Poem Theme: Love - Blacklight Search Results

1. A curse attends that woman's love

First Line:: A curse attends that woman's love
Last Line:: But leave us when they've won us
Author:: John Gay (Absolute)
DMI number:: 23654

2. A damsel hard by as fair as her fame

First Line:: A damsel hard by as fair as her fame
Last Line:: Ere I die at her feet may she pity and love
DMI number:: 35482

3. A den where tigers make the passage good

First Line:: A den where tigers make the passage good
Last Line:: And casts itself in the melancholy meads
Author:: Aphra Behn (Absolute)
DMI number:: 23318

4. A face that should content me wonderous well

First Line:: A face that should content me wonderous well
Last Line:: And knit again with knot that should not slide
Author:: Sir Thomas Wyatt (Absolute)
DMI number:: 8819

5. A face that should content me wondrous well

First Line:: A face that should content me wondrous well
Last Line:: And knit again the knot that should not slide
Author:: Sir Thomas Wyatt (Absolute)
DMI number:: 32114

6. A fair maid wed to prying jealousy

First Line:: A fair maid wed to prying jealousy
Last Line:: sweet life do not my secret love forsake
Author:: Bartholomew Yong (Absolute)
DMI number:: 44855

7. A faithful swain whom love had taught to sing

First Line:: A faithful swain whom love had taught to sing
Last Line:: By night he scorches as he burns by day
Author:: Alexander Pope (Absolute)
DMI number:: 7032

8. A fate like mine as poets sing

First Line:: A fate like mine as poets sing
Last Line:: Less tender than the heart
Author:: John Duncombe (Absolute)
DMI number:: 30875

9. A fond father's bliss is to number his race

First Line:: A fond father's bliss is to number his race
Last Line:: Then give the gods thanks that we've lived well so long
Author:: George Alexander Stevens (Absolute)
DMI number:: 32926

10. A friend of mine exposed to sale

First Line:: A friend of mine exposed to sale
Last Line:: I will in vengeance give to thee
Author:: Francis Willis (Absolute)
DMI number:: 39229

11. A friend of mine exposed to sale

First Line:: A friend of mine exposed to sale
Last Line:: The fire shall thy sole ruin be
Author:: Francis Willis (Absolute)
DMI number:: 42587

12. A band of cupids the other day

First Line:: A band of cupids the other day
Last Line:: Who's station's now the best
DMI number:: 33964

13. A beau as in old tale it's written

First Line:: A beau as in old tale it's written
Last Line:: A madam now and puss no more
Author:: James Ward (Confident)
DMI number:: 11861

14. A beauteous face fine shape engaging air

First Line:: A beauteous face fine shape engaging air
Last Line:: Your voice has finished what your eyes begun
DMI number:: 42616

15. A blithe and bonny country lass

First Line:: A blithe and bonny country lass
Last Line:: thus my roundelay is past
Author:: Thomas Lodge (Absolute)
DMI number:: 44868

16. A bloom like thine attends the vernal rose

First Line:: A bloom like thine attends the vernal rose
Last Line:: And leave the strong impression deep behind
Author:: Samuel Croxall (Speculation)
DMI number:: 12689

17. A blooming youth lies buried here

First Line:: A blooming youth lies buried here
Last Line:: But death had quicker wings than love
Author:: Samuel Wesley (Absolute)
DMI number:: 27361

18. A careful nymph with careless grief oppressed

First Line:: A careful nymph with careless grief oppressed
Last Line:: And farewell weeping I can wait no more
Author:: Anthony Munday (Absolute)
DMI number:: 44936

19. 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

20. A carefull nymph with careless grief oppressed

First Line:: A carefull nymph with careless grief oppressed
Last Line:: And farewell weeping I can wait no more
Author:: Anthony Munday (Absolute)
DMI number:: 44834

21. A change so swift what heart did ever feel

First Line:: A change so swift what heart did ever feel
Last Line:: They melted as they fell
Author:: John Dryden (Absolute)
DMI number:: 19590

22. A choir of bright beauties in spring did appear

First Line:: A choir of bright beauties in spring did appear
Last Line:: When Pan and his son and fair Syrinx return
Author:: John Dryden (Absolute)
DMI number:: 4176

23. A common pity does not love express

First Line:: A common pity does not love express
Last Line:: Pity is love when grown into excess
Author:: Sir Robert Howard (Absolute)
DMI number:: 13982

24. A constancy in love I'll prize

First Line:: A constancy in love I'll prize
Last Line:: He brings a thousand more
DMI number:: 43227

25. A crowne of baies shall that man beare

First Line:: A crowne of baies shall that man beare
Last Line:: Which mourning colours be
Author:: Edward de Vere (Absolute)
DMI number:: 37338

26. A Grecian dame is thus complete

First Line:: A Grecian dame is thus complete
Last Line:: In love they find the deeper sport
DMI number:: 10672

27. A grove there was by nature made

First Line:: A grove there was by nature made
Last Line:: With separate maintenance for life
Author:: Nicholas Herbert (Absolute)
DMI number:: 22500

28. A Hama-Dryad flourished in these days

First Line:: A Hama-Dryad flourished in these days
Last Line:: How Venus once revenged neglected love
Author:: Sir Samuel Garth (Absolute)
DMI number:: 12025

29. A handsome youth be sure you'll have

First Line:: A handsome youth be sure you'll have
Last Line:: That will thee wed my pretty Nan
DMI number:: 8186

30. A heart full of coldness a sweet full of

First Line:: A heart full of coldness a sweet full of
Last Line:: Ingratitude and this is love
Author:: John Lyly (Absolute)
DMI number:: 16129

31. A hermit on the banks of Trent

First Line:: A hermit on the banks of Trent
Last Line:: For love and virtue joined her train
Author:: Edmund Cartwright (Absolute)
DMI number:: 33066

32. A hopeless flame did Corydon destroy

First Line:: A hopeless flame did Corydon destroy
Last Line:: Time or some new desire shall this destroy
Author:: Nahum Tate (Absolute)
DMI number:: 3782

33. A juster present sure was never made

First Line:: A juster present sure was never made
Last Line:: They better write of love I better love
DMI number:: 43625

34. A knife dear girl cuts love they say

First Line:: A knife dear girl cuts love they say
Last Line:: Save only cut and come again
DMI number:: 36063

35. A month hath rolled its lazy hours away

First Line:: A month hath rolled its lazy hours away
Last Line:: And we shall meet again to part no more
Author:: Robert Lloyd (Absolute)
DMI number:: 36633

36. A most harmonious friendship this must prove

First Line:: A most harmonious friendship this must prove
Last Line:: Their kindness centers on themselves alone
Author:: John Crowne (Absolute)
DMI number:: 16300

37. A murderous guilt shows not itself more soon

First Line:: A murderous guilt shows not itself more soon
Last Line:: Than love that would seem hid
Author:: William Shakespeare (Absolute)
DMI number:: 18492

38. A new found match is made of late

First Line:: A new found match is made of late
Last Line:: Love is a pleasant woe
DMI number:: 49675

39. A newfound match is made of late

First Line:: A newfound match is made of late
Last Line:: Love is a pleasant woe
DMI number:: 49899

40. A northern pair we waive the name

First Line:: A northern pair we waive the name
Last Line:: Give nature vent and drop it here
DMI number:: 23390

41. A northern pair we'll waive the name

First Line:: A northern pair we'll waive the name
Last Line:: Give nature vent and drop it here
DMI number:: 32315

42. A nosegay lacking flowers fresh

First Line:: A nosegay lacking flowers fresh
Last Line:: on ground he takes his rest
DMI number:: 49212

43. A nymph and swain Sheelah and Dermot hight

First Line:: A nymph and swain Sheelah and Dermot hight
Last Line:: Then let us rise and rest our weary bums
Author:: Jonathan Swift (Absolute)
DMI number:: 13466

44. A nymph of every charm possessed

First Line:: A nymph of every charm possessed
Last Line:: A more refulgent light
DMI number:: 37870

45. A palace that is more uneasy far

First Line:: A palace that is more uneasy far
Last Line:: Of all I saw but all I fancied too
Author:: Aphra Behn (Absolute)
DMI number:: 23329

46. A swain long tortured with disdain

First Line:: A swain long tortured with disdain
Last Line:: And make us tyrants by their fear
DMI number:: 11840

47. A thoughtful druid on the green

First Line:: A thoughtful druid on the green
Last Line:: And darkness takes the place of day
DMI number:: 24376

48. A thousand martyrs I have made

First Line:: A thousand martyrs I have made
Last Line:: Despise the fools that whine for love
DMI number:: 43588

49. A tower of brass one would have said

First Line:: A tower of brass one would have said
Last Line:: With sparing hand but just enough has given
Author:: Abraham Cowley (Absolute)
DMI number:: 932

50. A tower with sounding walls erected stands

First Line:: A tower with sounding walls erected stands
Last Line:: Beyond what can be by my words expressed
Author:: Charles Hopkins (Confident)
DMI number:: 7347

51. A mighty science 'tis to know

First Line:: A mighty science 'tis to know
Last Line:: That folly guide and wait on love
DMI number:: 6242

52. A pleasant spring doth rise within my grove

First Line:: A pleasant spring doth rise within my grove
Last Line:: That none but lovers and the muses know
DMI number:: 42112

53. 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

54. A reason why we love

First Line:: A reason why we love
Last Line:: That love has reason
DMI number:: 22015

55. A pox upon this needless scorn

First Line:: A pox upon this needless scorn
Last Line:: Years will be minutes ages hours
Author:: Aphra Behn (Absolute)
DMI number:: 25338

56. A pox upon this needless scorn

First Line:: A pox upon this needless scorn
Last Line:: Years would be minutes ages hours
Author:: Aphra Behn (Absolute)
DMI number:: 3988

57. A pox who'd be a poet in our days

First Line:: A pox who'd be a poet in our days
Last Line:: Next venture posture Mall shall be his muse
DMI number:: 41878

58. A secret murder hath been done of late

First Line:: A secret murder hath been done of late
Last Line:: For at your fight my wound doth bleed anew
DMI number:: 44747

59. A seeming friend yet enemy to rest

First Line:: A seeming friend yet enemy to rest
Last Line:: Such life leads Love entangled with misdeems
Author:: John Lyly (Absolute)
DMI number:: 44778

60. A serious lover can alone explain

First Line:: A serious lover can alone explain
Last Line:: Than all the flowers of rhetoric can do
DMI number:: 6838

61. A shepherd and a shepherdess

First Line:: A shepherd and a shepherdess
Last Line:: Like fortune still befall true love
Author:: Anthony Munday (Absolute)
DMI number:: 44911

62. 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

63. A shepherdess of wondrous fame

First Line:: A shepherdess of wondrous fame
Last Line:: Must come in Mars's guise
DMI number:: 6222

64. A sigh heaves in my breast

First Line:: A sigh heaves in my breast
Last Line:: And stops the struggling accents on my tongue
Author:: Nicholas Rowe (Absolute)
DMI number:: 20778

65. A silly shepherd lately sat

First Line:: A silly shepherd lately sat
Last Line:: the honour of his sleep
Author:: Nicholas Breton [Britton] (Absolute)
DMI number:: 44839

66. A silly shepherd wooed but wist not

First Line:: A silly shepherd wooed but wist not
Last Line:: When he will he shall have nay
DMI number:: 7054

67. A song of horror I must now commence

First Line:: A song of horror I must now commence
Last Line:: And shall for ages be the song of fame
DMI number:: 4243

68. A pretty young lady in love with a beau

First Line:: A pretty young lady in love with a beau
Last Line:: But according to custom she lights him to bed
DMI number:: 21738

69. A restless lover I espied

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

70. A Robyn | Jolly Robyn | Tell me how thy leman doeth

First Line:: A Robyn | Jolly Robyn | Tell me how thy leman doeth
Last Line:: And let them warme with thee
Author:: Sir Thomas Wyatt (Absolute)
DMI number:: 38527

71. A rustic brought of curious mold

First Line:: A rustic brought of curious mold
Last Line:: I swear I'll make a fire of thee
Author:: Francis Fawkes (Absolute)
DMI number:: 27182

72. A turtle sat upon a leafless tree

First Line:: A turtle sat upon a leafless tree
Last Line:: to see her montan die
Author:: Thomas Lodge (Absolute)
DMI number:: 44827

73. A whimsical pain has just caught me

First Line:: A whimsical pain has just caught me
Last Line:: The queen of our toast Molly Row
DMI number:: 22725

74. A lady lovely with a charming mien

First Line:: A lady lovely with a charming mien
Last Line:: Communicated all her thoughts to me
Author:: Aphra Behn (Absolute)
DMI number:: 23323

75. A lady thus her maid addressed

First Line:: A lady thus her maid addressed
Last Line:: When all who see admire
DMI number:: 38042

76. A lady's heart on Marlborough Downs

First Line:: A lady's heart on Marlborough Downs
Last Line:: To any modern man
DMI number:: 25447

77. 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

78. 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

79. A love so pure

First Line:: A love so pure
Last Line:: As light transmitted through a crystal glass
Author:: John Dryden (Absolute)
DMI number:: 19494

80. A love which knows no bounds to Antony

First Line:: A love which knows no bounds to Antony
Last Line:: And shed his better influence
Author:: John Dryden (Absolute)
DMI number:: 20582

81. A lovely nun but yet no cloistered fair

First Line:: A lovely nun but yet no cloistered fair
Last Line:: For still I'll court her image in my soul
DMI number:: 18209

82. A lovely nymph of Cyprus isle

First Line:: A lovely nymph of Cyprus isle
Last Line:: Shall sing to Thomasia their queen
DMI number:: 25015

83. A Lover I am and a lover I'll be

First Line:: A Lover I am and a lover I'll be
Last Line:: How we kiss and embrace and can never have done
DMI number:: 44137

84. A lover I am born and a lover I'll be

First Line:: A lover I am born and a lover I'll be
Last Line:: How we kiss and embrace and can never have done
DMI number:: 44059

85. 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

86. A lover's like a hunter

First Line:: A lover's like a hunter
Last Line:: If the game be got with too much ease he cares not for 't
Author:: Peter Hausted (Absolute)
DMI number:: 16264

87. A lovers rage and jealousy

First Line:: A lovers rage and jealousy
Last Line:: Whose hearts are full of tenderness
DMI number:: 43604

88. A loyal breast

First Line:: A loyal breast
Last Line:: More flames oppressed
DMI number:: 41978

89. A maid unasked may own a well placed flame

First Line:: A maid unasked may own a well placed flame
Last Line:: Not loving first but loving ill's the shame
Author:: George Lyttelton (Absolute)
DMI number:: 26918

90. Ah gentle god of love

First Line:: Ah gentle god of love
Last Line:: And wanton in her eyes
DMI number:: 17722

91. Ah gentle hero little dost thou prove

First Line:: Ah gentle hero little dost thou prove
Last Line:: But swear it's constant and that you're unkind | Leander
DMI number:: 37981

92. Ah Goltho who love's fever can assuage

First Line:: Ah Goltho who love's fever can assuage
Last Line:: Tis waved by love as reason is by faith
Author:: Sir William Davenant (Absolute)
DMI number:: 16272

93. Ah grant me fair one all I crave

First Line:: Ah grant me fair one all I crave
Last Line:: Believe me is my love for you
DMI number:: 21983

94. Ah happy are we anchorites that know

First Line:: Ah happy are we anchorites that know
Last Line:: Defying both the storms of fate and love
DMI number:: 43476

95. Ah happy flower pride of all

First Line:: Ah happy flower pride of all
Last Line:: Forbids the approaches of the sun
DMI number:: 43381

96. Ah happy flower pride of all

First Line:: Ah happy flower pride of all
Last Line:: Forbids the kisses of the approaching sun
DMI number:: 44418

97. Ah happy grove dark and secure retreat

First Line:: Ah happy grove dark and secure retreat
Last Line:: And whilst they live their flames can never die
Author:: Wentworth Dillon (Absolute) & Giovanni Battista Guarini (Absolute)
DMI number:: 3417

98. Ah how dull it is to love

First Line:: Ah how dull it is to love
Last Line:: Rather die than conquered be
DMI number:: 43615

99. Ah how pleasant are the charms of love

First Line:: Ah how pleasant are the charms of love
Last Line:: Perfect and immortal as the joys above
DMI number:: 42802

100. Ah I remember well and how can I

First Line:: Ah I remember well and how can I
Last Line:: What she would have me yet not have me know
Author:: Samuel Daniel (Absolute)
DMI number:: 16169

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1. A curse attends that woman's love

2. A damsel hard by as fair as her fame

3. A den where tigers make the passage good

4. A face that should content me wonderous well

5. A face that should content me wondrous well

6. A fair maid wed to prying jealousy

7. A faithful swain whom love had taught to sing

8. A fate like mine as poets sing

9. A fond father's bliss is to number his race

10. A friend of mine exposed to sale

11. A friend of mine exposed to sale

12. A band of cupids the other day

13. A beau as in old tale it's written

14. A beauteous face fine shape engaging air

15. A blithe and bonny country lass

16. A bloom like thine attends the vernal rose

17. A blooming youth lies buried here

18. A careful nymph with careless grief oppressed

19. A careful nymph with careless grief oppressed

20. A carefull nymph with careless grief oppressed

21. A change so swift what heart did ever feel

22. A choir of bright beauties in spring did appear

23. A common pity does not love express

24. A constancy in love I'll prize

25. A crowne of baies shall that man beare

26. A Grecian dame is thus complete

27. A grove there was by nature made

28. A Hama-Dryad flourished in these days

29. A handsome youth be sure you'll have

30. A heart full of coldness a sweet full of

31. A hermit on the banks of Trent

32. A hopeless flame did Corydon destroy

33. A juster present sure was never made

34. A knife dear girl cuts love they say

35. A month hath rolled its lazy hours away

36. A most harmonious friendship this must prove

37. A murderous guilt shows not itself more soon

38. A new found match is made of late

39. A newfound match is made of late

40. A northern pair we waive the name

41. A northern pair we'll waive the name

42. A nosegay lacking flowers fresh

43. A nymph and swain Sheelah and Dermot hight

44. A nymph of every charm possessed

45. A palace that is more uneasy far

46. A swain long tortured with disdain

47. A thoughtful druid on the green

48. A thousand martyrs I have made

49. A tower of brass one would have said

50. A tower with sounding walls erected stands

51. A mighty science 'tis to know

52. A pleasant spring doth rise within my grove

53. A poore soule sat sighing under a sicamore tree

54. A reason why we love

55. A pox upon this needless scorn

56. A pox upon this needless scorn

57. A pox who'd be a poet in our days

58. A secret murder hath been done of late

59. A seeming friend yet enemy to rest

60. A serious lover can alone explain

61. A shepherd and a shepherdess

62. A shepherd boy all in an evening fair

63. A shepherdess of wondrous fame

64. A sigh heaves in my breast

65. A silly shepherd lately sat

66. A silly shepherd wooed but wist not

67. A song of horror I must now commence

68. A pretty young lady in love with a beau

69. A restless lover I espied

70. A Robyn | Jolly Robyn | Tell me how thy leman doeth

71. A rustic brought of curious mold

72. A turtle sat upon a leafless tree