Poem Theme: Virtue / vice and Fame - Blacklight Search Results

1. A tragic tale from Norman William's age

First Line:: A tragic tale from Norman William's age
Last Line:: One moment's rashness blasts whole years of fame
Author:: Thomas Francklin (Speculation)
DMI number:: 37494

2. A poet to applaud or boldly blame

First Line:: A poet to applaud or boldly blame
Last Line:: And vice to dark oblivion is betrayed
Author:: Dermot O'Connor (Absolute)
DMI number:: 27118

3. A wit's a feather and a chief's a rod

First Line:: A wit's a feather and a chief's a rod
Last Line:: But an honest man's the noblest work of God
Author:: Alexander Pope (Absolute)
DMI number:: 33649

4. A wit's a feather and a chief's a rod

First Line:: A wit's a feather and a chief's a rod
Last Line:: Of stupid starers and of loud huzzas
Author:: Alexander Pope (Absolute)
DMI number:: 30028

5. Amid these mouldering walls this marble round

First Line:: Amid these mouldering walls this marble round
Last Line:: The only happy is the self-approved
Author:: William Whitehead (Absolute)
DMI number:: 27812

6. As genius virtue reputation

First Line:: As genius virtue reputation
Last Line:: Lost reputation's never to be found
Author:: Nicholas Herbert (Absolute)
DMI number:: 22499

7. As high above the starry sphere

First Line:: As high above the starry sphere
Last Line:: A column of imperishable praise
DMI number:: 38683

8. Consenting to thy prayer

First Line:: Consenting to thy prayer
Last Line:: How far his future fame shall all our hopes exceed
DMI number:: 28630

9. Fame heard with pleasure straight replied

First Line:: Fame heard with pleasure straight replied
Last Line:: A friend of yours tis Lyttleton
Author:: Philip Yorke (Confident)
DMI number:: 30372

10. Fear not dear friend the lessening of thy fame

First Line:: Fear not dear friend the lessening of thy fame
Last Line:: That virtue could add splendour to a throne
DMI number:: 43450

11. Fairfax the valiant and the only he

First Line:: Fairfax the valiant and the only he
Last Line:: A man so great in war in peace so just as he
DMI number:: 42679

12. Friend in your epitaphs I'm grieved

First Line:: Friend in your epitaphs I'm grieved
Last Line:: The other never read
Author:: Alexander Pope (Absolute)
DMI number:: 24504

13. For what the world admires I'll wish no more

First Line:: For what the world admires I'll wish no more
Last Line:: Esteems it mean to court the world for praise
Author:: Mary Chudleigh [nee Lee] (Absolute)
DMI number:: 23524

14. Give me flattery

First Line:: Give me flattery
Last Line:: And lull him in the down of his desires
Author:: Philip Massinger (Absolute) & John Fletcher (Absolute)
DMI number:: 18890

15. Hallow my temples let my thoughts be dressed

First Line:: Hallow my temples let my thoughts be dressed
Last Line:: Myriads of stars spring from his falling light
DMI number:: 42968

16. Heart merit wanting mount we ever so high

First Line:: Heart merit wanting mount we ever so high
Last Line:: Our height is but the gibbet of our name
Author:: Edward Young (Absolute)
DMI number:: 35274

17. He heightens them with commendation praise

First Line:: He heightens them with commendation praise
Last Line:: And represent to them what they should be
Author:: Charles Aleyn (Absolute)
DMI number:: 17267

18. Here Hermes says Jove who with nectar was mellow

First Line:: Here Hermes says Jove who with nectar was mellow
Last Line:: You Hermes shall fetch him to make us sport here
Author:: David Garrick (Absolute)
DMI number:: 36042

19. Here lies the man whose name in spite of death

First Line:: Here lies the man whose name in spite of death
Last Line:: His memory shines bright who thus we praise
DMI number:: 15801

20. Hirry hary hobbilschow

First Line:: Hirry hary hobbilschow
Last Line:: Skink first to me the kan
Author:: William Dunbar (Speculation)
DMI number:: 10906

21. Honour I say or honest fame

First Line:: Honour I say or honest fame
Last Line:: And kings can neither take nor give
Author:: Matthew Prior (Absolute)
DMI number:: 16875

22. Hero sprung from ancient blood

First Line:: Hero sprung from ancient blood
Last Line:: Shalt share his fame and make his triumphs thine
Author:: Jonathan Smedley (Confident)
DMI number:: 11526

23. How vain our wishes and how guilty fate

First Line:: How vain our wishes and how guilty fate
Last Line:: And among gods and greatest heroes place
DMI number:: 42830

24. I care not ye gods for the breath of a name

First Line:: I care not ye gods for the breath of a name
Last Line:: Let theirs be the cloud let Juno be mine
DMI number:: 35293

25. I lately thought no man alive

First Line:: I lately thought no man alive
Last Line:: Grow like himself polite
Author:: Thomas Barnard (Confident)
DMI number:: 36015

26. I'll offer and I'll suffer no abuse

First Line:: I'll offer and I'll suffer no abuse
Last Line:: Are oft the noble monuments of pride
Author:: John Crowne (Absolute)
DMI number:: 17321

27. Lest thou shouldst think the words which I

First Line:: Lest thou shouldst think the words which I
Last Line:: To stake his life he doth not fear
Author:: Sir Richard Fanshawe (Absolute)
DMI number:: 42140

28. Learn to live well that thou mayst die so too

First Line:: Learn to live well that thou mayst die so too
Last Line:: To live and die is all we have to do
Author:: Sir John Denham (Absolute)
DMI number:: 34205

29. Led on by hope in quest of fame

First Line:: Led on by hope in quest of fame
Last Line:: I should but moralize in vain
DMI number:: 36131

30. Let good men for good deeds covet good fame

First Line:: Let good men for good deeds covet good fame
Last Line:: Since place and riches oft are bribes for shame
Author:: John Webster (Absolute)
DMI number:: 14726

31. O thou to sacred Themis awful throne

First Line:: O thou to sacred Themis awful throne
Last Line:: And to the palm of virtuous fame aspire
Author:: Thomas Edwards (Absolute)
DMI number:: 36457

32. O you hard hearts you cruel men of Rome

First Line:: O you hard hearts you cruel men of Rome
Last Line:: Made in his concave shores
Author:: William Shakespeare (Absolute)
DMI number:: 37436

33. Once more my lord the muse would tune her lays

First Line:: Once more my lord the muse would tune her lays
Last Line:: And taste and mortals copy still from thee
DMI number:: 40564

34. Our Q---n more anxious to be just

First Line:: Our Q---n more anxious to be just
Last Line:: Whom Lewis like she cannot bribe
DMI number:: 17055

35. Our author by experience finds it true

First Line:: Our author by experience finds it true
Last Line:: And see us play the tragedy of wit
Author:: John Dryden (Absolute)
DMI number:: 17532

36. One good deed dying tongueless

First Line:: One good deed dying tongueless
Last Line:: Our praises are our wages
Author:: William Shakespeare (Absolute)
DMI number:: 17258

37. Quhen silver Diane full of beims bricht

First Line:: Quhen silver Diane full of beims bricht
Last Line:: His hie triumphs and loving was the more
Author:: John Bellenden (Absolute)
DMI number:: 10833

38. Place me ye powers in some obscure retreat

First Line:: Place me ye powers in some obscure retreat
Last Line:: Worse is an evil fame much worse than none
Author:: George Granville (Absolute)
DMI number:: 33660

39. Pollio must needs to penitence excite

First Line:: Pollio must needs to penitence excite
Last Line:: And damns the love of fame for which he writes
DMI number:: 16706

40. Robin earl of Huntingdon

First Line:: Robin earl of Huntingdon
Last Line:: May England never know again
DMI number:: 37008

41. Rewards of earth nobility and fame

First Line:: Rewards of earth nobility and fame
Last Line:: We thus deceived adore these calves of brass
Author:: Fulke Greville (Absolute)
DMI number:: 13180

42. Should you dear Quintius ask me if in grounds

First Line:: Should you dear Quintius ask me if in grounds
Last Line:: If right I guess death shuts the human scene
DMI number:: 25773

43. Shall my own sovereign's praise enrich my lines

First Line:: Shall my own sovereign's praise enrich my lines
Last Line:: To say to angels heaven is all divine
Author:: Aaron Hill (Absolute)
DMI number:: 12109

44. So good a wife doth Lissy make

First Line:: So good a wife doth Lissy make
Last Line:: She with his brethren only lieth
Author:: Matthew Prior (Absolute)
DMI number:: 16885

45. Susanna take Lucretia's boasted place

First Line:: Susanna take Lucretia's boasted place
Last Line:: Restored both life and fame entire to thee
Author:: Samuel Boyse (Absolute)
DMI number:: 24781

46. Swift as his fame over all the world he flies

First Line:: Swift as his fame over all the world he flies
Last Line:: Has nothing but his modesty his blame
DMI number:: 30428

47. Swift as his fame over all the world he flies

First Line:: Swift as his fame over all the world he flies
Last Line:: He fought to gain an empire - you to give
DMI number:: 11793

48. The end of every act

First Line:: The end of every act
Last Line:: But in the knowledge and ascription
Author:: George Chapman (Absolute)
DMI number:: 13344

49. The life of fame is action understood

First Line:: The life of fame is action understood
Last Line:: And dies despised where the fame's neglected
Author:: Benjamin Jonson (Absolute)
DMI number:: 14717

50. The youngest son of Priam a true knight

First Line:: The youngest son of Priam a true knight
Last Line:: Is more vindicative than jealous love
Author:: William Shakespeare (Absolute)
DMI number:: 37413

51. They talk as they are wont not as I merit

First Line:: They talk as they are wont not as I merit
Last Line:: That in the fall endangers their own head
Author:: Benjamin Jonson (Absolute)
DMI number:: 14497

52. This was the noblest Roman of them all

First Line:: This was the noblest Roman of them all
Last Line:: And say to all the world this was a man
Author:: William Shakespeare (Absolute)
DMI number:: 37392

53. Though every fortitude deserves applause

First Line:: Though every fortitude deserves applause
Last Line:: That virtuous is when the reward's away
Author:: Benjamin Jonson (Absolute)
DMI number:: 14773

54. Thy wit thy valour and thy delicate form

First Line:: Thy wit thy valour and thy delicate form
Last Line:: Because thy shining glories blackened them
Author:: John Crowne (Absolute)
DMI number:: 14624

55. To be of high birth and of worthy fame

First Line:: To be of high birth and of worthy fame
Last Line:: Let his descent be mean his worth's the more
DMI number:: 42004

56. Virtue alone is true nobility

First Line:: Virtue alone is true nobility
Last Line:: Let your own acts immortalize your name
DMI number:: 34202

57. Virtue and fame the other day

First Line:: Virtue and fame the other day
Last Line:: Tis Egremont go tell it fame
Author:: George Lyttelton (Absolute)
DMI number:: 30370

58. We frequently misplace esteem

First Line:: We frequently misplace esteem
Last Line:: The thriving knaves that keep em poor
Author:: John Gay (Absolute)
DMI number:: 30411

59. We frequently misplace esteem

First Line:: We frequently misplace esteem
Last Line:: We saw thee in thy proper shape
Author:: John Gay (Absolute)
DMI number:: 23366

60. What fitter subject could be for thy wit

First Line:: What fitter subject could be for thy wit
Last Line:: And honey of Cicronian eloquence
DMI number:: 43434

61. When the dread summons of commanding fate

First Line:: When the dread summons of commanding fate
Last Line:: Too mighty for a second charioteer
DMI number:: 42705

62. Who gets th' opinion of a virtuous name

First Line:: Who gets th' opinion of a virtuous name
Last Line:: May sin at pleasure and never think of shame
Author:: Thomas Middleton (Absolute)
DMI number:: 16925

63. Why man he doth bestride the narrow world

First Line:: Why man he doth bestride the narrow world
Last Line:: That her wide walls encompassed but one man
Author:: William Shakespeare (Absolute)
DMI number:: 37385

64. Yet spare the dead and at the utmost dare

First Line:: Yet spare the dead and at the utmost dare
Last Line:: And grudged not any for they helped to praise
DMI number:: 22419

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1. A tragic tale from Norman William's age

2. A poet to applaud or boldly blame

3. A wit's a feather and a chief's a rod

4. A wit's a feather and a chief's a rod

5. Amid these mouldering walls this marble round

6. As genius virtue reputation

7. As high above the starry sphere

8. Consenting to thy prayer

9. Fame heard with pleasure straight replied

10. Fear not dear friend the lessening of thy fame

11. Fairfax the valiant and the only he

12. Friend in your epitaphs I'm grieved

13. For what the world admires I'll wish no more

14. Give me flattery

15. Hallow my temples let my thoughts be dressed

16. Heart merit wanting mount we ever so high

17. He heightens them with commendation praise

18. Here Hermes says Jove who with nectar was mellow

19. Here lies the man whose name in spite of death

20. Hirry hary hobbilschow

21. Honour I say or honest fame

22. Hero sprung from ancient blood

23. How vain our wishes and how guilty fate

24. I care not ye gods for the breath of a name

25. I lately thought no man alive

26. I'll offer and I'll suffer no abuse

27. Lest thou shouldst think the words which I

28. Learn to live well that thou mayst die so too

29. Led on by hope in quest of fame

30. Let good men for good deeds covet good fame

31. O thou to sacred Themis awful throne

32. O you hard hearts you cruel men of Rome

33. Once more my lord the muse would tune her lays

34. Our Q---n more anxious to be just

35. Our author by experience finds it true

36. One good deed dying tongueless

37. Quhen silver Diane full of beims bricht

38. Place me ye powers in some obscure retreat

39. Pollio must needs to penitence excite

40. Robin earl of Huntingdon

41. Rewards of earth nobility and fame

42. Should you dear Quintius ask me if in grounds

43. Shall my own sovereign's praise enrich my lines

44. So good a wife doth Lissy make

45. Susanna take Lucretia's boasted place

46. Swift as his fame over all the world he flies

47. Swift as his fame over all the world he flies

48. The end of every act

49. The life of fame is action understood

50. The youngest son of Priam a true knight

51. They talk as they are wont not as I merit

52. This was the noblest Roman of them all

53. Though every fortitude deserves applause

54. Thy wit thy valour and thy delicate form

55. To be of high birth and of worthy fame

56. Virtue alone is true nobility

57. Virtue and fame the other day

58. We frequently misplace esteem

59. We frequently misplace esteem

60. What fitter subject could be for thy wit

61. When the dread summons of commanding fate

62. Who gets th' opinion of a virtuous name

63. Why man he doth bestride the narrow world

64. Yet spare the dead and at the utmost dare