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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. 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

3. 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

4. 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

5. 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

6. 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

7. 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

8. Dimply damsel sweetly smiling

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

9. 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

10. 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

11. 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

12. 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

13. 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:
George Jeffreys (Absolute) & Ambrose Philips (Speculation)
DMI number:
8394

14. 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

15. 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

16. 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

17. 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

18. 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

19. 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

20. 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

21. 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

22. 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

23. 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

24. 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

25. 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

26. 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

27. 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

28. 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

29. 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

30. 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

31. Timely blossom infant fair

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

32. 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

33. 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

34. 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

35. 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

36. 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