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1. Adieu vain mirth and noisy joys

First Line:: Adieu vain mirth and noisy joys
Last Line:: Thy steps adieu vain world adieu
Author:: William Broome (Absolute)
DMI number:: 15405

2. Alas that ever this day we did see

First Line:: Alas that ever this day we did see
Last Line:: That ever he forced king Edward to die
DMI number:: 37013

3. As the stars in darkest night

First Line:: As the stars in darkest night
Last Line:: It will at last break forth again
DMI number:: 44094

4. For heavens sake Madam let me crave

First Line:: For heavens sake Madam let me crave
Last Line:: What Love denies at least let Mercy do
DMI number:: 42573

5. How now shepherde what meanes that

First Line:: How now shepherde what meanes that
Last Line:: And love a new love every day
DMI number:: 37606

6. Is this dear maid the price of all my pains

First Line:: Is this dear maid the price of all my pains
Last Line:: The lover scorned but crowned the poet's brow
DMI number:: 18069

7. Lord when I cry make haste to hear

First Line:: Lord when I cry make haste to hear
Last Line:: While by thy favour I escape
Author:: Sir John Denham (Absolute)
DMI number:: 26933

8. Mourn not this hopeful youth so soon is dead

First Line:: Mourn not this hopeful youth so soon is dead
Last Line:: With those who have endured the heat of the day
DMI number:: 17140

9. My garden ground of grief where self wills seeds are sown

First Line:: My garden ground of grief where self wills seeds are sown
Last Line:: And care so crookes my fingers ends that I can write no more
Author:: Nicholas Breton [Britton] (Absolute)
DMI number:: 44715

10. If wise amazed depart this holy grave

First Line:: If wise amazed depart this holy grave
Last Line:: For who so knows strait melts in tears and dies
DMI number:: 23906

11. Lovers well wot what grief it is to part

First Line:: Lovers well wot what grief it is to part
Last Line:: And it is barred the assistance of the tongue
DMI number:: 44089

12. Near Thames' green banks a love lorn nymph reclined

First Line:: Near Thames' green banks a love lorn nymph reclined
Last Line:: I've but one life and there's a choice of swains
DMI number:: 24389

13. Of all I valued all I loved bereft

First Line:: Of all I valued all I loved bereft
Last Line:: Those joys Arisbe for her Marius lost
Author:: John Hervey (Absolute)
DMI number:: 25549

14. Our pleasance heir is all vain glory

First Line:: Our pleasance heir is all vain glory
Last Line:: Then sen our warks sall nevir die | Timor mortis non turbat me
Author:: William Dunbar (Absolute) & Allan Ramsay (Absolute)
DMI number:: 10870

15. One was the bow one was the dart

First Line:: One was the bow one was the dart
Last Line:: Let one love cure us both again
DMI number:: 44092

16. On me perhaps in gay pursuits employed

First Line:: On me perhaps in gay pursuits employed
Last Line:: That all mankind may wish that you may live
DMI number:: 16085

17. Reader if pity ever touched thy heart

First Line:: Reader if pity ever touched thy heart
Last Line:: That speaks us parents and that speaks us none
DMI number:: 25408

18. Silvia makes sad complaints she's lost her lover

First Line:: Silvia makes sad complaints she's lost her lover
Last Line:: She had a lover once don't that surprise
DMI number:: 12579

19. Sweet fellow whom I swear such sure affected love

First Line:: Sweet fellow whom I swear such sure affected love
Last Line:: The fruits of friendship all forlorn as feeble fancy fears
Author:: Nicholas Breton [Britton] (Absolute)
DMI number:: 44714

20. Thy fatal shafts unerring move

First Line:: Thy fatal shafts unerring move
Last Line:: Unfriended live unpitied die
Author:: Tobias George Smollett (Absolute)
DMI number:: 36936