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 years  first line(s) | type of ode | place or institution  poet  composer 
 1660  And is there one fanatique left?
 Welcome ode ‘upon the happy return of King Charles II’, 1660 | English court 
 James Shirley  Charles Coleman 
 1663  Looke, shepheards, looke
 New Year’s Day | English court 
 Nicholas Lanier  Nicholas Lanier 
 1665  Come loyal hearts, make no delay
 New Year’s Day | English court 
 Nicholas Lanier  Matthew Locke 
 1666  All things their certain periods have
 New Year’s Day | English court 
 ? Nicholas Lanier  Matthew Locke 
 1666  Good morrow to the year
 New Year’s Day | English court 
 [poet unknown]  Henry Cooke 
 1670 - 1672  Come we shepherds, whose blest sight
 Birthday, Charles II | English court 
 Richard Crashaw  Henry Cooke 
 1670 - 1672  Rise, thou best and brightest morning
 Birthday, Charles II | English court 
 Richard Crashaw  Henry Cooke 
 1670 - 1672  Rise, thou best and brightest morning (Printed poem 1652; used for ode 1666 - 1672)
 New Year’s Day | English court 
 Richard Crashaw  Henry Cooke 
 1670 - 1677?  Tis not to add new glories to the day
 Birthday, Charles II | English court 
 [poet unknown]  William Turner 
 1672  See mighty sir the day appears
 New Year’s Day | English court 
 Robert Veel  Pelham Humfrey 
 1672  When from his throne the Persian god displays
 Birthday, Charles II | English court 
 Robert Veel  Pelham Humfrey 
 1673 or 1674  Smile again twice happy morn
 Birthday, Charles II | English court 
 [poet unknown]  Pelham Humfrey 
 1675 or 1676  Dread Sir, the prince of light
 New Year’s Day | English court 
 [poet unknown]  John Blow 
 1678  The birth of Jove
 Birthday, Charles II | English court 
 [poet unknown]  John Blow 
 1679  Great Janus, tho the festival be thine
 New Year’s Day | English court 
 [poet unknown]  John Blow 
 1679  Oh mighty prince, whose loud or dreaded name
 Birthday, Charles II | English court 
 [poet unknown]  William Turner 
 1680  The new year is begun
 New Year’s Day | English court 
 [poet unknown]  John Blow 
 1680  Welcome, vicegerent of the mighty King
 Welcome ode, Charles II | English court 
 [poet unknown]  Henry Purcell 
 1681  Great sir, the joy of all our hearts
 New Year’s Day | English court 
 [poet unknown]  John Blow 
 1681  Swifter, Isis, swifter flow
 Welcome ode, Charles II | English court 
 [poet unknown]  Henry Purcell 
 1681  Up, shepherds, up
 Birthday, Charles II | English court 
 [poet unknown]  John Blow 
 1681 - 82  Illustrious day, what glory canst ye boast
 Birthday, Queen Catherine of Braganza | London court? 
 [poet unknown]  John Blow 
 1682  Arise, great monarch
 New Year’s Day | English court 
 Jacob Allestry  John Blow 
 1682  The summer’s absence unconcerned we bear
 Welcome ode, Charles II | English court 
 [poet unknown]  Henry Purcell 
 1682  What shall be done in behalf of the man?
 Welcome ode Duke of York | English court 
 [poet unknown]  Henry Purcell 
 1683  Dread Sir, father Janus
 New Year’s Day | English court 
 [poet unknown]  John Blow 
 1683  Fly, bold rebellion
 Welcome ode, Charles II | English court 
 [poet unknown]  Henry Purcell 
 1683  From hardy climes
 Song ‘to Prince George upon his marriage with the Lady Ann[e]’ | English court 
 [poet unknown]  Henry Purcell 
 1684  From those serene and rapturous joys
 Welcome ode, Charles II | English court 
 Thomas Flatman  Henry Purcell 
 1684  Let all our fears, let all our murmurs cease
 Welcome ode, Charles II | English court 
 [poet unknown]  Giovanni Baptista Draghi 
 1684  My trembling song, awake, arise
 New Year’s Day | English court 
 Thomas Flatman  John Blow 
 1685  How does the new-born infant year rejoice?
 New Year’s Day | English court 
 [poet unknown]  John Blow 
 1685  Why are all the Muses mute?
 Welcome ode, James II | English court 
 ? Nahum Tate?  Henry Purcell 
 1686  Hail monarch sprung of race divine
 New Year’s Day | English court 
 [poet unknown]  John Blow 
 1686  Ye tuneful muses raise your heads
 Welcome ode, James II | English court 
 [poet unknown]  Henry Purcell 
 1687  Is it a dream that thus deserves our sight
 New Year’s Day | English court 
 [poet unknown]  John Blow 
 1687  Sound the trumpet! beat the drum!
 Welcome ode, James II | English court 
 [poet unknown]  Henry Purcell 
 1689  Clowdy Siturnia drives her steeds apace
 Birthday, William III | English court 
 Thomas D’Urfey  [composer unknown] 
 1689  Now does the glorious day appear
 Birthday, Queen Mary | English court 
 Thomas Shadwell  Henry Purcell 
 1689  The noise of foreign wars
 Birth of the Duke of Gloucester (24 June 1689) | English court 
 [poet unknown]  Henry Purcell 
 1690  Arise my muse, and to my tuneful lyre compose a mighty ode
 Birthday, Queen Mary | English court 
 Thomas D’Urfey  Henry Purcell 
 1690  As through Britannia’s raging sea
 Birthday, William III | English court 
 Matthew Prior  [composer unknown] 
 1690  Welcome, thrice welcome, this auspicious morn
 Birthday, William III | English court 
 Thomas Shadwell  [composer unknown] 
 1690  With cheerful hearts let all appear
 New Year | English court 
 Thomas Shadwell  John Blow 
 1691  To England’s monarch, Holland’s chief
 Birthday, William III | English court 
 [poet unknown]  Nicholas Staggins 
 1691  Welcome glorious morn: Nature smiles at your return
 Birthday, Queen Mary | English court 
 ? Thomas Shadwell?  Henry Purcell 
 1692  Behold, how all the stars give way
 New Year | English court 
 Thomas D’Urfey  John Blow 
 1692  Hail! Hail, thou Blest, thou most Auspicious Day (Printed text)
 Birthday, William III | English court 
 Thomas Shadwell  Nicholas Staggins 
 1692  Love’s goddess sure was blind this day
 Birthday, Queen Mary | English court 
 Charles Sedley  Henry Purcell 
 1692  Whilst he abroad does like the sun
 Birthday, William III | English court 
 [poet unknown]  ? John Blow? 
 1693  Hark, the muses and the graces call
 Birthday, Queen Mary | English court 
 Nahum Tate  Henry Purcell 
 1693  Sound a call, the tritons sing
 Birthday, William III | English court 
 Nahum Tate  Nicholas Staggins 
 1693  The happy year is born that wonders shall disclose
 New Year | English court 
 Nahum Tate  John Blow 
 1694  Come, ye sons of art, away!
 Birthday, Queen Mary | English court 
 ? Nahum Tate?  Henry Purcell 
 1694  Forgive, great Sir! If less we pay
 Birthday, James II | for the Dublin court? 
 D. Carney  John Abell 
 1694  Great parent, hail!
 Centenary of Trinity College Dublin | Trinity College Dublin 
 Nahum Tate  Henry Purcell 
 1694  Light of the world, and ruler of the year
 New Year | English court 
 Matthew Prior  ? Henry Purcell? 
 1694  Light of the world, and ruler of the year (1709 version)
 New Year | English court 
 Matthew Prior  ? Henry Purcell? 
 1694  Sound the trumpet, choicest gifts prepare
 New Year | English court 
 Peter Anthony Motteux  John Blow 
 1694  Spring, where are thy flowery treasures?
 Birthday, William III | English court 
 Nahum Tate  Nicholas Staggins 
 1695  Who can from joy refrain
 Birthday, Duke of Gloucester | English court 
 [poet unknown]  Henry Purcell 
 1696  Appear Apollo’s darling sons appear
 Birthday, Duke of Gloucester, and for his instalment as a Knight of the Order of the Garter. | English court 
 [poet unknown]  Daniel Purcell 
 1696  Hail thou infant year with ye may bliss renew
 New Year | English court 
 [poet unknown]  John Blow 
 1696  So all was cleared when your triumphant beams appeared
 Birthday, William III | English court 
 [poet unknown]  Nicholas Staggins 
 1697  Summon to the cheerful plain
 Birthday, William III | English court 
 Nahum Tate  Nicholas Staggins 
 1697  The nymphs of ye wells and ye nymphs of ye hills
 Birthday, Duke of Gloucester | English court 
 [poet unknown]  ? John Blow? 
 1698  Musick now thy charms display
 New Year | English court 
 Nahum Tate  John Blow 
 1698  Welcome glorious day in times record forever live
 Birthday, Princess Anne | English court 
 [poet unknown]  Daniel Purcell 
 1699  Welcome happy day in times record forever live
 Birthday, William III | Dublin court 
 [poet unknown]  Richard Leveridge 
 1699  While Venus in her snowy arms
 Birthday, Duke of Gloucester | English court 
 John Hughes  [composer unknown] 
 1700  Again the welcome morn we sing
 Birthday, Princess Anne | English court 
 [poet unknown]  Daniel Purcell 
 1700  Appear in all thy pomp, great Janus appear
 New Year | English court 
 ? Nahum Tate?  John Blow 
 1700  Come bring ye song ye muse’s silence has been strangely long
 Birthday, Princess Anne | English court 
 [poet unknown]  John Blow 
 1701  Welcome genial day!
 Birthday, William III | Dublin court 
 [poet unknown]  Richard Leveridge 
 1702  Mars now is arming
 A ‘royal ode’ congratulating the accession and coronation of Queen Anne | London, public 
 Thomas D’Urfey  Thomas D’Urfey (arr.) 
 1702  Wake Britain, ’tis high time to wake
 New Year | English court 
 Nahum Tate  John Eccles 
 1703  Hark, how the muses call aloud
 New Year | English court 
 Nahum Tate  John Eccles 
 1703  Inspire us, genious of the day
 Birthday, Queen Anne | English court 
 Peter Anthony Motteux  John Eccles 
 1704  Awake harmonious powers
 Birthday, Queen Anne | English court 
 ? Nahum Tate?  John Eccles 
 1704  While Anna with victorious arms
 New Year | English court 
 [poet unknown]  John Eccles 
 1705  From fate’s dark cell to empire called
 New Year | English court 
 Nahum Tate  [composer unknown] 
 1706  From glorious toils of war
 Ode on Marlborough’s Successes | English court 
 Thomas D’Urfey  John Weldon 
 1706  Hail happy day, hail auspicious light
 Birthday, Queen Anne | English court 
 [poet unknown]  Thomas Tudway 
 1706  Hail happy queen! Born to heal and to unite
 Ode on Marlborough’s Successes | English court 
 [poet unknown]  Jeremiah Clarke 
 1706  Let Nature smile, let all be gay
 Birthday, Queen Anne | English court 
 [poet unknown]  Jeremiah Clarke 
 1706  O Harmony where’s now thy power
 New Year | English court 
 Nahum Tate  Jeremiah Clarke 
 1707  Hail happy day, when thy beams thou dost display
 Birthday, Queen Anne | Dublin court 
 [poet unknown]  Charles Ximenes 
 1707  Time dispense thy brightest hours
 Birthday, Queen Anne | English court 
 Nahum Tate  John Eccles 
 1708  From thy peaceful rest arise
 Birthday, Queen Anne | Dublin court 
 Mr. Griffith  Johann Sigismund Cousser 
 1708  See how the new-born season springs!
 New Year | English court 
 Nahum Tate  John Eccles 
 1709  At length the teeming womb of time has ripened
 Birthday, Queen Anne | Dublin court 
 [poet unknown]  Johann Sigismund Cousser 
 1710  Let’s melt the sullen world with sounds harmonious
 Birthday, Queen Anne | Dublin court 
 [poet unknown]  Johann Sigismund Cousser 
 1711  Fair as the morning, as the morning early
 Birthday, Queen Anne | English court 
 Nahum Tate  John Eccles 
 1711  Such harmony, as crowned the Olympic revels
 Birthday, Queen Anne | Dublin court 
 [poet unknown]  Johann Sigismund Cousser 
 1712  Hail happy day! that blessed the earth
 Birthday, Queen Anne | English court 
 [poet unknown]  [composer unknown] 
 1712  Through all the race of rolling time
 Birthday, Queen Anne | Dublin court 
 [poet unknown]  Johann Sigismund Cousser 
 1713  Happy queen, in whose calm bosum tender goodness always reigns
 On the Peace of Utrecht, 1713 | Dublin court 
 William Viner  Johann Sigismund Cousser 
 1714  Eternal source of light divine
 Birthday, Queen Anne | English court 
 Ambrose Philips  George Friedrich Handel 
 1714  Glorious prince! The hope of Britain!
 Coronation of George I, 1714 | Dublin court 
 [poet unknown]  Johann Sigismund Cousser 
 1714  Prepare, ye sons of art, your songs of joy
 Birthday, Queen Anne | English court 
 [poet unknown]  William Croft 
 1714  Sing great Anna’s matchless name
 Birthday, Queen Anne | Dublin court 
 [poet unknown]  Johann Sigismund Cousser 
 1715  Arise, harmonious powers
 Birthday, George I | English court 
 Nahum Tate  John Eccles 
 1715  Awake, desponding fair one!
 Birthday, George I | Dublin court 
 [poet unknown]  Johann Sigismund Cousser 
 1716  All hail! Thou happy land
 Birthday, George I | Dublin court 
 [poet unknown]  Johann Sigismund Cousser 
 1716  Hail to thee, glorious rising year
 New Year | English court 
 Nicholas Rowe  John Eccles 
 1716  Lay thy flowery garlands by
 Birthday, George I | English court 
 Nicholas Rowe  John Eccles 
 1717  Winter! Thou hoary venerable sire
 New Year | English court 
 Nicholas Rowe (or John Hughes)  John Eccles 
 1717  Ye hov’ring zephyrs
 Birthday, George I | Dublin court 
 [poet unknown]  Johann Sigismund Cousser 
 1718  Britannia, hail thy hero
 Birthday, George I | Dublin court 
 [poet unknown]  Johann Sigismund Cousser 
 1718  Oh touch the string, celestial muse
 Birthday, George I | English court 
 Nicholas Rowe  John Eccles 
 1718  Thou fairest, sweetest daughter of the skies
 New Year | English court 
 Nicholas Rowe  John Eccles 
 1719  All hail! Thou most auspicious day
 Birthday, George I | Dublin court 
 [poet unknown]  Johann Sigismund Cousser 
 1719  King of the floods, whom friendly stars ordain
 New Year | English court 
 George Jeffreys  John Eccles 
 1720  A hero scarce could rise of old
 Birthday, George I | English court 
 Laurence Eusden  John Eccles 
 1720  Lift up thy hoary head, and rise
 New Year | English court 
 Laurence Eusden  John Eccles 
 1727/28  Guardian of our happy isle
 Birthday, Queen Caroline | Dublin court 
 S. Shepherd  Matthew Dubourg 
 1728  Great, inexhausted source of day
 Birthday, George II | Dublin court 
 Rev. Matthew Pilkington  Matthew Dubourg 
 1728/29  Early queen of light arise
 Birthday, Queen Caroline | Dublin court 
 Thomas Sheridan  Matthew Dubourg 
 1729/30  Early queen of light arise
 Birthday, Queen Caroline | Dublin court 
 [uncertain, see notes)]  Matthew Dubourg 
 1730  Great, inexhausted source of day
 Birthday, George II | Dublin court 
 Rev. Matthew Pilkington  Matthew Dubourg 
 1731  ’Till on this day that heavens almighty will
 Birthday, George II | Dublin court 
 William Chaigneau  Matthew Dubourg 
 1732/33  Thou virgin, heav’nly train
 Birthday, Queen Caroline | Dublin court 
 ?  Matthew Dubourg 
 1733/34  If conscious of thy ancient fire
 Birthday, Queen Caroline | Dublin court 
 William Dunkin  Matthew Dubourg 
 1734  Great, inexhausted source of day
 Birthday, George II | Dublin court 
 Rev. Matthew Pilkington  Matthew Dubourg 
 1735  Bright sol, thy purest beams display
 Birthday, George II | Dublin court 
 Benjamin Victor  Matthew Dubourg 
 1735  Monarch of music, verse, and day
 Birthday, George II | English court 
 Colley Cibber  Maurice Greene 
 1735  Ye silver-tongue’d Pierian quire
 Birthday, Queen Caroline | Dublin court 
 Rev. Matthew Pilkington  Matthew Dubourg 
 1736  Where-e’er Hibernia’s tuneful lyre is strung
 Birthday, Queen Caroline | Dublin court 
 S. Shepherd  Matthew Dubourg 
 1739  Crown’d with a more illustrious light
 Birthday, George II | Dublin court 
 ?  Matthew Dubourg 
 1739  Refulgent god with radiant smiles
 New Year’s Day | English court 
 Colley Cibber  Maurice Greene 
 1740  Aurora quits her ouzy bed
 Birthday, George II | Dublin court 
 ?  Matthew Dubourg 
 1742  With faithful heart and voice
 Birthday, George II | Dublin court 
 ?  Matthew Dubourg 
 1743  Be present, ev’ry guardian pow’r
 Birthday, George II | Dublin court 
 Rev. Lewis Burroughs  Matthew Dubourg 
 1743  Of fields! of forts! and floods! unknown to fame
 Birthday, George II | English court 
 Colley Cibber  Maurice Greene 
 1744  Ye pow’rs that on the virtuous wait
 Birthday, George II | Dublin court 
 ? Benjamin Victor  Matthew Dubourg 
 1751  Glory! Where art thou, goddess, where?
 New Year’s Day | English court 
 Colley Cibber  William Boyce 
 1754  When Glory with refulgent wings
 Birthday, George II | English court 
 Colley Cibber  Maurice Greene 
 1761  Still must the Muse, indignant, hear
 New Year | English court 
 William Whitehead  William Boyce 
 1762  Go, Flora (said th’ impatient Queen)
 Birthday, George III | English court 
 William Whitehead  William Boyce 
 1762  God of slaughter, quit the scene
 New Year | English court 
 William Whitehead  William Boyce 
 1763  At length th’ imperious lord of war
 New Year | English court 
 William Whitehead  William Boyce 
 1775  Ye powers, who rule o’er states and kings
 Birthday, George III | English court 
 William Whitehead  William Boyce 
 ? Post 1707  No! He’s not dead!
 In memory of William III | Dublin court 
 [poet unknown]  Johann Sigismund Cousser 

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