Poetry

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!Manteca!: : an anthology of Afro-Latin@ poets
"A bird in Lincoln's tomb" : and other poems
"Bomba" shrieks for help! : vide appeal from Naples for foreign intervention. Vide Lord Palmerson's declaration in the House of Commons, June 12th; also leading article in the "Times," June 15th
"Corn tassels" : a book of corn rhymes
"How to back out," or, Magisterial reasons for absence from duty
"Infant slavery," or, The children of the mines and factories
"Korn is king" and other poems : an original poem
"Love Daddy" : "Poems for my daughter and other little people"
"Lyrics of the lost cause" : [and other poems]
"No man's land" : and other rhymes
"Noble virtues" and "rich chaines" : patronage in the poetry of Amilia Lanyer
"Right off the griddle"
"Scratches" of a surgeon
"The old swimmin'-hole" ; and, 'leven more poems
"The old swimmin'-hole," and 'leven more poems
"The old swimmin'-hole," and 'leven more poems
"The old swimmin'-hole," and 'leven more poems : neghborly [sic.] poems on friendship, grief and farm-life
"There are no islands, any more" ; : lines written in passion and in deep concern for England, France and my own country
"Toot yer horn" : and other poems
'Aks-i partaw. A series of poems, containing the plaints, consolations, and delights of Achmed Ardebeili, a Persian exile. With notes historical and explanatory. By Charles Fox
'Black mammy,' : a song of the sunny South, in three cantos; and My village home
'Tis a plaine case gentlemen
'Tis a plaine case gentlemen
'Tis money makes a man: or, The good-fellows folly : Here in this song good fellow that mayst find, how money makes a man, if thou'rt not blind? Therefore return e're that it be too late, and don't on strumpets spend thy whole estate, for when all is gone, no better thou wilt be: but laught to scorn in all thy poverty. To a pleasant new tune: Bonny black Bess: or, Digby.
----Love without a mask: or The old ballad of the happy shepherdess paraphrased. : A poem. By a Gentleman of Pembroke College, Oxford
10 moons and 13 horses : poems
10 women : their poems
100 days
1679. Gratulamini mecum: or, A congratulatory essay upon His Majesties most happy recovery
1786. : A rhyme of the women of Frankfort
1829, or, The present times : a poem illustrative of the unexampled distresses in the manufacturing districts
50 Poems
88 poems
9:15
A Ballad of a nun : and other poems
A Brush to the curry-comb of truth, &c. Or, The drapier. : An eclogue in imitation of Virgil's Silenus
A Bull sent by Pope Pius to encourage the traytors in England : pronounced against Queen Elizabeth, of ever glorious memory; shewing the wicked designs of popery
A Cat o'nine-tails: or, Little Billy Belcher's version of Great Billy's instructions to his plenipo
A Caution to those who hold Calvinism, to be careful how they preach it : lest they discourage weak minds, who can't understand it, and be laugh'd at by those who do
A Character, panegyric, and description of the legion club
A Choice collection of hymns and spiritual songs : intended for the edification of sincere Christians, of all denominations. By Samson Occom, Minister of the Gospel. [Text]
A Choice penny-worth of wit: or, A clear distinction between a virtuous wife and a wanton harlot. : In three parts. Part I. How a merchant was deluded from his lady by a harlot, to whom he carried gold, jewels, and other things of value, for many years, which the receiv'd with unspeakable flatery, 'call his wife gave him 2 penny to lay out on a penny-worth of wit. Part II. How he fail'd to a far country, where having exchang'd his gods for other rich merchandize, and being in a tavern (making merry) he scornfully derided his wife, and extoll'd his harlot; for which he was sharply reprov'd by an ancient man, who put him in a way to try his Harlot's love in a time of trouble; for which the merchant gave him his wife's penny. Part III. How he return'd richly loaden to the British shore; where he put himself in ragged poor array, and came to his harlot, declaring, that he had not only lost all that ever he had in a storm; but that he had likewise slain one of his servants; for which his life was in great danger, and desired her shelter; but instead of so doing, she abused him with taunting vile language, threatning to have him apprehended; at which he left her and returned to his wife (with the same pretence) who received him with unspeakable joy, offering to sacrifice all that ever she had to save his life. Thus did he prove her a faithful wife, and the other a flattering harlot. With other things, worthy of observation
A Choice pennyworth of wit. or, A clear distinction between a virtuous wife and a Wanton Harlot. : In three parts. Part I. How a merchant was deluded from his lady by a Harlot, to whom be carried gold jewels, and other things of value, for many years, which she receiv'd with unspeakable flattery, till his wife gave him a penny to lay it out for a pennyworth of wit. Part II. How he sailed into a far country where having exchanged his goods for other rich merchandize; and being in a tavern making merry, be scornfully derided his wife and extolled his Harlot; for which he was sharply reproved by an ancient man, who put him in a way to try his Harlot's love in time of trouble, for which the merchant gave him his wife's penny. Part III. How he returned richly laden to the British shore, and put himself in ragged array, and came to his Harlot, declaring that he had not only lost all that he had in a storm, but likewise he had slain one of his servants, for which his life was in great danger, and desired her shelter. But instead of so doing, she abused him with scandalous and vile language, threatning to have him apprehended. At which he left her, and returned to his wife (with the same pretence) who received him with unspeakable joy offering to sacrifice all that ever she had to save his life. Thus did he prove her a faithful wife, and the other a flattering Harlot. [With] other things worthy of note
A Christian effort to exalt the goodness of the Divine Majesty, even in a memento, on Edward Marcus Despard, Esq : and six other citizens, undoubtedly now with God in glory : an heroic poem, in six parts : N.B. part IV would not be an improper epitaph for deceased prize-cattle feeders, and part V another epitaph for farm engrossers (royalty respectfully excepted therein)
A Classical arrangement of fugitive poetry. Vol. VII
A Classical arrangement of fugitive poetry. Vol. XV
A Collection of Scots poems on several occasions, by the Late Alexander Pennecuik, gent. and others
A Collection of Scots poems on several occasions, by the Late Mr. Alexander Pennecuik, gent. and others
A Collection of hymns and poems, for the use of the October Club. : Dr. S-l, Dr. A-y, Dr. S-e, Dr. M-fs, and little T-p of Oxford, Ch-ns to the said club
A Collection of hymns, selected from sundry poets, : together with a number of new poems, never before published. [Four lines of verse]
A Collection of poems in six volumes. By several hands
A Collection of poems on affairs of state
A Collection of poems on affairs of state ; : viz. ...
A Collection of poems relating to state affairs from Oliver Cromwel to this present time : By the greatest wits of the age: wherein, not only those that are contain'd in the three volumes already published are incerted, but also large additions of chiefest note, never before published. The whole from their respective originals, without castration
A Collection of poems volume the third. By several hands
A Collection of poems, &c. : For and against Dr. Sacheverell, and on other affairs of state; most of them never before printed. The fourth part
A Collection of poems, on religious and moral subjects : Extracted from the most celebrated authors. [One line Latin epigram]
A Collection of poems. : By several hands. In four volumes
A Collection of some pindarickodes, odes, heroick stanza's, funeral elegies, pastorals and epitaphs, : On the untimely death, and to the pious memory, of that highborn, and singularly well accomplish'd patriot, Lord Basil Hamilton, sixth lawful son to the most noble & potent prince, the deceased William Duke of Hamilton, &c. the chief whereof never before printed
A Collection of songs and ballads relative to the London prentices and trades : and to the affairs of London generally, during the fourteenth, fifteenth, and sixteenth centuries
A Collection of stanzas, affixed infront of the several booths, and delivered from each respectively, on cards, : At the Fte̊, at Frogmore, in Honour of the Queen's birth-day, on the nineteenth of May, 1795
A Commendatory rosciad, on the performance of the tragedy of Mahomet, : By the young gentlemen, at the Reverend Mr. Anderson's academy, at Guildford Friary. Humbly addresse'd to their parents. With an address to the young gentlemen
A Complete picture of human life: or, Variety of food for the mind. : Consisting of valuable matter, calculated for the pleasure and instruction of readers of every class; and including a collection of genuine and entertaining narrations, tales, stories, anecdotes, essays, historiess, adventures, relations, memoirs, lives, morals, poems, strange occurrences, singular providences, remarkable characters, melancholy transactions, admirable deliverances, wonderful events, &c. Among which,besides those articles selected from approved authors, are interspersed many original pieces, never before published
A Congratulatory epistle to His Grace the Duke of Portland, on His Majesty's recovery
A Copy of verses upon the late fight at sea
A Counsel of criminal ghosts to the ghost of the great Beilhaven condoling his country's calamities and applying the 12 articles of his parliamentary prophecy, to the present posture of affairs Articles to be contained one after one occasionally, by C.N
A Description of a strange (and miraculous) fish : cast upon the sands in the meads, in the hundred of Worwell, in the county palatine of Chester, (or Chesshiere[)] : the certainty whereof is here related concerning the said most monstrous fish : to the tune of Bragandary
A Directory for the female-sex : being a father's advice to his daughter : wherein all young ones (especially those of that sex) are directed how they may obtain the greatest beauty, and adorn themselves with a holy conversation
A Discourse betwixt the pretender and telltruth
A Familiar epistle to the author of the heroic epistle to Sir William Chambers, and of the heroic postscript to the public
A Farther and more particular account of a most strange and terrible ghost or apparition of a gentlewoman that appeareth both night and day at Mr Jennings's, in Hand-Alley, in Holborn: giving an account how she first appeared, and frightned the mister, mistress, the servants, and many of the neighbours. Also how several other people set up to watch, among whom were six ministers sent by the Bishop of London. With the prayer which the ministers us'd when they set up to watch
A Farther hue and cry after Dr. Sw----t. : Being a collection of curious pieces found fince his departure. Viz. I. A genuine epistle from M-w P-r, Esq; at Paris, to the Revd Dr. J-n Sw-t at Windsor. II. Smut's epitaph. III. A letter to Sir Patrick Lawless, late the pretender's nuncio. IV. An ode to the pretender, written by several hands in Greenwich Park. V. Earl Mortimer's Fall. A fragment. Publish'd from the original manufcripts, by Timothy Brocade, Esq; late author of the examiner
A Funeral elegy on the Rev. and renowned George Whitefield, : Chaplain to the Right Hon. the Countess of Huntington, &c. Who departed this life, at Newbury-Port, on Sabbath morning, the 30th day of September, 1770, in the 56th year of his age
A Funeral poem inscrib'd to the memory of J..n B....y, author of The fair quakers, &c
A Garland of orchids : dedicated to Dorothy Sproule
A Good wife, God's gift; or A character of a wife indeed! : Also, a poetical description of the chaste virgin; of a good wife; and a pious widow, &c
A Great man's speech in Downing-Street against the enquiry. To the time of Packington's Pound
A Guide from the cradle to the grave. : Being a companion for young and old: wherein we may see the various stages of this life, from the tears of tender infancy, to the misery of old age, reduc'd to childhood. To which is added, the three great stepts to eternal salvation: as faith, to be our guide, hope, to be our comfort; and charity, to hide a multitude of faults. With an instruction for children to be obedient to their parents
A Guild-hall elegie, upon the funerals of that infernal saint Iohn Bradshavv President of the High Court of Iustice
A Hew and cry after blood & murther: or an elegie on the most barbarous murther of Thomas Thinn, esq : with some thankful ejaculations to heaven, for the miraculous escape of his Grace the Duke of Monmouth from the hands of the bloody Russians
A Hue and cry after the Dutch fleet, or, Joyful congratulations for our late victory
A Hymne to the ark in Newgate
A Lenten prologue refus'd by the players
A Letter from betty to sally with the answer; a new year's gift. : Recommended to be learnt by every servant in the three kingdoms, read once by every mistress of a family, in the hearing of every master, whose fortune does not exceed three hundred a year
A Letter to the Bishop of Munster ; : containing a panegyrick of his heroick atchievments, in heroick verse
A Miscellany of lyric poems, the greatest part written for, and performed in the Academy of Music
A Mite put into the treasury : Or, A poetical essay upon the following subjects, viz. I. The baptismal vow. II. The creed or belief. III. The decalogue or Ten Commandments. IV. A short comment on the Lord's prayer, with digressions upon the future reward, death, and hell. Proper for the meanest understandings
A Mock heroic epistle. : To citizen Campenas, hydraulic engineer at Paris. On his proposed invasion of Great Britain, in a fleet of balloons
A Monody: to the memory of Mrs. Margaret Woffington
A Moral poem on the middle state of life shewing with what indifference the vulgar receive Woods's coin, in a letter to the Drapier
A Mournful ditty of the Lady Rosamond, King Henry the Seconds concubine : who was poysoned to death by Queen Elenor in Woodstocst Bower near Oxford. : To the tune of, Flying Fame
A Mournful poem on the death of John Ormsby and Matthew Cushing, : who were appointed to be executed on Boston Neck, the 17th of October, 1734
A Museum for young gentlemen and ladies; or Private tutor and pocket library. : Being the most useful and entertaining companion for the youth of both sexes ever offered to the public, containing directions for reading with elegance and propriety. A compendious history of Ireland and England. Of the cities, towns, rivers, mountains, and curiosities of Ireland. A description of the Giant's Causeway with a cut. An account of the solar system, of the four quarters of the world. With an historical account of France, Spain, Sweden, Denmark, &c. &c. Also lists of things necessary to be known. Of the seven wonders of the world, with cuts of each. Letters, poems, tales and fables. The whole illustrated with twenty-seven plates elegantly engraved
A New Scotch ballad: call'd Bothwel-Bridge: or, Hamilton's hero : To the tune of Fortune my foe
A New ballad
A New ballad to the tune of Coc-Lorrell
A New ballad upon the land-bank, or, Credit restored : to the tune of All for love and no money
A New ballad upon the present conspiracy of the papists : sung by Belzebub, at a merry-meeting of the devils
A New ballad, or, The true-blew-Protestant dissenter : with their sad lamentation for their late loss of Aldersgate-street
A New ballad, to an excellent old tune (chevy chace;) being a warning-piece to Englishmen in general, and to the land and sea-officers in particular
A New ballad, to the tune of Packington's pound
A New ballad, with the definition of the word Tory
A New ballad. On the birth, parentage, and education of Mr. Edmund Burke's * Bratt. Tune, Oh! my kitten, my kitten
A New collection in prose and verse, for the use of schools
A New collection of verses applied to the first of November, A.D. 1765 &c : Including a prediction that the S---p-A-t shall not take place in America. Together with a poetical dream, concerning stamped papers. [Eleven lines of quotations]
A New copy of verses, intituled and called, Lady Godiva's farewell to Coventry. Tune, - Vicar of Bray
A New letany
A New miscellany. : Containing, I. The judgment of Tiresias. II. The Queen of May. III. The smock-fac'd boy. IV. On the death of a young lady. V. the priest hood. VI. A court ballad. VII. An epitaph on a gentleman who was a great hunter. VIII. The immoral old maid. IX. The Norfolk Garland. X. A lesson for the ladies. XI. The difference betwixt love and friendship. XII. The enamoured brother to his sister. XIII. The beau. XIV. On colonel C---rs. XV. The bacchanalian song. XVI. Dr. W----ter to Dr. Che--ne. XVII. Dr. Che--ne's answer. XVIII. A burlesque on the late L--d M--r of Y--k in scripture stile. XIX. The rabbit-man-midwife. XX. A song on the murder of Mr. Hays by his wife. XXI. The coy mistress. XXII. Lord D-----'s epitaph on his sister. XXIII. On the A--b--p of Y--k and his C----n. XXIV. On the fifth of November. XXV. An epitaph on Dr. B--r--Y, formerly B-r-r of St. --- Cambridge. XXVI. The jovial cantab. XXVII. On his late M---y's gracious gift to the universities. XXVIII. On Dr. W--B---, aged 62, on his marriage with Jane Diver, aged 16. XXIX. The force of habit. XXX. The controversy between Mr. Pope and Mr. Theobalds, 1729. XXXI. The difference between the papists and presbyterians determined
A New narrative of the old plot : A song: to the tune of Russels Farewel
A New poem on the excellency and antiquity of law and lawyers : and dedicated to his Mecenar and most worthy patron and professor thereof, the learned and accomplished William Peazly of the Middle Temple, London, Esq
A New receipt to tame a shrew: a tale
A New song
A New song
A New song of an orange
A New song on the strange and wonderful groaning board
A New song sung on Wednesday the 16th of November, (Being the day appointed for celebrating a moveable festival) : By a Society of Loyalists, at the Shepherds Cot. near the mansion of a travelling oracle. To which is prefixed, their grace before and after meat
A New song, to the tune of -"the priest of the parish." As it is sung in all polite circles
A New song. Entitled Master Billy Pitt's budget; or, A touch on the times : To the tune of "A cobler there was."
A New song. Intitled and called, Peeping Tom's lamentation, for the loss of the Lady Godeva
A New song. To the tune of Lilly Bullaro, &c
A New song. To the tune of Pakington's Pound
A New song. To the tune of, Derry down, down, &c
A New song. To the tune of, Which nobody will deny
A New-Year's gift, : written a few years ago, by a young woman in England, and presented to her nieces and nephews, and now re-published, with desires that it may prove a blessing to the young and rising generation of both sexes, unto whom it is at this time affectionately addressed, wherever it may come. To which is annexed, a few lines on procrastination
A New-Year's gift, being a divine poem. : Humbly address'd to the truly and eminently virtuous and charitable, William Conolly, Esq; member of Parliament for the borough of Ballyshannon. By Mr. Alexander Hur
A New-Years-gift for batchelors: or, A looking-glass for cuckolds. : Containing, I. A match for the Devil, a poem in imitation of Mons. Rabelais. II. A law against cuckoldom; or, the tryal of a wife. A poem. III. The character of a cuckold in fashion. IV. Two satyrs writ by Mr. Tho. Brown, against women, love, and marriage
A New-Years-gift for the dispensing judges
A New-years gift : being a poem dedicated to the lasting memory of that worthy and learned Dr. Titus Oats, the first discoverer of the Popish Plott to destroy the sacred person of His Majesty, and to extirpate the Protestant religion
A New-years gift for the Whigs: or, A true relation of threescore Presbyters (foot and horse) that surprized two of the kin[gs] guards in their beds at an inn seaven miles from Edenborough : cutting all the flesh off their bon[es] till they were dead, and carried the pieces to their respective friends, and there burned them [in] contempt of God and their king. : Tune of, Then then to the duke let's fill up the glass
A New-years-gift for the Rump
A Nominal encomium on the election of magistrates at Michaelmass 1764
A Norfolk tale; or, A journal from London to Norwich : With a prologue and an epilogue
A Pack of cards : changed into a compleat almanac and prayer-book. Adapted to the entertainment of the humorous, as as [sic] well as to the satisfaction of the grave, learned and ingenious
A Pacquet from Parnassus: or, A collection of papers, : Viz. I. On a bown of punch. Written by a gentleman of Oxford. II. A dialogue between monarchy and democracy. III. A letter to a new member of Parliament. IV. A dialogue between the Late L- L-, doctor con-st and charon. V. A long prologue to a short, and ill-acted play, spoken by a woman at Oxford. VI. Luck without labour: or, what was beyond expectation. VII. The lyer: a dialogue between Dick Banter, and Tom Telltroth. Done out of Latin. VIII. A letter from Mr. P- to Mr. S-. IX. Several sentences apply'd by Pasquin to several princes and countries in Europe. In Latin and English. X. An elegiac ode on the death of Mr. Richard Robins. Vol. I. Numb. I
A Paraphrase; or, Large explicatory poem upon the Song of Solomon. : Wherein the mutual love of Christ and his church, contained in that Old-Testament song, is imitated in the language of the New Testament, and adapted to the Gospel-dispensation. By the Late Reverend Ralph Erskine, M.A. minister of the Gospel at Dunfermline
A Persian epistle from Solin, chief eunuch at the Grand Seraglio at Ispahan, : To the Rev. Dr. Martin Madan, on the publication of his late Koran, called Thelyphthora; or, A treatise on female ruin
A Pindarick ode : on His Majesties return from the campaign, 1691
A Pindarick ode on the death of His Late Sacred Majesty King Charles II of blessed memory
A Pindarick ode on the death of His Late Sacred Majesty King Charles II. of blessed memory
A Pindarique ode by way of panegyrick : upon the glorious conquests of magnanimous K. William in the campagne of 92. Presented to him at his return
A Pindarique ode upon the late horrid and damnable Whiggish plot
A Pindarique ode, upon the late horrid and damnable Whiggish plot
A Pindarique on His Majesties birth-day
A Plot or no plot
A Poem (by way of elegie) upon Mr. Stephen College, vulgarly known by the name of the Protestant joyner
A Poem humbly address'd to His Highness the Prince of Orange, and the Princess Royal of Great Britain. : Consisting of I. An epistle on Nassau: presented to the Prince, soon after his arrival in England. II. On that Prince's Sickness. III. On his recovery. IV. Liberty and religion flourishing; the hoped for consequence of the marriage of this Prince with the illustrious Anne, Princess Royal of Great Britain
A Poem humbly inscrib'd to the gentlemen of the Oxfordshire Society
A Poem in praise of wit
A Poem occasion'd by the happy discovery of the horrid and barbarous conspiracy to assassinate His Most Sacred Majesty and to incourage an invasion from France
A Poem occasioned by one seeing a skull at the graves mouth. : With two meditations, one for the morning, another for the evening
A Poem occasioned by the news of arresting the Princess Sobieski, and her being afterwards released
A Poem occasioned by the present war with Spain
A Poem occasioned by the spreading in this province the result of a consociation in a neighbour government : being a private Christian's dissent from, and testimony aainst, that unscriptural and dangerous opinion which seems to prevail under the umbrage of that result, viz. That the minister of each town or parish has a power to license or forbid the preaching of the Gospel by any other than himself in the parish whereof his is minister---and this tho' (as the same result says) he be really an unconverted man
A Poem on Miss Bellamy
A Poem on that execrable treason plotted by the papists on the 5th of November, anno 1605
A Poem on the battle of Dettingen. Inscrib'd to the King
A Poem on the civil-wars of the Old-Baily : Occasion'd by a late dispute, between the sheriffs and students of the law
A Poem on the peace happily concluded between England, Spain, Holland and France : at Reswick, 1697
A Poem to the Right Honourable Sir J. B. Knight, &c
A Poem to the memory of Mrs. Old Field. : Inscrib'd to the Honourable Brigadier Churchill
A Poem to the pious memory of the Most Reverend Father in God, Alexander, &c. and Late Lord Bishop of Edinburgh
A Poem to the praise of His Majesty King George, or his farewell
A Poem upon occasion of the happy discovery of the late horrid plot against the life of His Most Sacred Majesty
A Poem upon the 29th of May, the day of King Charles II. His birth and happy restoration
A Poem upon the new marble statue of His present Majesty erected in the Royal Exchange by the Society of Merchants Adventurers of England : together with a copy of the inscription upon the pedestall
A Poem upon the prentices feast at Merchant-Taylors-Hall
A Poem, occasioned by hearing the late Reverend George Whitefield preach
A Poem, spoken extempore, by a young lady, : on hearing the guns firing and bells chiming on account of the great and glorious acquisition of their Excellencies Gen. Washington and the C. de Grasse, by the surrender of York-Town ..
A Poem. : In answer to a Lampoon, which was wrote on the Cambridge ladies
A Poetical description of song birds : interspersed with entertaining songs, fables, and tales, adapted to each subject: for the amusement of children. [Two lines of verse]
A Proclamation, a poem
A Pulpit to be let : woe to the idle spark that leaveth his flock, Zechar. XI, 17 : with a just applause of those worthy divines that stay with us
A Real treasure for the pious mind. : Compiled by a lady of Connecticut. From the collections and writings of the Countess of Huntingdon, Mrs. Rowe, Miss Harvey, Mr. Perin, and Mr. Smith
A Remarkable and memorable song of Sir Robert Bewick and the Laird Graham, : Giving an account of Laird Graham's meeting with Sir Robert Bewick in the town of Carlisle, and they going to a Tavern, a dispute happened betwixt them, which of their sons was the best man. How Graham rode home in a passion, and caused his son to fight young Bewick, which proved their deaths
A Round of days described in original poems
A Sacred poem being the devout breathings of a pious soul after the redeemer
A Select collection of Scots poems, chiefly in the broad Buchan dialect. : To which is added, a collection of Scots proverbs: By the Reverend Mr David Fergusson, some time minister at Dumfermline
A Select collection of modern poems from the best authors[.]
A Select collection of modern poems. : By the most eminent hands. Viz. Milton. Mr. Prior. Mr. Hughes. Mr. Addison. Mr. Dryden. Mr. Congreve. Mr. Gay. Mr. Pope. Dr. Arbuthnot. Dr. Parnell. Mr. Tickel. Lord Lansdowne, &c
A Select collection of poems, from the most approved authors. In two volumes
A Select number of plain tunes adapted to congregational worship : by Andrew Law A.B
A Serious address to Mr. Cinnick's followers. Occasioned by his attempting to revive certain dangerous and long-exploded errors
A Shropshire lad
A Simile
A Sketch of the campaign of 1793. Part I. : Letters from an officer of the guards, on the continent, to a friend in Devonshire
A Soliloquy in a grove
A Song for the chairing day. By an old woman, who loves her church and King
A Sorrowful ditty; or, The lady's lamentation for the death of her favourite cat. A parody
A Strange banquet: or, The Devils entertainment by Cook Laurel at the Peak in Derby-shire ; : with an account of the several dishes to be served to table. To the tune of, Cook Laurel, &c
A Supplement to the last will and testament of Anthony Earl of Shaftsbury : with his last words, as they were taken in Holland, where he died, January the 20th, 1682
A Tale of the tubbs or Romes master peice defeated
A Thanksgiving story ; : embodying the ballad of "Betsey and I are out," and other poems
A Third collection of the newest and most ingenious poems, satyrs, songs &c. against popery and tryanny, relating to the times : most of which never before printed
A Toi, Maman Cameroun : (poems in honour of the Cameroonian woman)
A Tory pill, to purge Whig melancholy : or, a collection of above one hundred new loyal ballads, poems, &c. written in defence of church and state
A Tory pill, to purge whig melancholy: or, A collection of above one hundred new loyal ballads, poems, &c. : Written in defence of church and state
A Town eclogue, in allusion to part of the fifth eclogue of Virgil: on the death of the celebrated Matthew Prior, Esq
A Treasury of great poetry : from A Treasury of great poems
A Trip to the masquerade, or, A journey to Somerset-House
A True picture of the much honoured & reverend Mr. John King : (sometimes minister of Abbots-Langley, Hertfordshire) for the closets of his friends
A True tale of Robin Hood
A True-blue song, on true-blue paper
A Vision : A divine poem
A Vision in the tower : to the L. H----d in his contemplation
A Voyage to the court of Neptune
A Warning for all worldlings to learn to dye : The tune is, The ladies fall
A Watch for a wise man's observation : In two parts. I. A divine poem on the Holy Trinity, the four evangelists, the Ten Commandments, and the twelve apostles. II. An exhortation to a holy life, and timely preparation for death
A Whip to the back of a backsliding Brovvnist
A Word to the wise, a new ballad on the times
A [L]ooking-glass for, Edinburgh ladies: or The true character of a [g]ood wife
A [n]ew song called Easter Monday for ever; or The cobler at the Cave-Hill. : Mr. Clarke, and his bacon, Pat of Londonderry, and Marry to her cot return'd
A [pind]aric elegy, [on th]e death of the [Earl] of Hillsborough; [suppo]sed to be written by [Dol]eful Dickey
A ballad
A ballad of Anne Askew, intituled: I am a woman poore and blind
A ballad upon the Popish Plot : written by a lady of quality. ... To the tune of Packington's pound
A ballad. The third part, to the same tune
A ballad. The third part, to the same tune
A bit of Christmas
A book of cats
A book of nonsense
A book of poems for every mood
A booke of epitaphes made vpon the death of the right worshipfull Sir VVilliam Buttes knight : vvho deceased the third day of September, anno 1583
A bottle of holy tears, or, Jeremies threnes and lamentaions for Israels misery and Ierusalems woefull desolation : metrically and metaphrastically laid out in verse, explaining plainely the meaning of the prophet in his lamenting phrases. Very suitable to these times, wherein we have a call every day to learne the lessons of Englands lamentation, warre and plague having made a strong entrance into divers parts of the land, and leane famine and desolation knocking at the doore for entrance
A brief explication of the Ten Commandments : intended for a help to the understandings and memories of children. By John Chishull
A brief explication of the Ten Commandments ; : intended for a help to the understandings and memories of children.
A brief history of the Earl of Mercia, Lady Godiva, and Peeping Tom of Coventry : from the earliest period to the present day : accompanied with an original poem on the lady riding through the town : likewise a correct description of the Grand Cavalcade, as it proceeded through the city on Monday, June 6, 1836 : to which is added the fable of the sparrow, cockchaffer, & owl, a much-admired, original, sentimental, philosophical, and zoological fable, with morals
A brief memorial of the Bible: or, A summary of the chief matters contained in every chapter of the Old and New Testament : Done into metre for the help of memory,
A brief remembrancer, or, The right improvement of Christ's birth-day
A brief remembrancer, or, the right improvement of Christ's birth-day
A briefe discourse of the lyfe and death of the late right high and honorable Sir VVilliam Pawlet Knight : Lord Seint Iohn, Erle of Wilshire, Marques of Winchester, knight of the honorable order of the garter, one of the Queenes Maiesties priuie counsel, and Lorde highe treasourer of Englande. VVhich deceased the tenth day of Marche. Anno. 1571. and was buried at Basing the. 28. day of Aprill. Anno. M. D. LXXII
A briefe relation of the idiotismes and absurdities of Miles Corbet, Esquire, councellor at law, reorder [sic] and burgesse for Great Yarmouth
A briefe remembrance of all the English monarchs, from the Normans conquest, vntill this present. By Iohn Taylor
A briefe remembrance of all the English monarchs, from the Normans conquest, vntill this present. By Iohn Taylor
A briefe sonet declaring the lamentation of Beckles, a market towne in Suffolke : which was in the great winde vpon S. Andrewes eue pitifully burned with fire to the value by estimation of tweentie thousande pounds. And to the number of fourescore dwelling houses, besides a great number of other houses. 1586. To the tune of Labandalashotte
A briefe summe of the treason intended against the King and state, when they should haue been assembled in Parliament Nouemb 5. 1605 : Fit for to instruct the simple and ignorant heerein, that they be not seduced any longer by papists. With a few other meeters. Which together with this summe of the said treason: may well bee entituled, The smoke of poperye at Enborne in Barkeshire: anno 1604. The sparkes of the same at Allensmore in Herefordshire. Anno 1605. The flame thereof intended at the Parliament house. Nouember. 5. 1605. To all which were added certaine songs and ditties fit for the time to be sung of all that are or will bee found true hearted subiects.
A broad-side against marriage : directed to that inconsiderable annimal, called, a husband
A broad-side against marriage directed to that inconsiderable annimal, called, a husband
A broad-side for the Dutch, with a bounce, a bounce, bounce : to the tune of O hone, O hone: or, the great boobie
A broadside treasury
A brush to the curry-comb of truth, &c., or, The drapier : an eclogue in imitation of Virgil's Silenus
A buckler against the fear of death; or, Pious and profitable observations, meditations, and consolations: by E.B
A burlesque poem in praise of ignorance. : The greatest part thereof composed eight and fisty years ago by Edmund Hickeringill
A butter'd slice : to the obscure auld magistrate wha answered Bailie Smith's Address. And A waefu' tale; or an address to the Lord Provost, on account o' the present dearth o' the meal and bread. Two poems in the Scottish dialect. By an obscure Edinburgher

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