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231.
While fortune did with fate agree
First Line:
While fortune did with fate agree
Last Line:
But as he languishes he loves
DMI number:
13777
232.
Why hang thy hopes on beauty's fading flower
First Line:
Why hang thy hopes on beauty's fading flower
Last Line:
And waste their lustre in the silent tomb
DMI number:
36196
233.
Why bleeds my heart these drops of woe
First Line:
Why bleeds my heart these drops of woe
Last Line:
Will pity while I sing
DMI number:
40608
234.
Why Damon with the forward day
First Line:
Why Damon with the forward day
Last Line:
But rosemary will with thee go
Author:
George Sewell (Absolute)
DMI number:
24460
235.
With toilsome steps when I pursue
First Line:
With toilsome steps when I pursue
Last Line:
The path to life which all must tread
DMI number:
23403
236.
Why start this case is yours or will be soon
First Line:
Why start this case is yours or will be soon
Last Line:
Farewell remember lest you wake too late
DMI number:
33488
237.
Why start this fate will your's be very soon
First Line:
Why start this fate will your's be very soon
Last Line:
You know thou feastest but to feast a worm
DMI number:
33155
238.
Why wears my pensive friend that gloomy brow
First Line:
Why wears my pensive friend that gloomy brow
Last Line:
Her rules are fixed and all her ways are just
Author:
John Hervey (Absolute)
DMI number:
1128
239.
Why Lycidas should man be vain
First Line:
Why Lycidas should man be vain
Last Line:
Dissolves to common air again
Author:
Matthew Pilkington (Absolute)
DMI number:
23387
240.
World adieu thou real cheat
First Line:
World adieu thou real cheat
Last Line:
Of thy everlasting reign
Author:
John Byrom (Absolute)
DMI number:
33091
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