Poem Genre / Form: Complaint / Poem Theme: Love

1. A little herd-groom for he was no better

First Line:: A little herd-groom for he was no better
Last Line:: Whose voice did help their masters case lament
Author:: Francis Davison (Absolute)
DMI number:: 49804

2. A little herd-groom for he was no better

First Line:: A little herd-groom for he was no better
Last Line:: Whose voice did helpe their master's case lament
Author:: Francis Davison (Absolute)
DMI number:: 49885

3. A loyal breast

First Line:: A loyal breast
Last Line:: More flames oppressed
DMI number:: 41978

4. Ah Jenny Gin your eyes do kill

First Line:: Ah Jenny Gin your eyes do kill
Last Line:: Upon this flowery plain
DMI number:: 42813

5. Ah liberty now have I learn'd to know

First Line:: Ah liberty now have I learn'd to know
Last Line:: My faltring tongue so basheth ought to crave
DMI number:: 49552

6. Ah love how wayward is his wit what pangs do pierce his breast

First Line:: Ah love how wayward is his wit what pangs do pierce his breast
Last Line:: To them that mean by honest means to come to happy end
DMI number:: 9061

7. Ah me vile wretch that ever I was born

First Line:: Ah me vile wretch that ever I was born
Last Line:: To murder him and twas the very same
DMI number:: 37059

8. Ah pity love wherever it grows

First Line:: Ah pity love wherever it grows
Last Line:: Though I'm so old I scarce know what
DMI number:: 42632

9. Accursed be love and that trust his trains

First Line:: Accursed be love and that trust his trains
Last Line:: Whose heaven is hell whose perfect joys are pains
Author:: Thomas Lodge (Absolute)
DMI number:: 44728

10. Adieu desert how are thou spent

First Line:: Adieu desert how are thou spent
Last Line:: That thy true heart should cause thy woe
DMI number:: 49555

11. Ah tell me my regardless fair

First Line:: Ah tell me my regardless fair
Last Line:: Be kind be gentle to your bleeding slave
DMI number:: 5874

12. Ah whither fled are all those roses fair

First Line:: Ah whither fled are all those roses fair
Last Line:: Restore with kindness him you've almost slain
DMI number:: 42724

13. Alas so all things now do hold their peace

First Line:: Alas so all things now do hold their peace
Last Line:: To live and lack the thing should rid my pain
Author:: Henry Howard (Absolute)
DMI number:: 8719

14. A woman O curse that there is such a name

First Line:: A woman O curse that there is such a name
Last Line:: To trust him so soon with an arrow
DMI number:: 5762

15. All in thy look my life doth whole depend

First Line:: All in thy look my life doth whole depend
Last Line:: In thy look and thou most in my grief
Author:: Sir Thomas Wyatt (Absolute)
DMI number:: 49332

16. All is not gold that shineth bright in show

First Line:: All is not gold that shineth bright in show
Last Line:: So flattering looks the lover's life doth spill
DMI number:: 44938

17. An eye the plot whereon Love sets his gin according to EV

First Line:: An eye the plot whereon Love sets his gin according to EV
Last Line:: That cost some dear if thou maist ha't for nought
Author:: John Lyly (Absolute)
DMI number:: 44763

18. And does my Eloisa then complain

First Line:: And does my Eloisa then complain
Last Line:: Convince me wish me a release from life
Author:: Charles Beckingham (Speculation)
DMI number:: 10659

19. Although I had a check

First Line:: Although I had a check
Last Line:: If I can give the mate
Author:: Henry Howard (Absolute)
DMI number:: 49565

20. Although I had check

First Line:: Although I had check
Last Line:: If I can give the mate
Author:: Henry Howard (Absolute)
DMI number:: 49263

21. Arise O Phosphorus and bring the day

First Line:: Arise O Phosphorus and bring the day
Last Line:: Tis barbarous to insult on one that dies
Author:: William Walsh (Absolute)
DMI number:: 6683

22. Arise ye winds from your rough caves

First Line:: Arise ye winds from your rough caves
Last Line:: And then she laid her down and died
DMI number:: 42801

23. As Cypress tree that rent is by the root

First Line:: As Cypress tree that rent is by the root
Last Line:: So wanting my wish I die for my desire
DMI number:: 49457

24. At liberty I sit and see

First Line:: At liberty I sit and see
Last Line:: Lo such is hap mark well my song
DMI number:: 49478

25. At this late hour the world lies hushed below

First Line:: At this late hour the world lies hushed below
Last Line:: Here let me ever dwell for heaven is here
Author:: David Mallet (Absolute)
DMI number:: 17520

26. Avising the bright beams of those fair eyes

First Line:: Avising the bright beams of those fair eyes
Last Line:: Of such a root lo cometh fruit fruitless
Author:: Sir Thomas Wyatt (Absolute)
DMI number:: 49293

27. Aurora fair whose rosy cheeks adorn

First Line:: Aurora fair whose rosy cheeks adorn
Last Line:: Yet still I the hard hearted fair will love
DMI number:: 42768

28. Aurora now with rosy blushes red

First Line:: Aurora now with rosy blushes red
Last Line:: And at her usual time called forth the day
DMI number:: 43406

29. Ask what love is It is a passion

First Line:: Ask what love is It is a passion
Last Line:: Whose glory resteth chiefly on deny
DMI number:: 49163

30. Be gone fond love I'll dote no more

First Line:: Be gone fond love I'll dote no more
Last Line:: I love my nymph says I I love again says she
DMI number:: 44629

31. Because I still kept thee from lies and blame

First Line:: Because I still kept thee from lies and blame
Last Line:: And only doth my look declare my heart
Author:: Sir Thomas Wyatt (Absolute)
DMI number:: 49290

32. Behold love thy power how she despiseth

First Line:: Behold love thy power how she despiseth
Last Line:: And as his lord thee lowly here entreateth
Author:: Sir Thomas Wyatt (Absolute)
DMI number:: 49311

33. Bright beauty you chief idea of my mind

First Line:: Bright beauty you chief idea of my mind
Last Line:: The cruel murderess with her weapon's slain
DMI number:: 42727

34. Behold the pair in transport view

First Line:: Behold the pair in transport view
Last Line:: And breath my soul in sighs
DMI number:: 12854

35. Can my own blood betray my disgrace

First Line:: Can my own blood betray my disgrace
Last Line:: Say tis for joy and triumph not for love
DMI number:: 5027

36. Chloe since you a handsome woman are

First Line:: Chloe since you a handsome woman are
Last Line:: Thy truth my girl shall never come on trial
DMI number:: 16976

37. Celia that faithful servant you disown

First Line:: Celia that faithful servant you disown
Last Line:: Since dying I must be no more your slave
Author:: John Wilmot (Absolute)
DMI number:: 4114

38. Celia your tricks will now no longer pass

First Line:: Celia your tricks will now no longer pass
Last Line:: That boasts her favours and proclaims my wrong
Author:: William Walsh (Absolute)
DMI number:: 6662

39. Celio remains disconsolate

First Line:: Celio remains disconsolate
Last Line:: Phillis the falsest of her sex
DMI number:: 44452

40. Cloris I come to learn my fate

First Line:: Cloris I come to learn my fate
Last Line:: What she so long delayed
DMI number:: 42541

41. Come golden locks come god of love

First Line:: Come golden locks come god of love
Last Line:: And pines and wishes for another
Author:: Anacreon (Absolute)
DMI number:: 10028

42. Dear feathered Cupid pratling thing

First Line:: Dear feathered Cupid pratling thing
Last Line:: And Chloe's frowns no longer fear
DMI number:: 19128

43. Cursed be the law but doubly cursed

First Line:: Cursed be the law but doubly cursed
Last Line:: Till I had run the round of love
DMI number:: 11152

44. Conceit begotten by the eyes

First Line:: Conceit begotten by the eyes
Last Line:: To like to love to chose alike
Author:: Sir Walter Ralegh [Raleigh] (Absolute)
DMI number:: 49725

45. Cruel and impartial sickness

First Line:: Cruel and impartial sickness
Last Line:: Till I from myself do depart
DMI number:: 49728

46. Cruel and unpartial sickness

First Line:: Cruel and unpartial sickness
Last Line:: Till I from my self depart
DMI number:: 49879

47. Cupid begone who would on thee rely

First Line:: Cupid begone who would on thee rely
Last Line:: I fear how dear thou hast thy knowledge bought
Author:: Sir Charles Sedley (Absolute)
DMI number:: 41866

48. Cupid beneath a myrtle laid

First Line:: Cupid beneath a myrtle laid
Last Line:: And binds my subjects in his chains
DMI number:: 5340

49. Damon thou never loved me yet

First Line:: Damon thou never loved me yet
Last Line:: When love inflames but so in part
DMI number:: 44237

50. Darkness does now the world surround

First Line:: Darkness does now the world surround
Last Line:: I'll haste to slumber in the grave
DMI number:: 42764

51. Dear soul who hath encaptived so my heart

First Line:: Dear soul who hath encaptived so my heart
Last Line:: That I will never love none else but you
DMI number:: 44462

52. Dear object of my love didst thou but know

First Line:: Dear object of my love didst thou but know
Last Line:: My griefs will make me sigh my soul away
DMI number:: 42222

53. Eternal source of joys

First Line:: Eternal source of joys
Last Line:: And fix a lasting empire firmly in each heart
DMI number:: 10541

54. Enough of time I have now spent in vain

First Line:: Enough of time I have now spent in vain
Last Line:: And never perplex my self with woman more
DMI number:: 12667

55. Each day I die

First Line:: Each day I die
Last Line:: If you deny
DMI number:: 41986

56. Each man me tell'th I change most my device

First Line:: Each man me tell'th I change most my device
Last Line:: But always one our own both firm and stable
Author:: Sir Thomas Wyatt (Absolute)
DMI number:: 49288

57. Each man me tell'th I change most my device

First Line:: Each man me tell'th I change most my device
Last Line:: But always one your own both firm and stable
Author:: Sir Thomas Wyatt (Absolute)
DMI number:: 49516

58. Divine mistress | Since 'tis my fate to be thy slave

First Line:: Divine mistress | Since 'tis my fate to be thy slave
Last Line:: By death am freed from misery
DMI number:: 42668

59. Do way your physic I faint no more

First Line:: Do way your physic I faint no more
Last Line:: For lo your salve comes all to late
DMI number:: 49550

60. Fair boy alas why flyest thou me

First Line:: Fair boy alas why flyest thou me
Last Line:: And thou shalt need no shade but I
Author:: Henry Reynolds (Confident)
DMI number:: 5642

61. Farewell false love the oracle of lies

First Line:: Farewell false love the oracle of lies
Last Line:: Dead is the root from which such fancies grew
Author:: Thomas Deloney (Confident) & William Byrd (Confident)
DMI number:: 4716

62. Farewell love and all thy laws forever

First Line:: Farewell love and all thy laws forever
Last Line:: Me list no longer rotten boughs to climb
Author:: Sir Thomas Wyatt (Absolute)
DMI number:: 49341

63. Farewell the heart of cruelty

First Line:: Farewell the heart of cruelty
Last Line:: Welcome among my pleasant smart
Author:: Sir Thomas Wyatt (Absolute)
DMI number:: 49303

64. Francelia's heart is still the same

First Line:: Francelia's heart is still the same
Last Line:: Beauty takes delight in killing
DMI number:: 42433

65. For mighty wars I thought to tune my lute

First Line:: For mighty wars I thought to tune my lute
Last Line:: While in unequal verse I sing my woes
Author:: John Dryden (Absolute)
DMI number:: 4148

66. Forgive me heaven if I now accuse

First Line:: Forgive me heaven if I now accuse
Last Line:: My soul long since to her my heaven fled
DMI number:: 44600

67. For that a restless head must somewhat have in ure

First Line:: For that a restless head must somewhat have in ure
Last Line:: And though wrong denied I be therein truth it will try in time
DMI number:: 49446

68. Fond Love thy pretty flatteries cease

First Line:: Fond Love thy pretty flatteries cease
Last Line:: Where never any lover happy was
Author:: Aphra Behn (Absolute)
DMI number:: 23326

69. From that inhuman shore these lines receive

First Line:: From that inhuman shore these lines receive
Last Line:: You find me dead O Theseus close my urn
DMI number:: 18036

70. Give me leave to rail at you

First Line:: Give me leave to rail at you
Last Line:: And makes the slave grow pleased again
Author:: John Wilmot (Confident)
DMI number:: 42299

71. Give me leave to rail at you

First Line:: Give me leave to rail at you
Last Line:: And makes the slaves grow pleased again
Author:: John Wilmot (Confident)
DMI number:: 4129

72. Give me leave to rail at you

First Line:: Give me leave to rail at you
Last Line:: And quell the rebel in your arms
Author:: John Wilmot (Confident)
DMI number:: 25372

73. Get you gone you will undo me

First Line:: Get you gone you will undo me
Last Line:: For were I not you'd leave me too
Author:: Sir Charles Sedley (Absolute)
DMI number:: 6282

74. Frown not my dear in what can I offend

First Line:: Frown not my dear in what can I offend
Last Line:: And plagues the land with burning heats and sweats
DMI number:: 5058

75. Hail kindest refuge for my love distressed

First Line:: Hail kindest refuge for my love distressed
Last Line:: They only dreamt of joys but feel substantial woe
DMI number:: 6583

76. Hapless Philaster in a midnight shade

First Line:: Hapless Philaster in a midnight shade
Last Line:: When death or something like it stopped his tongue
DMI number:: 41838

77. Good ladies ye that have your pleasures in exile

First Line:: Good ladies ye that have your pleasures in exile
Last Line:: Do your good will to cure a wight that liveth in distress
Author:: Henry Howard (Absolute)
DMI number:: 8729

78. Happy was I o love when innocent

First Line:: Happy was I o love when innocent
Last Line:: And all the racks the restless guilty prove
DMI number:: 42613

79. Have I not offered god of love

First Line:: Have I not offered god of love
Last Line:: If just oh god of love restore
DMI number:: 33521

80. Hence idle fancies wandering shades away

First Line:: Hence idle fancies wandering shades away
Last Line:: And with eternal slumbers seal my eyes
DMI number:: 42665

81. How far they are deceived who hope in vain

First Line:: How far they are deceived who hope in vain
Last Line:: Before your pity I would choose your hate
Author:: John Wilmot (Speculation) & Sir George Etherege (Absolute)
DMI number:: 7152

82. How can a true lover enjoy

First Line:: How can a true lover enjoy
Last Line:: While the nymph she will smile at the wound
DMI number:: 21569

83. How long shall I thus live condemned to mourn

First Line:: How long shall I thus live condemned to mourn
Last Line:: Darkness to me is day the morning night
DMI number:: 43635

84. Hold gentle cupid hold in vain

First Line:: Hold gentle cupid hold in vain
Last Line:: Or else no woman there
DMI number:: 18230

85. How hard is the fate

First Line:: How hard is the fate
Last Line:: And condemned when we're coy
DMI number:: 12701

86. How oft ah wretch hast thou profusely swore

First Line:: How oft ah wretch hast thou profusely swore
Last Line:: To bring the beauteous fabric to decay
DMI number:: 43468

87. I Damon and Alpheus loves recite

First Line:: I Damon and Alpheus loves recite
Last Line:: Bid a sad silence through the Arcadian plains
Author:: Knightly Chetwood (Absolute)
DMI number:: 3790

88. I came and looked and liked loved

First Line:: I came and looked and liked loved
Last Line:: Which lost she may repent
DMI number:: 43350

89. I doat I doat but am a sot to show it

First Line:: I doat I doat but am a sot to show it
Last Line:: And there's the short and the long on it
DMI number:: 43090

90. I don't complain that you my passions raise

First Line:: I don't complain that you my passions raise
Last Line:: When once remorseless fate has closed your Strephon's eyes
DMI number:: 11505

91. I have too long endured her guilty scorn

First Line:: I have too long endured her guilty scorn
Last Line:: By all those beauties that inspired disdain
Author:: John Oldham (Speculation) & Robert Wolseley (Speculation)
DMI number:: 4657

92. In a sad unfrequented cyprus grove

First Line:: In a sad unfrequented cyprus grove
Last Line:: Give him a thousand thousand joys beside
DMI number:: 41843

93. In seeking rest unrest I find

First Line:: In seeking rest unrest I find
Last Line:: As one through girt with many a wound
DMI number:: 8892

94. In Chloe's frowns I read my fate

First Line:: In Chloe's frowns I read my fate
Last Line:: And gain my Chloe's heart
DMI number:: 12808

95. In Cyprus springs whereas dame Venus dwelt

First Line:: In Cyprus springs whereas dame Venus dwelt
Last Line:: My service thus is grown into disdain
Author:: Henry Howard (Absolute)
DMI number:: 8716

96. In Cyprus springs whereas Dame Venus dwelt

First Line:: In Cyprus springs whereas Dame Venus dwelt
Last Line:: Whereby my service grows into disdain
Author:: Henry Howard (Absolute)
DMI number:: 49249

97. In lofty strains said I some mighty thing

First Line:: In lofty strains said I some mighty thing
Last Line:: Or any way or any thing
Author:: John Cooper (Absolute)
DMI number:: 41864

98. In faith I wot not what to say

First Line:: In faith I wot not what to say
Last Line:: But spite of hap hap hath well happed
Author:: Sir Thomas Wyatt (Absolute)
DMI number:: 49517

99. In faith I wot not what to say

First Line:: In faith I wot not what to say
Last Line:: The spite of hap hap hath well happed
Author:: Sir Thomas Wyatt (Absolute)
DMI number:: 49302

100. In peaceful shades Amyntas sat

First Line:: In peaceful shades Amyntas sat
Last Line:: Smile when you see me next
DMI number:: 18288

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1. A little herd-groom for he was no better

2. A little herd-groom for he was no better

3. A loyal breast

4. Ah Jenny Gin your eyes do kill

5. Ah liberty now have I learn'd to know

6. Ah love how wayward is his wit what pangs do pierce his breast

7. Ah me vile wretch that ever I was born

8. Ah pity love wherever it grows

9. Accursed be love and that trust his trains

10. Adieu desert how are thou spent

11. Ah tell me my regardless fair

12. Ah whither fled are all those roses fair

13. Alas so all things now do hold their peace

14. A woman O curse that there is such a name

15. All in thy look my life doth whole depend

16. All is not gold that shineth bright in show

17. An eye the plot whereon Love sets his gin according to EV

18. And does my Eloisa then complain

19. Although I had a check

20. Although I had check

21. Arise O Phosphorus and bring the day

22. Arise ye winds from your rough caves

23. As Cypress tree that rent is by the root

24. At liberty I sit and see

25. At this late hour the world lies hushed below

26. Avising the bright beams of those fair eyes

27. Aurora fair whose rosy cheeks adorn

28. Aurora now with rosy blushes red

29. Ask what love is It is a passion

30. Be gone fond love I'll dote no more

31. Because I still kept thee from lies and blame

32. Behold love thy power how she despiseth

33. Bright beauty you chief idea of my mind

34. Behold the pair in transport view

35. Can my own blood betray my disgrace

36. Chloe since you a handsome woman are

37. Celia that faithful servant you disown

38. Celia your tricks will now no longer pass

39. Celio remains disconsolate

40. Cloris I come to learn my fate

41. Come golden locks come god of love

42. Dear feathered Cupid pratling thing

43. Cursed be the law but doubly cursed

44. Conceit begotten by the eyes

45. Cruel and impartial sickness

46. Cruel and unpartial sickness

47. Cupid begone who would on thee rely

48. Cupid beneath a myrtle laid

49. Damon thou never loved me yet

50. Darkness does now the world surround

51. Dear soul who hath encaptived so my heart

52. Dear object of my love didst thou but know

53. Eternal source of joys

54. Enough of time I have now spent in vain

55. Each day I die

56. Each man me tell'th I change most my device

57. Each man me tell'th I change most my device

58. Divine mistress | Since 'tis my fate to be thy slave

59. Do way your physic I faint no more

60. Fair boy alas why flyest thou me

61. Farewell false love the oracle of lies

62. Farewell love and all thy laws forever

63. Farewell the heart of cruelty

64. Francelia's heart is still the same

65. For mighty wars I thought to tune my lute

66. Forgive me heaven if I now accuse

67. For that a restless head must somewhat have in ure

68. Fond Love thy pretty flatteries cease

69. From that inhuman shore these lines receive

70. Give me leave to rail at you

71. Give me leave to rail at you

72. Give me leave to rail at you