Meanings of first couplet in English

The first couplet of this epitaph is borrowed from Crashaw.

After the first couplet all the Wild Hearts joined in.

None of it rings true except the first couplet.

Wherein the first couplet, "Stay, adder," &c., makes the burden of the song.

The first couplet is general in character.

The first couplet alone contained an idea.

With the first couplet the sails are full, and you have left the shores of prose far behind.

In the first couplet the words, "from hence," are improper; and the second line is taken from Dryden's Virgil.

I must also mention Beeching's verse, or at any rate the first couplet-therest, though friendly enough, was not worthy of the opening:

They are not otherwise materially altered, than by the transposure of the rhimes in the first couplet, and the retrenchment of the measure in both.

Any one has often observed how black the waters become as night approaches, and the picture is vividly recalled as the first couplet is read.

With the Khabyles a string of love-songs is called "Alamato," because this word occurs in the first couplet, always with a belligerent inspiration:

"Oh, damn!" she cried, as the hundred-and- first couplet or so presented itself in her unwilling brain.