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A bard there dwelt more fat than bard beseems
First Line:
A bard there dwelt more fat than bard beseems
Last Line:
He loathed much to write ne cared to repeat
Author:
George Lyttelton (Absolute) & James Thomson (Absolute)
DMI number:
32267
2.
Ah little think the gay licentious proud
First Line:
Ah little think the gay licentious proud
Last Line:
Refining still the social passions work
Author:
James Thomson (Absolute)
DMI number:
33690
3.
All conquering heat oh intermit thy wrath
First Line:
All conquering heat oh intermit thy wrath
Last Line:
Unsatisfied and sick tosses in noon
Author:
James Thomson (Absolute)
DMI number:
29847
4.
Affliction is the wholesome soil of virtue
First Line:
Affliction is the wholesome soil of virtue
Last Line:
Poisons the soil and its best product kills
Author:
James Thomson (Absolute) & David Mallet (Absolute)
DMI number:
28406
5.
All ye whose hearts to tender pity formed
First Line:
All ye whose hearts to tender pity formed
Last Line:
For ever silent and for ever sad
Author:
James Thomson (Absolute)
DMI number:
27020
6.
As those we love decay we die in part
First Line:
As those we love decay we die in part
Last Line:
Till dying all he can resign is breath
Author:
James Thomson (Absolute)
DMI number:
25104
7.
Bold is the man who in this nicer age
First Line:
Bold is the man who in this nicer age
Last Line:
If cold they wither all the muse's bays
Author:
James Thomson (Absolute)
DMI number:
31716
8.
Beside the dewy border let me sit
First Line:
Beside the dewy border let me sit
Last Line:
Deep sounding seize the enthusiastic ear
Author:
James Thomson (Absolute)
DMI number:
30883
9.
But yonder comes the powerful king of day
First Line:
But yonder comes the powerful king of day
Last Line:
Shines out thy maker may I sing of thee
Author:
James Thomson (Absolute)
DMI number:
27035
10.
But come ye generous minds in whose wide thought
First Line:
But come ye generous minds in whose wide thought
Last Line:
The lonely heart with unexpected good
Author:
James Thomson (Absolute)
DMI number:
28525
11.
Curse on the coward and perfidious tongue
First Line:
Curse on the coward and perfidious tongue
Last Line:
That sweeps these fogs away with all their vermin
Author:
James Thomson (Absolute)
DMI number:
30930
12.
Crammed to the throat with wholesome moral stuff
First Line:
Crammed to the throat with wholesome moral stuff
Last Line:
Nor idly lose it for a wretched jest
Author:
James Thomson (Absolute)
DMI number:
31717
13.
Delightful task to rear the tender thought
First Line:
Delightful task to rear the tender thought
Last Line:
The generous purpose in the glowing breast
Author:
James Thomson (Absolute)
DMI number:
30093
14.
First elder sculpture taught her sister art
First Line:
First elder sculpture taught her sister art
Last Line:
And friends conversed by death divided long
Author:
James Thomson (Absolute)
DMI number:
30496
15.
Hail ever pleasing solitude
First Line:
Hail ever pleasing solitude
Last Line:
A Lycidas or Lycon be
Author:
James Thomson (Absolute)
DMI number:
15502
16.
Hail ever pleasing solitude
First Line:
Hail ever pleasing solitude
Last Line:
For ever from the world retired
Author:
James Thomson (Absolute)
DMI number:
23432
17.
Hail mildly pleasing solitude
First Line:
Hail mildly pleasing solitude
Last Line:
Then shield me in the woods again
Author:
James Thomson (Absolute)
DMI number:
21780
18.
He's not the happy man to whom is given
First Line:
He's not the happy man to whom is given
Last Line:
Thine is the fortune and the mind is thine
Author:
James Thomson (Absolute)
DMI number:
15501
19.
Have I then no tears for thee my father
First Line:
Have I then no tears for thee my father
Last Line:
Be nobly wretched but her father happy
Author:
James Thomson (Absolute)
DMI number:
29831
20.
He comes he comes in every breeze the power
First Line:
He comes he comes in every breeze the power
Last Line:
With all the social offspring of the heart
Author:
James Thomson (Absolute)
DMI number:
34082
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