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Abell, John
Blow, John
Boyce, William
Clarke, Jeremiah
Coleman, Charles
Cooke, Henry
Cousser, Johann Sigismund
Croft, William
Draghi, Giovanni Baptista
Dubourg, Matthew
D’Urfey, Thomas
Eccles, John
Greene, Maurice
Handel, George Friedrich
Humfrey, Pelham
Lanier, Nicholas
Leveridge, Richard
Locke, Matthew
Purcell, Daniel
Purcell, Henry
Staggins, Nicholas
Tudway, Thomas
Turner, William
Weldon, John
Ximenes, Charles

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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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