Poem Genre / Form: Imitation / translation / paraphrase / Poem Theme: Poetry / literature / writing

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

19. 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

20. As late without the help of sail or oar

First Line:: As late without the help of sail or oar
Last Line:: Your weels all floating still for want of weight
Author:: Nahum Tate (Absolute)
DMI number:: 44660

21. As me no longer dear Sir John

First Line:: As me no longer dear Sir John
Last Line:: Yet know she's worse than woman
Author:: Thomas Brown (Absolute)
DMI number:: 7127

22. As oft Sir Treadwell as we meet

First Line:: As oft Sir Treadwell as we meet
Last Line:: We know Sir you are too too wise
Author:: John Oldham (Absolute)
DMI number:: 28345

23. 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

24. Arms and the man I sing

First Line:: Arms and the man I sing
DMI number:: 10475

25. Around on all at the narration gazed

First Line:: Around on all at the narration gazed
Last Line:: Small store of learned lumber fills my head
Author:: George Ogle (Absolute)
DMI number:: 18361

26. As I have oftentimes and long since too

First Line:: As I have oftentimes and long since too
Last Line:: If thou ever lovst me break not my command
Author:: Alexander Brome (Absolute)
DMI number:: 42203

27. At whose blest birth propitious rays

First Line:: At whose blest birth propitious rays
Last Line:: For lyric verse
Author:: Thomas Creech (Absolute)
DMI number:: 37087

28. B-- though with scraps of others wit

First Line:: B-- though with scraps of others wit
Last Line:: For silence can't like books be bought
DMI number:: 12731

29. Bacchus whither hurriest thou me

First Line:: Bacchus whither hurriest thou me
Last Line:: Thou with a garland crownest thy poet's brow
Author:: Alexander Brome (Absolute)
DMI number:: 42124

30. 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

31. 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

32. 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

33. Blessed with the morals of a former age

First Line:: Blessed with the morals of a former age
Last Line:: To lash the vices but the persons spare
DMI number:: 27694

34. 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

35. 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

36. Boy haste away with careful place

First Line:: Boy haste away with careful place
Last Line:: Provision to a starving muse
Author:: Edward Burnaby Greene (Absolute)
DMI number:: 25768

37. 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

38. 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

39. 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

40. Capricious W- a sonnet needs must have

First Line:: Capricious W- a sonnet needs must have
Last Line:: Tis done count how you will I warrant there's fourteen
Author:: Richard Roderick (Absolute)
DMI number:: 23514

41. By liberal arts would you acquire renown

First Line:: By liberal arts would you acquire renown
Last Line:: And learn whatever the wise Athenian taught
DMI number:: 28173

42. 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

43. 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

44. Come Pradon and you Bonnecorse

First Line:: Come Pradon and you Bonnecorse
Last Line:: To herd with Perrin and Liniere
DMI number:: 8983

45. 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

46. Clio complained upon a time

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

47. Come lyrist tune thy harp and play

First Line:: Come lyrist tune thy harp and play
Last Line:: To grace him in the genial hour
Author:: William Broome (Absolute)
DMI number:: 27343

48. Daughter than thy fair mother much more fair

First Line:: Daughter than thy fair mother much more fair
Last Line:: And love reciprocal return to me
Author:: Sir Thomas Hawkins (Absolute)
DMI number:: 42046

49. 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

50. 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

51. 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

52. Could I Parrhasius' works command

First Line:: Could I Parrhasius' works command
Last Line:: Our ardent vows and speeds our prayers
Author:: William Duncombe (Absolute)
DMI number:: 26652

53. Could witty Rochester return again

First Line:: Could witty Rochester return again
Last Line:: He'd silence Rochester for want of wit
DMI number:: 27959

54. 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

55. 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

56. 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

57. Descend Thalia with a song

First Line:: Descend Thalia with a song
Last Line:: Perithous in three hundred chains
Author:: Sir Richard Fanshawe (Absolute)
DMI number:: 42101

58. Did but kind fate to me impart

First Line:: Did but kind fate to me impart
Last Line:: And looks with pity down on White's
Author:: Soame Jenyns (Absolute)
DMI number:: 25623

59. Envy how darst thou say that I in vain

First Line:: Envy how darst thou say that I in vain
Last Line:: Then my best part will be immortal found
Author:: John Evelyn (Absolute)
DMI number:: 44578

60. 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

61. Dire Hannibal the Roman dread

First Line:: Dire Hannibal the Roman dread
Last Line:: Or snatches first the fragrant bliss
DMI number:: 915

62. Enchanting Sappho's lyric muse

First Line:: Enchanting Sappho's lyric muse
Last Line:: And still in melting notes we hear her sing
Author:: John Duncombe (Absolute)
DMI number:: 27593

63. 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

64. 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

65. Dispose of our satiric strains

First Line:: Dispose of our satiric strains
Last Line:: Our muses rage no more
DMI number:: 10049

66. Dryden in never dying verse

First Line:: Dryden in never dying verse
Last Line:: All other subjects I refuse
DMI number:: 44689

67. 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

68. Excellent poetry whose noble flight

First Line:: Excellent poetry whose noble flight
Last Line:: Read an hic iacet corpus or an o rare Ben
DMI number:: 42097

69. 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

70. From dark oblivion and the silent grave

First Line:: From dark oblivion and the silent grave
Last Line:: And she in kind requital gave him immortality
Author:: Thomas Brown (Absolute)
DMI number:: 7125

71. 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

72. For mighty wars I thought to tune my lute

First Line:: For mighty wars I thought to tune my lute
Last Line:: While in unequal verse I sing my woes
Author:: John Dryden (Absolute)
DMI number:: 4148

73. For gentle Grizel is my heart forlorn

First Line:: For gentle Grizel is my heart forlorn
Last Line:: And stand a pattern to all womankind
DMI number:: 37156

74. 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

75. 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

76. Fool that you are to mix your verse with mine

First Line:: Fool that you are to mix your verse with mine
Last Line:: When you another have which is of wood
DMI number:: 27958

77. 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

78. 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

79. 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

80. God whose revenge for boasts the crew

First Line:: God whose revenge for boasts the crew
Last Line:: Did feasts reduce
Author:: Barten Holyday (Speculation)
DMI number:: 42135

81. 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

82. 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

83. He on whose birth Apollo strongly shone

First Line:: He on whose birth Apollo strongly shone
Last Line:: And that I please if I can please is thine
DMI number:: 23284

84. He on whose birth the lyric queen

First Line:: He on whose birth the lyric queen
Last Line:: If pleasing is thy gift alone
Author:: Francis Atterbury (Absolute)
DMI number:: 25615

85. He on whose birth the lyric queen

First Line:: He on whose birth the lyric queen
Last Line:: O Goddess is thy gift alone
Author:: Francis Atterbury (Absolute)
DMI number:: 15913

86. He spoke and awful bends his sable brows

First Line:: He spoke and awful bends his sable brows
Last Line:: And at the fourth the distant Egae shook
Author:: Alexander Pope (Absolute)
DMI number:: 29676

87. He that in verse would to the world declare

First Line:: He that in verse would to the world declare
Last Line:: New life to him that was a-dying just before
DMI number:: 42087

88. 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

89. Hourly we see some raw pen-feathered thing

First Line:: Hourly we see some raw pen-feathered thing
Last Line:: And for false quantities was whipped at schools
Author:: John Dryden (Absolute) & Persius (Absolute)
DMI number:: 21616

90. 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

91. How anxious are our cares and yet how vain

First Line:: How anxious are our cares and yet how vain
Last Line:: On dice and drink and drabs they spend their afternoon
Author:: John Dryden (Absolute)
DMI number:: 7253

92. 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

93. Here traveller under this cot

First Line:: Here traveller under this cot
Last Line:: The poet's ashes vigorous yet
Author:: Abraham Cowley (Absolute)
DMI number:: 9762

94. 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

95. How shall Voltaire's recording lay

First Line:: How shall Voltaire's recording lay
Last Line:: Are deaf to slaughter's call and blind to plunder's charms
Author:: John Duncombe (Absolute)
DMI number:: 26661

96. 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

97. I am no genius you affirm and why

First Line:: I am no genius you affirm and why
Last Line:: Yours like the dirty giants in Guildhall
DMI number:: 27643

98. 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

99. I first of Romans stooped to rural strains

First Line:: I first of Romans stooped to rural strains
Last Line:: And to prevailing shades the murmuring world resigned
Author:: Wentworth Dillon (Absolute)
DMI number:: 3787

100. 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

Blacklight

Limit your search

Content type

Related People

Poem Theme

Poem Genre / Form

Search Constraints

Search Results

1. A certain free familiar spark

2. A monument on stable base

3. A tale so nobly planned and sweetly told

4. A To town what cause or rather what ill star

5. A planter with a was he

6. A pleasant spring doth rise within my grove

7. A poet to applaud or boldly blame

8. A skillful ear in numbers should preside

9. A riddle tis as you are pleased to think

10. A satyr that comes staring from the woods

11. A two-fold poet through the liquid sky

12. A lowly swain loved a proud nymph in vain

13. Ah Pettius I have done with poetry

14. After a serious and judicious choice

15. A work outlasting brass and higher

16. All other ages since our age excels

17. And art thou shipped friend Doggerel get thee gone

18. And dost thou music think to charm

19. As late I slumbering lay before my sight

20. As late without the help of sail or oar

21. As me no longer dear Sir John

22. As oft Sir Treadwell as we meet

23. Are you grown lazy or does some disease

24. Arms and the man I sing

25. Around on all at the narration gazed

26. As I have oftentimes and long since too

27. At whose blest birth propitious rays

28. B-- though with scraps of others wit

29. Bacchus whither hurriest thou me

30. Be just dear maid an equal passion prove

31. Be just dear maid and equal passion prove

32. Before the radiant sun a glimmering lamp

33. Blessed with the morals of a former age

34. Bounteous Maecenas royal by descent

35. Boy break thy reeds and split thy useless pen

36. Boy haste away with careful place

37. Brave Nero's favourite my Julius

38. Brebeuf in well deserving lines

39. Born for a court and versed in every art

40. Capricious W- a sonnet needs must have

41. By liberal arts would you acquire renown

42. But halt my pen and thou my presence quit

43. Cease sir to conquer or I cease to write

44. Come Pradon and you Bonnecorse

45. Charmed with the lettered lustre of the press

46. Clio complained upon a time

47. Come lyrist tune thy harp and play

48. Daughter than thy fair mother much more fair

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

50. Cooper how foolish would that author be

51. Could I Parrhasius' works command

52. Could I Parrhasius' works command

53. Could witty Rochester return again

54. Cowper how foolish would that author be

55. Damon a mighty author who had long

56. Dear Jack of ancient race the son

57. Descend Thalia with a song

58. Did but kind fate to me impart

59. Envy how darst thou say that I in vain

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

61. Dire Hannibal the Roman dread

62. Enchanting Sappho's lyric muse

63. Enshrined oh marble in thy secret breast

64. Early this morn a time to muses kind

65. Dispose of our satiric strains

66. Dryden in never dying verse

67. Fathers in god whom I revere

68. Excellent poetry whose noble flight

69. Excursions are inexpiably bad

70. From dark oblivion and the silent grave

71. Frail state of man thy living lot I deem

72. For mighty wars I thought to tune my lute