Poem Theme: Poetry / literature / writing and Wit / Related People: Not attributed

1. A heat that glows in every line that's writ

First Line:: A heat that glows in every line that's writ
Last Line:: Describing all men yet described by none &c
Author:: John Sheffield (Absolute)
DMI number:: 10775

2. Accept a miracle instead of wit

First Line:: Accept a miracle instead of wit
Last Line:: See two dull lines by Stanhope's pencil writ
Author:: Alexander Pope (Speculation)
DMI number:: 13498

3. Accept my lord the tribute which I bring

First Line:: Accept my lord the tribute which I bring
Last Line:: And find not Timon but a Ch-nd-s there
DMI number:: 19702

4. An epigram that's new sharp near and witty

First Line:: An epigram that's new sharp near and witty
Last Line:: Once common though still good they are neglected
DMI number:: 43775

5. As various arts do shine in various men

First Line:: As various arts do shine in various men
Last Line:: If there be such a man tis none but Swift
DMI number:: 25376

6. As heroes states and kingdoms rise and fall

First Line:: As heroes states and kingdoms rise and fall
Last Line:: At least we're vanquished in a noble cause
Author:: David Garrick (Absolute)
DMI number:: 37513

7. Arise ye glimmering stars of wit

First Line:: Arise ye glimmering stars of wit
Last Line:: For lo the sun of verse is set
DMI number:: 25174

8. B-- though with scraps of others wit

First Line:: B-- though with scraps of others wit
Last Line:: For silence can't like books be bought
DMI number:: 12731

9. Celia's bright charms no more I'll choose

First Line:: Celia's bright charms no more I'll choose
Last Line:: And make it fashion to be wise
DMI number:: 12876

10. Dear Friend | When those we love are in distress

First Line:: Dear Friend | When those we love are in distress
Last Line:: And 'tis the thoughtful traitor that offends his king
Author:: Robert Gould (Absolute)
DMI number:: 4438

11. Curse on the wretch whose rage to be a wit

First Line:: Curse on the wretch whose rage to be a wit
Last Line:: Hammering out paltry lines twelve times twelve hundred
DMI number:: 9446

12. Daphnis because I am your debtor

First Line:: Daphnis because I am your debtor
Last Line:: I rest your very humble servant
Author:: Aphra Behn (Confident)
DMI number:: 41818

13. Dear sir when I received your letter

First Line:: Dear sir when I received your letter
Last Line:: And write you rhyme when they play pools | At Mr T--s
DMI number:: 35345

14. Diamonds concealed their lustre may retain

First Line:: Diamonds concealed their lustre may retain
Last Line:: And think there is some worth in my dull rhymes
DMI number:: 43204

15. E---'s finished meaner plays give place

First Line:: E---'s finished meaner plays give place
Last Line:: Late to the snuff shop later to the bum
DMI number:: 32482

16. Each softening charm of Clio's smiling song

First Line:: Each softening charm of Clio's smiling song
Last Line:: The muses and the virtues tune thy mind
Author:: Richard Savage (Confident)
DMI number:: 13091

17. Fair dames if puppets may presume to sue

First Line:: Fair dames if puppets may presume to sue
Last Line:: That though his humble friends we never eat
DMI number:: 33438

18. For God's sake tell me what bold confidence

First Line:: For God's sake tell me what bold confidence
Last Line:: And by strange luck may make a shift to live
DMI number:: 43394

19. Give me a wit whose fancy's not confined

First Line:: Give me a wit whose fancy's not confined
Last Line:: Always in their dear mistress's company
Author:: Margaret Cavendish [nee Lucas] (Absolute)
DMI number:: 23813

20. From whence usurping man thy boasted claim

First Line:: From whence usurping man thy boasted claim
Last Line:: In choicer gifts but wit to use them well
DMI number:: 43036

21. Great wits do not live many days

First Line:: Great wits do not live many days
Last Line:: But thou o laureate live for ever
DMI number:: 24800

22. Had Aesop been living what mortal so able

First Line:: Had Aesop been living what mortal so able
Last Line:: Those who murdered the fowl will be choaked with the feathers
DMI number:: 36071

23. Hail sacred friend this comes to let thee know

First Line:: Hail sacred friend this comes to let thee know
Last Line:: Ah cease thy wonders give me moisture too
DMI number:: 43385

24. Hear me dull prostitute worse than my wife

First Line:: Hear me dull prostitute worse than my wife
Last Line:: While thy vile heroes to their pardons run
Author:: John Somers (Confident)
DMI number:: 5498

25. Hear ye bright muses your own Dryden's dead

First Line:: Hear ye bright muses your own Dryden's dead
Last Line:: She left her garment and to heaven aspired
DMI number:: 3528

26. Have you seen the raging stormy main

First Line:: Have you seen the raging stormy main
Last Line:: If you have seen all this then kiss mine -
Author:: John Wilmot (Speculation)
DMI number:: 5427

27. Hence satire's power tis her corrective part

First Line:: Hence satire's power tis her corrective part
Last Line:: And slaves and sycophants surround in vain
Author:: John Brown (Absolute)
DMI number:: 30878

28. Here take this W--- spread it up and down

First Line:: Here take this W--- spread it up and down
Last Line:: With horns instead of bays the hero crowned
DMI number:: 4442

29. How rash is the vow which thy poet hath made

First Line:: How rash is the vow which thy poet hath made
Last Line:: And out did the muses and graces together
DMI number:: 35661

30. Immortal Swift thy mind compared may be

First Line:: Immortal Swift thy mind compared may be
Last Line:: Cast a perfume upon thy monument
DMI number:: 17295

31. In Phoebus wit as Ovid said

First Line:: In Phoebus wit as Ovid said
Last Line:: She pays you as a tree
Author:: Thomas Parnell (Absolute)
DMI number:: 8399

32. In vain was ministerial breath

First Line:: In vain was ministerial breath
Last Line:: And Queensberry in Polly
DMI number:: 35068

33. In vain alas for who by wit is moved

First Line:: In vain alas for who by wit is moved
Last Line:: Mankind take most with that fantastic sex
Author:: John Sheffield (Absolute)
DMI number:: 10411

34. My easy friends since ye think fit

First Line:: My easy friends since ye think fit
Last Line:: And challenges respect wherever its blaze extends
Author:: Allan Ramsay (Absolute)
DMI number:: 15352

35. I said 'tis true Lucilius' lines were rough

First Line:: I said 'tis true Lucilius' lines were rough
Last Line:: Go boy and in my book these verses write
Author:: John Duncombe (Absolute)
DMI number:: 25716

36. If B----re labours as he writes to please

First Line:: If B----re labours as he writes to please
Last Line:: As if cannot fall it cannot rise
Author:: Sir Richard Blackmore (Speculation)
DMI number:: 3605

37. If bards would have a shortlived poem writ

First Line:: If bards would have a shortlived poem writ
Last Line:: To file the rust of wit from P----ck's sense
Author:: Sir Richard Blackmore (Speculation)
DMI number:: 3583

38. If wit as we are told be a disease

First Line:: If wit as we are told be a disease
Last Line:: Tis from his pen the grand elixir flows
Author:: Thomas Brown (Absolute)
DMI number:: 3763

39. If that some painter in a piece should place

First Line:: If that some painter in a piece should place
Last Line:: Will burst or kill them ere they'll reading leave
DMI number:: 42213

40. If you those epigrams commend

First Line:: If you those epigrams commend
Last Line:: Because it ends with --- none at all
DMI number:: 21073

41. Leave off for shame thy scribbling itch give over

First Line:: Leave off for shame thy scribbling itch give over
Last Line:: Yet even heroic verse shall stoop to thee
DMI number:: 43411

42. O thou who erst from Baii's smoking plain

First Line:: O thou who erst from Baii's smoking plain
Last Line:: And crown thy nonsense though she can't commend
DMI number:: 37159

43. Of all the wonders since the world began

First Line:: Of all the wonders since the world began
Last Line:: When all fools write to think no more of rhyme
Author:: John Wilmot (Speculation)
DMI number:: 6424

44. Oh wonder of thy sex where can we see

First Line:: Oh wonder of thy sex where can we see
Last Line:: But what you wish as soon as wished obtain
DMI number:: 43666

45. Playwright me reads and still my verses damns

First Line:: Playwright me reads and still my verses damns
Last Line:: In my chaste book profess them in thine own
Author:: Benjamin Jonson (Absolute)
DMI number:: 13069

46. Poet said Chloe with a laugh

First Line:: Poet said Chloe with a laugh
Last Line:: Both epitaph and elegy
DMI number:: 36024

47. Prithee my gentle man of crape and prayer

First Line:: Prithee my gentle man of crape and prayer
Last Line:: Sir Richard never will say the same of thee
Author:: Sir Richard Blackmore (Speculation)
DMI number:: 3602

48. Poor Bardus you say scarce a livelihood gets

First Line:: Poor Bardus you say scarce a livelihood gets
Last Line:: How should he I trow when he lives by his wits
DMI number:: 19365

49. Says a friend to a knight shall a friend by whose skill

First Line:: Says a friend to a knight shall a friend by whose skill
Last Line:: And all these court poets be damned the first day
DMI number:: 35072

50. Says a writer genteel of high genius and taste

First Line:: Says a writer genteel of high genius and taste
Last Line:: For like me all the while they were lulled fast asleep
DMI number:: 33541

51. Says R--d to Joe thou art a very sad dog

First Line:: Says R--d to Joe thou art a very sad dog
Last Line:: The one's in the right and the other's not wrong
DMI number:: 12249

52. Says Richard to Joe thou art a very sad dog

First Line:: Says Richard to Joe thou art a very sad dog
Last Line:: The one's in the right and the other's not wrong
DMI number:: 14482

53. Said B---dg---t to Will I am told you're a poet

First Line:: Said B---dg---t to Will I am told you're a poet
Last Line:: That matter too oft has been handled already
DMI number:: 35675

54. Securely may thou mangle others sense

First Line:: Securely may thou mangle others sense
Last Line:: For ere we criticise we're bound to read
DMI number:: 19550

55. See with what virtue wit is fraught

First Line:: See with what virtue wit is fraught
Last Line:: But burn when they unite
DMI number:: 22077

56. Sir | all my endeavours all my hopes depend

First Line:: Sir | all my endeavours all my hopes depend
Last Line:: Your humble servant sir not one word more
Author:: Matthew Prior (Absolute)
DMI number:: 4441

57. Small are the poor returns which you receive

First Line:: Small are the poor returns which you receive
Last Line:: Nor can I backward be to praise desert
DMI number:: 43207

58. Stop passenger

First Line:: Stop passenger
Last Line:: The latter by possession
DMI number:: 21059

59. The great ones justly Johnny Gay

First Line:: The great ones justly Johnny Gay
Last Line:: For plundering but an Indian king
DMI number:: 35071

60. The expression of woe when to anguish we wake

First Line:: The expression of woe when to anguish we wake
Last Line:: Make the name of a nymph by some beaux much adored
DMI number:: 36841

61. The famed Italian muse whose rhymes advance

First Line:: The famed Italian muse whose rhymes advance
Last Line:: Is forced to turn his satire into praise
Author:: John Dryden (Absolute)
DMI number:: 4707

62. There are who think my verses are too bold

First Line:: There are who think my verses are too bold
Last Line:: Will smile dismiss the bill and set you free
DMI number:: 25717

63. This monument for Hudibras

First Line:: This monument for Hudibras
Last Line:: Erected was by John de Brass
DMI number:: 35082

64. Thus to the place where Jonson sat we climb

First Line:: Thus to the place where Jonson sat we climb
Last Line:: And I grow more a wit and more and more
DMI number:: 40477

65. To rack and torture thy unmeaning brain

First Line:: To rack and torture thy unmeaning brain
Last Line:: For any thing entire but for an ass
Author:: Sir Carr Scrope (Speculation) & John Wilmot (Absolute)
DMI number:: 5670

66. True wit is everlasting like the sun

First Line:: True wit is everlasting like the sun
Last Line:: -
Author:: John Sheffield (Absolute)
DMI number:: 10376

67. True wit is like the precious stone

First Line:: True wit is like the precious stone
Last Line:: It neither cuts nor shines
DMI number:: 31963

68. Two rival sisters in alternate strains

First Line:: Two rival sisters in alternate strains
Last Line:: Than Sappho's sprightly wit and Delia's modest sense
DMI number:: 19719

69. Two accidents the weekly bills have missed

First Line:: Two accidents the weekly bills have missed
Last Line:: The Spartan virtue to the Athenian wit
DMI number:: 35076

70. We all can well admire few well can praise

First Line:: We all can well admire few well can praise
Last Line:: For thus you're sure to kill where once you wound
DMI number:: 43668

71. Well S--y since thou wilt expose

First Line:: Well S--y since thou wilt expose
Last Line:: Goodbye smart poet till next time
DMI number:: 11527

72. Well Smedley since thou wilt expose

First Line:: Well Smedley since thou wilt expose
Last Line:: Would like yourself your theme pursue
Author:: Jonathan Swift (Speculation)
DMI number:: 18164

73. When old Elijah as the scriptures say

First Line:: When old Elijah as the scriptures say
Last Line:: My wit I leave thee but I have no cloak
DMI number:: 24603

74. When men forgetful of their high descent

First Line:: When men forgetful of their high descent
Last Line:: The lees the dregs the sediment of fame
DMI number:: 3527

75. When nature formed thee for a wit

First Line:: When nature formed thee for a wit
Last Line:: Can prove to demonstration
DMI number:: 35346

76. Wit bears so thin a crop this duller age

First Line:: Wit bears so thin a crop this duller age
Last Line:: For time that makes new fools may mend his hand
Author:: Colley Cibber (Absolute)
DMI number:: 17525

77. Wit's judgement day is sure at hand

First Line:: Wit's judgement day is sure at hand
Last Line:: Now rises from their Gr-ves
DMI number:: 35074

78. Wonder not shining proof of female wit

First Line:: Wonder not shining proof of female wit
Last Line:: Your winged advance leaves them as far behind
Author:: Margaret Hill [nee Morris] (Speculation)
DMI number:: 17498

79. Ye wrong heads and strong heads attend to my strains

First Line:: Ye wrong heads and strong heads attend to my strains
Last Line:: Though often mistaking the head for the tail
DMI number:: 36051

80. Yes every poet is a fool

First Line:: Yes every poet is a fool
Last Line:: Prove every fool to be a poet
Author:: Matthew Prior (Absolute)
DMI number:: 13099

81. Ye bold magicians in philosophy

First Line:: Ye bold magicians in philosophy
Last Line:: Where the remains of the vast ruins fell
DMI number:: 43667

82. Would any still neglected arts adore

First Line:: Would any still neglected arts adore
Last Line:: And turn so ill used treasure to its native dust
DMI number:: 43416

83. You want you say something in verse

First Line:: You want you say something in verse
Last Line:: To find those scarce ingredients out
DMI number:: 36060

84. You who first taught us in this isle

First Line:: You who first taught us in this isle
Last Line:: Is that we are your counterfeits
DMI number:: 11656

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1. A heat that glows in every line that's writ

2. Accept a miracle instead of wit

3. Accept my lord the tribute which I bring

4. An epigram that's new sharp near and witty

5. As various arts do shine in various men

6. As heroes states and kingdoms rise and fall

7. Arise ye glimmering stars of wit

8. B-- though with scraps of others wit

9. Celia's bright charms no more I'll choose

10. Dear Friend | When those we love are in distress

11. Curse on the wretch whose rage to be a wit

12. Daphnis because I am your debtor

13. Dear sir when I received your letter

14. Diamonds concealed their lustre may retain

15. E---'s finished meaner plays give place

16. Each softening charm of Clio's smiling song

17. Fair dames if puppets may presume to sue

18. For God's sake tell me what bold confidence

19. Give me a wit whose fancy's not confined

20. From whence usurping man thy boasted claim

21. Great wits do not live many days

22. Had Aesop been living what mortal so able

23. Hail sacred friend this comes to let thee know

24. Hear me dull prostitute worse than my wife

25. Hear ye bright muses your own Dryden's dead

26. Have you seen the raging stormy main

27. Hence satire's power tis her corrective part

28. Here take this W--- spread it up and down

29. How rash is the vow which thy poet hath made

30. Immortal Swift thy mind compared may be

31. In Phoebus wit as Ovid said

32. In vain was ministerial breath

33. In vain alas for who by wit is moved

34. My easy friends since ye think fit

35. I said 'tis true Lucilius' lines were rough

36. If B----re labours as he writes to please

37. If bards would have a shortlived poem writ

38. If wit as we are told be a disease

39. If that some painter in a piece should place

40. If you those epigrams commend

41. Leave off for shame thy scribbling itch give over

42. O thou who erst from Baii's smoking plain

43. Of all the wonders since the world began

44. Oh wonder of thy sex where can we see

45. Playwright me reads and still my verses damns

46. Poet said Chloe with a laugh

47. Prithee my gentle man of crape and prayer

48. Poor Bardus you say scarce a livelihood gets

49. Says a friend to a knight shall a friend by whose skill

50. Says a writer genteel of high genius and taste

51. Says R--d to Joe thou art a very sad dog

52. Says Richard to Joe thou art a very sad dog

53. Said B---dg---t to Will I am told you're a poet

54. Securely may thou mangle others sense

55. See with what virtue wit is fraught

56. Sir | all my endeavours all my hopes depend

57. Small are the poor returns which you receive

58. Stop passenger

59. The great ones justly Johnny Gay

60. The expression of woe when to anguish we wake

61. The famed Italian muse whose rhymes advance

62. There are who think my verses are too bold

63. This monument for Hudibras

64. Thus to the place where Jonson sat we climb

65. To rack and torture thy unmeaning brain

66. True wit is everlasting like the sun

67. True wit is like the precious stone

68. Two rival sisters in alternate strains

69. Two accidents the weekly bills have missed

70. We all can well admire few well can praise

71. Well S--y since thou wilt expose

72. Well Smedley since thou wilt expose