Poem Genre / Form: 3 selected - Blacklight Search Results

Start Over

You searched for: Poem Genre / Form Extract / snippet from longer work Poem Genre / Form Blank verse Poem Genre / Form Couplet

1 - 9 of 9

1. His only blot was this that much provoked

First Line:: His only blot was this that much provoked
Last Line:: Above ourselves our Country should be dear
Author:: James Thomson (Absolute)
DMI number:: 37457

2. Learn hence ye Romans on how sure a base

First Line:: Learn hence ye Romans on how sure a base
Last Line:: Whose first best passion is his country's love
Author:: William Whitehead (Absolute)
DMI number:: 37458

3. Many such ends have fallen on such proud honours

First Line:: Many such ends have fallen on such proud honours
Last Line:: Are overturned as soon as given their places
Author:: George Chapman (Absolute)
DMI number:: 17300

4. Our birth is nothing but our death begun

First Line:: Our birth is nothing but our death begun
Last Line:: As tapers waste that instant they take fire
Author:: Edward Young (Absolute)
DMI number:: 35271

5. Our eyes | See daily presidents hopeful gentlemen

First Line:: Our eyes | See daily presidents hopeful gentlemen
Last Line:: That they sell all even to their old fathers' graves
Author:: George Wilkins (Absolute)
DMI number:: 17329

6. Poverty thou bane of chastity

First Line:: Poverty thou bane of chastity
Last Line:: To find a woman chaste that's poor and fair
Author:: John Webster (Absolute) & Thomas Dekker (Absolute)
DMI number:: 17234

7. There is a deep nick in time's restless wheel

First Line:: There is a deep nick in time's restless wheel
Last Line:: As well as men cast headlong from the sky
Author:: George Chapman (Absolute)
DMI number:: 17301

8. These starts are the convulsions of weak reason

First Line:: These starts are the convulsions of weak reason
Last Line:: And watched by reason into gentleness
Author:: Sir Robert Howard (Absolute)
DMI number:: 17038

9. Thus like a fever that doth shake a man

First Line:: Thus like a fever that doth shake a man
Last Line:: Evil from good I to the worser go
Author:: George Wilkins (Absolute)
DMI number:: 17326