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Why thus I sport in wanton measured strains
First Line:
Why thus I sport in wanton measured strains
Last Line:
Wish the cold earth lie heavy on the dead
Author:
George Ogle (Confident)
DMI number:
1337
28782.
Why thus impertinently kind
First Line:
Why thus impertinently kind
Last Line:
Neaera soft as softest down
Author:
George Ogle (Confident)
DMI number:
1330
28783.
Why thus in Cynthia's sports do you delight
First Line:
Why thus in Cynthia's sports do you delight
Last Line:
Or I must fall for I have vowed thee mine
DMI number:
44493
28784.
Why thus with scornful look you fly
First Line:
Why thus with scornful look you fly
Last Line:
You want some youth to mount and ride
Author:
Francis Fawkes (Absolute)
DMI number:
27356
28785.
Why turn your modest looks aside
First Line:
Why turn your modest looks aside
Last Line:
But sure to fly a wanton muse
Author:
George Ogle (Confident)
DMI number:
1328
28786.
Why under covert of this beechen shade
First Line:
Why under covert of this beechen shade
Last Line:
Like thine his sorrows cease his grief's suppressed
DMI number:
25345
28787.
Why underneath this spreading poplar's shade
First Line:
Why underneath this spreading poplar's shade
Last Line:
Whose soul's so full of tenderness and truth
DMI number:
39404
28788.
Why was I snatched so soon and why my date
First Line:
Why was I snatched so soon and why my date
Last Line:
My loss I live in an immortal name
DMI number:
34162
28789.
Why we love and why we hate
First Line:
Why we love and why we hate
Last Line:
Seek the riddle in the skies
Author:
Ambrose Philips (Absolute)
DMI number:
6977
28790.
Why wears my pensive friend that gloomy brow
First Line:
Why wears my pensive friend that gloomy brow
Last Line:
Her rules are fixed and all her ways are just
Author:
John Hervey (Absolute)
DMI number:
1128
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