Poem Genre / Form: Lyric / Poem Theme: Sex / relations between the sexes and Love / Related People: Not attributed

1. A pox upon this needless scorn

First Line:: A pox upon this needless scorn
Last Line:: Years would be minutes ages hours
Author:: Aphra Behn (Absolute)
DMI number:: 3988

2. Ah tell me my regardless fair

First Line:: Ah tell me my regardless fair
Last Line:: Be kind be gentle to your bleeding slave
DMI number:: 5874

3. Ah blame not me if no despair

First Line:: Ah blame not me if no despair
Last Line:: My looks betray me every hour
Author:: Robert Wolseley (Speculation)
DMI number:: 3867

4. Ah Celia where are now the charms

First Line:: Ah Celia where are now the charms
Last Line:: Or she has not a heart like thine
Author:: William Walsh (Absolute)
DMI number:: 6679

5. Ah fairest Delia when

First Line:: Ah fairest Delia when
Last Line:: Of being unjust and so divinely fair
DMI number:: 5363

6. A woman O curse that there is such a name

First Line:: A woman O curse that there is such a name
Last Line:: To trust him so soon with an arrow
DMI number:: 5762

7. All thoughts of freedom are too late

First Line:: All thoughts of freedom are too late
Last Line:: May last with equal pleasure too
DMI number:: 6169

8. As leaves which from the trees blown down

First Line:: As leaves which from the trees blown down
Last Line:: To make me often die and live
DMI number:: 4016

9. As the snow in vallies lying

First Line:: As the snow in vallies lying
Last Line:: To your unbelieving friends
DMI number:: 4216

10. Ask me no more where Jove bestows

First Line:: Ask me no more where Jove bestows
Last Line:: And in your fragrant bosom dies
Author:: Thomas Carew (Confident)
DMI number:: 436

11. Be gone be gone thou traitor of my breast

First Line:: Be gone be gone thou traitor of my breast
Last Line:: The wrongs I've found from you
Author:: Edward Ward (Confident)
DMI number:: 5386

12. Black girl complain not that I fly

First Line:: Black girl complain not that I fly
Last Line:: And I'll bequeath myself to thee
Author:: Henry King (Absolute)
DMI number:: 5928

13. Being struck by Julia with a ball of snow

First Line:: Being struck by Julia with a ball of snow
Last Line:: Julia alone must do't with equal fire
Author:: Alexander Brome (Confident)
DMI number:: 5800

14. Belinda why do you distrust

First Line:: Belinda why do you distrust
Last Line:: Or slight her charming graces
Author:: Edward Ward (Confident)
DMI number:: 5388

15. Chloe once in face and mind

First Line:: Chloe once in face and mind
Last Line:: A love that's true a heart that's kind
DMI number:: 6207

16. Celia and I the other day

First Line:: Celia and I the other day
Last Line:: I with thee or without thee die
Author:: Matthew Prior (Absolute)
DMI number:: 4186

17. Celia now my heart has broke

First Line:: Celia now my heart has broke
Last Line:: Scares the airy form away
DMI number:: 6596

18. Chloris farewell I now must go

First Line:: Chloris farewell I now must go
Last Line:: But make my constant meals at home
Author:: Edmund Waller (Absolute)
DMI number:: 6642

19. Chloris twill be for either's rest

First Line:: Chloris twill be for either's rest
Last Line:: Tis too much to lose time and you
DMI number:: 6736

20. Come my muse a Venus draw

First Line:: Come my muse a Venus draw
Last Line:: And drew her picture in my heart
Author:: John Hughes (Absolute)
DMI number:: 8358

21. Dear Chloe while thus beyond measure

First Line:: Dear Chloe while thus beyond measure
Last Line:: That decrepit old age cannot freeze
Author:: Matthew Prior (Speculation)
DMI number:: 12440

22. Dear Colin prevent my wan blushes

First Line:: Dear Colin prevent my wan blushes
Last Line:: What I in my breast do confine
Author:: Lady Mary Wortley Montagu [nee Pierrepont] (Confident)
DMI number:: 10987

23. Dear Dorinda weep no more

First Line:: Dear Dorinda weep no more
Last Line:: In which we greater joys may find
DMI number:: 7051

24. Corinna cost me many a prayer

First Line:: Corinna cost me many a prayer
Last Line:: And then with plenty cloy
DMI number:: 3872

25. Cupid once from Venus strayed

First Line:: Cupid once from Venus strayed
Last Line:: Venus never could get him freed
DMI number:: 3544

26. Delia when I ever review

First Line:: Delia when I ever review
Last Line:: Of immortal love possessed
DMI number:: 5069

27. Delia why should I thus be bound

First Line:: Delia why should I thus be bound
Last Line:: Or banish from my breast the boy
DMI number:: 5068

28. Drink to me only with thine eyes

First Line:: Drink to me only with thine eyes
Last Line:: Not of it self but thee
Author:: Benjamin Jonson (Absolute)
DMI number:: 3974

29. Fair Archibella to thine eyes

First Line:: Fair Archibella to thine eyes
Last Line:: That me your martyr you will call
DMI number:: 11217

30. Fairest of thy sex and best

First Line:: Fairest of thy sex and best
Last Line:: But freedom to adore
DMI number:: 4828

31. Forgive bright charmer since it is decreed

First Line:: Forgive bright charmer since it is decreed
Last Line:: Seeks vainly for a flood to cool his scorching pain
DMI number:: 6028

32. Frown not my dear in what can I offend

First Line:: Frown not my dear in what can I offend
Last Line:: And plagues the land with burning heats and sweats
DMI number:: 5058

33. Go tell Amynta gentle swain

First Line:: Go tell Amynta gentle swain
Last Line:: Attends but death to close his eyes
Author:: John Dryden (Absolute)
DMI number:: 4039

34. Go thou gentle whistling wind

First Line:: Go thou gentle whistling wind
Last Line:: Or else quite extinguish mine
Author:: Thomas Carew (Absolute)
DMI number:: 11221

35. Go lovely rose

First Line:: Go lovely rose
Last Line:: That are so wondrous sweet and fair
Author:: Edmund Waller (Absolute)
DMI number:: 5637

36. Go on fair maid persist in your disdain

First Line:: Go on fair maid persist in your disdain
Last Line:: It's able to destroy the stoutest heart
DMI number:: 44644

37. Happy time when first Corinna

First Line:: Happy time when first Corinna
Last Line:: And once again your Strephon bless
DMI number:: 5212

38. Hark hark great love does give the alarms

First Line:: Hark hark great love does give the alarms
Last Line:: And he's the conqueror that has lost the day
DMI number:: 41813

39. Hark my Flora love doth call us

First Line:: Hark my Flora love doth call us
Last Line:: The next conquest shall be thine
Author:: William Cartwright (Absolute)
DMI number:: 7084

40. Here lovely Myra you behold

First Line:: Here lovely Myra you behold
Last Line:: And Cleopatra died forgot
Author:: Thomas Yalden (Absolute)
DMI number:: 6531

41. How does the gift with that fair giver suit

First Line:: How does the gift with that fair giver suit
Last Line:: As true a paradise as ever was lost
Author:: John Hopkins (Confident)
DMI number:: 5871

42. High state and honours to others impart

First Line:: High state and honours to others impart
Last Line:: I'll die I'll die I'll die so give up my game
Author:: John Dryden (Absolute)
DMI number:: 3986

43. How foolish and how vain when young

First Line:: How foolish and how vain when young
Last Line:: 'Twill kindly yield fresh stowage for delight
Author:: Edward Ward (Speculation)
DMI number:: 5433

44. How you oblige me scornful fair

First Line:: How you oblige me scornful fair
Last Line:: And no nymph charming but the kind
DMI number:: 6168

45. How quickly are love's pleasures gone

First Line:: How quickly are love's pleasures gone
Last Line:: As long as all the mighty round of vast eternity
Author:: Thomas Brown (Absolute)
DMI number:: 5769

46. How quickly are love's pleasures gone

First Line:: How quickly are love's pleasures gone
Last Line:: Whose sweets as swift as thought are past
DMI number:: 44367

47. I grant a thousand oaths I swore

First Line:: I grant a thousand oaths I swore
Last Line:: They never had conquered me
DMI number:: 6738

48. I do confess thou art smooth and fair

First Line:: I do confess thou art smooth and fair
Last Line:: Hath brought thee to be loved by none
Author:: Sir Robert Ayton (Speculation)
DMI number:: 4678

49. In vain we dissemble in vain do we trifle

First Line:: In vain we dissemble in vain do we trifle
Last Line:: For beauty and life without love are a cheat
DMI number:: 4475

50. In vain you tell your parting lover

First Line:: In vain you tell your parting lover
Last Line:: Of slighted vows and cold disdain
Author:: Matthew Prior (Absolute)
DMI number:: 4188

51. In vain you with a doubtful heart

First Line:: In vain you with a doubtful heart
Last Line:: The subject the strict union of our hearts
DMI number:: 8556

52. In vain the bashful morning sues

First Line:: In vain the bashful morning sues
Last Line:: And open like the marigold
DMI number:: 5198

53. Let's live my dearest Lesbia and love

First Line:: Let's live my dearest Lesbia and love
Last Line:: And kiss a long eternity away
DMI number:: 3924

54. Let's live my Lesbia while we may

First Line:: Let's live my Lesbia while we may
Last Line:: When our joys are numberless
DMI number:: 44561

55. Love is the land of hope and fear

First Line:: Love is the land of hope and fear
Last Line:: So long I'm sure you're mine
DMI number:: 6134

56. Love thus is pure which is refined

First Line:: Love thus is pure which is refined
Last Line:: Such love endures when youth and beauty's flown
DMI number:: 6823

57. Love wearied with his roving flight

First Line:: Love wearied with his roving flight
Last Line:: All eyes she charms and wounds all hearts
DMI number:: 6569

58. Love bid me hope and I obeyed

First Line:: Love bid me hope and I obeyed
Last Line:: In women mean mistrustful shame
Author:: John Wilmot (Absolute)
DMI number:: 598

59. Must poor lovers still be wooing

First Line:: Must poor lovers still be wooing
Last Line:: With new themes of poetry | Then all the little gods &c
DMI number:: 3996

60. My love and I for kisses played

First Line:: My love and I for kisses played
Last Line:: Give me my head and take your heart again
DMI number:: 6734

61. My greedy love no measure knows

First Line:: My greedy love no measure knows
Last Line:: A mistress fills each eye
Author:: Stephen Clay (Absolute)
DMI number:: 5080

62. I scorn the state of that lover's condition

First Line:: I scorn the state of that lover's condition
Last Line:: And cares not by whether I get her or no
DMI number:: 4671

63. I sighed and I writ

First Line:: I sighed and I writ
Last Line:: They will cry for their bauble again
DMI number:: 6724

64. I sing the nation's praise while here I boast

First Line:: I sing the nation's praise while here I boast
Last Line:: And tell him I was his platonic love
DMI number:: 15325

65. I spend my sad life in sighs and in cries

First Line:: I spend my sad life in sighs and in cries
Last Line:: Learn of trees to embrace of rivers cold rivers to love
DMI number:: 3970

66. I never could admire

First Line:: I never could admire
Last Line:: And Jove resigns his Thunder
DMI number:: 6153

67. If Celia has no secret I

First Line:: If Celia has no secret I
Last Line:: And penetrate each part
DMI number:: 10590

68. If all the world and love were young

First Line:: If all the world and love were young
Last Line:: To live with thee and be thy love
Author:: Sir Walter Ralegh [Raleigh] (Absolute)
DMI number:: 13188

69. If any blessing long desired and grown

First Line:: If any blessing long desired and grown
Last Line:: Can any wish for life more blessed that this
DMI number:: 8755

70. If the remembrance of good deeds can please

First Line:: If the remembrance of good deeds can please
Last Line:: For past devotion at your altars paid
DMI number:: 8746

71. Keep on your mask and hide your eye

First Line:: Keep on your mask and hide your eye
Last Line:: When life is done where shall I go
Author:: William Strode (Confident)
DMI number:: 4491

72. Let love no more your heart inspire

First Line:: Let love no more your heart inspire
Last Line:: To visit two or half a score
Author:: Aphra Behn (Absolute)
DMI number:: 5657

73. Madam for your commands to stay

First Line:: Madam for your commands to stay
Last Line:: Who do their duty and no more
Author:: Sir Charles Sedley (Absolute)
DMI number:: 6390

74. Madam though my hairs are grey

First Line:: Madam though my hairs are grey
Last Line:: Two such colours now can do
DMI number:: 3545

75. Mistake me not I am not of that mind

First Line:: Mistake me not I am not of that mind
Last Line:: And all for truth shall take it
Author:: Alexander Brome (Absolute)
DMI number:: 5592

76. Lucinda by a secret art

First Line:: Lucinda by a secret art
Last Line:: Than ever he found abroad
DMI number:: 3997

77. Lure my fair falcon and thy fellows all

First Line:: Lure my fair falcon and thy fellows all
Last Line:: Ye be my friends and very few else
Author:: Sir Thomas Wyatt (Absolute)
DMI number:: 8818

78. Nay prithee Sylvia be not coy

First Line:: Nay prithee Sylvia be not coy
Last Line:: And only thee dear Sylvia will I prize
DMI number:: 43425

79. Near a stormy river's side

First Line:: Near a stormy river's side
Last Line:: And near the melting sphere expire
DMI number:: 5321

80. Not Celia that I am more just

First Line:: Not Celia that I am more just
Last Line:: Tis easy to be true
DMI number:: 5022

81. No longer boast your healing tides

First Line:: No longer boast your healing tides
Last Line:: But of a fever dies
DMI number:: 6209

82. No more on my knees to a beauty I'll sue

First Line:: No more on my knees to a beauty I'll sue
Last Line:: And age puts an end to our amorous strife
DMI number:: 3971

83. O lovely nymph have pity on your swain

First Line:: O lovely nymph have pity on your swain
Last Line:: By my soul I shall suddenly leave ye
Author:: Edward Ward (Confident)
DMI number:: 5391

84. Oft have I laughed at love's fond pain

First Line:: Oft have I laughed at love's fond pain
Last Line:: To reign and triumph in her eyes
DMI number:: 6514

85. Oh was I placed upon yon hills of snow

First Line:: Oh was I placed upon yon hills of snow
Last Line:: Hang down my head and drooping fade away
DMI number:: 5211

86. Past are the pleasing minutes now

First Line:: Past are the pleasing minutes now
Last Line:: And blest my pleasing nights
DMI number:: 5834

87. Once as methought fortune me kissed

First Line:: Once as methought fortune me kissed
Last Line:: And I content me with my hire
Author:: Sir Thomas Wyatt (Absolute)
DMI number:: 8812

88. Once Lesbia did you say and vouch it true

First Line:: Once Lesbia did you say and vouch it true
Last Line:: Make me desire you more but love you less
DMI number:: 8537

89. Pity fair charmer of my soul those cares

First Line:: Pity fair charmer of my soul those cares
Last Line:: And mourns the joys which he no more must take
DMI number:: 6505

90. Pretty coy modest thing how lovingly

First Line:: Pretty coy modest thing how lovingly
Last Line:: And seems to say yes in saying no
Author:: Nicholas Hookes (Confident)
DMI number:: 5644

91. Prithee send me back my heart

First Line:: Prithee send me back my heart
Last Line:: Would steal it back again
Author:: Samuel Phillips (Speculation)
DMI number:: 5798

92. Pray madam Phillis

First Line:: Pray madam Phillis
Last Line:: Whither take you or leave you
DMI number:: 5200

93. Phillis for shame let us improve

First Line:: Phillis for shame let us improve
Last Line:: Most miserably wise
Author:: Charles Sackville (Absolute)
DMI number:: 22224

94. Phillis let's shun the common fate

First Line:: Phillis let's shun the common fate
Last Line:: In loving and in living well
Author:: Sir Charles Sedley (Absolute)
DMI number:: 44290

95. Reason at last has got the day

First Line:: Reason at last has got the day
Last Line:: For he loves most who thinks he loves no more
DMI number:: 6844

96. See see she wakes Sabina wakes

First Line:: See see she wakes Sabina wakes
Last Line:: How many will her coldness kill
Author:: William Congreve (Absolute)
DMI number:: 4230

97. See see she wakes Sabina wakes

First Line:: See see she wakes Sabina wakes
Last Line:: How many will her coolness kill
Author:: William Congreve (Absolute)
DMI number:: 34884

98. See these two little brooks that slowly creep

First Line:: See these two little brooks that slowly creep
Last Line:: Slakes but his thirst and goes away
Author:: William Cartwright (Absolute)
DMI number:: 4812

99. See how Damon's age appears

First Line:: See how Damon's age appears
Last Line:: Are old and grey as well as he
DMI number:: 4811

100. See madam see your shivering lover lies

First Line:: See madam see your shivering lover lies
Last Line:: These heats and colds of love for ever thus endure
DMI number:: 22064

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1. A pox upon this needless scorn

2. Ah tell me my regardless fair

3. Ah blame not me if no despair

4. Ah Celia where are now the charms

5. Ah fairest Delia when

6. A woman O curse that there is such a name

7. All thoughts of freedom are too late

8. As leaves which from the trees blown down

9. As the snow in vallies lying

10. Ask me no more where Jove bestows

11. Be gone be gone thou traitor of my breast

12. Black girl complain not that I fly

13. Being struck by Julia with a ball of snow

14. Belinda why do you distrust

15. Chloe once in face and mind

16. Celia and I the other day

17. Celia now my heart has broke

18. Chloris farewell I now must go

19. Chloris twill be for either's rest

20. Come my muse a Venus draw

21. Dear Chloe while thus beyond measure

22. Dear Colin prevent my wan blushes

23. Dear Dorinda weep no more

24. Corinna cost me many a prayer

25. Cupid once from Venus strayed

26. Delia when I ever review

27. Delia why should I thus be bound

28. Drink to me only with thine eyes

29. Fair Archibella to thine eyes

30. Fairest of thy sex and best

31. Forgive bright charmer since it is decreed

32. Frown not my dear in what can I offend

33. Go tell Amynta gentle swain

34. Go thou gentle whistling wind

35. Go lovely rose

36. Go on fair maid persist in your disdain

37. Happy time when first Corinna

38. Hark hark great love does give the alarms

39. Hark my Flora love doth call us

40. Here lovely Myra you behold

41. How does the gift with that fair giver suit

42. High state and honours to others impart

43. How foolish and how vain when young

44. How you oblige me scornful fair

45. How quickly are love's pleasures gone

46. How quickly are love's pleasures gone

47. I grant a thousand oaths I swore

48. I do confess thou art smooth and fair

49. In vain we dissemble in vain do we trifle

50. In vain you tell your parting lover

51. In vain you with a doubtful heart

52. In vain the bashful morning sues

53. Let's live my dearest Lesbia and love

54. Let's live my Lesbia while we may

55. Love is the land of hope and fear

56. Love thus is pure which is refined

57. Love wearied with his roving flight

58. Love bid me hope and I obeyed

59. Must poor lovers still be wooing

60. My love and I for kisses played

61. My greedy love no measure knows

62. I scorn the state of that lover's condition

63. I sighed and I writ

64. I sing the nation's praise while here I boast

65. I spend my sad life in sighs and in cries

66. I never could admire

67. If Celia has no secret I

68. If all the world and love were young

69. If any blessing long desired and grown

70. If the remembrance of good deeds can please

71. Keep on your mask and hide your eye

72. Let love no more your heart inspire