Poem Theme: Patronage - Blacklight Search Results

First Line:: All preferment | That springs from sin and lust shoots up quickly
Last Line:: Even like a salad growing upon a dunghill
Author:: Thomas Middleton (Absolute)
DMI number:: 17308

16. And a man will play the fool and be a

First Line:: And a man will play the fool and be a
Last Line:: I cannot stir out of doors for them
Author:: George Chapman (Absolute)
DMI number:: 14458

17. Among the arts to make a piece go down

First Line:: Among the arts to make a piece go down
Last Line:: He dares demand protection sirs from you
Author:: Samuel Foote (Absolute)
DMI number:: 37497

18. And they who write to lords rewards to get

First Line:: And they who write to lords rewards to get
Last Line:: The meat was mine the excrement's his own
Author:: John Donne (Absolute)
DMI number:: 13605

19. And to invite great men from foreign parts

First Line:: And to invite great men from foreign parts
Last Line:: Draw such a picture but make such a man
Author:: Charles Aleyn (Absolute)
DMI number:: 17108

20. Amidst the joy that flows from every tongue

First Line:: Amidst the joy that flows from every tongue
Last Line:: The Jersey and Mecaenas of our land
Author:: William Worts (Absolute)
DMI number:: 7016

21. As Jove will not attend on less

First Line:: As Jove will not attend on less
Last Line:: Live on and stuff to boot their maws
Author:: Jonathan Swift (Speculation)
DMI number:: 1130

22. As nature does in newborn infants frame

First Line:: As nature does in newborn infants frame
Last Line:: You for improving wit and he for war
Author:: Charles Hopkins (Confident)
DMI number:: 4844

23. As the success of authors is uncertain

First Line:: As the success of authors is uncertain
Last Line:: Tis best to marry first then wear the breeches
Author:: David Garrick (Absolute)
DMI number:: 37511

24. Are you all ready here's your music here

First Line:: Are you all ready here's your music here
Last Line:: So if you like it save it if not damn it
Author:: Edward Moore (Absolute)
DMI number:: 37512

25. As seamen shipwrecked on some happy shore

First Line:: As seamen shipwrecked on some happy shore
Last Line:: New life to my condemned and dying muse
Author:: John Dryden (Absolute)
DMI number:: 6743

26. Awake lethargic muse no longer dream

First Line:: Awake lethargic muse no longer dream
Last Line:: And drops its tribute at your lordship's feet
Author:: James Dodd (Confident)
DMI number:: 17551

27. Attendance Cowley thinks a barbarous fate

First Line:: Attendance Cowley thinks a barbarous fate
Last Line:: But yet he could not relish being poor
Author:: Robert Gould (Absolute)
DMI number:: 9473

28. Auspicious youth what happy stars attend

First Line:: Auspicious youth what happy stars attend
Last Line:: Thy sword the laurel gain thy pen the bays
DMI number:: 22935

29. Baker and poet swell thy glorious name

First Line:: Baker and poet swell thy glorious name
Last Line:: And on the baker do the poet right
DMI number:: 12360

30. Besides those things you have already told

First Line:: Besides those things you have already told
Last Line:: Who bears me hence live happy and farewell
DMI number:: 25725

31. Boy haste away with careful place

First Line:: Boy haste away with careful place
Last Line:: Provision to a starving muse
Author:: Edward Burnaby Greene (Absolute)
DMI number:: 25768

32. Can it be

First Line:: Can it be
Last Line:: And shall mine then continue
Author:: Robert Baron (Absolute)
DMI number:: 14461

33. By nature formed to rule embarrassed states

First Line:: By nature formed to rule embarrassed states
Last Line:: Under the covert of a fictitious tale
DMI number:: 6421

34. By the side of a nobleman's house

First Line:: By the side of a nobleman's house
Last Line:: And a drum if ye please of my ar-e
DMI number:: 10234

35. By favouring wit Maecenas purchased fame

First Line:: By favouring wit Maecenas purchased fame
Last Line:: At once the patron and the poet too
DMI number:: 16115

36. Codrus a brother in the scribbling trade

First Line:: Codrus a brother in the scribbling trade
Last Line:: He dedicates his labours to himself
DMI number:: 11048

37. Come Abram's sons from every quarter come

First Line:: Come Abram's sons from every quarter come
Last Line:: And give to golden calves again your praise
DMI number:: 40610

38. Could all that passes in my breast be seen

First Line:: Could all that passes in my breast be seen
Last Line:: Your sacred name your presence can inspire
DMI number:: 22146

39. Connoisseur in pretence of the antique whose words ring

First Line:: Connoisseur in pretence of the antique whose words ring
Last Line:: The augustan age here to revive
DMI number:: 37679

40. Darcy to thee whatever of happier vein

First Line:: Darcy to thee whatever of happier vein
Last Line:: The muse's patron but the poet's friend
Author:: William Mason (Absolute)
DMI number:: 38623

41. Dear Smed I read thy brilliant lines

First Line:: Dear Smed I read thy brilliant lines
Last Line:: For then your horns shall be your pride
Author:: Jonathan Swift (Speculation)
DMI number:: 15880

42. Enough my friend your muse's power is seen

First Line:: Enough my friend your muse's power is seen
Last Line:: Give me their patrons and keep thou thy muse
DMI number:: 12549

43. Down in a northern vale wild flowerets grew

First Line:: Down in a northern vale wild flowerets grew
Last Line:: Her great protectress patroness and friend
DMI number:: 33067

44. Do not think I flatter

First Line:: Do not think I flatter
Last Line:: Where thrift may follow fawning
Author:: William Shakespeare (Absolute)
DMI number:: 14753

45. Five days I told you I from town should stay

First Line:: Five days I told you I from town should stay
Last Line:: That the best station which best suits our mind
Author:: John Duncombe (Absolute)
DMI number:: 25753

46. Five hundred pounds too small a boon

First Line:: Five hundred pounds too small a boon
Last Line:: It scarce would buy the paper
Author:: Allan Ramsay (Absolute)
DMI number:: 17589

47. Forsake awhile my muse thy loved abodes

First Line:: Forsake awhile my muse thy loved abodes
Last Line:: She'll make thy verse immortal as her name
DMI number:: 11755

48. For when that men of merit grow ungraced

First Line:: For when that men of merit grow ungraced
Last Line:: There many strange enormities begin
Author:: Michael Drayton (Absolute)
DMI number:: 17302

49. For writing to this little book your name

First Line:: For writing to this little book your name
Last Line:: But all must praise your great good nature
DMI number:: 12845

50. Give me great monarch pounds five-score

First Line:: Give me great monarch pounds five-score
Last Line:: For some folks read but all must eat
DMI number:: 15777

51. Full little knowest thou that hast not tried

First Line:: Full little knowest thou that hast not tried
Last Line:: That doth his life in so long tendance spend
Author:: Edmund Spenser (Absolute)
DMI number:: 14454

52. Great sir Septimius understands how vast

First Line:: Great sir Septimius understands how vast
Last Line:: A stouter better man you never did see
Author:: Alexander Brome (Absolute)
DMI number:: 42199

53. Great Capitolian Jove thou god to whom

First Line:: Great Capitolian Jove thou god to whom
Last Line:: Caesar himself can grant what's fit for me
Author:: Aaron Hill (Absolute)
DMI number:: 13488

54. H-y a pamphlet doth in prose present

First Line:: H-y a pamphlet doth in prose present
Last Line:: Now said my lord 'tis rhyme before nor rhyme nor reason
DMI number:: 17073

55. Hail sacred reliques of the tuneful train

First Line:: Hail sacred reliques of the tuneful train
Last Line:: And honour Pollio for his Virgil's sake
Author:: Thomas Fitzgerald (Absolute)
DMI number:: 223

56. Hail the year and hail the morn

First Line:: Hail the year and hail the morn
Last Line:: Cease my muse the task is done
DMI number:: 35583

57. Harley the nation's great support

First Line:: Harley the nation's great support
Last Line:: Pray leave me where you found me first
Author:: Jonathan Swift (Absolute)
DMI number:: 1953

58. He who cannot merit | Preferment by employments let him bare

First Line:: He who cannot merit | Preferment by employments let him bare
Last Line:: Or die or live a slave without redemption
Author:: John Ford (Absolute)
DMI number:: 17309

59. He that doth ask Saint James doth say shall speed

First Line:: He that doth ask Saint James doth say shall speed
Last Line:: O that King James would answer so my need
Author:: Sir John Davies (Speculation)
DMI number:: 41951

60. He that in bosom of a prince doth dwell

First Line:: He that in bosom of a prince doth dwell
Last Line:: To seem to be familiar with a king
DMI number:: 14736

61. How I succeed you kindly ask

First Line:: How I succeed you kindly ask
Last Line:: The praise of wit let others claim
Author:: Mary Barber (Absolute)
DMI number:: 11654

62. 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

63. Hither amongst the crowds that shun

First Line:: Hither amongst the crowds that shun
Last Line:: Remember tis a Dorset sways
Author:: Mary Barber (Absolute)
DMI number:: 11566

64. Ho Moeris whither on thy way so fast

First Line:: Ho Moeris whither on thy way so fast
Last Line:: And find a friend at court I'll find a voice
Author:: John Dryden (Absolute)
DMI number:: 3791

65. How sweet is praise and justly purchased glory

First Line:: How sweet is praise and justly purchased glory
Last Line:: And such the prize that crowns a generous mind
DMI number:: 1010

66. I cursed be my folly a certainty slighted

First Line:: I cursed be my folly a certainty slighted
Last Line:: Pushed open the door and raging left the room
DMI number:: 38373

67. Hylas the clear day boasts a glorious sun

First Line:: Hylas the clear day boasts a glorious sun
Last Line:: Far as the fame of poetry and Ben
Author:: Lucius Cary (Confident)
DMI number:: 3981

68. I am thy heir Catullus thou hast said it

First Line:: I am thy heir Catullus thou hast said it
Last Line:: But I will not believe it till I read it
Author:: R. Fletcher (Confident)
DMI number:: 15989

69. I hate dependance on another's will

First Line:: I hate dependance on another's will
Last Line:: So are our wholsome or unwholsome days
Author:: John Crowne (Absolute)
DMI number:: 14462

70. In some vile hamlet let me live forgot

First Line:: In some vile hamlet let me live forgot
Last Line:: But to trudge four and miss you is the devil
Author:: Thomas Brown (Absolute)
DMI number:: 7096

71. In Greek and Roman writings skilled

First Line:: In Greek and Roman writings skilled
Last Line:: And high in spirits bid our cares farewell
DMI number:: 25576

72. In peaceful shades which aged oaks diffuse

First Line:: In peaceful shades which aged oaks diffuse
Last Line:: And curling smoke from village tops ascends
Author:: Virgil (Absolute) & John Caryll (Absolute)
DMI number:: 3781

73. It was my lord the dextrous shift

First Line:: It was my lord the dextrous shift
Last Line:: To save mine own and others' souls
Author:: Jonathan Smedley (Confident)
DMI number:: 15683

74. It was my lord the dextrous shift

First Line:: It was my lord the dextrous shift
Last Line:: To save my own and others souls
Author:: Jonathan Smedley (Confident)
DMI number:: 23156

75. Look how against great rains a standing pool

First Line:: Look how against great rains a standing pool
Last Line:: The scum of either country swarming about him
Author:: George Chapman (Absolute)
DMI number:: 14456

76. Long Dodington in debt I long have sought

First Line:: Long Dodington in debt I long have sought
Last Line:: What most we wish with ease we fancy near
Author:: Edward Young (Absolute)
DMI number:: 32448

77. Long had my mind unknowing how to soar

First Line:: Long had my mind unknowing how to soar
Last Line:: Whilst each his country's good shall make his chiefest care
Author:: Delarivier Manley (Confident)
DMI number:: 10589

78. Long has the warrior's and the lover's fire

First Line:: Long has the warrior's and the lover's fire
Last Line:: He found to more exalted beings shown
Author:: Constantia Grierson (Confident)
DMI number:: 11324

79. Lords promise soon but to perform are long

First Line:: Lords promise soon but to perform are long
Last Line:: Lord send their purse-strings tied but to their tongue
DMI number:: 17062

80. My very good dean there's few who come here

First Line:: My very good dean there's few who come here
Last Line:: But have something to ask or something to fear
Author:: John Carteret (Absolute)
DMI number:: 24106

81. My very good lord tis a very hard task

First Line:: My very good lord tis a very hard task
Last Line:: For a man to wait here who has nothing to ask
Author:: Jonathan Swift (Absolute)
DMI number:: 24105

82. My virgin muse began to sing of you

First Line:: My virgin muse began to sing of you
Last Line:: The godlike stoic's just like other men
DMI number:: 3863

83. My lord your lordships servitor doth not expect

First Line:: My lord your lordships servitor doth not expect
Last Line:: And your petitioner desires no more
DMI number:: 28271

84. My lord | By civil law the Ducks first got a name

First Line:: My lord | By civil law the Ducks first got a name
Last Line:: And your petitioner shall ever pray &c
DMI number:: 1400

85. My lord | Our poet's rules in easy numbers tell

First Line:: My lord | Our poet's rules in easy numbers tell
Last Line:: And be the Juliana of the age
Author:: Sir Samuel Garth (Absolute)
DMI number:: 7041

86. My Lord | Sheffield's illustrious muse attends your smile

First Line:: My Lord | Sheffield's illustrious muse attends your smile
Last Line:: And triumph to great Sheffield's manes give
Author:: John Henley (Speculation)
DMI number:: 1425

87. My lord from my friends I intelligence had

First Line:: My lord from my friends I intelligence had
Last Line:: From your drudge and your tool and your humble servant
DMI number:: 38372

88. Most gracious sovereign please to excuse

First Line:: Most gracious sovereign please to excuse
Last Line:: And your petitioners shall pray &c
DMI number:: 10247

89. My blunt friend Lollius if I know thee right

First Line:: My blunt friend Lollius if I know thee right
Last Line:: Let me alone to get a quiet mind
Author:: Alexander Brome (Absolute)
DMI number:: 42208

90. I told you sir it would not pass

First Line:: I told you sir it would not pass
Last Line:: Go kick that rascal out of doors
DMI number:: 4536

91. I owe says Metius much to Colon's care

First Line:: I owe says Metius much to Colon's care
Last Line:: His heir you were not had he seen you twice
Author:: Leonard Welsted (Confident)
DMI number:: 12272

92. I owe says Thomas much to Peter's care

First Line:: I owe says Thomas much to Peter's care
Last Line:: His heir you were not had he seen you twice
Author:: Leonard Welsted (Absolute)
DMI number:: 24895

93. I wanted money money Julio gave

First Line:: I wanted money money Julio gave
Last Line:: For obligation is the dearest way
DMI number:: 12834

94. I who on rude unpolished reed

First Line:: I who on rude unpolished reed
Last Line:: And there the immortal grandsire trod
Author:: Robert Harley (Speculation)
DMI number:: 15481

95. If darkest shades could cloud so bright a mind

First Line:: If darkest shades could cloud so bright a mind
Last Line:: From such a subject and from such a king
DMI number:: 42612

96. If a truth may be asked Sir pray what may it mean

First Line:: If a truth may be asked Sir pray what may it mean
Last Line:: Poor Charles is forgotten to make you the martyr
DMI number:: 121

97. If Afra's worth were needful to be shown

First Line:: If Afra's worth were needful to be shown
Last Line:: And what thou can not comprehend admire
DMI number:: 4443

98. If monarch's as you'll have't on trust reward

First Line:: If monarch's as you'll have't on trust reward
Last Line:: That author's baulked who waits rewards from you
Author:: Sir Richard Blackmore (Speculation)
DMI number:: 3603

99. If yet your thoughts are loose from state affairs

First Line:: If yet your thoughts are loose from state affairs
Last Line:: For next to what you write is what you praise
Author:: Joseph Addison (Absolute)
DMI number:: 6744

100. Let other poets other patrons choose

First Line:: Let other poets other patrons choose
Last Line:: My love sincerely and entirely yours
Author:: Charles Hopkins (Absolute)
DMI number:: 4255

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1. A half famished wolf met a jolly fat dog

2. A mother who vast pleasure finds

3. A stranger from Hibernia came

4. A milk white rogue immortal and unhanged

5. A shepherd poor Eubulus called he was

6. A shepherd poor Eubulus called he was

7. A prince's love is like the lightening's fume

8. About twelve months ago upon searching my brain

9. Accept my good lords my most humble petition

10. Accept O Duck the muse's grateful lay

11. Accept with unambitious views

12. Ah what a death of patrons in this age

13. Alas what popular dependances

14. Against our bishops Henley raves

15. All preferment | That springs from sin and lust shoots up quickly

16. And a man will play the fool and be a

17. Among the arts to make a piece go down

18. And they who write to lords rewards to get

19. And to invite great men from foreign parts

20. Amidst the joy that flows from every tongue

21. As Jove will not attend on less

22. As nature does in newborn infants frame

23. As the success of authors is uncertain

24. Are you all ready here's your music here

25. As seamen shipwrecked on some happy shore

26. Awake lethargic muse no longer dream

27. Attendance Cowley thinks a barbarous fate

28. Auspicious youth what happy stars attend

29. Baker and poet swell thy glorious name

30. Besides those things you have already told

31. Boy haste away with careful place

32. Can it be

33. By nature formed to rule embarrassed states

34. By the side of a nobleman's house

35. By favouring wit Maecenas purchased fame

36. Codrus a brother in the scribbling trade

37. Come Abram's sons from every quarter come

38. Could all that passes in my breast be seen

39. Connoisseur in pretence of the antique whose words ring

40. Darcy to thee whatever of happier vein

41. Dear Smed I read thy brilliant lines

42. Enough my friend your muse's power is seen

43. Down in a northern vale wild flowerets grew

44. Do not think I flatter

45. Five days I told you I from town should stay

46. Five hundred pounds too small a boon

47. Forsake awhile my muse thy loved abodes

48. For when that men of merit grow ungraced

49. For writing to this little book your name

50. Give me great monarch pounds five-score

51. Full little knowest thou that hast not tried

52. Great sir Septimius understands how vast

53. Great Capitolian Jove thou god to whom

54. H-y a pamphlet doth in prose present

55. Hail sacred reliques of the tuneful train

56. Hail the year and hail the morn

57. Harley the nation's great support

58. He who cannot merit | Preferment by employments let him bare

59. He that doth ask Saint James doth say shall speed

60. He that in bosom of a prince doth dwell

61. How I succeed you kindly ask

62. How many great ones may remembered be

63. Hither amongst the crowds that shun

64. Ho Moeris whither on thy way so fast

65. How sweet is praise and justly purchased glory

66. I cursed be my folly a certainty slighted

67. Hylas the clear day boasts a glorious sun

68. I am thy heir Catullus thou hast said it

69. I hate dependance on another's will

70. In some vile hamlet let me live forgot

71. In Greek and Roman writings skilled

72. In peaceful shades which aged oaks diffuse