While you my lord alas amidst a few
- DMI number:
- 22414
- First Line:
- While you my lord alas amidst a few
- Last Line:
- Justice shall fan the flame of social love
- Poem Genre / Form:
- Couplet and Epistle
- Themes:
- Patriotism / glory of the British nation and The law[Justice]
- Author:
- Robert Nugent
- Confidence:
- Absolute (100%)
- Comments:
- Suarez (1997) VI: 398.
- First Line:
- Among these chiefs of British race
- Last Line:
- The structure was his own
- Relationship:
- By the same hand as
- Comments:
- First Line:
- Clarinda dearly loved attend
- Last Line:
- Than virtues of a narrow mind
- Relationship:
- By the same hand as
- Comments:
- First Line:
- Ever busied never employed
- Last Line:
- And pay unblessed the price of bliss
- Relationship:
- By the same hand as
- Comments:
- First Line:
- Foul with graceless verse
- Last Line:
- Self-love and social are the same
- Relationship:
- By the same hand as
- Comments:
- First Line:
- Gentle idle trifling boy
- Last Line:
- Trifles please the truly wise
- Relationship:
- By the same hand as
- Comments:
- First Line:
- Heaven in the human breast implants
- Last Line:
- To treasure in the stores of fame
- Relationship:
- By the same hand as
- Comments:
- First Line:
- I loved thee beautiful and kind
- Last Line:
- Twere perjury to love thee now
- Relationship:
- By the same hand as
- Comments:
- First Line:
- I swore I loved and you believed
- Last Line:
- And thought that form was you
- Relationship:
- By the same hand as
- Comments:
- First Line:
- Is there or do the schoolmen dream
- Last Line:
- Whose strength a prosperous state
- Relationship:
- By the same hand as
- Comments:
- First Line:
- Lie on while my revenge shall be
- Last Line:
- To speak the very truth of thee
- Relationship:
- By the same hand as
- Comments:
- First Line:
- Lonsdale thou ever honoured name
- Last Line:
- To suffer not explore
- Relationship:
- By the same hand as
- Comments:
- First Line:
- Lovely shines thy wedded fair
- Last Line:
- Ere thou thinkst her only thine
- Relationship:
- By the same hand as
- Comments:
- First Line:
- My heart still hovering round about you
- Last Line:
- How I lived with you is the wonder
- Relationship:
- By the same hand as
- Comments:
- First Line:
- Nor me the glories of thy birth engage
- Last Line:
- And may the power that raised preserve thy sceptred line
- Relationship:
- By the same hand as
- Comments:
- First Line:
- On Stowe the muse's happy theme
- Last Line:
- The greatly virtuous and the base
- Relationship:
- By the same hand as
- Comments:
- First Line:
- Pollio wouldst thou condescend
- Last Line:
- Sights like these are nearer Paul's
- Relationship:
- By the same hand as
- Comments:
- First Line:
- Remote from liberty and truth
- Last Line:
- Shall tell the patriot's name
- Relationship:
- By the same hand as
- Comments:
- First Line:
- She who in secret yields her heart
- Last Line:
- Tis better lend than throw away
- Relationship:
- By the same hand as
- Comments:
- First Line:
- Since first you knew my amorous smart
- Last Line:
- All that rigour gives me peace
- Relationship:
- By the same hand as
- Comments:
- First Line:
- The gentle pen with look demure
- Last Line:
- Undid by night the work of day
- Relationship:
- By the same hand as
- Comments:
- First Line:
- Though cheerful discreet and with freedom well bred
- Last Line:
- They feel what they owe her and feel it untold
- Relationship:
- By the same hand as
- Comments:
- First Line:
- Through the wild maze of life's still varying plan
- Last Line:
- And in the tasteless now the future fears
- Relationship:
- By the same hand as
- Comments:
- First Line:
- Tom thought a wild profusion great
- Last Line:
- They thirst and starve alike for fame
- Relationship:
- By the same hand as
- Comments:
- First Line:
- Too anxious for the public weal
- Last Line:
- Go whisper love in Chloe's ears
- Relationship:
- By the same hand as
- Comments:
- First Line:
- Twas when the friendly shade of night
- Last Line:
- I wish her with her wedded mate
- Relationship:
- By the same hand as
- Comments:
- First Line:
- Unmarked by trophies of the great and vain
- Last Line:
- Receive a like return of filial praise
- Relationship:
- By the same hand as
- Comments:
- First Line:
- Vainly hath heaven denounced the woman's woes
- Last Line:
- Unfelt your offspring comes unfelt it goes
- Relationship:
- By the same hand as
- Comments:
- First Line:
- We thought you without titles great
- Last Line:
- Tis plain my lord you knew yourself
- Relationship:
- By the same hand as
- Comments:
- First Line:
- Wearied with indolent repose
- Last Line:
- But why inhabit with despair
- Relationship:
- By the same hand as
- Comments:
- First Line:
- While Lucy chaste as mountain snows
- Last Line:
- Pays the full price of Mary's kissing
- Relationship:
- By the same hand as
- Comments:
- First Line:
- Why like a tyrant wilt thou reign
- Last Line:
- To hate myself and burn for thee
- Relationship:
- By the same hand as
- Comments:
- Title:
- A collection of poems by several hands, in three volumes [Vol.2] [T124507]
- Page No(s):
- pp.155-175
- Poem Title:
- An Epistle to the Right Honourable the Lord Viscount Cornbury.
- Attribution:
- By -----------, Esq;
- Attributed To:
- Not attributed
- Title:
- A collection of poems in four volumes by several hands Vol. 2 [T115888]
- Page No(s):
- pp.168-187
- Poem Title:
- An Epistle to the Right Honourable the Lord Viscount Cornbury.
- Attribution:
- By ---- ---- Esq;
- Attributed To:
- Not attributed
- Title:
- A collection of poems in six volumes, by several hands [Vol. 2] [T144532]
- Page No(s):
- pp.166-185
- Poem Title:
- An Epistle to the Right Honourable the Lord Viscount Cornbury.
- Attribution:
- By -----------, Esq;
- Attributed To:
- Not attributed
- Title:
- A collection of poems in six volumes. By several hands. [Vol 2] [T101653] [ECCO]
- Page No(s):
- pp.199-221
- Poem Title:
- An Epistle to the Right Honourable the Lord Viscount Cornbury.
- Attribution:
- By ------- Esq;
- Attributed To:
- Not attributed
- Title:
- A collection of poems in six volumes. By several hands. [Vol 2] [T115890] [ECCO]
- Page No(s):
- pp.166-185
- Poem Title:
- An Epistle to the Right Honourable the Lord Viscount Cornbury.
- Attribution:
- By ------- Esq;
- Attributed To:
- Not attributed
- Title:
- A collection of poems in six volumes. By several hands. [Vol 2] [T144724] [DUODECIMO]
- Page No(s):
- pp.166-185
- Poem Title:
- An Epistle to the Right Honourable the Lord Viscount Cornbury.
- Attribution:
- By -------, Esq;
- Attributed To:
- Not attributed
- Title:
- A collection of poems in six volumes. By several hands. [Vol 2] [T144724] [ECCO] [OCTAVO]
- Page No(s):
- pp.166-185
- Poem Title:
- An Epistle to the Right Honourable the Lord Viscount Cornbury.
- Attribution:
- By --------, Esq;
- Attributed To:
- Not attributed
- Title:
- A collection of poems in six volumes. By several hands. With Notes [Vol 2] [T116246] [ECCO]
- Page No(s):
- pp.174-193
- Poem Title:
- An Epistle to the Right Honourable the Lord Viscount Cornbury.
- Attribution:
- By ------- Esq;
- Attributed To:
- Not attributed
- Title:
- A collection of poems in three volumes, by several hands [T115891] [Vol.2] [ECCO]
- Page No(s):
- pp.168-187
- Poem Title:
- An Epistle to the Right Honourable the Lord Viscount Cornbury.
- Attribution:
- By ----- ------, Esq;
- Attributed To:
- Not attributed
- Title:
- A collection of poems in three volumes, by several hands [T148949] [Vol. 2] [ECCO]
- Page No(s):
- pp.168-187
- Poem Title:
- An Epistle to the Right Honourable the Lord Viscount Cornbury.
- Attribution:
- By ----- ------, Esq;
- Attributed To:
- Not attributed
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