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6121.
On the dark banks where Lethe's lazy deep
First Line:
On the dark banks where Lethe's lazy deep
Last Line:
Rolls its flow flood and rocks the nodding waves asleep
DMI number:
39762
6122.
On the head of a stag
First Line:
On the head of a stag
Last Line:
When mountains heaped on mountains failed
DMI number:
40190
6123.
On the other side Satan alarmed
First Line:
On the other side Satan alarmed
Last Line:
Sat horror plumed
Author:
John Milton (Absolute)
DMI number:
29679
6124.
On the plain
First Line:
On the plain
Last Line:
Attend their stately steps and slowly graze along
DMI number:
40186
6125.
On their own axis as the planets run
First Line:
On their own axis as the planets run
Last Line:
And one regards itself and one the whole
Author:
Alexander Pope (Absolute)
DMI number:
28244
6126.
On vice your humorous vein display
First Line:
On vice your humorous vein display
Last Line:
But oh misfortune spare
Author:
Mary Barber (Absolute)
DMI number:
21846
6127.
On virtue can alone my kingdom stand
First Line:
On virtue can alone my kingdom stand
Last Line:
Hide in their savage haunts no beast so fell
Author:
James Thomson (Absolute)
DMI number:
30940
6128.
On what foundation stands the warrior's pride
First Line:
On what foundation stands the warrior's pride
Last Line:
By interest prudence and by flattery pride
Author:
Samuel Johnson (Absolute)
DMI number:
23588
6129.
On what strange grounds we build our hopes and fears
First Line:
On what strange grounds we build our hopes and fears
Last Line:
If ill tis ours if good the act of heaven
Author:
Thomas Shadwell (Absolute)
DMI number:
18872
6130.
On woman's virtue who too much rely
First Line:
On woman's virtue who too much rely
Last Line:
And knows but just enough to disobey
Author:
John Dryden (Absolute)
DMI number:
21428
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