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1. A careful nymph with careless grief oppressed

First Line:: A careful nymph with careless grief oppressed
Last Line:: These with my woe my woes with these increase
Author:: Anthony Munday (Absolute)
DMI number:: 13195

2. A poore soule sat sighing under a sicamore tree

First Line:: A poore soule sat sighing under a sicamore tree
Last Line:: Sing O the greene willow shall be my garland
DMI number:: 37267

3. A shepherd boy all in an evening fair

First Line:: A shepherd boy all in an evening fair
Last Line:: To slumbers soft his sorrowing breast invite
Author:: Ambrose Philips (Confident)
DMI number:: 6478

4. A restless lover I espied

First Line:: A restless lover I espied
Last Line:: Nor Cupid a physician
DMI number:: 44280

5. A little herd-groom for he was no better

First Line:: A little herd-groom for he was no better
Last Line:: Whose voice did help their masters case lament
Author:: Francis Davison (Absolute)
DMI number:: 49804

6. A little herd-groom for he was no better

First Line:: A little herd-groom for he was no better
Last Line:: Whose voice did helpe their master's case lament
Author:: Francis Davison (Absolute)
DMI number:: 49885

7. A lover of late was I

First Line:: A lover of late was I
Last Line:: And now I am myselfe againe
DMI number:: 37615

8. Ah pity Colin cruel fair

First Line:: Ah pity Colin cruel fair
Last Line:: Before it is too late
DMI number:: 23565

9. A | I love a nymph a lack a day

First Line:: A | I love a nymph a lack a day
Last Line:: May suffer shipwreck in the main
DMI number:: 44179

10. Adieu desert how art thou spent

First Line:: Adieu desert how art thou spent
Last Line:: That thy true heart should cause thy woe
DMI number:: 9075

11. Adieu ye walls that guard my cruel fair

First Line:: Adieu ye walls that guard my cruel fair
Last Line:: Yet love the coward love still lags behind
Author:: James Hammond (Absolute)
DMI number:: 22608

12. Alexis the pride of the plain

First Line:: Alexis the pride of the plain
Last Line:: And imparts more than time steals away
DMI number:: 32602

13. Ah Celia leave that cruel art

First Line:: Ah Celia leave that cruel art
Last Line:: And I'll divorce myself from love
DMI number:: 44027

14. Ah Colin why should thou despair

First Line:: Ah Colin why should thou despair
Last Line:: Shall pleasantly glide over the green
DMI number:: 12694

15. Ah cruel love when will thy torments cease

First Line:: Ah cruel love when will thy torments cease
Last Line:: And triumphed over a true and broken heart
DMI number:: 43590

16. Ah cruel nymph how canst thou punish me

First Line:: Ah cruel nymph how canst thou punish me
Last Line:: Than it would for you to be more kind and love
DMI number:: 44640

17. A youth once free and happy now a slave

First Line:: A youth once free and happy now a slave
Last Line:: Smiles when he weeps and frowns when he complains
DMI number:: 3699

18. All in vain

First Line:: All in vain
Last Line:: Till I have reason
DMI number:: 43879

19. And will you Clody leave

First Line:: And will you Clody leave
Last Line:: For novelty you slight
DMI number:: 12780

20. Answer my soul whence this unmanly fear

First Line:: Answer my soul whence this unmanly fear
Last Line:: All but a god is he whom Laura loves
DMI number:: 26910

21. All the flatteries of fate

First Line:: All the flatteries of fate
Last Line:: To be interred with the dirge of the disconsolate quire
DMI number:: 44142

22. Alone and pensive through deserted meads

First Line:: Alone and pensive through deserted meads
Last Line:: And he and I alternate converse hold
DMI number:: 29959

23. Amidst the shades and cool refreshing streams

First Line:: Amidst the shades and cool refreshing streams
Last Line:: And damps the cheerful choir
DMI number:: 4519

24. As the stars in darkest night

First Line:: As the stars in darkest night
Last Line:: It will at last break forth again
DMI number:: 44094

25. As oft as I behold and see

First Line:: As oft as I behold and see
Last Line:: Of ill sown seed such is the fruit
DMI number:: 32104

26. Arise O Phosphorus and bring the day

First Line:: Arise O Phosphorus and bring the day
Last Line:: Tis barbarous to insult on one that dies
Author:: William Walsh (Absolute)
DMI number:: 6683

27. Arise ye winds from your rough caves

First Line:: Arise ye winds from your rough caves
Last Line:: And then she laid her down and died
DMI number:: 42801

28. Around the barren heath I rove

First Line:: Around the barren heath I rove
Last Line:: Unless they mourn your absence too
DMI number:: 12836

29. As I lay all alone on my bed slumbering

First Line:: As I lay all alone on my bed slumbering
Last Line:: Which makes me sigh &c
DMI number:: 44234

30. As it fell out on a long summer's day

First Line:: As it fell out on a long summer's day
Last Line:: Or they had now been there
DMI number:: 37601

31. At this late hour the world lies hushed below

First Line:: At this late hour the world lies hushed below
Last Line:: Here let me ever dwell for heaven is here
Author:: David Mallet (Absolute)
DMI number:: 17520

32. Aurora fair whose rosy cheeks adorn

First Line:: Aurora fair whose rosy cheeks adorn
Last Line:: Yet still I the hard hearted fair will love
DMI number:: 42768

33. Be gone fond love I'll dote no more

First Line:: Be gone fond love I'll dote no more
Last Line:: I love my nymph says I I love again says she
DMI number:: 44629

34. Be sorrow banished give not all your bloom

First Line:: Be sorrow banished give not all your bloom
Last Line:: And pleasing melancholy will remain
DMI number:: 25919

35. Be thou that art my better part

First Line:: Be thou that art my better part
Last Line:: The freedom of affection buy
DMI number:: 43831

36. Behind an unfrequented glade

First Line:: Behind an unfrequented glade
Last Line:: And knaves and prudes are six times married
Author:: Matthew Prior (Absolute)
DMI number:: 11870

37. Beyond the malice of abusive fate

First Line:: Beyond the malice of abusive fate
Last Line:: For sweet Amintor's dead who was my dear
DMI number:: 43821

38. Blind Cupid lay thy bow aside

First Line:: Blind Cupid lay thy bow aside
Last Line:: He'll kiss not curse thy dart
DMI number:: 44454

39. Break break distracted heart there is no cure

First Line:: Break break distracted heart there is no cure
Last Line:: A medicine to my grief I'll die I'll die
DMI number:: 43818

40. Break heavy heart and rid me of this pain

First Line:: Break heavy heart and rid me of this pain
Last Line:: And smarting cry in vain break heavy heart
DMI number:: 49679

41. Break heavy heart and rid me of this pain

First Line:: Break heavy heart and rid me of this pain
Last Line:: And smarting cry in vaine break heavy heart
DMI number:: 49874

42. Believe my sighs my tears my dear

First Line:: Believe my sighs my tears my dear
Last Line:: I never loved one but you
DMI number:: 17736

43. Beneath a cooling shade

First Line:: Beneath a cooling shade
Last Line:: And heaven is but to love
DMI number:: 12817

44. Beneath a silent grove's diverting shade

First Line:: Beneath a silent grove's diverting shade
Last Line:: Ever Melania's love and praise and name shall live
DMI number:: 42736

45. Beneath an aged oak's embowering shade

First Line:: Beneath an aged oak's embowering shade
Last Line:: Nor pain forsake me in the jocund field
Author:: Thomas Percy (Absolute)
DMI number:: 27886

46. Calvus if tears which we profusely shed

First Line:: Calvus if tears which we profusely shed
Last Line:: Though sudden as the joys to think how well you love
DMI number:: 8543

47. Canst thou shepherd canst thou tell

First Line:: Canst thou shepherd canst thou tell
Last Line:: What it is to love too well
DMI number:: 33662

48. By the side of a murmuring stream

First Line:: By the side of a murmuring stream
Last Line:: His ghost shall glide over the green
Author:: Nicholas Rowe (Absolute)
DMI number:: 12691

49. By flowery banks of tweed whose waters glide

First Line:: By flowery banks of tweed whose waters glide
Last Line:: Now cease ye woods no more resound my strains
Author:: Robert Colvill (Absolute)
DMI number:: 25932

50. By heaven tis scarce ten days ago

First Line:: By heaven tis scarce ten days ago
Last Line:: But only give me leave to love thee free from hate
DMI number:: 43578

51. By heavens I think there are some ages past

First Line:: By heavens I think there are some ages past
Last Line:: In mine it does to many years amount
DMI number:: 39414

52. But that I knew before we met

First Line:: But that I knew before we met
Last Line:: And the best vision that's your sight
DMI number:: 44459

53. Brightest since your pitying eye

First Line:: Brightest since your pitying eye
Last Line:: Both scatter wounds and scatter balsam rob
DMI number:: 43928

54. Bring back my comfort and return

First Line:: Bring back my comfort and return
Last Line:: To those sequestered joys I had before
Author:: Charles Cotton (Absolute)
DMI number:: 43919

55. Cease restless thoughts surcharg'd with heaviness

First Line:: Cease restless thoughts surcharg'd with heaviness
Last Line:: Love fortune and disdain enough of trouble
DMI number:: 44769

56. Chloe is fled ye nimble pulses cease

First Line:: Chloe is fled ye nimble pulses cease
Last Line:: That she may know the power of her eyes
DMI number:: 12890

57. Dear soul who hath encaptived so my heart

First Line:: Dear soul who hath encaptived so my heart
Last Line:: That I will never love none else but you
DMI number:: 44462

58. Dear madam oh how great the pity

First Line:: Dear madam oh how great the pity
Last Line:: And all be music rapture love
DMI number:: 24288

59. Despair despair no more

First Line:: Despair despair no more
Last Line:: And Darie with a bribe
DMI number:: 44438

60. Despairing as I sat alone

First Line:: Despairing as I sat alone
Last Line:: Must bear our grief or die with shame
Author:: John Crowne (Absolute)
DMI number:: 6536

61. Early one morn a jolly brisk tar

First Line:: Early one morn a jolly brisk tar
Last Line:: This is all I require
DMI number:: 31072

62. Delia why should I thus be bound

First Line:: Delia why should I thus be bound
Last Line:: Or banish from my breast the boy
DMI number:: 5068

63. Divide my times and rate my wretched hours

First Line:: Divide my times and rate my wretched hours
Last Line:: Whose better hap may live to more delight
Author:: Sir Edward Dyer (Absolute)
DMI number:: 44776

64. Far in the windings of a vale

First Line:: Far in the windings of a vale
Last Line:: She shivered sighed and died
Author:: David Mallet (Absolute)
DMI number:: 35227

65. Far in the windings of a vale

First Line:: Far in the windings of a vale
Last Line:: She shivering sighed and died
Author:: David Mallet (Absolute)
DMI number:: 21808

66. Fire fire lo here I burn in such desire

First Line:: Fire fire lo here I burn in such desire
Last Line:: Which else must die and with me fall
DMI number:: 44255

67. Fain would I love but that I fear

First Line:: Fain would I love but that I fear
Last Line:: Love neither fair black brown but all
DMI number:: 43540

68. Feed still thy self thou fondling with belief

First Line:: Feed still thy self thou fondling with belief
Last Line:: When thou complainst the heat and feeds the fire
Author:: John Lyly (Absolute)
DMI number:: 44740

69. Fierce bulls when Venus stings incite

First Line:: Fierce bulls when Venus stings incite
Last Line:: And do much more to gain her ease
DMI number:: 44117

70. Farewell dear love since thou wilt needs begone

First Line:: Farewell dear love since thou wilt needs begone
Last Line:: Faith let her goe or come or tarry
DMI number:: 37271

71. Farewell false love the oracle of lies

First Line:: Farewell false love the oracle of lies
Last Line:: Dead is the root from which such fancies grew
Author:: William Byrd (Confident) & Thomas Deloney (Confident)
DMI number:: 4716

72. Farewell fond love under whose childish whip

First Line:: Farewell fond love under whose childish whip
Last Line:: The hollow echo shall reply tis I
DMI number:: 44043

73. Farewell my Almeda my joy and my grief

First Line:: Farewell my Almeda my joy and my grief
Last Line:: You will say with a sigh it was given by me
DMI number:: 44284

74. Farewell my little charming boy

First Line:: Farewell my little charming boy
Last Line:: And bid adieu to the dear charming boy
DMI number:: 43593

75. Farewell my useless scrip

First Line:: Farewell my useless scrip
Last Line:: Till death shall set me free
DMI number:: 44425

76. Farewell thou false Philander

First Line:: Farewell thou false Philander
Last Line:: The charmer you disdain
DMI number:: 23630

77. Forgive the weakness of a love sick mind

First Line:: Forgive the weakness of a love sick mind
Last Line:: And death for ever rob me of thy sight
DMI number:: 24274

78. For ever o merciless fair

First Line:: For ever o merciless fair
Last Line:: If you even resolve not to love
DMI number:: 33532

79. For heavens sake Madam let me crave

First Line:: For heavens sake Madam let me crave
Last Line:: What Love denies at least let Mercy do
DMI number:: 42573

80. Fly oh fly sad sight and bear

First Line:: Fly oh fly sad sight and bear
Last Line:: Fear my fate would kill thee too
DMI number:: 43885

81. From sylvan scenes and shady sweet retreats

First Line:: From sylvan scenes and shady sweet retreats
Last Line:: I come I come dear lovely youth adieu
DMI number:: 24287

82. Give over foolish heart and make haste to despair

First Line:: Give over foolish heart and make haste to despair
Last Line:: Did the gods seem so fair men would ever adore
DMI number:: 44281

83. From wave to wave with horror tossed

First Line:: From wave to wave with horror tossed
Last Line:: In herself supremely great
DMI number:: 17681

84. Go tell Amynta gentle swain

First Line:: Go tell Amynta gentle swain
Last Line:: Attends but death to close his eyes
Author:: John Dryden (Absolute)
DMI number:: 4039

85. Goatherd the music of yon whistling pine

First Line:: Goatherd the music of yon whistling pine
Last Line:: The goat may chance to leap as well as you
DMI number:: 3918

86. Go envied lines possess a bliss far higher

First Line:: Go envied lines possess a bliss far higher
Last Line:: Languish to touch her hands and gaze upon her eyes
DMI number:: 42696

87. Go happy heart for thou shalt lie

First Line:: Go happy heart for thou shalt lie
Last Line:: Pleased with the hearts of men not kine
DMI number:: 44000

88. Green was the garden and pleasant the walk

First Line:: Green was the garden and pleasant the walk
Last Line:: Be sealed with a kiss | But I answered him no no no no no | No no no no no no no no
DMI number:: 44065

89. Hail kindest refuge for my love distressed

First Line:: Hail kindest refuge for my love distressed
Last Line:: They only dreamt of joys but feel substantial woe
DMI number:: 6583

90. Happy that author who can drain

First Line:: Happy that author who can drain
Last Line:: You'd stretch both wings to fly and save
DMI number:: 5182

91. Hector this heard returned without delay

First Line:: Hector this heard returned without delay
Last Line:: No father's aid no mother's tender care
Author:: Alexander Pope (Absolute)
DMI number:: 12902

92. Help love or else I sink for know

First Line:: Help love or else I sink for know
Last Line:: Ever my poor heart be cast away
DMI number:: 43980

93. Hard by the hall our master's house

First Line:: Hard by the hall our master's house
Last Line:: And whiten all the shore
DMI number:: 15920

94. Have I not offered god of love

First Line:: Have I not offered god of love
Last Line:: If just oh god of love restore
DMI number:: 33521

95. Have I not told thee dearest mine

First Line:: Have I not told thee dearest mine
Last Line:: And frown me to my grave
DMI number:: 44286

96. He deserved much better than so

First Line:: He deserved much better than so
Last Line:: Oh whither whither my love does thou go
DMI number:: 43915

97. Hark how the bleating flocks bemoan

First Line:: Hark how the bleating flocks bemoan
Last Line:: How hard it is to bid my dear farewell
DMI number:: 18240

98. He that would precious time improve

First Line:: He that would precious time improve
Last Line:: To show your cozening skill
DMI number:: 43602

99. He who could first two gentle hearts unbind

First Line:: He who could first two gentle hearts unbind
Last Line:: And when he durst no longer hope he died
Author:: James Hammond (Absolute)
DMI number:: 22615

100. Hence fond deceiver hence be gone

First Line:: Hence fond deceiver hence be gone
Last Line:: And takes the glad captive by welcome surprize
DMI number:: 4531