Union First Line Index of English Verse

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A sinner, is a sheep astray,  S., M.  `A hymn'  `The wand'ring sheep to save.'  Yale  c.156  p. 75 
Awake, my St. John! Leave all meaner things  Pope, Alexander, 1688_1744  `Amusements 1768' [`Essay on man', epistles 1_3]  And bid self-love and social be the same.  Yale  c.156  p. 1 
Blush not, ye fair, to own me, but be wise,    `Lady's [skull]' [inscription in an alcove in the garden of Mr. Tyer's at Denbigh, Surrey]  And even, lend mortality a charm.  Yale  c.156  p. 60 
Can power happiness bestow,  S., M.    And leave the rest [to] heaven.  Yale  c.156  p. 107 
Canst thou, vain man! in riches think to find    `On hearing a gentleman say, he would never marry any but a great fortune and beauty'  Yet need not fortune court, nor dread her frown.  Yale  c.156  p. 63 
Daughter of Jove, relentless power,  Gray, Thomas, 1716_1771  `Hymn to adversity'  What others are, to feel, and know myself a man.  Yale  c.156  p. 110 
Dear Chloe, while the busy crowd,  Cotton, Nathaniel, 1705_1788  `The fireside'  And smooth, the bed of death.  Yale  c.156  p. 67 
For such the bounteous providence of heav'n,    `On the love of novelty'  Each trembling heart with grateful terrors quell'd.  Yale  c.156  p. 86 
Friendship true delight bestows,    `On friendship'  It will with greater splendor shine.  Yale  c.156  p. 235 
From all the busy scenes of life,    `The wish'  What man can't give nor man destroy.  Yale  c.156  p. 73 
Gratitude is rare! Most, after favors    `On gratitude'  Excites my wonder and transcends my praise.  Yale  c.156  p. 172 
Had my past life been so improv'd,  S., M.  `A thought on sickness'  Observes, and yet imputes them not.  Yale  c.156  p. 79 
Heard ye not the solemn bell    [on Eliza Huddesford, d. 2 May 1768]  Peace to thy deserving shade.  Yale  c.156  p. 99 
Here rests his head upon the lap of earth  Gray, Thomas, 1716_1771  `An epitaph' [last lines of `Elegy in a country churchyard']  The bosom of his father and his God.  Yale  c.156  p. 145 
How heav'n in scorn of human arrogance    [signed `H.']  And whelms the swelling architect beneath.  Yale  c.156  p. 233 
If on this roof, high heav'n should send,    `An ode on affliction'  Whate'er becomes of mine.  Yale  c.156  p. 65 
If when the tender sympathizing sigh,    `To a friend in trouble'  Where darkness, grief and pain, and dangers cease.  Yale  c.156  p. 139 
It must be done, my soul; but 'tis a strange,    `On death'  Sickness and pain before, and darkness all behind.  Yale  c.156  p. 57 
Long exercise my friend      We pleasing find.  Yale  c.156  p. 197 
Madam, if mourning, if excess of grief,  Cook, [ ]  `To Mrs. Colston, on the death of her only son'  To her, whose power I feel, I make my prayer.  Yale  c.156  p. 146 
My son attend receive the words of truth,  Fawkes, Francis, 1720_1777  `Picture of old age Eccles. 12. chap. [verses 1_7]'  The soul uprising, wings its way to God.  Yale  c.156  p. 136 
Now meek-eyed evening sheds her balmy dews,  Huddesford, George, 1749_1809  `Elegy' [on Eliza Huddesford, d. 2 May 1768]  Soft sleep the dust of the deserving shade.  Yale  c.156  p. 94 
O! hear a pensive prisoner's prayer,    `An address from a mouse'  And break the hidden snare.  Yale  c.156  p. 156 
Pity the sorrows of a poor old man    `The beggar'  And left the world to wretchedness and me.  Yale  c.156  p. 203 
Reasons to value pelf tho' shrewd men seek    `Juvenal's satires'  Than teach you to be wretched, and be poor.  Yale  c.156  p. 190 
Reflect that life and death affecting sound,  Johnson, Samuel  [from Irene]  And virtue cheaply sav'd with loss of life.  Yale  c.156  p. 234 
Stern Fortune's frown I own 'tis hard to bear,    `Reflections on fortune'  Outlive the storm, and still unmov'd remain.  Yale  c.156  p. 208 
Take, holy earth, all that my soul holds dear,  Mason, William, 1724_1797  `Sacred to the memory of Mary...Sherman...Mason' [d. 27 March 1767]  And bids the pure in heart behold their God.  Yale  c.156  p. 206 
Take, holy earth, all that my soul holds dear,  Mason, William, 1725_1797  `Sacred to the memory of Mary...Sherman...Mason' [d. 27 March 1767]  And bids the pure in heart behold their God.  Yale  c.156  p. 206 
The nurse of contemplation, night,  Cunningham, John, 1729_1773  `The contemplatist: a night piece'  Give vigor to the mind.  Yale  c.156  p. 221; see also `The queen of contemplationà'. 
The shepherd's plain life      Both lightnings and tempests assail.  Yale  c.156  p. 109 
Think well or ill of him that slumber here    `Epitaph'  Oblige him, be a better man than he.  Yale  c.156  p. 74 
To you my Lord whose unexperienc'd days  Cook, Thomas, 1744_1818  `An epistle to Lord [George] Johnston'  And emulating them, resolve to rise.  Yale  c.156  p. 149 
Well may the human bosom sigh,  S., M.  `Another [thought on sickness]'  Hell bars th'eternal door.  Yale  c.156  p. 81 
What's innocence! a brighter gem,  S., M.  `On innocence'  This gem__'tis life for death, 'tis heav'n for hell.  Yale  c.156  p. 78 
Where full in view Augusta['s] spires are seen,  Falconer, William, 1732_1769  `The shipwreck a poem'  Then torn with agonizing throes divide.  Yale  c.156  p. 211 
Why start! The case is yours__or will be soon;    `Lord's [skull]' [inscription for a skull in an alcove in the garden of Mr. Tyer's at Denbigh in Surrey]  Farewell, remember__lest you wake too late.  Yale  c.156  p. 59 
Why, when the balm of sleep descends on man,  Johnson, [ ]    To want give affluence, and to slavery freedom.  Yale  c.156  p. 233