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1. A gold watch found on cinder whore

First Line:
A gold watch found on cinder whore
Last Line:
Not that they're rich but that they steal
Author:
Alexander Pope (Confident)
DMI number:
2931

2. Accept a miracle instead of wit

First Line:
Accept a miracle instead of wit
Last Line:
See two dull lines with Stanhope's pencil writ
Author:
Alexander Pope (Speculation)
DMI number:
33960

3. Alas poor Aeschylus unlucky dog

First Line:
Alas poor Aeschylus unlucky dog
Last Line:
Whom once a lobster killed and now a log
Author:
Alexander Pope (Absolute)
DMI number:
2762

4. Annius crafty seer with ebon wand

First Line:
Annius crafty seer with ebon wand
Last Line:
Blessed in one Niger till he knows of two
Author:
Alexander Pope (Absolute)
DMI number:
28190

5. Authors the world and their dull brains have traced

First Line:
Authors the world and their dull brains have traced
Last Line:
Here here's the place where these bright angels walk
Author:
Alexander Pope (Absolute)
DMI number:
22055

6. Be gone ye critics and restrain your spite

First Line:
Be gone ye critics and restrain your spite
Last Line:
Since tis enough we find it so in you
Author:
Alexander Pope (Absolute)
DMI number:
7307

7. Behold ambitious of the British bays

First Line:
Behold ambitious of the British bays
Last Line:
For Duck can thresh you know as well as write
Author:
Alexander Pope (Confident)
DMI number:
2956

8. Burnet and Ducket friends in spite

First Line:
Burnet and Ducket friends in spite
Last Line:
For both heads are but tails
Author:
Alexander Pope (Confident)
DMI number:
2772

9. But Annius crafty seer with ebon wand

First Line:
But Annius crafty seer with ebon wand
Last Line:
And Douglas lend his soft obstetric hand
Author:
Alexander Pope (Absolute)
DMI number:
28163

10. But where each science lifts its modern type

First Line:
But where each science lifts its modern type
Last Line:
In Toland's Tindal's and in Woolston's days
Author:
Alexander Pope (Confident)
DMI number:
2995

11. Close to the best known author Umbra sits

First Line:
Close to the best known author Umbra sits
Last Line:
Know sense like charity begins at home
Author:
Alexander Pope (Absolute)
DMI number:
1973

12. Did Milton's prose o Charles thy death defend

First Line:
Did Milton's prose o Charles thy death defend
Last Line:
The murderous critic has avenged thy murder
Author:
Alexander Pope (Confident)
DMI number:
3047

13. Dulness the safe opiate of the mind

First Line:
Dulness the safe opiate of the mind
Last Line:
Unfeared unhated undisturbed it lives
Author:
Alexander Pope (Absolute)
DMI number:
28998

14. In clouded majesty here dulness shone

First Line:
In clouded majesty here dulness shone
Last Line:
And solid pudding against empty praise
Author:
Alexander Pope (Absolute)
DMI number:
29802

15. In merry old England it once was a rule

First Line:
In merry old England it once was a rule
Last Line:
That C----r can serve both for fool and for poet
Author:
Alexander Pope (Confident)
DMI number:
15802

16. In merry old England it once was a rule

First Line:
In merry old England it once was a rule
Last Line:
That Cibber can serve for both fool and for poet
Author:
Alexander Pope (Speculation)
DMI number:
2756

17. Jove called before him the other day

First Line:
Jove called before him the other day
Last Line:
To the great name of Tom Durfy
Author:
Alexander Pope (Absolute)
DMI number:
1969

18. My sons she answered both have done your parts

First Line:
My sons she answered both have done your parts
Last Line:
Mother of arrogance and source of pride
Author:
Alexander Pope (Absolute)
DMI number:
28193

19. Moore always smiles whenever he recites

First Line:
Moore always smiles whenever he recites
Last Line:
A modest man may like what's not his own
Author:
Alexander Pope (Absolute)
DMI number:
2764

20. If meagre Gildon draw his venal quill

First Line:
If meagre Gildon draw his venal quill
Last Line:
Who would not weep if A---n were he
Author:
Alexander Pope (Confident)
DMI number:
3050