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1. A dreadful plague from angry Juno came

First Line:
A dreadful plague from angry Juno came
Last Line:
To fill your sails and favour your intent
Author:
William Stonestreet (Absolute)
DMI number:
4174

2. A cave there is deep in declining ground

First Line:
A cave there is deep in declining ground
Last Line:
Because thought absent at his wondrous fall
Author:
John Hopkins (Absolute)
DMI number:
5880

3. A Hama-Dryad flourished in these days

First Line:
A Hama-Dryad flourished in these days
Last Line:
How Venus once revenged neglected love
Author:
Sir Samuel Garth (Absolute)
DMI number:
12025

4. A king is sought to guide the growing state

First Line:
A king is sought to guide the growing state
Last Line:
And all the muses over his acts preside
Author:
John Dryden (Absolute)
DMI number:
12035

5. Acis the lovely youth whose loss I mourn

First Line:
Acis the lovely youth whose loss I mourn
Last Line:
With rapid motion and his name retains
Author:
John Dryden (Absolute)
DMI number:
4854

6. Actaeon's sufferings and Diana's rage

First Line:
Actaeon's sufferings and Diana's rage
Last Line:
Nursed secretly with milk the thriving god
Author:
Joseph Addison (Absolute)
DMI number:
11333

7. Advanced in years he died one common date

First Line:
Advanced in years he died one common date
Last Line:
I serve my goddess and attend her chase
Author:
Alexander Stopford Catcott (Confident)
DMI number:
12038

8. Aemonian matrons who their absence mourned

First Line:
Aemonian matrons who their absence mourned
Last Line:
And his indulgent nurse's youth renewed
Author:
Nahum Tate (Confident)
DMI number:
11618

9. After famed Ilium was by Argives won

First Line:
After famed Ilium was by Argives won
Last Line:
And here I reign a poor precarious king
Author:
Sir Samuel Garth (Absolute)
DMI number:
12015

10. An ancient forest in Thessalia grows

First Line:
An ancient forest in Thessalia grows
Last Line:
He sat himself and kept her still in sight
Author:
John Dryden (Absolute)
DMI number:
11237

11. Already Caeneus with his conquering hand

First Line:
Already Caeneus with his conquering hand
Last Line:
Part fell and part escaped by favour of the night
Author:
John Dryden (Absolute)
DMI number:
11934

12. Amid the throng of this promiscuous wood

First Line:
Amid the throng of this promiscuous wood
Last Line:
And still preside at every funeral rite
Author:
William Congreve (Absolute)
DMI number:
11889

13. Atlas perceived the load of heaven's new guest

First Line:
Atlas perceived the load of heaven's new guest
Last Line:
But haunt those houses where she loved to roam
Author:
John Gay (Absolute)
DMI number:
11728

14. Ascanius now the Latian sceptre sways

First Line:
Ascanius now the Latian sceptre sways
Last Line:
And Procas wore the regal diadem
Author:
Sir Samuel Garth (Absolute)
DMI number:
12023

15. Bacchus resolving to revenge the wrong

First Line:
Bacchus resolving to revenge the wrong
Last Line:
With mossy trunks below and verdant leaves above
Author:
Samuel Croxall (Confident)
DMI number:
11902

16. Before the spacious front a herd we find

First Line:
Before the spacious front a herd we find
Last Line:
The mystery thus attempted to explain
Author:
Sir Samuel Garth (Absolute)
DMI number:
12246

17. But Aesculapius was a foreign power

First Line:
But Aesculapius was a foreign power
Last Line:
And shot behind it a long trail of light
Author:
Leonard Welsted (Confident)
DMI number:
12046

18. But yonder far lo yonder does appear

First Line:
But yonder far lo yonder does appear
Last Line:
Enlarged the mass the nymph became an isle
Author:
Thomas Vernon (Absolute)
DMI number:
11702

19. But Mineus' daughters still their tasks pursue

First Line:
But Mineus' daughters still their tasks pursue
Last Line:
From whom the Romans have derived their name
Author:
Laurence Eusden (Confident)
DMI number:
11442

20. But now the hero of immortal birth

First Line:
But now the hero of immortal birth
Last Line:
And lodge the hero in the starry sky
Author:
John Gay (Absolute)
DMI number:
11726