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1. A certain free familiar spark

First Line:
A certain free familiar spark
Last Line:
In thee and thy poetic justice
Author:
Richard Owen Cambridge (Absolute)
DMI number:
30539

2. A poet to applaud or boldly blame

First Line:
A poet to applaud or boldly blame
Last Line:
And vice to dark oblivion is betrayed
Author:
Dermot O'Connor (Absolute)
DMI number:
27118

3. A riddle tis as you are pleased to think

First Line:
A riddle tis as you are pleased to think
Last Line:
Find us more Dorsets we can heroes make
DMI number:
6404

4. And dost thou music think to charm

First Line:
And dost thou music think to charm
Last Line:
Let our anger let it cease | I receive her here in peace | Let our anger &c
DMI number:
8947

5. As late I slumbering lay before my sight

First Line:
As late I slumbering lay before my sight
Last Line:
And I remembered all that Cupid taught
Author:
Francis Fawkes (Absolute)
DMI number:
27672

6. Before the radiant sun a glimmering lamp

First Line:
Before the radiant sun a glimmering lamp
Last Line:
There cold salutes but here a lover's kiss
Author:
Wentworth Dillon (Absolute)
DMI number:
10816

7. Bounteous Maecenas royal by descent

First Line:
Bounteous Maecenas royal by descent
Last Line:
I'll soar above the breath of vulgar praise
Author:
Philip Horneck (Confident)
DMI number:
881

8. Boy break thy reeds and split thy useless pen

First Line:
Boy break thy reeds and split thy useless pen
Last Line:
Than idle echoes to my tuneful words
DMI number:
17362

9. Brave Nero's favourite my Julius

First Line:
Brave Nero's favourite my Julius
Last Line:
By the lads whose privilege is to be jolly
DMI number:
42212

10. Brebeuf in well deserving lines

First Line:
Brebeuf in well deserving lines
Last Line:
With him who sings the ass's hide
DMI number:
8929

11. Born for a court and versed in every art

First Line:
Born for a court and versed in every art
Last Line:
I who to sweet content do every good confine
DMI number:
8966

12. But halt my pen and thou my presence quit

First Line:
But halt my pen and thou my presence quit
Last Line:
For trying of Apollo keep their courts
DMI number:
27926

13. Cease sir to conquer or I cease to write

First Line:
Cease sir to conquer or I cease to write
Last Line:
I stop at once admire and hold my tongue
DMI number:
8969

14. Charmed with the lettered lustre of the press

First Line:
Charmed with the lettered lustre of the press
Last Line:
To save unwilling friends in vain is labour tried
DMI number:
25780

15. Clio complained upon a time

First Line:
Clio complained upon a time
Last Line:
Before the eyes of you the sun
DMI number:
9433

16. Curse on the wretch whose rage to be a wit

First Line:
Curse on the wretch whose rage to be a wit
Last Line:
Hammering out paltry lines twelve times twelve hundred
DMI number:
9446

17. Cooper how foolish would that author be

First Line:
Cooper how foolish would that author be
Last Line:
It may a while be thumbed and then forgot
Author:
John Oldmixon (Speculation)
DMI number:
6205

18. Could I Parrhasius' works command

First Line:
Could I Parrhasius' works command
Last Line:
His votaries vows and speeds their prayers
Author:
William Duncombe (Absolute)
DMI number:
25622

19. Cowper how foolish would that author be

First Line:
Cowper how foolish would that author be
Last Line:
It may a while be thumbed and then forgot
DMI number:
8970

20. Damon a mighty author who had long

First Line:
Damon a mighty author who had long
Last Line:
Adieu to Paris then a long adieu
DMI number:
8797

21. Dear Jack of ancient race the son

First Line:
Dear Jack of ancient race the son
Last Line:
And mongst the muses write my name
DMI number:
12887

22. Even I whose merit's so much less than thine

First Line:
Even I whose merit's so much less than thine
Last Line:
My vengeance was in virtue to improve
DMI number:
27918

23. 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

24. Early this morn a time to muses kind

First Line:
Early this morn a time to muses kind
Last Line:
Bade me Clarinda write and that was she
DMI number:
16689

25. Fathers in god whom I revere

First Line:
Fathers in god whom I revere
Last Line:
Ill must it go with their affairs
DMI number:
27925

26. Excursions are inexpiably bad

First Line:
Excursions are inexpiably bad
Last Line:
Fall when he falls and when he rises rise
Author:
Wentworth Dillon (Absolute)
DMI number:
10794

27. Frail state of man thy living lot I deem

First Line:
Frail state of man thy living lot I deem
Last Line:
Now started at thy shame I downwards turn my eyes
DMI number:
10433

28. For God's sake tell me what bold confidence

First Line:
For God's sake tell me what bold confidence
Last Line:
And by strange luck may make a shift to live
DMI number:
43394

29. For what should I my sleeping muse awake

First Line:
For what should I my sleeping muse awake
Last Line:
Twas a good oyster gentlemen adieu
DMI number:
8963

30. From humble themes and unaspiring strains

First Line:
From humble themes and unaspiring strains
Last Line:
And in a blaze of glory reached the skies
DMI number:
14904

31. Give me Homer's godlike lyre

First Line:
Give me Homer's godlike lyre
Last Line:
Rapture calls and I inspire
Author:
Edward Burnaby Greene (Speculation)
DMI number:
31454

32. 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

33. Hail sacred art that canst in colours show

First Line:
Hail sacred art that canst in colours show
Last Line:
A reverence for their past laborious pains
DMI number:
11173

34. Have you been led through the Cumaean cave

First Line:
Have you been led through the Cumaean cave
Last Line:
She makes the obedient ghosts peep trembling through the ground
Author:
Wentworth Dillon (Absolute)
DMI number:
10811

35. How comes it Perrault I would gladly know

First Line:
How comes it Perrault I would gladly know
Last Line:
And then no wonder if they meet no praise
DMI number:
8985

36. How an unusual but strong wind does bear

First Line:
How an unusual but strong wind does bear
Last Line:
Winter's eternal stores of hoarded cold
DMI number:
44664

37. Ho Moeris whither on thy way so fast

First Line:
Ho Moeris whither on thy way so fast
Last Line:
And find a friend at court I'll find a voice
Author:
John Dryden (Absolute)
DMI number:
3791

38. Heroic claims a loftier strain

First Line:
Heroic claims a loftier strain
Last Line:
And strows with lavish hand his opening flowers
Author:
John Dryden (Absolute)
DMI number:
7506

39. How rash is the vow which thy poet hath made

First Line:
How rash is the vow which thy poet hath made
Last Line:
And out did the muses and graces together
DMI number:
35661

40. I first transferred to Rome Sicilian strains

First Line:
I first transferred to Rome Sicilian strains
Last Line:
And sudden night surprised the yet unfinished song
Author:
John Dryden (Absolute)
DMI number:
8682

41. 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

42. In charming infancy's disguise

First Line:
In charming infancy's disguise
Last Line:
The brightness of his mother's eyes
DMI number:
8940

43. In lofty strains said I some mighty thing

First Line:
In lofty strains said I some mighty thing
Last Line:
Or any way or any thing
Author:
John Cooper (Absolute)
DMI number:
41864

44. Incensed the raging prophet thus replies

First Line:
Incensed the raging prophet thus replies
Last Line:
Eurydice resounds along the lengthening shores
Author:
William Pattison (Absolute)
DMI number:
11881

45. In vain great sir keen satire I disown

First Line:
In vain great sir keen satire I disown
Last Line:
But both the poem and the fact are true
DMI number:
8962

46. In vain my muse I bid you hold in vain

First Line:
In vain my muse I bid you hold in vain
Last Line:
For ever now farewell a long adieu
DMI number:
8971

47. Licinius yesterday at leisure

First Line:
Licinius yesterday at leisure
Last Line:
How you provoke her will not spare
DMI number:
8536

48. My sire to business threescore years applied

First Line:
My sire to business threescore years applied
Last Line:
On scrolls over which with so much gain they pored
DMI number:
27909

49. My vault exults a cask to hold

First Line:
My vault exults a cask to hold
Last Line:
The troubled breast and lull our woes
DMI number:
26653

50. My aged father good sir when he died

First Line:
My aged father good sir when he died
Last Line:
No muse I'd ask but what in you I find
Author:
John Morrice (Absolute)
DMI number:
14065

51. My rhyme unforced attends to reasons call

First Line:
My rhyme unforced attends to reasons call
Last Line:
Or take him for a friend to truth
DMI number:
8945

52. My friend Marullus I'm uneasy

First Line:
My friend Marullus I'm uneasy
Last Line:
So dull and wanting more of flame than phlegm
DMI number:
9445

53. I said 'tis true Lucilius' lines were rough

First Line:
I said 'tis true Lucilius' lines were rough
Last Line:
Go boy and in my book these verses write
Author:
John Duncombe (Absolute)
DMI number:
25716

54. I'll sing of heroes sing of kings

First Line:
I'll sing of heroes sing of kings
Last Line:
Love tunes my heart just to my strings
Author:
Abraham Cowley (Absolute)
DMI number:
39221

55. If there be any in this multitude

First Line:
If there be any in this multitude
Last Line:
And there shall be no fault in this my verse
Author:
Thomas Heywood (Absolute)
DMI number:
42443

56. If there be any in this multitude

First Line:
If there be any in this multitude
Last Line:
And there shall be no fault in this verse
Author:
Thomas Heywood (Absolute)
DMI number:
8509

57. If there's a wretch who thinks it is a shame

First Line:
If there's a wretch who thinks it is a shame
Last Line:
And other themes I with disdain refuse
DMI number:
6751

58. If my past writings for my present plead

First Line:
If my past writings for my present plead
Last Line:
Yet will not dare his frailties to defend
DMI number:
27920

59. If nature's curse a lovely form denies

First Line:
If nature's curse a lovely form denies
Last Line:
No face could move no face could ever move
DMI number:
39276

60. If that some painter in a piece should place

First Line:
If that some painter in a piece should place
Last Line:
Will burst or kill them ere they'll reading leave
DMI number:
42213

61. Ill omened birds how luckless was the day

First Line:
Ill omened birds how luckless was the day
Last Line:
Tis time her vanity to disabuse
DMI number:
6787

62. Let me not pass without reward

First Line:
Let me not pass without reward
Last Line:
Are owing to the thirst of praise
Author:
Francis Fawkes (Absolute)
DMI number:
27685

63. Let fragrant flowers his sacred dust perfume

First Line:
Let fragrant flowers his sacred dust perfume
Last Line:
Whose fame is next to Maro's like his tomb
DMI number:
6163

64. Let Pope or Prior in immortal verse

First Line:
Let Pope or Prior in immortal verse
Last Line:
To sing those wars that all the brave admire
DMI number:
10017

65. Maecenas from an ancient race

First Line:
Maecenas from an ancient race
Last Line:
And touch with lofty head the skies
DMI number:
25377

66. Loved by the muses to the wind

First Line:
Loved by the muses to the wind
Last Line:
Divinely new his worthy praise
Author:
John Duncombe (Absolute)
DMI number:
25440

67. Lucilius was the man who bravely bold

First Line:
Lucilius was the man who bravely bold
Last Line:
If clean expression cover not the sense
Author:
John Dryden (Absolute)
DMI number:
7515

68. Mecaenas born a Tuscan prince

First Line:
Mecaenas born a Tuscan prince
Last Line:
Will raise my head above the skies
DMI number:
880

69. Ne doth this man Troy's Wars divide so well

First Line:
Ne doth this man Troy's Wars divide so well
Last Line:
So that ne first nor midst in it I view
DMI number:
44533

70. Not even the hardest of our foes could hear

First Line:
Not even the hardest of our foes could hear
Last Line:
Nor stern Ulysses tell without a tear
Author:
John Dryden (Absolute)
DMI number:
10959

71. O happy wit whose rare and fruitful vein

First Line:
O happy wit whose rare and fruitful vein
Last Line:
Teach me then dear Moliere to rhyme no more
Author:
John Oldmixon (Confident)
DMI number:
8798

72. Nymph of a beauteous mother born

First Line:
Nymph of a beauteous mother born
Last Line:
I will a softer theme pursue
DMI number:
25397

73. No more my muse though satire may prevail

First Line:
No more my muse though satire may prevail
Last Line:
Give over tomorrow we'll begin again
DMI number:
8822

74. Of Alban wine full nine years old

First Line:
Of Alban wine full nine years old
Last Line:
The troubled breast and lull our woes
DMI number:
25628

75. O Phoebus whose unerring darts

First Line:
O Phoebus whose unerring darts
Last Line:
Notes fitted to the Horatian string
Author:
John Duncombe (Absolute)
DMI number:
25620

76. Of all the pens which my poor rhymes molest

First Line:
Of all the pens which my poor rhymes molest
Last Line:
Writes scoundrel verses and then says they're mine
DMI number:
9434

77. Of you my verse if any should enquire

First Line:
Of you my verse if any should enquire
Last Line:
And near to Regnier on Parnassus rose
DMI number:
27910

78. Oh with what art Racine dost thou inspire

First Line:
Oh with what art Racine dost thou inspire
Last Line:
Leave thou to Pradon such a senseless pit
DMI number:
8968

79. Parent of tender love and soft desire

First Line:
Parent of tender love and soft desire
Last Line:
And in his verse the poet ever live
DMI number:
6795

80. Pollio the senate's guide confessed

First Line:
Pollio the senate's guide confessed
Last Line:
With subjects suited to thy lighter strain
Author:
William Duncombe (Absolute)
DMI number:
25521

81. Prithee painter do but hear

First Line:
Prithee painter do but hear
Last Line:
And be the only varnish here
Author:
Francis Willis (Absolute)
DMI number:
39263

82. Rash author tis a vain presumptuous crime

First Line:
Rash author tis a vain presumptuous crime
Last Line:
A sharp but yet a necessary friend
Author:
John Dryden (Absolute) & John Ozell (Speculation) & Sir William Soame (Confident)
DMI number:
6606

83. Say wilt thou Lycidas sweet shepherd swain

First Line:
Say wilt thou Lycidas sweet shepherd swain
Last Line:
Steal the sweet virgin whom I love away
Author:
Francis Fawkes (Absolute)
DMI number:
27676

84. Richelieu in vain the famous Cid decried

First Line:
Richelieu in vain the famous Cid decried
Last Line:
The public did the poet's cause maintain
DMI number:
39955

85. Right when I undertook to prove

First Line:
Right when I undertook to prove
Last Line:
Is no more preached by them than you
DMI number:
27924

86. Should Addison's immortal verse

First Line:
Should Addison's immortal verse
Last Line:
And draw from others faults my praise
Author:
Sir Richard Steele (Confident)
DMI number:
888

87. Since you with skill can touch the tender reed

First Line:
Since you with skill can touch the tender reed
Last Line:
But all his beauty all his prayers were vain
Author:
James Beattie (Absolute)
DMI number:
25922

88. So smooth your numbers friend your verse so sweet

First Line:
So smooth your numbers friend your verse so sweet
Last Line:
And yields the tenderest point of honour wit
Author:
Isaac Watts (Absolute)
DMI number:
15795

89. Smyrna my Cinna's little book has taken

First Line:
Smyrna my Cinna's little book has taken
Last Line:
None but the mob can like Antimachus's strains
DMI number:
8550

90. Still in our ears Andromache complains

First Line:
Still in our ears Andromache complains
Last Line:
For all the world is proud that he was born
DMI number:
13748

91. Suffenus whom you know the witty

First Line:
Suffenus whom you know the witty
Last Line:
But see not our own load behind
Author:
Matthew Prior (Speculation)
DMI number:
4781

92. Some may say I'm in the wrong to blame

First Line:
Some may say I'm in the wrong to blame
Last Line:
And if I dared not &c
DMI number:
39954

93. Strangers this tomb's inscription makes appear

First Line:
Strangers this tomb's inscription makes appear
Last Line:
Kindly survey when young when old they prize
DMI number:
8592

94. Tell them by chance I in my greener age

First Line:
Tell them by chance I in my greener age
Last Line:
The shade he for his labours chose frequent
DMI number:
27921

95. Thanks to the mighty Phidias of our age

First Line:
Thanks to the mighty Phidias of our age
Last Line:
In after ages shall be seen and praised
DMI number:
8946

96. That which we long for with desires great

First Line:
That which we long for with desires great
Last Line:
Even what I wish there's nought I can require
DMI number:
44526

97. Tell me love's envoy prithee do

First Line:
Tell me love's envoy prithee do
Last Line:
I'm dove in all parts but my tongue
Author:
Francis Willis (Absolute)
DMI number:
42586

98. The comic poets of the Grecian stage

First Line:
The comic poets of the Grecian stage
Last Line:
To draw you to our sect we force will use
Author:
John Duncombe (Absolute)
DMI number:
25659

99. The god within us rages in our breast

First Line:
The god within us rages in our breast
Last Line:
And we grow warm whilst his bright heat's expressed
DMI number:
10813

100. The faults of others I enough have shown

First Line:
The faults of others I enough have shown
Last Line:
No matter you are merry hold your tongue
DMI number:
8882