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1.
Accept great bard the tribute of my praise
First Line:
Accept great bard the tribute of my praise
Last Line:
Eternity and heaven his aim and his reward
DMI number:
16170
2.
An honest mind to virtue's precepts true
First Line:
An honest mind to virtue's precepts true
Last Line:
Thy tongue's too feeble for a task so great
Author:
Elijah Fenton (Absolute)
DMI number:
926
3.
As the young enamoured vine
First Line:
As the young enamoured vine
Last Line:
To rise and yield her rank to thee
Author:
Elijah Fenton (Absolute)
DMI number:
1318
4.
Begin celestial source of light
First Line:
Begin celestial source of light
Last Line:
Due to thy queen's reward and Blenheim's glorious day
Author:
Elijah Fenton (Absolute)
DMI number:
12339
5.
From this auspicious day three kingdoms date
First Line:
From this auspicious day three kingdoms date
Last Line:
And golden plenty covers all the plain
Author:
Elijah Fenton (Absolute)
DMI number:
11994
6.
Happy the man who all his days does pass
First Line:
Happy the man who all his days does pass
Last Line:
More happy years shall know more leagues and countries they
Author:
Elijah Fenton (Absolute)
DMI number:
6468
7.
Have you not seen to state the case
First Line:
Have you not seen to state the case
Last Line:
And cried come on to please the child
Author:
Elijah Fenton (Absolute)
DMI number:
13225
8.
Just as the young enamoured vine
First Line:
Just as the young enamoured vine
Last Line:
To rise and yield her rank to thee
Author:
Elijah Fenton (Absolute)
DMI number:
15206
9.
Janus great leader of the rolling year
First Line:
Janus great leader of the rolling year
Last Line:
And cease to love in vain and be a wretch no more
Author:
John Hughes (Confident) & Elijah Fenton (Confident)
DMI number:
8338
10.
Let's live my dear like lovers too
First Line:
Let's live my dear like lovers too
Last Line:
The boundless measure of our happiness
Author:
Elijah Fenton (Absolute)
DMI number:
6467
11.
My better self my heaven my joy
First Line:
My better self my heaven my joy
Last Line:
Your meaning pray sir take my wife
Author:
Elijah Fenton (Absolute)
DMI number:
7329
12.
Milo's from home and Milo being gone
First Line:
Milo's from home and Milo being gone
Last Line:
The lands lay fallow but the wife was tilled
Author:
Elijah Fenton (Absolute)
DMI number:
6465
13.
Now has th' almighty father seated high
First Line:
Now has th' almighty father seated high
Last Line:
By guile and force and swayed with lawless rage
Author:
Elijah Fenton (Absolute)
DMI number:
7328
14.
Nothing so much intoxicates the brain
First Line:
Nothing so much intoxicates the brain
Last Line:
Though praise to venom turns if wrong applied
Author:
Elijah Fenton (Absolute)
DMI number:
30225
15.
Olivia's gay but looks devout
First Line:
Olivia's gay but looks devout
Last Line:
And hid the native spark
Author:
Elijah Fenton (Absolute)
DMI number:
13079
16.
Olivia's lewd but looks devout
First Line:
Olivia's lewd but looks devout
Last Line:
To hide the native spark
Author:
Elijah Fenton (Absolute)
DMI number:
6464
17.
See Sylvia see this new blown rose
First Line:
See Sylvia see this new blown rose
Last Line:
Come on and crop me whilst you may
Author:
Elijah Fenton (Absolute)
DMI number:
6470
18.
Since the hills all around us do penance in snow
First Line:
Since the hills all around us do penance in snow
Last Line:
Get a ring from the nymph or something that's better
Author:
Elijah Fenton (Confident) & Thomas Brown (Confident)
DMI number:
6466
19.
The man that's resolute and just
First Line:
The man that's resolute and just
Last Line:
By mean ignoble verse
Author:
William Walsh (Absolute)
DMI number:
5497
20.
There lived in Derby near the peak
First Line:
There lived in Derby near the peak
Last Line:
Sweet Isaac hide them in my womb
Author:
John Markland (Speculation)
DMI number:
11363
21.
Welcome thou friendly earnest of fourscore
First Line:
Welcome thou friendly earnest of fourscore
Last Line:
To entertain thee or never see me more
Author:
Elijah Fenton (Absolute) & Thomas Brown (Absolute)
DMI number:
4976
22.
We sage Cartesians who profess
First Line:
We sage Cartesians who profess
Last Line:
Tis loss of time to ply for you
Author:
Elijah Fenton (Absolute)
DMI number:
7318
23.
Venus when in the sweet Idalian shade
First Line:
Venus when in the sweet Idalian shade
Last Line:
In Roman numbers live secure of fame
Author:
Elijah Fenton (Absolute)
DMI number:
15226
24.
Whenever I wive young Strephon cried
First Line:
Whenever I wive young Strephon cried
Last Line:
And Sacharissa turns to Joan
Author:
George Stepney (Confident) & Elijah Fenton (Confident)
DMI number:
6575
25.
When Venus in the sweet Idalian shade
First Line:
When Venus in the sweet Idalian shade
Last Line:
In Roman numbers live secure of fame
Author:
Elijah Fenton (Absolute)
DMI number:
1317
26.
Whylom in Kent there dwelt a clerke
First Line:
Whylom in Kent there dwelt a clerke
Last Line:
Swete Nykin chafe hem in mine woom
Author:
Elijah Fenton (Absolute)
DMI number:
7424
27.
Would you my friend in little room express
First Line:
Would you my friend in little room express
Last Line:
Not tired with life nor yet afraid to die
Author:
Elijah Fenton (Absolute)
DMI number:
6469