Poem Genre / Form: Admonition and Couplet - Blacklight Search Results

1. A pampered hern of lofty mien and state

First Line:: A pampered hern of lofty mien and state
Last Line:: And gorged that noisome thing for all her pride
DMI number:: 12610

2. Ah wretched man whom neither fate can please

First Line:: Ah wretched man whom neither fate can please
Last Line:: The universal Monarch Man is only poor
DMI number:: 43646

3. Alas to this we come why why is life

First Line:: Alas to this we come why why is life
Last Line:: Alas so long their art so short their day
DMI number:: 16657

4. As musing on his bed the speecher lay

First Line:: As musing on his bed the speecher lay
Last Line:: And leave thee to the lash of lost integrity
Author:: Sir Charles Hanbury Williams (Speculation)
DMI number:: 19530

5. Avaunt ye critics too severe

First Line:: Avaunt ye critics too severe
Last Line:: When he approves who dares dispraise
DMI number:: 22802

6. Be gone our nation's pleasure and reproach

First Line:: Be gone our nation's pleasure and reproach
Last Line:: And stole from Shakespeare's self our easy hearts
DMI number:: 8391

7. Blessed is the man yea doubly blessed is he

First Line:: Blessed is the man yea doubly blessed is he
Last Line:: To rot the scorn of earth and curse of heaven
DMI number:: 13781

8. Bright Chloris shun thy glass for it has vexed

First Line:: Bright Chloris shun thy glass for it has vexed
Last Line:: I'll pine with sorrow and with anguish die
DMI number:: 23066

9. Car-men turn poets now why may not I

First Line:: Car-men turn poets now why may not I
Last Line:: With far more fame thanks to your scribbling lies
DMI number:: 43110

10. Briton if thou wouldst sure destruction shun

First Line:: Briton if thou wouldst sure destruction shun
Last Line:: Fatal to all who dare approach to nigh
DMI number:: 23167

11. Could you at last a commonwealth obtain

First Line:: Could you at last a commonwealth obtain
Last Line:: Reclined you on your rightful monarch's breast
DMI number:: 8074

12. False flattering men who make it your chief pride

First Line:: False flattering men who make it your chief pride
Last Line:: That now you scoff at and dare glory in
DMI number:: 42760

13. First let the lion dread the bleating sheep

First Line:: First let the lion dread the bleating sheep
Last Line:: When Gloriana's eyebrow is the bow
DMI number:: 43624

14. Fair sweet and young receive this friendly strain

First Line:: Fair sweet and young receive this friendly strain
Last Line:: Bath is the touchstone of a woman's sense
DMI number:: 12673

15. For shame leave off thy amorous trade

First Line:: For shame leave off thy amorous trade
Last Line:: And cast aside the amorous lyre
DMI number:: 22965

16. Forbear my outside friend to shake my hand

First Line:: Forbear my outside friend to shake my hand
Last Line:: And fresh affronts deserve a smarter stroke
Author:: Edward Ward (Speculation)
DMI number:: 7992

17. Forgive him no no damn me if I do

First Line:: Forgive him no no damn me if I do
Last Line:: There scarce had now been left a man to bleed
Author:: Henry Crispe (Confident)
DMI number:: 41808

18. For shame ye doting fools for shame be wise

First Line:: For shame ye doting fools for shame be wise
Last Line:: Had not your sovereign stopped the intended doom
DMI number:: 8101

19. Gay fop that knowst no higher flights than sense

First Line:: Gay fop that knowst no higher flights than sense
Last Line:: Shall be by angels loved by men obeyed
DMI number:: 42261

20. Gellius is lean and why not such a son

First Line:: Gellius is lean and why not such a son
Last Line:: Which shows you why the skeleton is such
DMI number:: 8540

21. Great Charles who full of mercy mightst command

First Line:: Great Charles who full of mercy mightst command
Last Line:: Till the stroke's struck which they can never retrieve
Author:: John Wilmot (Speculation)
DMI number:: 8990

22. Great Charles who full of mercy wouldst command

First Line:: Great Charles who full of mercy wouldst command
Last Line:: Till the stroke's struck which they can never retrieve
Author:: John Wilmot (Speculation)
DMI number:: 3634

23. Have angels sinned and shall not men beware

First Line:: Have angels sinned and shall not men beware
Last Line:: His joys are joys of conquest not of peace
Author:: Edward Young (Absolute)
DMI number:: 33142

24. Hark heard ye not that piercing cry

First Line:: Hark heard ye not that piercing cry
Last Line:: For other's woe down virtue's manly cheeks
Author:: Erasmus Darwin (Absolute)
DMI number:: 36968

25. Hast thou at last that mother church too quitted

First Line:: Hast thou at last that mother church too quitted
Last Line:: And have no hope of heaven but his word
DMI number:: 44337

26. I grieve to think that Waller's blamed

First Line:: I grieve to think that Waller's blamed
Last Line:: Where nature moves and rapture warms the mind
Author:: Mary Barber (Absolute)
DMI number:: 11392

27. In that rude climate where the Alps arise

First Line:: In that rude climate where the Alps arise
Last Line:: Where veiled in brightness reigns the eternal god
Author:: James Scott (Confident)
DMI number:: 33149

28. In anger puffed you say I prove

First Line:: In anger puffed you say I prove
Last Line:: No such will love but all thy wealth
DMI number:: 41924

29. Imperious fool think not because you're fair

First Line:: Imperious fool think not because you're fair
Last Line:: Provoke my pen to write in such a strain
DMI number:: 42244

30. In danger puffed you say I prove

First Line:: In danger puffed you say I prove
Last Line:: No such will love thee but for thy wealth
DMI number:: 43796

31. In rancour's dark obscene sequestered seat

First Line:: In rancour's dark obscene sequestered seat
Last Line:: Is a worse punishment than hell can give
Author:: Samuel Johnson (Speculation)
DMI number:: 32767

32. Incautious youth why does thou so misplace

First Line:: Incautious youth why does thou so misplace
Last Line:: Which otherwise had only venial been
DMI number:: 43461

33. It happened in the twilight of the day

First Line:: It happened in the twilight of the day
Last Line:: Starts from the couch and bid the dame draw near
DMI number:: 42304

34. Look up base croaking zealots of the age

First Line:: Look up base croaking zealots of the age
Last Line:: Set whom he pleases on an earthly throne
DMI number:: 43173

35. Monarchs beware your titles they disown

First Line:: Monarchs beware your titles they disown
Last Line:: And decollation is the consequence
DMI number:: 8067

36. I pray you all that receive bread and pence

First Line:: I pray you all that receive bread and pence
Last Line:: To say the Lord's Prayer before you go hence
DMI number:: 33802

37. I wonder not Aurelia you desire

First Line:: I wonder not Aurelia you desire
Last Line:: And sprung the unerring net upon them all
Author:: Margaret Hill [nee Morris] (Speculation)
DMI number:: 17510

38. If long you'd have the world's wild females love

First Line:: If long you'd have the world's wild females love
Last Line:: But fly your converse swift as eastern wind
DMI number:: 42725

39. If poets be as they pretend inspired

First Line:: If poets be as they pretend inspired
Last Line:: That from long bondage set the muses free
DMI number:: 42578

40. Know mortals that the men the gods most love

First Line:: Know mortals that the men the gods most love
Last Line:: He but goes backward in all noble deeds
Author:: Thomas Goffe [Gough] (Absolute)
DMI number:: 17153

41. Lesbia the fair the gay the young

First Line:: Lesbia the fair the gay the young
Last Line:: Then women will be women still
DMI number:: 21726

42. Let joyful heirs in mock procession flow

First Line:: Let joyful heirs in mock procession flow
Last Line:: To sleep with mortals and awake with saints
DMI number:: 40602

43. Let others sing the loves of nymphs and swains

First Line:: Let others sing the loves of nymphs and swains
Last Line:: Whose power unchanged through every age remains
DMI number:: 33124

44. Man was not made to live at home

First Line:: Man was not made to live at home
Last Line:: But falls a bloody tiger's prey
DMI number:: 19421

45. Madam look out your title is arraigned

First Line:: Madam look out your title is arraigned
Last Line:: And restoration is the consequence
DMI number:: 8066

46. Lovely Armina over her books reclined

First Line:: Lovely Armina over her books reclined
Last Line:: Is there no end in being wise and fair
Author:: Mary Barber (Absolute)
DMI number:: 11588

47. Not hear my message but the bearer shun

First Line:: Not hear my message but the bearer shun
Last Line:: And I fall downward from this rowling sky
DMI number:: 43527

48. No gilded roof nor ivory fret

First Line:: No gilded roof nor ivory fret
Last Line:: To free the poor from painful bands
Author:: Sir Thomas Hawkins (Absolute)
DMI number:: 42094

49. O Anna think thou poor unhappy queen

First Line:: O Anna think thou poor unhappy queen
Last Line:: Fear not whole myriads in thy cause will join
DMI number:: 10989

50. O born to pity woes yet formed to give

First Line:: O born to pity woes yet formed to give
Last Line:: Then the form quickens and the figure glows
Author:: Aaron Hill (Absolute)
DMI number:: 11720

51. Now while thy blooming spring with balmy sweets

First Line:: Now while thy blooming spring with balmy sweets
Last Line:: Thou mayst alas but barely mayst repent
DMI number:: 8138

52. O ship what dost fresh storms again

First Line:: O ship what dost fresh storms again
Last Line:: Which run betwixt bright Cyclades
Author:: Sir Thomas Hawkins (Absolute)
DMI number:: 42044

53. O wit to human minds the dangerous lure

First Line:: O wit to human minds the dangerous lure
Last Line:: Perverse opponent to the Christian name
DMI number:: 36282

54. Of all the nauseous complicated crimes

First Line:: Of all the nauseous complicated crimes
Last Line:: Is liar boaster coward fool and rude
DMI number:: 8137

55. Oft I by wine have tried to lull my cares

First Line:: Oft I by wine have tried to lull my cares
Last Line:: What you must suffer learn by what I bear
DMI number:: 41876

56. Oh Davus am I so despised a fool

First Line:: Oh Davus am I so despised a fool
Last Line:: The plot that I more courage might have shown
DMI number:: 8551

57. Our master in a fatal hour

First Line:: Our master in a fatal hour
Last Line:: For play will then become a science
Author:: Mary Barber (Absolute)
DMI number:: 11347

58. Our grannums of old were so piously nice

First Line:: Our grannums of old were so piously nice
Last Line:: When the br--ch is exposed to cover the face
DMI number:: 11981

59. One hand and eye erect were close engaged

First Line:: One hand and eye erect were close engaged
Last Line:: Then like thy great exemplar hang thyself
DMI number:: 11999

60. Proud Buckingham for law too mighty grown

First Line:: Proud Buckingham for law too mighty grown
Last Line:: The keen deep searchings of a Felton's steel
Author:: Charles Churchill (Absolute)
DMI number:: 33507

61. Says the mother ah Kitty these frolics I said

First Line:: Says the mother ah Kitty these frolics I said
Last Line:: Sure of liars these almanac folks are the worst
DMI number:: 40593

62. Roman resolve thou shalt desertless taste

First Line:: Roman resolve thou shalt desertless taste
Last Line:: An offspring fuller of abuse
Author:: Sir Thomas Hawkins (Absolute)
DMI number:: 42103

63. Roused from infernal caverns void of light

First Line:: Roused from infernal caverns void of light
Last Line:: You'll know them when I meet you there | Farewell
Author:: Robert Wild (Absolute)
DMI number:: 43031

64. Repine not pensive friend to meet

First Line:: Repine not pensive friend to meet
Last Line:: And stop short of the promised land
Author:: Nahum Tate (Absolute)
DMI number:: 8141

65. Restore sweet Amoret some pitying power

First Line:: Restore sweet Amoret some pitying power
Last Line:: Before the wife is gained the virgin's lost
DMI number:: 12672

66. She is a lady of such matchless carriage

First Line:: She is a lady of such matchless carriage
Last Line:: I'll waste but few lines more before I show it
DMI number:: 41996

67. Tell me the meaning you who can

First Line:: Tell me the meaning you who can
Last Line:: That Claud Loraine may yield to thee
Author:: David Garrick (Absolute)
DMI number:: 33561

68. That money should engender thus and breed

First Line:: That money should engender thus and breed
Last Line:: Through Scylla and Charybdis sail no more
DMI number:: 41998

69. The day was fixed the nuptial band prepare

First Line:: The day was fixed the nuptial band prepare
Last Line:: And Death instead of Cupid point his dart
DMI number:: 15969

70. The wealthy chuffe for all his wealth

First Line:: The wealthy chuffe for all his wealth
Last Line:: And die in Christ true life to win
DMI number:: 49203

71. Thing called a man ambition cheats thy sense

First Line:: Thing called a man ambition cheats thy sense
Last Line:: To live the object of Eugenia's hate
DMI number:: 42268

72. This life's a warfare christian fighting die

First Line:: This life's a warfare christian fighting die
Last Line:: And out of heaven must in hell remain
DMI number:: 34261

73. Thou whose short span of life as plain appears

First Line:: Thou whose short span of life as plain appears
Last Line:: As thou shouldst live an age or die tomorrow
DMI number:: 41993

74. Though dead I lie I speak to you that live

First Line:: Though dead I lie I speak to you that live
Last Line:: I have thus made a pulpit of my grave
DMI number:: 9730

75. Thou name of valour heir of all that worth

First Line:: Thou name of valour heir of all that worth
Last Line:: Hating these certain pledges of increase
DMI number:: 42965

76. Though richer than unpolled

First Line:: Though richer than unpolled
Last Line:: To make it up an even sum
Author:: Sir Richard Fanshawe (Absolute)
DMI number:: 42123

77. To thee rude warrior whom we once admired

First Line:: To thee rude warrior whom we once admired
Last Line:: All Europe's terror once but now all Europe's scorn
Author:: Susanna Centlivre (Absolute)
DMI number:: 11830

78. Tomorrow yes tomorrow you'll repent

First Line:: Tomorrow yes tomorrow you'll repent
Last Line:: Till more tomorrows you're denied to see
DMI number:: 8159

79. Unactive wishes slow concessions find

First Line:: Unactive wishes slow concessions find
Last Line:: Where sleep's their business sleep should be their meat
Author:: Edmund Arwaker (Absolute)
DMI number:: 11307

80. Well has thy fate directed thee to choose

First Line:: Well has thy fate directed thee to choose
Last Line:: She'll poison more than ever Pandora slew
DMI number:: 4709

81. What cannot be preserved when fortune takes

First Line:: What cannot be preserved when fortune takes
Last Line:: He robs himself that spends a bootless grief
Author:: William Shakespeare (Absolute)
DMI number:: 17084

82. What all aspiring mortals have in view

First Line:: What all aspiring mortals have in view
Last Line:: And guiltless minds imbibe celestial joys
Author:: Sir Richard Blackmore (Absolute)
DMI number:: 9329

83. When last I saw thee thou did seem so kind

First Line:: When last I saw thee thou did seem so kind
Last Line:: That ever Strephon could have been unkind
DMI number:: 43449

84. When Hodge had numbered up how many score

First Line:: When Hodge had numbered up how many score
Last Line:: His body fell out fled his frighted soul
DMI number:: 43706

85. When Hodge had numbered up how many score

First Line:: When Hodge had numbered up how many score
Last Line:: With equal gratitude and treachery
Author:: Andrew Marvell (Speculation)
DMI number:: 42301

86. When time his circling course began

First Line:: When time his circling course began
Last Line:: Better the mortal than the natal day
DMI number:: 23285

87. When you this title read I know you'll ask

First Line:: When you this title read I know you'll ask
Last Line:: If you would wiser be these vices scorn
DMI number:: 41859

88. Where where degenerate countrymen how high

First Line:: Where where degenerate countrymen how high
Last Line:: To conquer monsters and to grow divine
Author:: Sir Samuel Garth (Absolute)
DMI number:: 22226

89. Where is there faith and justice to be found

First Line:: Where is there faith and justice to be found
Last Line:: To cut the hand off that anoints you king
DMI number:: 6456

90. Where is there faith or justice to be found

First Line:: Where is there faith or justice to be found
Last Line:: To cut the hand off that anoints you king
DMI number:: 42364

91. Who sees the ill and seeks to shun the same

First Line:: Who sees the ill and seeks to shun the same
Last Line:: Their praises live who seeks to merit fame
Author:: Thomas Proctor (Absolute)
DMI number:: 49204

92. Who tells false tales of her I love

First Line:: Who tells false tales of her I love
Last Line:: Let her but be a woman still
DMI number:: 23076

93. While Europe is divided all with care

First Line:: While Europe is divided all with care
Last Line:: But what's to come let him enquire of Fleury
DMI number:: 18262

94. Why dread you madam thus the only state

First Line:: Why dread you madam thus the only state
Last Line:: A man forsakes his mother for his wife
DMI number:: 11792

95. Why fair maid are you uneasy

First Line:: Why fair maid are you uneasy
Last Line:: And let your lover die a nobler way
DMI number:: 43600

96. Why Celia do you thus disguise your face

First Line:: Why Celia do you thus disguise your face
Last Line:: They'd slight the false and not the true believe
DMI number:: 12814

97. Why start this case is yours or will be soon

First Line:: Why start this case is yours or will be soon
Last Line:: Farewell remember lest you wake too late
DMI number:: 33488

98. Why start this fate will your's be very soon

First Line:: Why start this fate will your's be very soon
Last Line:: You know thou feastest but to feast a worm
DMI number:: 33155

99. Why should the fair suspect my harmless muse

First Line:: Why should the fair suspect my harmless muse
Last Line:: And drink not Helicon but Tunbridge stream
DMI number:: 8114

100. Yes they will laugh but whom o S--- enquire

First Line:: Yes they will laugh but whom o S--- enquire
Last Line:: Them or your time for man must surely die
Author:: William Dodd (Absolute)
DMI number:: 33123

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1. A pampered hern of lofty mien and state

2. Ah wretched man whom neither fate can please

3. Alas to this we come why why is life

4. As musing on his bed the speecher lay

5. Avaunt ye critics too severe

6. Be gone our nation's pleasure and reproach

7. Blessed is the man yea doubly blessed is he

8. Bright Chloris shun thy glass for it has vexed

9. Car-men turn poets now why may not I

10. Briton if thou wouldst sure destruction shun

11. Could you at last a commonwealth obtain

12. False flattering men who make it your chief pride

13. First let the lion dread the bleating sheep

14. Fair sweet and young receive this friendly strain

15. For shame leave off thy amorous trade

16. Forbear my outside friend to shake my hand

17. Forgive him no no damn me if I do

18. For shame ye doting fools for shame be wise

19. Gay fop that knowst no higher flights than sense

20. Gellius is lean and why not such a son

21. Great Charles who full of mercy mightst command

22. Great Charles who full of mercy wouldst command

23. Have angels sinned and shall not men beware

24. Hark heard ye not that piercing cry

25. Hast thou at last that mother church too quitted

26. I grieve to think that Waller's blamed

27. In that rude climate where the Alps arise

28. In anger puffed you say I prove

29. Imperious fool think not because you're fair

30. In danger puffed you say I prove

31. In rancour's dark obscene sequestered seat

32. Incautious youth why does thou so misplace

33. It happened in the twilight of the day

34. Look up base croaking zealots of the age

35. Monarchs beware your titles they disown

36. I pray you all that receive bread and pence

37. I wonder not Aurelia you desire

38. If long you'd have the world's wild females love

39. If poets be as they pretend inspired

40. Know mortals that the men the gods most love

41. Lesbia the fair the gay the young

42. Let joyful heirs in mock procession flow

43. Let others sing the loves of nymphs and swains

44. Man was not made to live at home

45. Madam look out your title is arraigned

46. Lovely Armina over her books reclined

47. Not hear my message but the bearer shun

48. No gilded roof nor ivory fret

49. O Anna think thou poor unhappy queen

50. O born to pity woes yet formed to give

51. Now while thy blooming spring with balmy sweets

52. O ship what dost fresh storms again

53. O wit to human minds the dangerous lure

54. Of all the nauseous complicated crimes

55. Oft I by wine have tried to lull my cares

56. Oh Davus am I so despised a fool

57. Our master in a fatal hour

58. Our grannums of old were so piously nice

59. One hand and eye erect were close engaged

60. Proud Buckingham for law too mighty grown

61. Says the mother ah Kitty these frolics I said

62. Roman resolve thou shalt desertless taste

63. Roused from infernal caverns void of light

64. Repine not pensive friend to meet

65. Restore sweet Amoret some pitying power

66. She is a lady of such matchless carriage

67. Tell me the meaning you who can

68. That money should engender thus and breed

69. The day was fixed the nuptial band prepare

70. The wealthy chuffe for all his wealth

71. Thing called a man ambition cheats thy sense

72. This life's a warfare christian fighting die