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1.
Can prayers to all alike so gentle be
First Line:
Can prayers to all alike so gentle be
Last Line:
Are little more than curses for the rest
Author:
Sir Robert Howard (Absolute)
DMI number:
17297
2.
But our unsteady actions cannot be
First Line:
But our unsteady actions cannot be
Last Line:
Fortune has right and title to a share
Author:
Sir Robert Howard (Absolute)
DMI number:
13360
3.
Divided empire all wise men avoid
First Line:
Divided empire all wise men avoid
Last Line:
For power communicated is destroyed
Author:
Katherine Philips (Absolute)
DMI number:
9588
4.
For man does most by the comparative
First Line:
For man does most by the comparative
Last Line:
That which he hardly could endure before
Author:
Sir Robert Howard (Absolute)
DMI number:
13968
5.
In Windsor Forest before war destroyed
First Line:
In Windsor Forest before war destroyed
Last Line:
Time or ambition is supplied by love
Author:
Sir Robert Howard (Absolute)
DMI number:
3418
6.
My plots fall short like darts which rash hands throw
First Line:
My plots fall short like darts which rash hands throw
Last Line:
Through foul paths as theirs that tread in snow
Author:
Sir Robert Howard (Absolute)
DMI number:
14014
7.
Let fear upon the prosperous hearts take hold
First Line:
Let fear upon the prosperous hearts take hold
Last Line:
Cowards themselves in miseries grow bold
Author:
Sir Robert Howard (Absolute)
DMI number:
5579
8.
Oh dangerous friendship kindness to be feared
First Line:
Oh dangerous friendship kindness to be feared
Last Line:
Which turns with fortune and by her is steered
Author:
Katherine Philips (Speculation)
DMI number:
9587
9.
Patience in cowards is tame hopeless fear
First Line:
Patience in cowards is tame hopeless fear
Last Line:
But in brave minds a scorn of what they bear
Author:
John Dryden (Absolute) & Sir Robert Howard (Absolute)
DMI number:
5549
10.
Our woes made habits by the use or dare
First Line:
Our woes made habits by the use or dare
Last Line:
Unto our souls the use of faculties
Author:
Sir Robert Howard (Absolute)
DMI number:
14388
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