Content type: Poem / Related People: Elijah Fenton

1. A brace of vigorous hot young gallants

First Line:: A brace of vigorous hot young gallants
Last Line:: Ay ay Jack but I won't be bammed
DMI number:: 12354

2. 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

3. 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

4. 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

5. Ask not the cause why all the tuneful swains

First Line:: Ask not the cause why all the tuneful swains
Last Line:: While hyacinths and myrtles round her spring
Author:: Elijah Fenton (Absolute)
DMI number:: 6463

6. Awhile she stood

First Line:: Awhile she stood
Last Line:: And spare his morning prey
Author:: Elijah Fenton (Absolute)
DMI number:: 19015

7. 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

8. Beware of flattery tis a flowery weed

First Line:: Beware of flattery tis a flowery weed
Last Line:: Whose shrine it would perfume
Author:: Elijah Fenton (Absolute)
DMI number:: 18896

9. Chaucer had all that beauty could inspire

First Line:: Chaucer had all that beauty could inspire
Last Line:: Because the thoughts are in the language lost
Author:: Elijah Fenton (Absolute)
DMI number:: 8690

10. Fear guilt despair and moonstruck frenzy rush

First Line:: Fear guilt despair and moonstruck frenzy rush
Last Line:: Honour retrieves em bright as rising stars
Author:: Elijah Fenton (Absolute)
DMI number:: 20120

11. 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

12. 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

13. 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

14. I kissed her softly and she gave a sigh

First Line:: I kissed her softly and she gave a sigh
Last Line:: Wet with cold evening dew
Author:: Elijah Fenton (Absolute)
DMI number:: 21020

15. 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

16. 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

17. Jealousy that yellow fiend hath dipped the torch in gall

First Line:: Jealousy that yellow fiend hath dipped the torch in gall
Last Line:: And now twill light no more
Author:: Elijah Fenton (Absolute)
DMI number:: 19113

18. 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

19. Music shall wake her that hath power to charm

First Line:: Music shall wake her that hath power to charm
Last Line:: On the green bloodless cheek of dumb despair
Author:: Elijah Fenton (Absolute)
DMI number:: 20127

20. 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

21. I whose life | Was bound with thine by striving to secure

First Line:: I whose life | Was bound with thine by striving to secure
Last Line:: I fondly grasped too close
Author:: Elijah Fenton (Absolute)
DMI number:: 19114

22. 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

23. 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

24. 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

25. O flattery | How soon thy smooth insinuating oil

First Line:: O flattery | How soon thy smooth insinuating oil
Last Line:: Supples the toughest fool
Author:: Elijah Fenton (Absolute)
DMI number:: 18895

26. 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

27. 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

28. On a soul secure

First Line:: On a soul secure
Last Line:: And leave no trace
Author:: Elijah Fenton (Absolute)
DMI number:: 19172

29. Over winter's long inclement sway

First Line:: Over winter's long inclement sway
Last Line:: Selects a whiter space
Author:: Elijah Fenton (Absolute)
DMI number:: 7425

30. 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

31. 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 fair one or something that's better
Author:: Elijah Fenton (Absolute)
DMI number:: 36167

32. 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:: Thomas Brown (Confident) & Elijah Fenton (Confident)
DMI number:: 6466

33. So smooth and clear the fountain was

First Line:: So smooth and clear the fountain was
Last Line:: It left no lasting print behind
Author:: Elijah Fenton (Absolute)
DMI number:: 7310

34. Slow though I am to wake the sleeping lyre

First Line:: Slow though I am to wake the sleeping lyre
Last Line:: Be what thou wert designed nor aim at more
Author:: Elijah Fenton (Absolute)
DMI number:: 12358

35. Sudden his eyes grew livid and discharged

First Line:: Sudden his eyes grew livid and discharged
Last Line:: He groaned his soul away
Author:: Elijah Fenton (Absolute)
DMI number:: 20360

36. Statesmen have peculiar arts

First Line:: Statesmen have peculiar arts
Last Line:: The favours they confer
Author:: Elijah Fenton (Absolute)
DMI number:: 20942

37. 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

38. The vulgar call us gods and fondly think

First Line:: The vulgar call us gods and fondly think
Last Line:: With empty pageantries
Author:: Elijah Fenton (Absolute)
DMI number:: 19237

39. 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

40. To green retreats that shade the muses stream

First Line:: To green retreats that shade the muses stream
Last Line:: Soft Waller sung of Sacharissa's pride
Author:: Elijah Fenton (Absolute)
DMI number:: 6528

41. 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:: Thomas Brown (Absolute) & Elijah Fenton (Absolute)
DMI number:: 4976

42. 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

43. 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

44. We cheat the world

First Line:: We cheat the world
Last Line:: From which our actions spring
Author:: Elijah Fenton (Absolute)
DMI number:: 19030

45. Wedded love is founded on esteem

First Line:: Wedded love is founded on esteem
Last Line:: Improves their lustre
Author:: Elijah Fenton (Absolute)
DMI number:: 19922

46. Welcome as night with sweet refreshing shade

First Line:: Welcome as night with sweet refreshing shade
Last Line:: With painful steps and slow
Author:: Elijah Fenton (Absolute)
DMI number:: 21374

47. What after all my art will you demand

First Line:: What after all my art will you demand
Last Line:: She thinks you scarce can give a reason why
Author:: Elijah Fenton (Absolute)
DMI number:: 7321

48. What art thou life whose stay we court

First Line:: What art thou life whose stay we court
Last Line:: Is ignorance at best and often worse
Author:: Elijah Fenton (Absolute)
DMI number:: 6499

49. When Phoebus and the nine harmonious maids

First Line:: When Phoebus and the nine harmonious maids
Last Line:: The world will think his English Iliad mine
Author:: Elijah Fenton (Absolute)
DMI number:: 12245

50. When realms are ravaged with invasive foes

First Line:: When realms are ravaged with invasive foes
Last Line:: The brightest audience for the spartan dame
Author:: Elijah Fenton (Absolute)
DMI number:: 35843

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1. A brace of vigorous hot young gallants

2. Accept great bard the tribute of my praise

3. An honest mind to virtue's precepts true

4. As the young enamoured vine

5. Ask not the cause why all the tuneful swains

6. Awhile she stood

7. Begin celestial source of light

8. Beware of flattery tis a flowery weed

9. Chaucer had all that beauty could inspire

10. Fear guilt despair and moonstruck frenzy rush

11. From this auspicious day three kingdoms date

12. Happy the man who all his days does pass

13. Have you not seen to state the case

14. I kissed her softly and she gave a sigh

15. Just as the young enamoured vine

16. Janus great leader of the rolling year

17. Jealousy that yellow fiend hath dipped the torch in gall

18. Let's live my dear like lovers too

19. Music shall wake her that hath power to charm

20. My better self my heaven my joy

21. I whose life | Was bound with thine by striving to secure

22. Milo's from home and Milo being gone

23. Now has th' almighty father seated high

24. Nothing so much intoxicates the brain

25. O flattery | How soon thy smooth insinuating oil

26. Olivia's gay but looks devout

27. Olivia's lewd but looks devout

28. On a soul secure

29. Over winter's long inclement sway

30. See Sylvia see this new blown rose

31. Since the hills all around us do penance in snow

32. Since the hills all around us do penance in snow

33. So smooth and clear the fountain was

34. Slow though I am to wake the sleeping lyre

35. Sudden his eyes grew livid and discharged

36. Statesmen have peculiar arts

37. The man that's resolute and just

38. The vulgar call us gods and fondly think

39. There lived in Derby near the peak

40. To green retreats that shade the muses stream

41. Welcome thou friendly earnest of fourscore

42. We sage Cartesians who profess

43. Venus when in the sweet Idalian shade

44. We cheat the world

45. Wedded love is founded on esteem

46. Welcome as night with sweet refreshing shade

47. What after all my art will you demand

48. What art thou life whose stay we court

49. When Phoebus and the nine harmonious maids

50. When realms are ravaged with invasive foes