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651.
How few with patience can endure
First Line:
How few with patience can endure
Last Line:
Ills she had brought but could not cure
DMI number:
30820
652.
How few with prudence life's perfections scan
First Line:
How few with prudence life's perfections scan
Last Line:
For peace o virtue peace is all thy own
DMI number:
30788
653.
How fond are they who spend their precious time
First Line:
How fond are they who spend their precious time
Last Line:
Nor time nor death have power to take away
Author:
George Wither (Absolute)
DMI number:
9857
654.
Horace advises well deposit
First Line:
Horace advises well deposit
Last Line:
And to Parnassus we ascend
DMI number:
37546
655.
How blessed the man who free from care and strife
First Line:
How blessed the man who free from care and strife
Last Line:
Who fights on earth to triumph in the skies
DMI number:
32340
656.
How blind is pride what eagles are we still
First Line:
How blind is pride what eagles are we still
Last Line:
What beetles in our own
Author:
George Chapman (Absolute)
DMI number:
17315
657.
How can you rest where power is still alarmed
First Line:
How can you rest where power is still alarmed
Last Line:
Yet call it conscience when tis obstinate
Author:
Sir William Davenant (Absolute)
DMI number:
16928
658.
How large are our desires and yet how few
First Line:
How large are our desires and yet how few
Last Line:
And leaves that parched which was too moist before
Author:
Robert Gomersall (Absolute)
DMI number:
14480
659.
How long may heaven be bantered by a nation
First Line:
How long may heaven be bantered by a nation
Last Line:
Grant heaven we always may be ruled by queens
Author:
Daniel Defoe (Confident)
DMI number:
4569
660.
Him all the nine inspire
First Line:
Him all the nine inspire
Last Line:
And is himself that great sublime he draws
Author:
Alexander Pope (Absolute)
DMI number:
30653
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