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1. A cave there is deep in declining ground

First Line:
A cave there is deep in declining ground
Last Line:
Because thought absent at his wondrous fall
Author:
John Hopkins (Absolute)
DMI number:
5880

2. All over th' extended sea when wanton gales

First Line:
All over th' extended sea when wanton gales
Last Line:
And sweep off men and beasts an undistinguished prize
DMI number:
2026

3. Although no brandished cherubins are here

First Line:
Although no brandished cherubins are here
Last Line:
When an heroic is a georgic too
DMI number:
4539

4. As through Idalia's pleasing groves

First Line:
As through Idalia's pleasing groves
Last Line:
How sharp how wide how deep the wound
DMI number:
1925

5. Aurora rising from old Tithon's bed

First Line:
Aurora rising from old Tithon's bed
Last Line:
Drove the dear shades that hid our joys away
DMI number:
6691

6. But when good Saturn banished from above

First Line:
But when good Saturn banished from above
Last Line:
And oxen laboured first beneath the yoke
Author:
John Dryden (Absolute)
DMI number:
9803

7. Come lovely nymph the winter now is past

First Line:
Come lovely nymph the winter now is past
Last Line:
Melting in joys the world did never try
DMI number:
42666

8. Cupid the sliest rogue alive

First Line:
Cupid the sliest rogue alive
Last Line:
And yet how wide how deep the wound
DMI number:
3921

9. Daphne first taught the fair Latona's son

First Line:
Daphne first taught the fair Latona's son
Last Line:
And with her new formed boughs gave the consenting nod
DMI number:
17747

10. From Pisa where the sea his flood receives

First Line:
From Pisa where the sea his flood receives
Last Line:
The art of diving to the river taught
Author:
Francis Fawkes (Absolute)
DMI number:
27796

11. Great prince and so much greater as more wise

First Line:
Great prince and so much greater as more wise
Last Line:
To woods and groves what once the painter sings
Author:
Sir John Denham (Speculation) & Andrew Marvell (Confident)
DMI number:
3573

12. High on a bough that trembled over a spring

First Line:
High on a bough that trembled over a spring
Last Line:
Nymphs take my life since you despise my song
Author:
Philip Ayres (Absolute)
DMI number:
3120

13. In Tempe's shades the living lyre was strung

First Line:
In Tempe's shades the living lyre was strung
Last Line:
Says harmony itself inhabits here
DMI number:
35378

14. In Albion's isle ere hoary time grew old

First Line:
In Albion's isle ere hoary time grew old
Last Line:
By all regretted and by all admired
DMI number:
33504

15. In antient mountains stands whose friendly shade

First Line:
In antient mountains stands whose friendly shade
Last Line:
By rising conduits thickening to a hell
DMI number:
44373

16. Naked the spring would seem and bare

First Line:
Naked the spring would seem and bare
Last Line:
Did itself to Bacchus dedicate
Author:
Thomas Wood (Absolute)
DMI number:
39266

17. One house just judgement I've decreed to fall

First Line:
One house just judgement I've decreed to fall
Last Line:
And ordered every river to its course
DMI number:
17751

18. See how the sun ascending by degrees

First Line:
See how the sun ascending by degrees
Last Line:
And thank the man who give us leave to play
DMI number:
17811

19. The golden age was first when man yet new

First Line:
The golden age was first when man yet new
Last Line:
And honey sweating through the pores of oak
Author:
John Dryden (Absolute)
DMI number:
9802

20. The spring's now in its infancy the spring

First Line:
The spring's now in its infancy the spring
Last Line:
That she by silence had her freedom lost | Let him to morrow love that never has loved | Let him to morrow that love's joys has proved
DMI number:
8586