Poem Theme: Fame and Poetry / literature / writing

1. A doubtful dying doleful Dame

First Line:: A doubtful dying doleful Dame
Last Line:: For as I am a Lover will I die
Author:: Isabella Whitney (Absolute)
DMI number:: 49210

2. A monument on stable base

First Line:: A monument on stable base
Last Line:: The laurel wreath that decks Apollo's head
DMI number:: 25609

3. A poet to applaud or boldly blame

First Line:: A poet to applaud or boldly blame
Last Line:: And vice to dark oblivion is betrayed
Author:: Dermot O'Connor (Absolute)
DMI number:: 27118

4. A work outlasting brass and higher

First Line:: A work outlasting brass and higher
Last Line:: Crown crown me willing muse with bays
Author:: Sir Richard Fanshawe (Absolute)
DMI number:: 42129

5. Angels and ministers of grace proceed

First Line:: Angels and ministers of grace proceed
Last Line:: And thou shalt share immortal fame with me
DMI number:: 36007

6. And hast thou then performed the mighty task

First Line:: And hast thou then performed the mighty task
Last Line:: From Zoilus down to Gildon rail and starve
DMI number:: 12254

7. As when a tree's cut down the secret root

First Line:: As when a tree's cut down the secret root
Last Line:: To find her woman it must be abed
Author:: Sir William Davenant (Absolute) & John Dryden (Absolute)
DMI number:: 17523

8. Assist ye muses every thought refine

First Line:: Assist ye muses every thought refine
Last Line:: Which his own works has made elate as fame
DMI number:: 15340

9. By favouring wit Maecenas purchased fame

First Line:: By favouring wit Maecenas purchased fame
Last Line:: At once the patron and the poet too
DMI number:: 16115

10. By heavens high gift incase revived were

First Line:: By heavens high gift incase revived were
Last Line:: The naamkouth Virgil hath set forth in sight
Author:: Nicholas Grimald (Absolute)
DMI number:: 49379

11. But most by numbers judge a poet's song

First Line:: But most by numbers judge a poet's song
Last Line:: And what Timotheus was is Dryden now
Author:: Alexander Pope (Absolute)
DMI number:: 37196

12. Bright shees what glories had your names acquired

First Line:: Bright shees what glories had your names acquired
Last Line:: That all have or do or would be doing so
DMI number:: 43446

13. Clowns for posterity may cark and care

First Line:: Clowns for posterity may cark and care
Last Line:: That trust not to successions but our fames
Author:: Thomas Randolph (Absolute)
DMI number:: 17206

14. Could I Parrhasius' works command

First Line:: Could I Parrhasius' works command
Last Line:: His votaries vows and speeds their prayers
Author:: William Duncombe (Absolute)
DMI number:: 25622

15. Could I Parrhasius' works command

First Line:: Could I Parrhasius' works command
Last Line:: Our ardent vows and speeds our prayers
Author:: William Duncombe (Absolute)
DMI number:: 26652

16. Daughter of chaos and old night

First Line:: Daughter of chaos and old night
Last Line:: Drive his light courser over the bounds of taste
Author:: Robert Lloyd (Absolute)
DMI number:: 29351

17. Diamonds concealed their lustre may retain

First Line:: Diamonds concealed their lustre may retain
Last Line:: And think there is some worth in my dull rhymes
DMI number:: 43204

18. Did but kind fate to me impart

First Line:: Did but kind fate to me impart
Last Line:: And looks with pity down on White's
Author:: Soame Jenyns (Absolute)
DMI number:: 25623

19. Dryden is dead Dryden alone could sing

First Line:: Dryden is dead Dryden alone could sing
Last Line:: His laurels are not grafted on the bays
Author:: Isaac Watts (Absolute)
DMI number:: 16733

20. 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

21. Friend for your epitaphs I'm grieved

First Line:: Friend for your epitaphs I'm grieved
Last Line:: The other never read
Author:: Alexander Pope (Absolute)
DMI number:: 32427

22. For once kind heaven permit me to lay by

First Line:: For once kind heaven permit me to lay by
Last Line:: Tis ten to one my Sunday's pudding's lost
DMI number:: 41822

23. For twice nine centuries why has partial fame

First Line:: For twice nine centuries why has partial fame
Last Line:: That he who raised the arts surpassed them too
DMI number:: 17408

24. Goldsmith I yield restrain thy rage

First Line:: Goldsmith I yield restrain thy rage
Last Line:: Has wounded thee and fled
DMI number:: 36039

25. Hail honoured bard the wonder of our isle

First Line:: Hail honoured bard the wonder of our isle
Last Line:: And latest ages own great Prior's name
DMI number:: 15507

26. Hallow my temples let my thoughts be dressed

First Line:: Hallow my temples let my thoughts be dressed
Last Line:: Myriads of stars spring from his falling light
DMI number:: 42968

27. Here placed near Chaucer Spenser claims a room

First Line:: Here placed near Chaucer Spenser claims a room
Last Line:: But now declined it fears with thee to die
DMI number:: 34035

28. Here Hermes says Jove who with nectar was mellow

First Line:: Here Hermes says Jove who with nectar was mellow
Last Line:: You Hermes shall fetch him to make us sport here
Author:: David Garrick (Absolute)
DMI number:: 36042

29. How an unusual but strong wind does bear

First Line:: How an unusual but strong wind does bear
Last Line:: Winter's eternal stores of hoarded cold
DMI number:: 44664

30. Here take no care take here no care my muse

First Line:: Here take no care take here no care my muse
Last Line:: Which only in my grave I hope to find
Author:: Anne Killigrew (Speculation)
DMI number:: 23726

31. How shall Voltaire's recording lay

First Line:: How shall Voltaire's recording lay
Last Line:: Are deaf to slaughter's call and blind to plunder's charms
Author:: John Duncombe (Absolute)
DMI number:: 26661

32. How much of paper's spoiled what floods of ink

First Line:: How much of paper's spoiled what floods of ink
Last Line:: An honest heart is worth its weight in gold
Author:: Mary Jones (Absolute)
DMI number:: 23663

33. Ill-natured censurer desist for shame

First Line:: Ill-natured censurer desist for shame
Last Line:: An the best part of me shall still remain
DMI number:: 43410

34. Indulgent to this one desire

First Line:: Indulgent to this one desire
Last Line:: And ignorance submit to fate
DMI number:: 35468

35. Long since my thoughts did thus forboding tell

First Line:: Long since my thoughts did thus forboding tell
Last Line:: A double portion of your sacred spirit
DMI number:: 43429

36. Let vulgar souls triumphal arches raise

First Line:: Let vulgar souls triumphal arches raise
Last Line:: Even fiends relenting hear their rage away
Author:: William Broome (Absolute)
DMI number:: 12257

37. My friends I would accommodate

First Line:: My friends I would accommodate
Last Line:: His drooping votaries relieves
Author:: Sir Richard Fanshawe (Absolute)
DMI number:: 42139

38. My friends who round mount Caburn do abide

First Line:: My friends who round mount Caburn do abide
Last Line:: If not a chaise conveys us back again
DMI number:: 27960

39. I'm raised transported changed all over

First Line:: I'm raised transported changed all over
Last Line:: To whom great Cowper once was kind
Author:: John Hughes (Absolute)
DMI number:: 25564

40. I sing the nation's praise while here I boast

First Line:: I sing the nation's praise while here I boast
Last Line:: And tell him I was his platonic love
DMI number:: 15325

41. If in my loved retirement when

First Line:: If in my loved retirement when
Last Line:: An inspiration constant as my zeal
Author:: Robert Thompson (Confident)
DMI number:: 42066

42. Lest thou shouldst think the words which I

First Line:: Lest thou shouldst think the words which I
Last Line:: To stake his life he doth not fear
Author:: Sir Richard Fanshawe (Absolute)
DMI number:: 42140

43. Let happier bards whose raptured breasts aspire

First Line:: Let happier bards whose raptured breasts aspire
Last Line:: One smile applausive to my youthful strain
DMI number:: 38510

44. Me shall no feeble pinion bear

First Line:: Me shall no feeble pinion bear
Last Line:: Nor shed for me the needless tear
Author:: John Duncombe (Absolute)
DMI number:: 25563

45. Me too the meanest of the tuneful train

First Line:: Me too the meanest of the tuneful train
Last Line:: And with your prince's name immortalize your own
DMI number:: 21825

46. Nor needs he slender verse his mighty flame

First Line:: Nor needs he slender verse his mighty flame
Last Line:: By him we lived we loved we ruled we writ
DMI number:: 43560

47. O had my tongue but language to express

First Line:: O had my tongue but language to express
Last Line:: A rest a fame and a reward like thine
DMI number:: 12264

48. No more proud Gallia bid the world revere

First Line:: No more proud Gallia bid the world revere
Last Line:: Shall bound their fame to comment and explain
DMI number:: 24919

49. O youths and virgins o declining eld

First Line:: O youths and virgins o declining eld
Last Line:: Which his own genius only could acquire
Author:: Mark Akenside (Absolute)
DMI number:: 27807

50. Of all the causes which conspire to blind

First Line:: Of all the causes which conspire to blind
Last Line:: And what Timotheus was is Dryden now
Author:: Alexander Pope (Absolute)
DMI number:: 37119

51. O Petrarch head and prince of poets all

First Line:: O Petrarch head and prince of poets all
Last Line:: And her had Petrarch for his paragon
DMI number:: 49460

52. Oh life thou nothing's younger brother

First Line:: Oh life thou nothing's younger brother
Last Line:: For all old Homer's life ever since he died till now
Author:: Abraham Cowley (Absolute)
DMI number:: 24954

53. Oh who to mighty Charles his name

First Line:: Oh who to mighty Charles his name
Last Line:: Such matchless sons as thy great father left behind
DMI number:: 42827

54. Parent of ease oblivion old

First Line:: Parent of ease oblivion old
Last Line:: Spread with thy welcome hand oblivion's friendly vest
Author:: Robert Lloyd (Absolute)
DMI number:: 29352

55. On Richmond Hill with doublet bare

First Line:: On Richmond Hill with doublet bare
Last Line:: Trod on by fools like straw or stubble
Author:: James Robertson (Absolute)
DMI number:: 33274

56. Pindar in bold licentious lays

First Line:: Pindar in bold licentious lays
Last Line:: Must be content to sit and wonder out the rest
DMI number:: 42871

57. Poet and patriot hear a nation's praise

First Line:: Poet and patriot hear a nation's praise
Last Line:: To live in scorn and in oblivion rot
DMI number:: 16681

58. Paul so fond of the name of a poet is grown

First Line:: Paul so fond of the name of a poet is grown
Last Line:: They are surely his own for which a man pays
Author:: Thomas Cooke (Absolute)
DMI number:: 13738

59. Says Ramsay to Phoebus my lord I must tell ye

First Line:: Says Ramsay to Phoebus my lord I must tell ye
Last Line:: Retrieve with my hand what I've lost by my brain
DMI number:: 16960

60. Round some fair tree the ambitious woodbine grows

First Line:: Round some fair tree the ambitious woodbine grows
Last Line:: The Roman would not blush at the mistake
Author:: Edward Young (Absolute)
DMI number:: 32449

61. Respect to Dryden justly Sheffield paid

First Line:: Respect to Dryden justly Sheffield paid
Last Line:: The city printer and the city bard
DMI number:: 13492

62. Respect to Dryden Sheffield justly paid

First Line:: Respect to Dryden Sheffield justly paid
Last Line:: The city printer and the city bard
DMI number:: 35040

63. Short is the date alas of modern rhymes

First Line:: Short is the date alas of modern rhymes
Last Line:: And all the bright creation fades away
Author:: Alexander Pope (Absolute)
DMI number:: 37122

64. Shakespeare and Milton took great pains

First Line:: Shakespeare and Milton took great pains
Last Line:: Their works more glorious might have shined
Author:: William le Tans'ur (Absolute)
DMI number:: 36471

65. Shall my own sovereign's praise enrich my lines

First Line:: Shall my own sovereign's praise enrich my lines
Last Line:: To say to angels heaven is all divine
Author:: Aaron Hill (Absolute)
DMI number:: 12109

66. See mighty prince where at your feet does lie

First Line:: See mighty prince where at your feet does lie
Last Line:: And of the world's affairs scarce notice took
DMI number:: 42822

67. Some anxious for immortal fame

First Line:: Some anxious for immortal fame
Last Line:: I'd envy neither rich nor great
DMI number:: 19246

68. Still in our ears Andromache complains

First Line:: Still in our ears Andromache complains
Last Line:: For all the world is proud that he was born
DMI number:: 13748

69. Sr John the Ross ane thing ther is compyld

First Line:: Sr John the Ross ane thing ther is compyld
Last Line:: And throw ilk place and Kinrick them proclaim
Author:: William Dunbar (Absolute)
DMI number:: 10923

70. Strangers this tomb's inscription makes appear

First Line:: Strangers this tomb's inscription makes appear
Last Line:: Kindly survey when young when old they prize
DMI number:: 8592

71. Some say that poets are so born

First Line:: Some say that poets are so born
Last Line:: His name shall live to eternity
DMI number:: 36823

72. That thus blessed princess we lament thy fall

First Line:: That thus blessed princess we lament thy fall
Last Line:: And drink immortal draughts of inexhausted love
DMI number:: 42895

73. The rose and other fragrant flowers smell best

First Line:: The rose and other fragrant flowers smell best
Last Line:: To make new poets not like him in haste
DMI number:: 43499

74. The praise that in thy life we durst not pay

First Line:: The praise that in thy life we durst not pay
Last Line:: And equal fame receive and equal give
DMI number:: 11810

75. The very bees O sweet Menander hung

First Line:: The very bees O sweet Menander hung
Last Line:: And raise her glory to the skies in thine
DMI number:: 28977

76. The very bees oh sweet Menander hung

First Line:: The very bees oh sweet Menander hung
Last Line:: And raise its glory to the skies in thine
DMI number:: 13750

77. The taper shining with diminished rays

First Line:: The taper shining with diminished rays
Last Line:: To love that in thy love we ever blessed may stand
DMI number:: 43209

78. The town have found two different ways

First Line:: The town have found two different ways
Last Line:: To Garrick only tears
DMI number:: 36075

79. The work is finished which nor dreads the rage

First Line:: The work is finished which nor dreads the rage
Last Line:: One half of round eternity is mine
Author:: Leonard Welsted (Confident)
DMI number:: 12048

80. The work is finished which not dreads the rage

First Line:: The work is finished which not dreads the rage
Last Line:: One half of round eternity is mine
Author:: Leonard Welsted (Confident)
DMI number:: 15503

81. Think not my Lollius that the song

First Line:: Think not my Lollius that the song
Last Line:: Would generously dare to spill his blood
DMI number:: 25624

82. Think not my Lord these strains shall die

First Line:: Think not my Lord these strains shall die
Last Line:: And hoary Nerva calls
Author:: John Duncombe (Absolute)
DMI number:: 25625

83. Though envy will not of thy worth admit

First Line:: Though envy will not of thy worth admit
Last Line:: And next in merit be the next in fame
DMI number:: 15151

84. Thus Britain loved me and preserved my fame

First Line:: Thus Britain loved me and preserved my fame
Last Line:: Clear from a Barber's or a Benson's name
Author:: Alexander Pope (Absolute)
DMI number:: 35041

85. Thus Britain loved me and preserved my fame

First Line:: Thus Britain loved me and preserved my fame
Last Line:: Pure from a Barber's or a Benson's name
Author:: Alexander Pope (Absolute)
DMI number:: 18810

86. Tis but too true while living fame's denied

First Line:: Tis but too true while living fame's denied
Last Line:: Since glory's after death we're not in haste
DMI number:: 17399

87. Tis done I tower to that degree

First Line:: Tis done I tower to that degree
Last Line:: And deck with hood my shoulders
Author:: Christopher Smart (Absolute)
DMI number:: 25610

88. Tis all that goodness left behind can show

First Line:: Tis all that goodness left behind can show
Last Line:: And virtue sighs out Prior is no more
DMI number:: 40563

89. To lead attention through five acts of prose

First Line:: To lead attention through five acts of prose
Last Line:: Give it your stamp and let the metal pass
Author:: Elizabeth Griffith (Speculation)
DMI number:: 33763

90. To mark her Shakespeare's worth and Britain's love

First Line:: To mark her Shakespeare's worth and Britain's love
Last Line:: This tomb grown old his works shall still be new
DMI number:: 33409

91. To you a tribute from each muse is due

First Line:: To you a tribute from each muse is due
Last Line:: Could add to David and make D'Urfey please
DMI number:: 17385

92. To C-bb--r cries Sir John ye lazy rogue

First Line:: To C-bb--r cries Sir John ye lazy rogue
Last Line:: For he himself has wrote it with his sword
DMI number:: 18073

93. To cultivate the arts inclined

First Line:: To cultivate the arts inclined
Last Line:: I blew the glorious flame
Author:: Samuel Whyte (Speculation)
DMI number:: 34009

94. To fertile wits and plants of fruitful kind

First Line:: To fertile wits and plants of fruitful kind
Last Line:: Can only say Augustus is expired
DMI number:: 7749

95. Two geniuses one age and nation grace

First Line:: Two geniuses one age and nation grace
Last Line:: Who does not know Sir Isaac and the Dean
DMI number:: 17060

96. Vain are the achievements of the sword

First Line:: Vain are the achievements of the sword
Last Line:: And C------t with his prose
DMI number:: 18077

97. Various his subjects yet they jointly warm

First Line:: Various his subjects yet they jointly warm
Last Line:: What he had finished nothing else could mend
DMI number:: 15739

98. What prince what hero shall I choose

First Line:: What prince what hero shall I choose
Last Line:: He trembles at thy judgments king of kings
Author:: John Duncombe (Absolute)
DMI number:: 25944

99. When a new star does in the skies appear

First Line:: When a new star does in the skies appear
Last Line:: Medicine at once improved and poetry
DMI number:: 43432

100. When Phoebus and the nine harmonious maids

First Line:: When Phoebus and the nine harmonious maids
Last Line:: The world will think his English Iliad mine
Author:: Elijah Fenton (Absolute)
DMI number:: 12245

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1. A doubtful dying doleful Dame

2. A monument on stable base

3. A poet to applaud or boldly blame

4. A work outlasting brass and higher

5. Angels and ministers of grace proceed

6. And hast thou then performed the mighty task

7. As when a tree's cut down the secret root

8. Assist ye muses every thought refine

9. By favouring wit Maecenas purchased fame

10. By heavens high gift incase revived were

11. But most by numbers judge a poet's song

12. Bright shees what glories had your names acquired

13. Clowns for posterity may cark and care

14. Could I Parrhasius' works command

15. Could I Parrhasius' works command

16. Daughter of chaos and old night

17. Diamonds concealed their lustre may retain

18. Did but kind fate to me impart

19. Dryden is dead Dryden alone could sing

20. Excellent poetry whose noble flight

21. Friend for your epitaphs I'm grieved

22. For once kind heaven permit me to lay by

23. For twice nine centuries why has partial fame

24. Goldsmith I yield restrain thy rage

25. Hail honoured bard the wonder of our isle

26. Hallow my temples let my thoughts be dressed

27. Here placed near Chaucer Spenser claims a room

28. Here Hermes says Jove who with nectar was mellow

29. How an unusual but strong wind does bear

30. Here take no care take here no care my muse

31. How shall Voltaire's recording lay

32. How much of paper's spoiled what floods of ink

33. Ill-natured censurer desist for shame

34. Indulgent to this one desire

35. Long since my thoughts did thus forboding tell

36. Let vulgar souls triumphal arches raise

37. My friends I would accommodate

38. My friends who round mount Caburn do abide

39. I'm raised transported changed all over

40. I sing the nation's praise while here I boast

41. If in my loved retirement when

42. Lest thou shouldst think the words which I

43. Let happier bards whose raptured breasts aspire

44. Me shall no feeble pinion bear

45. Me too the meanest of the tuneful train

46. Nor needs he slender verse his mighty flame

47. O had my tongue but language to express

48. No more proud Gallia bid the world revere

49. O youths and virgins o declining eld

50. Of all the causes which conspire to blind

51. O Petrarch head and prince of poets all

52. Oh life thou nothing's younger brother

53. Oh who to mighty Charles his name

54. Parent of ease oblivion old

55. On Richmond Hill with doublet bare

56. Pindar in bold licentious lays

57. Poet and patriot hear a nation's praise

58. Paul so fond of the name of a poet is grown

59. Says Ramsay to Phoebus my lord I must tell ye

60. Round some fair tree the ambitious woodbine grows

61. Respect to Dryden justly Sheffield paid

62. Respect to Dryden Sheffield justly paid

63. Short is the date alas of modern rhymes

64. Shakespeare and Milton took great pains

65. Shall my own sovereign's praise enrich my lines

66. See mighty prince where at your feet does lie

67. Some anxious for immortal fame

68. Still in our ears Andromache complains

69. Sr John the Ross ane thing ther is compyld

70. Strangers this tomb's inscription makes appear

71. Some say that poets are so born

72. That thus blessed princess we lament thy fall