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
427
Related People
Not attributed
277
Alexander Pope
42
John Wilmot
21
John Dryden
7
Jonathan Swift
7
Matthew Prior
7
John Sheffield
6
William Shakespeare
6
Abraham Cowley
5
Martial
5
more
Related People
»
Poem Theme
Wit
[remove]
427
Poetry / literature / writing
132
Women / the female character
74
Virtue / vice
50
Beauty
40
Politics
30
Death
29
Theatre
23
Dunces
22
Sex / relations between the sexes
22
more
Poem Theme
»
Poem Genre / Form
Couplet
203
Epigram
97
Extract / snippet from longer work
75
Quatrain abab
52
Satire
37
Epistle
27
Quatrain aabb
27
Comic verse
22
Address
21
Topical satire
21
more
Poem Genre / Form
»
Search Constraints
Start Over
You searched for:
Poem Theme
Wit
Remove constraint Poem Theme: Wit
« Previous
|
311
-
320
of
427
|
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
311.
The preacher Maurus cries all wit is vain
First Line:
The preacher Maurus cries all wit is vain
Last Line:
But wit's a vanity he has not known
Author:
Thomas Cheek (Speculation) & ---- Mildmay (Speculation)
DMI number:
3754
312.
The news from abroad does a secret reveal
First Line:
The news from abroad does a secret reveal
Last Line:
That he had been pleased in his hole to remain | If now &c
DMI number:
13312
313.
Then he went to the side board and called for much liquor
First Line:
Then he went to the side board and called for much liquor
Last Line:
To let in the Devil
DMI number:
35030
314.
The seaman from winds and the rage of wild seas
First Line:
The seaman from winds and the rage of wild seas
Last Line:
What zeal can divinity equal supply
DMI number:
35995
315.
The tenth of May that is in metre
First Line:
The tenth of May that is in metre
Last Line:
Just fifty days before St Peter
DMI number:
35383
316.
The thought was great and worthy of a cit
First Line:
The thought was great and worthy of a cit
Last Line:
Though Fr---ke and R--m--r should thy sureties stand
Author:
Thomas Brown (Absolute)
DMI number:
3761
317.
The wise do always govern their own fates
First Line:
The wise do always govern their own fates
Last Line:
To crown their enterprizes with success
DMI number:
41630
318.
The wit of man wanes and decreases soon
First Line:
The wit of man wanes and decreases soon
Last Line:
But woman's wit is ever at full moon
DMI number:
41642
319.
The wit the pupil of the soul's clear eye
First Line:
The wit the pupil of the soul's clear eye
Last Line:
A certain truth she hath true judgment's sight
DMI number:
41632
320.
There are the victories of wit by wit
First Line:
There are the victories of wit by wit
Last Line:
Inspires the prophet makes the poet glad
DMI number:
41653
« Previous
Next »
1
2
…
28
29
30
31
32
33
34
35
36
…
42
43