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1. A nymph and swain Sheelah and Dermot hight

First Line:
A nymph and swain Sheelah and Dermot hight
Last Line:
Then let us rise and rest our weary bums
Author:
Jonathan Swift (Absolute)
DMI number:
13466

2. A thoughtful druid on the green

First Line:
A thoughtful druid on the green
Last Line:
And darkness takes the place of day
DMI number:
24376

3. Ah my joy you now are in my power

First Line:
Ah my joy you now are in my power
Last Line:
With all my heart I know you will make much of me
DMI number:
43196

4. Ah my love why stayedst thou so

First Line:
Ah my love why stayedst thou so
Last Line:
And all that can a lover bless
DMI number:
42767

5. All by the side of a clear winter fire

First Line:
All by the side of a clear winter fire
Last Line:
Some lazy minion oft enjoys the spoil
Author:
James Beattie (Speculation)
DMI number:
32467

6. A | I love a nymph a lack a day

First Line:
A | I love a nymph a lack a day
Last Line:
May suffer shipwreck in the main
DMI number:
44179

7. Ah Sylvia if I still pursue

First Line:
Ah Sylvia if I still pursue
Last Line:
By constant faith and tender love
DMI number:
43696

8. Alas I love you overwell

First Line:
Alas I love you overwell
Last Line:
And breath in me abide
DMI number:
32141

9. Ah dear Amyntas once a sprightly swain

First Line:
Ah dear Amyntas once a sprightly swain
Last Line:
Tis sin to mourn when such a nymph remains
DMI number:
6382

10. Amoret and Strephon lay

First Line:
Amoret and Strephon lay
Last Line:
For a reward shall all be his
Author:
Samuel Wesley (Absolute)
DMI number:
5623

11. All wet and weary William home returned

First Line:
All wet and weary William home returned
Last Line:
Home hasting I'll thy news from far attend
DMI number:
36320

12. And canst thou leave thy Nancy

First Line:
And canst thou leave thy Nancy
Last Line:
So still conclude me here
Author:
Henry Carey (Absolute)
DMI number:
23688

13. 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

14. As Damon happiest of the sylvan train

First Line:
As Damon happiest of the sylvan train
Last Line:
Since thou art inconstant why should I be true
DMI number:
35736

15. At her fair hands how have I grace entreated

First Line:
At her fair hands how have I grace entreated
Last Line:
Tears sighs prayers fail but true love lasteth ever
Author:
Walter Davison (Absolute)
DMI number:
49632

16. Attend thee go play thee

First Line:
Attend thee go play thee
Last Line:
Make much of thy pillow
DMI number:
49215

17. As young Selinda led her flock

First Line:
As young Selinda led her flock
Last Line:
The heights of love and amity | And all the day &c
Author:
Aphra Behn (Confident)
DMI number:
41845

18. Behind an unfrequented glade

First Line:
Behind an unfrequented glade
Last Line:
And knaves and prudes are six times married
Author:
Matthew Prior (Absolute)
DMI number:
11870

19. Behold the birds in love combined

First Line:
Behold the birds in love combined
Last Line:
I can no more resist | To yonder shade &c
DMI number:
12891

20. Beneath the shadows of a gliding oak

First Line:
Beneath the shadows of a gliding oak
Last Line:
And aid the breathing surface of the year
DMI number:
37682

21. Beneath the shadows of a glimmering oak

First Line:
Beneath the shadows of a glimmering oak
Last Line:
And aid the breathing surface of the year
DMI number:
26621

22. C Well met fair Sylvia on the dewy plain

First Line:
C Well met fair Sylvia on the dewy plain
Last Line:
And go from hence with joys too great to tell
DMI number:
44357

23. Can then my love ever doubt my truth

First Line:
Can then my love ever doubt my truth
Last Line:
But here live and die with you
DMI number:
12781

24. Can you my heart for want of friendship blame

First Line:
Can you my heart for want of friendship blame
Last Line:
Love has a title sure amongst the rest
Author:
Sir Robert Howard (Absolute)
DMI number:
16281

25. Bright Venus in her Paphian grove

First Line:
Bright Venus in her Paphian grove
Last Line:
Pallas and I will both agree
Author:
Robert Lucke (Absolute)
DMI number:
12553

26. Cast my love thine eyes around

First Line:
Cast my love thine eyes around
Last Line:
If her Damon is not near
Author:
Thomas Cooke (Absolute)
DMI number:
23110

27. Charon o Charon

First Line:
Charon o Charon
Last Line:
Cha Till then be wise
DMI number:
44011

28. Close by a stream whose flowery bank might give

First Line:
Close by a stream whose flowery bank might give
Last Line:
And arms my tortured soul to bear my pains
Author:
Sir Carr Scrope (Absolute)
DMI number:
3690

29. Come hither dearest pretty miss

First Line:
Come hither dearest pretty miss
Last Line:
That you would take an ell
Author:
Edward Ward (Absolute)
DMI number:
5389

30. Come hither shepherd's swain

First Line:
Come hither shepherd's swain
Last Line:
With such a one as thee
Author:
Thomas Deloney (Absolute)
DMI number:
4715

31. Come hither shepherd's swayne

First Line:
Come hither shepherd's swayne
Last Line:
With such a one as thee
Author:
Edward de Vere (Absolute)
DMI number:
37339

32. Come live with me and be my love

First Line:
Come live with me and be my love
Last Line:
To live with thee and be thy love
Author:
Sir Walter Ralegh [Raleigh] (Speculation) & Christopher Marlowe (Absolute)
DMI number:
37746

33. Come lovely Phillis sit thee down

First Line:
Come lovely Phillis sit thee down
Last Line:
And now farewell my dear
DMI number:
40080

34. Come gentle Death D Who calls L One that's oppressed

First Line:
Come gentle Death D Who calls L One that's oppressed
Last Line:
To rest with me that am more hot that fire
Author:
Thomas Watson (Absolute)
DMI number:
49792

35. Come gentle herdman sit by me

First Line:
Come gentle herdman sit by me
Last Line:
fly from thy careful head
DMI number:
49581

36. Come gentle herdman sit by me

First Line:
Come gentle herdman sit by me
Last Line:
Fly from thy carefull head
DMI number:
49886

37. D | Dear child you are but young what make you then

First Line:
D | Dear child you are but young what make you then
Last Line:
I must contented be with pleasing dreams | Exeunt Ambo
DMI number:
44364

38. Could you my dear be truly kind

First Line:
Could you my dear be truly kind
Last Line:
Let us to bed dear do do do
DMI number:
10682

39. Cupid I hear thou hast improved

First Line:
Cupid I hear thou hast improved
Last Line:
Than those upon the Rhine
Author:
Sir Charles Sedley (Absolute)
DMI number:
6301

40. Damon dear favourite of the rural throng

First Line:
Damon dear favourite of the rural throng
Last Line:
Home hye with me and take a plain repast
DMI number:
25821

41. Did you not once Lucinda vow

First Line:
Did you not once Lucinda vow
Last Line:
Springs not from wealth nor lands
DMI number:
7059

42. Do not too much aggravate the crime

First Line:
Do not too much aggravate the crime
Last Line:
And indeed all offenders so might plead
DMI number:
16215

43. Faith Sylvia you're unkind of late hard-hearted grown

First Line:
Faith Sylvia you're unkind of late hard-hearted grown
Last Line:
Well if I miss bright star I'll fall thy sacrifice
DMI number:
42653

44. First in these fields I try the sylvan strains

First Line:
First in these fields I try the sylvan strains
Last Line:
And from the Pleiads fruitful showers descend
Author:
Alexander Pope (Absolute)
DMI number:
7031

45. Fair Iris and her swain

First Line:
Fair Iris and her swain
Last Line:
But kiss and do not tell
Author:
John Dryden (Absolute)
DMI number:
23656

46. Gentle herdsman tell to me

First Line:
Gentle herdsman tell to me
Last Line:
And soe faire pilgrim fare thee well
DMI number:
37316

47. Goatherd the music of yon whistling pine

First Line:
Goatherd the music of yon whistling pine
Last Line:
The goat may chance to leap as well as you
DMI number:
3918

48. Hail Clarona clear as morning

First Line:
Hail Clarona clear as morning
Last Line:
With love and musics trembling string
DMI number:
43630

49. Have I then no tears for thee my father

First Line:
Have I then no tears for thee my father
Last Line:
Be nobly wretched but her father happy
Author:
James Thomson (Absolute)
DMI number:
29831

50. Have you not seen the morning sun

First Line:
Have you not seen the morning sun
Last Line:
He'll think me still a maid
DMI number:
23662

51. Hark how the bleating flocks bemoan

First Line:
Hark how the bleating flocks bemoan
Last Line:
How hard it is to bid my dear farewell
DMI number:
18240

52. Has the arrow of Cupid never lodged in your breast

First Line:
Has the arrow of Cupid never lodged in your breast
Last Line:
I speak the plain truth my good lady
Author:
Moses Mendez (Absolute)
DMI number:
23128

53. Hence fond deceiver hence be gone

First Line:
Hence fond deceiver hence be gone
Last Line:
And takes the glad captive by welcome surprize
DMI number:
4531

54. How calm the evening see the falling day

First Line:
How calm the evening see the falling day
Last Line:
And guard the younglins from th' unwholesome air
Author:
William Broome (Absolute)
DMI number:
9836

55. Here where primroses thickest paint the green

First Line:
Here where primroses thickest paint the green
Last Line:
Though they sing well they canna sing like thee
Author:
Allan Ramsay (Absolute)
DMI number:
22718

56. How sad and dismal sound the farewells which

First Line:
How sad and dismal sound the farewells which
Last Line:
Until their gratitude hath made them hoarse
Author:
Sir William Davenant (Absolute)
DMI number:
13257

57. 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

58. How unhappy a lover am I

First Line:
How unhappy a lover am I
Last Line:
For the souls to meet closer above
DMI number:
44075

59. How now shepherd what means that

First Line:
How now shepherd what means that
Last Line:
That love a new love every day
Author:
Richard Johnson (Speculation)
DMI number:
7050

60. In that soft month when Spring's reviving power

First Line:
In that soft month when Spring's reviving power
Last Line:
That stole my young unpractised soul away
DMI number:
41766

61. In secret place this hinder nicht

First Line:
In secret place this hinder nicht
Last Line:
O wow quoth she quhair will ye man | Leil leis me on that gracles gane
Author:
William Dunbar (Absolute)
DMI number:
10919

62. In mine eye he's a most delicate youth

First Line:
In mine eye he's a most delicate youth
Last Line:
Edge on appetite
Author:
John Webster (Absolute) & Thomas Middleton (Absolute)
DMI number:
16204

63. Is this Dametas Melibeus flock

First Line:
Is this Dametas Melibeus flock
Last Line:
Damm the brook lads ye have well-flowed the mead
DMI number:
41833

64. It burneth yet alas my hearts desire

First Line:
It burneth yet alas my hearts desire
Last Line:
Thus hearts be won by love request and moan
Author:
Sir Thomas Wyatt (Absolute)
DMI number:
8836

65. Joyn thy life breathing lips to mine

First Line:
Joyn thy life breathing lips to mine
Last Line:
On hills where precious spices grow
Author:
George Sandys (Absolute)
DMI number:
44653

66. In vain my muse would imitate the strains

First Line:
In vain my muse would imitate the strains
Last Line:
Admire his numbers and repeat his lays
Author:
Elizabeth Rowe [nee Singer] (Absolute)
DMI number:
8385

67. In vain the bashful bard presumes to sing

First Line:
In vain the bashful bard presumes to sing
Last Line:
So sweet the purchase and so sweet the pay
DMI number:
36319

68. In vain thy lawless fires contend with mine

First Line:
In vain thy lawless fires contend with mine
Last Line:
A constant friendship in a tender love
Author:
Mark Akenside (Speculation)
DMI number:
29617

69. It is ill done Semanthe to plead bankrupt

First Line:
It is ill done Semanthe to plead bankrupt
Last Line:
Tis the least miracle that love can do
Author:
Sir John Suckling (Absolute)
DMI number:
16254

70. Jam Prithee Susan what dost muse on

First Line:
Jam Prithee Susan what dost muse on
Last Line:
The shaking of the sheets
DMI number:
44149

71. Live with me and be my love

First Line:
Live with me and be my love
Last Line:
To live with thee and be thy love
Author:
Sir Walter Ralegh [Raleigh] (Speculation) & Christopher Marlowe (Absolute)
DMI number:
37273

72. Love's a foundation that will never decay

First Line:
Love's a foundation that will never decay
Last Line:
Yet oft in ruin doth the builder lay
Author:
John Dover (Absolute)
DMI number:
16295

73. Love's an idle childish passion

First Line:
Love's an idle childish passion
Last Line:
Ask him who's the monarch now
Author:
Henry Baker (Absolute)
DMI number:
23785

74. My Sylvia love demands his due

First Line:
My Sylvia love demands his due
Last Line:
And Sylvia will be kind if you'll be true
DMI number:
6555

75. My mistress whom in heart I loved long

First Line:
My mistress whom in heart I loved long
Last Line:
We'll dance at home the shaking of the sheets
DMI number:
42952

76. My lodging tis on the cold boards

First Line:
My lodging tis on the cold boards
Last Line:
To rowl so far to thee
DMI number:
44299

77. My Blouzelinda is the blithest lass

First Line:
My Blouzelinda is the blithest lass
Last Line:
My summer's shadow and my winter's fire
Author:
John Gay (Absolute)
DMI number:
22694

78. My dearest Psyche why so coy

First Line:
My dearest Psyche why so coy
Last Line:
You'll soon invade the tender part
DMI number:
5202

79. I'm lovely as the rose whose blushing pride

First Line:
I'm lovely as the rose whose blushing pride
Last Line:
And charm all anxious cares and thoughts to rest
DMI number:
10294

80. I see a distant fleet whose towering masts

First Line:
I see a distant fleet whose towering masts
Last Line:
Fond hopes self pleasing loves and gay desires
Author:
William Diaper (Absolute)
DMI number:
36350

81. I sing adventures of an ancient date

First Line:
I sing adventures of an ancient date
Last Line:
And die at last more lasting joys to find
DMI number:
25010

82. I Pray thee Love say whither is this posting

First Line:
I Pray thee Love say whither is this posting
Last Line:
To tell my Mother
DMI number:
44788

83. I love and am beloved again

First Line:
I love and am beloved again
Last Line:
But make it more quickly expire
Author:
William Congreve (Absolute)
DMI number:
4227

84. I would have you to know sir though now you despise

First Line:
I would have you to know sir though now you despise
Last Line:
I should think it might be twenty twelvemonths or so
DMI number:
33539

85. L Come gentle death D Who calls L One

First Line:
L Come gentle death D Who calls L One
Last Line:
To rest with me that am more hot than fire
DMI number:
44130

86. Let fragrant eastern breezes round thee play

First Line:
Let fragrant eastern breezes round thee play
Last Line:
She had been constant then and all my own
Author:
Elizabeth Rowe [nee Singer] (Absolute)
DMI number:
4239

87. Mild from the shower the morning's rosy light

First Line:
Mild from the shower the morning's rosy light
Last Line:
And long lost innocence is found again
Author:
John Logan (Speculation) & Michael Bruce (Speculation)
DMI number:
30154

88. O Cupid God of whining speeches

First Line:
O Cupid God of whining speeches
Last Line:
I feel my breeches full of blood
Author:
Robert Dodsley (Absolute)
DMI number:
21729

89. Of mine own self I do complain

First Line:
Of mine own self I do complain
Last Line:
Love thee more if that I could
Author:
Bartholomew Yong (Absolute)
DMI number:
44879

90. Oh wither shall I turn me

First Line:
Oh wither shall I turn me
Last Line:
Ere your looks sweet looks will leave
Author:
Walter Davison (Absolute)
DMI number:
49751

91. Oh wither shall I turn me

First Line:
Oh wither shall I turn me
Last Line:
Ere your looks sweet looks will leave me
Author:
Walter Davison (Absolute)
DMI number:
49884

92. Oh wither shall I turn me

First Line:
Oh wither shall I turn me
Last Line:
Ere your sweet lookes will leave me
Author:
Walter Davison (Absolute)
DMI number:
49576

93. Oh how does my dear Aeschines oh how

First Line:
Oh how does my dear Aeschines oh how
Last Line:
From a less barbarous foe to tempt a nobler fall
DMI number:
3947

94. Oh I have heard the waves and senseless stones

First Line:
Oh I have heard the waves and senseless stones
Last Line:
Thy remedies are not for my disease
DMI number:
22705

95. Oh love if a god thou wilt be

First Line:
Oh love if a god thou wilt be
Last Line:
And I'll never go a milking more
Author:
Thomas D'Urfey (Absolute)
DMI number:
23772

96. Oh my love how happy am I

First Line:
Oh my love how happy am I
Last Line:
Since hearts are joyned we'll quickly joyn our Hands
DMI number:
43186

97. Otys begin | Since he is gone I'll fetch him to my arms

First Line:
Otys begin | Since he is gone I'll fetch him to my arms
Last Line:
No charm will force unwilling souls to love
Author:
William Diaper (Absolute)
DMI number:
36357

98. One evening the loveliest pair

First Line:
One evening the loveliest pair
Last Line:
And chattered at every kiss
DMI number:
10236

99. One evening the loveliest pair

First Line:
One evening the loveliest pair
Last Line:
But lay myself down in thy room
DMI number:
23041

100. Philomel thus nightly charming

First Line:
Philomel thus nightly charming
Last Line:
Yields a passage to her heart
DMI number:
23144