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1. A shepherd boy all in an evening fair

First Line:
A shepherd boy all in an evening fair
Last Line:
To slumbers soft his sorrowing breast invite
Author:
Ambrose Philips (Confident)
DMI number:
6478

2. Ah well a day how long must I endure

First Line:
Ah well a day how long must I endure
Last Line:
Stay simple girl a lover cannot harm
Author:
Ambrose Philips (Absolute)
DMI number:
22697

3. As I to cool me bathed one sultry day

First Line:
As I to cool me bathed one sultry day
Last Line:
Yet often stopped and often turned her eye
Author:
Ambrose Philips (Absolute)
DMI number:
25226

4. As when the sun with his meridian light

First Line:
As when the sun with his meridian light
Last Line:
Removed the lovely object to a dark shade
Author:
Ambrose Philips (Speculation)
DMI number:
29554

5. Attend my soul the early birds inspire

First Line:
Attend my soul the early birds inspire
Last Line:
Shakes off his sleep but shakes not off his sin
Author:
Ambrose Philips (Absolute)
DMI number:
6983

6. Attend my soul the early birds inspire

First Line:
Attend my soul the early birds inspire
Last Line:
Shakes off his sloth but shakes not off his sin
Author:
Ambrose Philips (Absolute)
DMI number:
23367

7. Behold Britannia waves her flag on high

First Line:
Behold Britannia waves her flag on high
Last Line:
Salute thy sails and hail thee into view
Author:
Ambrose Philips (Absolute)
DMI number:
22231

8. Breathe soft ye winds ye waters gently flow

First Line:
Breathe soft ye winds ye waters gently flow
Last Line:
My love in yonder vale in sleep does lie
Author:
Ambrose Philips (Absolute)
DMI number:
25219

9. Bloom of beauty early flower

First Line:
Bloom of beauty early flower
Last Line:
Shall renew him still to woo thee
Author:
Ambrose Philips (Absolute)
DMI number:
22232

10. Beneath the covert of a grove

First Line:
Beneath the covert of a grove
Last Line:
Think on thy own mortality
Author:
Ambrose Philips (Absolute)
DMI number:
6979

11. Can we forget how every creature moaned

First Line:
Can we forget how every creature moaned
Last Line:
And thorns and thistles overspread the fields
Author:
Ambrose Philips (Absolute)
DMI number:
22505

12. Dimply damsel sweetly smiling

First Line:
Dimply damsel sweetly smiling
Last Line:
Tender and averse from killing
Author:
Ambrose Philips (Absolute)
DMI number:
2128

13. From frozen climes and endless tracts of snow

First Line:
From frozen climes and endless tracts of snow
Last Line:
And as he goes in transient vision mourns
Author:
Ambrose Philips (Absolute)
DMI number:
11749

14. From frozen climes and endless tracts of snow

First Line:
From frozen climes and endless tracts of snow
Last Line:
And as he goes the transient vision mourns
Author:
Ambrose Philips (Absolute)
DMI number:
31216

15. From Utrecht's silent walks by winds I send

First Line:
From Utrecht's silent walks by winds I send
Last Line:
And dying finds too late he lived in vain
Author:
Ambrose Philips (Absolute)
DMI number:
11777

16. Hark hark my soul let the early birds inspire

First Line:
Hark hark my soul let the early birds inspire
Last Line:
Shakes off his sleep but shakes not off his sin
Author:
Ambrose Philips (Absolute)
DMI number:
42567

17. How ill the motion with the music suits

First Line:
How ill the motion with the music suits
Last Line:
So Orpheus fiddled and so danced the brutes
Author:
Ambrose Philips (Speculation) & George Jeffreys (Absolute)
DMI number:
8394

18. How still the sea behold how calm the sky

First Line:
How still the sea behold how calm the sky
Last Line:
And see the boys their flocks to shelter drive
Author:
Ambrose Philips (Absolute)
DMI number:
6964

19. In rural strains we first our music try

First Line:
In rural strains we first our music try
Last Line:
And by his tale unenvied praises won
Author:
Ambrose Philips (Absolute)
DMI number:
6963

20. 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

21. Long have the writers of this warlike age

First Line:
Long have the writers of this warlike age
Last Line:
And we resist the poet's will in vain
DMI number:
8451

22. Little charm of placid mien

First Line:
Little charm of placid mien
Last Line:
And the new fledged birds are singing
Author:
Ambrose Philips (Absolute)
DMI number:
1820

23. Little siren of the stage

First Line:
Little siren of the stage
Last Line:
Leave the Britons rough and free
Author:
Ambrose Philips (Absolute)
DMI number:
2345

24. If ever I quit the single life

First Line:
If ever I quit the single life
Last Line:
I give my love I give my life
Author:
Ambrose Philips (Absolute)
DMI number:
33078

25. If we O Dorset quit the city throng

First Line:
If we O Dorset quit the city throng
Last Line:
To slumbers soft his heavy heart invite
Author:
Ambrose Philips (Absolute)
DMI number:
6960

26. Man only from himself can suffer wrong

First Line:
Man only from himself can suffer wrong
Last Line:
And dying finds too late he lived in vain
Author:
Ambrose Philips (Absolute)
DMI number:
30652

27. O Albion mourn and let not the least smile

First Line:
O Albion mourn and let not the least smile
Last Line:
The dark resolves of sullen destiny
DMI number:
42890

28. O Venus beauty of the skies

First Line:
O Venus beauty of the skies
Last Line:
And give me all my heart desires
Author:
Ambrose Philips (Absolute)
DMI number:
688

29. Once Delia slept on easy moss reclined

First Line:
Once Delia slept on easy moss reclined
Last Line:
Condemn me shepherd if I did amiss
Author:
Ambrose Philips (Absolute)
DMI number:
25254

30. Once Delia slept on easy moss reclined

First Line:
Once Delia slept on easy moss reclined
Last Line:
Condemn me shepherds if I did amiss
Author:
Ambrose Philips (Absolute)
DMI number:
25228

31. Patron of verse O Halifax attend

First Line:
Patron of verse O Halifax attend
Last Line:
And listens to the concert of the year
Author:
Ambrose Philips (Absolute)
DMI number:
20624

32. Power over every power supreme

First Line:
Power over every power supreme
Last Line:
And prevent the mother's weeping
Author:
Ambrose Philips (Absolute)
DMI number:
1819

33. So when the sun with his meridian light

First Line:
So when the sun with his meridian light
Last Line:
We view his glory lessened in a shade
Author:
Ambrose Philips (Absolute)
DMI number:
6981

34. So when the sun with his meridian light

First Line:
So when the sun with his meridian light
Last Line:
We view his glory softened by a shade
Author:
Ambrose Philips (Absolute)
DMI number:
29635

35. Soft Venus love's too anxious Queen

First Line:
Soft Venus love's too anxious Queen
Last Line:
Coals that beneath the kettle glow
Author:
Ambrose Philips (Absolute)
DMI number:
25658

36. Sure thou in some ill chosen hour was born

First Line:
Sure thou in some ill chosen hour was born
Last Line:
Yet there is room for peace and me to dwell
DMI number:
22715

37. The mind to virtue is by verse subdued

First Line:
The mind to virtue is by verse subdued
Last Line:
And the muse triumphed where the patriot failed
Author:
Ambrose Philips (Absolute)
DMI number:
24889

38. Then never let me see her more

First Line:
Then never let me see her more
Last Line:
At once my self and Amoret
Author:
Ambrose Philips (Absolute)
DMI number:
6976

39. This place may seem for shepherds leisure made

First Line:
This place may seem for shepherds leisure made
Last Line:
And after dewy pastures bleat in vain
Author:
Ambrose Philips (Absolute)
DMI number:
6479

40. This posture and these tears that heaven might move

First Line:
This posture and these tears that heaven might move
Last Line:
The plaintive waters utter as they flow
Author:
Ambrose Philips (Absolute)
DMI number:
6982

41. Though Britain's hardy troops demand your care

First Line:
Though Britain's hardy troops demand your care
Last Line:
Homeward she flies and flags beneath her freight
Author:
Ambrose Philips (Absolute)
DMI number:
22230

42. Though plunged in ills and exercised in care

First Line:
Though plunged in ills and exercised in care
Last Line:
By unforeseen expedients brings relief
Author:
Ambrose Philips (Absolute)
DMI number:
28296

43. Thus the gay victime with fresh garlands crowned

First Line:
Thus the gay victime with fresh garlands crowned
Last Line:
And dressed in fatal pomp magnificently bleeds
Author:
Ambrose Philips (Absolute)
DMI number:
26949

44. Thy cloudy looks why melting thus in tears

First Line:
Thy cloudy looks why melting thus in tears
Last Line:
And unyoked heifers pacing homeward low
Author:
Ambrose Philips (Absolute)
DMI number:
23155

45. Thy cloudy looks why melting thus in tears

First Line:
Thy cloudy looks why melting thus in tears
Last Line:
And unyoked heifers pacing homewards low
Author:
Ambrose Philips (Absolute)
DMI number:
6961

46. Timely blossom infant fair

First Line:
Timely blossom infant fair
Last Line:
This picture once resembled thee
Author:
Ambrose Philips (Absolute)
DMI number:
2127

47. Trust me dear George could I in verse but show

First Line:
Trust me dear George could I in verse but show
Last Line:
At nothing less in writing than a name
Author:
Ambrose Philips (Absolute)
DMI number:
8386

48. Unhappy Colinet what boots thee now

First Line:
Unhappy Colinet what boots thee now
Last Line:
Alike to Stella and alike to me
Author:
Ambrose Philips (Absolute)
DMI number:
22691

49. Weeping over thy sacred urn

First Line:
Weeping over thy sacred urn
Last Line:
Sweet in every noble mind
Author:
Ambrose Philips (Absolute)
DMI number:
2129

50. When gamesome youth and love's unruly fire

First Line:
When gamesome youth and love's unruly fire
Last Line:
As infants sleep upon their mother's breast
Author:
Ambrose Philips (Absolute)
DMI number:
6984

51. When shepherds flourished in Eliza's reign

First Line:
When shepherds flourished in Eliza's reign
Last Line:
And here thy name at least he said shall live
Author:
Ambrose Philips (Absolute)
DMI number:
33760

52. When shepherds flourished in Eliza's reign

First Line:
When shepherds flourished in Eliza's reign
Last Line:
Down breathless on the guilty harp she fell
Author:
Ambrose Philips (Absolute)
DMI number:
22766

53. When Virgil thought no shame the Doric reed

First Line:
When Virgil thought no shame the Doric reed
Last Line:
Thy name and sweet remembrance shall remain
Author:
Ambrose Philips (Absolute)
DMI number:
6477

54. Why do thy cloudy looks thus melt in tears

First Line:
Why do thy cloudy looks thus melt in tears
Last Line:
And th'unyoked heifers pacing homeward low
Author:
Ambrose Philips (Absolute)
DMI number:
6476

55. Why so coy my lovely maid

First Line:
Why so coy my lovely maid
Last Line:
Me the lily you the rose
Author:
Ambrose Philips (Absolute)
DMI number:
6978