Blacklight

Search Constraints

Start Over
You searched for: Poem Theme Virtue / vice Remove constraint Poem Theme: Virtue / vice Poem Theme Manners Remove constraint Poem Theme: Manners
« Previous | 1 - 50 of 60 |
Number of results to display per page
View results as:
List Gallery

Search Results

1. A gentleman two whelps did get

First Line:
A gentleman two whelps did get
Last Line:
Maintains me to this day
DMI number:
24765

2. A curious eye

First Line:
A curious eye
Last Line:
And superscribed this from suspicion
Author:
John Chalkhill (Absolute)
DMI number:
13215

3. A man without one feeling for his kind

First Line:
A man without one feeling for his kind
Last Line:
Appears the very villain that he draws
DMI number:
31050

4. A miser on a scurvy tit

First Line:
A miser on a scurvy tit
Last Line:
The beam that spreads his own all over
DMI number:
23399

5. A rogue a boy a rogue a man

First Line:
A rogue a boy a rogue a man
Last Line:
And that's to feel his impotence
DMI number:
11007

6. All songsters have this humour that among

First Line:
All songsters have this humour that among
Last Line:
More happy than thy fained kingship can
Author:
Alexander Brome (Absolute)
DMI number:
42171

7. As Rochfoucault his maxims drew

First Line:
As Rochfoucault his maxims drew
Last Line:
Methinks you may forgive his ashes
Author:
Jonathan Swift (Absolute)
DMI number:
19383

8. At last is granted what we wished for long

First Line:
At last is granted what we wished for long
Last Line:
Add to your glory or our wonder more
Author:
Laurence Eusden (Confident)
DMI number:
8462

9. Ask me no more my Quintius whether I

First Line:
Ask me no more my Quintius whether I
Last Line:
First death is the last scene of misery
Author:
Robert Thompson (Confident)
DMI number:
42206

10. Bred up by parents' arbitrary rules

First Line:
Bred up by parents' arbitrary rules
Last Line:
True martyr to the cause rots stinks and dies
DMI number:
11161

11. By good St Andrew and the thistle

First Line:
By good St Andrew and the thistle
Last Line:
The harm there is in all the three
DMI number:
31874

12. Constancy is that which marreth all

First Line:
Constancy is that which marreth all
Last Line:
Small is their care how often they do slide
Author:
Samuel Brandon (Absolute)
DMI number:
14015

13. Consider | We're but shadows motions others give us

First Line:
Consider | We're but shadows motions others give us
Last Line:
Take him by the teeth
Author:
John Fletcher (Absolute)
DMI number:
16313

14. Donatus you as opportunely ask

First Line:
Donatus you as opportunely ask
Last Line:
Rest on thy mellow lips and feast upon the sound
Author:
William Tunstall (Confident)
DMI number:
9353

15. First in their ranks the immortal gods adore

First Line:
First in their ranks the immortal gods adore
Last Line:
A deathless god divine mortal no more
Author:
Thomas Stanley (Absolute)
DMI number:
9622

16. For double shame he doth deserve

First Line:
For double shame he doth deserve
Last Line:
Who being guide doth soonest swerve
Author:
Samuel Brandon (Absolute)
DMI number:
14984

17. How long may heaven be bantered by a nation

First Line:
How long may heaven be bantered by a nation
Last Line:
Grant heaven we always may be ruled by queens
Author:
Daniel Defoe (Confident)
DMI number:
4569

18. How weak how vain is human pride

First Line:
How weak how vain is human pride
Last Line:
For different tastes please different vermin
Author:
John Gay (Absolute)
DMI number:
23349

19. In days of yore it was a constant rule

First Line:
In days of yore it was a constant rule
Last Line:
To keep a child from mischief aren't we moral
DMI number:
40512

20. Load load the pallet boy hark Hogarth cries

First Line:
Load load the pallet boy hark Hogarth cries
Last Line:
And prove at least one statesman may have grace
Author:
Paul Whitehead (Absolute)
DMI number:
31394

21. Love thou divinest good below

First Line:
Love thou divinest good below
Last Line:
They leave not thee the less unjust
Author:
Edward Moore (Absolute)
DMI number:
23391

22. Love thou divinest good below

First Line:
Love thou divinest good below
Last Line:
Till Hardwick soothed her into grace
Author:
Edward Moore (Absolute)
DMI number:
33382

23. Musing alane this hinder nicht

First Line:
Musing alane this hinder nicht
Last Line:
In hevin that I may haif a place | For thair sall no man demit be
Author:
William Dunbar (Absolute)
DMI number:
10932

24. 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

25. My dearest boy

First Line:
My dearest boy
Last Line:
And raise him to a nobler speed
Author:
John Straight (Absolute)
DMI number:
27729

26. I'm not high church nor low church nor Tory nor Whig

First Line:
I'm not high church nor low church nor Tory nor Whig
Last Line:
I'm a friend to my country yet true to my king
DMI number:
19287

27. I must will speak I hope my dress and air

First Line:
I must will speak I hope my dress and air
Last Line:
Let the dead rest we living can't be mended
Author:
David Garrick (Absolute)
DMI number:
38478

28. If ever o Hymen I add to thy tribe

First Line:
If ever o Hymen I add to thy tribe
Last Line:
Or a maid let me live and a maid let me die
DMI number:
35319

29. I've overheard you and a mind I have

First Line:
I've overheard you and a mind I have
Last Line:
Sent eight already I'll send thee the ninth slave
Author:
Alexander Brome (Absolute)
DMI number:
42186

30. Learn hence dear youth the brainless crowds to shun

First Line:
Learn hence dear youth the brainless crowds to shun
Last Line:
Who might be soldiers if they were not guards
DMI number:
35349

31. Maecenas mentioned in my odes to be

First Line:
Maecenas mentioned in my odes to be
Last Line:
That is to say unless his spleen abound
Author:
Sir Richard Fanshawe (Absolute)
DMI number:
42188

32. Near Eden side there is a hero known

First Line:
Near Eden side there is a hero known
Last Line:
He's now musician lover and a poet
DMI number:
35341

33. Not that the Tuscans who from Lydia came

First Line:
Not that the Tuscans who from Lydia came
Last Line:
The nephew son and grandson to a king
Author:
Sir Richard Fanshawe (Absolute)
DMI number:
42174

34. Of folly vice disease men proud we see

First Line:
Of folly vice disease men proud we see
Last Line:
By spitting on your face to make it clean
Author:
Edward Young (Absolute)
DMI number:
33711

35. Of manners gentle of affections mild

First Line:
Of manners gentle of affections mild
Last Line:
Striking their pensive bosoms here lies Gay
Author:
Alexander Pope (Absolute)
DMI number:
22497

36. Of all the causes which conspire to blind

First Line:
Of all the causes which conspire to blind
Last Line:
Is pride the never failing vice of fools
Author:
Alexander Pope (Absolute)
DMI number:
27106

37. O she has passion which outstrip the wind

First Line:
O she has passion which outstrip the wind
Last Line:
The sea
Author:
William Congreve (Absolute)
DMI number:
20294

38. Of the winged race I far the brightest shine

First Line:
Of the winged race I far the brightest shine
Last Line:
With all their art can charm me back again
DMI number:
24032

39. Proud and partial man alone

First Line:
Proud and partial man alone
Last Line:
Think they know most in their own eyes
DMI number:
14098

40. Plague on the race of politicians

First Line:
Plague on the race of politicians
Last Line:
The world despise
Author:
Robertson||Alexander||of Struan (Absolute)
DMI number:
36088

41. Rome your forefathers sins you'll rue

First Line:
Rome your forefathers sins you'll rue
Last Line:
And shall yet leave a more degenerate breed
DMI number:
41839

42. See what these times are grown to before twenty

First Line:
See what these times are grown to before twenty
Last Line:
When wit plays with the billows that choked him
Author:
Thomas Middleton (Absolute) & William Rowley (Absolute)
DMI number:
15686

43. She that can sit three sermons in a day

First Line:
She that can sit three sermons in a day
Last Line:
This is an holy sister verily
Author:
Abraham Cowley (Speculation)
DMI number:
42557

44. Sir | Promises are different cases

First Line:
Sir | Promises are different cases
Last Line:
Proud of the burden of thy song
Author:
John Hoadly (Absolute)
DMI number:
27728

45. Sincerity's my chief delight

First Line:
Sincerity's my chief delight
Last Line:
All that's good and all that's fine
Author:
Mary Chudleigh [nee Lee] (Absolute)
DMI number:
9406

46. Skilled in each art that can adorn the fair

First Line:
Skilled in each art that can adorn the fair
Last Line:
And with true scorpion rage she stings herself to death
Author:
Soame Jenyns (Absolute)
DMI number:
23780

47. Stop mortal frail collect your thought

First Line:
Stop mortal frail collect your thought
Last Line:
Of comrades follies on our back
DMI number:
35353

48. Some herbs there are whose deadly juices fill

First Line:
Some herbs there are whose deadly juices fill
Last Line:
And live still blessed and blessing all mankind
Author:
Mary Leapor (Absolute)
DMI number:
23743

49. The mind and not the man doth make or mar

First Line:
The mind and not the man doth make or mar
Last Line:
The mind doth make each man to do each deed
Author:
Thomas Blenerhasset (Absolute)
DMI number:
16535

50. The players empirics beggars and the noise

First Line:
The players empirics beggars and the noise
Last Line:
All this is true for he has been served so
Author:
Alexander Brome (Absolute)
DMI number:
42170