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• Sibyllinorum oraculorum libri VIII (per Ioannem Oporinum., 1555), by Joannes Oporinus, of Caesarea Eusebius, ca. 240-ca. 320 Lactantius, Sixt Birck, and Sébastien Castellion (page images at HathiTrust)
• An achrostickal epitaph on Sir Edward Sprague ([London : s.n., 1673]), by E. M. (HTML at EEBO TCP)
• Anagram and acrostick on His sacred Majesty, K. James II. Relating to the late triple conjuction of Saturn & Jupiter in Leo, which began in October 1682. and still continues ([London] : Printed byr N.T. at the entrance into Old Spring-garden near Charing-cross, 1685), by Robert Scamler (HTML at EEBO TCP)
• Carolo Secundo Angliæ, Scotiæ, Franciæ et Hiberniæ Regi, acrostichis ([London : s.n., 1660]), by Philip Woulfe (HTML at EEBO TCP)
• Carolo secundo Angliæ, Scotiæ, Franciæ, et Hiberniæ regi, acrostichis. ([London : s.n., 1660]), by Philip Woulfe (HTML at EEBO TCP)
• Gratamur geminos rudi achrostichide fratres ad natale solum reduces Regemque Ducemque Celsissimum Eboracensem Jacobum Stuartum ([London : s.n., 1660]), by Philip Woulfe (HTML at EEBO TCP)
• Great Britains beauties, or, The female glory epitomized, in encomiastick anagramms, and acrostiches, upon the highly honoured names of the Queenes most gracious Majestie, and the gallant lady-masquers in her Graces glorious grand-masque. Presented at White-Hall on Shrove-Tuesday at night, by the Queenes Majestie and her ladies. With disticks, and illustrations, upon their severall anagramms, being in number fifteene, whose names ensure in order on the next side. Published by authoritie. Framed, and formed, by the humble pen of Francis Lenton, the Queenes poet. (London : Printed by Marmaduke Parsons, for Iames Becket, at the Inner Temple Gate, 1638), by Francis Lenton (HTML at EEBO TCP)
• To his higness Oliver Cromwell, Lord High Protector of England, Scotland, and Ireland. ([London : s.n., 1655]), by John Lineall (HTML at EEBO TCP)
• An acrostick upon the name of Mrs Elizabeth Ball. ([S.l. : s.n., 1700?]), by James Seguin (HTML at EEBO TCP)

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• William Shakespeare and his three friends, Ben, Anthonie and Francis (W.A. Butterfield, 1911), by Frank Alexander Kendall (page images at HathiTrust)
• Poems of two worlds, containing the life and adventures of Santa Claus (an allegory), Oo-la-ita (a legend of Minnesota), and other historical, legendary, allegorical, humorous, moral and spiritual poems (H. T. Wright, 1893), by William Cotter Wilson (page images at HathiTrust)
• Original double acrostics : amusing and instructive (G. Routledge, 1866), by A. B. (page images at HathiTrust)
• Original acrostics, on some of the southern states, Confederate generals and various other persons and things (Published for the author at Southwestern Book and Pub. Co., 1869), by Robert Blackwell (page images at HathiTrust)
• Acrostical pen portraits of the eighteen presidents of the United States (J.L. Sibole, 1876), by D. F. Lockerby (page images at HathiTrust)
• Original acrostics, on some of the states and presidents of the United States, and various other subjects, religious, political and personal. (Published for the Author, 1871), by Robert Blackwell (page images at HathiTrust)
• Die Akrostichis in der byzantinischen Kanonesdichtung (Teubner, 1907), by Wilhelm Weyh (page images at HathiTrust; US access only)
• Poems on several occasions : to which are annexed, extracts from a journal, kept by the author while he followed the sea, and during a journey from New-Brunswick, in New-Jersey, to Montreal and Quebec (Looker & Reynolds, printers, 1824), by Moses Guest (page images at HathiTrust)
• Holly berries, or, Double acrostics, from the poets (Hatchards, 1869), by A. A. P. and P. A. A. (page images at HathiTrust)
• Acrostics (Hodder and Stoughton, 1868), by Hitchin Acrostic Club (page images at HathiTrust)
• Wreaths and gems (Spangler & Davis, printers ..., 1882), by Matthew Gailey (page images at HathiTrust)
• Original acrostics, on all the states and presidents of the United States, and various other subjects, religious, political and personal. (The author, 1868), by Robert Blackwell (page images at HathiTrust)
• Bible acrostics, or, An acrostical arrangement of all the leading facts and predictions of the Old Testament. (London, 1839), by Samuel J. Wilkins (page images at HathiTrust)
• Acrostics in prose and verse. A sequel to Double acrostics (Bosworth, 1865) (page images at HathiTrust)
• Acrostic dictionary; the face value of words (Los Angeles, 1915), by Isidore Myers (page images at HathiTrust)
• Original acrostics on all the states and presidents of the United States, and various other subjects, religious, political, and personal ... (Pub. for the author, 1861), by Robert Blackwell (page images at HathiTrust)
• Original acrostics (Printed by J. Young, 1873), by Robert Blackwell (page images at HathiTrust)
• Original acrostics (Nashville, 1870), by Robert Blackwell (page images at HathiTrust)
• Original acrostics (Pub. for the author at Southwestern Book and Pub. Co., 1869), by Robert Blackwell (page images at HathiTrust)
• The country farmer's ramble. (Printed by E. Easton, for the author, 1771), by Thomas Crouch, Edward Easton, and Project Unica (University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign Library) (page images at HathiTrust)
• Double acrostic enigmas ([Cassell, Petter, and Galpin], 1866), by Kate Gordon (page images at HathiTrust)
• Dick's original album verses and acrostics. Containing original verses for autograph albums; to accompany bouquets; for birthdays; for wooden, tin, crystal, silver and golden weddings; for album dedications; for philopena forfeits; for congratulation; for valentines in general, and all trades and professions. Also a collection of two hundred and eighteen ladies' Christian names, with their derivation and meaning, and an original acrostic with each name. (Dick & Fitzgerald, 1879), by New York Dick & Fitzgerald (page images at HathiTrust)
• The American sphinx. (F. M. Reed, 1875), by Frank M. Reed (page images at HathiTrust)
• Re-open sesame. Rhymed acrostics answering Bellamy's "Second century" and involving in each answer a new charade (L.C. Page and company, inc., 1897), by Harlan Hoge Ballard (page images at HathiTrust)
• Acrostic dictionary : containing more than thirty thousand words with the initials and finals alphabetically arranged (George Routledge and Sons, 1884), by Philippa M. Pearson (page images at HathiTrust)
• A collection of original acrostics on ladies' Christian names (Hunter, Rose, 1888), by George J. Howson (page images at HathiTrust)
• Original album verses, and acrostics containing original verses for autograph albums ... also, a collection of two hundred and eighteen ladies' Christian names, with their derivation and meaning; and an original acrostic with each name. (Toronto News Co., 1800) (page images at HathiTrust)
• Double acrostics by various hands. (Cox, 1872), by Crack (page images at HathiTrust)
• Alfabetische akrosticha in der syrischen kirchenpoesie (Tipografia della S.c. de propaganda fide, 1907), by Bruno Kirschner (page images at HathiTrust; US access only)
• Mansions of the skies: an acrostic poem on the Lord's prayer (J. Ross & Co., 1875), by W. P. Chilton (page images at HathiTrust)
• Un acrostiche historique du treizième siècle : découvert et publié pour la prmeière [première] fois (Imprimerie Alcan-Lévy, 1875), by Achille Jubinal and active 13th century Rutebeuf (page images at HathiTrust)
• Autobiography of Lorenzo Waugh. (S.P. Taylor & Co., printers and binders, 1885), by Lorenzo Waugh (page images at HathiTrust)
• Excursions into puzzledom; a book of charades, acrostics, enigmas, conundrums, &c. (Strahan and company limited, 1879), by Tom Hood and Frances Freeling Broderip (page images at HathiTrust)
• Original acrostics, on all the states and presidents of the United States, and various other subjects, religious, political and personal. (The author, 1868), by Robert Blackwell (page images at HathiTrust)
• Columbia. A national poem. (The Authors' Publishing Company;, 1880), by W. P. Chilton (page images at HathiTrust)
• Dublin acrostics. (Hodges, Smith and Foster, 1869) (page images at HathiTrust)
• The sphynx; a new and original collection of double acrostics (Harrison and sons, 1867), by C. C. and E. C. (page images at HathiTrust)
• Mont Blanc's great minstrel! lady of renown! (Great Totham : Printed at Charles Clark's Private Press, May 1830, 1841), by Charles Clark (page images at HathiTrust)
• Proceed, proceed, proud Hymen! (Great Totham : Printed at Charles Clark's Private Press, August 1842, 1842), by Charles Clark (page images at HathiTrust)
• Glorious Hymen! mark again how he speeds in his bright career (Great Totham : [Printed at Charles Clark's Private Press], June 4, 1844, 1844), by Charles Clark (page images at HathiTrust)
• Crown'd another pair's bright hopes, kind Hymen, now, behold he has! ([Great Totham] : [Printed at Charles Clark's Private Press], August 1844, 1844), by Charles Clark (page images at HathiTrust)
• Fresh praises now to Hymen yield, for such are justly due ([Great Totham] : [Printed at Charles Clark's Private Press], January, 1843, 1843), by Charles Clark (page images at HathiTrust)
• Enquiring Stranger,--when you learn whose ashes here repose (Great Totham : [Printed at Charles Clark's Private Press], March 1843, 1843), by Charles Clark (page images at HathiTrust)
• Entomb'd beneath this verdant mound (Great Totham : [Printed at Charles Clark's Private Press], February 1843, 1843), by Charles Clark (page images at HathiTrust)
• Entomb'd below, by kindred mourn'd, secure from worldly strife (Great Totham : [Printed at Charles Clark's Private Press], [between 1840 and 1849], 1840), by Charles Clark (page images at HathiTrust)
• Entomb'd beneath this sacred ground (Great Totham : [Printed at Charles Clark's Private Press], 1843, 1843), by Charles Clark (page images at HathiTrust)
• Journey no farther, Stranger,--ponder here (Great Totham : [Printed at Charles Clark's Private Press], March 1843, 1843), by Charles Clark (page images at HathiTrust)
• A book of acrostics (Methuen & Co., Ltd., 1924), by Ronald Arbuthnott Knox (page images at HathiTrust; US access only)
• On the much lamented death of the Reverend Mr. Noadiah Russel, late Pastor of the church of Christ in Middletown, who had his clayey tabernacle dissolved and his mortality swallowed up of life, December 3d. 1713. Aetatis Suae, 55. ([New London, Conn.? : Printed by Timothy Green?, 1714]), by Nathaniel Collins (HTML at Evans TCP)
• A Funeral elegy upon the death of that excellent and most worthy gentleman John Winthrop Esq. late governour of his majestyes colony of Conecticot; who deceased April, 1676. ([Boston : Printed by John Foster, 1676]), by Stephen Chester (HTML at Evans TCP)
• A monumental gratitude attempted, in a poetical relation of the danger and deliverance of several of the members of Yale-College, in passing the sound, from South-Hold to New-Haven, Aug. 20th. 1726. (New-London [Conn.]: : Printed & sold by T. Green., 1727), by John Hubbard (HTML at Evans TCP)
• The melancholy end of ungrateful children. Exemplified in the dreadful fate of the son and daughter of a wealthy farmer, who, after receiving and dividing the wealth of their parents, refused them, in their old age, the shelter of their roof, or a morsel of bread. : With an account of the wonderful scenes the daughter beheld in her trance. : Printed for the benefit of the rising generation, at the particular request of all who were eye-witnesses to the scene. : [Four lines of verse] (--Rutland [Vt.]:-- : Printed [by James Kirkaldie] for Richard Lee., M.DCC.XCV. [1795]), by Richard Lee (HTML at Evans TCP)
• A Legacy for children, being some of the last expressions, and dying sayings, of Hannah Hill, Junr. of the city of Philadelphia, in the province of Pennsilvania, in America, aged eleven years and near three months. ([Philadelphia] : Printed by Andrew Bradford at the Sign of the Bible in the Second Street, in Philadelphia., 1717), by Hannah Hill, Thomas Chalkley, and Griffith Owen (HTML at Evans TCP)
• A paraphrastical exposition on a letter from a gentleman in Philadelphia to his friend in Boston concerning a certain person who compared himself to Mordecai. ([Philadelphia] : Printed [by William Bradford], in the year 1693), by John Phillips (HTML at Evans TCP)
• Some arguments against worldly-mindedness, and needless care and trouble. With other useful instructions. Represented by way of a dialogue or discourse between two, called by the names of Mary and Martha. (Boston: : Printed by E. Russell, next the stump of Liberty-Tree, for Zadock King, of Conway;, 1791. (Price six pence.)), by Eunice Smith (HTML at Evans TCP)
• Upon the death of the virtuous and religious Mrs. Lydia Minot, (the wife of Mr. John Minot of Dorchester;) the mother of five children, who died in child-bed of the sixth; and together therewith was interred January 27. 1667 [1668, new style]. ([Cambridge, Mass. : Printed by Samuel Green, 1668]) (HTML at Evans TCP)

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