Poem Genre / Form: Couplet / Poem Theme: Poetry / literature / writing and Sex / relations between the sexes

1. A tale so nobly planned and sweetly told

First Line:: A tale so nobly planned and sweetly told
Last Line:: So may the Miller if you choose proceed
Author:: George Ogle (Absolute)
DMI number:: 18355

2. Accept sweet maid each scene that Shakespeare drew

First Line:: Accept sweet maid each scene that Shakespeare drew
Last Line:: May Zara long live happy with a white one
DMI number:: 33462

3. As the success of authors is uncertain

First Line:: As the success of authors is uncertain
Last Line:: Tis best to marry first then wear the breeches
Author:: David Garrick (Absolute)
DMI number:: 37511

4. As each new year the bellman chooses

First Line:: As each new year the bellman chooses
Last Line:: So oft who're just as often bit
DMI number:: 10147

5. Are you grown lazy or does some disease

First Line:: Are you grown lazy or does some disease
Last Line:: When stretched and yawning in her bed she lies
Author:: William Bowles (Absolute)
DMI number:: 3919

6. As Richie and Pattie sat up very late

First Line:: As Richie and Pattie sat up very late
Last Line:: They stripped and soon finished the poem in bed
DMI number:: 22734

7. As when a lofty pile is raised

First Line:: As when a lofty pile is raised
Last Line:: They'll prove my accusation just
Author:: Jonathan Swift (Absolute)
DMI number:: 2015

8. Be just dear maid an equal passion prove

First Line:: Be just dear maid an equal passion prove
Last Line:: And mine be ever writ and read with yours
DMI number:: 6685

9. Be just dear maid and equal passion prove

First Line:: Be just dear maid and equal passion prove
Last Line:: And mine be ever writ and read with yours
DMI number:: 8055

10. Begin my friend to uncommon things aspire

First Line:: Begin my friend to uncommon things aspire
Last Line:: It would be good to read and to converse with thee
DMI number:: 12687

11. Blush not fair widow if by love inspired

First Line:: Blush not fair widow if by love inspired
Last Line:: I'll love thee still while still di--r--tors cheat
DMI number:: 2883

12. Can indignation so much rage infuse

First Line:: Can indignation so much rage infuse
Last Line:: How like thy poem neither head nor tail
DMI number:: 12005

13. By the butcher's boy on Tuesday night

First Line:: By the butcher's boy on Tuesday night
Last Line:: Your crazy brains and cool your mettle
Author:: Samuel Butler (Speculation)
DMI number:: 8641

14. But where now sings this western nightingale

First Line:: But where now sings this western nightingale
Last Line:: It does suffice that Dunton once was blest
DMI number:: 6874

15. Chaucer who close attended from the ground

First Line:: Chaucer who close attended from the ground
Last Line:: Speak what he will like echo speak the last
Author:: George Ogle (Absolute)
DMI number:: 18379

16. Cinthia may blush that poorly could admit

First Line:: Cinthia may blush that poorly could admit
Last Line:: Without a blush what love bids her indite
DMI number:: 5318

17. Daughter than thy fair mother much more fair

First Line:: Daughter than thy fair mother much more fair
Last Line:: And love reciprocal return to me
Author:: Sir Thomas Hawkins (Absolute)
DMI number:: 42046

18. Couldst thou dull fool uncensured hope to pass

First Line:: Couldst thou dull fool uncensured hope to pass
Last Line:: And may I die if I till then forgive
DMI number:: 2884

19. Dan Chaucer and the wits of old

First Line:: Dan Chaucer and the wits of old
Last Line:: The fair without a blush look on
DMI number:: 17904

20. Dan Petrarch of old it has often been said

First Line:: Dan Petrarch of old it has often been said
Last Line:: And my sonnets alas would gain credit with no man
DMI number:: 31261

21. Divine Thalia charmer of my breast

First Line:: Divine Thalia charmer of my breast
Last Line:: And Phoebus rose and smiled to see the lover blessed
Author:: John Froud (Absolute)
DMI number:: 5979

22. Fair charmer cease nor make your voice's prize

First Line:: Fair charmer cease nor make your voice's prize
Last Line:: The vocal word had drawn the poet too
Author:: Alexander Pope (Absolute)
DMI number:: 33530

23. 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

24. Go love born accents of my dying heart

First Line:: Go love born accents of my dying heart
Last Line:: You can salvation and damnation give
Author:: Sir John Denham (Absolute)
DMI number:: 8648

25. Go said old Lyce senseless lover go

First Line:: Go said old Lyce senseless lover go
Last Line:: And that which most enraged me was 'twas true
Author:: William Walsh (Absolute)
DMI number:: 6668

26. Gods of Castalia and all ye nine

First Line:: Gods of Castalia and all ye nine
Last Line:: Forgive the poet though you damn the verse
DMI number:: 3323

27. Great prince for from this hour I'll call you great

First Line:: Great prince for from this hour I'll call you great
Last Line:: From belly back from haunches and from head
Author:: Isaac Littlebury (Confident)
DMI number:: 39956

28. His moving elegies when Ovid wrote

First Line:: His moving elegies when Ovid wrote
Last Line:: Condemned to absence and her cold disdain
DMI number:: 7006

29. Here take this W--- spread it up and down

First Line:: Here take this W--- spread it up and down
Last Line:: With horns instead of bays the hero crowned
DMI number:: 4442

30. In the wished close of evening's welcome gloom

First Line:: In the wished close of evening's welcome gloom
Last Line:: I was love's muse but he himself the god
Author:: Sarah Fyge Egerton (Absolute)
DMI number:: 5678

31. In these gay thoughts the loves and graces shine

First Line:: In these gay thoughts the loves and graces shine
Last Line:: Still to charm those who charm the world beside
Author:: Alexander Pope (Confident)
DMI number:: 7306

32. 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

33. In Chloe's chamber she and I

First Line:: In Chloe's chamber she and I
Last Line:: I burned my hand to save this bit
Author:: John Bancks [Banks] (Absolute)
DMI number:: 22796

34. In lonely shades distracted with despair

First Line:: In lonely shades distracted with despair
Last Line:: He lays him down breaks his proud heart and dies
Author:: George Granville (Absolute)
DMI number:: 4194

35. It was not that I lost direction

First Line:: It was not that I lost direction
Last Line:: In the brazen book of fame-a
Author:: Martha Sansom [nee Fowke] (Speculation)
DMI number:: 17487

36. Incensed the raging prophet thus replies

First Line:: Incensed the raging prophet thus replies
Last Line:: Eurydice resounds along the lengthening shores
Author:: William Pattison (Absolute)
DMI number:: 11881

37. Inhuman Sacharissa not to love

First Line:: Inhuman Sacharissa not to love
Last Line:: For Waller's muse has Sacharissa's scorn
Author:: Ambrose Philips (Absolute)
DMI number:: 3490

38. Julian in verse to ease thy wants I write

First Line:: Julian in verse to ease thy wants I write
Last Line:: And villain Frank kiss Mazarin no more
Author:: John Wilmot (Speculation) & Anthony Cary [Carey] (Confident)
DMI number:: 4763

39. Like these warm lines which with my passion burned

First Line:: Like these warm lines which with my passion burned
Last Line:: Is that they're merciful and that they love
DMI number:: 18152

40. I sing the nation's praise while here I boast

First Line:: I sing the nation's praise while here I boast
Last Line:: And tell him I was his platonic love
DMI number:: 15325

41. I prithee good folks who have heard all the satire

First Line:: I prithee good folks who have heard all the satire
Last Line:: And let them contend to excel most in dirt
DMI number:: 3363

42. I yield I yield and can no longer stay

First Line:: I yield I yield and can no longer stay
Last Line:: Then I with reason against all I write
Author:: John Sheffield (Absolute)
DMI number:: 4156

43. If Afra's worth were needful to be shown

First Line:: If Afra's worth were needful to be shown
Last Line:: And what thou can not comprehend admire
DMI number:: 4443

44. If there's a wretch who thinks it is a shame

First Line:: If there's a wretch who thinks it is a shame
Last Line:: And other themes I with disdain refuse
DMI number:: 6751

45. If I can guess the devil choke me

First Line:: If I can guess the devil choke me
Last Line:: Tis time to rest your very humble
Author:: Charles Sackville (Absolute) & John Wilmot (Speculation)
DMI number:: 2228

46. Ill omened birds how luckless was the day

First Line:: Ill omened birds how luckless was the day
Last Line:: Tis time her vanity to disabuse
DMI number:: 6787

47. Madam | Accept the softest sweetest strains

First Line:: Madam | Accept the softest sweetest strains
Last Line:: Successful Waller has not sung in vain
Author:: William Pattison (Absolute)
DMI number:: 3108

48. Lycinna scorns my kisses they are chaste

First Line:: Lycinna scorns my kisses they are chaste
Last Line:: Yet new to Venus' sweetly varying joys
Author:: George Ogle (Confident)
DMI number:: 1316

49. Not sentenced wretches when the glad reprieve

First Line:: Not sentenced wretches when the glad reprieve
Last Line:: Forbear to pity and persist to upbraid
DMI number:: 3226

50. O Abelard ill fated youth

First Line:: O Abelard ill fated youth
Last Line:: That decked dear Eloisa's face
Author:: Matthew Prior (Absolute)
DMI number:: 12286

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1. A tale so nobly planned and sweetly told

2. Accept sweet maid each scene that Shakespeare drew

3. As the success of authors is uncertain

4. As each new year the bellman chooses

5. Are you grown lazy or does some disease

6. As Richie and Pattie sat up very late

7. As when a lofty pile is raised

8. Be just dear maid an equal passion prove

9. Be just dear maid and equal passion prove

10. Begin my friend to uncommon things aspire

11. Blush not fair widow if by love inspired

12. Can indignation so much rage infuse

13. By the butcher's boy on Tuesday night

14. But where now sings this western nightingale

15. Chaucer who close attended from the ground

16. Cinthia may blush that poorly could admit

17. Daughter than thy fair mother much more fair

18. Couldst thou dull fool uncensured hope to pass

19. Dan Chaucer and the wits of old

20. Dan Petrarch of old it has often been said

21. Divine Thalia charmer of my breast

22. Fair charmer cease nor make your voice's prize

23. For mighty wars I thought to tune my lute

24. Go love born accents of my dying heart

25. Go said old Lyce senseless lover go

26. Gods of Castalia and all ye nine

27. Great prince for from this hour I'll call you great

28. His moving elegies when Ovid wrote

29. Here take this W--- spread it up and down

30. In the wished close of evening's welcome gloom

31. In these gay thoughts the loves and graces shine

32. Imperious fool think not because you're fair

33. In Chloe's chamber she and I

34. In lonely shades distracted with despair

35. It was not that I lost direction

36. Incensed the raging prophet thus replies

37. Inhuman Sacharissa not to love

38. Julian in verse to ease thy wants I write

39. Like these warm lines which with my passion burned

40. I sing the nation's praise while here I boast

41. I prithee good folks who have heard all the satire

42. I yield I yield and can no longer stay

43. If Afra's worth were needful to be shown

44. If there's a wretch who thinks it is a shame

45. If I can guess the devil choke me

46. Ill omened birds how luckless was the day

47. Madam | Accept the softest sweetest strains

48. Lycinna scorns my kisses they are chaste

49. Not sentenced wretches when the glad reprieve

50. O Abelard ill fated youth