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1621.
Why flies my fair why traverse you the plain
First Line:
Why flies my fair why traverse you the plain
Last Line:
Racked with her cold disdain and lost in wild despair
DMI number:
11489
1622.
Why holds thy eye that lamentable rheum
First Line:
Why holds thy eye that lamentable rheum
Last Line:
Like a proud river peering over its bounds
Author:
William Shakespeare (Absolute)
DMI number:
21336
1623.
Whose life with care is overcast
First Line:
Whose life with care is overcast
Last Line:
But for to live that half seven well
Author:
Robert Herrick (Absolute)
DMI number:
16120
1624.
Why all in tears Menalcas prithee tell
First Line:
Why all in tears Menalcas prithee tell
Last Line:
As far as heaven above mankind is fled
DMI number:
10292
1625.
Why am I the only creature
First Line:
Why am I the only creature
Last Line:
Never come in its power again
DMI number:
11009
1626.
Why are my thoughts still ministering fresh pain
First Line:
Why are my thoughts still ministering fresh pain
Last Line:
Life grows a burden and a weight of woe
Author:
Francis Gentleman (Absolute)
DMI number:
30550
1627.
Why are these hours which heaven in pity lent
First Line:
Why are these hours which heaven in pity lent
Last Line:
The hottest hell in which a heart can burn
Author:
William Congreve (Absolute)
DMI number:
6614
1628.
Why are those graceful sorrows on that brow
First Line:
Why are those graceful sorrows on that brow
Last Line:
Why frown those looks by nature formed to smile
Author:
Bevil Higgons (Absolute)
DMI number:
19341
1629.
Why are those hours which heaven in pity lent
First Line:
Why are those hours which heaven in pity lent
Last Line:
The hottest hell in which a heart can burn
Author:
William Congreve (Absolute)
DMI number:
36955
1630.
Why art thou thus with grief oppressed
First Line:
Why art thou thus with grief oppressed
Last Line:
Was to bestow diffusive bliss
Author:
Henry Needler (Absolute)
DMI number:
22884
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