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1. A restless lover I espied

First Line:
A restless lover I espied
Last Line:
Nor Cupid a physician
DMI number:
44280

2. Ah Celia leave that cruel art

First Line:
Ah Celia leave that cruel art
Last Line:
And I'll divorce myself from love
DMI number:
44027

3. All in vain

First Line:
All in vain
Last Line:
Till I have reason
DMI number:
43879

4. And will you Clody leave

First Line:
And will you Clody leave
Last Line:
For novelty you slight
DMI number:
12780

5. All the flatteries of fate

First Line:
All the flatteries of fate
Last Line:
To be interred with the dirge of the disconsolate quire
DMI number:
44142

6. Arise ye winds from your rough caves

First Line:
Arise ye winds from your rough caves
Last Line:
And then she laid her down and died
DMI number:
42801

7. As I lay all alone on my bed slumbering

First Line:
As I lay all alone on my bed slumbering
Last Line:
Which makes me sigh &c
DMI number:
44234

8. As it fell out on a long summer's day

First Line:
As it fell out on a long summer's day
Last Line:
Or they had now been there
DMI number:
37601

9. Be thou that art my better part

First Line:
Be thou that art my better part
Last Line:
The freedom of affection buy
DMI number:
43831

10. Break break distracted heart there is no cure

First Line:
Break break distracted heart there is no cure
Last Line:
A medicine to my grief I'll die I'll die
DMI number:
43818

11. Beneath a cooling shade

First Line:
Beneath a cooling shade
Last Line:
And heaven is but to love
DMI number:
12817

12. Brightest since your pitying eye

First Line:
Brightest since your pitying eye
Last Line:
Both scatter wounds and scatter balsam rob
DMI number:
43928

13. Bring back my comfort and return

First Line:
Bring back my comfort and return
Last Line:
To those sequestered joys I had before
Author:
Charles Cotton (Absolute)
DMI number:
43919

14. Despair despair no more

First Line:
Despair despair no more
Last Line:
And Darie with a bribe
DMI number:
44438

15. Despairing as I sat alone

First Line:
Despairing as I sat alone
Last Line:
Must bear our grief or die with shame
Author:
John Crowne (Absolute)
DMI number:
6536

16. 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

17. Fire fire lo here I burn in such desire

First Line:
Fire fire lo here I burn in such desire
Last Line:
Which else must die and with me fall
DMI number:
44255

18. Fain would I love but that I fear

First Line:
Fain would I love but that I fear
Last Line:
Love neither fair black brown but all
DMI number:
43540

19. Farewell fond love under whose childish whip

First Line:
Farewell fond love under whose childish whip
Last Line:
The hollow echo shall reply tis I
DMI number:
44043

20. Farewell my Almeda my joy and my grief

First Line:
Farewell my Almeda my joy and my grief
Last Line:
You will say with a sigh it was given by me
DMI number:
44284

21. Farewell thou false Philander

First Line:
Farewell thou false Philander
Last Line:
The charmer you disdain
DMI number:
23630

22. Fly oh fly sad sight and bear

First Line:
Fly oh fly sad sight and bear
Last Line:
Fear my fate would kill thee too
DMI number:
43885

23. Give over foolish heart and make haste to despair

First Line:
Give over foolish heart and make haste to despair
Last Line:
Did the gods seem so fair men would ever adore
DMI number:
44281

24. 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

25. Go happy heart for thou shalt lie

First Line:
Go happy heart for thou shalt lie
Last Line:
Pleased with the hearts of men not kine
DMI number:
44000

26. Help love or else I sink for know

First Line:
Help love or else I sink for know
Last Line:
Ever my poor heart be cast away
DMI number:
43980

27. Have I not told thee dearest mine

First Line:
Have I not told thee dearest mine
Last Line:
And frown me to my grave
DMI number:
44286

28. He deserved much better than so

First Line:
He deserved much better than so
Last Line:
Oh whither whither my love does thou go
DMI number:
43915

29. How could you deceive me my fair

First Line:
How could you deceive me my fair
Last Line:
And I'll sigh that all pleasure is flown
DMI number:
25895

30. How long shall I pine for love

First Line:
How long shall I pine for love
Last Line:
Let the mill let the mill go round
Author:
John Fletcher (Absolute)
DMI number:
44221

31. How hard is an heart to be cured

First Line:
How hard is an heart to be cured
Last Line:
But she raised him again from the dead
DMI number:
44074

32. How hard is an heart to be cured

First Line:
How hard is an heart to be cured
Last Line:
Shall say I'll be cruel no more
DMI number:
44277

33. How unhappy a lover am I

First Line:
How unhappy a lover am I
Last Line:
For the souls to meet closer above
DMI number:
44075

34. I cannot sigh and wish alone

First Line:
I cannot sigh and wish alone
Last Line:
It must needs burst forth and blaze
DMI number:
43424

35. I came and looked and liked loved

First Line:
I came and looked and liked loved
Last Line:
Which lost she may repent
DMI number:
43350

36. I have followed thee a year at least

First Line:
I have followed thee a year at least
Last Line:
The wounded heart never turns to wound again
DMI number:
43903

37. I dote I dote

First Line:
I dote I dote
Last Line:
And there is the short and the long on it
DMI number:
43832

38. I feed a flame within which so torments me

First Line:
I feed a flame within which so torments me
Last Line:
Nor can I fall more low mounting no higher
DMI number:
43884

39. In a sad unfrequented cyprus grove

First Line:
In a sad unfrequented cyprus grove
Last Line:
Give him a thousand thousand joys beside
DMI number:
41843

40. In vain I have laboured the victor to prove

First Line:
In vain I have laboured the victor to prove
Last Line:
I shall grow to abhor what I now do admire
DMI number:
44301

41. Jo hymen jo hymen jo hymen

First Line:
Jo hymen jo hymen jo hymen
Last Line:
When his means are spent they may live by their trade
DMI number:
43949

42. Little love serves my turn

First Line:
Little love serves my turn
Last Line:
Now I defy it
DMI number:
43848

43. Love fare thee well

First Line:
Love fare thee well
Last Line:
Wound faster that my heart may break
DMI number:
44046

44. Love is a bog a deep bog and a wide bog

First Line:
Love is a bog a deep bog and a wide bog
Last Line:
And dwells in the house of melancholy
Author:
James Shirley (Absolute)
DMI number:
44247

45. Love is a sour delight and sugared grief

First Line:
Love is a sour delight and sugared grief
Last Line:
Which am content to lodge in her my heart
DMI number:
43876

46. My life & my death are both in your power

First Line:
My life & my death are both in your power
Last Line:
I'll forgive the cruel author of all my past pain
DMI number:
43192

47. My lodging is on the cold ground

First Line:
My lodging is on the cold ground
Last Line:
The cause of my misery
DMI number:
43115

48. My lodging it is on the cold ground

First Line:
My lodging it is on the cold ground
Last Line:
The cause of my misery
Author:
Sir William Davenant (Absolute)
DMI number:
43913

49. My lodging tis on the cold boards

First Line:
My lodging tis on the cold boards
Last Line:
To rowl so far to thee
DMI number:
44299

50. I'm sick of love oh let me lie

First Line:
I'm sick of love oh let me lie
Last Line:
You're weeping sick of love as I
DMI number:
43881