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1. A country clown called Hodge went up to view

First Line:
A country clown called Hodge went up to view
Last Line:
His body fell out fled his frighted soul
Author:
Andrew Marvell (Speculation)
DMI number:
3638

2. Accept this humble strain most noble lord

First Line:
Accept this humble strain most noble lord
Last Line:
You'll smile my lord an aldermanic muse
DMI number:
26971

3. After great Nassau taught this nation war

First Line:
After great Nassau taught this nation war
Last Line:
To Britain that we choose him for our own
DMI number:
10632

4. Although no brandished cherubins are here

First Line:
Although no brandished cherubins are here
Last Line:
When an heroic is a georgic too
DMI number:
4539

5. And thou great father of the British floods

First Line:
And thou great father of the British floods
Last Line:
And on his willows hung each muse's lyre
Author:
Alexander Pope (Absolute)
DMI number:
28304

6. Amelia beauteous princess deign to view

First Line:
Amelia beauteous princess deign to view
Last Line:
The task to abler poets I resign
Author:
Mary Chandler (Absolute)
DMI number:
18289

7. As off the sea the cheerful eastern gales

First Line:
As off the sea the cheerful eastern gales
Last Line:
Till sense to dotage life to death gave way
DMI number:
20711

8. Caesar renowned in science as in war

First Line:
Caesar renowned in science as in war
Last Line:
But last of all resign thy Julian year
Author:
Elizabeth Tollet (Absolute)
DMI number:
36433

9. But neither Median groves whose happy soil

First Line:
But neither Median groves whose happy soil
Last Line:
And your just praise in lasting numbers sing
Author:
Knightly Chetwood (Absolute)
DMI number:
3708

10. Ere gins were known when arrows showered the field

First Line:
Ere gins were known when arrows showered the field
Last Line:
May say I'm not the last deserves the bays
DMI number:
24656

11. Dunnotter's ruined pride and falling towers

First Line:
Dunnotter's ruined pride and falling towers
Last Line:
And bloom when time and nature are no more
DMI number:
41791

12. Far in that glade where the delighted sight

First Line:
Far in that glade where the delighted sight
Last Line:
Nor poets fancy him more fortunate
DMI number:
8277

13. From care from noise from every bustle free

First Line:
From care from noise from every bustle free
Last Line:
I'd weave awhile my thoughts of being great
Author:
John Chetwood Eustace (Speculation)
DMI number:
21583

14. Forgive ye nereids if I sing no more

First Line:
Forgive ye nereids if I sing no more
Last Line:
And Wyndham be the theme when next the dryads meet
Author:
William Diaper (Absolute)
DMI number:
30690

15. Four clerks of Oxford doctors two and two

First Line:
Four clerks of Oxford doctors two and two
Last Line:
As Raleigh from his voyage and no more
Author:
Richard Corbett (Absolute)
DMI number:
7069

16. From this sweet place to you I write

First Line:
From this sweet place to you I write
Last Line:
Cease cease my muse thy cheerful strains
DMI number:
36399

17. From where the Stroud smooth stream serenely glides

First Line:
From where the Stroud smooth stream serenely glides
Last Line:
Weep over its ruins at its follies laugh
Author:
Sneyd Davies (Absolute)
DMI number:
23416

18. Happy are you whom Quintock overlooks

First Line:
Happy are you whom Quintock overlooks
Last Line:
For though the world be burnt this never will be Brent
Author:
William Diaper (Absolute)
DMI number:
15645

19. Hail sacred peace hail long expected days

First Line:
Hail sacred peace hail long expected days
Last Line:
And gasping furies thirst for blood in vain
Author:
Alexander Pope (Absolute)
DMI number:
28317

20. Here as old bards have sung Diana strayed

First Line:
Here as old bards have sung Diana strayed
Last Line:
Then foaming pour along and rush into the Thames
Author:
Alexander Pope (Absolute)
DMI number:
28517

21. Houses churches mixed together

First Line:
Houses churches mixed together
Last Line:
This is London how d'ye like it
Author:
John Bancks [Banks] (Absolute)
DMI number:
30712

22. How sweetly opening with the blushing morn

First Line:
How sweetly opening with the blushing morn
Last Line:
Smiles by reflected beams with double light
DMI number:
22940

23. How wondrous are thy works O God most high

First Line:
How wondrous are thy works O God most high
Last Line:
While with delight and wonder mortals gaze
DMI number:
29824

24. Hythe's sweets I've sung its pastures and its flocks

First Line:
Hythe's sweets I've sung its pastures and its flocks
Last Line:
Their vows are vapours and their words are wind
DMI number:
24687

25. In that sweet month when genial heat grows warm

First Line:
In that sweet month when genial heat grows warm
Last Line:
Contentment and good nature dwells in Hythe
DMI number:
24660

26. Is this the place where late in tonfile yew

First Line:
Is this the place where late in tonfile yew
Last Line:
They lived thrice happy in their want of taste
DMI number:
33240

27. Its torrent has no other source

First Line:
Its torrent has no other source
Last Line:
And charge the cruel charmer with my death
Author:
Aphra Behn (Absolute)
DMI number:
23319

28. Look how the country hobbs with wonder flock

First Line:
Look how the country hobbs with wonder flock
Last Line:
Cut my cocks comb if ever to heaven you get
DMI number:
5982

29. Let the gay world in noisy mirth employ

First Line:
Let the gay world in noisy mirth employ
Last Line:
And makes the wealth of all the world our own
DMI number:
17858

30. Life is a journey from the womb

First Line:
Life is a journey from the womb
Last Line:
And kings with peasants rest in peace
DMI number:
33138

31. Light thou bright efflux from the ethereal world

First Line:
Light thou bright efflux from the ethereal world
Last Line:
And all the horrors of the night confound
DMI number:
15160

32. If friendship justly claims a seat in rhyme

First Line:
If friendship justly claims a seat in rhyme
Last Line:
Soft seated in Elysian groves of peace
DMI number:
23550

33. If hills like Haemus can delight afford

First Line:
If hills like Haemus can delight afford
Last Line:
The lawyer's fortune's love in a hollow tree
DMI number:
11751

34. Ladies whose dress wit sprightliness and air

First Line:
Ladies whose dress wit sprightliness and air
Last Line:
If the famed painter Bunyan had been there
DMI number:
31385

35. Midst flowery meads and Avon's winding floods

First Line:
Midst flowery meads and Avon's winding floods
Last Line:
And Bath possess the riches of the land
Author:
Richard Graves (Absolute)
DMI number:
32567

36. On a huge cliff whose lofty summit stands

First Line:
On a huge cliff whose lofty summit stands
Last Line:
And gloomed with earth's dull scene desist to sing
DMI number:
11748

37. On closing flowers when genial gales diffuse

First Line:
On closing flowers when genial gales diffuse
Last Line:
Here deigns to linger ere she leave the land
Author:
Thomas Warton (Absolute)
DMI number:
24533

38. Panting and breathless from the vale below

First Line:
Panting and breathless from the vale below
Last Line:
And fills the observer with a sacred dread
DMI number:
15649

39. Parret whose artless windings lead

First Line:
Parret whose artless windings lead
Last Line:
Is gone whilst we pronounce it fair
DMI number:
33637

40. Poets who mean to soar no common height

First Line:
Poets who mean to soar no common height
Last Line:
He loved his native country and his friends
Author:
William Hay (Absolute)
DMI number:
38232

41. Resolving Scarborough thy fair hills to see

First Line:
Resolving Scarborough thy fair hills to see
Last Line:
And half Rome's nobles in her shades appeared
Author:
Edward Cave (Speculation)
DMI number:
11717

42. Restrain thine anger and to strike be slow

First Line:
Restrain thine anger and to strike be slow
Last Line:
And murder issue from a hasty blow
DMI number:
30328

43. Silent nymph with curious eye

First Line:
Silent nymph with curious eye
Last Line:
Within the groves at Grongar Hill
Author:
John Dyer (Absolute)
DMI number:
35237

44. Silent nymph with curious eye

First Line:
Silent nymph with curious eye
Last Line:
Within the groves of Grongar Hill
Author:
John Dyer (Absolute)
DMI number:
12683

45. Shall Cooper's Hill majestic rise in rhyme

First Line:
Shall Cooper's Hill majestic rise in rhyme
Last Line:
And greater blessings from his lips receive
Author:
James Ward (Absolute)
DMI number:
7432

46. Shall no sublimer muse thy mountain grace

First Line:
Shall no sublimer muse thy mountain grace
Last Line:
Both pleased to yield to Winchester and thee
DMI number:
36813

47. Since every mountain where the muses come

First Line:
Since every mountain where the muses come
Last Line:
Which was base metal and which standard wit
Author:
Francis Manning (Absolute)
DMI number:
5987

48. Since I have wandered through the pleasing scenes

First Line:
Since I have wandered through the pleasing scenes
Last Line:
Yet sure no virtuous man would wish him less
DMI number:
17794

49. Sing muse with what new arts on Kentish plains

First Line:
Sing muse with what new arts on Kentish plains
Last Line:
The virgin mine may read and parents hear
DMI number:
10164

50. St James's groves are famed in Waller's lays

First Line:
St James's groves are famed in Waller's lays
Last Line:
Remote from envy and unknown to praise
Author:
Peter Aram (Speculation)
DMI number:
12121