FIRST LINES OF POEMS AND STANZAS.
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Accept in gree 273
After that Harflete 20
A gallant Master 401
A gallant Whistle 121
A gallant Youth 399
A gentle tame 326
A' [=Ah] LICIA sigh! 449
"A King I was 466
Alas, wilt thou 242
All that this earth 556
All youthful wights 32
Also I find that 230
A Lucrece for 232
A maiden 360
Am I a Gorgon? 179
Amongst the 311
And, after many 404
And arm in arm 408
And as there 547
And by these 560
And cast me into 33
And cheerfully 546
And diversely 530
And ere her 402
And fain I would 401
And feeds him 536
"And for myself 549
"And if they crown 470
And if ye list to 558
And if you cannot 229
And in her heart 400
And in my choice 533
And in regions 547
"And I a Whistle 121
"'And I protest' 471
"And I," quoth he 404
And I, who was 238
"And me, not long ago 123
And now, "Farewell!" 234
And now he pries 238
And now to take 399
And raised my 415
And since doomed 535
And since the Feast 557
And since the fish 238
And taking many 548
And that great 562
And the ambitious 547
And this whereso 229
And Thou, the Genius 174
And though the 273
And thus I end 36
And thyself such 241
And turning to 549
And unto me 231
"And wantonly 535
And what's 544
And when he to our 19
And when they 409
And when you 233
And whether Nature 415
And why not I? 529
"An English Friar 407
An ocean Sea of 315
A painter drew 429
Apollo and the 529
Are those two stars? 446
As are the sands 433
As Britons that 531
As burnished 289
As by Eneas, first 230
As close as you 229
As duty wills 240
As his prisoner 200
As rocks become, 300
As sacrifice 335
A she there was 462
As those 530
"A tempest 122
A wise man poor 108
Beauty is like 362
Behold the 399
Being likewise 185
Believe it, he 552
Between [South]hampton 16
Beware of fair and 234
"Blest be the land 404
"Blest be the time 201
"Blood and Revenge 474
Bold are her (bis) 459
Both gems, and 312
Bright matchless 424
Bring forth your 557
Britans, you stay 546
But, all in vain 233
"But as the wolf 468
But, at last, there 200
But did declare 407
But ere the 402
But heaven shall 464
But heavens 463
But here, good 35
But how shall we 555
But if his falsehood 231
But if I cannot 232
But if I seem as yet 127
But if that every 32
But if that thou 35
But I'll not 560
But let that pass 233
But let the Poets 133
But like Leander 237
But, lo, in happy 553
"But most of all 405
But now, alas 405
But now let Venus 35
But now the harvest 33
But now what 242
But of thy 238
But of thy heart 198
But Plaints and 463
But rather than 232
But She, good Sir! 559
But sith thy 238
But such as I can 234
But 'tis dissolved 555
But wavering 243
"But well I know 126
But when the 408
But will ye not 235
By her a kiss 462
Can plighted 240
Can they that sit 240
Cease eyes to weep 180
Changed is my 291
Clip me no more 561
"Clusters of 468
Cold are her lips 459
Colin, I know that 199
Colin, my dear and 173
Come forth, fair 127
Come, my Love 359
"Commend me to that 202
Condemned he was 405
Conflicts as 543
Consider these 243
Courteous Calliope 175
Courteous Lady 202
Coventry that 561
Cruel fair Love 446
Cupid's Posies 366
Dear City! 563
Death, in a rage 428
Diana shineth 288
Die, die, my Hopes 196
Distance of 462
Do not too 363
Doris, I love not 454
Down from the 278
Down in a bed 461
"Do you resolve 464
Drawn, cunning 302
Each beast in 193
Each frown of 364
"Each little bird 553
Ease by Disease 56
Elstred I pity 466
Eunica scorned 137
Even as the lamp 293
"Fair Bridegroom 134
Fair Bristow 400
Fairfax the 611
"Fair Maid," quoth 402
Fair Maids, my 366
Fair matchless 443
Fair Maudlin 400
Fair Shepherdess 195
Fair stood the 548
Fairest, wear 365
Far better had 292
Farewell! Adieu! 243
"Farewell," quoth 399
Far more's my 317
Fearing of harm 542
Feed, silly sheep! 176
First did I fear 434
"For certainty it 555
"For ere I will 407
For every great gun 17
For God's sake 560
For he always did 237
For help the 19
For I, by suit 32
For if alone 445
For, lo, my careful 33
"For, look, what 408
For only Thee 274
For she that 232
For to behold my 286
For they be such 529
For they, for 231
For trial shall 235
For we, her peers 135
For when he, by 230
"Fortune and I 466
Fortune, cross 275
Frequent not 35
From milk of 304
"Gallant Captain 200
Give her th' Eoan 532
Give warmth to 173
Glad was her 460
Gloucester that Duke 551
"'GOD bless thee' 472
GOD that all this 14
Gold upon gold 331
Good folk, for 560
"Grammercy, Sirs! 15
"Grant, fairest 432
Grant me my 407
Grant me, thy 406
Great Janus, I 532
Great ordnance 15
Great sickness 20
Great semptuous 317
Great was the 277
Had she been 562
Half this is of 555
Hard are the 428
Hark, Lovers! 300
Hear how my Sighs 442
He ne'er seemed 612
Henry the Sixth 467
Her bosom full 533
Her canopy I'll 553
"Here is no place 407
Her father, he 409
Her gentle 409
Her loved I 558
Her Master 407
Her mother takes 403
Hero did try 236
He sighs, and sobs 405
He shipped there 23
He thinks his hap 237
"He then replied 470
He took his ship 230
How did my Heart 556
How doth fair 405
How durst he 231
How should'st thou 201
"How well were I 405
"I and the Council 472
"I called the 471
Idea, in which 562
I doubtless cannot 34
I grant an honour 454
I had the vow 559
"I have a brother 401, 406
"I have neither 201
I have no Love 456
If, aged Charon 445
If April fresh 302
If case such hap 240
If cruel, thou 327
If every woman 35
If he be dead in 447
"If his shafts 535
If in the midst 285
If I, poor wretch 34
If I somewhile 297
If Laura, thou 279
If lovely Lass 282
If love, wherein 313
If poor thou art 108
If sad Complaint 463
If scalding 337
If Scylla had not 235
If Sea, no other 283
If that I die, fair 449
If those, by hope 464
If thou art cold 321
If thou intend'st 365
If thus we needs 555
If what is heavy 299
If whilom, in times 298
If white's the 293
If you so would 229
I live, sweet Love 437
"I'll pawn a calf 120
"I'll pawn no lamb 120
"I might have died 435
I never spent one 34
I paid for love 35
I pray the leave! 561
I rather wish 232
I saw, sweet Licia 448
I send you here 363
I sowed both pure 33
I speak, fair Licia 442
I stood amazed 432
I swear, fair 433
I that Cupid 354
"I then began to 126
I think King 231
I thrust my hand 34
"I will both see 120
"I will spend my 202
I will, yea, and 529
I wish sometimes 430
I wrote my sighs 440
Immortal fame to 131
Inamoured Jove 431
In Ida Vale 430
In kenning of 547
In King Antiochus 130
In Love his 322
In places far, or 541
In silver stream 324
In Sparta, long 134
In such a height 556
In tears she 400
In the Egean 276
In time the 438
Into a pleasant 401
Into despair it 34
"Into the land 400
In vasty sea 338
It came to me 555
It cannot two 555
It is a pity you 361
It shall suffice 232
It told me, "In 555
"It would be a 201
Jason, that came 230
Joy of my soul! My 324
Justly of thee 288
King Nisus had a 236
Lady, the sun 284
Lady, thou 290
Lady, what time 299
Laura is fair and 329
"Leave me not 201
Leave off, sweet 455
Lest for a heart 360
Let Theseus be! 231
"Let us conspire 464
"Let's laugh at 554
Let your Jests fly 557
Licia, my Love 435
Like Memnon's 448
Like to the blacksome 276
Like to the shipman 192
Little fish, what 237
"London's Lord 473
Long since the 540
Loose humour nor 537
Lo, thus our 23
Loud are my sighs 458
Love and my Love 426
Love, being blind 279
Love, I repent me 451
Love is like a 358
Love, ope my 311
"Love this fair 332
Love was laid 429
Love, with her hair 427
Madam, two hearts 555
Madmen, what gain 130
"Maidens, why 534
Marvel I do not, 297
"Maudlin", quoth 406
Meet are my 458
Messengers went 18
Most good, most 538
Mother, your 353
Mournful Amyntas 182
Muse, bid the Morn 553
My brother (bis) 467
My brother Clarence 17
My brother died 468
My Debtor hath 33
"My father 467
My fixed faith 191
My grief began 444
My lips I'll 553
My Laura wonders 305
"My Lord," she said 470
My Love, amazed 427
My Love, I cannot 184
My Love lay 431
My Love was 436
My Mistress 332
"My Mistress 334
My mourning 301
"My thoughts 463, 468
Nay, just are they 241
Nay, then I see 454
"Nay," then said our 15
Never, I think, had 556
New is my love 457
Non convitia 415
None dares now 333
None stands so 559
No art nor force 105
No gifts, no gold 241
No man can be so 537
No more a man, as 294
No more I, for 552
No, No; not so, for 241
No pain like this 464
No sooner do I 308
No sooner had fair 178
No sooner Laura 323
Nor adamant 534
Nor bravery doth 537
Nor is he foul 454
Nor is't the Verse 531
"Nor Pelops' kingdom 122
Nor speak I now 474
Nor think the 317
"Nor weep I now 466
Not I, but many 34
"Not long this 469
Not vouching 243
"Now as the sea 473
"Now in the Spring 534
Now may you hear 231
"Now two there were 473
Now were their 408
"Now will I walk 404
"O Cyclops! 128
"O Daphnis, what a 123
"O fair, O lovely 135
O fairest Fair, to 186
O Faith, think not 241
"O Galatea fair 126
"O happy Bridegroom 135
"O how happy is 202
"O husband of the 122
O Jupiter, and thou 132
O Love leave off 188
O Nicias, there is 125
O rapture great 533
O should a 243
"O Sir," she said 405
"O Sir," the gentle 408
O sugared talk! 450
O that I were sly 309
O thou self-little 533
O what a wound 193
O wretched 545
O yes! O yes! 560
Of all that living 130
Of constant love, I 305
Of the Siege of 24
Of thy streets 562
Old King Cole 633-636
On quicksedge 330
"On the seas are 202
"One kiss in two 554
One lovely 307
Or him that Rome 531
Or if Demophoon's 236
Or if she had 235
Or if strewed 542
Or if such 236
Or if the deeds 557
Or if you mind 228
Or made posies 542
Our King fully 16
Our King himself 20
Our King landed 17
Our King rode forth 21
Our King sent into 14
Our King went up 22
Ovid, within his 235
Painter, in lively 325
Pale are my looks 441
Pardened of 320
Perchance, my words 228
Perchance, ye 232
Phœbus had once 323
Poets did feign 444
Poets have still 129
Poitiers and 549
"Possessed with 469
Priests of Apollo 556
Proud is her (bis) 458
Rankle the wound 285
Remember thou the 242
"Rest you still 201
Revoke and call 242
Rich Damask 315
Rich is the 306
Rich statue 532
"Rivers and Grey 469
Rivers unto the 313
"Rivers was wise 469
Rocked in a cradle 283
"Rosamond was fair 465
Sad, all alone, not 425
"Sad Muse! set down 467
Sad was her joy (bis) 460
St. George was seen 22
Say, Cupid, since 330
"Say, gentle friend 309
Scorn not my 456
Seated on marble 294
Seven are the 437
She did her duty 406
She falls upon 401
She feigned a 461
She hath no 559
She kindly takes 401
She scrat[ched] 237
She walks under 405
Shoot forth no 298
Shore's Wife, a 465
Should faith to 240
Should hate his guerdon 240
Should I envy 455
Show me no more 561
Si cœlum patria 416
S' impossibly I 539
Since then among 124
Since thou hast 291
Sing Hymns to 558
Sing me the Rose! 541
"Sith you repose 401
Small was her (bis) 459
Smile not, fair 453
Some in their 189
Some shipboys' 402
Some use the 234
"So did I live 474
So his, which 530
So, Lady, boldly 295
So, Lady, I finding 339
So shall the 230
So that I silly 33
So then was Daphnis 124
Soowthern, I long 531
Strange is this 335
Such is the 314
Sweet are my 457, 458
Sweet Bride, good 136
Sweetheart, my 361
Sweet, I protest 443
"Sweet Laura 327
"Sweet, love me 462
Sweet sang thy 292
"Sweet Youth," 403
Take heed, for thou 36
Take thou not 36
Tall was her 460
"Telling what he 535
Tell me, my dear, 180
Thanked be Jesu! 19
Thanks, gentle 404
That by the 530
That crimson 319
That day wherein 194
That divided 542
That early 537
That have a sore 32
That I myself 545
That instrument 530
That ivory hand 328
That most 542
That Princess, to 562
That spray to 533
That time, fair 434
That whilst she 545
The beast thus 140
The beauty, that 280
The bird of Thrace 192
"The Bishop came 470
"The Bishop home 471
The Blazing Star 310
The blood of fair 314
The Card'nal went 471
The Crow makes 310
The cruel Nero 321
The crystal 438
The Druids 530
The Duke of York 549
The dusky cloud 304
"The elder son 469
The flaming torch 320
The freedom of 539
The Frenchmen threw 21
The Gentiles used 286
The golden 326
The great guns 20
The Grecians 307
The hapless 337
The heavens 316, 426
The heavens begin 331
The heavens yet 132
The Hound, by 184
Th' immortal 316
The Irish I 531
The King at 15
The King to 16
"The Laws do 472
"The lion 468
The little fish 237
The Macedonian 295
The matter of 228
The Merchant 402
The Muse should 543
The night drew 461
The night is 400
The Normands 18
Th' old British 552
The old man 563
The perils which 183
The Phœnix fair 186
The Phocean it 529
The price that I 35
The Primrose 543
"The Queen was 472
The raging sea 190
The red, or white 542
The Ryme nor mars 543
The Sea Nymphs 453
The ship full 558
The silly 464
The snakes 328
The snow-white 329
"The sparrow 554
"The Stage is set 465
The stately lion 194
The stranger, that 236
The swift 281
The toiling 464
The wildest of 530
The World's a City 108
The young man 399
Their course 16
Then as the sun 295
"Then as the wolf 473
"Then, at the 473
Then bethought 14
Then blew the 22
Then cast she 406
Then doubt me not 274
Then gives she 402
Then hadst thou 238
Then more 470
Then said our 19
"Then send me 463
Then she, who 236
Then should my 463
"Then stay, sweet 461
Then though a 339
"Then wilt thou 120
There are no 34
"There both the 122
Therefore boast 559
Therefore buy 228
There shone a 447
Thereto I wish 233
These are no 241
These bracelets 362
These Lyric 552
These waves no 190
These weeping 182
These words I 233
They now to fight 550
They see thy conscience 241
Things of most 364
This done, as they 402
This from the 613
This girdle 363
This heart so 534
This little 363
This modest she 462
This scarf will 361
This Scylla stole 236
This while we are 540
This while our 550
Those ceaseless 532
Those grim and 541
Those parallels 533
Thou didst 237
Thou glorious Sun 196
Thou, merry 290
Thou stranger 282
Though I do part 275
Though in the 540
Though pale my 455
Though they 187
Though we be all 531
Though you be 188
Through his 612
Through thee, not 273
"Thus Farewell, 202
"Thus have I told 474
Thus is the 317
Thus of all as 24
Thus of this 23
Thus Polyphemus 128
Thus sang these 122
Thus still You 539
Thus, through 403
Thus to the sea 403
"Thus tyrant 471
Thy ancient 532
Thy beauty 175
Thy friend in 244
Thy Love, fair 453
Thy Voyages 548
Till to that 556
TIMANTES, when he 339
"Time-tyrant Fate 466
"'Tis ever Spring 122
To give that life 278
To hear this talk 456
To him deserving 537
To raise his mean 536
To those that 531
"To Vulcan 535
To whose, the 547
To you, I speak! 234
Tread you the 460
True are my (bis) 457
Trust not a man 235
Turned to a stone 277
Two winds, one 308
Unbare that 333
Under this 611
Unto an Image 312
Unto the fountain 179
Unto thy favour 289
Upon Saint 551
Upon this sinful 536
Upon triumphant 280
Warwick in blood 551
Weary was Love 425
"Welcome, sweet 404
Well it thine age 550
Were it cemented 555
Wer't granted me 539
What cruel star 189
"What if we call 121
What lack you? 228
What need I mourn? 178
What now is 559
What should I 360
"What then? What 120
"What therefore shall 120
What though 541
What time fair 181
What time, with 284
When all the 613
When as her lute 439
When as I wish 441
When as my Licia 439
When as my Love 436
When as the 547
When Chloris first 198
When down their 550
When first the 303, 450
When first the sun 303
When GOD made all 108
When he had read 407
When I did part from 301
When I did part, my 338
When I more large 197
When I, of my 336
When M. heard her 406
When no 408
When she had 408
When She was 322
When she was born 197
When Venus first 139
When you appear 287
Where be the Graces? 557
Whereby I see that 33
Wherefore I pray 233
Where Nature hath 546
Which, in his 548
Which heart I let 32
Which I pour forth 183
Which life, I pray 233
Which, six long 242
Which unto gods 242
"Which we have 55
Which vow gave 242
Whilst angry Juno 281
Whilst foaming 306
Whilst this 545
"Whistler Menalcas 120
White art thou 334
White was the 287
Who do not know 187
Who joys in love? 319
Who would a [have] 243
Whole showers of 176
Whom promise 536
Whom the base 537
Whose constancy 537
Whose constantness 229
Whose heart hath 243
Whose trade if 230
Why have ye such 235
Will you hear a 200
"Wilt thou in singing 120
With gold and 325
With lovely 119
With patience 191
With Spanish yew 550
With that bespake 403
With thousand 336
With trickling 400
"Wolf, spare my 123
"Ye groves and 121
"Ye pleasant 121
"Ye Shepherds tell 136
Ye Virgins, that 234
Ye wasteful 185
Years, months 440
Yet do I hope 339
Yet, if I be 534
Yet if thou chance 36
Yet (if you shall 205
Yet in a fine 536
Yet many rivers 541
"'Yet take my son 472
Yet these me not 545
Yet this Critic 545
Yet will you 540
You brave heroic 546
You Fauns and 177
You know I 229
You lofty Pines 177
You that embrace 199
You whom the 174
You whose deep wits 174
Your course 546
Yours was so 556

