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91.
He makes a state
First Line:
He makes a state
Last Line:
Though life be short let us not make it so
Author:
Benjamin Jonson (Absolute)
DMI number:
16097
92.
Hence want ungrateful visitant adieu
First Line:
Hence want ungrateful visitant adieu
Last Line:
And universal joy torments the sky
Author:
Henry Brooke (Absolute)
DMI number:
18360
93.
Here from afar the finished height
First Line:
Here from afar the finished height
Last Line:
And pitying griefs are thine
Author:
John Gambold (Confident)
DMI number:
27459
94.
Here lies that wretched favourite ridden thing
First Line:
Here lies that wretched favourite ridden thing
Last Line:
Who when alive believed himself a king
DMI number:
33572
95.
Hours months and years with gliding pace
First Line:
Hours months and years with gliding pace
Last Line:
At their proud feasts the Salian train
Author:
William Duncombe (Absolute)
DMI number:
25537
96.
How blindly men their happiness pursue
First Line:
How blindly men their happiness pursue
Last Line:
When love commands tis pleasant to obey
DMI number:
3860
97.
How is our reason to the future blind
First Line:
How is our reason to the future blind
Last Line:
And lose the better life to come for this
Author:
James Ward (Absolute)
DMI number:
7435
98.
How loathes my soul this sorrowful abode
First Line:
How loathes my soul this sorrowful abode
Last Line:
Yet but unquiet rest if Canaan we obtain
DMI number:
23291
99.
How many great ones may remembered be
First Line:
How many great ones may remembered be
Last Line:
Which might their names for ever memorize
Author:
Edmund Spenser (Absolute)
DMI number:
17102
100.
Hope makes the sea be plowed in furrows white
First Line:
Hope makes the sea be plowed in furrows white
Last Line:
Yet hope with no reward repays by pain
Author:
Patrick Hannay (Absolute)
DMI number:
3291
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