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3001. While Corydon with awkward grace

First Line:
While Corydon with awkward grace
Last Line:
Imagines he is no man
DMI number:
24814

3002. While dull Corvinus snores it in the bed

First Line:
While dull Corvinus snores it in the bed
Last Line:
If she's not pleased tis not her husband's fault
DMI number:
8112

3003. While every freeman in the nation

First Line:
While every freeman in the nation
Last Line:
They'll never believe his verse
DMI number:
37675

3004. While expectation fills the panting breast

First Line:
While expectation fills the panting breast
Last Line:
Long be the period of thy next return
DMI number:
28779

3005. While faster than his costive brain indites

First Line:
While faster than his costive brain indites
Last Line:
So may he cease to write and learn to think
Author:
Matthew Prior (Absolute)
DMI number:
12487

3006. While freedom lies bleeding O fatal mishap

First Line:
While freedom lies bleeding O fatal mishap
Last Line:
The K- sits at ease in the lap of his mother
DMI number:
38516

3007. Why dost thou come great censor of the age

First Line:
Why dost thou come great censor of the age
Last Line:
Didst thou come in but to go out again
DMI number:
28343

3008. Why dost thou come great censor of the age

First Line:
Why dost thou come great censor of the age
Last Line:
Dost thou come in but to go out again
DMI number:
13741

3009. Why dost thou in a fever friend declaim

First Line:
Why dost thou in a fever friend declaim
Last Line:
Thou wilt then relieve the oppressor and oppressed
DMI number:
17405

3010. Why dost thou root me up ingrateful hand

First Line:
Why dost thou root me up ingrateful hand
Last Line:
To hang up traitors or preserve a king
Author:
Edward Ward (Speculation)
DMI number:
8013

3011. Why dost thou wish that she may live

First Line:
Why dost thou wish that she may live
Last Line:
That she may live and thou complain
DMI number:
15827

3012. Why envious time will you fly so fast

First Line:
Why envious time will you fly so fast
Last Line:
But always are too fast or too slow
DMI number:
17637

3013. Why envious time will you now fly so fast

First Line:
Why envious time will you now fly so fast
Last Line:
But always are too fast or else too slow
DMI number:
12399

3014. Why how now old grandsir what is it you mean

First Line:
Why how now old grandsir what is it you mean
Last Line:
And prepare against death for the kingdom to come
Author:
Edward Ward (Speculation)
DMI number:
5460

3015. Whoever thou art the lord and master see

First Line:
Whoever thou art the lord and master see
Last Line:
Thou wast my slave thou art or thou shalt be
Author:
George Granville (Absolute)
DMI number:
36369

3016. Whoever thou art to me and sense unknown

First Line:
Whoever thou art to me and sense unknown
Last Line:
Defeats their cure and mocks their great designs
Author:
Sir Richard Blackmore (Speculation)
DMI number:
3586

3017. Whoso these leaves of epigrams turns over

First Line:
Whoso these leaves of epigrams turns over
Last Line:
Anathema unto my book and me
DMI number:
6107

3018. Why all this censure why this flux of wit

First Line:
Why all this censure why this flux of wit
Last Line:
Who merit honour have all honour due
DMI number:
31136

3019. Why art thou David so uncivil

First Line:
Why art thou David so uncivil
Last Line:
Nor pertly dictate to thy betters
DMI number:
31537

3020. Why Celia should the dazzling fire

First Line:
Why Celia should the dazzling fire
Last Line:
Hills dales and woods resound
DMI number:
34731

3021. Why do I love I can't the reason scan

First Line:
Why do I love I can't the reason scan
Last Line:
That I should be undone by love and hate
Author:
Ephelia (Speculation)
DMI number:
5486

3022. Why do the strict-lived Catos of the age

First Line:
Why do the strict-lived Catos of the age
Last Line:
And such lives the gods themselves possess
Author:
William Burnaby (Speculation)
DMI number:
6767

3023. Why do they say the goddess Fortune's blind

First Line:
Why do they say the goddess Fortune's blind
Last Line:
They only fortune need who wicked are
Author:
Charles Cotton (Absolute)
DMI number:
12576

3024. Why do we dote on charming Chloe's face

First Line:
Why do we dote on charming Chloe's face
Last Line:
Which when obtained we lessen and despise
Author:
Edward Ward (Speculation)
DMI number:
8026

3025. Why do you laugh to see my shaven crown

First Line:
Why do you laugh to see my shaven crown
Last Line:
By whom monks monarchs monarchs monks have been
DMI number:
29757

3026. Why do your cheeks such artful colours wear

First Line:
Why do your cheeks such artful colours wear
Last Line:
For naked beauty is the only charm
DMI number:
10546

3027. With rhymes obscene no more the glass pollute

First Line:
With rhymes obscene no more the glass pollute
Last Line:
So shall the diamond shine with heavenly light
DMI number:
27058

3028. With scornful mien and various toss of air

First Line:
With scornful mien and various toss of air
Last Line:
Be what she was and charm mankind once more
Author:
Alexander Pope (Speculation)
DMI number:
9699

3029. With small or no propriety my fair

First Line:
With small or no propriety my fair
Last Line:
Just tell him that you love and all is peace
DMI number:
26729

3030. With sobbing voice upon his death bed sick

First Line:
With sobbing voice upon his death bed sick
Last Line:
Some friend I hope will write here lies another
DMI number:
38668

3031. With such a sapient eye and heavenly mind

First Line:
With such a sapient eye and heavenly mind
Last Line:
He drew two goddesses to finish one
DMI number:
17773

3032. With such an air and mien Mars took the field

First Line:
With such an air and mien Mars took the field
Last Line:
To such an air and mien did Venus yield
DMI number:
24909

3033. With the spouse of Noll Bluff to that same a well-willer

First Line:
With the spouse of Noll Bluff to that same a well-willer
Last Line:
But this ample confession has quite saved your bacon
DMI number:
13077

3034. With thirteen ships to twelve cries B--g

First Line:
With thirteen ships to twelve cries B--g
Last Line:
Twere wrong in B--g to fight
DMI number:
33182

3035. With what strange raptures would my soul be blessed

First Line:
With what strange raptures would my soul be blessed
Last Line:
Who seized it next might do the same by me
Author:
William Walsh (Absolute)
DMI number:
6657

3036. With haughty pride the French proclaimed

First Line:
With haughty pride the French proclaimed
Last Line:
But the Allies give you law at Paris
DMI number:
18086

3037. With her offspring around as she sat at a feast

First Line:
With her offspring around as she sat at a feast
Last Line:
The branches thrive best when the root's under ground
DMI number:
21699

3038. With knowledge wit and eloquence adorned

First Line:
With knowledge wit and eloquence adorned
Last Line:
That works of penance were his sole delight
DMI number:
9437

3039. With meagre face and black forbidding eyes

First Line:
With meagre face and black forbidding eyes
Last Line:
Your self good humoured morning noon or night
DMI number:
1830

3040. Winds catch the sound and on your rosy wings

First Line:
Winds catch the sound and on your rosy wings
Last Line:
Raised by the melody of Powell's tongue
DMI number:
37889

3041. Wisdom's too froward to let any find

First Line:
Wisdom's too froward to let any find
Last Line:
She shakes our courage and disturbs our joys
Author:
Sir Robert Howard (Absolute)
DMI number:
5613

3042. Wisely you speak whoever you are that writ

First Line:
Wisely you speak whoever you are that writ
Last Line:
Both he who got and he who writes the victory
DMI number:
6109

3043. Wit's judgement day is sure at hand

First Line:
Wit's judgement day is sure at hand
Last Line:
Now rises from their Gr-ves
DMI number:
35074

3044. With a warm skeleton so near

First Line:
With a warm skeleton so near
Last Line:
Who is made up of only bone
DMI number:
16701

3045. With awful care approach this sacred place

First Line:
With awful care approach this sacred place
Last Line:
Nought but the numbers Celia eyes have slain
DMI number:
10064

3046. With breasts laid out why should I shambles tempt

First Line:
With breasts laid out why should I shambles tempt
Last Line:
It's held unlawful to buy flesh in lent
DMI number:
5643

3047. With Celia's locks while wanton zephyrs play

First Line:
With Celia's locks while wanton zephyrs play
Last Line:
Why then is Celia cool and I on flame
DMI number:
17631

3048. With envy I thy shining story read

First Line:
With envy I thy shining story read
Last Line:
Let others have the tale and him the song
Author:
John Oldmixon (Speculation)
DMI number:
6253

3049. With eyes of wonder the gay shelves behold

First Line:
With eyes of wonder the gay shelves behold
Last Line:
And on their backs still all their riches wear
DMI number:
17050

3050. Why you so spruce and I so threadbare grown

First Line:
Why you so spruce and I so threadbare grown
Last Line:
You wear your taylor's clothes and I my own
DMI number:
7471

3051. Will and John at a plumber's once happened to stop

First Line:
Will and John at a plumber's once happened to stop
Last Line:
You have replied John for behold it is lead
DMI number:
19513

3052. Will asked his wife consent to go

First Line:
Will asked his wife consent to go
Last Line:
In loudest storms may sleep secure
DMI number:
39143

3053. Will Ch--m resign or continue in place

First Line:
Will Ch--m resign or continue in place
Last Line:
He's already resigned to lord B-
DMI number:
31366

3054. Will has but one poor peeper got

First Line:
Will has but one poor peeper got
Last Line:
See clear to take the pence
DMI number:
25189

3055. Will in a wilful humour needs would wed

First Line:
Will in a wilful humour needs would wed
Last Line:
I hope his stock may serve to graft upon
Author:
Henry Parrot (Confident)
DMI number:
12594

3056. Will thou dost much mistake the doctor's parts

First Line:
Will thou dost much mistake the doctor's parts
Last Line:
But prattles like himself and that's a f----l
Author:
Sir Richard Blackmore (Speculation)
DMI number:
3607

3057. Will's horses with Elijah's may compare

First Line:
Will's horses with Elijah's may compare
Last Line:
They must be like the prophet's made of fire
DMI number:
17048

3058. Will's steeds have qualities unlike his wife's

First Line:
Will's steeds have qualities unlike his wife's
Last Line:
Deserves her chaise much less than they their oats
DMI number:
17047

3059. Why should we wonder that in old records

First Line:
Why should we wonder that in old records
Last Line:
A heavy mule is neither horse nor ass
DMI number:
13017

3060. Why so much pains that like a lasting brand

First Line:
Why so much pains that like a lasting brand
Last Line:
Fear not my writings blot it from thy own
DMI number:
9435

3061. Why will you make us coolly think

First Line:
Why will you make us coolly think
Last Line:
If you would govern we must drink
DMI number:
24791

3062. Why then that blush allay that needless fear

First Line:
Why then that blush allay that needless fear
Last Line:
Shew them thy face and that will guard the rest
DMI number:
16787

3063. Why laughs the wine with which this glass is crowned

First Line:
Why laughs the wine with which this glass is crowned
Last Line:
Her name the glass her form my heart inspires
Author:
William Congreve (Absolute)
DMI number:
4281

3064. Why like a tyrant wilt thou reign

First Line:
Why like a tyrant wilt thou reign
Last Line:
To hate myself and burn for thee
Author:
Robert Nugent (Absolute)
DMI number:
23503

3065. Why lived Calliope so long a maid

First Line:
Why lived Calliope so long a maid
Last Line:
Because she had no dowry to be paid
DMI number:
16951

3066. Why must the footman to his lady's pew

First Line:
Why must the footman to his lady's pew
Last Line:
May rise from fashions void of common sense
DMI number:
38377

3067. Why Mycon dost thou wish a friend to see

First Line:
Why Mycon dost thou wish a friend to see
Last Line:
When well you know a friend you cannot be
DMI number:
12874

3068. Why on St David's day do Welshmen seek

First Line:
Why on St David's day do Welshmen seek
Last Line:
But how is it dulce when you for it stink
DMI number:
5190

3069. Why shine these lights these chariots roll so brisk

First Line:
Why shine these lights these chariots roll so brisk
Last Line:
What makes this dreadful din a game at whist
DMI number:
24891

3070. With what you see pray sirs make free

First Line:
With what you see pray sirs make free
Last Line:
There metal of another kind
DMI number:
3082

3071. With you dear Tom I'd often spend the day

First Line:
With you dear Tom I'd often spend the day
Last Line:
But twenty not to see you will never do
DMI number:
33025

3072. Within a fleece of silent waters drowned

First Line:
Within a fleece of silent waters drowned
Last Line:
My last shall give me back to life again
Author:
William Browne (Absolute)
DMI number:
5761

3073. Within this little urn the bones remain

First Line:
Within this little urn the bones remain
Last Line:
Of him whom all the world could not contain
Author:
John Morrice (Absolute)
DMI number:
14302

3074. Without the pomp from ages handed down

First Line:
Without the pomp from ages handed down
Last Line:
Posterity shall boast to follow you
DMI number:
28755

3075. Women are books and men the readers be

First Line:
Women are books and men the readers be
Last Line:
An almanack to change her every year
DMI number:
12403

3076. Women mysterious are and when we take

First Line:
Women mysterious are and when we take
Last Line:
Though but one gains the smock they both gain love
DMI number:
6040

3077. Women to cards may be compared we play

First Line:
Women to cards may be compared we play
Last Line:
Who cuts and shuffles with the dirty leaving
Author:
George Granville (Absolute)
DMI number:
24646

3078. Women to cards may be compared we play

First Line:
Women to cards may be compared we play
Last Line:
Who cuts or shuffles with our dirty leaving
Author:
George Granville (Absolute)
DMI number:
12275

3079. Wonder not friend that Tutchin bawls so loud

First Line:
Wonder not friend that Tutchin bawls so loud
Last Line:
That empty vessels give the greatest sound
DMI number:
5316

3080. Wonder not Rufus that thy fancied charms

First Line:
Wonder not Rufus that thy fancied charms
Last Line:
Or wonder not the ladies take offense
DMI number:
16938

3081. Wonder or wonder not it is all one

First Line:
Wonder or wonder not it is all one
Last Line:
They were by no means fit for such a stone
DMI number:
6043

3082. Wonders to tell how many days

First Line:
Wonders to tell how many days
Last Line:
Though most it for a fable take
Author:
Philemon Holland (Absolute)
DMI number:
42013

3083. Wondrous your art this new play is shewn

First Line:
Wondrous your art this new play is shewn
Last Line:
Their wits are silent and their soldiers fear
DMI number:
6071

3084. Word valiant wight thou great he shrew

First Line:
Word valiant wight thou great he shrew
Last Line:
Thou art no man's foe or friend
DMI number:
30574

3085. Worth should determine every man his due

First Line:
Worth should determine every man his due
Last Line:
Instead of hempen ones looped round the neck
DMI number:
36888

3086. Yes thou mayst apoplexies cure

First Line:
Yes thou mayst apoplexies cure
Last Line:
That Bourbon's spring inspires like that of Hippocrene
DMI number:
8944

3087. Yes Wilkes like Cato honour's test has stood

First Line:
Yes Wilkes like Cato honour's test has stood
Last Line:
Forbid oh heaven he share a Cato's fate
DMI number:
32185

3088. Yes yes you may rail at the pope as you please

First Line:
Yes yes you may rail at the pope as you please
Last Line:
That the nearest the church the farthest from god
Author:
Myles Cooper (Absolute)
DMI number:
26630

3089. Ye youthful fair no longer boast your charms

First Line:
Ye youthful fair no longer boast your charms
Last Line:
The injuries of sixty years
DMI number:
16118

3090. Yes beauty with a bloodless conquest finds

First Line:
Yes beauty with a bloodless conquest finds
Last Line:
And when they weep in pearls dissolved he dies
Author:
Edmund Waller (Speculation) & Nathaniel Lee (Absolute)
DMI number:
5499

3091. Yes Chloris I did so refine my love

First Line:
Yes Chloris I did so refine my love
Last Line:
And then as flesh prevailed my love decreased
DMI number:
6810

3092. Yes every poet is a fool

First Line:
Yes every poet is a fool
Last Line:
Prove every fool to be a poet
Author:
Matthew Prior (Absolute)
DMI number:
13099

3093. Yes finely housed these Lares are

First Line:
Yes finely housed these Lares are
Last Line:
Then might the Lares laugh and sing
DMI number:
35166

3094. Yes I have said an Aesculapian sot

First Line:
Yes I have said an Aesculapian sot
Last Line:
A quack you are but no good architect
DMI number:
8982

3095. Yes I submit my lord you've gained your end

First Line:
Yes I submit my lord you've gained your end
Last Line:
Respect adore you everything but love
DMI number:
33026

3096. Ye little wits that gleamed awhile

First Line:
Ye little wits that gleamed awhile
Last Line:
And must to earth return
Author:
Alexander Pope (Speculation)
DMI number:
2763

3097. Ye little wits that gleamed awhile

First Line:
Ye little wits that gleamed awhile
Last Line:
And shall to earth return
Author:
Alexander Pope (Speculation)
DMI number:
30621

3098. Ye nymphs be confident that lover lies

First Line:
Ye nymphs be confident that lover lies
Last Line:
Whose tongue declares his love before his eyes
DMI number:
26916

3099. Ye nymphs of Scarborough if as you stray

First Line:
Ye nymphs of Scarborough if as you stray
Last Line:
Tell her the rover lodges in my heart
DMI number:
12127

3100. Ye old Yorkshire clothes and ye gay Norwich stuffs

First Line:
Ye old Yorkshire clothes and ye gay Norwich stuffs
Last Line:
For Manchester velvet's the dress of the court
DMI number:
37943