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1. A small neat house and little spot of ground

First Line:
A small neat house and little spot of ground
Last Line:
Paced home full grave and ruminating sad
Author:
William Dodd (Absolute)
DMI number:
33283

2. A small neat house and little spot of ground

First Line:
A small neat house and little spot of ground
Last Line:
Packed home full grave and ruminating sad
Author:
William Dodd (Absolute)
DMI number:
33318

3. Could I with poems purchase an estate

First Line:
Could I with poems purchase an estate
Last Line:
But as they're dead my plaint is all in vain
DMI number:
35296

4. Cupid beneath a myrtle laid

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

5. Did Dorinda but smile I'd not grieve at my fate

First Line:
Did Dorinda but smile I'd not grieve at my fate
Last Line:
And Dorinda consents to't so Dorinda adieu t'you
DMI number:
5223

6. Let others raise enormous heaps of gold

First Line:
Let others raise enormous heaps of gold
Last Line:
Hunger and wealth I equally despise
Author:
Thomas Otway (Absolute)
DMI number:
10019

7. No books have I to help my faultering brain

First Line:
No books have I to help my faultering brain
Last Line:
How blest a life would poets lead
DMI number:
24655

8. O wretch hath madness cured thy dire despair

First Line:
O wretch hath madness cured thy dire despair
Last Line:
Ere pestilence or famine sweep the land
Author:
Mary Barber (Absolute)
DMI number:
11611

9. Oft musing over some sonnet long I sit

First Line:
Oft musing over some sonnet long I sit
Last Line:
And execution trembles to perform
DMI number:
12765

10. See how in sorrows drowned I trembling stand

First Line:
See how in sorrows drowned I trembling stand
Last Line:
He cursed and wished him poor yes poor as I
Author:
John Hopkins (Absolute)
DMI number:
5832

11. The muses darling pride of all the plains

First Line:
The muses darling pride of all the plains
Last Line:
But only yields a larger subject to complain
DMI number:
3813

12. This warld is all but fenziet fair

First Line:
This warld is all but fenziet fair
Last Line:
Quhat eir God send hald thee content | Sen auld kyndness is quite forzet
DMI number:
10907

13. Through mournful shades and solitary groves

First Line:
Through mournful shades and solitary groves
Last Line:
Your rigour kills nor triumph in the slain
Author:
Richard Duke (Absolute)
DMI number:
4827

14. Through mournful shades and solitary groves

First Line:
Through mournful shades and solitary groves
Last Line:
Your rigour kills nor triumph over the slain
Author:
Richard Duke (Absolute)
DMI number:
18389

15. To the knights burgesses and cits

First Line:
To the knights burgesses and cits
Last Line:
And your petitioners shall never pray &c
DMI number:
7678

16. Tis true unknowing of the distant coast

First Line:
Tis true unknowing of the distant coast
Last Line:
And be for once the gallant of the age
DMI number:
12002

17. To you great lords I make my just complaint

First Line:
To you great lords I make my just complaint
Last Line:
Farewell forgetful and ingrateful world
Author:
Sir Robert Murray Keith (Absolute)
DMI number:
35304

18. What will this come to he commands us to

First Line:
What will this come to he commands us to
Last Line:
Gently put out of office ere I were forced
Author:
William Shakespeare (Absolute)
DMI number:
17322