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1. Ah no tis all in vain believe me tis

First Line:
Ah no tis all in vain believe me tis
Last Line:
Their transitory master dead
Author:
William Congreve (Absolute)
DMI number:
25430

2. Ah no tis all in vain believe me tis

First Line:
Ah no tis all in vain believe me tis
Last Line:
Themselves outdone in luxury
Author:
William Congreve (Absolute)
DMI number:
916

3. Ah Posthumus the years of man

First Line:
Ah Posthumus the years of man
Last Line:
Which makes the abbots fat
Author:
Sir Richard Fanshawe (Absolute)
DMI number:
42089

4. Alas how swift the crowding minutes pass

First Line:
Alas how swift the crowding minutes pass
Last Line:
Of glutton priests when they their solemn feasts profess
DMI number:
3900

5. Alas my friend the years fly swift away

First Line:
Alas my friend the years fly swift away
Last Line:
The Pope would give his keys of heaven to gain
DMI number:
7172

6. Away away thou ape of solid bliss

First Line:
Away away thou ape of solid bliss
Last Line:
He purchased for himself the overrated ball
DMI number:
43384

7. Be gone delusion vain

First Line:
Be gone delusion vain
Last Line:
To deck the altars of their powers divine
Author:
James Scott (Absolute)
DMI number:
32760

8. Be gone delusions vain

First Line:
Be gone delusions vain
Last Line:
To deck the altars of their powers divine
Author:
James Scott (Absolute)
DMI number:
32701

9. Daughter of Jove relentless power

First Line:
Daughter of Jove relentless power
Last Line:
What others are to feel and know myself a man
Author:
Thomas Gray (Absolute)
DMI number:
24572

10. Enough enough my soul of worldly noise

First Line:
Enough enough my soul of worldly noise
Last Line:
No fortune can exalt but death will climb as high
Author:
George Granville (Absolute)
DMI number:
22885

11. First-born of Erebus and gloomy care

First Line:
First-born of Erebus and gloomy care
Last Line:
Gladness comes after grief and sorrow follows joy
DMI number:
10550

12. For quiet on Newmarket's plain

First Line:
For quiet on Newmarket's plain
Last Line:
Shall guard the laws divine
Author:
John Duncombe (Absolute)
DMI number:
25541

13. For quiet Yorke the sailor cries

First Line:
For quiet Yorke the sailor cries
Last Line:
I mean that aren't freeholders
Author:
Soame Jenyns (Absolute)
DMI number:
20407

14. From the maternal tomb

First Line:
From the maternal tomb
Last Line:
Are but the empty dreams which in death's sleep we make
Author:
Abraham Cowley (Absolute)
DMI number:
6007

15. Hail pensive virgin ever hail

First Line:
Hail pensive virgin ever hail
Last Line:
Sweet nun I long to visit thee
Author:
Joseph Cockfield (Absolute)
DMI number:
30397

16. Hours months and years with gliding pace

First Line:
Hours months and years with gliding pace
Last Line:
At their proud feasts the Salian train
Author:
William Duncombe (Absolute)
DMI number:
25537

17. Life the dear precarious boon

First Line:
Life the dear precarious boon
Last Line:
Awful period who can tell
Author:
John Hawkesworth (Absolute)
DMI number:
22984

18. I leave mortality's low sphere

First Line:
I leave mortality's low sphere
Last Line:
And bears the thunder through the aetherial plains
Author:
John Hughes (Absolute)
DMI number:
21276

19. Man foolish man

First Line:
Man foolish man
Last Line:
So fit as Jacob's ladder was to scale the distant sky
Author:
Matthew Prior (Absolute)
DMI number:
4842

20. Man foolish man

First Line:
Man foolish man
Last Line:
Which faith had dictated and angels trod
Author:
Matthew Prior (Absolute)
DMI number:
21270

21. Oh life thou nothing's younger brother

First Line:
Oh life thou nothing's younger brother
Last Line:
But broken and overwhelmed the endless ocean meets again
Author:
Abraham Cowley (Absolute)
DMI number:
5572

22. Philander setting on the shore

First Line:
Philander setting on the shore
Last Line:
So many rocks and sands obstruct she never can sail right
DMI number:
7185

23. Some gentle ghost that's launched and gone

First Line:
Some gentle ghost that's launched and gone
Last Line:
Sleep on till I return to call thee from thy cell
DMI number:
7163

24. The sailor when the tempest roars

First Line:
The sailor when the tempest roars
Last Line:
The base detracting crowd
Author:
John Duncombe (Absolute)
DMI number:
25540

25. The winter with his grisly storms ne longer dare abide

First Line:
The winter with his grisly storms ne longer dare abide
Last Line:
Nor Theseus could not call to life his friend Perithous
DMI number:
49439

26. Then will penurious heaven no more allow

First Line:
Then will penurious heaven no more allow
Last Line:
Keep up his character and lord of all appear
Author:
Thomas Yalden (Absolute)
DMI number:
4794

27. This mortal life

First Line:
This mortal life
Last Line:
But as from earth it rose to earth it falls again
Author:
Mary Monck (Absolute)
DMI number:
23278

28. Time Posthumus goes with full sail

First Line:
Time Posthumus goes with full sail
Last Line:
Ere he puts on his mourning weeds
Author:
Samuel Woodford (Absolute)
DMI number:
42090

29. Vain feeble man to boast of birth

First Line:
Vain feeble man to boast of birth
Last Line:
That glutted magazine of rich and poor
DMI number:
23079

30. What schemes the Swedes or Russians frame

First Line:
What schemes the Swedes or Russians frame
Last Line:
Can't raise your drooping spirits
DMI number:
26588

31. What shall become of man so wise

First Line:
What shall become of man so wise
Last Line:
Of what the knaves invent
Author:
Sir Charles Sedley (Confident)
DMI number:
6302

32. What art thou life whose stay we court

First Line:
What art thou life whose stay we court
Last Line:
Is ignorance at best and often worse
Author:
Elijah Fenton (Absolute)
DMI number:
6499

33. What boots the glittering turret's lofty top

First Line:
What boots the glittering turret's lofty top
Last Line:
The glorious train of heaven crowned saints to join
DMI number:
33053

34. Yet a few years or days perhaps

First Line:
Yet a few years or days perhaps
Last Line:
Is all the real good we gain
Author:
John Hawkesworth (Absolute)
DMI number:
27545