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1. A doubtful dying doleful Dame

First Line:
A doubtful dying doleful Dame
Last Line:
For as I am a Lover will I die
Author:
Isabella Whitney (Absolute)
DMI number:
49210

2. A manly wit a child's simplicity

First Line:
A manly wit a child's simplicity
Last Line:
Striking their aching bosoms here lies Gay
Author:
Alexander Pope (Absolute)
DMI number:
16357

3. A manly wit a child's simplicity

First Line:
A manly wit a child's simplicity
Last Line:
Striking their pensive bosoms here lies Gay
Author:
Alexander Pope (Absolute)
DMI number:
17689

4. A planter with a was he

First Line:
A planter with a was he
Last Line:
And greater pleasure thence receives
Author:
Sir Richard Fanshawe (Absolute)
DMI number:
42088

5. A poet and a traitor is such news

First Line:
A poet and a traitor is such news
Last Line:
Poets should live by lines not die by the rope
DMI number:
17122

6. Ah had thy body lasted as thy name

First Line:
Ah had thy body lasted as thy name
Last Line:
That's great or noble shall together fall
Author:
Bevil Higgons (Absolute)
DMI number:
3817

7. Adieu harmonious Dryden and receive

First Line:
Adieu harmonious Dryden and receive
Last Line:
Worthy the poet's and the patron's name
DMI number:
5697

8. Ah weep now English genius weep

First Line:
Ah weep now English genius weep
Last Line:
Looks brighter from a sullen cloud
DMI number:
5110

9. And if unfit for tomb or hearse

First Line:
And if unfit for tomb or hearse
Last Line:
The greatest ashes as half-acre tombs
Author:
John Donne (Absolute)
DMI number:
13957

10. And must our glorious laureate then depart

First Line:
And must our glorious laureate then depart
Last Line:
As for the rest sweet devil fetch a cart
DMI number:
7106

11. As then no wind at all there blew

First Line:
As then no wind at all there blew
Last Line:
My tears discolours so mine ink
Author:
Matthew Roydon (Absolute)
DMI number:
44710

12. As on his death bed gasping Strephon lay

First Line:
As on his death bed gasping Strephon lay
Last Line:
Live not like Strephon but like Strephon die
Author:
Thomas Flatman (Absolute)
DMI number:
5951

13. Arise ye glimmering stars of wit

First Line:
Arise ye glimmering stars of wit
Last Line:
For lo the sun of verse is set
DMI number:
25174

14. Around Pope's urn the muses all appear

First Line:
Around Pope's urn the muses all appear
Last Line:
In the blessed realms of everlasting light
DMI number:
35457

15. At Dryden's tomb inscribed with Sh--d's name

First Line:
At Dryden's tomb inscribed with Sh--d's name
Last Line:
Frowns through the stone and shrinks beneath his bays
DMI number:
16356

16. At Dryden's tomb inscribed with Sheffield's name

First Line:
At Dryden's tomb inscribed with Sheffield's name
Last Line:
Frowns through the stone and shrinks beneath the bays
DMI number:
26040

17. As when plebeians at a monarch's death

First Line:
As when plebeians at a monarch's death
Last Line:
While nonsense shall have friends and sense have foes
Author:
Sarah Fyge Egerton (Absolute)
DMI number:
5739

18. As when the vestal hearth went out no fire

First Line:
As when the vestal hearth went out no fire
Last Line:
Poets and kings are not born every day
Author:
Jasper Mayne (Absolute)
DMI number:
3983

19. Beware delighted poets when you sing

First Line:
Beware delighted poets when you sing
Last Line:
Will find a shallow brook
Author:
Sir William Davenant (Confident)
DMI number:
7045

20. Beneath this monument is laid

First Line:
Beneath this monument is laid
Last Line:
In the lamb's glorious and eternal train
DMI number:
43289

21. Beneath this stone

First Line:
Beneath this stone
Last Line:
Cracked loudly stunk and died
DMI number:
20834

22. Called by my grief Melpomene I come

First Line:
Called by my grief Melpomene I come
Last Line:
Cure me by death from deathless sad despair
Author:
Susanna Centlivre (Confident)
DMI number:
5684

23. Can nymphs lament or swains be sad

First Line:
Can nymphs lament or swains be sad
Last Line:
With which her temples grace
DMI number:
10076

24. But welaway is mine heart wo

First Line:
But welaway is mine heart wo
Last Line:
But his virtue afterteth | Unslain fro thee
Author:
Thomas Hoccleve [Occleve] (Absolute)
DMI number:
13131

25. Cease all my tuneful sisters now restrain

First Line:
Cease all my tuneful sisters now restrain
Last Line:
For nature can no second Dryden give
Author:
Catharine Cockburn [nee Trotter] (Absolute)
DMI number:
5682

26. Cease Plorabella cease those sighs and tears

First Line:
Cease Plorabella cease those sighs and tears
Last Line:
Lest straight the dear resemblance fly thy fond embrace
DMI number:
10044

27. Celestial muse whose godhead could inspire

First Line:
Celestial muse whose godhead could inspire
Last Line:
Eternal in its beauties and its fame
DMI number:
5743

28. Come shepherds we'll follow the hearse

First Line:
Come shepherds we'll follow the hearse
Last Line:
And thus let me break it in twain
Author:
John Cunningham (Absolute)
DMI number:
28995

29. Come Alecto and lend me thy torch

First Line:
Come Alecto and lend me thy torch
Last Line:
Therefore gentlemen be merry in prose
DMI number:
23877

30. Come Alecto and lend me thy torch

First Line:
Come Alecto and lend me thy torch
Last Line:
Therefore pray be advised and be merry in prose
DMI number:
24215

31. Come all my sisters now in consort join

First Line:
Come all my sisters now in consort join
Last Line:
Unfollowed drove through all his immortal round
Author:
Delarivier Manley (Confident)
DMI number:
5676

32. Come lyrist tune thy harp and play

First Line:
Come lyrist tune thy harp and play
Last Line:
To grace him in the genial hour
Author:
William Broome (Absolute)
DMI number:
27343

33. Dead no tis all mistake he cannot die

First Line:
Dead no tis all mistake he cannot die
Last Line:
Though he died rich yet none can be his heir
DMI number:
5730

34. Could I report great Granvill or repeat

First Line:
Could I report great Granvill or repeat
Last Line:
Our soldier once and once our sacrifice
DMI number:
42962

35. Disconsolate Britannia mourning sate

First Line:
Disconsolate Britannia mourning sate
Last Line:
And in elegaic numbers celebrate his fame
Author:
Elizabeth Thomas (Confident)
DMI number:
5733

36. England Netherland the heavens and the arts

First Line:
England Netherland the heavens and the arts
Last Line:
The soldiers the grief the world his good name
DMI number:
34010

37. England Netherlands the heavens and the arts

First Line:
England Netherlands the heavens and the arts
Last Line:
All soldiers the grief the world his good name
DMI number:
23885

38. Enshrined oh marble in thy secret breast

First Line:
Enshrined oh marble in thy secret breast
Last Line:
And safely land him on the shore of peace
DMI number:
26716

39. Entombed with kings though Gay's cold ashes lie

First Line:
Entombed with kings though Gay's cold ashes lie
Last Line:
In life beloved in death bemoaned by Pope
DMI number:
17782

40. Death thou hast struck but tis in vain to try

First Line:
Death thou hast struck but tis in vain to try
Last Line:
Ages to come shall read him with delight
DMI number:
5754

41. Divers thy death do diversely bemoan

First Line:
Divers thy death do diversely bemoan
Last Line:
As Piramus did on Thisbes breast bewail
Author:
Henry Howard (Absolute)
DMI number:
8744

42. Do pious marble let thy reader know

First Line:
Do pious marble let thy reader know
Last Line:
An everlasting monument to thee
DMI number:
28478

43. Do pious marble let thy readers know

First Line:
Do pious marble let thy readers know
Last Line:
An everlasting monument to thee
DMI number:
17656

44. Dryden and dead what echo did I hear

First Line:
Dryden and dead what echo did I hear
Last Line:
Immortal as the glorious god of poetry
DMI number:
5747

45. Dryden is dead Dryden alone could sing

First Line:
Dryden is dead Dryden alone could sing
Last Line:
His laurels are not grafted on the bays
Author:
Isaac Watts (Absolute)
DMI number:
16733

46. Farewell too little and too lately known

First Line:
Farewell too little and too lately known
Last Line:
But fate and gloomy night encompass thee around
Author:
John Dryden (Absolute)
DMI number:
3182

47. Fate gave the word the cruel arrow sped

First Line:
Fate gave the word the cruel arrow sped
Last Line:
That guilt is doomed to sink in infamy
Author:
John Brown (Absolute)
DMI number:
22597

48. Father of poets though thine own great day

First Line:
Father of poets though thine own great day
Last Line:
Jonson and poetry which now are gone
Author:
William Cartwright (Absolute)
DMI number:
3984

49. Excellent poetry whose noble flight

First Line:
Excellent poetry whose noble flight
Last Line:
Read an hic iacet corpus or an o rare Ben
DMI number:
42097

50. Farewell oh more than Greece or Rome could boast

First Line:
Farewell oh more than Greece or Rome could boast
Last Line:
And out do all as thou hast all outdone
DMI number:
5742

51. Farewell the genius of the British stage

First Line:
Farewell the genius of the British stage
Last Line:
And clothed with glory you ascend the opening skies
DMI number:
10083

52. Farewell thou chiefest of the sons of fame

First Line:
Farewell thou chiefest of the sons of fame
Last Line:
And life nor fame could make thee more renowned
Author:
Robert Gould (Confident)
DMI number:
5745

53. Forgive the muse who in unhallowed strains

First Line:
Forgive the muse who in unhallowed strains
Last Line:
And glad all heaven with millions thou hast saved
Author:
Matthew Prior (Absolute)
DMI number:
4841

54. For gentle Grizel is my heart forlorn

First Line:
For gentle Grizel is my heart forlorn
Last Line:
And stand a pattern to all womankind
DMI number:
37156

55. From life's superfluous cares enlarged

First Line:
From life's superfluous cares enlarged
Last Line:
Whilst yet with life his ashes glow
Author:
Joseph Addison (Absolute)
DMI number:
23927

56. From sensual joys to more refined delights

First Line:
From sensual joys to more refined delights
Last Line:
That cries for pardon bless his holy name
DMI number:
17849

57. Gentle or simple reader cross or kind

First Line:
Gentle or simple reader cross or kind
Last Line:
Should he be yet alive and what care I
DMI number:
20721

58. 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

59. Hail hallowed fane amid whose mouldring shrines

First Line:
Hail hallowed fane amid whose mouldring shrines
Last Line:
Amid the mansions of eternal light
Author:
Reginald Heber (Absolute)
DMI number:
32685

60. Greece had a Homer Rome a Virgil lost

First Line:
Greece had a Homer Rome a Virgil lost
Last Line:
Must to their father ocean backward go
DMI number:
5735

61. Hallow my temples let my thoughts be dressed

First Line:
Hallow my temples let my thoughts be dressed
Last Line:
Myriads of stars spring from his falling light
DMI number:
42968

62. Great Dryden's dead and what bold daring muse

First Line:
Great Dryden's dead and what bold daring muse
Last Line:
For what I want in praise my tears shall pay thy hearse
DMI number:
5752

63. Good friend for Jesus sake forbear

First Line:
Good friend for Jesus sake forbear
Last Line:
And cursed be he that removes my bones
DMI number:
28442

64. He's gone the youth is mounted up on high

First Line:
He's gone the youth is mounted up on high
Last Line:
Gain to himself an everlasting name
DMI number:
8503

65. Hear O ye graces and regard my prayer

First Line:
Hear O ye graces and regard my prayer
Last Line:
With unfading honours crown
Author:
Gilbert West (Absolute) & Pindar (Absolute)
DMI number:
29738

66. Hear ye bright muses your own Dryden's dead

First Line:
Hear ye bright muses your own Dryden's dead
Last Line:
She left her garment and to heaven aspired
DMI number:
3528

67. Here lyes ye corps of William Prynne

First Line:
Here lyes ye corps of William Prynne
Last Line:
Death crops off remnant of his luggs
DMI number:
34992

68. Here passenger beneath this shed

First Line:
Here passenger beneath this shed
Last Line:
The yet surviving poet's urn
DMI number:
7813

69. Here placed near Chaucer Spenser claims a room

First Line:
Here placed near Chaucer Spenser claims a room
Last Line:
But now declined it fears with thee to die
DMI number:
34035

70. Here Johnson lies who spent his days

First Line:
Here Johnson lies who spent his days
Last Line:
I mourn but must not say a due
DMI number:
35012

71. Here lie John Hewet and Sarah Drew

First Line:
Here lie John Hewet and Sarah Drew
Last Line:
For Pope has wrote upon their tomb
DMI number:
33194

72. Here lies a proof that wit can never be

First Line:
Here lies a proof that wit can never be
Last Line:
The world admires and the muses praise
DMI number:
23933

73. Here lies D'Ablancourt that renowned sage

First Line:
Here lies D'Ablancourt that renowned sage
Last Line:
Who lost the most the living or the dead
DMI number:
25187

74. Here lies the corpse of William Prynne

First Line:
Here lies the corpse of William Prynne
Last Line:
Death fanged the remnant of his lugs
DMI number:
25806

75. Here lies the lyric who with tale and song

First Line:
Here lies the lyric who with tale and song
Last Line:
His song has ended and his tale has told
DMI number:
13506

76. Here to a period is the scrivener come

First Line:
Here to a period is the scrivener come
Last Line:
When he hath all done then he falls to dust
DMI number:
29518

77. Here traveller under this cot

First Line:
Here traveller under this cot
Last Line:
The poet's ashes vigorous yet
Author:
Abraham Cowley (Absolute)
DMI number:
9762

78. Heroes and kings your distance keep

First Line:
Heroes and kings your distance keep
Last Line:
Let Horace blush and Virgil too
Author:
Alexander Pope (Absolute)
DMI number:
26082

79. How to thy sacred memory shall I bring

First Line:
How to thy sacred memory shall I bring
Last Line:
Scorning the unthinking crowd thou quitst the stage
Author:
Aphra Behn (Absolute)
DMI number:
3818

80. How Roman-like did our old rebel die

First Line:
How Roman-like did our old rebel die
Last Line:
Of whig or trimmer make an honest man
DMI number:
43066

81. Hylas the clear day boasts a glorious sun

First Line:
Hylas the clear day boasts a glorious sun
Last Line:
Far as the fame of poetry and Ben
Author:
Lucius Cary (Confident)
DMI number:
3981

82. I knew thee not I speak it to my shame

First Line:
I knew thee not I speak it to my shame
Last Line:
In both the issues of thy blood and brain
Author:
James Clayton (Confident)
DMI number:
6804

83. In the rude age when knowledge was not rife

First Line:
In the rude age when knowledge was not rife
Last Line:
Whose cinders yet with envy they do eat
Author:
Henry Howard (Absolute)
DMI number:
8747

84. In the wished close of evening's welcome gloom

First Line:
In the wished close of evening's welcome gloom
Last Line:
I was love's muse but he himself the god
Author:
Sarah Fyge Egerton (Absolute)
DMI number:
5678

85. In thy impression of Donne's poems rare

First Line:
In thy impression of Donne's poems rare
Last Line:
He we and thou shall live t'eternity
DMI number:
9096

86. Immortal Clio thou my breast inspire

First Line:
Immortal Clio thou my breast inspire
Last Line:
And every line will chronicle his name
Author:
Mary Pix [nee Griffith] (Speculation)
DMI number:
5681

87. In life's fair dawning but deceitful morn

First Line:
In life's fair dawning but deceitful morn
Last Line:
His genius triumphs over time and death
DMI number:
30177

88. In lonely shades distracted with despair

First Line:
In lonely shades distracted with despair
Last Line:
He lays him down breaks his proud heart and dies
Author:
George Granville (Absolute)
DMI number:
4194

89. In measured time | So heaven has willed together with their snows

First Line:
In measured time | So heaven has willed together with their snows
Last Line:
And virtue for her lost defender mourned
Author:
William Thompson (Absolute)
DMI number:
22598

90. In memory of Francis Bell

First Line:
In memory of Francis Bell
Last Line:
All praises to the heavenly king
Author:
William le Tans'ur (Absolute)
DMI number:
36790

91. Is then the summons true does partial fate

First Line:
Is then the summons true does partial fate
Last Line:
But thou shalt live when dead and flourish in the tomb
Author:
Charles Beckingham (Absolute)
DMI number:
10082

92. In yonder grave a druid lies

First Line:
In yonder grave a druid lies
Last Line:
In yonder grave your druid lies
Author:
William Collins (Absolute)
DMI number:
24543

93. In yonder grove a druid lies

First Line:
In yonder grove a druid lies
Last Line:
In yonder grave your druid lies
Author:
William Collins (Absolute)
DMI number:
32266

94. Incensed the raging prophet thus replies

First Line:
Incensed the raging prophet thus replies
Last Line:
Eurydice resounds along the lengthening shores
Author:
William Pattison (Absolute)
DMI number:
11881

95. Is Dryden dead in whining cantos mourn

First Line:
Is Dryden dead in whining cantos mourn
Last Line:
Shew more of ostentation than of love
DMI number:
5750

96. Is he then dead at last whom vain report

First Line:
Is he then dead at last whom vain report
Last Line:
As their mode differed to be bad or good
DMI number:
41834

97. Is Prior gone O would you once inspire

First Line:
Is Prior gone O would you once inspire
Last Line:
But all the land record Prior's immortal fame
DMI number:
12229

98. Is Prior gone O would you once inspire

First Line:
Is Prior gone O would you once inspire
Last Line:
What all the land record Prior's immortal fame
DMI number:
18409

99. Just as the gods were listening to my strains

First Line:
Just as the gods were listening to my strains
Last Line:
And take his works for an eternal president
Author:
Sarah Fyge Egerton (Confident)
DMI number:
5683

100. In vain the muse attempts to tune the lyre

First Line:
In vain the muse attempts to tune the lyre
Last Line:
In Britain's groves nor sought a foreign shade
DMI number:
17860