Content type: Poem / Poem Genre / Form: Pastoral / Poem Theme: Grief / sadness / melancholy

1. A faithful swain whom love had taught to sing

First Line:: A faithful swain whom love had taught to sing
Last Line:: By night he scorches as he burns by day
Author:: Alexander Pope (Absolute)
DMI number:: 7032

2. A careful nymph with careless grief oppressed

First Line:: A careful nymph with careless grief oppressed
Last Line:: These with my woe my woes with these increase
Author:: Anthony Munday (Absolute)
DMI number:: 13195

3. A shepherd boy all in an evening fair

First Line:: A shepherd boy all in an evening fair
Last Line:: To slumbers soft his sorrowing breast invite
Author:: Ambrose Philips (Confident)
DMI number:: 6478

4. A lovely nymph in pensive mood

First Line:: A lovely nymph in pensive mood
Last Line:: Of all her grief and pain
DMI number:: 11821

5. Ah well a day how long must I endure

First Line:: Ah well a day how long must I endure
Last Line:: Stay simple girl a lover cannot harm
Author:: Ambrose Philips (Absolute)
DMI number:: 22697

6. Alexis shunned his fellow swains

First Line:: Alexis shunned his fellow swains
Last Line:: He bowed obeyed and died
Author:: Matthew Prior (Absolute)
DMI number:: 808

7. Alexis the pride of the plain

First Line:: Alexis the pride of the plain
Last Line:: And imparts more than time steals away
DMI number:: 32602

8. Ah Colin why should thou despair

First Line:: Ah Colin why should thou despair
Last Line:: Shall pleasantly glide over the green
DMI number:: 12694

9. All nature mourns the skies relent in showers

First Line:: All nature mourns the skies relent in showers
Last Line:: And vanquished nature seems to charm no more
Author:: Alexander Pope (Absolute)
DMI number:: 22693

10. Anthis and Cete combed thier flowing hair

First Line:: Anthis and Cete combed thier flowing hair
Last Line:: And thus increase the terrors of the night
Author:: William Diaper (Absolute)
DMI number:: 36353

11. As it fell upon a day

First Line:: As it fell upon a day
Last Line:: Faithful friend from flattering foe
DMI number:: 38524

12. As late by Thames's verdant side

First Line:: As late by Thames's verdant side
Last Line:: Poor Chloe quite forgot her song
Author:: Sir Charles Hanbury Williams (Absolute)
DMI number:: 31627

13. As late to shun the noon day's scorching heat

First Line:: As late to shun the noon day's scorching heat
Last Line:: And cursed the shepherd who was dead to love
DMI number:: 41767

14. Arise O Phosphorus and bring the day

First Line:: Arise O Phosphorus and bring the day
Last Line:: Tis barbarous to insult on one that dies
Author:: William Walsh (Absolute)
DMI number:: 6683

15. As Chloe by a river's side

First Line:: As Chloe by a river's side
Last Line:: All my joys in view
DMI number:: 18204

16. As Damon that unhappy swain

First Line:: As Damon that unhappy swain
Last Line:: The body flies and leaves the soul behind
DMI number:: 41809

17. Beneath a gloomy yew's unhealthy shade

First Line:: Beneath a gloomy yew's unhealthy shade
Last Line:: For my sake live tonight tomorrow die
DMI number:: 44566

18. Beneath a shady wood at break of day

First Line:: Beneath a shady wood at break of day
Last Line:: And wait the gentle pressure of her hand
Author:: William Dawson (Absolute)
DMI number:: 25354

19. Beneath a silent grove's diverting shade

First Line:: Beneath a silent grove's diverting shade
Last Line:: Ever Melania's love and praise and name shall live
DMI number:: 42736

20. Beneath the mournful yew oppressed with grief

First Line:: Beneath the mournful yew oppressed with grief
Last Line:: Give its nights to soft love and its days to brisk claret
DMI number:: 42729

21. Beneath the shade a spreading beech displays

First Line:: Beneath the shade a spreading beech displays
Last Line:: And the low sun had lengthened every shade
Author:: Alexander Pope (Absolute)
DMI number:: 7033

22. Can we forget how every creature moaned

First Line:: Can we forget how every creature moaned
Last Line:: And thorns and thistles overspread the fields
Author:: Ambrose Philips (Absolute)
DMI number:: 22505

23. By the side of a murmuring stream

First Line:: By the side of a murmuring stream
Last Line:: His ghost shall glide over the green
Author:: Nicholas Rowe (Absolute)
DMI number:: 12691

24. By flowery banks of tweed whose waters glide

First Line:: By flowery banks of tweed whose waters glide
Last Line:: Now cease ye woods no more resound my strains
Author:: Robert Colvill (Absolute)
DMI number:: 25932

25. Corin most unhappie swaine

First Line:: Corin most unhappie swaine
Last Line:: Is the lover's sharpest hell
DMI number:: 37357

26. Farewell ye shady walks and fountains

First Line:: Farewell ye shady walks and fountains
Last Line:: Her parallel or second she
Author:: Matthew Prior (Absolute)
DMI number:: 16949

27. Goatherd the music of yon whistling pine

First Line:: Goatherd the music of yon whistling pine
Last Line:: The goat may chance to leap as well as you
DMI number:: 3918

28. Hark hark tis a voice from the tomb

First Line:: Hark hark tis a voice from the tomb
Last Line:: She hung on his tombstone and died
Author:: Robert Lloyd (Speculation) & Edward Moore (Absolute)
DMI number:: 23136

29. Hark how the bleating flocks bemoan

First Line:: Hark how the bleating flocks bemoan
Last Line:: How hard it is to bid my dear farewell
DMI number:: 18240

30. How now shepherde what meanes that

First Line:: How now shepherde what meanes that
Last Line:: And love a new love every day
DMI number:: 37606

31. How oft beneath this poplar have we lain

First Line:: How oft beneath this poplar have we lain
Last Line:: May heaven abandon me for such a crime
DMI number:: 42832

32. I am a poor shepherd undone

First Line:: I am a poor shepherd undone
Last Line:: And birds of sundry notes | And alas &c
DMI number:: 23648

33. I ask not lovely virgins why you weep

First Line:: I ask not lovely virgins why you weep
Last Line:: 'Till memory is lost in endless sleep
DMI number:: 3882

34. In a sad unfrequented cyprus grove

First Line:: In a sad unfrequented cyprus grove
Last Line:: Give him a thousand thousand joys beside
DMI number:: 41843

35. In silent horror over the boundless waste

First Line:: In silent horror over the boundless waste
Last Line:: When back to Schiraz' walls he bent his way
Author:: William Collins (Absolute)
DMI number:: 26976

36. Mourn all ye groves in darker shades be seen

First Line:: Mourn all ye groves in darker shades be seen
Last Line:: Would try to move the rigid king of hell
Author:: John Oldham (Absolute)
DMI number:: 4111

37. Mourn all ye poets mourn ye nymphs and swains

First Line:: Mourn all ye poets mourn ye nymphs and swains
Last Line:: And think my death more happy than my life
DMI number:: 18147

38. My old acquaintance and my dearest friend

First Line:: My old acquaintance and my dearest friend
Last Line:: Lie down on rushes with the sun get up
Author:: Morrough O'Connor (Absolute)
DMI number:: 11846

39. I see ye're shepherd early up at morn

First Line:: I see ye're shepherd early up at morn
Last Line:: And yet with you and me it doth dispence
DMI number:: 4378

40. If we O Dorset quit the city throng

First Line:: If we O Dorset quit the city throng
Last Line:: To slumbers soft his heavy heart invite
Author:: Ambrose Philips (Absolute)
DMI number:: 6960

41. Last Friday's eve when as the sun was set

First Line:: Last Friday's eve when as the sun was set
Last Line:: And to a constant lass give back her swain
Author:: John Gay (Absolute)
DMI number:: 22716

42. Lycon begin begin the mournful tale

First Line:: Lycon begin begin the mournful tale
Last Line:: And all lies wrapped in silence and inactive ease
Author:: William Diaper (Absolute)
DMI number:: 36352

43. Near streams which in musical murmurs repined

First Line:: Near streams which in musical murmurs repined
Last Line:: And tell her tis nobler to save than to kill
DMI number:: 18825

44. Near Thames' green banks a love lorn nymph reclined

First Line:: Near Thames' green banks a love lorn nymph reclined
Last Line:: I've but one life and there's a choice of swains
DMI number:: 24389

45. No Lesbia no you ask in vain

First Line:: No Lesbia no you ask in vain
Last Line:: And every moon she sacrificed for all
DMI number:: 7513

46. No more of youthful joys or love's fond dreams

First Line:: No more of youthful joys or love's fond dreams
Last Line:: Then rose and homeward slowly bent his way
Author:: Michael Bruce (Absolute)
DMI number:: 30157

47. No more will I attempt to sing

First Line:: No more will I attempt to sing
Last Line:: And virgins sing thy praise
Author:: Mary Darwall [nee Whateley] (Absolute)
DMI number:: 41772

48. O sacred Phoebus thy assistance bring

First Line:: O sacred Phoebus thy assistance bring
Last Line:: For what is life without the swain I love
DMI number:: 10265

49. O Short no herb no salve was ever found

First Line:: O Short no herb no salve was ever found
Last Line:: Than if the riches of the world were his
Author:: Richard Duke (Absolute)
DMI number:: 3703

50. O Mallow dear Mallow adieu

First Line:: O Mallow dear Mallow adieu
Last Line:: O Mallow dear Mallow adieu
Author:: Samuel Whyte (Speculation)
DMI number:: 33781

51. Oh I have heard the waves and senseless stones

First Line:: Oh I have heard the waves and senseless stones
Last Line:: Thy remedies are not for my disease
DMI number:: 22705

52. Oh my Mirtillo if within my breast

First Line:: Oh my Mirtillo if within my breast
Last Line:: Are not thy pains are not thy griefs but mine
DMI number:: 22712

53. Oh Albion famed for arts and in arms renowned

First Line:: Oh Albion famed for arts and in arms renowned
Last Line:: And conscious worth enhance each dear delight
DMI number:: 31590

54. Oh Albion famed for arts in arms renowned

First Line:: Oh Albion famed for arts in arms renowned
Last Line:: And conscious worth inhance each dear light
DMI number:: 32575

55. Panthea long had felt love's pleasing smart

First Line:: Panthea long had felt love's pleasing smart
Last Line:: For what is life without the swain I love
Author:: John Gay (Absolute)
DMI number:: 8404

56. On the frontier of a mountain

First Line:: On the frontier of a mountain
Last Line:: Quickly leave the western plain
DMI number:: 10253

57. On the remains of an old blasted oak

First Line:: On the remains of an old blasted oak
Last Line:: Tomorrow's cheerful light may give thee comfort
Author:: Jacob Tonson (Absolute)
DMI number:: 3941

58. One labour Arethusa to the past

First Line:: One labour Arethusa to the past
Last Line:: Love conquers all and we must yield to love
Author:: Joseph Trapp (Absolute)
DMI number:: 6992

59. One night unhappy Celadon

First Line:: One night unhappy Celadon
Last Line:: Not satisfied with private sway at home
Author:: Matthew Prior (Speculation)
DMI number:: 6473

60. Phyllis she is both blythe and yonge

First Line:: Phyllis she is both blythe and yonge
Last Line:: Burn your self with as fierce desire
DMI number:: 15660

61. Phillis is both blithe and young

First Line:: Phillis is both blithe and young
Last Line:: Burn your self with as fierce desire
DMI number:: 42741

62. Raving with grief with anguish quite depressed

First Line:: Raving with grief with anguish quite depressed
Last Line:: Honoured when living and when dead beloved
DMI number:: 12850

63. Say while each scene so beautiful appears

First Line:: Say while each scene so beautiful appears
Last Line:: They should your brighter charms O Rosalind impair
Author:: William Broome (Absolute)
DMI number:: 7320

64. Robin sat on the gude grene hill

First Line:: Robin sat on the gude grene hill
Last Line:: Amang the rashy gair
Author:: Robert Henryson (Confident)
DMI number:: 10835

65. Resound ye hills resound my mournful lay

First Line:: Resound ye hills resound my mournful lay
Last Line:: Or what ill eyes malignant glances dart
Author:: Alexander Pope (Absolute)
DMI number:: 22714

66. Sad Philocles sighed to the wind

First Line:: Sad Philocles sighed to the wind
Last Line:: To another sad desperate swain
Author:: William Dawson (Absolute)
DMI number:: 11293

67. See Celia see where fair Evadne lies

First Line:: See Celia see where fair Evadne lies
Last Line:: And with kind pity wonders at our woe
DMI number:: 10303

68. See Thyrsis see beneth yon spreading thorn

First Line:: See Thyrsis see beneth yon spreading thorn
Last Line:: Coos in her face and smiles at all her fears
DMI number:: 10084

69. Since Celia's my foe

First Line:: Since Celia's my foe
Last Line:: For loving but one
Author:: Thomas Duffett (Absolute)
DMI number:: 42544

70. Stay wretched swain lie here and here lament

First Line:: Stay wretched swain lie here and here lament
Last Line:: Adieu to poetry adieu to love
Author:: Charles Hopkins (Confident)
DMI number:: 7348

71. Speak on speak ever thus and still my grief

First Line:: Speak on speak ever thus and still my grief
Last Line:: To sic as have the patience to be kings
Author:: Allan Ramsay (Absolute)
DMI number:: 22720

72. Strephon O Strephon once the jolliest lad

First Line:: Strephon O Strephon once the jolliest lad
Last Line:: The echoing hills their joyful shouts repeat
Author:: Sir Charles Sedley (Absolute)
DMI number:: 6271

73. Strephon what envious cloud hath made

First Line:: Strephon what envious cloud hath made
Last Line:: Amongst unambitious shepherds love is true
DMI number:: 44003

74. Sure thou in some ill chosen hour was born

First Line:: Sure thou in some ill chosen hour was born
Last Line:: Yet there is room for peace and me to dwell
DMI number:: 22715

75. Tell me my Corydon my well-loved swain

First Line:: Tell me my Corydon my well-loved swain
Last Line:: And recommend a name so truly great
DMI number:: 42896

76. Tell me my Thyrsis tell thy Damon why

First Line:: Tell me my Thyrsis tell thy Damon why
Last Line:: But all is long oblivion and eternal night
Author:: Richard Duke (Absolute)
DMI number:: 3706

77. Tell me whence these sorrows grow

First Line:: Tell me whence these sorrows grow
Last Line:: Or fear impair our happiness
DMI number:: 24605

78. Take heed fair Chloris how you tame

First Line:: Take heed fair Chloris how you tame
Last Line:: So bright as in these arms of mine
DMI number:: 44182

79. The pride of every grove I chose

First Line:: The pride of every grove I chose
Last Line:: The justice of thy Chloe's sorrow
Author:: Matthew Prior (Absolute)
DMI number:: 23770

80. The muses darling pride of all the plains

First Line:: The muses darling pride of all the plains
Last Line:: But only yields a larger subject to complain
DMI number:: 3813

81. The wailings of a maiden I recite

First Line:: The wailings of a maiden I recite
Last Line:: And till tomorrow comes defers her fate
Author:: John Gay (Absolute)
DMI number:: 31218

82. The wanton troopers riding by

First Line:: The wanton troopers riding by
Last Line:: White as I can though not as thee
Author:: Andrew Marvell (Absolute)
DMI number:: 3798

83. The sun had just withdrawn his fires

First Line:: The sun had just withdrawn his fires
Last Line:: Oh Rosalind for thee I die
DMI number:: 656

84. The sun had scarce drunk up the dew

First Line:: The sun had scarce drunk up the dew
Last Line:: Who is unknown to fame
Author:: Sir Charles Sedley (Absolute)
DMI number:: 6300

85. The sun his gladsome beams withdrawn

First Line:: The sun his gladsome beams withdrawn
Last Line:: When I secure his heart
Author:: Henrietta Knight [née St John] (Absolute)
DMI number:: 26690

86. The tender muse but now revealed to day

First Line:: The tender muse but now revealed to day
Last Line:: Gains on the skies and banisheth the light
DMI number:: 10293

87. This funny morning Roger cheers my blood

First Line:: This funny morning Roger cheers my blood
Last Line:: By ane whase Saul is sadly out of tune
Author:: Allan Ramsay (Absolute)
DMI number:: 22709

88. Through mournful shades and solitary groves

First Line:: Through mournful shades and solitary groves
Last Line:: Your rigour kills nor triumph in the slain
Author:: Richard Duke (Absolute)
DMI number:: 4827

89. Through mournful shades and solitary groves

First Line:: Through mournful shades and solitary groves
Last Line:: Your rigour kills nor triumph over the slain
Author:: Richard Duke (Absolute)
DMI number:: 18389

90. Thy cloudy looks why melting thus in tears

First Line:: Thy cloudy looks why melting thus in tears
Last Line:: And unyoked heifers pacing homewards low
Author:: Ambrose Philips (Absolute)
DMI number:: 6961

91. Thyrsis the music of that murmuring spring

First Line:: Thyrsis the music of that murmuring spring
Last Line:: Daphne farewell and all the world adieu
Author:: Alexander Pope (Absolute)
DMI number:: 7034

92. To a high hill where never yet stood tree

First Line:: To a high hill where never yet stood tree
Last Line:: Then sighed and turned into the hated shore
Author:: Thomas Otway (Absolute)
DMI number:: 3777

93. To melancholy thoughts a prey

First Line:: To melancholy thoughts a prey
Last Line:: Which you denied below
DMI number:: 12889

94. To my last labour lend thy sacred aid

First Line:: To my last labour lend thy sacred aid
Last Line:: Go home my goats the gloomy night is nigh
Author:: James Beattie (Absolute)
DMI number:: 25923

95. To close the prospect of the grassy plains

First Line:: To close the prospect of the grassy plains
Last Line:: For mirth it were to ken thee trip the plain
Author:: William Dawson (Absolute)
DMI number:: 25357

96. Twas on a joyless and a gloomy morn

First Line:: Twas on a joyless and a gloomy morn
Last Line:: For like Amyntas none is left below
Author:: John Dryden (Absolute)
DMI number:: 4147

97. Twas when the pearly wings of rosy light

First Line:: Twas when the pearly wings of rosy light
Last Line:: But waking curse the visionary shade
DMI number:: 18111

98. Twas at the time when new returning light

First Line:: Twas at the time when new returning light
Last Line:: And bless his peaceful grave where first they grew
Author:: William Congreve (Absolute)
DMI number:: 36953

99. Unhappy Colinet what boots thee now

First Line:: Unhappy Colinet what boots thee now
Last Line:: Alike to Stella and alike to me
Author:: Ambrose Philips (Absolute)
DMI number:: 22691

100. Under the beams of Celia's eyes

First Line:: Under the beams of Celia's eyes
Last Line:: By whose each look a lover dies
DMI number:: 43650

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1. A faithful swain whom love had taught to sing

2. A careful nymph with careless grief oppressed

3. A shepherd boy all in an evening fair

4. A lovely nymph in pensive mood

5. Ah well a day how long must I endure

6. Alexis shunned his fellow swains

7. Alexis the pride of the plain

8. Ah Colin why should thou despair

9. All nature mourns the skies relent in showers

10. Anthis and Cete combed thier flowing hair

11. As it fell upon a day

12. As late by Thames's verdant side

13. As late to shun the noon day's scorching heat

14. Arise O Phosphorus and bring the day

15. As Chloe by a river's side

16. As Damon that unhappy swain

17. Beneath a gloomy yew's unhealthy shade

18. Beneath a shady wood at break of day

19. Beneath a silent grove's diverting shade

20. Beneath the mournful yew oppressed with grief

21. Beneath the shade a spreading beech displays

22. Can we forget how every creature moaned

23. By the side of a murmuring stream

24. By flowery banks of tweed whose waters glide

25. Corin most unhappie swaine

26. Farewell ye shady walks and fountains

27. Goatherd the music of yon whistling pine

28. Hark hark tis a voice from the tomb

29. Hark how the bleating flocks bemoan

30. How now shepherde what meanes that

31. How oft beneath this poplar have we lain

32. I am a poor shepherd undone

33. I ask not lovely virgins why you weep

34. In a sad unfrequented cyprus grove

35. In silent horror over the boundless waste

36. Mourn all ye groves in darker shades be seen

37. Mourn all ye poets mourn ye nymphs and swains

38. My old acquaintance and my dearest friend

39. I see ye're shepherd early up at morn

40. If we O Dorset quit the city throng

41. Last Friday's eve when as the sun was set

42. Lycon begin begin the mournful tale

43. Near streams which in musical murmurs repined

44. Near Thames' green banks a love lorn nymph reclined

45. No Lesbia no you ask in vain

46. No more of youthful joys or love's fond dreams

47. No more will I attempt to sing

48. O sacred Phoebus thy assistance bring

49. O Short no herb no salve was ever found

50. O Mallow dear Mallow adieu

51. Oh I have heard the waves and senseless stones

52. Oh my Mirtillo if within my breast

53. Oh Albion famed for arts and in arms renowned

54. Oh Albion famed for arts in arms renowned

55. Panthea long had felt love's pleasing smart

56. On the frontier of a mountain

57. On the remains of an old blasted oak

58. One labour Arethusa to the past

59. One night unhappy Celadon

60. Phyllis she is both blythe and yonge

61. Phillis is both blithe and young

62. Raving with grief with anguish quite depressed

63. Say while each scene so beautiful appears

64. Robin sat on the gude grene hill

65. Resound ye hills resound my mournful lay

66. Sad Philocles sighed to the wind

67. See Celia see where fair Evadne lies

68. See Thyrsis see beneth yon spreading thorn

69. Since Celia's my foe

70. Stay wretched swain lie here and here lament

71. Speak on speak ever thus and still my grief

72. Strephon O Strephon once the jolliest lad