoken by Mr. Russell at the opening of his puppet show in Hugford [Hickford]'s room. 1745' And learn to value what you buy so dear. Yale fc.51 p. 71

Tomorrow didst thou say? Cotton, Nathaniel, 1705_1788 `Periunt et imputantur' Hold the dear angel fast until he bless thee. Yale fc.51 p. 269

Too long, my masters, with unpatriot zeal `Epilogue to be spoken by Punch, the first night of Mr. Russell's puppet show' [1745] And may the devil bless what has been said. Yale fc.51 p. 73

True passion has a force, too strong for art `Written on the right hand of Lord Petre's tomb' [in the Pensoroso] Grasp thee thro' death__and be forever thine. Yale fc.51 p. 96

'Twas on a lofty vase's side Gray, Thomas, 1716_1771 `Upon a cat drown[ed] in a china basin in which were goldfish' Nor all, that glitters gold. Yale fc.51 p. 231

Virtue and fame the other day Lyttelton, George Lyttelton, 1st baron, 1709_1800 `On Lady Egremont' 'Tis Egremont!__go tell it fame. Yale fc.51 p. 301

What are the falling rills, and pendant shades Pope, Alexander, 1688_1744 `On reading the foregoing lines' [`A fit of spleen' by Benjamin Ibbot: `Farewell vain world!...'] Inly she bleeds, and melts his [her] soul away. Yale fc.51 p. 15

What could luxurious woman wish for more Montagu, Lady Mary (Pierrepoint) Wortley, 1689_1762 `An epilogue to a new play of Mary Queen of Scots, by the same' Secure your hearts; then__fool with what you will. Yale fc.51 p. 64

What place is this? an universal school `At the entrance in the Pensoroso' What now thou art, and what thou soon wilt be. Yale fc.51 p. 93

When Gaby possession had got of the hall Beaver, Herbert `On the master of a Hall in Oxford his picking out an I marked in a cushion: causing a U to be put in its place' For if Gaby don't like 'em, he'll pick out their eyes. | Which nobody [can deny] Yale fc.51 p. 33

When Sol was at rest Cibber, Colley, 1671_1757 `The fair ladies overthrown' And bless'd the kind aid of the stranger. Yale fc.51 p. 250

Where art thou, happiness, O where `On happiness' For happiness is but content. Yale fc.51 p. 118

Wherefore was man thus form'd with eye sublime, `Ode written in a fit of the gout' Gives to our lives a sweet vicissitude. Yale fc.51 p. 90

While nations resound with the fate, Colman, George, 1732_1794 `The country dance militant. Occasioned by the ball Sept. the 16th 1760' And pierce the fair enemy's heart. Yale fc.51 p. 303

While you, the flow'r of Yarrow, shine `Ode to Miss Mary Scott' To gable [gamble?] for the state! Yale fc.51 p. 233

Whilst Cibber bard immortal crown'd with bays `Cantata for Mrs. Hope's birthday, Nov. 25th 1746...[music by] Handel: 'Twas at the royal feast...recitative' To sing the day, and sing the nights | [With love, wine and music &c.] Yale fc.51 p. 194

Whilst, on the Po's imperial stream, Temple, [ ] `Ode, wrote by...in his travels from Naples' But can't the fire of love. Yale fc.51 p. 43

With toilsome steps I pass thro' life's dull road Montagu, Lady Mary (Pierrepoint) Wortley, 1689_1762 `Addressed to ____ by the same hand' And mourn in prison when I keep the key? Yale fc.51 p. 49

Without preamble to my friend Carlisle, Isabella Byron, countess, 1721_1795 `An answer by...to Mrs Greville's Ode on indifference addressed to a fairy [`Oft I've implored the gods in vain...]' Imprinted on my mind. Yale fc.51 p. 309

Would you think it my Duck for the fault I must own Hamilton, Jenny `To Miss Duck [daughter of Stephen Duck] upon having refused a great offer in favor of Mr. More [the poet]' [4 Dec. 1749] It begins with an M but I durst not say more. Yale fc.51 p. 289

Ye distant spires, ye antique towers Gray, Thomas, 1716_1771 `Ode on a distant prospect of Eton College' 'Tis folly to be wise. Yale fc.51 p. 202

Ye ladies that in whist delight, `The origin of old cats. Written at Tunbridge Wells 1748 by Rowly Powly esq. A well-wisher to the mathematics' She'll turn a cat again. Yale fc.51 p. 76

Ye sylvan scenes with artless beauty gay Lyttelton, George Lyttelton, 1st baron, 1709_1807 `An irregular ode wrote at Wickham in 1746' How much the wife is dearer than the bride. Yale fc.51 p. 253

Ye weeping muses, graces, virtues, tell Lyttelton, George Lyttelton, 1st baron, 1709_1808 `To the memory of Capt. Granville, who was slain on board the Defiance, in the engagement with the French fleet on the 3rd day of May 1747' His inborn worth alone could Granville's deeds inspire. Yale fc.51 p. 227

You command me to write, and I wish to obey `A letter to a lady' And our fondness increase, as the wiser we grow. Yale fc.51 p. 110

You little know the heart you would advise Montagu, Lady Mary (Wortley), 1689_1762 `From Lady ____ to Mrs. ____' To the sole Being, merciful and just. Yale fc.51 p. 142

Your conscience like the generous horse `Hint to the scrupulous. An allegory' Secure, tho' dirty to your inn. Yale fc.51 p. 42

Your letter, Jemmy, full of wit Lushington, W., capt. `Epistle from...to Capt. James [ ]...at Dublin' Shall be dear Jemmy ever thine. Yale fc.51 p. 276

Union First Line Index of English Verse

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

Union First Line Index of English Verse

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

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