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1. A female culprit at your bar appears

First Line:
A female culprit at your bar appears
Last Line:
And sink the impression deep into the soul
DMI number:
37498

2. Accept sweet maid each scene that Shakespeare drew

First Line:
Accept sweet maid each scene that Shakespeare drew
Last Line:
May Zara long live happy with a white one
DMI number:
33462

3. Accept this gift Lucinda and approve

First Line:
Accept this gift Lucinda and approve
Last Line:
And the fair maid that's kind is doubly fair
DMI number:
3414

4. Ah tell me why deluded sex thus we

First Line:
Ah tell me why deluded sex thus we
Last Line:
Will owe our charms of wit of parts and poetry
DMI number:
43034

5. An epigram that's new sharp near and witty

First Line:
An epigram that's new sharp near and witty
Last Line:
Once common though still good they are neglected
DMI number:
43775

6. And here and there she innocently slays

First Line:
And here and there she innocently slays
Last Line:
How can it choose but fall
DMI number:
6850

7. And now unveiled the toilet stands displayed

First Line:
And now unveiled the toilet stands displayed
Last Line:
And Betty's praised for labours not her own
Author:
Alexander Pope (Absolute)
DMI number:
8258

8. As in the ancient chaos from whose womb

First Line:
As in the ancient chaos from whose womb
Last Line:
Yet for our smallest diligence you doubly do repay
DMI number:
43430

9. Behold ye fair on every pane

First Line:
Behold ye fair on every pane
Last Line:
To youths of secrecy and sense
Author:
George Huddesford (Confident)
DMI number:
33442

10. Believe me madam that your muse has shown

First Line:
Believe me madam that your muse has shown
Last Line:
That's made of rhymes of woman and of turd
Author:
Sir Richard Blackmore (Speculation)
DMI number:
3589

11. Can indignation so much rage infuse

First Line:
Can indignation so much rage infuse
Last Line:
How like thy poem neither head nor tail
DMI number:
12005

12. Celia to Phoebus thus addressed

First Line:
Celia to Phoebus thus addressed
Last Line:
I do declare she shall not know it
DMI number:
37914

13. Celia's bright charms no more I'll choose

First Line:
Celia's bright charms no more I'll choose
Last Line:
And make it fashion to be wise
DMI number:
12876

14. Clarinda loves the polished line

First Line:
Clarinda loves the polished line
Last Line:
Must pay her vows to love
DMI number:
35632

15. Could I in Waller's numbers Waller praise

First Line:
Could I in Waller's numbers Waller praise
Last Line:
She'll make this place and all our verse divine
DMI number:
5060

16. Could I the censure of each critic dread

First Line:
Could I the censure of each critic dread
Last Line:
Your virgin laurels which do spread so fast
DMI number:
43556

17. Dan Chaucer and the wits of old

First Line:
Dan Chaucer and the wits of old
Last Line:
The fair without a blush look on
DMI number:
17904

18. Dan Pope first in vogue

First Line:
Dan Pope first in vogue
Last Line:
That thy heart was the stone of the mill
Author:
Richard Wooddeson (Absolute)
DMI number:
31058

19. Dear Kitty now my counsel take

First Line:
Dear Kitty now my counsel take
Last Line:
Will make a devil of her
Author:
Samuel Wesley (Absolute)
DMI number:
16144

20. Dear madam befriend

First Line:
Dear madam befriend
Last Line:
From mortal is raised to divine
DMI number:
35541

21. Dear object of my tenderest care

First Line:
Dear object of my tenderest care
Last Line:
In harmony and love
Author:
Samuel Whyte (Speculation)
DMI number:
34437

22. Dear Robin tis pity

First Line:
Dear Robin tis pity
Last Line:
On the charming Miss H--we
DMI number:
22550

23. Eliza asketh me to write

First Line:
Eliza asketh me to write
Last Line:
Of ink and paper find of ink and paper find
DMI number:
23310

24. Each softening charm of Clio's smiling song

First Line:
Each softening charm of Clio's smiling song
Last Line:
The muses and the virtues tune thy mind
Author:
Richard Savage (Confident)
DMI number:
13091

25. Early this morn a time to muses kind

First Line:
Early this morn a time to muses kind
Last Line:
Bade me Clarinda write and that was she
DMI number:
16689

26. Dispose of our satiric strains

First Line:
Dispose of our satiric strains
Last Line:
Our muses rage no more
DMI number:
10049

27. Fair female conqueror we all submit

First Line:
Fair female conqueror we all submit
Last Line:
Our English laws admit a woman's reign
DMI number:
43498

28. 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

29. Flavia to you with safety I commend

First Line:
Flavia to you with safety I commend
Last Line:
And left the monarch's breast to seek some safer shade
Author:
Nicholas Rowe (Absolute)
DMI number:
3840

30. From whence usurping man thy boasted claim

First Line:
From whence usurping man thy boasted claim
Last Line:
In choicer gifts but wit to use them well
DMI number:
43036

31. Hail beauteous prophetess in whom alone

First Line:
Hail beauteous prophetess in whom alone
Last Line:
You wave your pen and lo the dead arise
DMI number:
43587

32. Hail fair commandress of a gentle pen

First Line:
Hail fair commandress of a gentle pen
Last Line:
Bless bless the author of your soft desire
DMI number:
43496

33. Happy bard who without fear

First Line:
Happy bard who without fear
Last Line:
Pity one wretched like myself
DMI number:
33245

34. Hail sacred sisters who in triple trine

First Line:
Hail sacred sisters who in triple trine
Last Line:
Yet what I cannot reach I must admire
DMI number:
42670

35. Hail thou sole empress of the land of wit

First Line:
Hail thou sole empress of the land of wit
Last Line:
Since the first mother of mankind rebelled
DMI number:
43637

36. How blessed the court how lost the fair

First Line:
How blessed the court how lost the fair
Last Line:
Where Ganymede takes place of Venus
DMI number:
35067

37. How charming now is Brand in lovely make

First Line:
How charming now is Brand in lovely make
Last Line:
And will in happiness like angels move
DMI number:
10151

38. Here take this W--- spread it up and down

First Line:
Here take this W--- spread it up and down
Last Line:
With horns instead of bays the hero crowned
DMI number:
4442

39. In artless strain Miranda's thanks accept

First Line:
In artless strain Miranda's thanks accept
Last Line:
And worship womankind in praise of thee
Author:
Margaret Hill [nee Morris] (Speculation)
DMI number:
17503

40. In happy days was Sacharissa's reign

First Line:
In happy days was Sacharissa's reign
Last Line:
In Kneller's oil or Hallifax's song
DMI number:
4998

41. Long since my thoughts did thus forboding tell

First Line:
Long since my thoughts did thus forboding tell
Last Line:
A double portion of your sacred spirit
DMI number:
43429

42. Long has the praise of woman been my theme

First Line:
Long has the praise of woman been my theme
Last Line:
Sicken at his approach and die away
DMI number:
1806

43. Long has the praise of women been my theme

First Line:
Long has the praise of women been my theme
Last Line:
Sicken at his approach and die away
DMI number:
3088

44. I sought a patroness but sought in vain

First Line:
I sought a patroness but sought in vain
Last Line:
For though surpassed she is surpassed by you
Author:
Edward Young (Absolute)
DMI number:
32451

45. If Chaucer yet did live whose English tongue did pass

First Line:
If Chaucer yet did live whose English tongue did pass
Last Line:
With no less pain than Ovid did whose grief by Muses grew
DMI number:
49167

46. If Afra's worth were needful to be shown

First Line:
If Afra's worth were needful to be shown
Last Line:
And what thou can not comprehend admire
DMI number:
4443

47. Justly descriptive fancy's tuneful tongue

First Line:
Justly descriptive fancy's tuneful tongue
Last Line:
She grew a Leslie honoured and beloved
Author:
Samuel Whyte (Absolute)
DMI number:
34440

48. Let other poets prostitute their muse

First Line:
Let other poets prostitute their muse
Last Line:
To whom my noblest sweetest strains belong
DMI number:
15185

49. Leaving the grammar for his play

First Line:
Leaving the grammar for his play
Last Line:
And lays him in the dirt
Author:
Catherine Jemmat (Confident)
DMI number:
19799

50. Lycinna scorns my kisses they are chaste

First Line:
Lycinna scorns my kisses they are chaste
Last Line:
Yet new to Venus' sweetly varying joys
Author:
George Ogle (Confident)
DMI number:
1316