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1. A pleasant spring doth rise within my grove

First Line:
A pleasant spring doth rise within my grove
Last Line:
That none but lovers and the muses know
DMI number:
42112

2. A stately palace built of squared brick

First Line:
A stately palace built of squared brick
Last Line:
Were ruinous and old but painted cunningly
Author:
Edmund Spenser (Absolute)
DMI number:
30758

3. Ah me full sorely is my heart forlorn

First Line:
Ah me full sorely is my heart forlorn
Last Line:
Till reason's morn arise and light them on their way
Author:
William Shenstone (Absolute)
DMI number:
19721

4. Ah Coridon in vain you boast

First Line:
Ah Coridon in vain you boast
Last Line:
Cloris was true and I deserve her shame
Author:
Henry Neville Payne (Confident)
DMI number:
42538

5. Apollo once finding fair Daphne alone

First Line:
Apollo once finding fair Daphne alone
Last Line:
The god had succeeded the nymph had been civil
Author:
Thomas Brown (Absolute)
DMI number:
7138

6. Apollo once finding fair Daphne alone

First Line:
Apollo once finding fair Daphne alone
Last Line:
The had god succeeded the nymph been civil
Author:
Thomas Brown (Absolute)
DMI number:
21877

7. An invasion from Dutchland is all the discourse

First Line:
An invasion from Dutchland is all the discourse
Last Line:
On condition that you may depart with your lives
DMI number:
44330

8. At least withdraw your cruelty

First Line:
At least withdraw your cruelty
Last Line:
And thus till then I end my song
DMI number:
32096

9. At length they came into a larger space

First Line:
At length they came into a larger space
Last Line:
Which having ended after him she flieth swift
Author:
Edmund Spenser (Absolute)
DMI number:
30775

10. As when a weary traveller that strays

First Line:
As when a weary traveller that strays
Last Line:
That on their rusty bits did champ as they were wood
Author:
Edmund Spenser (Absolute)
DMI number:
30753

11. Auspicious health appeared on zephyr's wing

First Line:
Auspicious health appeared on zephyr's wing
Last Line:
Find ease in chains or anguish in a crown
Author:
Sir Samuel Garth (Absolute)
DMI number:
29846

12. Before I sigh my last gasp let me breathe

First Line:
Before I sigh my last gasp let me breathe
Last Line:
To invent and practise this one way to annihilate all three
Author:
John Donne (Absolute)
DMI number:
9131

13. Before I sigh my last gasp let me breathe

First Line:
Before I sigh my last gasp let me breathe
Last Line:
To invent and practise this one way to annihilate thee
Author:
John Donne (Absolute)
DMI number:
5009

14. Blasted with sighs and surrounded with tears

First Line:
Blasted with sighs and surrounded with tears
Last Line:
Who's therefore true because her truth kills me
Author:
John Donne (Absolute)
DMI number:
6708

15. Calm was the evening and clear was the sky

First Line:
Calm was the evening and clear was the sky
Last Line:
Began with a kiss | He burst out with a ha ha ha
Author:
John Dryden (Confident)
DMI number:
42644

16. Come sweet lass

First Line:
Come sweet lass
Last Line:
In love's tormenting cell
DMI number:
11433

17. Dear Jockey's gone to the wood

First Line:
Dear Jockey's gone to the wood
Last Line:
On whom thy Jenny shall smile
DMI number:
42469

18. Ere long they come where that same wicked wight

First Line:
Ere long they come where that same wicked wight
Last Line:
Till he should die his last that is eternally
Author:
Edmund Spenser (Absolute)
DMI number:
30778

19. Eftsoons they heard a most delicious sound

First Line:
Eftsoons they heard a most delicious sound
Last Line:
The gentle warbling wind low answered to all
Author:
Edmund Spenser (Absolute)
DMI number:
30764

20. Each sound too here to languishment inclined

First Line:
Each sound too here to languishment inclined
Last Line:
Wild warbling nature all above the reach of art
Author:
James Thomson (Absolute)
DMI number:
30784

21. Father of Heaven and him by whom

First Line:
Father of Heaven and him by whom
Last Line:
As sin is nothing let it no where be
Author:
John Donne (Absolute)
DMI number:
9271

22. For god's sake hold your tongue and let me love

First Line:
For god's sake hold your tongue and let me love
Last Line:
A pattern of our love
Author:
John Donne (Absolute)
DMI number:
18416

23. For God's sake hold your tongue and let me love

First Line:
For God's sake hold your tongue and let me love
Last Line:
A pattern of your love
Author:
John Donne (Absolute)
DMI number:
6705

24. For he sits all day a bunting

First Line:
For he sits all day a bunting
Last Line:
According to the toll
DMI number:
42506

25. For he sits all day whisking

First Line:
For he sits all day whisking
Last Line:
And all for pure need
DMI number:
42504

26. Go and catch a falling star

First Line:
Go and catch a falling star
Last Line:
False ere I come to two or three
Author:
John Donne (Absolute)
DMI number:
9104

27. Great enemy to it and all the rest

First Line:
Great enemy to it and all the rest
Last Line:
Ne ever pity may relent his malice hard
Author:
Edmund Spenser (Absolute)
DMI number:
30770

28. Good people I pray give ear unto me

First Line:
Good people I pray give ear unto me
Last Line:
And no man ever heard of them since or before | The truth &c
DMI number:
43151

29. Here's a health to the king and a lasting peace

First Line:
Here's a health to the king and a lasting peace
Last Line:
And he that doth this health deny | Down among &c
DMI number:
13270

30. I can love both fair and brown

First Line:
I can love both fair and brown
Last Line:
You shall be true to them who're false to you
Author:
John Donne (Absolute)
DMI number:
6727

31. In the cool shady grove

First Line:
In the cool shady grove
Last Line:
Wandering together
DMI number:
42549

32. In this repose the secrets of your mind

First Line:
In this repose the secrets of your mind
Last Line:
Our vows are perjured and our sighs a jest
Author:
James Miller (Confident)
DMI number:
15426

33. My masters and friends and good people draw near

First Line:
My masters and friends and good people draw near
Last Line:
And kiss not the gallows for cutting a purse | Youth youth &c
DMI number:
42484

34. My friend Bilain as yesterday

First Line:
My friend Bilain as yesterday
Last Line:
I have 'em all they're lasting ware
DMI number:
9441

35. I never did admire

First Line:
I never did admire
Last Line:
Will hazard my undoing
DMI number:
15557

36. I never stooped so low as they

First Line:
I never stooped so low as they
Last Line:
Though I speed not I cannot miss
Author:
John Donne (Absolute)
DMI number:
4311

37. I'll tell thee now dear love what thou shalt do

First Line:
I'll tell thee now dear love what thou shalt do
Last Line:
But to mark when and where the dark eclipses be
Author:
John Donne (Absolute)
DMI number:
9116

38. If the glasses they are empty

First Line:
If the glasses they are empty
Last Line:
We'd the happy hours embrace
DMI number:
20743

39. Let me pour forth

First Line:
Let me pour forth
Last Line:
Who ever sighs most is cruelest and hasts the other's death
Author:
John Donne (Absolute)
DMI number:
9122

40. Mark but this flea and mark in this

First Line:
Mark but this flea and mark in this
Last Line:
Will waste as this flea's death took life from thee
Author:
John Donne (Absolute)
DMI number:
9102

41. Of a rich counsellor I write

First Line:
Of a rich counsellor I write
Last Line:
In plenty peace and pleasure
DMI number:
11688

42. Quhen silver Diane full of beims bricht

First Line:
Quhen silver Diane full of beims bricht
Last Line:
His hie triumphs and loving was the more
Author:
John Bellenden (Absolute)
DMI number:
10833

43. Richmond and Lenox duke without delay

First Line:
Richmond and Lenox duke without delay
Last Line:
Warlike Belfast and noble Hambleton &c
DMI number:
41920

44. Richt as the stern of day began to schyne

First Line:
Richt as the stern of day began to schyne
Last Line:
Weil aucht thou be affeirit of the licht
Author:
William Dunbar (Absolute)
DMI number:
10921

45. Shortly unto the wasteful woods she came

First Line:
Shortly unto the wasteful woods she came
Last Line:
Whilst all her nymphs did like a garland her enclose
Author:
Edmund Spenser (Absolute)
DMI number:
30762

46. She is not the fairest of her name

First Line:
She is not the fairest of her name
Last Line:
Most devotion's shown
DMI number:
20703

47. Since thou my ring mayst go where I ne may

First Line:
Since thou my ring mayst go where I ne may
Last Line:
Do ever seek my fancy to remove
DMI number:
8899

48. So flies the timorous fawn her mother gone

First Line:
So flies the timorous fawn her mother gone
Last Line:
Thy mother at that age did so herself
Author:
Robert Thompson (Confident)
DMI number:
42054

49. Since counterfeit plots has affected this age

First Line:
Since counterfeit plots has affected this age
Last Line:
At Tyburn where the rabble will surely attend
DMI number:
43156

50. Sudden upriseth from her stately place

First Line:
Sudden upriseth from her stately place
Last Line:
And full of Argus' eyes their tails dispredden wide
Author:
Edmund Spenser (Absolute)
DMI number:
30759

51. The graces were play fellows never asunder

First Line:
The graces were play fellows never asunder
Last Line:
By what we all count the beginning of love
DMI number:
38654

52. The plot being thus subtly contrived as you hear

First Line:
The plot being thus subtly contrived as you hear
Last Line:
So prosper all traitors and God save the king | The truth of my story if any one doubt | We have witnesses ready to swear it all out
DMI number:
43152

53. The presbyter has been so active of late

First Line:
The presbyter has been so active of late
Last Line:
And no people can ever be so happy as we
DMI number:
43154

54. This book to you will useless be

First Line:
This book to you will useless be
Last Line:
If you still murder with your eyes
DMI number:
8484

55. There is continual spring and harvest there

First Line:
There is continual spring and harvest there
Last Line:
And their true loves without suspicion tell abroad
Author:
Edmund Spenser (Absolute)
DMI number:
30768

56. Thief of my rhymes o more unpitying thief

First Line:
Thief of my rhymes o more unpitying thief
Last Line:
In B-'s leafless shades to hear a poet chide
DMI number:
37917

57. Those wonderful wise men nicknamed antiquaries

First Line:
Those wonderful wise men nicknamed antiquaries
Last Line:
To some who too often have kept them from ruin
DMI number:
36572

58. Thou great adored thou excellence unknown

First Line:
Thou great adored thou excellence unknown
Last Line:
With whose immensity we're all surrounded
DMI number:
29837

59. Thou porest on Helvicus and studiest in vain

First Line:
Thou porest on Helvicus and studiest in vain
Last Line:
Call Glycera to me for I am one of her swingers
Author:
Thomas Flatman (Absolute)
DMI number:
42118

60. Though Jockey sued me long he met disdain

First Line:
Though Jockey sued me long he met disdain
Last Line:
I am sure she lies
DMI number:
305

61. Thursday in the morn the ides of May

First Line:
Thursday in the morn the ides of May
Last Line:
Let us drink to every English tar
DMI number:
37048

62. Thy judgments lord with equity are crowned

First Line:
Thy judgments lord with equity are crowned
Last Line:
To quench its hottest flames even my dear saviour's blood
DMI number:
24984

63. Time Posthumus goes with full sail

First Line:
Time Posthumus goes with full sail
Last Line:
Ere he puts on his mourning weeds
Author:
Samuel Woodford (Absolute)
DMI number:
42090

64. Tis the year's midnight and it is the day's

First Line:
Tis the year's midnight and it is the day's
Last Line:
Both the year's and the day's deep midnight is
Author:
John Donne (Absolute)
DMI number:
9126

65. To Bacchus we drink

First Line:
To Bacchus we drink
Last Line:
No care shall our thoughts now entangle
DMI number:
42757

66. Waked by the crowd slow from his bench arose

First Line:
Waked by the crowd slow from his bench arose
Last Line:
Sir porter sat him down and turned to sleep again
Author:
James Thomson (Absolute)
DMI number:
30780

67. Was ever man so happy as I sir

First Line:
Was ever man so happy as I sir
Last Line:
Until he comes to her again
Author:
William Hicks (Confident)
DMI number:
42440

68. Was never in Scotland heard nor seen

First Line:
Was never in Scotland heard nor seen
Last Line:
For he durst ding no other | But them that day
Author:
James I of Scotland (Speculation) & James V of Scotland (Speculation) & Allan Ramsay (Speculation)
DMI number:
4601

69. Was never in Scotland heard nor seen

First Line:
Was never in Scotland heard nor seen
Last Line:
Was souple like a docken | bout him that day
Author:
James I of Scotland (Speculation) & James V of Scotland (Speculation) & Allan Ramsay (Speculation)
DMI number:
28102

70. Was never in Scotland heard or seen

First Line:
Was never in Scotland heard or seen
Last Line:
Was souple like a docken | Bout him that day
Author:
James I of Scotland (Speculation) & James V of Scotland (Speculation) & Allan Ramsay (Speculation)
DMI number:
34845

71. Was nevir in Scotland hard nor sene

First Line:
Was nevir in Scotland hard nor sene
Last Line:
For he durst ding nane udder | For feir at Chryst-kirk of the grene that day
Author:
James I of Scotland (Speculation) & James V of Scotland (Speculation)
DMI number:
10828

72. Upon the top of all his lofty crest

First Line:
Upon the top of all his lofty crest
Last Line:
At every little blast that under heaven is blown
Author:
Edmund Spenser (Absolute)
DMI number:
30760

73. When B----t perceived the beautiful dames

First Line:
When B----t perceived the beautiful dames
Last Line:
The lass in gratitude grants him the favour
Author:
Arthur Maynwaring (Speculation)
DMI number:
4928

74. When on his banks majestic Pan he espied

First Line:
When on his banks majestic Pan he espied
Last Line:
They abuse that safety which they ought to enjoy
DMI number:
44592

75. When the joy of all hearts and desire of all eyes

First Line:
When the joy of all hearts and desire of all eyes
Last Line:
But Orange shall reap the fruit of his merit
DMI number:
42376

76. When the joy of all hearts and desire of all eyes

First Line:
When the joy of all hearts and desire of all eyes
Last Line:
But Orange shall reap the reward of his merit
DMI number:
4925

77. Where early Phoebus sheds his milder beams

First Line:
Where early Phoebus sheds his milder beams
Last Line:
Unyoke the toiled steers the weary sun goes down
Author:
Glocester Ridley (Absolute)
DMI number:
22547

78. Who ever thought to see

First Line:
Who ever thought to see
Last Line:
I'll enter a debauch world without end
Author:
Robert Thompson (Confident)
DMI number:
42081

79. Why should the muse in high ambitious verse

First Line:
Why should the muse in high ambitious verse
Last Line:
Nor wants a loving wife his honest joys to crown
DMI number:
36931

80. Ye vicars and curates and lecturers all

First Line:
Ye vicars and curates and lecturers all
Last Line:
If thou had'st been hanged upon the triple tree
DMI number:
7453

81. Ye Catholic statesmen and churchmen rejoice

First Line:
Ye Catholic statesmen and churchmen rejoice
Last Line:
For if this trick fail then beware of their jacket
DMI number:
42331

82. Ye dames of distinction condemned to be wives

First Line:
Ye dames of distinction condemned to be wives
Last Line:
By cupid's physicians in Albemarle street
DMI number:
33422

83. You catholic statesmen and churchmen rejoice

First Line:
You catholic statesmen and churchmen rejoice
Last Line:
For if this trick fail beware of your jacket
DMI number:
6547