Toggle navigation
Blacklight
Bookmarks (
0
)
History
Login
Search in
All Fields
Related People
Poem Title In Miscellany
search for
Search
Advanced Search
Blacklight
Toggle facets
Limit your search
Content type
Poem
470
Related People
Not attributed
[remove]
470
Jonathan Swift
22
Anna Miller [née Riggs]
3
Edward Ward
3
Richard Roderick
3
John Wilmot
2
Patrick Delany
2
Samuel Whyte
2
Sir Thomas Wyatt
2
David Garrick
1
more
Related People
»
Poem Theme
Entertainments / pastimes
58
Objects
54
Nature
23
Animals
22
Food and drink
16
Sex / relations between the sexes
14
Clothing
12
Love
11
Manners
11
Virtue / vice
10
more
Poem Theme
»
Poem Genre / Form
Riddle
[remove]
470
Couplet
369
Quatrain abab
17
Quatrain aabb
10
Bouts-rimes
9
Alternate rhyme [ababcdcd...]
8
Quatrain abcb
7
Imitation / translation / paraphrase
6
Sestet ababcc
6
Blank verse
5
more
Poem Genre / Form
»
Search Constraints
Start Over
You searched for:
Poem Genre / Form
Riddle
Remove constraint Poem Genre / Form: Riddle
Related People
Not attributed
Remove constraint Related People: Not attributed
« Previous
|
101
-
110
of
470
|
Next »
Number of results to display per page
10 per page
10
per page
20
per page
50
per page
100
per page
View results as:
List
Gallery
Search Results
101.
From the womb of my mother with violence torn
First Line:
From the womb of my mother with violence torn
Last Line:
And never talk so freely as after I'm hanged
DMI number:
15119
102.
From the womb of the earth
First Line:
From the womb of the earth
Last Line:
What a whimsical creature am I
DMI number:
24237
103.
From what first artist I my being claim
First Line:
From what first artist I my being claim
Last Line:
Hanging is sometimes too my destiny
DMI number:
23961
104.
Go doting wretches and enquire
First Line:
Go doting wretches and enquire
Last Line:
Says Oxford and her Earl shall suffer
DMI number:
11972
105.
Great is my power as great my fame
First Line:
Great is my power as great my fame
Last Line:
And mount the sky when I expire
DMI number:
15111
106.
Great pains in vain the Greeks and Romans took
First Line:
Great pains in vain the Greeks and Romans took
Last Line:
Till the last trump the universe alarm
DMI number:
24036
107.
Hear whilst you can the poor man's orator
First Line:
Hear whilst you can the poor man's orator
Last Line:
In deathless me all short lived folly dies
DMI number:
23955
108.
He who begot me did conceive me too
First Line:
He who begot me did conceive me too
Last Line:
I am man's offspring though I'm not a man
DMI number:
15319
109.
I came of the Cyclopean race
First Line:
I came of the Cyclopean race
Last Line:
But tender ladies' blood I spill
DMI number:
15262
110.
I challenge nature for to bring
First Line:
I challenge nature for to bring
Last Line:
All those that saw me I leave blind
DMI number:
7711
« Previous
Next »
1
2
…
7
8
9
10
11
12
13
14
15
…
46
47