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1. A blooming youth lies buried here

First Line:
A blooming youth lies buried here
Last Line:
But death had quicker wings than love
Author:
Samuel Wesley (Absolute)
DMI number:
27361

2. A thousand ills in death's sad pomp appears

First Line:
A thousand ills in death's sad pomp appears
Last Line:
But all is quiet all is ease below
DMI number:
6396

3. A To town what cause or rather what ill star

First Line:
A To town what cause or rather what ill star
Last Line:
A You're a good man and the in Lord must trust
DMI number:
27370

4. A poor old wretch beneath the weight

First Line:
A poor old wretch beneath the weight
Last Line:
And your petitioner shall pray
DMI number:
8976

5. A riddle tis as you are pleased to think

First Line:
A riddle tis as you are pleased to think
Last Line:
Find us more Dorsets we can heroes make
DMI number:
6404

6. A rival in a friend to see

First Line:
A rival in a friend to see
Last Line:
Than do one infidelity
DMI number:
8535

7. A landlord at Bath put upon me a queer hum

First Line:
A landlord at Bath put upon me a queer hum
Last Line:
I asked him for punch and the dog gave me mere rum
DMI number:
26608

8. A landlord of Bath put upon me a queer hum

First Line:
A landlord of Bath put upon me a queer hum
Last Line:
I asked him for punch and the dog gave me mere rum
DMI number:
32356

9. A little farm you purchase near the town

First Line:
A little farm you purchase near the town
Last Line:
The lawyer got which now the farmer buys
DMI number:
28265

10. Ah Lesbia now or never pity show

First Line:
Ah Lesbia now or never pity show
Last Line:
Or dry my tears up with more potent flame
DMI number:
15382

11. Alike in temper and alike in life

First Line:
Alike in temper and alike in life
Last Line:
I wonder so great likeness can't agree
Author:
Martial (Absolute)
DMI number:
11165

12. Ah beauteous Timas ere the knot was tied

First Line:
Ah beauteous Timas ere the knot was tied
Last Line:
Devote a last best tribute of their care
DMI number:
31494

13. A wife who as our own by law we hold

First Line:
A wife who as our own by law we hold
Last Line:
And a false woman is a matchless curse
Author:
Edward Ward (Confident)
DMI number:
6760

14. A worn out sailor charmed with Deptford strand

First Line:
A worn out sailor charmed with Deptford strand
Last Line:
That a sunk ship a tar's affairs retrieved
DMI number:
27957

15. An ensign's post you ask and that's denied

First Line:
An ensign's post you ask and that's denied
Last Line:
Ask for a colonel's less will hurt your pride
DMI number:
27976

16. As Neptune the Venetian towers surveys

First Line:
As Neptune the Venetian towers surveys
Last Line:
And own that men built yours but gods built mine
Author:
Charles Hopkins (Confident)
DMI number:
6474

17. As oft Sir Treadwell as we meet

First Line:
As oft Sir Treadwell as we meet
Last Line:
We know Sir you are too too wise
Author:
John Oldham (Absolute)
DMI number:
28345

18. As Pedro stalked around his house

First Line:
As Pedro stalked around his house
Last Line:
But for the sake of solitude
DMI number:
32990

19. Armed with a fly flap in a warlike rage

First Line:
Armed with a fly flap in a warlike rage
Last Line:
Not one poor fly to draw his chariot's left
DMI number:
5831

20. As common fare when sausages and chine

First Line:
As common fare when sausages and chine
Last Line:
I like a dinner such as I can give
DMI number:
28012

21. At Bristol Tom from the mayor's feast was led

First Line:
At Bristol Tom from the mayor's feast was led
Last Line:
How safe are you who drunk but Bristol water
DMI number:
27980

22. At Chenevix poor little master cries

First Line:
At Chenevix poor little master cries
Last Line:
And when they smile for trifles sob at heart
DMI number:
27955

23. At dead low ebb of night when none

First Line:
At dead low ebb of night when none
Last Line:
'Twas not his bow but my heart broke
DMI number:
5054

24. At length my friend while time with still career

First Line:
At length my friend while time with still career
Last Line:
The present well and even the past enjoy
Author:
Alexander Pope (Absolute)
DMI number:
13060

25. Aurelius you the chief and head

First Line:
Aurelius you the chief and head
Last Line:
Till I have drenched your nasty mouth
DMI number:
8595

26. Before her husband Lesbia calls me names

First Line:
Before her husband Lesbia calls me names
Last Line:
But are the marks of unextinguished love
Author:
Nicholas Amhurst (Absolute)
DMI number:
12432

27. Behold in peace and war a monarch great

First Line:
Behold in peace and war a monarch great
Last Line:
And seen his lilies dim their eagle's eye
DMI number:
8978

28. Bett if kind heaven would grant to me

First Line:
Bett if kind heaven would grant to me
Last Line:
Two that he'd take away the third
Author:
Charles Cotton (Confident)
DMI number:
24696

29. Brebeuf in well deserving lines

First Line:
Brebeuf in well deserving lines
Last Line:
With him who sings the ass's hide
DMI number:
8929

30. Behold where Pelagon's pale corse is laid

First Line:
Behold where Pelagon's pale corse is laid
Last Line:
Signs of the toilsome life his offspring led
DMI number:
31493

31. By this small stone as great remains are hid

First Line:
By this small stone as great remains are hid
Last Line:
One man she held most dear and one alone
DMI number:
27950

32. Caesar so little I regard thy sight

First Line:
Caesar so little I regard thy sight
Last Line:
Thy lust and course of life's as black as hell
DMI number:
8596

33. Can you count the silver lights

First Line:
Can you count the silver lights
Last Line:
On Malborough's acts or Molly's charms
Author:
Sir Samuel Garth (Absolute)
DMI number:
40500

34. Can you count the silver lights

First Line:
Can you count the silver lights
Last Line:
Or Marlborough's acts or -----n's charms
Author:
Sir Samuel Garth (Absolute)
DMI number:
8395

35. Buckhurst thou dear concern of th' heavenly power

First Line:
Buckhurst thou dear concern of th' heavenly power
Last Line:
And stretches life beyond th' appointed date
DMI number:
8346

36. But halt my pen and thou my presence quit

First Line:
But halt my pen and thou my presence quit
Last Line:
For trying of Apollo keep their courts
DMI number:
27926

37. Cheronean Plutarch to thy deathless page

First Line:
Cheronean Plutarch to thy deathless page
Last Line:
Their lives had parallels but thine has none
DMI number:
17383

38. Childless and rich and born in Charles's reign

First Line:
Childless and rich and born in Charles's reign
Last Line:
The new will love you only under ground
DMI number:
27968

39. Charinus 'twas my hap of late

First Line:
Charinus 'twas my hap of late
Last Line:
Two that he'd take away the third
Author:
Charles Cotton (Absolute)
DMI number:
12419

40. Chloe you write to me for coin

First Line:
Chloe you write to me for coin
Last Line:
Enjoyed god Bacchus and became a star
Author:
Thomas Brown (Absolute)
DMI number:
6756

41. Christina hail O virgin great in war

First Line:
Christina hail O virgin great in war
Last Line:
Nor always monarchs tremble at my frown
DMI number:
19436

42. Cinna cries out I am not worth a groat

First Line:
Cinna cries out I am not worth a groat
Last Line:
And is plague on him what he would be thought
DMI number:
3197

43. Climene something has perplexed me

First Line:
Climene something has perplexed me
Last Line:
'Tis not with you I can assure you
DMI number:
9443

44. Clio complained upon a time

First Line:
Clio complained upon a time
Last Line:
Before the eyes of you the sun
DMI number:
9433

45. Come Lesbia let us live and love

First Line:
Come Lesbia let us live and love
Last Line:
How much my dear I'm kissed by you
Author:
Francis Willis (Confident)
DMI number:
9823

46. Cupid the sliest rogue alive

First Line:
Cupid the sliest rogue alive
Last Line:
And yet how wide how deep the wound
DMI number:
3921

47. Curse on the wretch whose rage to be a wit

First Line:
Curse on the wretch whose rage to be a wit
Last Line:
Hammering out paltry lines twelve times twelve hundred
DMI number:
9446

48. Could witty Rochester return again

First Line:
Could witty Rochester return again
Last Line:
He'd silence Rochester for want of wit
DMI number:
27959

49. Coming a tender girl from school

First Line:
Coming a tender girl from school
Last Line:
Contract my stomach or enlarge my diet
Author:
Thomas Brown (Absolute)
DMI number:
6757

50. Commit your ship to sea and wind

First Line:
Commit your ship to sea and wind
Last Line:
Made constant by inconstancy
DMI number:
6764

51. Crying and blushing thus fair Helen mourned

First Line:
Crying and blushing thus fair Helen mourned
Last Line:
That which you left me was the worst half Nelly
Author:
Anthony Hammond (Confident)
DMI number:
10530

52. Dear squire take my advice your hunter spare

First Line:
Dear squire take my advice your hunter spare
Last Line:
Roper at last before the fox did die
DMI number:
27993

53. Dick would you know if I should change my life

First Line:
Dick would you know if I should change my life
Last Line:
Twixt both nor too hard-hearted nor too free
DMI number:
12314

54. Disguised like a ploughman love stole from the sky

First Line:
Disguised like a ploughman love stole from the sky
Last Line:
That I'll yoke thee Europa's famed bull to my plough
Author:
Francis Fawkes (Absolute)
DMI number:
27798

55. Does Charidas entombed beneath thee sleep

First Line:
Does Charidas entombed beneath thee sleep
Last Line:
Horses when dead lie still and so do we
DMI number:
8593

56. Drink says old Sophist and then fear no evil

First Line:
Drink says old Sophist and then fear no evil
Last Line:
And so keep wetting wheresoever we go
DMI number:
36507

57. Feed on my flocks feed void of care

First Line:
Feed on my flocks feed void of care
Last Line:
Fresh flowers luxuriant paint the meads
DMI number:
28944

58. Fair Heliconias is the first descried

First Line:
Fair Heliconias is the first descried
Last Line:
And the pressed grape his honoest soul to drown
Author:
Edward Burnaby Greene (Speculation)
DMI number:
31486

59. Fraternal love in such strong currents runs

First Line:
Fraternal love in such strong currents runs
Last Line:
Live thou dear brother both thy days and mine
DMI number:
27319

60. Free from reserve you would to me appear

First Line:
Free from reserve you would to me appear
Last Line:
For he must more conceal who this could tell
DMI number:
28007

61. For wealth ye thieves some statelier house explore

First Line:
For wealth ye thieves some statelier house explore
Last Line:
Whilst poverty stout guard defends my door
DMI number:
32995

62. Fool that you are to mix your verse with mine

First Line:
Fool that you are to mix your verse with mine
Last Line:
When you another have which is of wood
DMI number:
27958

63. Fond lad who in thy youthful bloom

First Line:
Fond lad who in thy youthful bloom
Last Line:
Or being now old couldst but be young again
DMI number:
42142

64. From Kew to town four hours I spent you rail

First Line:
From Kew to town four hours I spent you rail
Last Line:
Who sent your equippage in which I came
DMI number:
27978

65. Go for I'm impatient grown

First Line:
Go for I'm impatient grown
Last Line:
But with haste devour the way
Author:
Matthew Prior (Speculation)
DMI number:
4783

66. Furius you to me often cry

First Line:
Furius you to me often cry
Last Line:
Worse that those four together joined
DMI number:
8605

67. Gainst me to prate or print is H-- said

First Line:
Gainst me to prate or print is H-- said
Last Line:
He neither does whose neither heard nor read
DMI number:
12985

68. Hail bard triumphant whose melodious breath

First Line:
Hail bard triumphant whose melodious breath
Last Line:
It killed a poet in whose verse it lives
DMI number:
39220

69. Hail king of horses noble Rosinante

First Line:
Hail king of horses noble Rosinante
Last Line:
Did gallop once or else the historian fails
DMI number:
9442

70. Gratis your house old bachelors frequent

First Line:
Gratis your house old bachelors frequent
Last Line:
Yet none can let a house at higher rent
DMI number:
27981

71. Great Bacchus born in thunder and in fire

First Line:
Great Bacchus born in thunder and in fire
Last Line:
The moral says mix water with your wine
Author:
Matthew Prior (Absolute)
DMI number:
12421

72. Great Capitolian Jove thou god to whom

First Line:
Great Capitolian Jove thou god to whom
Last Line:
Caesar himself can grant what's fit for me
Author:
Aaron Hill (Absolute)
DMI number:
13488

73. Hail Taffi's day on which my race begun

First Line:
Hail Taffi's day on which my race begun
Last Line:
Why therefore choose such formal slavery
DMI number:
28260

74. Hal says he's poor in hopes you'll say he's not

First Line:
Hal says he's poor in hopes you'll say he's not
Last Line:
But take his word for it Hal's not worth a groat
DMI number:
33028

75. Happy's the man whose eyes can every grace

First Line:
Happy's the man whose eyes can every grace
Last Line:
Who does those limbs enjoy as well as see
DMI number:
10008

76. He fawns for more though he his thousands touch

First Line:
He fawns for more though he his thousands touch
Last Line:
Fortune gives none enough but some too much
DMI number:
27990

77. He says not right who says that you are evil

First Line:
He says not right who says that you are evil
Last Line:
You an ill man you are a very devil
DMI number:
27986

78. Hence far hence unthinking swain

First Line:
Hence far hence unthinking swain
Last Line:
In pasture with thy lowing kine
Author:
Edward Burnaby Greene (Absolute)
DMI number:
31487

79. Hence foolish calf thy cries refrain

First Line:
Hence foolish calf thy cries refrain
Last Line:
But real milk exceeds his art
DMI number:
32973

80. Her years if numbered by her hairs I ween

First Line:
Her years if numbered by her hairs I ween
Last Line:
That lady elderly is scarce nineteen
DMI number:
27989

81. How comes it Perrault I would gladly know

First Line:
How comes it Perrault I would gladly know
Last Line:
And then no wonder if they meet no praise
DMI number:
8985

82. Himself he slew when he the foe would fly

First Line:
Himself he slew when he the foe would fly
Last Line:
What madness this for fear of death to die
DMI number:
27367

83. Honest and poor faithful in word and thought

First Line:
Honest and poor faithful in word and thought
Last Line:
But faith go back and keep you where you were
DMI number:
28349

84. How swift we cry the restless years roll on

First Line:
How swift we cry the restless years roll on
Last Line:
Strew it with flowers to obstruct thy way
DMI number:
15476

85. However ardent is your amorous grief

First Line:
However ardent is your amorous grief
Last Line:
His mistress would betray to gain his end
DMI number:
8532

86. How often do you ask me to go down

First Line:
How often do you ask me to go down
Last Line:
All that a servant cannot do I'll do
DMI number:
27372

87. How pleasant is this one horse chair

First Line:
How pleasant is this one horse chair
Last Line:
We three might pass the day full well
DMI number:
27999

88. I burn says one I of a fever burn

First Line:
I burn says one I of a fever burn
Last Line:
Only thy empty stomach did complain
DMI number:
17293

89. I hate and love perhaps you'll ask me why

First Line:
I hate and love perhaps you'll ask me why
Last Line:
I know not but tis so and I in torments lie
DMI number:
8538

90. I haunt your table led by my ill star

First Line:
I haunt your table led by my ill star
Last Line:
A master should himself no master have
DMI number:
27337

91. I die with sadness if the blushing fair

First Line:
I die with sadness if the blushing fair
Last Line:
Fall by the wound or perish by the cure
DMI number:
16734

92. In the piazza where tall poplars grow

First Line:
In the piazza where tall poplars grow
Last Line:
Found bears could sting and marble could destroy
DMI number:
12562

93. In shame and tears thus the fair Helen mourned

First Line:
In shame and tears thus the fair Helen mourned
Last Line:
The best while the worst half was the poor husband's lot
Author:
Anthony Hammond (Confident)
DMI number:
10529

94. In some vile hamlet let me live forgot

First Line:
In some vile hamlet let me live forgot
Last Line:
But to trudge four and miss you is the devil
Author:
Thomas Brown (Absolute)
DMI number:
7096

95. In charming infancy's disguise

First Line:
In charming infancy's disguise
Last Line:
The brightness of his mother's eyes
DMI number:
8940

96. In learning's precepts spend thy utmost breath

First Line:
In learning's precepts spend thy utmost breath
Last Line:
Life without learning bears the stamp of death
Author:
Cato (Absolute)
DMI number:
6954

97. In midnight cups you grant all we propose

First Line:
In midnight cups you grant all we propose
Last Line:
Next morn neglect pray take a morning doze
DMI number:
27991

98. Is there to enroll amongst the friendly few

First Line:
Is there to enroll amongst the friendly few
Last Line:
Now let me die but Harris is this friend
Author:
John Hoadly (Absolute)
DMI number:
27759

99. In want and what's a greater curse

First Line:
In want and what's a greater curse
Last Line:
Was ever gratitude so rare
DMI number:
8977

100. In youth by cheerless poverty oppressed

First Line:
In youth by cheerless poverty oppressed
Last Line:
When past enjoyment tantalized with wealth
DMI number:
32999