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1. A curse upon the faithless maid

First Line:
A curse upon the faithless maid
Last Line:
To deal with greater liberty her heart
DMI number:
44407

2. A beauteous face fine shape engaging air

First Line:
A beauteous face fine shape engaging air
Last Line:
Your voice has finished what your eyes begun
DMI number:
42616

3. A beggar asked a penny once and swore

First Line:
A beggar asked a penny once and swore
Last Line:
So that I gave yet both our oaths were kept
DMI number:
41937

4. 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

5. A Brooke by name the Baron Cobham's child

First Line:
A Brooke by name the Baron Cobham's child
Last Line:
Blessed with two babes the third brought her to this
DMI number:
34149

6. A choir of bright beauties in spring did appear

First Line:
A choir of bright beauties in spring did appear
Last Line:
When Pan and his son and fair Syrinx return
Author:
John Dryden (Absolute)
DMI number:
4176

7. A place where the farmer sometimes lays his wheat

First Line:
A place where the farmer sometimes lays his wheat
Last Line:
May be found fifty prostitutes every day
DMI number:
36846

8. A poet late of no ignoble fame

First Line:
A poet late of no ignoble fame
Last Line:
The men are blacksmiths and their wives are whores
DMI number:
34625

9. A pox of this fooling and plotting of late

First Line:
A pox of this fooling and plotting of late
Last Line:
This is the profession that never will alter
Author:
Thomas Brown (Speculation) & John Oldham (Absolute)
DMI number:
13259

10. A pox on the jailer and on his fat jowl

First Line:
A pox on the jailer and on his fat jowl
Last Line:
And make our cold iron cry clink in the close
DMI number:
43864

11. A trusty troop attends our sovereign Lord

First Line:
A trusty troop attends our sovereign Lord
Last Line:
Like lions they will fight whose food is the same
DMI number:
28792

12. A load of guts wrapped in a sallow skin

First Line:
A load of guts wrapped in a sallow skin
Last Line:
A rank over ridden jade yet still a maid
Author:
John Wilmot (Speculation)
DMI number:
8629

13. Accept my lord of this small glittering thing

First Line:
Accept my lord of this small glittering thing
Last Line:
And when I'm king you an archduke shall be
DMI number:
5709

14. Ah what avails the lengthening mead

First Line:
Ah what avails the lengthening mead
Last Line:
Along the unhallowed shade
Author:
Fulke Greville (Absolute)
DMI number:
28328

15. Ah what can mean that eager joy

First Line:
Ah what can mean that eager joy
Last Line:
Nothing so happy so beloved as we
Author:
Aphra Behn (Confident)
DMI number:
4478

16. Alas when charming Sylvia's gone

First Line:
Alas when charming Sylvia's gone
Last Line:
O let her be my me possessed
Author:
Mary Pix [nee Griffith] (Absolute)
DMI number:
23677

17. A wretch had committed all manner of evil

First Line:
A wretch had committed all manner of evil
Last Line:
But all yesterday I was drunk with October
DMI number:
7681

18. All men confess they straight despise

First Line:
All men confess they straight despise
Last Line:
Just blossom forth then fade and die
DMI number:
6901

19. An honest Yorkshire man lies here

First Line:
An honest Yorkshire man lies here
Last Line:
His peace and everlasting rest
DMI number:
36906

20. Among all the arts which to please we pursue

First Line:
Among all the arts which to please we pursue
Last Line:
Will straight clap your hands and allow this is new
DMI number:
31824

21. And is he dead and shan't the city weep

First Line:
And is he dead and shan't the city weep
Last Line:
That flames are kindling while our lots are going
DMI number:
34166

22. Although Jolly Tom great fame thou hast won

First Line:
Although Jolly Tom great fame thou hast won
Last Line:
We'll despise thee and swear 'tis mine A--- of a nose
DMI number:
19278

23. As Paris ploughed the watery plain

First Line:
As Paris ploughed the watery plain
Last Line:
And then thy flames of love shall end in flames of fire
DMI number:
893

24. Aptly our monarch's crowning to display

First Line:
Aptly our monarch's crowning to display
Last Line:
While one supplies the theme and one the song
DMI number:
17970

25. Arise my sweet Phillis and let's to the grove

First Line:
Arise my sweet Phillis and let's to the grove
Last Line:
In mighty love's name that should still command all
DMI number:
42654

26. Arrived from various climes spectators gaze

First Line:
Arrived from various climes spectators gaze
Last Line:
How potent such a friend how dreadful such a foe
DMI number:
28816

27. As I sat at my spinning wheel

First Line:
As I sat at my spinning wheel
Last Line:
It far surpassed the spinning wheel
DMI number:
11691

28. At length my soul thy fruitless hopes give over

First Line:
At length my soul thy fruitless hopes give over
Last Line:
Forgot of every friend and every slave
Author:
Alexander Pope (Absolute)
DMI number:
8280

29. At the brow of a hill a fair shepherdess dwelt

First Line:
At the brow of a hill a fair shepherdess dwelt
Last Line:
But remember the lass at the brow of the hill
Author:
Mary Jones (Absolute)
DMI number:
23690

30. At the sight of my Phillis from every part

First Line:
At the sight of my Phillis from every part
Last Line:
To live sober all day and chaste all the night
Author:
John Wilmot (Speculation)
DMI number:
4206

31. Avert proud death thy lifted spear

First Line:
Avert proud death thy lifted spear
Last Line:
Welcome good herald to announce our bliss
Author:
Dr Henry Harington (Confident)
DMI number:
33618

32. Away with these self-loving lads

First Line:
Away with these self-loving lads
Last Line:
Yet without love nought worth to me
Author:
H. Greville (Absolute) & Fulke Greville (Absolute)
DMI number:
13175

33. Attend each nymph whose tender breast

First Line:
Attend each nymph whose tender breast
Last Line:
In Venus's form Diana's spotless mind
DMI number:
31766

34. As you are young if you'll be also wise

First Line:
As you are young if you'll be also wise
Last Line:
Or ungenteel to say I fear a god
Author:
Anne Killigrew (Speculation)
DMI number:
23728

35. Ask me to love no more

First Line:
Ask me to love no more
Last Line:
Alas too well you're known too well to be believed
Author:
Anthony Hammond (Confident)
DMI number:
10561

36. Backed with confederate force the Austrian goes

First Line:
Backed with confederate force the Austrian goes
Last Line:
And now the lord be praised Duke Charles is so
DMI number:
5910

37. Balow my babe ly stil and sleipe

First Line:
Balow my babe ly stil and sleipe
Last Line:
They'le use us than they care nae how | Balow my babe &c
DMI number:
37342

38. Balow my babe ly stil and sleipe

First Line:
Balow my babe ly stil and sleipe
Last Line:
They'le use us than they care not how | Balow my babe &c
DMI number:
37825

39. Balow my boy lie still and sleep

First Line:
Balow my boy lie still and sleep
Last Line:
A hapless fate a bastard's name | Balow my boy &c
DMI number:
1238

40. Bards great and little cease your wrath

First Line:
Bards great and little cease your wrath
Last Line:
But on the E---- has turned his back
DMI number:
21764

41. Beauties have yee seen a toy

First Line:
Beauties have yee seen a toy
Last Line:
And that he is Venus' runaway
Author:
Benjamin Jonson (Absolute)
DMI number:
37613

42. Beauties have you seen a toy

First Line:
Beauties have you seen a toy
Last Line:
Shall have that kiss and another
Author:
Benjamin Jonson (Absolute)
DMI number:
11213

43. Beauty alone's too impotent a charm

First Line:
Beauty alone's too impotent a charm
Last Line:
For elegance can only win the heart
DMI number:
10309

44. Before the altar George his sceptre takes

First Line:
Before the altar George his sceptre takes
Last Line:
Monarch before his country's guardian now
DMI number:
28838

45. Before this stone interred lies

First Line:
Before this stone interred lies
Last Line:
Of faith which brings Plerophory
DMI number:
34939

46. Begin o ye muses a free mason's strain

First Line:
Begin o ye muses a free mason's strain
Last Line:
To him that is known a good mason and free
DMI number:
29625

47. Behold my uses are not small

First Line:
Behold my uses are not small
Last Line:
And all by virtue of my knell
DMI number:
41907

48. Blank verse is prose wherein each line

First Line:
Blank verse is prose wherein each line
Last Line:
Take here the hint he gives of hell
Author:
William le Tans'ur (Speculation)
DMI number:
36456

49. Blest husbandman whose frugal hands have tilled

First Line:
Blest husbandman whose frugal hands have tilled
Last Line:
At home who rests contented life enjoys
Author:
Jonathan Smedley (Absolute)
DMI number:
15435

50. Brave Colledg is hanged the chief of our hopes

First Line:
Brave Colledg is hanged the chief of our hopes
Last Line:
And make the proud tories resign us the nation
DMI number:
44311