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1. Apollo touch your lyre and golden strings

First Line:
Apollo touch your lyre and golden strings
Last Line:
To make our hero like the gods divine
DMI number:
11942

2. Art come sweet prince wilt once more deign to cheer

First Line:
Art come sweet prince wilt once more deign to cheer
Last Line:
And all but regicides thy praise resound
DMI number:
43166

3. Auspicious prince | Blessed be the hour and sacred be the light

First Line:
Auspicious prince | Blessed be the hour and sacred be the light
Last Line:
Mayst thou augment the number of the blessed
DMI number:
42845

4. Break sacred morn on our expecting isle

First Line:
Break sacred morn on our expecting isle
Last Line:
As flints are struck before they show their fires
Author:
Edmund Waller (Speculation)
DMI number:
43018

5. Clad with the infant glories of the spring

First Line:
Clad with the infant glories of the spring
Last Line:
Whilst with two godlike souls our Albion's blessed
DMI number:
43164

6. Go best in all that's good we cannot bear

First Line:
Go best in all that's good we cannot bear
Last Line:
And all men sing vive le roi
DMI number:
43165

7. Great sir till now I with impatience stayed

First Line:
Great sir till now I with impatience stayed
Last Line:
His country's lasting best security
DMI number:
43163

8. Hail mighty prince this poem on you waits

First Line:
Hail mighty prince this poem on you waits
Last Line:
And with his impious blood Lutetia's plains manure
DMI number:
4930

9. In that wild deluge where the world was drowned

First Line:
In that wild deluge where the world was drowned
Last Line:
With their own peace their children's happiness
Author:
John Dryden (Absolute)
DMI number:
3815

10. In dull commanded strains the royal boy

First Line:
In dull commanded strains the royal boy
Last Line:
To know their country's fortune and their own
DMI number:
42875

11. Long time beneath the tyrant's lawless sway

First Line:
Long time beneath the tyrant's lawless sway
Last Line:
And views exulting her own monarch reign
DMI number:
11141

12. My lord | While flattering crowds officiously appear

First Line:
My lord | While flattering crowds officiously appear
Last Line:
Because the centre of it is above
Author:
John Dryden (Absolute)
DMI number:
3816

13. If to redeem an almost ruined state

First Line:
If to redeem an almost ruined state
Last Line:
As this with us your last and greatest did
DMI number:
42865

14. Now to be silent or to write in prose

First Line:
Now to be silent or to write in prose
Last Line:
My verses may have end but not our joy
Author:
Robert Gomersall (Speculation)
DMI number:
43161

15. Now with a general peace the world was blessed

First Line:
Now with a general peace the world was blessed
Last Line:
The world a monarch and that monarch you
Author:
John Dryden (Absolute)
DMI number:
3814

16. Our tears we paid to Charles his royal hearse

First Line:
Our tears we paid to Charles his royal hearse
Last Line:
May flow a race of heroes and of kings
DMI number:
42843

17. Rise lofty numbers rise from scenes of light

First Line:
Rise lofty numbers rise from scenes of light
Last Line:
They are her enemies as well as yours
DMI number:
4592