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1. A higher flight and of a happier force

First Line:
A higher flight and of a happier force
Last Line:
And makes the work much easier than it shows
Author:
John Sheffield (Absolute)
DMI number:
10413

2. Ah had thy body lasted as thy name

First Line:
Ah had thy body lasted as thy name
Last Line:
That's great or noble shall together fall
Author:
Bevil Higgons (Absolute)
DMI number:
3817

3. Adieu harmonious Dryden and receive

First Line:
Adieu harmonious Dryden and receive
Last Line:
Worthy the poet's and the patron's name
DMI number:
5697

4. Ah weep now English genius weep

First Line:
Ah weep now English genius weep
Last Line:
Looks brighter from a sullen cloud
DMI number:
5110

5. All thy verse is softer far

First Line:
All thy verse is softer far
Last Line:
All with Venus' girdle bound
Author:
Abraham Cowley (Absolute)
DMI number:
28387

6. Although the cross could not Christ here detain

First Line:
Although the cross could not Christ here detain
Last Line:
This holy cable's of all storms secure
DMI number:
9302

7. As then no wind at all there blew

First Line:
As then no wind at all there blew
Last Line:
My tears discolours so mine ink
Author:
Matthew Roydon (Absolute)
DMI number:
44710

8. As on his death bed gasping Strephon lay

First Line:
As on his death bed gasping Strephon lay
Last Line:
Live not like Strephon but like Strephon die
Author:
Thomas Flatman (Absolute)
DMI number:
5951

9. As when plebeians at a monarch's death

First Line:
As when plebeians at a monarch's death
Last Line:
While nonsense shall have friends and sense have foes
Author:
Sarah Fyge Egerton (Absolute)
DMI number:
5739

10. As when the vestal hearth went out no fire

First Line:
As when the vestal hearth went out no fire
Last Line:
Poets and kings are not born every day
Author:
Jasper Mayne (Absolute)
DMI number:
3983

11. 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

12. 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

13. Beware delighted poets when you sing

First Line:
Beware delighted poets when you sing
Last Line:
Will find a shallow brook
Author:
Sir William Davenant (Confident)
DMI number:
7045

14. Beneath this monument is laid

First Line:
Beneath this monument is laid
Last Line:
In the lamb's glorious and eternal train
DMI number:
43289

15. Called by my grief Melpomene I come

First Line:
Called by my grief Melpomene I come
Last Line:
Cure me by death from deathless sad despair
Author:
Susanna Centlivre (Confident)
DMI number:
5684

16. Cambridge worthy Philip by this verse builds thee an altar

First Line:
Cambridge worthy Philip by this verse builds thee an altar
Last Line:
So be thy holy favour help to my holy fury
DMI number:
49699

17. Cease all my tuneful sisters now restrain

First Line:
Cease all my tuneful sisters now restrain
Last Line:
For nature can no second Dryden give
Author:
Catharine Cockburn [nee Trotter] (Absolute)
DMI number:
5682

18. Celestial muse whose godhead could inspire

First Line:
Celestial muse whose godhead could inspire
Last Line:
Eternal in its beauties and its fame
DMI number:
5743

19. Come all my sisters now in consort join

First Line:
Come all my sisters now in consort join
Last Line:
Unfollowed drove through all his immortal round
Author:
Delarivier Manley (Confident)
DMI number:
5676

20. Dead no tis all mistake he cannot die

First Line:
Dead no tis all mistake he cannot die
Last Line:
Though he died rich yet none can be his heir
DMI number:
5730

21. Could I report great Granvill or repeat

First Line:
Could I report great Granvill or repeat
Last Line:
Our soldier once and once our sacrifice
DMI number:
42962

22. Ere yet ingenuous youth thy steps retire

First Line:
Ere yet ingenuous youth thy steps retire
Last Line:
The muse forbids the virtues man to die
Author:
William Mason (Absolute)
DMI number:
35327

23. Ere yet ingenuous youth thy steps retire

First Line:
Ere yet ingenuous youth thy steps retire
Last Line:
The muse forbids the virtuous man to die
Author:
William Mason (Absolute)
DMI number:
32298

24. Disconsolate Britannia mourning sate

First Line:
Disconsolate Britannia mourning sate
Last Line:
And in elegaic numbers celebrate his fame
Author:
Elizabeth Thomas (Confident)
DMI number:
5733

25. Enshrined oh marble in thy secret breast

First Line:
Enshrined oh marble in thy secret breast
Last Line:
And safely land him on the shore of peace
DMI number:
26716

26. Divers thy death do diversely bemoan

First Line:
Divers thy death do diversely bemoan
Last Line:
As Piramus did on Thisbes breast bewail
Author:
Henry Howard (Absolute)
DMI number:
8744

27. Dryden and dead what echo did I hear

First Line:
Dryden and dead what echo did I hear
Last Line:
Immortal as the glorious god of poetry
DMI number:
5747

28. Farewell too little and too lately known

First Line:
Farewell too little and too lately known
Last Line:
But fate and gloomy night encompass thee around
Author:
John Dryden (Absolute)
DMI number:
3182

29. Even as my hand my pen and paper lays

First Line:
Even as my hand my pen and paper lays
Last Line:
On honorable terms and not with fire
Author:
Walter Davison (Absolute)
DMI number:
49887

30. Even as my hand my pen and paper lays

First Line:
Even as my hand my pen and paper lays
Last Line:
On honourable terms and not with fire
Author:
Walter Davison (Absolute)
DMI number:
49637

31. Farewell oh more than Greece or Rome could boast

First Line:
Farewell oh more than Greece or Rome could boast
Last Line:
And out do all as thou hast all outdone
DMI number:
5742

32. Farewell the genius of the British stage

First Line:
Farewell the genius of the British stage
Last Line:
And clothed with glory you ascend the opening skies
DMI number:
10083

33. Farewell thou chiefest of the sons of fame

First Line:
Farewell thou chiefest of the sons of fame
Last Line:
And life nor fame could make thee more renowned
Author:
Robert Gould (Confident)
DMI number:
5745

34. From Latian fields the mansions of renown

First Line:
From Latian fields the mansions of renown
Last Line:
And still new trophies rise at once to arts and arms
Author:
William Whitehead (Absolute)
DMI number:
27814

35. Greece had a Homer Rome a Virgil lost

First Line:
Greece had a Homer Rome a Virgil lost
Last Line:
Must to their father ocean backward go
DMI number:
5735

36. Hallow my temples let my thoughts be dressed

First Line:
Hallow my temples let my thoughts be dressed
Last Line:
Myriads of stars spring from his falling light
DMI number:
42968

37. Great Dryden's dead and what bold daring muse

First Line:
Great Dryden's dead and what bold daring muse
Last Line:
For what I want in praise my tears shall pay thy hearse
DMI number:
5752

38. He's gone the youth is mounted up on high

First Line:
He's gone the youth is mounted up on high
Last Line:
Gain to himself an everlasting name
DMI number:
8503

39. Hear ye bright muses your own Dryden's dead

First Line:
Hear ye bright muses your own Dryden's dead
Last Line:
She left her garment and to heaven aspired
DMI number:
3528

40. How to thy sacred memory shall I bring

First Line:
How to thy sacred memory shall I bring
Last Line:
Scorning the unthinking crowd thou quitst the stage
Author:
Aphra Behn (Absolute)
DMI number:
3818

41. Hylas the clear day boasts a glorious sun

First Line:
Hylas the clear day boasts a glorious sun
Last Line:
Far as the fame of poetry and Ben
Author:
Lucius Cary (Confident)
DMI number:
3981

42. I am the man whose brisk and gamesome muse

First Line:
I am the man whose brisk and gamesome muse
Last Line:
While every charm the cheerful muse inspires
DMI number:
6694

43. In the rude age when knowledge was not rife

First Line:
In the rude age when knowledge was not rife
Last Line:
Whose cinders yet with envy they do eat
Author:
Henry Howard (Absolute)
DMI number:
8747

44. 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

45. In thy impression of Donne's poems rare

First Line:
In thy impression of Donne's poems rare
Last Line:
He we and thou shall live t'eternity
DMI number:
9096

46. Ill-natured censurer desist for shame

First Line:
Ill-natured censurer desist for shame
Last Line:
An the best part of me shall still remain
DMI number:
43410

47. Immortal Clio thou my breast inspire

First Line:
Immortal Clio thou my breast inspire
Last Line:
And every line will chronicle his name
Author:
Mary Pix [nee Griffith] (Speculation)
DMI number:
5681

48. Is then the summons true does partial fate

First Line:
Is then the summons true does partial fate
Last Line:
But thou shalt live when dead and flourish in the tomb
Author:
Charles Beckingham (Absolute)
DMI number:
10082

49. In yonder grave a druid lies

First Line:
In yonder grave a druid lies
Last Line:
In yonder grave your druid lies
Author:
William Collins (Absolute)
DMI number:
24543

50. Is Dryden dead in whining cantos mourn

First Line:
Is Dryden dead in whining cantos mourn
Last Line:
Shew more of ostentation than of love
DMI number:
5750