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1.
Alas how swift the crowding minutes pass
First Line:
Alas how swift the crowding minutes pass
Last Line:
Of glutton priests when they their solemn feasts profess
DMI number:
3900
2.
Brave Nero's favourite my Julius
First Line:
Brave Nero's favourite my Julius
Last Line:
By the lads whose privilege is to be jolly
DMI number:
42212
3.
Excellent poetry whose noble flight
First Line:
Excellent poetry whose noble flight
Last Line:
Read an hic iacet corpus or an o rare Ben
DMI number:
42097
4.
Fond lad who in thy youthful bloom
First Line:
Fond lad who in thy youthful bloom
Last Line:
Or being now old couldst but be young again
DMI number:
42142
5.
Long have my prayers slow heaven assailed
First Line:
Long have my prayers slow heaven assailed
Last Line:
End with a stink at last and vanish into night
Author:
Thomas Brown (Absolute)
DMI number:
943
6.
Look up my friend look up and see
First Line:
Look up my friend look up and see
Last Line:
She hates nae war than blate-face
DMI number:
36141
7.
Lyce thank heaven old age's claws
First Line:
Lyce thank heaven old age's claws
Last Line:
And go out in a stink
DMI number:
11482
8.
Lyce the gods have heard my prayer
First Line:
Lyce the gods have heard my prayer
Last Line:
Shot such resistless flames to ashes turned
DMI number:
3951
9.
Lucy at last thank heaven I trace
First Line:
Lucy at last thank heaven I trace
Last Line:
And go out in a stink
DMI number:
11769
10.
O friend how fleeting are the years of man
First Line:
O friend how fleeting are the years of man
Last Line:
As pampered pontiffs when they treat their priests
DMI number:
10092
11.
Old lady for shame
First Line:
Old lady for shame
Last Line:
And for music some Holborn-Hill ditty
Author:
William Bray (Speculation)
DMI number:
17744
12.
See see my friend the fleeting years
First Line:
See see my friend the fleeting years
Last Line:
Shall riot over our grave
DMI number:
22140
13.
Thanks to the gods they've heard my prayers
First Line:
Thanks to the gods they've heard my prayers
Last Line:
Now into dirty ashes turned
DMI number:
11770
14.
Then heaven has heard my prayers at last
First Line:
Then heaven has heard my prayers at last
Last Line:
Laugh at her snuff and triumph in her shame
DMI number:
44596
15.
Thou wife of Ibycus the poor
First Line:
Thou wife of Ibycus the poor
Last Line:
Grown old and bending to the tomb
Author:
John Duncombe (Absolute)
DMI number:
25594
16.
What schemes the Swedes or Russians frame
First Line:
What schemes the Swedes or Russians frame
Last Line:
To raise your drooping spirits
DMI number:
26753
17.
Willy never enquire what end
First Line:
Willy never enquire what end
Last Line:
And carry ay the Gree awa'
DMI number:
1255