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 PREFACE. 
 
 It has been the aim of the compiler of this 
 little book to present a Dictionary of Poetical 
 Quotations which will be a ready reference to 
 many of the most familiar stanzas and lines 
 of the chief poets of the English language, 
 with a few selections from Continental writers; 
 and also some less familiar selections from 
 more modern poets, which may in time become 
 classic, or which at least have a contemporary 
 interest. Readers of English literature are 
 aware that the few great poets of our language 
 have struck perhaps every chord of human 
 sentiment capable of illustration in verse, and 
 even these few have borrowed the ideas, and 
 sometimes almost the exact words, of prede- 
 cessors or contemporaries. 
 
 But often old ideas in a new dress are wel- 
 come to readers who might not have been 
 attracted by the old forms ; and each genera- 
 tion has its peculiar modes of expression if not 
 its new lines of thought. It is hoped that this 
 mingling of the old and the new will not be 
 without interest. To carry out the plan of 
 iii 
 
 40'7445
 
 IV PREFACE. 
 
 making this a "handy" dictionary of quotations 
 and, at the same time, as comprehensive as the 
 space permitted, it has been necessary to conhne 
 the illustration of the topics selected to brief 
 extracts from each author. Of course, in all 
 books of quotations the great name of Shake- 
 speare hlls the largest space ; and the compiler 
 of this book, as well as all students of Shake- 
 speare, is under obligation to the painstaking 
 compilers of the concordances to this poet, and 
 especially to Mr. Bartlett's monumental work. 
 To many other compilers of quotations, espe- 
 cially to the Poetical Quotations of Anna L. 
 Ward (published by Messrs. T. Y. Crowell & 
 Co.), the author is under obligations; while 
 he has made an independent examination of 
 the more recent poets, as well as many of the 
 older ones. The topics illustrated number 
 2138, selected from the writings of 255 authors. 
 The indexes, which will be found full and 
 complete, were prepared by Mrs. Grace E. 
 Powers, who has also rendered valuable assist- 
 ance in preparing the copy for the press and 
 in reading the proofs. 
 
 G. W. P. 
 Dorchester, Mass., 
 July, 1901.
 
 HANDY DICTIONARY OF POETI- 
 CAL QUOTATIONS. 
 
 A. 
 Abashed. 
 
 Abash'd the devil stood, 
 And felt how awful goodness is, and saw 
 Virtue in her shape how lovely. 
 
 1 Milton: Par. Zos^ Bk. iv., Line 846. 
 
 Abbots. 
 
 To happy convents bosom'd deep in vines, 
 Where slumber abbots purple as their wines. 
 
 2 Pope: Dunciad, Bk. iv., Line SOL 
 Abdication. 
 
 I give this heavy weight from off my head, 
 And this unwieldy sceptre from my hand, 
 The pride of kingly sway from out my heart; 
 AVith mine own tears I wash away ray balm, 
 AVith mine own hands I give away my crown, 
 With mine own tongue deny my sacred state. 
 With mine own breath release all duteous oaths. 
 
 3 Shaks. : Richard II., Act iv., Sc. L 
 AbdieL 
 
 So spake the seraph Abdiel, faithful found; 
 Among the faithless, faithful only he. 
 
 4 Milton : Par. Lost, Bk. v., Line 896. 
 
 1
 
 Z DICTIONARY OF POETICAL QUOTATIONS. 
 
 Ability. 
 
 I profess not talking : only this, 
 Let each man do his best. 
 
 5 SiiAKS. : 1 Henry IV., Act v., Sc. 2. 
 
 Absence. 
 
 What ! keep a week away ! Seven days and nights ? 
 Eight score eiglit hours? and lovers' absent hours, 
 More tedious tlian the dial eight score times? 
 O weary reckoning ! 
 
 6 Shaks. : Othello, Act iii., Sc. 4. 
 
 Though lost to sight, to memory dear 
 Thou ever wilt remain. 
 
 7 George Linley: Song, TlioiKjh Lost to S'kjIU. 
 
 Condemn"'d whole years in absence to deplore. 
 And image charms he must behold no more. 
 
 8 Pope: Eloisa to A., Line 36L 
 
 O last love ! O first love 1 
 
 My love with the true heart, 
 
 To think I have come to this your home. 
 
 And yet — we are apart ! 
 
 9 Jean Ingelow: Sailing Beyond Seas. 
 
 'Tis said that absence conquers love ; 
 
 But oh believe it not ! 
 I've tried, alas ! its power to prove. 
 
 But thou art not forgot. 
 
 Frederick W. Thomas: Absence Conquers 
 
 10 Love. 
 
 Abstinence. 
 
 Against diseases here the strongest fence 
 Is the defensive virtue abstinence. 
 
 11 Herrick: Aph. Abstinence.
 
 DICTIONARY OF POETICAL QUOTATIONS. 6 
 
 Abuse. 
 
 Thou thread, thou thimble, 
 
 Thou yard, three quarters, half-yard, quarter, nail, 
 Thou ilea, thou nit, thou winter cricket thou : 
 Away thou rag, thou quantity, thou remnant. 
 
 12 Shaks. : 2a?«. of the S., Act iv., Sc. 3. 
 
 Accident. 
 
 As the unthought-on accident is guilty 
 Of what we wildly do, so we profess 
 Ourselves to be the slaves of chance, and flies 
 Of every wind that blows. 
 
 13 Shaks. : Wint. Tale, Act iv., Sc. 3. 
 
 Wherein I spake of most disastrous chances, 
 Of moving accidents by flood and field. 
 
 14 Shaks.: Othello, Act i., Sc. 3. 
 
 Our wanton accidents take root, and grow 
 To vaunt themselves God's laws. 
 
 Charles Kingsley: Saints' Tragedy, 
 
 15 Act ii., Sc. 4. 
 
 By many a happy accident. 
 
 MiDDLETON : No Wit, No Help, Like a Wo- 
 
 16 mans, Act ii., Sc. 2. 
 
 Account. 
 
 No reckoning made, but sent to my account 
 With all my imperfections on my head. 
 17 
 
 Accusation. 
 
 Accuse not Nature : she hath done her part ; 
 
 Do thou but thine. 
 
 18 Milton : Par. Lost, Bk. viii., Line 561.
 
 DICTIONARY OF POETICAL QUOTATIONS. 
 
 Achievements. 
 
 Great things thro' greatest hazards are achiev'd, 
 And then tliey shine. 
 
 Beaumont and Fletcher : Loyal Subject, 
 19 Act i., Sc. 5. 
 
 Acquaintance. 
 
 Should auld acquaintance be forgot, 
 
 And never brought to mind ? 
 Should auld acquaintance be forgot, 
 
 And days o' lang syne ? 
 
 20 Burns: Auld Lang Syne. 
 
 Action. 
 
 Pleasure and action make the hours seem short. 
 
 21 Shaks. : Othello, Act ii., Sc. 3. 
 
 Of every noble action, the intent 
 
 Is to give worth reward — vice punishment. 
 
 Beaumont and Fletcher : Captain, 
 22 Act v., Sc. 5. 
 
 Only the actions of the just 
 
 Smell sweet and blossom in their dust. 
 
 James Shirley : Death's Final Conquest, 
 23 Sc. iii. 
 
 Who sweeps a room as for Thy laws 
 
 Makes that and th' action fine. 
 24 Herbert: The Elixir.
 
 DICTIONARY OF POETICAL QUOTATIONS. O 
 
 Activity. 
 
 If it were done, when 'tis done, then 'twere well 
 It were done quickly. 
 
 25 Shaks. : Macbeth, Act i., Sc. 7. 
 
 AVise men ne'er sit and wail their loss, 
 
 But cheerly seek how to redress their harms. 
 
 26 Shaks. : 3 Henry VI., Act v., Sc. 4. 
 
 Actors. 
 
 A strutting player, — whose conceit 
 Lies in his hamstring, and doth think it rich 
 To hear the wooden dialogue and sound 
 'Twixt his stretched footing and the scaffoldage. 
 
 27 Shaks. : TroiL and Cress., Act i., Sc. 3. 
 
 The world's a theatre, the earth a stage 
 Which God and Nature do with actors fill. 
 
 28 Thomas Heywood : Apology for Actors. 
 
 Adaptability. 
 
 All things are ready, if our minds be so. 
 
 29 Shaks. : Henry V., Act iv., Sc. 3. 
 
 Address. 
 
 And the tear that is wiped with a little address 
 May be foUow'd perhaps by a smile. 
 
 30 CowPER : The Rose. 
 
 Adieu. 
 
 Adieu, adieu I my native shore 
 
 Fades o'er the waters blue. 
 31 Byron : Ch. Harold, Canto i., St. 13
 
 6 DICTIONARY OF POETICAL QUOTATIONS. 
 
 Adieu, she cried, and waved her lily hand. 
 
 Gay: Sweet William's Fareioell to 
 
 32 Black-eyed Susan. 
 
 Admiration. 
 
 Season your admiration for a while. 
 
 33 Shaks. : Hamlet, Act i., Sc. 2. 
 
 Adoration. 
 
 The holy time is quiet as a nun 
 Breathless with adoration. 
 
 34 Wordsworth : // is a Beauteous Evening. 
 
 Adorning. 
 
 Her modest looks the cottage might adorn, 
 Sweet as the prinnose peeps beneath the thorn. 
 
 35 Goldsmith : Des. Village, Line 232. 
 
 Loveliness 
 Needs not the foreign aid of ornament, 
 But is when unadorn'd, adorn'd the most. 
 
 36 Thomson: Seasons, Autumn, Line 204. 
 
 Adversity. 
 
 Sweet are the uses of adversity, 
 
 Which, like the toad, ugly and venomous, 
 
 AVears yet a precious jewel in his head; 
 
 And this our life, exempt from public haunt. 
 
 Finds tongues in trees, books in the running brooks, 
 
 Sermons in stones, and good in everything. 
 
 37 Shaks.: As You Like It, Act ii., Sc. 1.
 
 DICTIONARY OF POETICAL QUOTATIONS. 7 
 
 A wretched soul, bruis'd with adversity, 
 
 We bid be quiet, when we hear it cry ; 
 
 But were we burthen'd with like weight of pain, 
 
 As much, or more, we should ourselves complain. 
 
 38 Shaks. : Com. of Errors, Act ii., Sc. 1. 
 
 I am not now in fortune's power : 
 He that is down can fall no lower. 
 
 Butler : Hudibras, Pt. i., Canto iii., 
 
 39 Line 877. 
 
 For of fortunes sharpe adversite. 
 The worst kind of infortune is this, — 
 A man that hath been is prosperite, 
 And it remember whan it passed is. 
 
 Chaucer: Troilus and Creseide, Bk. iii., 
 
 40 Line 1625. 
 
 Advice. 
 
 Give every man thine ear, but few thy voice; 
 Take each man's censure, but reserve thy judg- 
 ment. 
 
 41 Shaks. : Hamlet, Act i., Sc. 3. 
 
 Know when to speak — for many times it brings 
 Danger, to give the best advice to kings. 
 
 42 Herrick : Aph. Caution in Council. 
 
 The worst men often give the best advice. 
 
 43 Bailey : Festus, Sc. A Village Feast. 
 
 *Twas good advice, and meant, my son, Be good. 
 
 44 Crabbe : The Learned Boy.
 
 8 DICTIONARY OF POETICAL QUOTATIONS. 
 
 Affectation. 
 
 There atfectation, with a sickly mien, 
 Shows in her cheek the roses of eighteen ; 
 Practis'd to lisp, and hang the head aside; 
 Faints into airs, and languishes with pride; 
 On the rich quilt sinks with becoming woe, 
 Wrapt in a gown, for sickness, and for show. 
 
 45 Pope : R. of the Lock, Canto iv., Line -Ji 
 
 Affection. 
 
 Why, she would hang on him, 
 As if increase of appetite had grown 
 By what it fed on. 
 
 46 Shaks. : Hamlet, Act i., Sc. 2. 
 
 Affection is a coal that must be cool'd, 
 Else, suifer'd, it will set the heart on fire. 
 
 47 Shaks.: Fenu.s rtnr/ .1., Line 387. 
 
 Affliction. 
 
 Affliction is the good man's shining scene; 
 
 Prosperity conceals his brightest ray; 
 
 As night to stars, woe lustre gives to man. 
 
 48 Young : Night Thoughts, Night ix., Line 406. 
 
 Now let us thank the Eternal Power : convinced 
 That Heaven but tries our virtue by affliction. 
 
 49 John Brown : Barbarossa, Act v., Sc. 3. 
 
 Affronts. 
 
 Young men soon give and soon forget affronts; 
 Old age is slow in both. 
 
 50 Addison: Cato, Act ii., Sc. 0.
 
 DICTIONARY OF POETICAL QUOTATIONS. y 
 
 A.ge. 
 When the age is in, the wit is out. 
 
 51 Shaks. : Much Ado, Act iii., Sc. 5. 
 
 His silver hairs 
 Will purchase us a good opinion, 
 And buy men's voices to commend our deeds; 
 It shall be said, — his judgment rul'd our hands. 
 
 52 Shaks. : Jul. Ccesar, Act ii., Sc. 1. 
 
 Manhood, when verging into age, grows thought- 
 ful. 
 
 53 Capel Lofft's Aphorisms. Published in 1812. 
 
 I am declin'd into the vale of years. 
 
 54 Shaks. : Othello, Act iii., Sc. 3. 
 
 Age cannot wither her, nor custom stale 
 
 Her infinite variety ; other women 
 
 Cloy th' appetites they feed ; but she makes hungry 
 
 Where most she satisfies. 
 
 55 Shaks. : Ant. and Cleo., Act ii., Sc. 2. 
 
 An old man, broken with the storms of State, 
 Is come to lay his weary bones among ye; 
 Give hira a little earth for charity ! 
 
 56 Shaks. : Henry VIII., Act iv., Sc. 2. 
 
 We see time's furrows on another's brow^ , . . 
 How few themselves in that just mirror see ! 
 
 57 Young : Night Thoughts, Night v., Line 627.
 
 10 DICTIONARY OF POETICAL QUOTATIONS. 
 
 O, sir! I must not tell my age. 
 
 They say women and music should never be dated. 
 
 58 Goldsmith: She Sloops to Con., Act iii. 
 
 What is the worst of woes that wait on ai^e? 
 What stamps the wrinkle deeper on the brow? 
 To view each loved one blotted from life's page, 
 And be alone on earth as I am now. 
 
 59 Byuon: Ch. Harold, Canto ii., St. 98. 
 
 Old age comes on apace to ravage all the clime. 
 
 60 Beattie : The MinMrel, Bk. i., St. 25. 
 
 But an old age serene and bright, 
 And lovely as a Lapland night, 
 Shall lead thee to thy grave. 
 
 61 Wordsworth : To a Young Lady. 
 
 Agony. 
 
 A solitary shriek, the bubbling cry 
 Of some strong swimmer in his agony. 
 
 62 Byron : Don Juan, Canto ii., St. 53. 
 
 Agreement. 
 
 Could we forbear dispute and practise love, 
 
 We should agree as angels do above. 
 
 G3 Waller : Divine Love, Canto iii. 
 
 Where order in variety we see, 
 
 And where, though all things differ, all agree. 
 
 G4 Pope: Windsor Forest, Line 13. 
 
 Aim. 
 
 Better have failed in the high aim, as I, 
 
 Than vulgarly in the low aim succeed. 
 
 65 Robert Browning: The Inn Album, \y.
 
 DICTIONARY OF POETICAL QUOTATIONS. 11 
 
 Air. 
 
 When he speaks, 
 The air, a chartered libertine, is still. 
 
 66 Shaks. : Henry V., Act i., Sc. 1. 
 
 Alacrity. 
 
 I have a kind of alacrity in sinking. 
 
 67 Shaks. : Mer. W. of W., Act iii., Sc. 5. 
 
 Ale. 
 
 Then to the spicy nut-brown ale. 
 
 68 Milton: L'ylZ/e^rro, Line 100. 
 
 A Rechabite poor Will must live, 
 And drink of Adam's ale. 
 
 69 Prior : The Wandering Pilgrim. 
 
 Alexandrine. 
 
 A needless Alexandrine ends the song. 
 That, like a wounded snake, drags its slow length 
 along. 
 
 70 Pope : E. on Criticism, Pt. ii., Line 156. 
 
 Alone. 
 
 Alone, alone, — all, all alone ; 
 Alone on a wide, wide sea. 
 
 71 Coleridge: The Ancient Mariner, Pt. iv. 
 
 Amazement. 
 
 But look! Amazement on thy mother sits; 
 O step between her and her fighting soul : 
 Conceit in weakest bodies strongest works. 
 
 72 Shaks. : Hamlet, Act iii., Sc. 4.
 
 1- DICTIONAKY OF POETICAL QUOTATIONS. 
 
 Amber. 
 
 Pretty ! in amber to observe the forms 
 Of hairs, or straws, or dirt, or grubs, or worms ! 
 Tlie things, we know, are neitlier rich nor rare, 
 But wonder how the devil they got there. 
 
 73 Pope: Epis. to Arbuthnot, Line 1Q9. 
 
 Ambition. 
 
 Fling away ambition ; 
 By that sin fell the angels : how can man then, 
 The image of his JNlaker, hope to win by it? 
 
 74 Shaks. : Henry VII L, Act iii., Sc. 2. 
 
 I have no spur 
 To prick the sides of my intent, but only 
 Vaulting ambition, which o'erleaps itself, 
 And falls on the other. 
 
 75 Shaks. : Macbeth, Act i., Sc. 7. 
 
 Ambition has but one reward for all : 
 A little power, a little transient fame, 
 A grave to rest in, and a fading name. 
 
 76 William Winter : Queen's Domain. 
 
 To reign is worth ambition, though in hell : 
 Better to reign in hell, than serve in heaven. 
 
 77 Milton : Par. Lost, Bk. i., Line 262. 
 
 Such joy ambition finds. 
 
 78 Milton : Par. Lost, Bk. iv.. Line 92. 
 
 America. 
 
 America! half brother of the world I 
 With something good and bad of every land ; 
 Greater than thee have lost their seat — 
 Greater scarce none can stand. 
 
 79 Bailey : Festus, Sc. The Surface.
 
 DICTIONARY OF POETICAL QUOTATIONS. 13 
 
 Anarchy. 
 
 Where eldest Night 
 And Chaos, ancestors of Nature, hold 
 Eternal anarchy amidst the noise 
 Of endless wars, and by confusion stand. 
 
 80 Milton : Par. Lost, Bk. ii.. Line 894 
 
 Ancestry. 
 
 The sap which at the root is bred 
 In trees, through all the boughs is spread ; 
 But virtues which in parents shine 
 Make not like progress through the line. 
 
 81 Waller: 7o Zelinda. 
 
 AVhat can ennoble sots, or slaves, or cowards? 
 Alas ! not all the blood of all the Howards. 
 
 82 Pope : Essay on Man, Epis. iv., Line 215. 
 
 Angels. 
 
 Fools rush in where angels fear to tread. 
 
 83 Pope : E. on Criticism, Pt. iii., Line 66. 
 
 The angels come and go, the messengers of God. 
 
 84 R. H. Stoddard : Hymn to the Beautiful. 
 
 The good he scorn'd 
 • Stalk'd oif reluctant, like an ill-used ghost, 
 Not to return ; or if it did, in visits 
 Like those of angels, short and far between. 
 
 85 Blair : The Grave, Pt. ii., Line 586. 
 
 Anger. 
 
 Anger 's my meat ; I sup upon myself, 
 And so shall starve with feeding. 
 
 86 Shaks. : Coriolanus, Act iv., Sc. 2. 
 
 Never anger made good guard for itself. 
 
 87 Shaks.: Ant. and Cleo., Act iv., Sc. 1
 
 14 DICTIONARY OF POETICAL QUOTATIONS. 
 
 Angling. 
 
 The pleasant'st angling is to see the fish 
 Cut with her golden oars the silver stream, 
 And greedily devour the treacherous bait. 
 
 88 SnAKS. : Much Ado, Act iii., Sc. 1. 
 
 'T w^as merry when 
 You wager'd on your angling; when your diver 
 Did hang a salt-fish on his hook, which he 
 With fervency drew up. 
 
 89 Shaks. : Ant. and Cieo., Act ii., Sc. 5. 
 
 Anticipation. 
 
 Peace, brother, be not over-exquisite 
 
 To cast the fashion of uncertain evils; 
 
 For, grant they be so, while they rest unknown, 
 
 What need a man forestall his (late of grief. 
 
 And run to meet what he would most avoid? 
 
 90 Milton : Comus, Line 359. 
 
 Antiquity. 
 
 O good old man ! how well in thee appears 
 The constant service of the antique world. 
 When service sweat for duty, not for meedl 
 Thou art not for the fashion of these times, 
 Where none will sweat, but for promotion. 
 
 91 Shaks. : As You Like It, Act ii., Sc. 3. 
 
 Nor rough, nor barren, are the winding ways 
 Of hoar antiquity, but strewn with flowers. 
 
 Warton : Written on a Blank Leaf of 
 
 92 DugdaWs Monasticon. 
 
 Apathy. 
 
 In lazy apathy let stoics boast 
 
 Their virtue fix'd ; 't is fixed as in a frost. 
 
 93 Pope ; Essay on Man, Epis. i\., Line lOL
 
 DICTIONARY OF POETICAL QUOTATIONS. 15 
 
 Apparel. 
 
 Costly thy habit as thy purse can buy, 
 
 But not expressed in fancy ; rich, not gaudy : 
 
 For the apparel oft proclaims the man. 
 
 94 Shaks. : Hamlet, Act i., Sc. 3. 
 
 Apparitions. 
 
 How fading are the joys we dote upon 1 
 J^ike apparitions seen and gone. 
 
 95 John Nokris: The Parting. 
 
 Appeal. 
 
 I have done the state some service, and they know it. 
 No more of that ; I pray you in your letters, 
 AVhen you shall these unlucky deeds relate, 
 Speak of me as 1 am, nothing extenuate. 
 Nor set down aught in malice. 
 
 96 Shaks. : Othello, Act v., Sc. 2. 
 
 Appearances. 
 
 All that glisters is not gold, 
 Gilded tombs do worms infold. 
 
 97 Shaks. ; M. of Venice, Act ii., Sc. 7. 
 
 Appearances to save, his only care; 
 
 So things seem right no matter what they are. 
 
 98 Churchill: Rosciad, L\i\q 2^^. 
 
 Appetite. 
 
 Now good digestion wait on appetite, 
 And health on both. 
 
 99 Shaks. : Macbeth, Act iii., Sc. 4. 
 
 His thirst he slakes at some pure neighboring 
 
 brook. 
 Nor seeks for sauce where appetite stands cook. 
 
 100 Churchill : Gotham, iii., Line 133,
 
 16 DICTIOXARY OF POETICAL QUOTATIOXS. 
 
 Applause. 
 
 I would applaud thee to the very echo, 
 Tliat should applaud again. 
 
 101 SiiAKS. : Macbeth, Act v., Sc. 3 
 
 Oh popular applause ! what heart of man 
 Is proof against thy sweet, seducing charms? 
 
 102 CowPER : Task, Bk. ii., Line 481. 
 
 The applause of list'ning senates to command. 
 
 103 Gray: Elegy, St. 16. 
 
 April. 
 
 Whanne that Aprille with his shoures sote 
 The droughte of March hath perced to the rote. 
 Chaucer: Canterbury Tales, Prologue, 
 
 104 Line 1. 
 
 April cold with dropping rain 
 Willows and lilacs brings again, 
 The whistle of returning birds, 
 And trumpet-lowing of the herds. 
 
 105 Emerson: May-day, JAne 12i. 
 
 When aince Aprile has fairly come, 
 An' birds may bigg in winter's lum, 
 An' pleisure's spreid for a' and some 
 
 O' whatna state, 
 Ix)ve, wi' her auld recruitin' drum, 
 
 Than taks the gate. 
 Robert Louis Stevenson: Underwoods, 
 
 106 Bk. ii., iil 
 
 Argument. 
 
 In arguing, too, the parson owned his skill. 
 For e'en though vanquish'd, he could argue still. 
 
 107 Goldsmith: Des. Village; Line 2\l
 
 DICTIONARY OF POETICAL QUOTATIONS. 17 
 
 Aristocracy. 
 
 'Tis from high life high characters are drawn ; 
 A saint iii crape is twice a saint in lawn. 
 
 108 Pope: Moral Essays, Epis. i., Line 135. 
 
 Art. 
 
 Seraphs share with thee 
 Knowledge : But art, O man, is thine alone ! 
 
 109 Schiller: Artists, St. 2c 
 
 Art is the child of Nature ; yes, 
 Her darling child, in whom we trace 
 The features of the mother's face, 
 Her aspect and her attitude. 
 
 110 Longfellow i Ke'ramos. 
 
 Artist. 
 
 In framing an artist, art hath thus decreed, 
 To make some good, but others to exceed. 
 
 111 Shaks. : Pericles, Act ii., Sc. 3. 
 
 Aspect. 
 
 With grave 
 Aspect he rose, and in his rising seem'd 
 A pillar of state. 
 
 1 12 Milton : Par. Lost, Bk. ii., Line 300. 
 
 Aspiration. 
 
 'Tis he, T ken the manner of his gait; 
 He rises on the toe ; that spirit of his 
 In aspiration lifts him from the earth. 
 
 113 Shaks. : Trail, and Cress., Act iv., Sc. 5.
 
 18 DICTIONARY OF POETICAL QUOTATIONS. 
 
 Assurance. 
 
 rU make assurance double sure, 
 
 And take a bond ol" late. 
 
 Ill: 811AKS. : Macbeth, Act iv., Sc. 1. 
 
 Atheism. 
 
 By night an atheist half believes a God. 
 
 115 Young : Night Thoughts, Night v., Line 17G. 
 
 Athens. 
 
 Ancient of days ! august Athena 1 where, 
 Where are thy men of might, thy grand in soul? 
 Gone — glinunering through the dream of things 
 
 that were 
 Pirst in the race that led to glory's goal> 
 They won, and pass'd away. 
 
 116 Byron : Ch. Harold, Canto ii., St. 2. 
 
 Athens, the eye of Greece, mother of arts 
 And eloquence. 
 
 117 Milton: Par. Regained, Bk. iv., Line 240. 
 
 Attempt. 
 
 The attempt and not the deed 
 Confounds us. 
 
 118 Shaks. : Macbeth, Act ii., Sc. 2. 
 
 Attention. 
 
 The tongues of dying men 
 Enforce attention like deep harmony. 
 
 119 S11AK8. : Richard II., Act ii., Sc. 1. 
 
 Audience. 
 
 Still govern thou my song, 
 Urania, and fit audience find, though few. 
 
 120 Milton : Par. Lost, Bk. vii., Line 30.
 
 DICTIOXARY OF POETICAL QUOTATIONS. 19 
 
 August. 
 
 Rejoice ! ye fields, rejoice ! and wave with gold, 
 "When August round her precious gifts is flinging; 
 Lo ! the crushed wain is slowly homeward rolled : 
 The sunburnt reapers jocund lays are singing. 
 
 121 RjJSKi^: The Months. 
 
 Aurora. 
 
 Aurora now, fair daughter of the dawn, 
 Sprinkled with rosy light the dewy lawn. 
 
 122 Pope : Iliad, Bk. viii., Line 1. 
 
 Author. 
 
 Most authors steal their works, or buy ; 
 Garth did not write his own Dispensary, 
 
 123 Pope : E. on Criticism, Pt. iii., Line 59. 
 
 No author ever spar'd a brother. 
 
 124 Gay : Fables, The Elephant and the Bookseller. 
 
 How many great ones may remember'd be, 
 Which in their days most famously did flourish. 
 Of whom no word we hear, nor sign now see, 
 But as things wip'd out with a sponge do perish. 
 
 125 Spenser : Ruins of Time, St. 52. 
 
 Authority. 
 
 ]\Ian, proud man, 
 Drest in a little brief authority. 
 Most ignorant of what he's most assur'd, 
 His glassy essence — like an angry ape. 
 Plays such fantastic tricks before high heaven 
 As make the angels weep ! 
 
 126 Shaks.: M.for M., Act ii., Sc: 2.
 
 20 DICTIONARY OF POETICAL QUOTATIONS. 
 
 Autumn. 
 
 Season of mists and mellow fruitfulness ! 
 Close bosom friend of the maturing sun ; 
 Conspiring with him how to load and bless 
 AVith fruit the vines that round the thatch-eaves 
 
 run ; 
 To bend with apples the moss'd cottage trees, 
 And fill all fruit with ripeness to the core. 
 
 127 Keats: To Autumn. 
 
 Divinest autumn ! who may paint thee best, 
 Forever changeful o'er the changeful globe ? 
 Who guess thy certain crown, thy favorite crest, 
 The fashion of thy many-colored robe? 
 
 128 K. II. Stoddard: Autumn. 
 
 Autumn wins you best by this its mute 
 Appeal to sympathy for its decay. 
 
 129 Robert Browning : Paracelsus, Sc. i. 
 
 The lands are lit 
 With all the autumn blaze of Golden Rod; 
 And everywhere the Purple Asters nod 
 And bend and wave and flit. 
 
 130 Helen Hunt: Asters ajid Golden Rod. 
 
 I saw old Autumn in the misty morn 
 Stand shadowless like silence, listening 
 To silence, for no lonely bird would sing 
 Into his hollow ear from woods forlorn, 
 Nor lowly hedge nor solitary thorn. 
 
 131 Hood :^'lM;umn. 
 
 Avarice. 
 
 The lust of gold succeeds the rags of conquest : 
 The lust of gold, unfeeling and remorseless 1 
 The last corruption of degenerate man. 
 
 132 Dr. J0HN8ON : Irene, Act i., Sc. 1
 
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 ^^N^^^^*-^-^ 
 
 h^I^ALQU^^^.J^ 
 
 So for a good old-gentlemanlj vKqf,j^ o[A 
 
 I think I must take up with ava^*^^'^/^, (__ |_t B v\^5^ 
 133 Byrox: Don Juanj- Csinto^ 
 
 That disease 
 Of which all old men sicken, — avarice. 
 13-1 MiDDLETON : Roaring Girl, Act i., Sc. 1. 
 
 A"wk-wardnes3. 
 
 Awkward, embarrassed, stiff, without the skill 
 
 Of moving gracefully, or standing still, 
 
 One leg, as if suspicious of his brother. 
 
 Desirous seems to run away from t'other. 
 
 135 Churchill : Rosciad, Line 438. 
 
 Balances. 
 
 Jove lifts the golden balances that show 
 The fates of mortal men, and things below. 
 
 136 Pope: Iliad, Bk. xxii., Line 271. 
 
 Ball. 
 
 I saw her at a county ball ; 
 There when the sound of flute and fiddle 
 Gave signal sweet in that old hall. 
 Of hands across and down the middle. 
 
 137 , Praed : Belle of the Ball-Room, St. 2. 
 
 Banishment. 
 
 Eating the bitter bread of banishment. 
 
 138 Shaks.: Richard JL, Act iii., Sc 1.
 
 22 DICTIONARY OF POETICAL QUOTATIONS. 
 
 Banished? 
 () friar, the damned use that word in hell ; 
 Ilowlings attend it: How hast thou the heart, 
 Being a divine, a ghostly confessor, 
 A sin-absolver, and my friend profess'd. 
 To mangle me with that word — banished? 
 
 139 SnAKS. : Rom. and Jul, Act iii., Sc. 3. 
 
 Banner. 
 
 Hang out our banners on the outward walls. 
 
 140 SiiAKS.: Macbeth, Act v., Sc. 5. 
 
 A banner with the strange device. 
 
 1-11 Longfellow: Excelsior. 
 
 Wave, Munich ! all thy banners wave, 
 And charge with all thy chivalry. 
 
 142 Campbell: Hohenlinden. 
 
 Bard. 
 
 Be that blind bard who on the Chian strand. 
 By those deep sounds possessed with inward light, 
 Beheld the Iliad and the Odyssey 
 Rise to the swelling of the voiceful sea. 
 
 143 Coleridge: Fancy in Nubihus, 
 
 Bars. 
 
 Stone walls do not a prison make, 
 
 Nor iron bars a cage. 
 114 Lovelace: To Altheafrom Prison, iv. 
 
 Baseness. 
 
 Since Cleopatra died, 
 I have lived in such dishonor that the gods 
 Detest my baseness. 
 145 SiiAKS. : Ant. and Cleo., Act iv., Sc. 14.
 
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 Bashfulness. 
 
 I pity bashful men, who feel the pain 
 Of fancied scorn, and undeserv'd disdain, 
 And hear the marks upon a blushing face, 
 Of needless shame, and self-impos'd disgrace. 
 
 146 CowPER : Conversation, Line 347. 
 
 Battle. 
 
 Then more fierce 
 The conflict grew ; the din of arms, the yell 
 Of savage rage, the shriek of agony. 
 The groan of death, commingled in one sound 
 Of undistinguish'd horrors. 
 
 147 Southey: Madoc, Pt. ii., The Battle. 
 
 For freedom's battle, once begun, 
 Bequeath'd by bleeding sire to son, 
 Though baffled oft, is ever won. 
 
 148 Byrox : Giaour, Line 123. 
 
 When the battle rages loud and long, 
 And the stormy winds do blow. 
 
 149 Campbell: Ye Mariners of England. 
 
 Beads. 
 
 The hooded clouds, like friars, 
 
 Tell their beads in drops of rain. 
 15() Longfellow: Midnight Mass. 
 
 Beams. 
 
 And like a lane of beams athwart the sea, 
 
 Thro' all the circle of the golden year. 
 
 151 Tennyson : The Golden Year.
 
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 Beard. 
 
 His beard was as wliite as snow, 
 All flaxen was his poll. 
 
 152 SnAKS. : Hamlet, Act iv., Sc. 5. 
 
 His tawny beard was th' equal grace 
 Both of his wisdom and his face; 
 In cut and die so like a tile, 
 A sudden view it would beguile; 
 The upper part thereof was whey; 
 The uether, orange mix'd with grey. 
 
 Butler: Hudlbras, Pt. i., Canto i., 
 
 153 Line 241. 
 
 Beast. 
 
 A beast, that wants discourse of reason. 
 
 154 SiiAKS. : Hamlet, Act i., Sc. 2. 
 
 Beauty. 
 
 My beauty, though but mean, 
 Needs not the painted flourish of your praise; 
 Beauty is bought by judgment of the eye, 
 Not utter'd by base sale of chapmen's tongues. 
 
 155 SiiAKs. : Love's L. Lost, Act ii., Sc. 1. 
 
 Beauty is but a vain and doubtful good; 
 
 A shining gloss that fadeth suddenly; 
 
 A flower that dies, when first it 'gins to bud ; 
 
 A brittle glass that's broken presently; 
 
 A doubtful good, a gloss, a glass, a flower, 
 
 Lost, faded, broken, dead within an hour. 
 
 156 Shaks. : Pass. Pilgrim, St. 11, 
 
 Beauty stands 
 In the admiration only of weak minds
 
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 Led captive ; cease to admire, and all her plumes 
 Fall fiat and shrink into a trivial toy, 
 At every sudden slighting quite abash'd. 
 
 157 Milton : Par. Regained, Bk. ii., Line 220. 
 
 Old as I am, for ladies' love unfit, 
 The power of beauty I remember yet. 
 
 158 Dryden: Cyrn. and Iph., Line 1. 
 
 A thing of beauty is a joy forever: 
 Its loveliness increases ; it will never 
 Pass into nothingness ; but still will keep 
 A bower quiet for us, and a sleep 
 Full of sweet dreams, and health, and quiet 
 breathing. 
 
 159 Keats: Endijmlon, Bk. i., Line 1. 
 
 What is this thought or thing 
 
 Which I call beauty? is it thought or thing? 
 
 Is it a thought accepted for a thing? 
 
 Or both? or neither — a pretext? — a word? 
 
 Mrs. Browning: Drama of Ex. Extrem. 
 
 160 of Sword-Glare. 
 
 If eyes were made for seeing. 
 
 Then Beauty is its own excuse for being. 
 
 161 Emerson: The Rhodora. 
 
 Fair tresses man's imperial race insnare. 
 And beauty draws us with a single hair. 
 
 162 Pope : R. of the Lock, Canto ii., Line 27. 
 
 True beauty dwells in deep retreats. 
 
 Whose veil is un removed 
 Till heart with heart in concord beats, 
 
 And the lover is beloved. 
 
 Wordsworth: To . Let Other Bards 
 
 163 of Angels Sing,
 
 26 DICTIONARY OF POETICAL QUOTATIONS, 
 
 Bed. 
 
 Ill bed we laugh, in bed we cry, 
 And l)orn in bed, in bed we die; 
 The near approacli a bed may show 
 Of human bliss and human woe. 
 
 Isaac de Bensekade : Trans, by Dr. 
 
 164 Johnson. 
 
 Bees. 
 
 So work the honey-bees; 
 Creatures, that by a rule in nature, teach 
 The act of order to a peopled kingdom. 
 
 165 Shaks.: Henry V., Act i., Sc. 2. 
 
 The moan of doves in immemorial elms. 
 
 And murmuring of innumerable bees. 
 
 166 Tennyson : The Princess, Pt. vii., Line 203. 
 
 Beggars. 
 
 Beggars, mounted, run their horse to death. 
 
 167 Shaks. : 3 Heriry VL, Act i., Sc. 4. 
 
 When beggars die, there are no comets seen ; 
 The heavens themselves blaze forth the death of 
 princes. 
 
 168 Shaks. : Jul. Ccesar, Act ii., Sc. 2. 
 
 Behavior. 
 
 And puts himself upon his good behavior. 
 
 169 Byron : Don Juan, Canto V., St. 47. 
 
 Belial. 
 
 When night 
 Darkens the streets, then wander forth the sons 
 Of Belial, flown with insolence and wine. 
 
 170 Milton : Par. Lost, Bk. i., Line 500.
 
 DICTIOXARY OF POETICAL QUOTATIONS. 27 
 
 Bells. 
 
 Those evening bells ! those evening bells ! 
 How many a tale their music tells 
 Of youth, and home, and that sweet time, 
 "When last I heard their soothing chime ! 
 
 171 Moore: lliose Ecening Bells. 
 
 Ring out, wild bells, to the wild sky ! 
 
 Ring out old shapes of foul disease, 
 
 Ring out the narrowing lust of gold; 
 Ring out the thousand wars of old, 
 
 Ring in the thousand years of peace. 
 
 Ring in the valiant man and free, 
 
 The larger heart, the kindlier hand; 
 Ring out the darkness of the land, 
 
 Ring in the Christ that is to be. 
 
 172 Texxysox : In Memoriam, Pt. cv. 
 
 Hear the mellow wedding bells. 
 Golden bells ! 
 What a world of happiness their harmony foretells ! 
 
 173 Edgar Allan Foe : The Bells. 
 
 Benediction. 
 
 The thought of our past years in me doth breed 
 Perpetual benediction. 
 
 Wordsworth: Intimations of Immortality, 
 
 174 St. 9. 
 
 Bible. 
 
 A glory gilds the sacred page, 
 
 Majestic like the sun ; 
 It gives a light to every age ; 
 
 It gives, but borrows none. 
 
 175 CowPER : Olney Hyinns, No. 30
 
 28 DICTIONARY OF POETICAL QUOTATIONS. 
 
 Bigotry. 
 
 Christians liave burnt eacli other, quite persuaded 
 That all the Apostles would have done as they did. 
 17G Byron : Don Juan, Canto i., St. 83. 
 
 Birds. 
 
 You call them thieves and pillagers ; but know 
 They are the winged wardens of your farms, 
 Who from the cornfields drive the insidious foe, 
 And from your harvests keep a hundred harms. 
 
 177 Longfellow : Birds of Killingworth, St. 19. 
 
 Birth. 
 
 Our birth is but a sleep and a forgetting: 
 The soul that rises with us, our life's star, 
 Hath had elsewhere its setting, 
 And Cometh from afar. 
 "WoRDSWOKTH : Intimations of Immortality ^ 
 
 178 St. 5. 
 
 While man is growing, life is in decrease; 
 And cradles rock us nearer to the tomb. 
 Our birth is nothing but our death begun. 
 
 179 Young : Night Thoughts, Night v., Line 717. 
 
 Birthday. 
 
 A birthday : — and now a day that rose 
 With much of hope, with meaning rife — 
 A thoughtful day from dawn to close : 
 The middle day of human life. 
 
 180 Jean Ingelow: A Birthday Walk 
 
 Bivouac. 
 
 On Fame's eternal catnping-ground 
 Their silent tents are spread.
 
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 And Glory guards with solemn round 
 The bivouac of the dead. 
 
 181 Theodore O'Hara: Bivouac of the Dead, 
 
 Blasphemy. 
 
 Great men may jest with saints ; 'tis wit in them ; 
 But, in the less, foul profanation. 
 
 That in the captain 's but a choleric word, 
 Which in the soldier is flat blasphemy. 
 
 182 Shaks. : J/, for M., Act ii., Sc. 2. 
 
 Bleakness. 
 
 A naked house, a naked moor, 
 A shivering pool before the door, 
 A garden bare of flowers and fruit, 
 And poplars at the garden foot : ' 
 Such is the place that I live in. 
 Bleak without and bare within. 
 
 Robert Louis Stevenson: The House 
 
 183 Beautiful 
 
 Blessings. 
 
 How blessings brighten as they take their flight ! 
 181: Young : Night Thoughts, Night ii.. Line 602. 
 
 For blessings ever wait on virtuous deeds, 
 And though a late, a sure reward succeeds. 
 
 185 Congreve : Mourning Bride, Act v., Sc. 12. 
 
 Blindness. 
 
 O dark, dark, dark, amid the blaze of noon ; 
 Irrecoverably dark ! total eclipse. 
 Without all hope of day. 
 
 186 Milton: Samson A gonisteSylAuQ^O,
 
 30 DICTIONARY OF POETICAL QUOTATIONS. 
 
 O, loss of sight, of thee I most complain ! 
 
 Blind among enemies, O worse than chains, 
 
 Dungeons, or beggary, or decrepit age ! 
 
 Light, the prime work of (iod, to me 's extinct, 
 
 And all her various objects of deliglit 
 
 Annul'd, which might in part my grief have eas'd. 
 
 187 Milton: Samson Agonistes, Line G7. 
 
 Bliss. 
 
 Condition, circumstance, is not the thing; 
 Bliss is the same in subject or in king. 
 
 188 Pope: Essay on Man, Epis. iv., Line 57. 
 
 Vain, very vain, my weary search to find 
 That bliss which only centres in the mind. 
 
 189 Goldsmith : Traveller, Line 423. 
 
 Blood. 
 
 When the blood burns, how prodigal the soul 
 Lends the tongue vows. 
 
 190 SiiAKS. : Hamlet, Act i., Sc. 3. 
 
 A ruddy drop of manly blood 
 
 The surging sea outweighs ; 
 The world uncertain comes and goes. 
 
 The lover rooted stays. 
 
 191 EiMERSON : Epigraph to Friendship. 
 
 Blood is a juice of very special kind. 
 
 Goethe : Faust (Swanwick's Trans.), 
 
 192 Line 1386. 
 
 Bloom. 
 
 O'er her warm cheek and rising bosom move 
 The bloom of young Desire and purple light of 
 Love. 
 
 193 Gray : Prog, of Poesij, Pt. 1., St. 1, Line 3.
 
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 Blossoms. 
 
 \yho in life's battle firm doth stand 
 Shall bear hope's tender blossoms 
 
 Into the silent land. 
 19i J. G. VON Salis : The Silent Land. 
 
 Bluntness. 
 
 1 have neither wit, nor words, nor worth, 
 Action, nor utterance, nor the power of speech, 
 To stir men's blood : I only speak right on. 
 
 195 Shaks. : Jul. Ccesar, Act iii., So. 2. 
 
 Blushing. 
 
 Girls blush, sometimes, because they are alive, 
 Half wishing they were dead to save the shame. 
 The sudden blush devours them, neck and brow; 
 They have drawn too near the fire of life, like 
 
 gnats, * 
 
 And flare up boldly, wings and all. 
 WTiat then V 
 Who 's sorry for a gnat ... or girl? 
 
 Mrs. Browning: Aurora Leigh, 
 
 196 Bk. ii., Line 782. 
 
 Boasting. * 
 
 Here 's a large mouth, indeed. 
 That spits forth death, and mountains, rocks, and 
 
 Talks as familiarly of roaring lions. 
 
 As maids of thirteen do of puppy dogs. 
 
 197 Shaks. : King John, Act ii., Sc. 2. 
 
 Boat. 
 
 Oh swiftly glides the bonnie boat, 
 Just parted from the shore,
 
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 And to the fisher's chorus-note 
 Soft moves the dipping oar. 
 
 198 Baillie: Oh Swiftly Glides the Bonnie Boat. 
 
 Boldness. 
 
 In conversation boldness now bears sway, 
 But know, that nothing can so foolish be 
 As empty boldness. 
 
 199 Herbert: Teinple, Church Porch, St. 31. 
 
 Bond. 
 
 I '11 have my bond ; I will not hear thee speak ; 
 I '11 have my bond ; and therefore speak no more. 
 
 200 SiiAKS. : M. of Venice, Act iii., Sc. 3. 
 
 Bones. 
 
 Cursed be he that moves my bones. 
 
 201 Shaks. : Shakespeare's Epitaph. 
 
 Rattle his bones over the stones ! 
 
 He 's only a pauper, whom nobody owns ! 
 
 202 Thomas Noel : The Pauper's Ride. 
 
 Books. 
 
 A book ! O rare one ! 
 
 Be not, as is our fangled world, a garment 
 
 Nobler than that it covers. 
 
 203 Shaks.: Cymbeline, Act v., Sc. 4. 
 
 That place that does contain 
 My books, the best companions, is to me 
 A glorious court, where hourly I converse 
 With the old sages and philosophers ;
 
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 And sometimes, for variety, I confer 
 
 Witii kings and emperors, and weigh their counsels. 
 
 Beaumont and Fletcher : The Elder 
 204 Brother, Act i., Sc. 2. 
 
 Books cannot always please, however good ; 
 
 Minds are not ever craving for their food. 
 
 205 Crabbe : The Borough, Letter xxiv. 
 
 Dreams, books, are each a world ; and books, we 
 
 know, 
 Are a substantial world, both pure and good ; 
 Round these, with tendrils strong as flesh and 
 
 blood, 
 Our pastime and our happiness will grow. 
 206 Words\vorth: Personal Talk. 
 
 Deep vers'd in books, and shallow in himself. 
 
 207 Milton : Par. Regained, Bk. iv., Line 327. 
 
 Some books are lies frae end to end. 
 
 208 Burns : Death and Dr. Hornbook. 
 
 Bores. 
 
 Society is now one polish'd horde, 
 
 Formed of two mighty tribes, the Bores and Bored. 
 
 209 Byron : Don Juan, Canto xiii., St. 95. 
 
 Again I hear that creaking step ! — 
 
 He 's rapping at the door ! — 
 Too well I know the boding sound 
 
 That ushers in a bore. 
 
 210 J. G. Saxe : My Familiar.
 
 34 DICTIONARY OF POETICAL QUOTATIONS. 
 
 BorroTving. 
 
 Neither a borrower nor a lender be, 
 For loan oft loses both itself and friend ; 
 And borrowing dulls the edge of husbandry. 
 This above all, — to thine own self be true ; 
 And it must follow, as the night the day, 
 Thou canst not then be false to auy man. 
 
 211 Shaks. : Hamlet, Act i., Sc. 3. 
 
 Boston. 
 
 Solid men of Boston, banish long potations ! 
 Solid men of Boston, make no long or^ions ! 
 
 212 Charles Morris: American Song. 
 
 From Lyra Urbanica. 
 
 Bough. 
 
 Cut is the branch that might have grown full 
 
 straight. 
 And burned is Apollo's laurel bough. 
 That sometime grew within this learned man. 
 
 213 Marlowe : Faustus. 
 
 Bounds 
 
 There 's nothing situate under Heaven's eye, 
 But hath his bound, in earth, in sea, in sky. 
 
 214 Shaks.: Com. of Errors, Act ii., Sc. 1. 
 
 Bounty 
 
 For his bounty, 
 There was no w^inter in 't; an autumn 't was, 
 That grew the more by reaping. 
 
 215 Shaks. : Ant. and Cleo., Act v., Sc. 2. 
 
 Large was his bounty, and his soul sincere, 
 lieaven did a recompense as largely send ;
 
 DICTIONARY OF POETICAL QUOTATIONS. 35 
 
 He gave to mis'ry (all he had) a tear, 
 
 He gain'd from Heav'n ('twas all he wish'd) a 
 friend. 
 
 216 Gray : Elegy, The Epitaph. 
 
 Bourn. 
 
 The undiscover'd country from whose bourn 
 No traveller returns. 
 
 217 Shaks. : Hamlet, Act iii., Sc. 1. 
 
 Bower. 
 
 I 'd be a butterfly born in a bower, 
 
 Where roses and lilies and violets meet. 
 
 218 Thomas Haynes Bayly : I'd he a Butterfly. 
 
 Bowl. 
 
 There St. John mingles with my friendly bowl, 
 The feast of reason and the flow of soul. 
 
 219 Pope : Satire i., Line 6. 
 
 Boyhood. 
 
 The whining schoolboy, with his satchel, 
 And shining morning face, creeping like snail 
 Unwillingly to school. 
 
 The smiles, the tears, 
 Of boyhood's years, 
 The words of love then spoken. 
 
 221 Moore : Oft in the Stilly Night 
 
 Braes. 
 
 We twa hae run about the braes. 
 And pu'd the gowans fine. 
 
 222 Burns: Auld Lang Syne.
 
 36 DICTIONARY OF POETICAL QUOTATIONS. 
 
 Braggart. 
 
 I know them, yea, 
 And what they weigh, even to the utmost scruple : 
 Scrambling, outfacing, fashion-monging boys, 
 That lie, and cog, and flout, deprave, and slander, 
 Go anticly, and show outward hideousness, 
 And speak off half a dozen dangerous words. 
 How they might hurt their enemies if they durst; 
 And this is all. 
 
 223 SiiAKS. : Much Ado, Act v., Sc. 1. 
 
 Brains. 
 
 The times have been 
 That, when the brains were out, the man would 
 
 die. 
 And there an end ; but now they rise again. 
 With twenty mortal murders on their crowns, 
 And push us from our stools. 
 
 224 Shaks. : Macbeth, Act iii., Sc. 4. 
 
 Bravery. 
 
 'T is more brave 
 To live, than to die. 
 
 Owen Meredith : Lucile, Pt. ii., Canto vi., 
 
 225 St. 11. 
 
 None but the brave deserves the fair. 
 
 226 Dryden: Alex. Feast, St. 1. 
 
 How sleep the brave, who sink to rest, 
 By all their country's wishes blest ! 
 
 227 Collins : Lines in 1764. 
 
 Breach. 
 
 Once more unto the breach, dear friends, once more, 
 Or close the wall up with our English dead ! 
 
 228 Shaks.: Henry V., Act ii., Sc. 4.
 
 DICTIOXARY OF POETICAL QUOTATIOXS. 37 
 
 Bread. 
 
 O God ! that bread should be so dear, 
 And flesh and blood so cheap ! 
 
 229 Hood : The Sonrj of the Shirt. 
 
 Breast. 
 
 The yielding marble of her snowy breast. 
 
 Waller : On a Lady passing through a Crowd 
 
 230 of People. 
 
 A word in season spoken 
 
 May calm the troubled breast. 
 
 231 Charles Jefferys : A Word in Season. 
 
 Breath. 
 
 When the good man yields his breath 
 (For the good man never dies). 
 
 James Montgomery : The Wanderer of 
 
 232 Switzerland, Pt. v. 
 
 Breeches. 
 
 But the old three-cornered hat, 
 And the breeches, and all that, 
 Are so queer ! 
 
 233 Oliver Wendell Holmes : The Last Leaf. 
 
 Breezes. 
 
 Breezes of the South ! 
 Who toss the golden and the flame-like flowers. 
 And pass the prairie-hawk that, poised on high. 
 Flaps his broad wings, yet moves not — ye have 
 
 played 
 Among the palms of Mexico and vines 
 Of Texas, and have crisped the limpid brooks 
 That from the fountains of Sonora glide 
 Into the calm Pacific — have ye fanned 
 A nobler or a lovelier scene than this? 
 
 234 William Cullen Bryant : The Prairies. 
 
 407445
 
 38 DICTIONARY OF POETICAL QUOTATIONS. 
 
 Brevity. 
 
 Since brevity is the soul of wit, 
 And tediousness the limbs and outward flour- 
 ishes — 
 I will be brief. 
 
 235 Shaks. : Hamlet, Act ii., Sc. 2. 
 
 For brevity is very good, 
 
 When we are, or are not, understood. 
 
 BuTLKR : Hudibras, Pt. i.. Canto i., 
 
 236 Line 669. 
 
 Bribes. 
 
 What ! shall one of us, 
 That struck the foremost man of all this world, 
 But for supporting robliers ; — shall we now 
 Contaminate our fingers witii base bribes? 
 And sell the mighty space of our large honors 
 For so much trash as may be grasped thus? 
 I 'd rather be a dog, and bay tlie moon, 
 Than such a Roman. 
 
 237 Shaks. : Jul. Ccesar, Act iv., Sc. 3. 
 
 Bride. 
 
 You are just a sweet bride in her bloom, 
 All sunshine, and snowy, and pure. 
 
 238 Thomas B. Alduich : An Untimely Thought. 
 
 Bridge. 
 
 By the rude bridge that arched the flood, 
 Their flag to April's breeze unfurled. 
 
 Here once the embattl'd farmers stood. 
 And fired the shot heard round the world. 
 
 Emerson : Hymn stmc/ at the Completion 
 
 239 of the Battle Monument*
 
 DICTIOXARY OF POETICAL QUOTxVTIOXS. 39 
 
 Brooks. 
 
 A silvery brook comes stealing 
 
 From the sliado'.v of its trees, 
 Where slender herbs of the forest stoop 
 
 Before the entering breeze. 
 
 William Cullen Bryant : 
 
 240 The Unknown Way. 
 
 Brotherhood. 
 
 I have shot mine arrow o'er the house, 
 And hurt my brother. 
 
 241 Shaks. : Hamlet, Act v., Sc. 2. 
 
 Affliction's sons are brothers in distress ; 
 
 A brother to relieve, — how exquisite the bliss ! 
 
 242 Burns: .4 Winter Night, 
 
 Bubbles. 
 
 The earth hath bubbles as the water has, 
 And these are of them. 
 
 243 Shaks. : Macbeth, Act i., Sc. 3. 
 
 Bucket. 
 
 The old oaken bucket, the iron-bound bucket, 
 The moss-covered bucket, which hung in the well. 
 
 244 WooDWORTH : The Old Oaken Bucket. 
 
 Bud. 
 
 The bud is on the bough again. 
 The leaf is on the tree. 
 Charles Jefferys : 7'Ae Meeting of Spring 
 
 245 and Summer,
 
 40 DICTIONARY OF POETICAL QUOTATIONS. 
 
 Bugle. 
 
 Blow, bugle, blow ! set the wild echoes flying ! 
 And answer, echoes, answer! dying, dying, dying. 
 Tennysox : The Princess, Pt. iii., 
 
 246 Line 8'^ >. 
 
 Building. 
 
 The hand that rounded Peter's dome, 
 And groined the aisles of Christian Rome, 
 Wrought in a sad sincerity; 
 Himself from God he could not free; 
 He builded better than he knew : 
 The conscious stone to beauty grew. 
 
 247 Emerson : The Problem. 
 
 Burden. 
 
 A sacred burden is this life ye bear : 
 Look on it, lift it, bear it solemnly. 
 Stand up and walk beneath it steadfastly. 
 
 Fkances Anne Kemble: To the Young 
 
 248 Gentlemen leaving Lenox Academy, j]Iiiss. 
 
 Bush. 
 
 For what are they all in their high conceit, 
 When man in the bush with God may meet? 
 
 249 Emerson: Good-Bye. 
 
 Business. 
 
 Let thy mind still be bent, still plotting, where 
 And when, and how thy business may be done, 
 Slackness breeds worms ; but the sure traveller, 
 Though he alights sometimes, still goeth on. 
 
 250 Herbert: Temple, Church Porch, St. 57.
 
 DICTIONARY OF POETICAL QUOTATIONS. 41 
 
 Buttercups. 
 
 All will be gay when noontide wakes anew 
 The buttercups, the little children's dower. 
 
 Robert Browning: Home-Thoughts, 
 251 From Abroad. 
 
 Cadence. 
 
 Wit will shine 
 Through the harsh cadence of a rugged line. 
 
 Dryden : To the Memory of Mr. Oldham, 
 
 252 Line 15. 
 
 Caesar. 
 
 Imperious Caesar, dead and turn'd to clay, 
 Might stop a hole to keep the wind away. 
 
 253 Shaks. : Hamlet, Act v., Sc. 1. 
 
 But yesterday the word of Caesar might 
 
 Have stood against the world ; now lies he there. 
 
 And none so poor to do him reverence. 
 
 254 Shaks. : Jul. Ccesar, Act iii., Sc. 2. 
 
 Calamity. 
 
 Affliction is enamour'd of thy parts, 
 And thou art wedded to calamity. 
 
 255 Shaks. : Rom. and Jul., Act iii., Sc. 3. 
 
 Calmness. 
 
 And through the heat of conflict keeps the law 
 In calmness made, and sees what he foresaw. 
 
 256 Wordsworth: Character of the Happy 
 
 Warrior.
 
 42 DICTIONARY OF POETICAL QUOTATIONS. 
 
 Calumny. 
 
 Calumny will sear 
 Virtue itself: these shrugs, these hums, and ha's. 
 
 257 SiiAKS. : Wint. Tale, Act ii., Sc. 1. 
 
 Camping. 
 
 The bed was made, the room was fit, 
 13y punctual eve the stars were lit ; 
 The air was still, the water ran, 
 No need was there for maid or man, 
 When we put up, my ass and I, 
 At God's green caravanserai. 
 
 258 RoHERT Louis Stevenson : A Camp. 
 
 Candle. 
 
 How far that little candle throws his beams I 
 So shines a good deed in a naughty world. 
 
 259 Shaks. : M. of Venice, Act v., Sc. 1. 
 
 Candor. 
 
 Some positive, persisting fops we know. 
 Who, if once wrong, will needs be always so; 
 But you with pleasure own your errors past, 
 And make each day a critique on the last. 
 
 260 Pope : E. on Criticism, Pt. iii.. Line 9. 
 
 Cannons. 
 
 The cannons have their bowels full of wrath ; 
 And ready mounted ai-e they, to spit forth 
 Their iron indignation. 
 
 261 Shaks.: King John, Act ii., Sc. 1. 
 
 Canopy. 
 
 Seas roll to waft me, suns to light me rise ; 
 My footstool earth, my canopy the skies. 
 
 262 Pope : Essay on Man, Epis. i., Line 139.
 
 DICTIONARY OF POETICAL QUOTATIONS. 43 
 
 Capacity. 
 
 That wondrous soul Charoba once possest, — 
 Capacious, then, as earth or heaven could hold, 
 Soul discontented with capacity, — 
 Is gone (I fear) forever. 
 
 263 Walter Savage Landor : Gehir, .^k. ii. 
 
 Captain. 
 
 O Captain ! my Captain ! our fearful trip is done. 
 The ship has weathered every rack, the prize we 
 
 sought is won. 
 The port is near, the bells I hear, the people all 
 
 exulting, 
 "While follow eyes the steady keel, the vessel grim 
 and daring. 
 
 But O heart ! heart ! heart ! 
 O the bleeding drops of red, 
 
 Where on the deck my Captain lies, 
 Fallen cold and dead. 
 
 Walt Whitman: Captain! My Captain! 
 
 264 (On Death of Lincoln.) 
 
 A rude and boisterous captain of the sea. 
 
 265 John Home : Douglas, Act iv., Sc. 1. 
 
 Care. 
 
 Care keeps his watch in every old man's eye, 
 And where care lodges, sleep will never lie. 
 
 266 Shaks. : Rom. ayid Jul, Act ii., Sc. 1. 
 
 Care that is enter'd once into the breast, 
 Will have the whole possession, ere it rest. 
 
 267 Ben Jonson : Tale of a Tub, Act i., Sc. 3.
 
 44 DICTIONARY OP POETICAL QUOTATIONS. 
 
 Care, whom not the gayest can outbrave, 
 Pursues its feeble victim to the grave. 
 
 Henky Kirkk White: Childhood, Pt. ii., 
 2G8 Line 17. 
 
 Care to our coffin adds a nail, no doubt; 
 And every grin, so merry, draws one out. 
 
 269 Peter Pindar: Ex. Odes, Ode 15. 
 
 Hang sorrow ! care will kill a cat. 
 And therefore let 's be merry. 
 
 270 George Wither : Poem on Christmas. 
 
 Carefulness. 
 
 For my means, I '11 husband them so well, 
 They shall go far with little. 
 
 271 SuAKS. : Hamlet, Act iv., Sc. 5. 
 
 Cat. 
 
 A harmless necessary cat. 
 
 272 Shaks. : M. of Venice, Act iv., Sc. 1. 
 
 Let Hercules himself do what he may. 
 
 The cat will mew and dog will have his day. 
 
 273 Shaks. : Hamlet, Act v., Sc. 1. 
 
 Cataract. 
 
 The sounding cataract 
 Haunted me like a passion. 
 
 Wordsworth : Lines composed a few miles 
 
 274 above Tintern Abbey. 
 
 Cathedrals. 
 
 The high embower'd roof, 
 With antique pillars, massy proof. 
 And storied windows, richly dight. 
 Casting a dim religious light. 
 
 275 Milton: II Penseroso, Line 157.
 
 DICTIONARY OF POETICAL QUOTATIONS. 45 
 
 Cato. 
 
 Like Cato, giv^e his little senate laws, 
 And sit attentive to his own applause. 
 
 276 Pope : Prologue to the Satires, Line 207. 
 
 Cattle. 
 
 O Mary, go and call the cattle home, 
 
 And call the cattle home, 
 And call the cattle home. 
 
 Across the sands o' Dee. 
 
 277 Charles KiNGSLEY : The Sands of Dee, 
 
 Cause. 
 
 And therefore little shall I grace my cause 
 In speaking for myself. 
 
 278 Shaks. : Othello, Act i., Sc. 3. 
 
 Caution. 
 
 Let every eye negotiate for itself 
 And trust no agent. 
 
 279 Shaks. : Much Ado, Act ii., Sc. 1. 
 
 Know when to speak ; for many times it brings 
 Danger, to give the best advice to kings. 
 
 280 Herrick : Aph. Caution in Council. 
 
 Vessels large may venture more. 
 
 But little boats should keep near shore. 
 
 281 Franklin : Poor Richard, 
 
 Caverns. 
 
 Where Alph, the sacred river, ran 
 Through caverns measureless to man 
 Down to a sunless sea. 
 
 282 Coleridge : Kuhla Khan.
 
 46 DICTIONARY OF POETICAL QUOTATIONS. 
 
 Celibacy. 
 
 But earthly happier is the rose distill'd, 
 
 Than that, which, withering on the virgin thorn, 
 
 Grows, lives and dies in single blessedness. 
 
 283 SiiAKS. : Mid. N. Dream, Act i., So. 1. 
 
 Our Maker bids increase ; who bids abstain 
 But our destroyer, foe to God and man ? 
 
 284 iMiLTON : Par. Lost, Bk. iv., Line 748. 
 
 Censure. 
 
 Praise from a friend, or censure from a foe, 
 Are lost on hearers that our merits know. 
 
 285 Pope : Iliad, Bk. x., Line 293. 
 
 Ceremony. 
 
 Ceremony was but devised at first 
 To set a gloss on faint deeds — hollow^ welcomes, 
 Recanting goodness, sorry ere 't is shown ; 
 But where there is true friendship, there needs 
 none. 
 
 286 Shaks. : Timon of A., Act i., Sc. 2. 
 
 Challenge. 
 
 There I throw my gage. 
 To prove it on thee, to the extremest point 
 Of mortal breathing. 
 
 287 Shaks. : Richard II., Act iv., Sc. L 
 
 Chance. 
 
 That power 
 Which erring men call Chance. 
 
 288 Milton : Comus, Line 587.
 
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 All nature is but art unknown to thee, 
 
 All chance, direction, which thou canst not see. 
 
 289 Pope : Essay on Man, Epis. i., Line 289. 
 
 Change. 
 
 All but God is changing day by day. 
 
 290 Charles Kingsley : Prometheus. 
 
 When change itself can give no more, 
 " T is easy to be true. 
 
 291 Charles Sedley: Reasons for Constancy. 
 
 Let the great world spin forever down the ringing 
 grooves of change. 
 
 292 Tennyson : Locksley Hall, Line 182. 
 
 Chaos. 
 
 For he being dead, with him is beauty slain, 
 And, beauty dead, black chaos comes again. 
 
 293 Shaks. : Venus and A., Line 1019. 
 
 Chaos of thought and passion, all confused; 
 
 Still by himself abused or disabused. 
 
 291 Pope : Essay on Man, Epis. ii., Line 13. 
 
 Character. 
 
 There is a kind of character in thy life, 
 That to the observer doth thy history 
 Fully unfold. 
 
 295 Shaks. : M. for M., Act i., Sc. 1. 
 
 Worth, courage, honor, these indeed 
 Your sustenance and birthright are. 
 
 296 E. C. Stedman : Beyond the Portals, Pt. 10.
 
 48 DICTIONARY OF POETICAL QUOTATIONS. 
 
 Charity. 
 
 Charity itself fulfils the law, 
 And who can sever love from charity? 
 
 297 Shaks. : Love's L. Lost, Act iv., Sc. 3. 
 
 Alas for the rarity 
 Of Christian charity 
 Under the sun ! 
 
 298 Hood : Bridge of Sighs. 
 
 Charms. 
 
 Charms strike the sight, but merit wins the soul. 
 
 299 Pope : R. of the Lock, Canto v., Line 34. 
 
 Chastity. 
 
 So dear to heav'n is saintly chastity, 
 That when a soul is found sincerely so, 
 A thousand liveried angels lackey her. 
 
 300 Milton: 0>r«u.<?, Line 453. 
 
 Chatterton. 
 
 I thought of Chatterton, the marvellous boy, 
 The sleepless soul that perish'd in his pride. 
 Of him who walk'd in glory and in joy. 
 Following his plough along the mountain side. 
 
 301 Wordsworth : Res. and Indep., St. 7. 
 
 Chaucer. 
 
 Dan Chaucer, well of English undefyled. 
 On Fame's eternall beadroU worthie to be fyled. 
 Spenser : Faerie Queene, Bk. iv.. Canto ii., 
 
 302 St. 32. 
 
 Cheating. 
 
 Doubtless the pleasure is as great, 
 Of being cheated as to cheat. 
 
 303 Butler : Hudibras, Pt. ii., Canto iii., Line L
 
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 Cheerfulness. 
 
 It is good 
 To lengthen to the last a sunny mood. 
 
 James Russell Lowell : Leqeyid of 
 
 304 Brittany, Pt.'i., St. 35. 
 
 Chickens. 
 
 To swallow gudgeons ere they 're catch'd, 
 And count their chickens ere they 're hatch'd. 
 
 Butler: Hudihras, Pt. ii., Canto ii., 
 
 305 Line 923. 
 
 Chiding. 
 
 Chide him for faults, and do it reverently, 
 When you perceive his blood inclined to mirth. 
 
 306 Shaks. : 2 Henry IV., Sc. 4. 
 
 Child — Childhood — Children. 
 
 Ah ! what would the world be to us 
 
 If the children were no more? 
 We should dread the desert behind us 
 
 Worse than the dark before. 
 
 307 Longfellow : Children. 
 
 Behold the child, by nature's kindly law. 
 Pleased with a rattle, tickled with a straw. 
 
 308 Pope : Essuy on Man. Epis. ii., Line 275. 
 
 The child is father of the man. 
 
 309 Wordsworth : My Heart Leaps, Line 7. 
 
 Cliildren are the keys of Paradise. 
 
 They alone are good and wise, 
 
 Because their thoughts, their very lives are prayer 
 
 310 R. H. Stoddard : The Children's Prayer.
 
 50 DICTIONARY OF POETICAL QUOTATIONS. 
 
 I have had playmates, I have had companions, 
 In my days of childhood, in my joyful school-days. 
 All, all are gone, the old familiar faces. 
 
 311 CiiAULES Lamb : Old Familiar Faces. 
 
 As children gath'ring pebbles on the shore. 
 
 312 Milton: Par. Regained, Bk. iv., Line 330. 
 
 Backward, turn backward, O Time, in your flight, 
 Make me a child again, just for to-night. 
 
 Elizabeth Akers Allen : Rock Me to 
 
 313 Sleep. 
 
 Chime. 
 
 Faintly as tolls the evening chime, 
 
 Our voices keep tune and our oars keep time. 
 
 314 Moore: .4 Canadian Boat-Song. 
 
 Chivalry. 
 
 Cervantes smil'd Spain's chivalry away. 
 
 315 Byrox : Don Juan, Canto xiii., St. 11. 
 
 Choice. 
 
 There 's small choice in rotten apples. 
 
 316 SiiAKS. : Tani. of the S., Act i., Sc. 1. 
 
 Follow thou thy choi<?fe. 
 
 William Cullen Bryant: Alcagde of 
 
 317 Molina. 
 
 Choler. 
 
 ]\Iust I give way and room to your rash choler? 
 Shall I be frighted when a madman stares? 
 
 318 Shaks. : Jid. Ccesar, Act iv., Sc. 3.
 
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 Chord. 
 
 Love took up the harp of Life, and smote on all 
 
 the chords with might ; 
 Smote the chord of Self, that, trembling, pass'd in 
 
 music out of sight. 
 
 319 Texnyson: Locksley Hall, Line 33. 
 
 Christ. 
 
 In the beauty of the lilies Christ was born across 
 
 the sea, 
 With a glory in His bosom that transfigures you 
 
 and me : 
 As He died to make men holy, let us die to make 
 
 men free. 
 
 Julia Ward Howe : Battle Hymn of the 
 
 320 Republic. 
 
 Hail to the King of Bethlehem, 
 Who weareth' in his diadem 
 The yellow crocus for the gem 
 Of his authority. 
 
 Longfellow : Christus, Golden Legend, 
 
 321 Ft. iii. 
 
 Christ — the one great word 
 Well worth all languages in earth or Heaven. 
 
 322 Bailey : Festus, Sc. Heaven. 
 
 We kind o' thought Christ went agin war an' 
 pillage. 
 
 James Russell Lowell: BiyloidPapers, 
 
 323 Xo. iii. 
 
 Christmas. 
 
 At Christmas play, and make good cheer, 
 For Christmas comes but once a year. 
 
 324 TussER : 500 Pts. Good Has., Ch. 12c
 
 62 DICTIONARY OF POETICAL QUOTATIONS. 
 
 Again at Christmas did we weave 
 
 The holly round the Christmas hearth ; 
 The silent snow possess'd the earth. 
 
 325 Tknnyson : In Memoriam, Pt. Ixxvii., St. 1. 
 
 Bright be thy Christmas tide 1 
 
 Carol it far and wide, 
 
 Jesus, the King and the Saviour, is come ! 
 
 32G Frances R. Havergal : Christmas Mottoes. 
 
 Heap on more wood I the wind is chill ; 
 
 But let it whistle as it will, 
 
 We '11 keep our Christmas merry still. 
 
 327 Scott : Marmion, Canto vi., Introduction. 
 
 'T was the night before Christmas, when all through 
 
 the house 
 Not a creature was stirring, — not even a mouse. 
 Clement C. Moore: A Visit from St. 
 
 328 Nicholas. 
 
 Church. 
 
 Who builds a church to God, and not to fame, 
 Will never mark the marble with his name. 
 
 329 Pope : Moral Essaijs, Epis. iii.. Line 285. 
 
 " What is a church? " Let truth and reason speak; 
 They would reply — "The faithful pure and meek, 
 From Christian folds, the one selected race. 
 Of all professions, and in every place." 
 
 330 Crabbe : The Borough, Letter ii. 
 
 Churchyard. 
 
 The solitary, silent, solemn scpne. 
 
 Where Caesars, heroes, peasants, hermits lie,
 
 DICTIOXARY OF POETICAL QUOTATIONS. 53 
 
 Blended in dust together ; where the slave 
 Rests from his labors ; where th' insulting proud 
 Resigns his power ; the miser drops his hoard ; 
 Where human lolly sleeps. 
 
 331 Dyer: Rums of Ro7?i€, Line b^O. 
 
 Churlishness. 
 
 My master is of churlish disposition, 
 And little recks to find the way to heaven, 
 By doing deeds of hospitality. 
 
 332 Shaks. : As You Like It, Act ii., Sc. 4. 
 
 Circumstance. 
 
 And grasps the skirts of happy chance, 
 And breasts the blows of circumstance. 
 
 333 Tennyson : In Memoriam^ Pt. Ixiii., St. 2. 
 
 Citadel. 
 
 A tower'd citadel, a pendent rock, 
 
 A forked mountain, or blue promontory 
 
 AVith trees upon't. 
 
 334 Shaks.: Ant. and Cleo., Act iv., Sc. 14. 
 
 Citizens. 
 
 Before man made us citizens, great Nature made 
 us men. 
 
 James Russell Lowell: The Capture 
 
 335 of Fugitive Slaves. 
 
 City. 
 
 As one who long in populous city pent. 
 Where houses thick and sewers annoy the air. 
 
 336 Milton : Par. Lost, Bk. ix., Line 445.
 
 54 DICTIONARY OF FOETICAL QUOTATIONS. 
 
 Civilities. 
 
 Love taught him shame ; and shame, with love at 
 
 strife, 
 Sooii taught the sweet civilities of life. 
 
 337 Dryden : Cym. and Iph., Line 133. 
 
 Clay. 
 
 Tho' he trip and fall, 
 He shall not blind his soul with clay. 
 
 338 Tennyson : The Princess, Pt. vii., Line 308. 
 
 Cleanliness. 
 
 E'en from the body's purity, the mind 
 Receives a secret sympathetic aid. 
 
 339 Thomson : Seasons, Summer, Line 1269. 
 
 Clergyman. 
 
 Near yonder copsJ?, where once the garden smiPd, 
 - And still where many a garden flow'r grows wild, 
 There, where a few torn shrubs the place disclose. 
 The village preacher's modest mansion rose. 
 A man he was to all the country dear. 
 And passing rich with forty pounds a year. 
 
 340 Goldsmith : Des. Village, Line 137. 
 
 Cliff. 
 
 As some tall cliff that lifts its awful form, 
 Swells from the vale, and midway leaves the 
 
 storm, — 
 Though round its breast the rolling clouds are 
 
 spread. 
 Eternal sunshine settles on its head. 
 
 341 Goldsmith : Des. Village, Line 189.
 
 DICTIOXARY OF POETICAL QUOTATIOXS. 55 
 
 Clime. 
 
 Forc'd from their homes, a melancholy train, 
 To traverse climes beyond the westei-n main. 
 
 342 Goldsmith: Traveller, Lme 4^09. 
 
 Cloak. 
 
 Itt 's pride that putts the countrye doune, 
 Then take thine old cloake about thee. 
 
 343 Percy: Take Thy Old Cloak About Thee. 
 
 Clock. 
 
 Till like a clock worn out with eating time, 
 The wheels of weary life at last stood still. 
 
 344 Dryden : CEdipus, Act iv., Sc. 1. 
 
 Clothes. 
 
 The naked every day he clad 
 When he put on his clothes. 
 
 345 Goldsmith : Elegy on the Death of a Mad Dog. 
 
 Clouds. 
 
 Circling the mountains the gray clouds go 
 Heavy with storms as a mother with child. 
 Seeking release from their burden of snow 
 With calm slow motion they cross the wild — 
 Stately and sombre, they catch and cling 
 To the barren crags of the peaks in the west, 
 Weary with waiting, and mad for rest. 
 
 346 Hamlin Garland: The Clouds. 
 
 Clouds on the western side 
 Grow gray and grayer, hiding the warm sun. 
 347 Christina G. Rossetti : Twilight Calm.
 
 56 DICTIONARY OF POETICAL QUOTATIONS. 
 
 Those clouds are angels' robes. — That fiery west 
 Is paved with smiling faces. 
 
 Chaules Kingsley: SainVs Tragedy^ 
 318 Act i., Sc. 3. 
 
 Coach. 
 
 Go, call a coach, and let a coach be call'd. 
 
 And let the inan w lio calleth be the caller, 
 
 And in his calling let him nothing call 
 
 But coach 1 coach ! coach ! oh, for a coach, ye gods ! 
 
 349 Cakey: Chrononhotonthologos, Act i., Sc. 3. 
 
 Cock-crowing. 
 
 The early village cock 
 Hath twice done salutation to the morn. 
 
 350 SiiAKS. : Richard HI., Act v., Sc. 3. 
 
 Coincidence. 
 
 A " strange coincidence," to use a phrase 
 By which such things are settled nowadays. 
 
 351 Byrox : Don Juan, Canto vi., St. 78. 
 
 Cold. 
 
 The cold in clime are cold in blood. 
 
 Their love can scarce deserve the name. 
 
 352 Byron : Giaour, Line 1099. 
 
 For this relief much thanks : 't is bitter cold, 
 And I am sick at heart. 
 
 353 SiiAKs. : Hamlet, Act i., Sc. 1. 
 
 Coliseum. 
 
 *' While stands the Coliseum, Rome shall stand ; 
 When falls the Coliseum, Ilonie shall fall; 
 And when Rome falls — the world." 
 
 354 Byron : Ch. Harold, Canto iv., St. 145.
 
 DICTIONARY OF POETICAL QUOTATIONS. 57 
 
 Colossus. 
 
 Why, man, he doth bestride the narrow world 
 
 Like a Colossus, and we petty men 
 
 AValk under his huge legs and peep about 
 
 To find ourselves dishonorable graves. 
 
 3.55 Shaks. : Jul. Ccesar, Act i., Sc. 2. 
 
 Colors. 
 
 I took it for a faery vision 
 Of some gay creatures of the element, 
 That in the colors of the rainbow live, 
 And play i' th' plighted clouds. 
 
 356 MiLTOx : Comus, Line 298. 
 
 Columbia. * 
 
 Columbia, Columbia, to glory arise, 
 The queen of the world and child of the skies ! 
 Thy genius commands thee ; with rapture behold, 
 While ages on ages thy splendors unfold. 
 
 357 Timothy Dwight : Columbia. 
 
 Column. 
 
 Where London's column, pointing at the skies, 
 Like a tall bully, lifts the head and lies. 
 
 358 Pope : Moral Essai/s, Epis. iii., Line 339. 
 
 Combat. 
 
 The combat deepens. On, ye brave. 
 Who rush to glory or the grave ! 
 
 359 Campbell: Hohenlinderu 
 
 Comet. 
 
 Incens'd with indignation Satan stood 
 Unterrify'd, and like a comet burn'd
 
 r>8 DICTIONARY OF I'OKTKAL QTOTATIONS. 
 
 That fires the length of Ophiucluis huge 
 Tn th' Arctic sky, and from liis horrid hair 
 Shakes pestilence and war. 
 
 360 Milton : Par. Lost, 13k. ii., Line 707. 
 
 Comfort. 
 
 (), my good lord, that comfort comes too late; 
 'T is like a pardon after execution ; 
 That gentle physic, given in time, had cur'd me; 
 But now I 'm past all comforts here but prayers. 
 
 361 Shaks. : Henry VIIL, Act iv., Sc. 2. 
 
 Commandments. 
 
 Could T come near your beauty with my nails, 
 I 'd set my ten commandments in ydiir face. 
 
 362 Shaks. : 2 Henry VI., Act i., Sc. 3. 
 
 Commentators. 
 
 How commentators each dark passage shun, 
 And hold their farthing candle to the sun. 
 
 363 Young : Love of Fame, Satire vii.. Line 97. 
 
 Commerce. 
 
 Whore wealtli and freedom reign contentment 
 
 fails, 
 And honor sinks where commerce long prevails. 
 
 364 Goldsmith: Traveller, JAne Q1. 
 
 Communion. 
 
 When one that holds communion with the skies 
 Has fill'd his urn where these pure waters rise, 
 And once more mingles with us meaner things, 
 'T is e'en as if an angel shook his wings. 
 
 365 CowpER : Charity, Line 435.
 
 DICTIOXAEY OF POETICAL QUOTATIONS. O^ 
 
 Companions. 
 
 Oh could I fly, I 'd fly with thee ! 
 
 We'd make with joyful wing 
 Our annual visit o'er the globe, 
 
 Companions of the spring. 
 
 366 John Logan : To the Cuckoo. 
 
 Comparisons. 
 
 When the moon shone, we did not see the candle ; 
 So doth the greater glory dim the less. 
 
 367 Shaks. : J/, of Venice, Act v., Sc. 1. 
 
 In virtues nothing earthly could surpass her, 
 Save thine '-incomparable oil," Macassar! 
 
 368 Byron : Don Juan, Canto i., St. 17. 
 
 Compass. 
 
 Though pleased to see the dolphins play, 
 I mind my compass and my way. 
 
 369 Matthew Green : Spleen, Line 93. 
 
 Compassion. 
 
 O, heavens ! can you hear a good man groan, 
 And not relent, or not compassion him? 
 
 370 Shaks. : Titus AiuL, Act iv., Sc. 1. 
 
 Compensation. 
 
 Under the storm and the cloud to-day, 
 
 And to-day the hard peril and pain — 
 
 To-morrow the stone shall be rolled away. 
 
 For the sunshine shall follow the rain. 
 
 Merciful Father, I will not complain, 
 
 I know that the sunshine shall follow the rain. 
 
 371 Joaquin Miller : For Princess Maud
 
 GO DICTIONARY OF POETICAL QUOTATIONS. 
 
 Complexion. 
 
 Mislike me not for my complexion, 
 
 The shadoNv'd livery of the Inirnish'd sun. 
 
 372 SiiAKS. : M. of Venice, Act ii., Sc. 1 
 
 Compulsion. 
 
 Such sweet compulsion doth in music lie. 
 
 373 Milton: Arcades, Line 68. 
 
 Concealment. 
 
 She never told her love, 
 But let concealment, like a worm i' the bud, 
 Feed on her damask cheek. 
 
 374 Shaks. : Tiv. Night, Act ii., Sc. 3. 
 
 Conceit. 
 
 Conceit in weakest bodies strongest works. 
 
 375 SiiAKs. : Hamlet, Act iii., Sc. 4. 
 
 Conclusion. 
 
 But this denoted a foregone conclusion. 
 
 376 Shaks. : Othello, Act iii., Sc. 3. 
 
 Concord. 
 
 Pour the sweet milk of concord into hell, 
 Uproar the universal peace, confound 
 All unity on earth. 
 
 377 Shaks. : Macbeth, Act iv., Sc. 3. 
 
 Condemnation. 
 
 To each his suff'rings ; all are men, 
 
 Condenm'd alike to groan, — 
 The tender for another's pain, 
 
 Th' unfeeling for liis own. 
 
 378 Gray: On a Distant Prospect of Eton College,
 
 DICTIONARY OF POETICAL QUOTATIONS. 61 
 
 Confession. 
 
 Come, now again thy woes impart, 
 Tell all thy sorrows, all thy sin ; 
 We cannot heal the throbbing heart, 
 Till we discern the wounds within. 
 
 379 Crabbe: Hall of Justice, 'Pi. ii. 
 
 Confidence. 
 
 I will believe 
 Thou wilt not utter what thou dost not know ; 
 And so far will I trust thee. 
 
 380 Shaks. : 1 Henry IV., Act ii., Sc. 3. 
 
 Conflict. 
 
 Arms on armor clashing bray'd 
 Horrible discord, and tlie madding wheels 
 Of brazen chariots i-ag'd ; dire was the noise 
 Of conflict. 
 
 381 Milton : Par. Lost, Bk. vi., Line 209. 
 
 Confusion. 
 
 Ruin seize thee, ruthless king ! 
 Confusion on thy banners wait ! 
 
 382 Gray : The Bard, Pt. i., St. 1. 
 
 "SVith ruin upon ruin, rout on rout, 
 Confusion worse confounded. 
 
 383 MiLTOx : Par. Lost, Bk. ii., Line 995. 
 
 Congregation. 
 
 Wherever God erects a house of prayer, 
 The Devil always builds a chapel there ; 
 And 't will be found, upon examination, 
 The latter has the largest congregation. 
 
 Defoe : True-Born Englishman, Pt. i., 
 
 384 Line L
 
 62 DICTIONARY OF POETICAL QUOTATIOXS. 
 
 Conquest. 
 
 Though fann'd by Conquest's crimson wing, 
 They mock the air with idle state. 
 
 385 Gray : The Bard, Pt. i., St. L 
 
 Conscience. 
 
 Thus conscience does make cowards of us all; 
 And thus the native hue of resolution 
 Is sicklied o'er with the pale cast of thought; 
 And enterprises of great pith and moment, 
 With this regard their currents turn awry. 
 And lose the name of action. 
 
 386 Shaks. : Hamlet, Act iii., Sc. 1. 
 
 conscience, into what abyss of fears 
 
 And horrors hast thou driven me ; out of which 
 
 1 find no way, from deep to deeper plung'd ! 
 
 387 Milton : Par. Lost, Bk. x.. Line 842. 
 
 But, at sixteen, the conscience rarely gnaws 
 So much, as when we call our old debts in 
 At sixty years, aud draw the accounts of evil. 
 And find a deuced balance with the devil. 
 
 388 Bykox : Don Juan, Canto i., St. 167. 
 
 Consideration. 
 
 Consideration like an angel came, 
 
 And whipp'd the offending Adam out of him. 
 
 389 SiiAKs. : Henry V., Act i., Sc. 1. 
 
 Consistency. 
 
 Gineral C. is a dreffle smart man ; 
 
 lie 's ben on all sides thet give places or pelf;
 
 DICTIONARY OF POETICAL QUOTATIONS. 63 
 
 But consistency still wuz a part of his plan, — 
 He 's ben true to o«e. party, an' thet is himself. 
 
 James Russell Lowell : Biglow Pajitivs, 
 390 No. ii. 
 
 Consolation. 
 
 This grief is crowned with consolation. 
 
 391 Shaks. : Ant. and Cleo., Act i., Sc. 2. 
 
 Canst thou not minister to a mind disease ; 
 Pluck from the memory a rooted sorrow ; 
 Raze out the written troubles of the brain ; 
 And, with some sweet oblivious antidote, 
 Cleanse the stuff'd bosom of that perilous stuff, 
 AVhich weighs upon the heai-t ? 
 
 392 Shaks. : Macbeth, Act v., Sc. 3. 
 
 Conspiracy. 
 
 Conspiracies no sooner should be formed 
 Than executed. 
 
 393 Addison : Cato, Act i., Sc. 2. 
 
 Constancy. 
 
 I am constant as the northern star, 
 
 Of whose true-fix'd, and resting quality 
 
 There is no fellow in the firmament. 
 
 394 Shaks. : Jul. Ccesar, Act iii., Sc. 1. 
 
 Alas ! they had been friends in youth ; 
 But whispering tongues can poison truth, 
 And constancy lives in realms above. 
 
 395 Coleridge : ChristaleU Pt. ii.
 
 64 DICTIONARY OF POETICAL QUOTATIONS. 
 
 Consummation. 
 
 To die : to sleep : 
 No more ; and by a sleep to say we end 
 The heartache and the thousand natural shocks 
 That flesh is heir to, — 'tis a consummation 
 Devoutly to be wish'd. 
 
 396 SiiAKS. : Hamlet, Act iii., Sc. 1. 
 
 Contemplation. 
 
 For contemplation he and valor form'd, 
 For softness she and sweet attractive grace. 
 
 397 Milton : Par. Lost, Bk. iv., Line 297. 
 
 Contempt. 
 
 From no one vice exempt, 
 And most contemptible to shun contempt. 
 
 398 Pope : Moral Essays, Epis. i., Line 194. 
 
 Contention. 
 
 Sons and brothers at a strife ! 
 What is your quarrel? how began it first? 
 — No quarrel, but a slight contention. 
 
 399 Shaks. : 3 Henry VI., Act i., Sc. 2. 
 
 Contentment. 
 
 He that commends me to mine own content, 
 Commends me to the thing I cannot get. 
 
 400 Shaks.: Com. of Errors, Act i., Sc. 2. 
 
 This is the charm, by sages often told, 
 Converting all it touches into gold : 
 Content can soothe, where'er by fortune placed, 
 Can rear a garden in the desert waste. 
 
 Henry Kirke White : Clifton Grove, 
 
 401 Line 139.
 
 DICTIONARY OF POETICAL QUOTATIONS. 65 
 
 Contradiction. 
 
 AV Oman's at best a contradiction still. 
 
 402 Pope : Moral Essays, Epis. ii., Line 270. 
 
 Controversy. 
 
 Great contest follows, and much learned dust 
 Involves the combatants; each claiming truth, 
 And truth disclaiming both. 
 
 403 CowPER : l^ask, Bk. iii., Line 16L 
 
 Conversation. 
 
 A dearth of words a woman need not fear ; 
 But 't is a task indeed to learn' — to hear: 
 In that the skill of conversation lies; 
 That shows or makes you both polite and wise. 
 
 404 Young : Love of Fame, Satire v., Line 57. 
 
 Converts. 
 
 ]More proselytes and converts use t' accrue 
 To false persuasions than the right and true ; 
 For error and mistake are infinite, 
 But truth has but one way to be \ th' right. 
 
 405 Butler : Misc. Thoughts, Line 113. 
 
 Cooks. 
 
 Heaven sends us good meat ; but the devil sends 
 cooks. 
 
 406 Garrick: E pi gr. on Goldsmith's Retal. 
 
 Coquette. 
 
 Or light or dark, or short or tall, 
 She sets a springe to snare them all ; 
 All 's one to her — above her fan 
 She 'd make sweet eyes at Caliban. 
 
 407 T. E. Aldrich : Coquette,
 
 66 DICTIONARY OP POETICAL QUOTATIONS. 
 
 Corruption. 
 
 Corruption is a tree, whose branclies are 
 Of ail uii measurable length : they s]>read 
 Ev'rywhere; and the dew that droi>s fioni thence 
 Hath infected some chairs and stools of authority. 
 Bp:aumont and Fletcher : Ho?i. Mdji's For., 
 
 408 Act iii., Sc. 3. 
 
 At length corruption, like a general flood, 
 (So long by watchful ministers withstood,) 
 Shall deluge all ; and avarice creeping on, 
 Spread like a low-born mist, and blot the sun. 
 
 409 Pope : Moral Essays, Epis. iii.. Line 135. 
 
 Counsel. 
 
 Bosom up my counsel, 
 You '11 find it wholesome. 
 
 410 Shaks. : Henry VII L, Act i., Sc. 1. 
 
 Here thou, great Anna ! w^hom three realms obey, 
 Dost sometimes counsel take — and sometimes tea. 
 
 411 Pope: R. of the Lock, Canto iii., Line 7. 
 
 Country. 
 
 God made the country, and man made the town ; 
 What wonder, then, that health and virtue, gifts, 
 That can alone make sweet the bitter draught 
 That life holds out to all, should most abound, 
 And least be threatened in the fields and groves ? 
 
 412 Cowper : Task, Bk. i., Line 749. 
 
 True patriots all ; for be it understood 
 We left our country for our country's good. 
 
 George Barrington: Prologue written for 
 the Opening of the Playhouse at New South 
 
 413 Wales, Jan. iQ,179G.
 
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 Courage. 
 
 What man dare, I dare. 
 Approach thou like the rugged Russian bear, 
 The arni'd Rhinoceros, or th' Hyrcanian tiger. 
 Take any shape but that, and my firm nerves 
 Shall never tremble. 
 
 41-i Shaks. : Macbeth, Act iii., Sc. 4. 
 
 I dare do all that may become a man : 
 
 Who dares do more is none. 
 
 415 SiiAKS. : Macbeth, Act i., Sc. 7. 
 
 No thought of flight, 
 Xone of retreat, no unbecoming deed 
 That argued fear ; each on himself relied, 
 As only in his arm the moment lay 
 Of victory. 
 
 416 MiLTOX, Par. Lost, Bk. vi., Lme 23G. 
 
 Court — Courtiers. 
 
 The caterpillars of the commonwealth, 
 Whom I have soon to weed and pluck away. 
 
 417 Shaks. : Richard II., Act ii., Sc. S. 
 
 Xot a courtier, 
 Although they wear their faces to the bent 
 Of the king's looks, hath a heart that is not 
 Glad at the thing they scowl at. 
 
 418 Shaks. : Ci/mbeliue, Act i., Sc. 1. 
 
 A mere court butterfly. 
 That flutters in the pageant of a monarch. 
 
 419 Bykon : Sardanapalus, Act v., Sc L
 
 68 DICTIONARY OF POETICAL QUOTATIONS. 
 
 Courtesy. 
 
 How sweet and gracious, even in common speech, 
 Is that tine sense which men call Courtesy ! 
 Wholesome as air and genial as the light, 
 Welcome in every clime as breath of flowers, — 
 It transmutes aliens into trusting friends. 
 And gives its owner passport round the globe. 
 
 420 James T. Fields : Courtesy. 
 
 Courtship. 
 
 Bring, therefore, all the forces that you may, 
 And lay incessant battery to her heart ; 
 Plaints, prayers, vows, ruth, and sorrow, and dis- 
 may, — 
 These engines can the proudest love convert. 
 
 Spenser: Amorelti and Epithahnnion, 
 
 421 Sonnet xiv. 
 
 She is a woman, therefore may be woo'd ; 
 She is a woman, therefore may be won. 
 
 422 Shaks. : Titus And., Act ii., Sc. 1. 
 
 He that would win his dame must do 
 As love does when he draws his bow ; 
 With one hand thrust the lady from, 
 And with the other pull her home. 
 
 Butler : Hudibras, Pt. ii.. Canto i., 
 
 423 Line 449. 
 
 Covetousness. 
 
 When workmen strive to do better than well, 
 They do confound their skill in covetousness. 
 
 424 Shaks. : King John, Act iv., Sc. 2.
 
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 Co^wardice. 
 
 O, that a mighty man, of such descent, 
 Of such possessions, and so high esteem, 
 Should be infused with so foul a spirit ! 
 
 425 Shaks. : Tarn, of the S., Introduction, Sc. 2. 
 
 Cowards die many times before their deaths ; 
 The valiant never taste of death but once. 
 
 426 Shaks. : Jul. Ccesar, Act ii., Sc. 2. 
 
 The man that lays his hand upon a woman, 
 Save in the way of kindness, is a wretch 
 Whom 't were gToss flattery to name a coward. 
 
 427 John Tobin : Honeymoon, Act ii., Sc. 1. 
 
 The coward never on himself relies, 
 But to an equal for assistance flies. 
 
 428 Crabbe : Tale iii.. Line 84. 
 
 Cowslips. 
 
 "With cowslips wan that hang the pensive head, 
 And every flower that sad embroidery wears. 
 
 429 Milton : Lycidas, Line 139. 
 
 Coxcombs. 
 
 So by false learning is good sense def ac'd ; 
 
 Some are bewilder'd in the maze of schools, 
 
 And some made coxcombs, nature meant but fools. 
 
 430 Pope : E. on Criticism, Pt. i., Line 25. 
 
 And coxcombs vanquish Berkeley by a grin. 
 
 431 John Brown: An Essay on Satire. 
 
 Cradle. 
 
 Me let the tender office long engage 
 To rock the cradle of reposing age. 
 
 432 Pope : Prologue to the Satires, Line 40&
 
 70 DICTIOXARY OF POETICAL QUOTATIONS. 
 
 Craftiness. 
 
 That for ways that are dark 
 And for tricks that are vain, 
 The heathen Chinee is peculiar. 
 
 Bret Haute: Plain Language from 
 
 433 Truthful James. 
 
 Creation. 
 
 Creation sleeps ! 'T is as the general pulse 
 
 Of life stood still, and Nature made a pause, — 
 
 An awful pause ! prophetic of her end. 
 
 434 V ouxG : Night Thoughts, Night i.. Line 23. 
 
 Credit 
 
 Blesc japer credit! last and best supply ! 
 
 Tha^; iends corruption lighter wdngs to fly. 
 
 43o Pope : Moral Essays, Epis. iii., Line 39. 
 
 .Shall I ask the brave soldier who fights by my side 
 In the cause of mankind, if our creeds agree? 
 Shall I give up the friend I have valued and tried, 
 If he kneel not before the same altar with me ? 
 
 436 ]\IoORE : Come, Send Round the Wine. 
 
 Crime. 
 
 Between the acting of a dreadful thing 
 And the first motion, all the interim is 
 Like a phantasma, or a hideous dream. 
 
 437 Shaks. : Jul. Ccesar, Act ii., Sc. 1. 
 
 One murder made a villain. 
 Millions a hero. Princes were privileged 
 To kill, and numbers sanctified the crime. 
 
 438 Beilby Pokteus : Death, Line 154.
 
 DICTIOXAKY OF POETICAL QUOTATIONS. 71 
 
 Criticism — Critics. 
 
 I am nothing if not critical. 
 
 439 Shaks. : Othello, Act ii., Sc. 1. 
 
 Critics I saw, that other names deface, 
 And fix their own, with labor, in their place. 
 
 440 Pope : Temple of Fame, J.ine 37. 
 
 Cromwell. 
 
 Cromwell, our chief of men, who through a cloud, 
 Xot of war only, but detractions rude. 
 Guided by faith and matchless fortitude. 
 To peace and truth thy glorious way hast plough'd. 
 Milton : Sonnets, To the Lord General 
 
 441 Cromwell. 
 
 Cross. 
 
 The moon of Mahomet 
 Arose, and it shall set ; 
 While, blazoned as on heaven's immortal noon, 
 The cross leads generations on. 
 
 442 Shelley : Hellas, Line 221. 
 
 Crowd. 
 
 Far from the madding crowd's ignoble strife 
 Their sober wishes never learn'd to stray. 
 
 443 Gray: Elegy, St. 19. 
 
 Crown. 
 
 Upon my head they placed a fruitless crown, 
 And put a barren sceptre in my gripe. 
 
 444 Shaks. : Macbeth, Act iii., Sc. 1. 
 
 What seem'd his head 
 The likeness of a kingly crown had on. 
 Satan was now at hand. 
 
 445 Milton : Par. Lost, Bk. ii., Line 666
 
 il DICTIONARY OF POETICAL QUOTATIONS. 
 
 Cruelty. 
 
 A stony adversary, an inhuman wretch, 
 Uncapable of pity, void and empty 
 From any dram of mercy. 
 
 446 Shaks. : M. of Venice, Act iv., Sc. 1. 
 
 Cupid. 
 
 Love looks not with the eyes, but with^the mind, 
 And therefore is wing'd Cupid painted blind. 
 
 447 Shaks. : Mid. N. Dream, Act i., Sc. 1. 
 
 Cupid is a casuist, 
 
 A mystic, and a cabalist, — 
 
 Can your lurking thought surprise, 
 
 And interpret your device. . . . 
 
 Heralds high before him run ; 
 
 He has ushers many a one ; 
 
 He spreads his welcome where he goes, 
 
 And touches all things with his rose. 
 
 All things w^ait for and divine him, — 
 
 How shall I dare to malign him ? 
 
 448 Emerson: Daem. and Celes., Love, Pt. i. 
 
 Cure. 
 
 'T is an ill cure 
 For life's worst ills, to have no time to feel them. 
 Sir Henry Taylor: Phdip Van Arfevelde, 
 
 449 Pt. i.. Act i., Sc. 5. 
 
 Curfew. 
 
 The curfew tolls the knell of parting day. 
 The lowing herd winds slowly o'er the lea, 
 
 The ploughman homeward plods his weary way, 
 And leaves the world to darkness and to me. 
 
 450 Gray : Elegy, St. 1.
 
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 Curiosity. 
 
 I loathe that low vice, curiosity. 
 
 451 Byron : Don Juan, Canto i., St. 23. 
 
 Curls. 
 
 Shakes his ambrosial curls, and gives the nod, — 
 The stamp of fate, and sanction of the god. 
 
 452 Pope : Iliad, Bk. i.. Line 684. 
 
 Current. 
 
 We must take the current when it serves. 
 Or lose our ventures. 
 
 453 Shaks. : Jul. Ccesar, Act iv., Sc. 3. 
 
 Curses. 
 
 Let this pernicious hour 
 Stand aye accursed in the calendar. 
 
 454 Shaks. : Macbeth, Act iv., Sc. L 
 
 But in their stead 
 Curses, not loud but deep, mouth-honor, breath, 
 AVhich the poor heart would fain deny, and dare 
 not. 
 
 455 Shaks. : Macbeth, Act v., Sc. 3. 
 
 It was that fatal and perfidious bark, 
 
 Built in th' eclipse, and rigg'd with curses dark. 
 
 456 MiLTOx: Lycidas, Line 100. 
 
 Custom. 
 
 How use doth breed a habit in a man ! 
 
 457 Shaks. : Two Gent, of V., Act v., Sc. 4. 
 
 Custom calls me to 't ; — 
 What custom wills, in all things should we do 't? 
 
 458 Shaks.: Coriolanus, Act ii., Sc. 3.
 
 <4 DICTIONARY OF POETICAL QroTATJOXS. 
 
 Assume a virtue, if you liave it not. 
 
 That monste^, custom, who all sense doth eat, 
 
 Of habits devil, is angel yet in this. 
 
 459 S11AK8. : Hamlet, Act iii., Sc. 4. 
 
 Cypress. 
 
 Dark tree ! still sad when others' grief is fled, 
 The only constant mourner o'er the dead. 
 
 460 Byron : Giaour, Line 28G. 
 
 D. 
 
 Daffadills. 
 
 Fair daffadills, we weep to see 
 
 You haste away so soon : 
 As j^et the early rising sun 
 
 Has not attained his noon. 
 
 461 H E R R ic K : To Da fad Ills. 
 
 Dagger. 
 
 Is this a dagger which I see before me, 
 The handle toward my hand? . . . 
 or art thou but 
 A dagger of the mind, a false creation. 
 Proceeding from the heat-oppressed brain ? 
 
 462 Shaks. : Macbeth, Act ii., Sc. 1. 
 
 Daisy. 
 
 The daisy's cheek is tipp'd with a blush. 
 She is of such low degree. 
 
 463 KoOD : Flowers. 
 
 Damnation. 
 
 And deal damnation round the land. 
 
 464 Pope : The Universal Prayer, St. 7.
 
 DICTIONARY OF POETICAL QUOTATIONS. iO 
 
 Damsel. 
 
 A damsel with a dulcimer 
 In a vision once I saw. 
 
 465 Coleridge : Kuhla Khan. 
 
 Dancing. 
 
 Alike all ages : dames of ancient days 
 Have led their children through the mirthful maze : 
 And the gay grandsire, skill'd in gestic lore, 
 Has frisk'd beneath the burden of threescore. 
 
 466 Goldsmith : Traceller, Line 251. 
 
 Her feet beneath her petticoat, 
 Like little mice, stole in and out, 
 
 As if they feared the light ; 
 But, oh ! she dances such a way ! 
 No sun upon an Easter-day 
 
 Is half so fine a sight. 
 
 467 Suckling : On a Wedding. 
 
 Come and trip it as you go 
 On the light fantastic toe. 
 
 468 Milton: Z:'.4/%/'o, Line 33. 
 
 On with the dance ! let joy be unconfined ! 
 
 Xo sleep till morn, when youth and pleasure meet, 
 
 To chase the glowing hours with flying feet. 
 
 469 Byron : Ch. Harold, Canto iii., St. 22* 
 
 You have the Pyrrhic dance as yet, 
 Where is the Pvrrhic phalanx gone? 
 
 470 Byron : Don Juan, Canto iii., St. 86. 10. 
 
 Danger. 
 
 He that stands upon a slippery place, 
 Makes nice of no vile hold to stay him up. 
 
 471 Shaks. : King John, Act iii., So. 4.
 
 76 DICTIONARY OF POETICAL QUOTATIONS. 
 
 Out of this nettle, danger, we pluck this flower, 
 safety. 
 
 472 SiiAKS. : 1 Henry IV., Act ii., Sc. 3. 
 
 Whom neither shape of danger can dismay, 
 Nor thought of tender happiness betray. 
 
 WouDSWORTH : Character of the Happy 
 
 473 Warrior. 
 
 Dante. 
 
 Oh their Dante of the dread Inferno, 
 Wrote one song — and in my brain I sing it. 
 
 474 Robert Browning : One Word More, xvii. 
 
 Daring. 
 
 I dare do all that may become a man ; 
 Who dares do more is none. 
 
 475 Shaks. : Macbeth, Act i., Sc. 7 
 
 The bravest are the tenderest, — 
 The loving are the daring. 
 
 476 Bayard Taylor: The Song of the Camp. 
 
 Darkness. 
 
 Lo ! darkness bends down like a mother of grief 
 On the limitless plain, and the fall of her hair 
 It has mantled a world. 
 
 477 Joaquin Miller : From Sea to Sea, St. 4. 
 
 Thy hand, great Anarch, lets the curtain fall, 
 And universal darkness buries all. 
 
 478 Pope : Dunciad, Bk. iv., Line 049.
 
 DICTIONARY OF POETICAL QUOTATIONS. 77 
 
 Dart. 
 
 Th' adorning thee with so much art 
 
 Is but a barb'ious skill ; 
 'T is like the pois'ning of a dart, 
 
 Too apt before to kill. 
 
 479 Abraham Cowley: The Waiting Maid. 
 
 Daughter. 
 
 Still harping on my daughter. 
 
 480 Shaks. : Hamlet, Act ii., Sc. 2. 
 
 Farewell, farewell to thee, Araby's daughter ! 
 Thus warbled a Peri beneath the dark sea. 
 
 481 Moore: Lalla Rookh, The Fire-Worshippers. 
 
 Dawn. 
 
 The morning steals upon the night, 
 Melting the darkness. 
 
 482 Shaks. : Tempest, Act y., Sc. 1. 
 
 The day begins to break, and night is fled, 
 Whose pitchy mantle over-veil'd the earth. 
 
 483 Shaks. : 1 Henry VI., Act ii., Sc. 2. 
 
 Clothing the palpable and familiar 
 With golden exhalations of the dawn. 
 
 Coleridge : Death of Wallenstein, Act i., 
 
 484 Sc. 1. 
 
 Day. Days. 
 
 At the close of the day when the hamlet is still. 
 And mortals the sweets of forgetfulness prove, 
 When naught but the torrent is heard on the hill, 
 And naught but the nightingale's song in the 
 grove. 
 
 485 Beattie : The Hermit
 
 78 DICTIONARY OF POETICAL QUOTATIONS. 
 
 My days are in the yellow leaf; 
 
 Tlie Howers and fruits of love are gone ; 
 The worm, the canker, and the grief 
 
 Are mine alone ! 
 
 486 Byron : On my Thirty-sixth Year. 
 
 One of those heavenly days that cannot die. 
 
 487 Wordsworth : Nutting. 
 
 Death. 
 
 Of all the wonders that I yet have heard, 
 
 It seems to me most strange that men should fear; 
 
 Seeing that death, a necessary end, 
 
 Will come, when it will come. 
 
 488 Shaks. : Jul. Ccesar, Act ii., Sc. 2. 
 
 Kings and mightiest potentates must die, 
 For that 's the end of human misery. 
 
 489 Shaks. : 1 Hejiry VI., Act iii., Sc. 2. 
 
 Death lies on her, like an untimely frost 
 Upon the sweetest flower of all the fleld. 
 
 490 Shaks. : Rom. and Jul., Act iv., Sc. 5. 
 
 Though death be poor, it ends a mortal woe. 
 
 491 Shaks. : Richard II., Act ii., Sc. 1. 
 
 Behind her death, 
 Close following pace for pace, not mounted yet 
 On his pale horse. 
 
 492 Milton: Par. Lost, Bk. x., Line 588. 
 
 Come to the bridal chamber, Death ! 
 Come to the mother's, when she feels, 
 For the first time, her first-born's breath ; 
 Come when the blessed seals
 
 DICTIONARY OF POETICAL QUOTATIONS. 79 
 
 That close the pestilence are broke, 
 And crowded cities wail its stroke; 
 Come in consumption's ghastly form, 
 The earthquake shock, ttie ocean storm ; 
 Come when the heart beats high and warm, 
 "With banquet song, and dance, and wine; 
 And thou art terrible, — the tear, 
 The groan, the knell, the pall, the bier, 
 And all we know, or dream, or fear 
 Of agony are thine. 
 
 493 Fitz-Greexe Halleck : Marco Bozzaiis. 
 
 Death loves a shining mark, a signal blow. 
 
 494 Young : Night Thoughts, Night v.. Line 1011. 
 
 To every man upon this earth 
 Death conieth soon or late. 
 
 495 Macaulay : Lays A nc. Rome, Horatius, xxvii. 
 
 Leaves have their times to fall, 
 
 And flowers to wither at the north wind's breath, 
 
 And stars to set — but all. 
 
 Thou hast all seasons for thine own, O death. 
 
 496 Mrs. Hemaxs : Hour of Death. 
 
 •Death is only kind to mortals. 
 
 497 Schiller : Complaint of Ceres, St. 4. 
 
 What a strange, delicious amazement is Death, 
 To be without body and breathe without breath. 
 
 498 Edwin Arnold : She and He. 
 
 There is no Death ! What seems so is transition; 
 
 This life of mortal breath 
 Is but a suburb of the life elysian, 
 
 Whose portal we call death. 
 
 499 Longfellow : Resignation, St. 5.
 
 80 DICTIONARY OF POETICAL QUOTATIONS. 
 
 Our days begin with trouble here, 
 
 Our life is but a span, 
 And cruel death is always near, 
 
 So frail a thing is nian. 
 
 500 From the New England Primer. 
 
 Death rides on every passing breeze, 
 He lurks in every flower. 
 
 501 Heber : At a Funeral, No. i. 
 
 How wonderful is Death ! 
 Death and his brother Sleep. 
 
 502 Shelley : Queen Mab, St. i. 
 
 And Death is beautiful as feet of friend 
 Coming with welcome at our journey's end. 
 
 James Russell Lowell : 7 o George 
 
 503 William Curtis. 
 
 Death in itself is nothing ; but we fear 
 
 To be we know not what, we know not where. 
 
 504 Dryden : Aurengzebe, Act iv., Sc. 1. 
 
 Debt. 
 
 You say, you nothing owe; and so I say : 
 He only owes, who something hath to pay. 
 
 505 Martial : (Hay), ii., 3. 
 
 Decay. 
 
 Before decay's effacing fingers 
 
 Have swept the lines where beauty lingers. 
 
 506 Byron : Giaour, Line 68. 
 
 The ruins of himself ! now worn away 
 With age, yet still majestic in decay. 
 
 507 Pope: Odyssey, Bk. xxiv.. Line 271.
 
 DICTIONARY OF POETICAL QUOTATIONS. 81 
 
 Deceit. 
 
 Ah, that deceit should steal such gentle shapes, 
 And with a virtuous visor hide deep vice. 
 
 508 Shaks. : Richard III., Act ii., Sc. 2. 
 
 O, what a tangled web we weave, 
 When first we practise to deceive. 
 
 509 Scott : Marmion, Canto vi., St. 17. 
 
 December. 
 
 And after him came next the chill December : 
 Yet he, through merry feasting which lie made 
 And great bonfires, did not the cold remember; 
 His Saviour's birth his mind so much did glad. 
 Spenser : Faerie Queene, Bk. vii., Canto vii., 
 
 510 St. 41. 
 
 As soon 
 Seek roses in December, ice in June. 
 
 Byron : English Bards and Scotch Reviewers, 
 
 511 Line 75. 
 
 Decency. 
 
 hnmodest words admit of no defence, 
 For want of decency is want of sense. 
 
 Earl of Roscommon : Essay on Translated 
 
 512 Verse, Line 113. 
 
 Decision. 
 
 If it were done, when 't is done, then 't were well 
 It were done quickly. 
 
 513 Shaks.: Macbeth, Act i., Sc. 7. 
 
 Once to every man and nation comes the moment 
 
 to decide, 
 In the strife of Truth with Falsehood, for the 
 
 good or evil side ;
 
 82 DICTIONARY OF POETICAL QUOTATIONS. 
 
 Some great cause, God's new Messiah offering 
 
 each the bloom or blight, 
 Parts the goats upon the left hand, and the sheep 
 
 upon the right; 
 And the choice goes by forever 'twixt that dark- 
 ness and that light. 
 
 514 James Russell Lowell : Present Crisis. 
 
 Deeds. 
 
 And with necessity, 
 The tyrant's plea, excus'd his devilish deeds. 
 
 515 Milton : Par. Lost, Bk. iv., Line 393. 
 
 Oh ! 't is easy 
 To beget great deeds ; but in the rearing of them — 
 The tlireading in cold blood each mean detail, 
 And furze brake of half-pertinent circumstance — 
 There lies the self-denial. 
 
 Charles Kingsley : Saint's Trar/edij, 
 
 516 Act iv!, Sc. 3. 
 
 Deep. 
 
 Embosom'd in the deep where Holland lies, 
 INIethinks her patient sons before me stand. 
 Where the broad ocean leans against the land. 
 
 517 Goldsmith : Traveller, Line 282. 
 
 Defeat. 
 
 Such a numerous host 
 Fled not in silence through the frighted deep, 
 With ruin upon ruin, rout on rout. 
 Confusion worse confounded. 
 
 518 Milton : Par. Lost, Bk. ii.. Line 993. 
 
 Defect. 
 
 So may a glory from defect arise. 
 
 519 Robert Browning: Deaf and Dumb,
 
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 Defence. 
 
 What boots it at one gate to make defence, 
 And at another to let in the ioe ? 
 
 520 Milton : Samson Agonistes, Line 560. 
 
 Defiance. 
 
 I do defy him, and I spit at him ; 
 Call him a slanderous coward, and a villain : 
 Which to maintain, I \Yould allow him odds; 
 And meet him, were I tied to run a-foot, 
 Even to the frozen ridges of the Alps. 
 
 521 Shaks. : Richard II., Act i., Sc. 1. 
 
 Deity. 
 
 Hail, source of being! universal soul 
 Of heaven and earth! essential presence, hail! 
 To Thee I bend the knee; to Thee my tlioughts 
 Continual, climb; who, with a master hand. 
 Hast the great whole into perfection touch'd. 
 
 522 Thomson : Seasons, Spring, Line 556. 
 
 Dejection. 
 
 As high as we have mounted in delight, 
 In our dejection do we sink as low\ 
 
 Wordsworth : Resolution and Independence, 
 
 523 St. 4. 
 
 Delay. 
 
 Delay leads impotent and snail-paced beggary. 
 
 524 Shaks. : Richard III., Act iv., Sc. 3. 
 
 Be wise to-day: 't is madness to defer ; 
 Xext day the fatal precedent will plead ; 
 Thus on, till wisdom is push'd out of life. 
 
 525 Young : Night Thoughts, Night i.. Line 390.
 
 84 DICTIONARY OF POETICAL QUOTATIONS. 
 
 Deliberation. 
 
 Deep on his front engraven, 
 Deliberation sat, and public care. 
 
 526 Milton: Par. Lost, Bk. ii., Line 300. 
 
 Delight. 
 
 She was a phantom of delight 
 "When first she gleamed upon my sight, 
 A lovely apparition, sent 
 To be a moment's ornament. 
 
 WoRDSWOUTii : She was a Phantom of 
 
 527 Delight. 
 
 Delusion. 
 
 For love of grace, 
 Lay not that flattering unction to your soul 
 That not your trespass but my madness speaks : 
 It will but skin and film the ulcerous place : 
 Whiles rank corruption, mining all within, 
 Infects unseen. 
 
 528 Shaks. : Hamlet, Act iii., Sc. 4. 
 
 Denmark. 
 
 Something is rotten in the State of Denmark. 
 
 529 SuAKS. : Hamlet, Act i., Sc. 4. 
 
 Deportment. 
 
 What 's a fine person, or a beauteous face, 
 Unless deportment gives them decent grace ? 
 Blest with all other requisites to please, 
 Some want the striking elegance of ease; 
 The curious eye their awkward movement tires ; 
 They seem like puppets led about by wires. 
 
 530 Churchill: RoscUifl, L\ne 7 il.
 
 DICTIONARY OF POETICAL QUOTATIONS. 85 
 
 Depravity. 
 
 God's love seemed lost upon him. 
 
 531 Bailey : Feslus^ Sc. Heaven. 
 
 Depression. 
 
 All day the darkness and the cold 
 
 Upon my heart have lain, 
 Like shadows on the winter sky, 
 
 Like frost upon the pane. 
 
 532 Whittier : On Receiviny an Eagle's Quill. 
 
 Desert. 
 
 In the cold grave, under the deep, deep sea, 
 Or in the wide desert where no life is found. 
 
 533 Hood -. Sonnet, Silence. 
 
 The keenest pangs the wretched find 
 
 Are rapture to the dreary void, 
 The leafless desert of the mind. 
 
 The waste of feelings unemployed. 
 53-i Byron : Giaour, Line 957. 
 
 Desire (Love). 
 
 It liveth not in fierce desire, 
 
 With dead desire it doth not die. 
 
 Scott: Larj of the Last Minstrel, Canto v., 
 
 535 St. 13. 
 
 Desolation. 
 
 Desolate ! Life is so dreary and desolate. 
 Women and men in the crowd meet and mingle, 
 Yet with Itself every soul standeth single. 
 Deep out of sympathy moaning its moan ; 
 Holding and having its brief exultation ; 
 Making its lonesome and low lamentation; 
 Fighting its terrible conflicts alone. 
 
 536 Alice Gary: Life.
 
 86 DICTIOKARY OF POETICAL QUOTATIONS. 
 
 Despair. 
 
 Despair defies even despotism; there is 
 
 That ill iny heart would make its way thro' hosts 
 
 With levell'd spears. 
 
 537 Byron: Two Foscari, Act i., Sc. 1. 
 
 Then black despair, 
 The shadow of a starless night, was thrown 
 Over the world in which I moved alone. 
 
 538 Shelley: Revolt of Islam, Dedication, St. 6. 
 
 The strongest and the fiercest spirit 
 That fought in heaven, now fiercer by despair. 
 
 539 Milton: Pur. Lost, Bk. ii., Line 44. 
 
 Destiny. 
 
 That old miracle — Love-at-first-sight — 
 Needs no explanations. The heart reads aright 
 Its destiny sometimes. 
 
 Owen Meredith: Lucile, Pt. ii., Canto vi., 
 
 540 St. 16. 
 
 Where'er she lie, 
 
 Locked up from mortal eye, 
 
 In shady leaves of destiny. 
 
 Richard Crashaw: Wishes to his Supposed 
 
 541 Mistress. 
 
 Determination. 
 
 I '11 speak to it, though hell itself should gape, 
 And bid me hold my peace. 
 
 542 SiiAKS. : Hamlet, Act i., Sc. 2. 
 
 Detraction. 
 
 Happy are they that hear their detractions. 
 And can put tiiem to mending. 
 
 543 Shaks.: Much Ado, Act ii., Sc. 3.
 
 DICTIOXARY OF POETICAL QUOTATIONS. 87 
 
 A third interprets motions, looks, and eyes ; 
 At every word a reputation dies. 
 
 544 Pope : R. of the Lock, Canto iii., Line 15. 
 
 Devil. 
 
 'T is tiie eye of childhood 
 That fears a painted devil. 
 
 545 Shaks. : Macbelk, Act ii., Sc. 2. 
 
 The devil was sick, the devil a saint would be ; 
 
 The devil was well, the devil a saint was he. 
 
 510 Rabelais: IVot-ks, Bk. iv., Ch. xxiv. 
 
 Devotion. 
 
 As down in the sunless retreats of the ocean 
 Sweet flowers are springing no mortal can see, 
 So deep in my soul the still prayer of devotion 
 Unheard V)y the world, rises silent to Tliee. 
 
 547 ]\1oore: .4s Doisn in the Sunless Retreats. 
 
 Dew. 
 
 What gentle ghost, besprent with April dew, 
 Hails me so solemnly to yonder yew? 
 
 548 Ben Jonson: Elegy on the Lady Jane Paiclet. 
 
 Dial. 
 
 True as the dial to the sun. 
 Although it be not shin'd upon. 
 
 Butler: Hudibras, Pt. iii., Canto ii.. 
 
 549 Line 175. 
 
 Difficulty. 
 
 It is as hard to come, as for a camel 
 To thread the postern of a needle's eye. 
 
 550 Shaks : Richard 11., Act v., Sc. 5
 
 88 DICTIONARY OF POETICAL QUOTATIONS. 
 
 Dignity. 
 
 Grace was in all her steps, heaven in her eye, 
 In every gesture dignity and love. 
 
 551 Milton : Par. Lost, Bk. viii., Line 488. 
 
 Digression. 
 
 And there began a lang digression 
 About the lords o' the creation. 
 
 552 BuKNs: The Twa Dogs. 
 
 Dinner. 
 
 Since Eve ate apples, much depends on dinner. 
 
 553 Bykon : Don Juan, Canto xiii., St. 99. 
 
 Disappointment. 
 
 Oh ! that a dream so sweet, so long enjoy'd, 
 Should be so sadly, cruelly destroy'd ! 
 
 JNlooRE : Lalla Rookh, Veiled Prophet of 
 
 554 Khorassan. 
 
 Discord. 
 
 Discord oft in music makes the sweeter lay. 
 
 Spenser : Faerie Queene, Bk. iii.. Canto ii., 
 
 555 St. 15. 
 
 From hence, let fierce contending nations know 
 What dire effects from civil discord flow. 
 
 556 Addison : Cato, Act ii., Sc. 4. 
 
 Discourse. 
 
 Sure, he that made us with such large discourse, 
 Looking before and after, gave us not 
 That capability and godlike reason 
 To fust in us unused. 
 
 557 Shaks. : Hamlet, Act iv., Sc. 4.
 
 DICTIONARY OF POETICAL QUOTATIONS. 89 
 
 Discretion. 
 
 Let 's teach ourselves that honorable stop, 
 Not to outsport discretion. 
 
 558 Shaks. : Othello, Act ii., Sc. 3. 
 
 It shewed discretion, the best part of valor. 
 
 Beaumont and Fletcher: King and No 
 
 559 King, Act iv., Sc. 3. 
 
 Diseases. 
 
 Diseases, desperate grown, 
 By desperate appliance are reliev'd. 
 Or not at all. 
 
 560 Shaks. : Hamlet, Act iv., Sc. 3. 
 
 Disguise. 
 
 'T is great, 't is manly, to disdain disguise ; 
 It shows our spirit, or it proves our strength. 
 
 Young : Night Thoughts, Night viii., 
 
 561 Line 372. 
 
 Dislike. 
 
 1 do not love thee. Doctor Fell, 
 The reason why I cannot tell ; 
 But this alone I know full well, 
 I do not love thee, Doctor Fell. 
 
 562 Tom Brown : Trans, of Martial's Ep. L, 33. 
 
 Disobedience. 
 
 Of man's first disobedience, and the fruit 
 Of that forbidden tree, whose mortal taste 
 Brought death into the world, and all our woe. 
 
 563 Milton : Par. Lost, Bk. i., Line 1.
 
 90 DICTIONARY OF POETICAL QUOTATION'S. 
 
 Disorder. 
 
 You have displac'd the mirth, broke the good 
 
 meeting, 
 With most admir'd disorder. 
 5G4 SiiAKS. : Macbeth, Act iii., Sc. 4. 
 
 Disposition. 
 
 lie is of a very melancholy disposition. 
 
 565 SiiAKS. : Much Ado, Act i., Sc. 1. 
 
 Dispute. 
 
 'T is strange how some men's tempers suit, 
 
 Like bawd and brandy, with dispute. 
 
 That for their own opinions stand fast, 
 
 Only to have them claw'd and canvass'd. 
 
 56G Butler: Hudibras, Pt. ii., Canto ii., Line 1. 
 
 Dissension. 
 
 Now join your hands, and with your hands your 
 
 hearts. 
 That no dissension hinder government. 
 5G7 Shaks. : 3 Henry VI., Act iv., Sc. 6. 
 
 Dissimulation. 
 
 Away and mock the time with fairest show ; 
 False face must hide what the false heart doth 
 know. 
 
 568 Shaks. : Macbeth, Act i., Sc. 7. 
 
 Dissolution. 
 
 Like the baseless fabric of this vision, 
 The cloud-capp'd towers, the gorgeous palaces. 
 The solemn temples, the great globe itself, 
 Yea, all which it inherit, shall dissolve; 
 And, like this insubstantial pageant faded. 
 Leave not a rack behind. 
 
 569 SiiAKS. : Temper, Act iv., Sc. L
 
 DICTIONARY OF POETICAL QUOTATION'S. 91 
 
 Distance. 
 
 'T is distance lends enchantment to the view, 
 And robes the mountain in its azure hue. 
 
 570 Campbell: PL of Hope, Pt. i., Line 7. 
 
 Sweetest melodies 
 Are those that are by distance made more sweet. 
 
 571 Wordsworth : Personal Talk, St. 2. 
 
 Distrust. 
 
 The saddest thing that can befall a soul 
 Is when it loses faith in God and woman. 
 
 572 Alexander Smith : A Life Drama, Sc. 12. 
 
 Divinity. 
 
 There's a divinity that shapes our ends, 
 Rough-hew them how we will. 
 
 573 Shaks. : Hamlet, Act v., Sc. 2. 
 
 Doctrine. 
 
 And prove their doctrine orthodox, 
 By apostolic blows and knocks. 
 
 Butler : Hudibras, Pt. i.. Canto i., 
 
 574 Line 205. 
 
 Dogs. 
 
 Ay, in the catalogue ye go for men ; 
 
 As hound.s, and greyhounds, mongrels, spaniels, 
 
 curs, 
 Shoughs, water-rugs, and demi-wolves, are 'clept 
 All by the name of dogs. 
 
 575 Shaks. : Macbeth, Act iii., Sc. 1.
 
 92 DICTIONARY OF POETICAL QUOTATIONS. 
 
 Dominion. 
 
 Here we may reign secure, and in my choice 
 To reign is worth ambition, thougli in Hell : 
 Better to reign in Hell, than serve in Heaven. 
 
 576 Milton : Par. Lost, Bk. i., Line 261. 
 
 Doom. 
 
 What, will the line stretch out to the crack of 
 doom ? 
 
 577 Shaks. : Macbeth, Act iv., Sc. 1. 
 
 Doubt. 
 
 Modest doubt is calPd 
 The beacon of the wise, the tent that searches 
 To the bottom of the worst. 
 
 578 Shaks. : Troil. and Cress., Act ii., Sc. 2. 
 
 Our doubts are traitors, 
 And make us lose the good we oft might win, 
 By fearing to attempt. 
 
 579 Shaks. : M. for M., Act i., Sc. 5. 
 
 Drama. 
 
 The drama's laws the drama's patrons give, 
 For we that live to please, must please to live. 
 Dr. Johnson : Pro. On Opening Drury Lane 
 
 580 Theatre. 
 
 Dreams. 
 
 I talk of dreams 
 Which are the children of an idle brain, 
 Begot of nothing but vain fantasy; 
 Which is as thin of substance as the air; 
 And more inconstant than the wind. 
 
 581 Shaks. : Rom. and Jul, Act i., Sc. 4.
 
 DICTIOXARY OF POETICAL QUOTATIONS. 93 
 
 Dreams in their development have breath, 
 And tears, and tortures, and the touch of joy. 
 
 582 Byron: Dream, St. 1. 
 
 Some dreams we have are nothing else but dreams, 
 Unnatural and full of contradictions ; 
 Yet others of our most romantic schemes 
 Are something more tlian fictions. 
 
 583 Hood : The Haunted House. 
 
 Like glimpses of forgotten dreams. 
 
 584 Texnysox : The Tiro Voices, St. cxxvii. 
 
 Dress. 
 
 Be plain in dress, and sober in your diet ; 
 In short, my deary, kiss me, and be quiet. 
 
 Lady M. W. Montagu : A Summary of 
 
 585 Lord Lyttelton's Advice. 
 
 "We sacrifice to dress, till household joys 
 And comforts cease. Dress drains our cellar dry, 
 And keeps our larder lean ; puts out our fires, 
 And introduces hunger, frost, and woe, 
 "Where peace and hospitality might reign. 
 
 586 CowpER : Task, Bk. ii., Line 614. 
 
 Drink — Drinking — Drunkenness. 
 
 Oh, that men should put an enemy in 
 Their mouths, to steal away their brains! that we 
 Should, with joy, pleasance, revel and applause. 
 Transform ourselves into beasts! 
 
 587 Shaks. : Otiiello, Act ii., Sc. 3. 
 
 Give him strong drink until he wink, 
 That's sinking in despair; 
 An' liquor guid to fire his bluid, 
 That 's prest wi' grief an' care.
 
 94 DICTIOXARV OF POETICAL QUOTATIONS. 
 
 There let him bouse and deep carouse, 
 Wi' bumpers flowing o'er, 
 Till he forgets his loves or debts, 
 An' minds his griefs no more. 
 
 588 Burns : Scotch DrinL 
 Dryden. 
 
 \\'aller was smooth ; but Dryden taught to join 
 The varying verse, the full resounding line. 
 The long majestic march, and energy divine. 
 
 589 Pope: Satire v.. Line 2G7. 
 
 Duelling. 
 
 Some fiery fop, with new commission vain. 
 Who sleeps on brambles till he kills his man ; 
 Some frolic drunkard, reeling from a feast, 
 Provokes a broil, and stabs you for a jest. 
 
 590 Dr. «JoiiNSON : London. 
 
 Dunce. 
 
 How much a dunce, that has been sent to roam, 
 Excels a dunce, that has been kept at home. 
 
 591 CowPER : Prog, of Error, \ Awe. 4i\h. 
 
 Dungeon. 
 
 Dweller in yon dungeon dark. 
 Hangman of creation, mark ! 
 
 592 Burns: Ode on Mrs. OswahL 
 
 Duty. 
 
 Stern Daughter of the Voice of God ! 
 
 O Duty ! if that name thou love 
 
 Who art a light to guide, a rod 
 
 To check the erring, and reprove; 
 
 Thou, who art victory and law 
 
 When empty terrors overawe ; 
 
 From vain temptations dost set free; 
 
 And calm'st the weary strife of frail humanity ! 
 
 593 Wordsworth : Ode to Duty.
 
 DICTIONARY OF POETICAL QUOTATIONS. 95 
 
 Eagle. 
 
 So the struck eagle, stretch'd upon the plain, 
 No more through rolling clouds to soar again, 
 Yipw'd his own feather on the fatal dart, 
 And wing'd the shaft that quiver'd in his heart. 
 Byron: English Bards and Scotch Reviewers. 
 
 594 Line 826. 
 
 Ear. 
 
 "Where more is meaut than meets the ear. 
 
 595 Milton : II Penseroso, Line 120. 
 
 Earth. 
 
 The earth doth like a snake renew 
 Her winter weeds outworn. 
 
 596 Shelley : Hellas, Line 1060. 
 
 Earth felt the wound ; and Nature from her seat, 
 Sighing through all her works, gave signs of woe 
 That all was lost. 
 
 597 Milton : Par. Lost, Bk. ix.. Line 782. 
 
 Upon my burned body lie lightly, gentle earth. 
 Beaumont and Fletcher : Maid's Tragedy, 
 
 598 Act i., Sc. 2. 
 
 Earth with her thousand voices praises God. 
 
 599 Coleridge: Hymn in the Vale of Chamouni. 
 
 Ease. 
 
 Ease would recant 
 Vows made in pain, as violent and void. 
 
 600 Milton : Par. Lost, Bk. iv., Line 96.
 
 96 DICTIONARY OF POETICAL QUOTATIONS. 
 
 East. 
 
 An hour before the worshipp'd sun 
 Peered forth tlie golden window of tlie east. 
 601 Shaks. : Rum. and Jul., Act i., Sc. 1. 
 
 Easter. 
 
 llise, heart ; thy Lord is risen. Sing His praise 
 Without delays, 
 
 Who takes thee by the hand, that thou likewise 
 \\'ith Ilim mayst rise: 
 
 That, as His death calcined thee to dust, 
 
 His life may make thee gold, and, much more, just. 
 
 002 Herbert: The Church. Easter. 
 
 Eating. 
 
 Unquiet meals make ill digestions. 
 
 603 SiiAKS. : Com. of Errors, Act v., Sc. 1. 
 
 Some hae meat and canna eat. 
 
 And some would eat that want it; 
 But we hae meat, and we can eat, 
 
 Sae let the Lord be thankit. 
 
 604 Burns: Grace before Meat. 
 
 Echo. 
 
 Echo waits with art and care 
 And will the faults of song repair. 
 
 605 Emerson : May- Day, Line 439. 
 
 O love, they die, in yon rich sky, 
 They faint on hill or field or river: 
 Our echoes roll from soul to soul. 
 And gro.w for ever and for ever. 
 
 606 Tennyson : The Princess, Pt. iii., Song.
 
 DICTIOXARY OF POETICAL QUOTATIONS. 97 
 
 Eclipse. 
 
 The sun, . . . 
 Ill dim eclipse, disastrous twilight sheds 
 On half the nations, and with fear of change 
 Perplexes monarchs. 
 6U7 MiLTOx: Par. Lost, Bk. i., Line 597. 
 
 Eden. 
 
 They hand in hand, with w^and'ring steps and slow, 
 Through Eden took their solitary way. 
 
 608 Milton : Par. Lost, Bk. xii.. Line 645. 
 
 Education. 
 
 'Tis education forms the common mind; 
 Just as the twig is bent, the tree 's inclin'd. 
 
 609 Pope : Moral Essays, Epis. i., Line 149. 
 
 Eloquence. 
 
 His tongue 
 Dropt manna, and could make the worse appear 
 The better reason, to perplex and dash 
 Maturest counsels. 
 
 610 MiLTOx : Par. Lost, Bk. ii., Line 113. 
 
 Emerson. 
 
 There comes Emerson first, whose rich words, 
 
 every one, 
 Are like gold nails in temples to hang trophies on. 
 
 611 James Bussell Lowell: ^4 Fable for Critics. 
 
 Eminence. 
 
 He who ascends to mountain tops shall find 
 
 The loftiest peaks most wrapp'd in clouds and 
 
 snow ; 
 He who surpasses or subdues mankind, 
 Must look down on the hate of those below. 
 
 612 Byron : Ch. Harold, Canto iii., St. 45.
 
 98 DICTIONARY OF POETICAL QUOTATIONS. 
 
 Empire. 
 
 Hands that the rod of empire might have sway'd, 
 Or waked to ecstasy the living lyre. 
 
 613 Okay : Elegy, St. 12. 
 
 End. 
 
 Life 's but a means unto an end ; that end 
 Beginning, mean, and end to all things, — God. 
 
 614 Bailey: Festus, Sc. A Country Town. 
 
 Endurance. 
 
 'T is not now who 's stout and bold? 
 But who bears hnnger best, and cold? 
 And he 's approv'd the most deserving. 
 Who longest can hold out at starving. 
 
 Butler : Hudibros, Pt. iii., Canto iii., 
 015 Line 353. 
 
 England. 
 
 P^ngland ! — model to thy inward greatness, 
 Like little body with a mighty heart, — 
 
 What mightst thou do, that honor would thee do, 
 Were all thy children kind and natural ! 
 
 616 Shaks.: Henry V., Act i.. Chorus. 
 
 Enmity. 
 
 ■*T is death to me to be at enmity ; 
 
 1 hate it, and desire all good men's love. 
 
 617 Shaks. : Richard III., Act ii., Sc. 1. 
 
 Ensign. 
 
 Ay, tear her tattered ensign down 1 
 
 Long has it waved on high, 
 And many an eye has danced to see 
 
 That banner in the sky. 
 
 618 Oliveh Wendell Holmes: Old Ironsides.
 
 DICTIONARY OF POETICAL QUOTATIONS. 99 
 
 Enthusiasm. 
 
 Rash enthusiasm, in good society- 
 Were nothing but a moral inebriety. 
 
 619 Byron : Don Juan, Canto xiii., Line 35. 
 
 Envy. 
 
 Fools may our scorn, not envy, raise, 
 For envy is a kind of praise. 
 
 620 Gay : Fables, Pt. i., Fable 44. 
 
 Envy will merit, as its shade, pursue ; 
 
 But, like a shadow, proves the substance true. 
 
 621 Pope: E. on Criticism, Pt. ii., Line 266. 
 
 Base envy withers at another's joy, 
 
 And hates that excellence it cannot reach. 
 
 622 Thomson : Seasons, Spring, Line 284. 
 
 Epitaphs. 
 
 Nobles and heralds, by your leave. 
 Here lies what once was Matthew Prior, 
 The son of Adam and of Eve : 
 Can Bourbon or Nassau claim higher? 
 
 623 Pkior : Ep. Extempore. 
 
 Here rests h^ head, upon the lap of earth, 
 A youth to fortune and to fame unknown; 
 
 Fair Science frown'd not on his humble birth, 
 And Melancholy mark'd him for her own. 
 
 624 Gray : Elegi/, Epitaph. 
 
 Equality. 
 
 The trickling rain doth fall 
 Upon us one and all ;
 
 100 DICTlOXAliV OF POETICAL QUOTATION'S. 
 
 The south ^^ilul kisses 
 
 The saucy milkmaid's cheek, 
 
 The uuu's demure and meek, 
 
 Nor any misses. 
 
 C-^5 E. C. Stedman : .1 Madrir/al, St. 3. 
 
 Error. 
 
 Shall Error in the round of time 
 Still father Truth ? 
 C2G Tennyson : Luce and Duly. 
 
 But Error, wounded, writhes with pain, 
 And dies an)ong his worshippers. 
 
 627 William Cullen Bryant : The Bailie-Field. 
 
 Eternity. 
 
 Beyond is all abyss. 
 Eternity, whose end no eye can reach. 
 
 628 Milton : Par. Lost, Bk. xii., Line 555. 
 
 Eternity ! thou pleasing, dreadful thought ! 
 
 629 Addison : Cato, Act v., Sc. 1. 
 
 Europe. 
 
 Better fifty years of Europe than a cj'cle of Cathay. 
 
 630 Tennyson : Locksley Hall, Line 184. 
 
 Eve. 
 
 Adam the goodliest man of men since born 
 His sons, the fairest of her daughters. Eve. 
 
 631 Milton : Par. Lost., Bk. iv.. Line 323. 
 
 Evening. 
 
 The day is done, and the darkness 
 
 Falls from the wings of Night, 
 As a feather is wafted downward 
 
 From an eagle in his flight. 
 
 632 Longfellow : The Day is Done.
 
 DICTIONARY OF POETICAL QUOTATIONS. 101 
 
 The sun is set ; the swallows are asleep ; 
 
 The bats are flitting fast in the gray air ; 
 
 The slow soft toads out of damp corners creep ; 
 
 And evening's breath, wandering here and there 
 
 Over the quivering surface of the stream, 
 
 AVakes not one ripple from its silent dream. 
 
 633 Shellf.y: Evening. 
 
 Evil. 
 
 Farewell hope ! and with hope, farewell fear ! 
 
 Farewell remorse ! all good to me is lost. 
 
 Evil, be thou my good ; by thee at least 
 
 Divided empire with heaven's king I hold. 
 
 G34 Milton : Par. Lost, Bk. iv., Line 108. 
 
 Evil springs up, and flowers, and bears no seed. 
 And feeds the green earth with its swift decay, 
 Leaving it richer for the growth of truth. 
 635 James Russell Lowell : Prometheus. 
 
 Example. 
 
 The evil that men do lives after them. 
 
 The good is oft interred with their bones. 
 
 63G Shaks. : Jul. Ccesar, Act iii., Sc. 2. 
 
 By his life alone, 
 Gracious and sweet, the better way was shown. 
 
 637 Wiiittier : The Pennsylvania Pilgrim. 
 
 Escess. 
 
 To gild refined gold, to paint the lily, 
 
 To throw a perfume on the violet, 
 
 To smooth the ice, or add another hue 
 
 Unto the rainbow, or with taper-light 
 
 To seek the beauteous eye of Heaven to garnish, 
 
 Is wasteful and ridiculous excess. 
 
 638 Shaks. : King John. Act iv., Sc. 2.
 
 102 DICTIONARY OF POETICAL QUOTATIONS. 
 
 Exile. 
 
 Beheld the duteous son, the sire decayed, 
 The modest matron, and the blushing maid, 
 Forc'd from their homes, a melancholy train, 
 To traverse climes beyond the Western main, 
 639 Goldsmith : Traveller, Line 407. 
 
 Expectation. 
 
 'T is expectation makes a blessing dear; 
 
 Heaven were not heaven if we knew what it were. 
 
 040 Suckling: A yuln^t Fruition. 
 
 Experience. 
 
 J-ixperience is by industry achieved. 
 
 And perfected by the swift cotn-se of time. 
 
 041 Shaks. : Two Gent, of V., Act i., Sc. 3. 
 
 His head was silver'd o'er with age. 
 And long experience made him sage. 
 
 Gay, Fables, Pt. i.. The Shepherd and 
 
 642 the Philosopher. 
 
 Extremes. 
 
 Extremes in nature equal good produce. 
 Extremes in man concur to general use. 
 
 643 Pope : Moral Essays, Epis. iii., Line 16L 
 
 Eyes. 
 
 Two of the fairest stars in all the heaven, 
 Having some business, do entreat her eyes 
 To twinkle in their spheres till they return. 
 
 644 Shaks. : Rom. and Jul., Act ii., Sc. 2. 
 
 True eyes 
 Too pure and too honest in aught to disguise 
 The sweet soul shining thro' them. 
 
 Owen Meredith : Lucilc, Pt ii., 
 
 645 Canto ii., St. 3.
 
 DICTIOXARY OF POETICAL QUOTATIONS. 103 
 
 There are eyes half defiant, 
 
 Half ineek and compliant; 
 
 Black eyes, with a wondrous, witching charm 
 
 To bring us good or to work us harm. 
 
 646 Ph(EBE Gary : Doves' Eyes. 
 
 Soul-deep eyes of darkest night. 
 
 6i7 JoAQUix Miller : Califomian, Pt. iv. 
 
 Her eyes are homes of silent pra^^er. 
 
 Tennyson: In Memoriam, Pt. xxxii., 
 
 648 St. 1. 
 
 The bright black eye, the melting blue, — 
 1 cannot choose between the two. 
 
 649 Oliver Wendell Holmes : The Dilemma. 
 
 These poor eyes, you called, I w^een, 
 " Sweetest eyes were ever seen." 
 
 650 Mrs. Browning : Catarina to Camoens. 
 
 Soft eyes look'd love to eyes which spake again, 
 And all went merry as a marriage bell. 
 
 651 Byron : Ch. Harold, Canto iii., St. 21. 
 
 P. 
 
 Fabric. 
 
 Anon out of the earth a fabric huge 
 
 Kose, like an exhalation. 
 
 6.52 Milton : Par. Lost, Bk. i.. Line 710. 
 
 Face. 
 
 Your face, my Thane, is as a book, where men 
 
 May read strange matters. 
 
 653 Shaks. : Macbeth. Act i., Sc. 5.
 
 104 DICTIONARY OF POETICAL QUOTATIONS. 
 
 The light upon her face 
 Shines from the windows of another world. 
 Saints only have such faces. 
 
 654 Longfellow: Mu-JkicI Anr/elo, Pt. ii., 6. 
 
 Can't I another's face commend, 
 And to her virtues be a friend, 
 But instantly your forehead lowers, 
 As if her merit lessen'd yours? 
 
 MoORE : The Farmer, the Spaniel, and 
 
 655 the Cat, Fable ix. 
 
 Behind a frowning providence 
 He hides a shining face. 
 
 656 CowPER : Light Shining out of Darkness. 
 
 Fair. 
 
 Fair is foul, and foul is fair. 
 
 657 Shaks. : Macbeth, Act i., Sc. 1. 
 
 Exceeding fair she was not ; and yet fair 
 
 In that she never studied to be fairer 
 
 Than Nature made her ; beauty cost her nothing, 
 
 Her virtues were so rare. 
 
 658 George Chapman : All Fools, Act i., Sc. 1. 
 
 Fairies. 
 
 This is the fairy land ; O spite of spites, 
 
 "We talk with goblins, owls, and elvish sprites. 
 
 659 SiiAKS. : Co7n. of Errors, Act ii., Sc. 2. 
 
 Faith. 
 
 If faith produce no works, I see 
 That faith is not a living tree. 
 
 660 Hannah More: Dan and Jane.
 
 DICTIONARY OF POETICAL QUOTATIONS. 105 
 
 Whose faith has centre everywhere, 
 Xor cares to fix itself to form. 
 
 Tennyson : In Memoriam, Pt. xxxiii., 
 
 661 St. 1 
 
 'T is hers to pluck the amaranthine flower 
 Of faith, and round the sufferer's temples bind 
 AVreaths that endure affliction's heaviest shower, 
 And do not shrink from sorrow's keenest wind. 
 
 662 Wordsworth: Weak is the Will of Man. 
 
 For modes of faith let graceless zealots fight ; 
 His can't be wrong whose life is in the right. 
 
 663 Pope : Essay on Man, Epis. iii., Line 303. 
 
 FaU. 
 
 He that is down needs fear no fall. 
 
 BuNYAx: The Author's War/ of Sending 
 QQ4: forth his Second Part of the Pilgrim, Pt. ii. 
 
 Falsity. 
 
 As false 
 As air, as water, as wind, as sandy earth ; 
 As fox to lamb ; as wolf to heifer's calf; 
 Pard to the hind, or stepdame to her son. 
 66.5 Shaks. : Trail, and Cress., Act iii., Sc. 2. 
 
 Fame. 
 
 Let fame, that all hunt after in their lives, 
 Live register'd upon our brazen tombs. 
 
 666 Shaks. : Love's L. Lost, Act i., Sc. 1. 
 
 Fame, if not double-faced, is double-mouthed, 
 And with contrary blast proclaims most deeds : 
 On both his wings, one black, the other white, 
 Bears greatest names in his wild aery flight. 
 
 667 Milton: Samson Agonistes, Line 97L
 
 106 DICTIONARY OF POETICAL QUOTATIONS. 
 
 What *s fame ? a fancied life in others' breath, 
 A thing beyond us, even before our death. 
 
 668 Pope : Essay on Man, Epis. iv.. Line 237. 
 
 There was a morning when I longed for fame, 
 'J'here was a noontide when I passed it by, 
 
 There is an evening when 1 think not shame 
 Its substance and its being to deny. 
 
 Jean Ingelow : The Star's Monument, 
 
 669 St. 81. 
 
 Ah ! who can tell how hard it is to climb 
 
 The steep where Fame's proud temple shines afar? 
 
 670 Beattie : Minstrel, Bk. i., St. 1. 
 
 Or ravish'd with the whistling of a name, 
 See Cromwell, damn'd to everlasting fame! 
 
 671 Pope : Essay on Man, Kpis. iv., Line 281. 
 
 Family. 
 
 Birds in their little nest agree ; 
 
 And 't is a shameful sight 
 When children of one family 
 
 Fall out, and chide, and fight. 
 
 • 672 Watts: Divine Songs, Song xvii. 
 
 Famine. 
 
 Famine is in thy cheeks. 
 
 673 SiiAKS. : Rom. and Jul, Act v., Sc. 1. 
 
 Fancy. 
 
 Tell me, where is fancy bred ; 
 Or in the heart, or in the head? 
 How begot, how nourished?
 
 DICTIONARY OF POETICAL QUOTATIONS. 107 
 
 Reply, reply. 
 
 It is engendered in the eyes, 
 
 With gazing fed : and fancy dies 
 
 In the cradle ^vhe^e it lies. 
 
 Q74: Shaks. : M. of Venice, Act iii., Sc. 2. Song. 
 
 She 's all my fancy painted her; 
 She 's lovely, she 's divine. 
 
 675 William Mee : Alice Gray. 
 
 FareTvell. 
 
 Farewell I Farewell I Through keen delights 
 It strikes two hearts, this word of woe. 
 Through every joy of life it smites, — 
 Why, sometime they will know. 
 
 676 Mary Clemmer : Farewell. 
 
 Farewell ! a word that must be, and hath been : 
 A sound which makes us linger; — yet — farewell! 
 
 677 Byron : Ch. Harold, Canto iv., St. 186. 
 
 Fashion. 
 
 The fashion wears out more apparel than the man. 
 
 678 Shaks. : Mitch Ado, Act iii., Sc. 3. 
 
 Fate. 
 
 What fates impose, that men must needs abide ; 
 It boots not to resist both wind and tide. 
 
 679 Shaks. : 3 Henri/ VL, Act iv., Sc. 3. 
 
 All human things are subject to decay, 
 
 And when fate summons, raonarchs must obey. 
 
 680 Dryden : MacFlecknoe, Line 1. 
 
 Things are where things are, and, as fate has willed, 
 So shall they be fulfilled. 
 
 681 Robert Browning: Agamemnon.
 
 108 DICTIONARY OF POETICAL QUOTATIONS. 
 
 And binding Nature fast in fate, 
 Left free the liunian will. 
 
 682 Pope : The Universal Prayer, St. 3. 
 
 For fate has wove the thread of life with pain, 
 And twins ev'n from the bii'tli are misery and man ! 
 
 683 PoPK : Odyssey, Bk. vii.. Line 2Go. 
 
 Father. 
 
 Jt is a wise father tliat knows liis own child. 
 
 684 SiiAKs.: M. of Venice, Act ii., Sc. 2. 
 
 Father of all ! in every age, 
 
 In every clime adored, 
 By saint, by savage, and by sage, 
 
 Jehovah, Jove, or Lord. 
 
 685 Pope: The Universal Prayer, St. 1. 
 
 Fault — Faults. 
 
 Condemn the fault, and not the actor of it? 
 
 686 Shaks. : M. for M., Act ii., Sc. 2. 
 
 Dare to be true : nothing can need a lie ; 
 
 A fault which needs it most, grows two thereby. 
 
 687 Herbert: The Church Porch. 
 
 In vain my faults ye quote ; 
 I WTite as others wrote 
 On Sunium's hight. 
 
 Walter Savage Landor : Jlie Last 
 
 688 Fruit of an Old Tree, Epigram cvi. 
 
 Favor. 
 
 Poor wretches, that depend 
 On greatness' favor, dream as 1 have done ; 
 Wake, and find nothing. But, alas, I swerve.
 
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 Many dream not to find, neither deserve, 
 And yet are steep'd in favors. 
 
 689 Shaks. : Cymbeline, Act v., Sc. 4. 
 
 Fawning, 
 
 And crook tlie pregnant hinges of the knee, 
 Where thrift may follow fawning. 
 
 690 Shaks. : Hamlet, Act iii., Sc. 2. 
 
 Fear. 
 
 Why, what should be the fear? 
 I do not set my life at a pin's fee ; 
 And, for my soul, what can it do to that, 
 Being a thing immortal as itself? 
 
 691 Shaks. : Hamlet, Act i., Sc. 4. 
 
 Of all base passions fear is most accm-s'd. 
 
 692 Shaks. : 1 Henrij VI.. Act v., Sc. 2. 
 
 Desponding fear, of feeble fancies full. 
 Weak and unmanly, loosens ev'ry power. 
 
 693 Thomson : Seasons, Spring, Line 286. 
 
 The fear o' hell 's a hangman's whip 
 
 To baud the wretch in order ; 
 But where ye feel your honor grip, 
 
 Let that aye be your border. 
 
 694 Burns : Ej). to a Young Friend. 
 
 Feasting. 
 
 Blest be those feasts with simple plenty crown'd. 
 Where all the ruddy family around 
 Laugh at the jests or pranks that never fail. 
 Or sigh with pity at some mournful tale. 
 
 695 Goldsmith : lYareller, Line 17.
 
 110 DICTIOXAUY OF POETICAL QUOTATIONS. 
 
 Swinish gluttony 
 Ne'er looks to heav'n amidst his gorgeous feast, 
 But with hesotted base ingratitude 
 Crams, and blasphemes his feeder. 
 
 696 Milton : Comus, Line 776. 
 
 February. 
 
 Come when the rains 
 Have glazed the snow and clothed the trees with 
 
 ice, 
 AVhile the slant sun of February pours 
 Into the bowers a flood of light. 
 
 697 William CuLLEN Bryant : ^4 Winter Piece. 
 
 Feeling. 
 
 But spite of all the criticising elves, 
 Those who would make us feel, must feel them- 
 selves. 
 
 698 Churchill: Rosciad, hine 961. 
 
 Feet. 
 
 Like snails did creep her pretty feet 
 
 A little out, and then. 
 As if they played at bo-peep, 
 
 Did soon draw in again. 
 
 699 Herrick : Aph. Upon Her Feet. 
 
 Fellow. 
 
 Li all thy humors, whether grave or mellow, 
 Thou 'rt such a touchy, testy, pleasant fellow. 
 Hast so much wit and mirth and spleen about thee, 
 There is no living with thee, nor without thee. 
 
 700 Addison: Spectator. No. 08. 
 
 Female. 
 
 But who is this, what thing of sea or land, — 
 Female of sex it seems. 
 
 701 Milton : Samson Agonistes, Line 710.
 
 DICTIONARY OF POETICAL QUOTATIONS. Ill 
 
 Fickleness. 
 
 Who o'er the herd would wish to reign, 
 Fantastic, fickle, fierce, and vain ! 
 Vain as the leaf upon the stream, 
 And fickle as a changeful dream. 
 
 702 Scott: Lady of the Lake, Canto v., St. 10. 
 
 Fiction. 
 
 ^Vhen fiction rises pleasing to the eye. 
 Men will believe, because they love the lie; 
 But truth herself, if clouded with a frown, 
 Must have some solemn proof to pass her down. 
 
 703 Churchill : Epi^. to Hogarth, Line 291. 
 
 And truth severe, by fairy fiction drest. 
 
 701 GrayT The Bard, Ft. iii., St. 3. 
 
 Fidelity. 
 
 Master, go on, and I will follow thee 
 To the last gasp, with truth and loyalty. 
 
 705 Shaks. : As You Like Lt, Act ii., Sc. 3. 
 
 To God, thy country, and thy friend be true. 
 
 706 Henry Yaughan : Rules and Lessons, St. 8. 
 
 Fields. 
 
 "Wept o'er his wounds, or tales of sorrow done, 
 Shoulder'd his crutch, and show'd how fields were 
 won. 
 
 707 Goldsmith : Des. Village. 
 
 Fiend. 
 
 Like one that on a lonesome road 
 
 Doth walk in fear and dread. 
 
 And having once turned round walks on,
 
 112 DICTIONARY OF POETICAL QUOTATIONS. 
 
 And turns no more his head, 
 
 Because he knows a I'rightful fiend 
 
 Doth close behind him tread. 
 
 70S Coleridge: The Aticient Mariner, Ti. vi. 
 
 righting. 
 
 I '11 fight, till from my bones my flesh be hack'd. 
 
 709 SiiAKS. : Macbeth, Act v., Sc. 3. 
 
 He who fights and runs away, 
 May live to fight another day ; 
 But he who is in battle slain 
 Can never rise and fight again. 
 
 710 Goldsmith : Art of Poetry. 
 
 Fire. 
 
 From beds of raging fire to starve in ice 
 Their soft ethereal warmth, and there to pine, 
 Immovable, infix'd, and frozen round. 
 Periods of time; thence hurried back to fire. 
 
 711 Milton: Par. Lost, Bk. ii., Line 592. 
 
 Firmament. 
 
 Xow glow'd the firmament 
 With living sax')phires. 
 
 712 Milton : Par. Lost, Bk. iv., Line 598. 
 
 The spacious firmament on high, 
 AVith all the blue ethereal sky. 
 And spangled heavens, a shining frame, 
 Their great Original proclaim. 
 
 713 Addison: Ode. 
 Flag. 
 
 Flag of the free heart's hope and home I 
 
 By angel hands to valor given ; 
 
 Thy stars have lit the welkin dome, 
 
 And all thy hues were born in heaven. 
 
 711 Joseph Rodman Drake : The A merican Flag.
 
 DICTIONARY OF POETICAL QUOTATIONS. 113 
 
 The meteor flag of England 
 Shall yet territic burn, 
 Till danger's troubled night depart, 
 And the star of peace return. 
 
 715 Campbell : Mariners of England. 
 
 Flame. 
 
 Glory pursue, and gen'rous shame, 
 
 Th' unconquerable mind, and freedom's holy flame. 
 
 716 Gray : Prog, of Poesy, Pt. ii., St. 2, Line 10. 
 
 The flame that lit the battle's wreck 
 Shone round him o'er the dead. 
 
 717 Hemaxs : Casablanca. 
 
 Flattery. 
 
 By heav'n I cannot flatter : I do defy 
 The tongues of soothers; but a braver place 
 In my heart's love, hath no man than yourself; 
 Nay, task me to my word; approve me, lord. 
 
 718 Shaks. : 1 Henry IV., Act iv., Sc. 1. 
 
 'T is an old maxim in the schools. 
 That flattery 's the food of fools ; 
 Yet, now and then, your men of wit 
 Will condescend to take a bit. 
 719 Swift: Cadenus and Vanessa, Line 755. 
 
 Can honor's voice provoke the silent dust. 
 Or flatt'ry soothe the dull cold ear of death? 
 
 720 Gray: Elegy, St. 11. 
 
 Flea. 
 
 So, naturalists observe, a flea 
 Has smaller fleas that on him prey; 
 And these have smaller still to bite 'em; 
 And so proceed ad infinitum. 
 
 721 Swift : Poetry, A Rhapsody.
 
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 Flesh. 
 
 oil, tliat this too too solid flesh would melt, 
 Thaw and resolve itself into a dew! 
 
 722 Shaks. : Hamlet, Act v., Sc. 1. 
 
 Flirtation. 
 
 Never wedding, ever wooing, 
 
 Still a love-lorn heart pursuing, 
 
 Read you not the wrong you 're doing, 
 
 In my cheek's pale hue? 
 
 All my life with sorrow strewing, 
 
 Wed, or cease to woo. 
 
 723 Campbell : Maid's Remonstrance. 
 
 Flood. 
 
 Barest thou, Cassius, now 
 Leap in with me into this angry flood, 
 And swim to yonder point? 
 
 724 Shaks. : Jul. Ccesar, Act i., Sc. 2. 
 
 Flowers. 
 
 The gentle race of flowers 
 Are lying in their lowly bed?. 
 
 William Cullen Bryant: Death of the 
 
 725 Flowers. 
 
 Flowers preach to us if we will hear. 
 Chris. G. Rossetti : Consider the Lilies of the 
 
 726 Kield. 
 
 In Eastern lands they talk in flowers, 
 And they tell in a garland their loves and cares; 
 Each blossom that blooms in their garden bowers 
 On its leaves a mystic language bears. 
 
 727 J. G. Percival: Language of the Flowers.
 
 DICTIOXARY OF POETICAL QUOTATIONS. 115 
 
 Ye living flowers that skirt the eternal frost. 
 
 728 Coleridge; Hymn in the Vale of Cliamouni. 
 
 Foe. 
 
 Give me the avowed, the erect, the manly foe, 
 Bold I can meet, — perhaps may turn his blow! 
 But of all plagues, good Heaven, thy wrath can 
 
 send, 
 Save, save, oh save me from the candid friend! 
 
 729 George Canning : Neic Morality. 
 
 Folly. 
 
 Fools, to talking ever prone, 
 Are sure to make their follies known, 
 
 730 Gay : Fables, Ft. i.. Fable 44. 
 
 If folly grow romantic, I must paint it. 
 
 731 Pope : Moral Essays, Epis. ii., Line 15. 
 
 Where lives the man that has not tried 
 How mirth can into folly glide, 
 And folly into sin ! 
 
 732 Scott: Bridal of Triermain, Canto i., St. 21. 
 
 When lovely woman stoops to folly, 
 And finds too late that men betray, 
 
 What charm can soothe her melancholy? 
 What art can wash her guilt away? 
 
 733 Goldsmith: The Hermit, Ch. xxiv. 
 
 Fools. 
 
 Fools are my theme, let satire be my song. 
 
 Byron : English Bards and Scotch Reviewers, 
 
 734 Line 6.
 
 116 DICTIONARY OF POETICAL QUOTATIONS. 
 
 Since call'd 
 The Paradise of Fools, to few unknown. 
 
 735 JNliLTON: Par. Lost, Bk. iii., Line 495. 
 
 And ever since tlie Conquest have been fools. 
 Earl of Rochester : Artemisia in the Town 
 
 736 to Chloe in the Country. 
 
 For fools rush in where angels fear to tread. 
 
 737 Pope: E. on Criticism, Pt. iii., Line 66. 
 
 Footprints. 
 
 Lives of great men all remind us 
 
 We can make our lives sublime, 
 And departing, leave behind us 
 
 Footprints on the sands of time. 
 
 738 Longfellow: A Psalm of Life- 
 
 Forbearance. 
 
 The kindest and the happiest pair 
 Will find occasion to forbear; 
 And something, eveiy day they live, 
 To pity, and perhaps forgive. 
 
 739 CowPER : Mutual Forhearance. 
 
 Force. 
 
 Who overcomes 
 By force, hath overcome but half his foe. 
 
 740 Milton : Par. Lost, Bk. i., Line 648. 
 
 Forest. 
 
 Summer or winter, day or night, 
 
 The woods are an ever-new delight; 
 
 They give us peace, and they make us strong. 
 
 Such wonderful balms to them belong : 
 
 So, living or dying, I '11 take mine ease 
 
 lender the trees, under the trees. 
 
 741 K. H. Stoddard : Under the Trees.
 
 DICTIONARY OF POETICAL QUOTATIONS. 117 
 
 This is the forest primeval. 
 
 742 Longfellow : Evangeline, Introduction. 
 
 Forgetfulness. 
 
 Not in entire forgetfuhiess, 
 And not in utter nakedness, 
 But trailing clouds of glory, do we come 
 From God, who is our home. 
 
 743 Wordsworth : Intimations of Immortality, 
 
 God of our fathers, known of old — 
 
 Lord of our far-flung battle line — 
 Beneath whose awful liand we hold 
 
 Dominion over palm and pine — 
 Lord God of Hosts, be with us yet, 
 Lest we forget — lest we forget. 
 
 744 RuDYARD Kipling : Recessional. 
 
 Forgiveness. 
 
 Good nature and good sense must ever join ; 
 To err is human, to forgive divine. 
 
 745 Pope : E. on Criticism, Ft. ii.. Line 324. 
 
 They who forgive most shall be most foigiven. 
 
 746 Bailey: Festus, Se. Home. 
 
 Good, to forgive ; 
 Best to forget I 
 
 747 Robert Browning : La Saisiaz, Frologue. 
 
 Form. 
 
 She was a form of life and light 
 That seen, became a part of sight, 
 And rose, where'er I turn'd mine eye, 
 The morning-star of memory! 
 
 748 Byron : Giaour, Line 1127.
 
 118 DICTIONARY OF POETICAL QUOTATIONS. 
 
 Fortitude. 
 
 True fortitude is seen in great exploits 
 
 Tliat justice warrants, and that wisdom guides; 
 
 All else is tow 'ring frenzy and distraction. 
 
 749 Addison: Cato, Act ii., Sc. 1. 
 
 Fortune. 
 
 Will fortune never come with both hands full, 
 But write her fair words still in foulest letters? 
 She either gives a stomach, and no food, — 
 Such as are the poor in health ; or else a feast, 
 And takes away the stomach, — such are the rich. 
 That have abundance, and enjoy it not. 
 
 750 Shaks. : 2 Henry I V., Act iv., Sc. 4. 
 
 Fortune is female : from my youth her favors 
 Were not withheld, the fault was mine to hope 
 Her former smiles again at this late hour. 
 
 751 Byron: Mar. Faliero, Act v., Sc. 1. 
 
 Forever, Fortune, wilt thou prove 
 An unrelenting foe to love ; 
 And when we meet a mutual heart, 
 Come in between and bid us part? 
 
 752 Thomson : Song. 
 
 Frailty. 
 
 Frailty, thy name is Woman ! 
 
 753 Shaks. : Hamlet, Act i., Sc. 2. 
 
 I am the cygnet to this pale faint swan, 
 AVho chants a doleful hymn to his own death, 
 And from the organ-pipe of frailty sings 
 His soul and body to their lasting rest. 
 
 754 Shaks. : King John, Act v., Sc. 7.
 
 DICTIONARY OF POETICAL QUOTATIONS. 119 
 
 France. 
 
 'T is better using France, than trusting France ; 
 Let us be back'd with God, and with the seas, 
 AVhich he hath given for fence impregnable, 
 And with their helps only defend ourselves ; 
 In them, and ni ourselves, our safety lies. 
 
 755 Shaks. : 3 Henry VI. , Act iv., Sc. 1. 
 
 Fraternity. 
 
 There are bonds of all sorts in this world of ours, 
 Fetters of friendship and ties of flowers. 
 
 And true-lovers' knots, I ween ; 
 The girl and the boy are bound by a kiss. 
 But there 's never a bond, old friend, like this. 
 
 We have drunk from the same canteen. 
 
 Charles G. Halpine (-'Miles 
 
 756 O'Reilly ") : The Canteen. 
 
 Freedom. 
 
 We must be free or die, who speak the tongue 
 That Shakespeare spake; the faith and morals hold 
 Which Milton held. 
 
 Wordsworth : Sonnet. It is not to be 
 
 757 thought of, etc. 
 
 Oh, Freedom I thou art not, as poets dream, 
 A fair young girl, with light and delicate limbs. 
 And wavy tresses gushing from the cap 
 AVith which the Roman master crovsned his slave 
 When he took off the gyves. A bearded man, 
 Armed to the teeth, art tliou ; one mailed hand 
 Grasps the broad shield, and one the sword ; thy 
 
 brow. 
 Glorious in beauty though it be, is scarred 
 With tokens of old wars. 
 
 William Cullen Bryant : A ntiquiti/ of 
 
 758 Freedom.
 
 120 DICTIONARY OF POETICAL QUOTATIONS. 
 
 My angel, — his name is Freedom, — 
 Choose him to be your king; 
 He shall cut pathways east and west, 
 And fend you with his wing. 
 
 759 Emerson: Boston Hymn, 
 
 Then Freedom sternly said : " I shun 
 No strife nor pang beneath the sun. 
 When human rights are staked and won." 
 
 760 Whittier: The Watchers. 
 
 When Freedom from her mountain-height 
 
 Unfurled her standard to the air, 
 She tore the azure robe of night. 
 
 And set the stars of glory there. 
 
 JosErii Rodman Drake: The American 
 
 761 Flag. 
 
 Freeman. 
 
 He is the freeman whom the truth makes free. 
 
 762 CowPER : Task, Bk. v., Line 733. 
 
 Friendship. 
 
 1 count myself in nothing else so happy, 
 As in a soul rememb'ring my good friends. 
 
 763 Shaks. : Pdchard IL, Act ii., Sc. 3. 
 
 The friends thou hast, and their adoption tried, 
 Grapple them to thy soul with hoops of steel ; 
 But do not dull thy palm with entertainment 
 Of each new-hatch'd unfledged comrade. 
 
 764 Shaks. : Hamlet, Act i., Sc. 3. 
 
 Oh, be my friend, and teach me to be thine ! 
 
 765 Emerson: Forbearance.
 
 DICTIONARY OF POETICAL QUOTATIONS. 121 
 
 The friendships of the world are oft 
 Confederacies in vice, or leagues of pleasure. 
 
 766 Addison : Cato, Act iii., Sc. 1. 
 
 Two friends, two bodies with one soul inspir'd. 
 
 767 Pope : Iliad, Bk. xvi., Line 267. 
 
 Officious, innocent, sincere. 
 
 Of every friendless name the friend. 
 
 Dr. Johnson : Verses on the Death of Mr. 
 
 768 Robert Level, St. 2. 
 
 Small service is true service while it lasts. 
 
 Of humblest friends, bright creature ! scorn not 
 
 one : 
 The daisy, by the shadow that it casts. 
 Protects the lingering dewdrop from the sun. 
 
 769 Wordsworth : To a Child. 
 
 Front. 
 
 His fair large front and eye sublime declar'd 
 Absolute rule. 
 
 770 Milton : Par. Lost, Bk. iv.. Line 297. 
 
 Frost. 
 
 All the panes are hung M'ith frost. 
 Wild wizard-work of silver lace. 
 
 771 T. B. Aldrich : Latakia. 
 
 What miracle of weird transforming 
 Is this wild work of frost and light. 
 This glimpse of glory infinite I 
 
 772 Whittiek : The Pageant, St. 8. 
 
 But, oh ! fell death's untimely frost 
 That nipt my flower sae early. 
 
 773 Burns: Highland Mary.
 
 122 DICTIOXARY OF POETICAL QUOTATIONS. 
 
 Fruit. 
 
 The ripest fruit first falls. 
 
 774 SiiAKS. : Richard IL, Act ii., Sc. 1. 
 
 Fury. 
 
 Heaven has no rage like love to hatred turned, 
 Nor hell a fury like a woman scorned. 
 
 775 CONGKEVE : Mourning Bride, Act iii., Sc. 8. 
 
 Beware the fury of a patient man. 
 
 Dkyden : Absalom and Achitophel, Pt. i., 
 
 776 Line 1005. 
 
 Futurity. 
 
 The dread of something after death, 
 
 The undiscover'd country, from whose bourn 
 
 No traveller returns, puzzles the w^ill ; 
 
 And makes us rather bear those ills we have. 
 
 Than fly to others that we know not of. 
 
 777 Shaks. : Hamlet, Act iii., Sc. 1. 
 
 O Death, O Beyond, 
 Thou art sweet, thou art strange ! 
 
 Mrs. Brow^ning : Rhapsody of Life's 
 
 778 Progress. 
 
 Ah Christ, that it were possible 
 
 For one short hour to see 
 
 The souls we loved, that they might tell us 
 
 What and where they be. 
 
 779 Tennyson : Maud, Pt. xxvi., St. 3. 
 
 Trust no future, howe'er pleasant ! 
 Let the dead Past bury its dead ! 
 
 780 Longfellow: Psalm of Life.
 
 DICTION All V OF POETICAL QUOTATIONS. 123 
 
 G. 
 
 Gain. 
 
 Remote from cities liv'd a swain, 
 Unvex'd with all the cares of gain. 
 
 Gay : Fables, Pt. i., The Shepherd and the 
 
 781 Philosopher. 
 
 Gale. 
 
 So fades a summer cloud away; 
 
 So sinks the gale when storms are o'er. 
 
 782 Mrs. Barbauld : Death of the Virtuous. 
 
 Beneath the milk-white thorn that scents the 
 
 evening gale. 
 788 Burns : The Cotter's Saturday Night. 
 
 Gambling. 
 
 Play not for gain, but sport. Who plays for more 
 Than he can lose with pleasure, stakes his heart; 
 Perhaps his wife's too, and whom she hath bore. 
 
 784 Herbert : Temple, Church Porch, St. 33. 
 
 Garden. 
 
 A garden, sir, 
 Wherein all rainbowed flowers were heaped to- 
 gether. 
 
 Charles Kingsley: Saint's Tragedy, 
 
 785 Actv.,Sc.l. 
 
 God the first garden made, and the first city, Cain. 
 
 786 Cowley: The Garden, Essaj y. 
 
 Garret. 
 
 Born in the garret, in the kitchen bred. 
 
 787 Byron: A Sketch.
 
 124 DICTIOXAllY OF POETICAL QUOTATIONS. 
 
 Garrick. 
 
 Here lies David Garrick — describe him who can, 
 All abridgment of all that was pleasant in man. 
 As an actor, confess'd without rival to shine; 
 As a wit, if not first, in the very first line; 
 Yet, with talents like these, and an excellent heart, 
 The man had his failings — a dupe to his art. 
 Like an ill-judging beauty, his colors he spread. 
 And beplaster'd with rouge his own natural red. 
 On the stage he was natural, simple, affecting: 
 'T was only that when he was off, he was acting. 
 
 788 Goldsmith: Retaliation, Line 93. 
 
 Gem. 
 
 Full many a gem of purest ray serene 
 
 The dark unfathom'd caves of ocean bear. 
 
 789 Gray: Elegy, St. 14. 
 
 Genius. 
 
 Time, place, and action, may with pains be wrought. 
 But genius must be born, and never can be taught. 
 
 790 Dryden : Epis. to Congreve Line 59. 
 
 Nor mourn the unalterable Days 
 That Genius goes and Folly Stays. 
 
 791 Emersox: In Memoriam. 
 
 Gentleman. 
 
 We are gentlemen. 
 That neither in our hearts, nor outward eyes, 
 Envy the great, nor do the low despise. 
 
 792 SiiAKS. : Pericles, Act ii., Sc. 3. 
 
 When Adam dolve, and Eve span, 
 Who was then the gentleman? 
 
 793 Linen used by John Ball in Wat Tyler's Rebellion.
 
 DICTIONARY OF POETICAL QUOTATIONS 125 
 
 Gentleness. 
 
 What would you have? Your gentleness shall force 
 More than your force move us to gentleness. 
 
 794 Shaks. : As You Like It, Act ii., Sc. 7. 
 
 Ghosts. 
 
 A vaunt! and quit my sight! Let the earth hide thee 1 
 Thy bones are inarrowless, thy blood is cold; 
 Thou hast no speculation in those eyes, 
 "Which thou dost glare with ! 
 
 795 Shaks. : Macbe/h, Act iii., Sc. 4. 
 
 Many ghosts, and forms of fright, 
 Have started from their graves to-night; 
 They have driven sleep from mine eyes away. 
 
 796 Longfellow : Christus, Golden Legend, Pt. iv. 
 
 Some say no evil thing that walks by night, 
 In fog or fire, by lake or moorish fen, 
 Blue meagre hag, or stubborn unlaid ghost 
 That breaks his magic chains at curfew time, 
 Xo goblin, or swart fairy of the mine. 
 Hath hurtful power o'er true virginity. 
 
 797 Milton: Cow t/^^ Line 432. 
 
 Gifts. 
 
 She prizes not such trifles as these are : 
 The gifts she looks from me, are pack'd and lock'd 
 Up in my heart; which I have given already, 
 But not deliver'd. 
 
 798 Shaks.: Wint. Tale, Act iv., Sc. 3. 
 
 Saints themselves will sometimes be. 
 Of gifts that cost them nothing, free. 
 
 799 Butler : Hudibras, Pt. i., Canto i., Line 495.
 
 126 DICTIONARY OF POETICAL QUOTATIONS. 
 
 Girdle. 
 
 I '11 put a girdle round about the earth 
 In forty minutes. 
 
 800 Shaks. : Mid. N. Dream, Act ii., Sc. 1 
 
 Gloaming. 
 
 Late, late in a gloamin, when all was still, 
 When the fringe was red on the westlin hill, 
 The wood was sere, th*e moon i' the wane, 
 The reek o' the cot hung over the plain — 
 Like a little wee cloud in the world its lane; 
 When the ingle lowed with an eiry leme, 
 Late, late in the gloamin Kilmeny came hame! 
 
 801 James Hogg: Kilmeny. 
 
 Gloom. 
 
 Where glowing embers through the room 
 Teach light to counterfeit a gloom. 
 
 802 Milton : 11 Periseroso, Line 79. 
 
 Glory. 
 
 Glory is like a circle in the water, 
 
 AVhich never ceaseth to enlarge itself, 
 
 Till, by broad spreading, it disperse to nought. 
 
 803 Shaks. : 1 Henri/ VI., Act i., Sc. 2. 
 
 His form had yet not lost * 
 All her original brightness, nor appear'd 
 Less than archangel ruin'd, and th' excess 
 Of glory obscur'd. 
 
 804 Milton: Par. Lost, Bk. i.. Line 59L 
 
 Go where glory waits thee 1 
 
 But while fame elates thee, 
 
 Oh, still remember me ! 
 
 805 Moore: Go Where Glory Waits Thee.
 
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 The sunshine is a glorious birth; 
 But yet I know, where'er I go, 
 That there hath passed away a glory from the earth. 
 
 806 Wordsworth : Intimations of Immortality^ St. 2. 
 
 Ye sons of France, awake to glory ! 
 
 Hark! hark! what myriads bid you rise! 
 Your children, wives, and grandsires hoary, 
 
 Behold their tears and hear their cries ! 
 
 807 Joseph R. De L'Isle: Marseilles Hymn, 
 
 Glow-worm. 
 
 The glow-worm shows the matin to be near, 
 And 'gins to pale his uneffectual fire. 
 
 808 Shaks. : Hamlet, Act i., Sc. 5. 
 
 Gluttony. 
 
 Swinish gluttony 
 Xe'er looks to Heav'n amidst his gorgeous feast, 
 But with besotted, base ingratitude 
 Crams, and blasphemes his Feeder. 
 
 809 Milton : Comws, Line 776. 
 
 God. 
 
 'T is heaven alone that is given aw^ay, 
 
 'T is only God may be had for the asking. 
 
 James Russell Lowell : The Vision of Sir 
 
 810 Launfal. 
 
 All are but parts of one stupendous whole, 
 "Whose body Xature is, and God the soul. 
 
 811 Pope: Essay on Man, Epis. i., Line 267. 
 
 Thou art, O God, the life and light 
 Of all this wondrous world we see; 
 Its glow by day, its smile by night. 
 Are but reflections causrht from Thee:
 
 128 DICTIOXAKY OF POETICAL QUOTATIONS. 
 
 Where'er we turn, Thy glories shine, 
 And all things fair and bright are Thine. 
 
 812 Moore: Thou Art, God. 
 
 And they were canopied by the blue sky, 
 So cloudless, clear, and purely beautiful 
 That God alone was to be seen in heaven. 
 
 813 BvKON : 7'Ae Dream, St. 4. 
 
 The conscious water saw its God and blushed. 
 
 814 Richard Crashaw: Epigram. 
 
 From Thee, great God, we spring, to Thee we tend, — 
 Path, motive, guide, original, and end. 
 
 815 Dr. Johnson: Motto to the Rambler, No. 7. 
 
 Gods. 
 
 The gods are just, and of our pleasant vices 
 Make instruments to plague us. 
 
 816 Shaks. : King Lear, Act v., Sc. 3. 
 
 Heartily know, 
 AVhen half-gods go, 
 The gods arrive. 
 
 817 Emerson: Give All to Love. 
 
 Gold. 
 
 Gold; worse poison to men's souls. 
 Doing more murther in tliis loathsome world, 
 Than these poor compounds that thou mayst not sell. 
 
 818 Shaks.: Rom. and Jid., Act v., Sc. 1. 
 
 O cursed lust of gold! when for thy sake 
 
 The fool throws up his interest in both worlds; 
 
 First starved in this, then damn'd in that to come. 
 
 819 Blair: The Grave, Line 347.
 
 DICTIONARY OF POETICAL QUOTATIONS. 129 
 
 So dear a life your arms enfold, 
 Whose crying is a cry for gold. 
 
 820 Tennyson: The Daisy, St. 24. 
 
 Goodness. 
 
 May he live 
 Longer than I have time to tell his years! 
 Ever belov'd, and loving, may his rule be! 
 And, when old Time shall lead him to his end, 
 Goodness and he fill up one monument! 
 
 821 Shaks. : Henrf/ VIIL, Act ii., Sc. 1. 
 
 Oh, sir! the good die first, 
 And they whose hearts are dry as summer's dust, 
 Burn to the socket. 
 
 822 Wordsworth: Excursion, Bk. i., Line 504. 
 
 Be good, sweet maid, and let who will be clever; 
 Do noble things, not dream them, all day long: 
 And so make life, death, and that vast forever 
 One grand, sweet song. 
 
 823 Charlks Kingsley: A Farewell. 
 
 Good Night. 
 
 At once, good night: — 
 Stand not upon the order of your going, 
 But go at once. 
 
 824 Shaks.: Macbeth, Act iii., Sc. 4. 
 
 Good night! good night! parting is such sweet 
 
 sorrow, 
 That I shall say good night, till it be morrow. 
 
 825 Shaks. : Rom. and Jul., Act ii., Sc. 2. 
 
 To all, to each, a fair goorl night. 
 
 And pleasing dreams, and slumbers light. 
 
 826 Scott : Marmion, Canto vi., L'Envoy.
 
 130 DICTIONARY OF POETICAL QUOTATIONS. 
 
 Government. 
 
 'T is government that makes them seem divine. 
 
 827 Shaks. : 3 Henry VI., Act i., Sc. 4. 
 
 Each petty hand 
 Can steer a ship becahi)'d; but he that will 
 Govern and carry her to her ends, must know 
 His tides, his currents, liow to shift his sails; 
 What she will bear in foul, what in fair weathers; 
 Where her springs are, her leaks, and Jiovv to stop 'em; 
 What strands, what shelves, what rocks do threaten 
 her. 
 
 828 Ben Jonson : Catiline, Act iii., Sc. 1. 
 
 For forms of government let fools contest, 
 Whate'er is best administer'd is best. 
 
 829 Pope : Essay on Man, Epis. iii., Line 303. 
 
 Grace. 
 
 When once our grace we have forgot. 
 Nothing goes right. 
 
 830 Shaks. : M. for M., Act iv., Sc. 4. 
 
 From vulgar bounds with brave disorder part. 
 And snatch a grace beyond the reach of art. 
 
 831 Pope : E. on Criticism, Pt. i., Line 152. 
 
 Grandeur. 
 
 Nor grandeur hear with a disdainful smile 
 The short and simple annals of the poor. 
 
 832 Gray : Elegy, St. 8. 
 
 Gratitude. 
 
 The still small voice of gratitude. 
 
 833 Gray : Ode for Music, Chorus, V., Line 8.
 
 DICTIONARY OF POETICAL QUOTATIONS. 131 
 
 I *ve heard of hearts unkind, kind deeds 
 With coldness still returning; 
 Alas! the gratitude of men 
 Hath oftener left nie mourning. 
 
 834 Wordsworth : Siinon Lee. 
 
 Grave. 
 
 One destin'd period men in common have, 
 The great, the base, the coward, and the brave, 
 All food alike for worms, companions in the grave. 
 
 835 Lansdowne : On Death. 
 
 The grave, dread thing ! 
 Men shiver when thou 'rt named : Nature appall'd. 
 Shakes off her wonted firnmess. 
 
 836 Blair: The Grace, hmed. 
 
 Mine be the breezy hill that skirts the down, 
 
 Where a green grassy turf is all I crave, 
 
 With here and there a violet bestrewn. 
 
 Fast by a brook or fountain's murmuring wave ; 
 
 And many an evening sun shine sweetly on my grave ! 
 
 837 Beattie : The Minstrel Bk. ii., St. 17. 
 
 Greatness. 
 
 I have touched the highest point of all my great- 
 ness. 
 
 838 Shaks. : Henry VIII., Act iii., Sc. 2. 
 
 Rightly to be great, 
 Is, not to stir without great argument, 
 But greatly to find quarrel in a straw. 
 When honor 's at the stake. 
 
 839 Shaks. : Hamlet, Act iv., Sc. 4.
 
 132 DICTIOXARY OF POETICAL QUOTATIONS. 
 
 Great hearts have largest room to bless the small; 
 Strong natures give the weaker home and rest. 
 
 840 Lucy Larcom : Sonnet, The Presence. 
 
 Greece. 
 
 Fair Greece! sad relic of departed worth! 
 Immortal, though no more; though fallen, great! 
 
 841 Byuon: CA. //aroW, Canto ii., St. 73. 
 
 Such is the aspect of this shore; 
 
 'T is Greece, but living Greece no more! 
 
 So coldly sweet, so deadly fair, 
 
 We start, for soul is wanting there. 
 
 842 Byron : Giaour, Line 90. 
 
 The isles of Greece, the isles of Greece ! 
 AVhere burning Sappho loved and sung. 
 
 843 Byron : Don Juan, Canto iii., St. 86. 1. 
 
 Greeks. 
 
 When Greeks joined Greeks, then was the tug of war. 
 
 844 Nathaniel Lee : Alex. the Great, Acti\'.,Sc.2. 
 
 Grief. 
 
 My grief lies onward and my joy behind. 
 
 845 Shaks. : Sonnet 50. 
 
 What 's gone, and what's past help, 
 Should be past grief. 
 
 846 SiiAKS. : Wint. Tale, Act iii., Sc. 2. 
 
 What need a man forestall his date of grief. 
 And run to meet what he would most avoid? 
 
 847 Milton : Comus, Line 362.
 
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 brothers! let us leave the shame and sin 
 Of taking vainly, in a plaintive mood, 
 The holy name of Grief ! — holy herein, 
 That, by the grief of One, came all our good. 
 
 848 Mrs. Browning : Sonnets, Exaggeration. 
 
 In all the silent manliness of grief. 
 
 849 Goldsmith: Des. I'l/lage, Line 384. 
 
 Ground. 
 
 Where'er we tread, 't is haunted, holy ground. 
 
 850 Byron : Ck. Harold, Canto ii., St. 88. 
 
 Groves. 
 
 The groves were God's first temples. 
 
 851 William Cullen Bryant : .1 Forest Hymn. 
 
 In such green palaces the first kings reign'd, 
 Slept in their shades, and angels entertain'd; 
 With such old counsellors they did advise, 
 And by frequenting sacred groves grew wise. 
 
 852 Waller : On St. James's Park. 
 
 Grudge. 
 
 If I can catch him once upon the hip, 
 
 1 will feed fat the ancient grudge I bear him. 
 
 853 Shaks. : M. of Venice, Act i., Sc. 3. 
 
 Guests. 
 
 Unbidden guests 
 Are often welcomest when they are gone. 
 
 854 Shaks. : 1 Henry VI., Act ii., Sc. 2. 
 
 For I who hold sage Homer's rule the best, 
 Welcome the coming, speed the going guest. 
 
 855 Pope : Satire ii., Line 159.
 
 134 DICTIONARY OF POETICAL QUOTATIONS. 
 
 Guilt. 
 
 So full of artless jealousy is guilt, 
 It spills itself in fearing to be spilt. 
 
 856 SiiAKS. : Hamlet, Act iv., Sc. 5. 
 
 How guilt, once harbor'd in the conscious breast, 
 Intimidates the brave, degrades the great! 
 
 857 Dk. Johnson: Irene, Act iv., Sc. 8. 
 
 H. 
 
 Habit. 
 
 Ill habits gather by unseen degrees. 
 
 As brooks make rivers, rivers run to seas. 
 
 Dryden: OciiVs Metamorphoses, Bk. xv., 
 
 858 Line 155. 
 
 Small habits well pursued betimes 
 May reach the dignity of crimes. 
 
 859 Hannah More: Floi-is, Pt. i., Line 85. 
 
 Hair. 
 
 She knows her man, and when you rant and swear. 
 Can draw you to her with a single hair. 
 
 860 Dryden: From Persius, Satire v., Line 246. 
 
 Golden hair, like sunlight streaming 
 On the marble of her shoulder. 
 
 861 J. G. Saxe: The Lovers Vision, St. 3. 
 
 When you see fair hair 
 Be pitiful. 
 
 862 George Eliot : Spanish Gypsy, Bk. 4.
 
 DICTIONARY OF POETICAL QUOTATIONS. 135 
 
 Loose his beard, and hoary hair 
 
 Stream'd like a meteor to the troubled air. 
 
 863 Gray: The Bard, Ft. l, St. 2. 
 
 Halter. 
 
 No man e'er felt the halter draw, 
 AVith good opinion of the law. 
 
 John Trumbull: McFingal, Canto iii., 
 
 864 Line 489. 
 
 Hand. 
 
 Let my hand — 
 This hand, lie in your own — my own true friend ! 
 Hand in hand with you. 
 
 865 Robert Browning : Paracelsus, Sc. 5. 
 
 'T was a hand 
 White, delicate, dimpled, warm, languid, and bland. 
 The hand of a woman is often, in youth, 
 Somewhat rough, somewhat red, somewhat grace- 
 less in truth ; 
 Does its beauty refine, as its pulses grow calm. 
 Or as Sorrow has crossed the life-line in the palm ? 
 Owen Meredith : Lucile, Pt. i.. Canto lii., 
 
 866 St. 13. 
 
 Happiness. 
 
 And there is even a happiness 
 That makes the heart afraid. 
 
 867 Hood : Ode to Melancholy. 
 
 Happiness depends, as Nature shows, 
 Less on exterior things than most suppose. 
 
 868 Cowper: Table Talk, Line 2AQ.
 
 136 DICTIONARY OF POETICAL QUOTATIONS. 
 
 O happiness! our being's end and aim! 
 
 Good, pleasure, ease, content! vvhate'er thy name*. 
 
 That sometliing still which prompts the eternal 
 
 sigh. 
 For which we bear to live, or dare to die. 
 
 869 Pope: Essay on Man, Epis. iv., Line 1. 
 
 Harmony. 
 
 Soft stillness and the night 
 Become the touches of sweet harmony. 
 
 870 Shaks. : M. of Venice, Act v., Sc. 1. 
 
 From harmony, from heavenly harmony, 
 
 This universal frame began : 
 
 From harmony to harmony 
 Through all the compass of the notes it ran, 
 The diapason closing full in Man. 
 
 87 1 Dr YDEN : A Song for St. Cecilia's Day, Line 1 L 
 
 Harp. 
 
 The harp that once through Tara's halls 
 
 The soul of music shed, 
 Now hangs as mute on Tara's w^alls 
 
 As if that soul were fled. 
 
 Moore : The Harp That Once Through Tara's 
 
 872 Halls. 
 
 Haste. 
 
 Farewell; and let your haste commend your duty. 
 
 873 Shaks. : Hamlet, Act i., Sc. 2. 
 
 Running together all about. 
 The servants put each other out. 
 Till the grave master had decreed. 
 The more haste, ever the worst speed. 
 
 874 Churchill: 67^oi•^ Bk. iv.. Line 1159.
 
 DICTIONARY OF POETICAL QUOTATIONS. 137 
 
 Hat. 
 
 So Britain's monarch once uncovered sat, 
 
 While Bradshaw bullied in a broad-brimmed hat. 
 
 875 James Bramstox: Man of Taste. 
 
 Hatred. 
 
 To vow, and swear, and siiperpraise my parts, 
 "When, I am sure, you hate me with your hearts. 
 
 876 Shaks. : Mid. N. Dream, Act iii., Sc. 2. 
 
 Never can true reconcilement grow 
 Where wounds of deadly hate have pierc'd so deep. 
 
 877 Milton : Par. Lost, Bk. iv.. Line 98. 
 
 There was a laughing devil in his sneer, 
 That rais'd emotions both of rage and fear; 
 And where his frown of hatred darkly fell, 
 Hope withering fled, and Mercy sigh'd farewell ! 
 
 878 Byron : Corsair, Canto i., St. 9. 
 
 He who surpasses or subdues mankind 
 Must look down on the hate of those below. 
 
 879 Byron : Ch. Harold, Canto iii., St. 45. 
 
 Hawthorn. 
 
 And every shepherd tells his tale 
 Under the hawthorn in the dale. 
 
 880 Milton: L'.4 ^/e^rro, Line 67. 
 
 Head. 
 
 Oh good gray head which all men knew ! 
 
 Tennyson: Ode on the Death of the Duke of 
 
 881 ' Wellington, St. 4.
 
 138 DICTIONARY OF POETICAL QUOTATIONS. 
 
 The tall, the wise, the reverend head 
 Must lie as low as ours. 
 
 Watts : Hymns and Spiritual Songs, Bk. ii., 
 
 882 Hymn 63. 
 
 Health. 
 
 Nor love, nor honor, wealth, nor power, 
 Can give tlie heart a cheerful hour 
 When health is lost. Be timely wise; 
 With health all taste of pleasure flies. 
 
 883 Gay : FaUes, Tt. i.. Fable 31. 
 
 Better to hunt in fields for health unbought 
 Than fee the doctor for a nauseous di-aught. 
 Dryden : Epis. to John Dryden of Chesterton, 
 
 884 ' Line 92. 
 
 Heart. 
 
 A merry heart goes all the day, 
 Your sad tires in a mile-a. 
 
 885 Shaks. : Wint. Tale, Act iv., Sc. 2. 
 
 With every pleasing, every prudent part. 
 
 Say, what can Chloe want? She wants a heart. 
 
 886 Pope : Moral Essays, Epis. ii., Line 159. 
 
 Or from Browning some "Pomegranate," which 
 
 if cut deep down the middle, 
 Shows a heart within blood-tinctured, of a veined 
 
 humanity. 
 
 Mrs. Browning : Lady Geraldine's Court- 
 
 887 ship, xli. 
 
 The heart bowed down by weight of woe 
 To weakest hope will cling. 
 
 888 Alfred Bunn : Song,
 
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 Here the heart 
 May give a useful lesson to the head. 
 And Learnmg wiser grow without his books. 
 
 889 CowPER : Task^ Bk. vi., Line 85. 
 
 But on and up, where Nature's heart 
 Beats strong amid the hills. 
 Richard M. Milnes : I'ragedy of the Lac de 
 
 890 Gauhe, St. 2. 
 
 Heaven. 
 
 Heaven is above all yet; there sits a Judge 
 
 That no king can corrupt. 
 
 8:J1 Shaks. : Henry VIIL, Act iii., Sc. 1. 
 
 Heaven 
 Is as the Book of God before thee set, 
 Wherein to read his wondrous works. 
 
 892 MiLTOx : Pa7\ Lost, Bk. viii., Line 66. 
 
 Some feelings are to mortals given 
 With less of earth in them than heaven. 
 
 893 Scott : Lady of the Lake, Canto ii., St. 22. 
 
 HeU. 
 
 'T is now the very witching time of night, 
 When churchyards yawn and hell itself breathes 
 
 out 
 Contagion to this world. 
 
 894 Shaks. : Hamlet, Act iii., Sc. 2. 
 
 A dungeon horrible, on all sides round, 
 
 As one great furnace flamed ; yet from those flames 
 No light; but rather darkness visible 
 Serv'd only to discover sights of woe, 
 Regions of sorrow, doleful shades, where peace 
 And rest can never dwell, hope never comes 
 That comes to all, but torture without end. 
 
 895 Milton : Par. Lost, Bk. i., Line 6L
 
 140 DICTIUNAIIY OF POETICAL QUOTATIONS. 
 
 Hell 
 Grew darker at their frown. 
 
 896 Milton: Par. Lost, Bk. ii., Line 719. 
 
 To rest, the cusliion and soft dean invite, 
 "Who never mentions hell to ears polite. 
 
 897 Pope : Moral Essays, Epis. iv., Line 149. 
 
 In hope to merit heaven by making earth a hell. 
 
 898 Byrox : Ch. Harold, Canto i., St. 20. 
 
 Hell is a city much like London — 
 A populous and a smoky city; 
 There are all sorts of people undone, 
 And there is little or no fun done; 
 Small justice shown, and still less pity. 
 
 899 Shelley : Peter Bell the Third, Ft. iii. 
 
 Heritage. 
 
 I, the heir of all the ages, in the foremost files of 
 time. 
 
 900 Tennyson : LocJcsley Hall, Line 178. 
 
 Creation's heir, the world, the world is mine ! 
 
 901 Goldsmith : Traveller, Line 50. 
 
 Heroes. 
 
 Heroes are much the same, the point's agreed, 
 From Macedonia's madman to the Swede. 
 
 902 Pope: Essay on Man, Epis. iv., Line 219. 
 
 Whoe'er excels in what we prize, 
 Appears a hero in our eyes. 
 
 903 Swift : Cadenus and Vanessa, Line 729. 
 
 To the hero, when his sword 
 Has won the battle for the free,
 
 DICTIONARY OF POETICAL QUOTATIONS. 141 
 
 Death's voice sounds like a prophet's word; 
 
 And in its hollow tones are heard 
 
 The thanks of millions yet to be ! 
 
 901 Halleck : Marco Bozzaris. 
 
 Heroes as great have died, and yet shall fall. 
 
 905 Pope : Iliad, Bk. xv., Line 157. 
 
 Hills. 
 
 The hills, 
 Rock-ribbed, and ancient as the sun. 
 
 906 William Cullen Bryant : Thanatopsis. 
 
 I have looked on the hills of the stormy Xorth, 
 And the larch has hung his tassels forth. 
 
 907 Hemans : The Voice of Spring. 
 
 History. 
 
 History, with all her volumes vast, 
 Hath but one page. 
 
 908 Byron : Ch. Harold, Canto iv., St. 108. 
 
 Holiday. 
 
 If all the year were playing holidays, 
 
 To sport would be as tedious as to work; 
 
 But when they seldom come, they wished-for come, 
 
 And nothing pleaseth but rare accidents. 
 
 909 Shaks. : 1 Henry IV., Act i., Sc. 2. 
 
 There were his young barbarians all at play; 
 There was their Dacian mother : he, their sire, 
 Butcher'd to make a Roman holiday ! 
 
 910 Byron : Ck. Harold, Canto iv., St. 141. 
 
 Holiness. 
 
 Whoso lives the holiest life 
 Is fittest far to die. 
 
 911 Margaret J. Preston: Ready.
 
 142 DICTIONARY OF POETICAL QUOTATIONS. 
 
 Homage. 
 
 When I am dead, no pageant train 
 Shall waste their sorrows at my bier, 
 
 Nor worthless pomp of homage vain 
 Stain it with hypocritic tear. 
 
 912 Edward Everett: A laric (he Visigoth. 
 
 Home. 
 
 Home is the resort 
 Of love, of joy, of peace and plenty, where. 
 Supporting and supported, polish'd friends 
 And dear relations mingle into bliss. 
 
 913 Thomson: Seasons, Autumn, Line 65. 
 
 This fond attachment to the well-known place 
 Whence first we started into life's long race, 
 Maintains its hold with such unfailing sway. 
 We feel it e'en in age, and at our latest day. 
 
 914 CowPER : Tirocinium, Line 314, 
 
 This be the verse you grave for me : 
 Here he lies where he longed to be ; 
 Home is the sailor, home from sea. 
 And the hunter home from the hill. 
 
 915 Robert Louis Stevenson : Requi 
 
 lem. 
 
 'Mid pleasures and palaces though we may roam. 
 Be it ever so humble, there 's no place like home. 
 
 916 J. Howard Payne: Home, Sweet Home. 
 
 Type of the wise who soar but never roam, 
 True to the kindred points of heaven and home. 
 
 917 Wordsworth : To a Skylark.
 
 DICTIONARY OF POETICAL QUOTATIONS. 143 
 
 Homer. 
 
 Read Homer once, and you can read no more, 
 
 For all books else appear so mean, so poor; 
 Verse may seem prose; but still persist to read, 
 And Homer will be all the books you need. 
 
 Sheffield, Duke of Buckixghamshire : 
 
 918 Essay on Poetry, 
 
 Oft of one wide expanse had I been told 
 That deep-brow'd Homer ruled as his demesne, 
 Yet did I never breathe its pure serene 
 
 Till I heard Chapman speak out loud and bold. 
 Keats : On Jirst looking into Chapman^s 
 
 919 Homer. 
 
 Seven cities w^arred for Homer being dead; 
 Who living had no roofe to shrowd his head. 
 
 Thomas Heywood : Hierarckie of the Blessed 
 
 920 A ngells. 
 
 Honesty. 
 
 An honest man he is, and hates the slime 
 That sticks on filthy deeds. 
 
 921 Shaks. : Othello, Act v., Sc. 2. 
 
 A wit 's a feather, and a chief a rod; 
 
 An honest man 's the noblest w^ork of God. 
 
 922 Pope : Essay on Man, Epis. iv., Line 247. 
 
 Honor. 
 
 Too much honor : 
 O, 't is a burthen, ... 't is a burthen. 
 Too heavy for a man that liopes for heaven. 
 
 923 Shaks. : Henry VIIL, Act iii., Sc. 2.
 
 144 DICTIONARY OF POETICAL QUOTATIONS. 
 
 Honor travels in a strait so narrow, 
 
 Where one but goes abreast : keep then the path. 
 
 924 Shaks. : Troil. and Cress., Act iii., Sc. 3. 
 
 Honor 's a fine imaginary notion, 
 
 That draws in raw and unexperienced men 
 
 To real mischiefs, while they hunt a shadow. 
 
 925 Addison : Cato, Act ii., Sc. 5. 
 
 Honor and shame from no condition rise; 
 Act well your part, there all the honor lies. 
 
 926 Pope : Essay on Man, Epis. iv.. Line 193. 
 
 His honor rooted in dishonor stood. 
 
 And faith unfaithful kept him falsely true. 
 
 927 Tennyson : Idyls, Elaine, Line 884. 
 
 There Honor comes, a pilgrim gray. 
 To bless the turf that wraps their clay. 
 
 928 William Collins: Ode in \7^G. 
 
 Hood. 
 
 A page of Hood may do a fellow good 
 After a scolding from Carlyle or Ruskin. 
 
 Oliver Wendell Holmes: 
 
 929 How Not to Settle Tt. 
 
 Hope. 
 
 True hope is swift, and flies with swallows' wings ; 
 Kings it makes gods, and meaner creatures kings. 
 
 930 Shaks. : Richard III., Act v., Sc. 2. 
 
 So farewell hope, and, with hope, farewell fear. 
 Farewell remorse ! All good to me is lost. 
 
 931 Milton : Par. Lost, Bk. iv., Line 108.
 
 DICTIOXARY OF TOETICAL QUOTATIONS. 145 
 
 Hope springs eternal in the human breast; 
 Man never is, but always to be blest. 
 
 932 Pope : Essay on Man, Epis. i., Line 95. 
 
 Auspicious hope ! in thy sweet garden grow 
 Wreaths for each toil, a charm for every woe. 
 
 933 Campbell: PL of Hope, Pt. i., Line 45. 
 
 Thus heavenly hope is all serene, 
 But earthly hope, how bright soe'er, 
 
 Still fluctuates o'er this changing scene. 
 As false and fleeting as 't is fair. 
 
 Heber : On Heavenly Hope and Earthly 
 
 934 Hope. 
 
 Where peace 
 And rest can never dwell, hope never comes 
 That comes to all. 
 
 935 Milton : Par. Lost, Bk. i.. Line 65. 
 
 " All hope abandon, ye who enter in ! " 
 These words in sombre color I beheld 
 Written upon the summit of a gate. 
 
 Dante : Inferno, Longfellow's Trans., 
 
 936 Canto iii., Line 9. 
 
 Horn. 
 
 Have sight of Proteus rising from the sea, 
 Or hear old Triton blow his wreathed horn. 
 
 Wordsworth : Miscellaneous Sonnets, 
 
 937 Pt. i., xxxiii. 
 
 Horror. 
 
 My fell of hair 
 Would at a dismal treatise rouse and stir 
 As life were in 't : I have supp'd full with horrors, 
 
 938 Shaks. : Macbeth, Act v., Sc. 5.
 
 146 DICTIONARY OF POETICAL QUOTATIONS. 
 
 On hoiToi's liead horrors accmimlate. 
 
 930 Shaks. : Oihello, Act iii., Sc. 3. 
 
 Horse. 
 
 A horse ! a horse! my kingdom for a horse ! 
 
 940 Shaks. : Richard III., Act v., Sc. 4. 
 
 Hospitality. 
 
 iVly master is of churlish disposition, 
 And little recks to find the way to heaven 
 By doing deeds of hospitality. 
 
 941 Shaks. : As You Like It, Act ii., Sc. 4. 
 
 Every house was an inn, where all were welcomed 
 and feasted. 
 
 Longfellow: Evangeline, Pt. I., iv., 
 
 942 Line 15. 
 
 Host. 
 
 The leader, mingling with the vulgar host, 
 Is in the common mass of matter lost. 
 
 943 Pope : Odijsseij, Bk. iv.. Line 397. 
 
 Hour. 
 
 Too busy with the crowded hour to fear to live or 
 die. 
 
 944 Emerson : Quatrains, Nature. 
 
 Catch, then, oh catch the transient hour; 
 
 Improve eacli moment as it flies! 
 Life 's a short summer, man a flower; 
 
 He dies — alas! how soon he dies! 
 
 945 Dr. Johnson: Winter, An Ode. 
 
 House. 
 
 For there 's nae luck about the house, 
 There 's nae luck at a' ;
 
 DICTIONARY OF POETICAL QUOTATIONS. 147 
 
 There 's little pleasure in the house 
 When our gudeman 's awa'. 
 
 946 William J. Mickle : Mariner's Wife. 
 
 Humanity. 
 
 But hearing oftentimes ' 
 The still, sad music of humanity. 
 
 Wordsworth : Lines composed a few miles 
 
 947 above Tinlern Abbey. 
 
 O suffering, sad humanity ! 
 O ye afflicted ones, who lie 
 Steeped to the lips in misery, 
 Longing, yet afraid to die, 
 Patient, though sorely tried ! 
 
 948 Longfellow: Goblet of Life. 
 
 Humility. 
 
 Give me the lowest place : or if for me 
 
 That lowest place too high, make one more low 
 
 Where I may sit and see 
 
 My God and love Thee so. 
 
 949 Christina G. Rossetti : The Lowest Place. 
 
 Hunger. 
 
 The hungry judges soon the sentence sign, 
 And wretches hang that jurymen may dine. 
 
 950 Pope : R. of the Lock, Canto iii.. Line 2L 
 
 Cruel as death, and hungry as the grave. 
 
 951 Thomson : Seasons, Winter, Line 393. 
 
 Hunting. 
 
 The healthy huntsman, with a cheerful horn, 
 Summons the dogs and greets the dappled Morn. 
 The jocund thunder wakes the enliven'd hounds, 
 They rouse from sleep, and answer sounds for 
 sounds. 
 
 952 Gay : Rural Sports, Canto ii., Line 96.
 
 148 DICTIONARY OF POETICAL QUOTATIONS. 
 
 Husband. 
 
 As the husband is, the wife is; thou art mated 
 
 witli a clown, 
 And the grossness of his nature will have weight 
 
 to drag thee down. 
 
 953 Tennyson : Locksley Hall, St. 24. 
 
 Ah, gentle dames ! it gars me greet 
 To think how monie counsels sweet, 
 How monie lengthened sage advices, 
 The husband frae the wife despises. 
 
 954 Burns : Tam O'Shanier. 
 
 Hypocrisy. 
 
 This outward-sainted deputy, — 
 Whose settled visage and deliberate word 
 Kips youth i' the head, and follies doth emmew 
 As falcon doth the fowl, — is yet a devil. 
 
 955 Shaks. : M.for M., Act iii., Sc. 1. 
 
 Neither man nor angel can discern 
 
 Hypocrisy, the only evil that walks 
 
 Invisible, except to God alone. 
 
 By His permissive will, through Heaven and Earth. 
 
 956 Milton : Par. Lost, Bk. iii.. Line 682. 
 
 The hypocrite had left his mask, and stood 
 In naked ugliness. He was a man 
 Who stole the livery of the court of heaven 
 To serve the devil in. 
 
 957 PoLLOK : Course of Time, Pt. viii., Line 615.
 
 DICTIONARY OF POETICAL QUOTATIONS. 149 
 I. 
 
 Ice. 
 
 Yon foaming flood seems motionless as ice ; 
 Its dizzy turbulence eludes the eye, 
 Frozen by distance. 
 
 958 Wordsworth: Address to Kilchum Castle. 
 
 Idea. 
 
 Delightful task ! to rear the tender thought, 
 To teach the young idea how to shoot. 
 
 959 Thomson : Seasons, Spring, Line 1149. 
 
 Idleness. 
 
 Absence of occupation is not rest, 
 
 A mind quite vacant is a mind distress'd. 
 
 960 CowPER : Retirement, Line 623. 
 
 Ignorance. 
 
 Ignorance is the curse of God, 
 Knowledge the wing wherewith we fly to heaven. 
 
 961 Shaks. : 2 Henry VI., Act iv., Sc. 7. 
 
 From ignorance our comfort flows, 
 The only wretched are the wise. 
 
 962 Prior : To lion. C. Montague. 
 
 Where ignorance is bliss 
 'T is folly to be wise. 
 
 963 Gray : Ode on Eton College. 
 
 lUs. 
 
 Kings may be blest, but Tam was glorious. 
 
 O'er a' the ills o' life victorious. 
 
 964 Burns : Tam O'Shanter.
 
 150 DICTIONARY OF POETICAL QUOTATIONS. 
 
 There mark what ills the scholar's life assail, — 
 Toil, envy, want, the patron, and the jail. 
 
 Du. Johnson : Van. of Human Wishes, 
 005 Line 159. 
 
 Imagination. 
 
 The lunatic, the lover, and the poet, 
 
 Are of imagination all compact. 
 
 9G6 Shaks. : Mid. N. Dream, Act v., Sc. 1. 
 
 Imagination is the air of mind. 
 
 967 Bailey : Festus, Sc. Another and a Better World. 
 
 But thou that didst appear so fair 
 
 To fond imagination. 
 Dost rival in the light of day 
 
 Her delicate creation. 
 
 968 Wordsworth : Yarrow Visited. 
 
 Immortality. 
 
 It must be so, Plato, thou reasonest well ! — 
 P^lse whence this pleasing hope, this fond desire, 
 This longing after immortality? 
 
 969 Addison : Cato, Act v., Sc. 1. 
 
 Where music dwells 
 Lingering and wandering on as loth to die. 
 Like thouglits whose very sweetness yieldeth proof 
 That they were born for immortality. 
 
 Wordsworth : Ecclesiastical Sonnets, 
 
 970 Pt. iii., xliii. 
 
 Impossibility. 
 
 And what \s impossible can't be. 
 And never, never comes to pass. 
 
 971 Colman, Jr.: Maid of the Moor.
 
 DICTIONARY OF POETICAL QUOTATIONS. 151 
 
 Impudence. 
 
 For he that has but impudence, 
 To all things has a fair pretence; 
 And, put among his wants but shame, 
 To all the world may lay his claim. 
 
 972 BcTLER : Misc. Thoughts, Line 17. 
 
 Inconstancy. 
 
 Sigh no more, ladies, sigh no more; 
 ^len were deceivers ever; 
 One foot in sea, and one on shore; 
 To one thing constant never. 
 
 973 Shaks. : Much Ado, Act ii., Sc. 3, Song. 
 
 There are three things a wise man will not trust — 
 The wind, the sunshine of an April day. 
 And woman's plighted faith. 
 
 SouTHEY : Madoc, Ft. ii., Caradoc and Senena, 
 
 974 Line 5L 
 
 Independence. 
 
 Thy spirit, Independence, let me share; 
 Lord of the lion-heart and eagle-eye, 
 Thy steps I follow with my bosom bare, 
 . Nor heed the storm that howls along the sky. 
 
 975 Smollett : Ode to Independence. 
 
 Let independence be our boast, 
 Ever mindful what it cost; 
 Ever grateful for the prize, 
 Let its altar reach the skies! 
 
 976 Joseph Hopkixson : Hail, Columbia ! 
 
 Indifference. 
 
 What's Hecuba to him, or he to Hecuba. 
 
 977 Shaks. : Hamlet, Act ii., Sc. 2.
 
 152 DICTIONARY OF POETICAL QUOTATIONS. 
 
 Let ev\y man enjoy his whim; 
 What 's he to me, or 1 to him? 
 078 Churchill: Ghost, Bk. iv., Line 215. 
 
 Infancy. 
 
 Ere sin could bliglit, or sorrow fade, 
 Death came with friendly care; 
 The opening bud to heav'n convey'd. 
 And bade it blossom there. 
 
 979 Coleridge: Epitaph on an Infant. 
 
 Infidelity. 
 
 If man loses all, when life is lost. 
 He lives a coward, or a fool expires. 
 A daring infidel (and such there are, 
 Frojn pride, example, lucre, rage, revenge. 
 Or pure heroical defect of thought,) 
 Of all earth's madmen, most deserves a chain. 
 
 980 Young : Night Thoughts, Night vii., Line 199. 
 
 Influence. 
 
 No life 
 Can be pure in its purpose and strong in its strife. 
 And all life not be purer and stronger thereby. 
 Owen Meredith : Lucile, Pt. ii., Canto vi., 
 
 981 St. 40. 
 
 Ladies, whose bright eyes 
 Rain influence, and judge the prize. 
 
 982 Milton: i'^Z%ro, Line 121. 
 
 Ingratitude. 
 
 I hate ingratitude more in a man 
 Than lying, vainness, babbling, drunkenness, 
 Or any taint of vice, whose strong corruption 
 Inhabits our frail blood. 
 
 983 Shaks. : Tw. Night, Act iii., Sc. 4.
 
 DICTIONARY OF POETICAL QUOTATIONS. 153 
 
 Ingratitude ! thou marble-hearted fiend, 
 
 More hideous, when thou show'st thee in a child, 
 
 Than the sea-monster ! 
 
 984 Shaks. : King Lear, Act i., Sc. 4. 
 
 How sharper than a serpent's tooth it is 
 To have a thankless child. 
 
 985 Shaks.: King Lear, Act i., Sc. 4. 
 
 Inhumanity. 
 
 Man's inhumanity to man 
 Makes countless thousands mourn. 
 
 986 Burns : Man teas Made to Mourn. 
 
 Inn. 
 
 Whoe'er has travelled life's dull round, 
 Where'er his stages may have been, 
 May sigh to think he still has found. 
 The warmest welcome at an inn. 
 
 Shenstone: Lines on Window of Inn at 
 
 987 Henley. 
 
 Innocence. 
 
 The silence often of pure innocence 
 . Persuades, when speaking fails. 
 
 988 Shaks.: Wint. Tale, Act ii., Sc. 3. 
 
 An age that melts in unperceiv'd decay, 
 And glides in modest innocence away. 
 
 989 Dr. Johnson : Van. of Human Wishes, Line 293. 
 
 Instinct. 
 
 Then vainly the philosopher avers 
 That reason guides our deeds, and instinct theirs. 
 How can we justly different causes frame. 
 When the effects entirely are the same?
 
 154 DICTIONARY OF POETICAL QUOTATIONS. 
 
 Instinct and reason how can we divide? 
 'T is the fool's ignorance, and the pedant's pride. 
 Prior: Solomon on the V. of the World, Bk. i., 
 
 990 Line 231. 
 
 Invention. 
 
 Th' invention all admir'd, and each how he 
 To be th' inventor miss'd; so easy it seeni'd, 
 Once found, which yet unfound most would have 
 
 thought 
 Impossible ! 
 
 991 Milton : Par. Lost, Bk. vi., Line 498. 
 
 Iron. 
 
 Ay me ! what perils do environ 
 
 The man that meddles with cold iron ! 
 
 992 Butler : Iludibras, Canto iii.. Line I. 
 
 Isle, Isles. 
 
 Some unsuspected isle in far-off seas. 
 
 993 Robert Browning : Pippa Passes, Pt. ii. 
 
 The sprinkled isles, 
 Lily on lily, that o'erlace the sea. 
 991 Robert Browning : Clean. 
 
 Italy. 
 
 Italia ! O Italia ! thou who hast 
 
 The fatal gift of beauty, which became 
 
 A funeral dower of present woes and past. 
 
 On thy sweet brow is sorrow plough'd by shame, 
 
 And annals graved in characters of flame. 
 
 995 Byron : Ch. Harold, Canto iv., St. 42. 
 
 Italy, my Italy ! 
 
 Queen Mary's saying serves for me
 
 DICTIONARY OF POETICAL QUOTATIONS. 155 
 
 (When fortune's malice 
 
 Lost her Calais) : 
 " Open my heart, and you will see 
 Graved inside of it * Italy.' " 
 
 996 Robert Browxing : De Gustibus, ii. 
 
 Ivy. 
 
 (Jh, a dainty plant is the ivy green, 
 
 That creepeth o'er ruins old! 
 Of right choice food are his meals, I ween, 
 
 In his cell so lone and cold. 
 Creeping where no life is seen, 
 A rare old plant is the ivy green. 
 
 997 Dickens: Pickwick Papers, Ch. Q. 
 
 January. 
 
 Then came old January, wrapped well 
 
 In many Meeds to keep the cold away ; 
 Yet did he quake and quiver like to quell, 
 And blow his nails to warm them if he may. 
 Spenser : Faerie Queene, Bk. vii., Canto vii., 
 . 998 St. 42. 
 
 Jealousy. 
 
 O beware, my lord, of jealousy ; 
 It is the green-eyed nTonster, which doth mock 
 The meat it feeds on. 
 
 999 Shaks. : Othello, Act iii., Sc. 3. 
 
 No true love there can be without 
 Its dread penalty — jealousy. 
 
 Owen Meredith : Lucile, Pt. ii.. Canto i., 
 
 1000 St. 21.
 
 156 DICTIONARY OF POETICAL QUOTATIONS. 
 
 Nor jealousy 
 Was understood, the iujur'd lover's hell. 
 
 1001 Milton : Par. Lost, Bk. v., Line 449. 
 
 Jest. 
 
 A jest's prosperity lies in the ear 
 
 Of him that hears it, never in the tongue 
 
 Of him that makes it. 
 
 1002 Shaks. : Love's L. Lost, Act v., Sc. 2. 
 
 Of all the griefs that harass the distrest, 
 Sure the most bitter is a scornful jest. 
 
 1003 Dr. Johnson : London, Line 166. 
 
 Jewel. 
 
 Jt seems she hangs upon the cheek of night 
 Like a rich jewel in an Ethiope's ear. 
 
 1004 Shaks. : Rom. and Jul, Act i., Sc. 5. 
 
 Joke. 
 
 A college joke to cure the dumps. 
 
 1005 Swift : Cassinus and Peter. 
 
 Joy. 
 
 Capacity for joy 
 Admits temptation. 
 
 Mrs. Browning*: Aurora Leigh, Bk. i., 
 
 1006 Line 703. 
 
 Joy is the mainspring in the whole 
 Of endless Nature's calm rotation. 
 Joy moves the dazzling wheels that roll 
 In the great Time-piece of Creation. 
 
 1007 Schiller : Hymn to Joy
 
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 Joys too exquisite to last, 
 
 And yet more exquisite when past. 
 
 1008 James Montgomery : The Little Cloud. 
 
 Judgment. 
 
 A Daniel come to judgment! yea, a Daniel! 
 
 1009 Shaks. : M. of Venice, Act iv., Sc. 1. 
 
 O judgment ! thou art fled to brutish beasts, 
 And men have lost their reason. 
 
 1010 Shaks. : Jul. Ccesar, Act iii., Sc. 2. 
 
 July. 
 
 Then came hot July, boiling like to fire, 
 That all his garments he had cast away. 
 
 Spenser : Faerie Queene, Bk. vii., Canto vii., 
 
 1011 St. 36. 
 
 June. 
 
 And what is so rare as a day in June ? 
 Then, if ever, come perfect days; 
 Then heaven tries the earth if it be in tune, 
 And over it softly her warm ear lays. 
 
 James Russell Lowell: Vision of Sir 
 
 1012 Launfal. 
 
 Juries. 
 
 The jury, passing on the prisoner's life, 
 May, in the sworn twelve, have a thief or two 
 Guiltier than him they try. 
 
 1013 Shaks. : M.for J/., Act ii., Sc. 1. 
 
 Do not your juries give their verdict 
 As if they felt the cause, not heard it? 
 And as they please make matter of fact 
 Run all on one side as they 're packt. 
 
 Butler : Hudibras, Pt. ii.. Canto ii., 
 lOU Line 365.
 
 158 DICTIONARY OF POETICAL QUOTATIONS. 
 
 Justice. 
 
 And then, the justice ; 
 In fair round belly, with good capon lin'd, 
 AVith eyes severe, and beai'd of formal cut, 
 Full of wise saws and modern instances, 
 And so he plays his part. 
 
 1015 Shaks. : As You Like It, Act ii., Sc. 7. 
 
 The gods 
 Grow angry with your patience : 't is their care, 
 And must be yours, that guilty men escape not: 
 As crimes do grow, justice should rouse itself. 
 
 1016 Ben Jonson : Catiline, Act iii., Sc 4. 
 
 Man is unjust, but God is just ; and finally justice 
 Triumphs. 
 
 1017 Longfellow : Evangeline, Pt. I., iii., Line 34. 
 
 K. 
 
 Keys. 
 
 Two massy keys he bore, of metals twain 
 (The golden opes, the iron shuts amain). 
 
 1018 MiLTOx: Lycidas, Line 109. 
 
 Kin. 
 
 A little more than kin, and less than kind. 
 
 1019 Shaks. : Hamlet, Act i., Sc. 2. 
 
 One touch of nature makes the whole world kin. 
 
 1020 Shaks.: Trail, and Cress., Act iii., Sc. ;j. 
 
 Kindness. 
 
 Kindness in women, not their beauteous looks. 
 Shall win my love. 
 
 1021 Shaks. : Ta7n. of the S., Act iv., Sc. 2.
 
 DICTIONARY OF POETICAL QUOTATIONS. 159 
 
 That best portion of a good man's life, — 
 His little, nameless, unremembered acts 
 Of kindness and of love. 
 
 Wordsworth : Lines composed a few miles 
 
 1022 above Tintern Abbey. 
 
 Kings. 
 
 What have kings that privates have not too. 
 Save ceremony? 
 
 1023 Shaks. : Henry V., Act iv., Sc. 1. 
 
 Kings are like stars, — they rise and set, they have 
 The worship of the world, but no repose. 
 
 1024 Shelley: i/c //as, Line 195. 
 
 Showers on her kings barbaric pearl and gold. 
 
 1025 Milton: Par. Lost, Bk. ii., Line 1. 
 
 Kissing. 
 
 Then kiss me hard, 
 As if he pluck'd up kisses by the roots, 
 That grew upon my lips. 
 
 1026 Shaks. : Othello, Act iii., Sc. 3. 
 
 Teach not thy lip such scorn ; for it was made 
 For kissing, lady, not for such contempt. 
 
 1027 Shaks. : Richard IIL, Act i., Sc. 2. 
 
 When my lips meet thine 
 Thy very soul is wedded unto mine. 
 
 H. H. BoYESEx: Thy Gracious Face T 
 
 1028 Greet with Glad Surp7'is&
 
 160 DICTIONARY OF POETICAL QUOTATIONS. 
 
 Her mouth's culled sweetness by thy kisses shed 
 On cheeks and neck and eyelids, and so led 
 Back to her mouth which answers there for all. 
 Dante Gabriel Rossetti : Love-Sweetness, 
 1029 Sonnet xiii. 
 
 I rest content, I kiss your eyes, 
 
 1 kiss your hair, in my delight: 
 
 I kiss my hand, and say. Good night. 
 
 lOoO Joaquin ]Millek : Isles of the Amazons, Pt. v. 
 
 One kiss — and then another — and another — 
 Till 't is too late to go — and so return. 
 Charles Kingsley: Saint's Tragedy, Act ii., 
 
 1031 Sc. 10. 
 
 Dear as remember'd kisses after death, 
 And sweet as those by hopeless fancy feign'd 
 On lips that are for others. 
 
 1032 Tennyson : The Princess, Pt. iv.. Line 36. 
 
 Knavery. 
 
 There 's ne'er a villain dwelling in all Denmark 
 But he 's an arrant knave. 
 
 1033 Shaks. : Hamlet, Act i., Sc. 5. 
 
 Whip me such honest knaves. 
 
 1031 Shaks. : Othello, Act i., Sc. 1. 
 
 Knell. 
 
 By fairy hands their knell is rung; 
 By forms unseen their dirge is sung. 
 
 1035 William Collins : Lines in 1746. 
 
 Ne'er sigh'd at the sound of a knell, 
 Or smil'd when a Sabbath appear'd. 
 
 Cowper : Vei-ses supposed to be icritten hy 
 
 1036 Alexander Selkirk.
 
 DICTIONARY OF POETICAL QUOTATIONS. IGl 
 
 Knowledge. 
 
 Knowledge is as food, and needs no less 
 Her temp'rance over appetite, to know 
 In measure what the niiud may well contain ; 
 Oppresses else with surfeit, and soon turns 
 AVisdom to folly. 
 
 1037 Milton : Par. Lost, Bk. vii., Line 120. 
 
 All our knowledge is, ourselves to know. 
 
 1038 Pope : Essay on Man, Epis. iv., Line 397. 
 
 / know — is all the mourner saith, 
 Knowledge by suffering entereth ; 
 And Life is perfected by Death ! 
 
 1039 Mrs. Browning : Vision of Poets, St. 330. 
 
 Knowledge comes, but wisdom lingers. 
 
 1040 Tennyson: Locksley Hall, Line 141. 
 
 But Knowledge to their eyes her ample page, 
 Rich with the spoils of time, did ne'er unroll. 
 
 1041 Gray: Eleyy, St. 13. 
 
 Oh, be wiser thou ! 
 Listructed that true knowledge leads to love. 
 
 Wordsworth : Lines left upon a Seat in 
 
 1042 a Yew-tree. 
 
 Labor. 
 
 T have seen a swan 
 With bootless labor swim against the tide, 
 And spend her strength with over-matching waves. 
 1043 Shaks. : 3 Henry VI., Act i., Sc. 4.
 
 1G2 DICTIONARY OF POETICAL QUOTATIONS. 
 
 Labor, you know, is Prayer. 
 
 1044 Bayard Taylor : Improvisations, St. 11. 
 
 Taste the joy 
 That springs Irom hibor. 
 
 1045 Longfellow : Masque of Pandora, Pt. vi. 
 
 To fall'n huinaiiity our Fatlier said, 
 
 That food and bliss sliould not be found unsought ; 
 
 That man should labor for his daily bread ; 
 
 But not that man should toil and sweat for nought. 
 
 1046 Ebenezer Elliott : Corn Law Hymns. 
 
 To labor is the lot of man below ; 
 
 And when Jove gave us life, he gave us woe. 
 
 1047 Pope : Iliad, Bk. x.. Line 78. 
 
 Ladies. 
 
 Ladies, like variegated tulips, show 
 
 'T is to their changes half their charms we owe. 
 
 1048 Pope : Moral Essays, Epis. ii., Line 41. 
 
 Lake. 
 
 On thy fair bosom, silver lake. 
 
 The wild swan spreads his snowy sail, 
 
 And round his breast the ripples break 
 As down he bears before the gale. 
 
 1049 James G. Percival : 7o Seneca Lake. 
 
 Land. 
 
 Breathes tliere the man with soul so dead 
 Who never to himself hath said 
 This is my own, my native land ! 
 
 Scott: Lay of the Last Minstrel, Canto vi., 
 
 1050 St. 1.
 
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 O Caledonia ! stern and wild, 
 
 Meet nurse lor a poetic child! 
 
 Land of brown heath and shaggy wood ; 
 
 Land of the mountain and the flood ! 
 
 Scott : Lay of the Last Minstrel, Canto vi., 
 
 1051 St. 2. 
 
 Landscape. 
 
 The low'ring element 
 Scowls o'er the darken'd landscape 
 
 1052 Milton : Par. Lost, Bk. ii., Line 490. 
 
 Ever charming, ever new, 
 
 AVhen will the landscape tire the view ? 
 
 1053 John Dyer : Grongar Hill, Line 102. 
 
 Language. 
 
 Fit language there is none 
 For the heart's deepest things. 
 
 James Russell Lowell: Legend of Brittany, 
 1051 Pt. i., St. 28. 
 
 Spake full well, in language quaint and olden, 
 One who dwelleth by the castled Rhine, 
 
 When he called the flowers, so blue and golden, 
 Stai's, that in earth's firmament do shine. 
 
 1055 Longfellow : Flowers. 
 
 Lark. 
 
 Now hear the lark, 
 The herald of the morn; . . . whose notes do beat 
 The vanity heavens, so high above our heads, . . . 
 Some say the lark makes sweet division. 
 
 1056 Shaks. : Rom. and Jul., Act iii., Sc. 5. 
 
 And now the herald lark 
 Left his ground-nest, high tow'ring to descry 
 The morn's approach, and greet her with his song. 
 
 1057 Milton : Par. Regained, Bk. ii., Line 279
 
 164 DICTIOXAKY OP' POETICAL QUOTATIONS. 
 
 Lass. 
 
 A penniless lass wi' a lang pedigree. 
 
 1058 Lady Nairne: The Laird o' Cockpen. 
 
 Latin. 
 
 That soft bastard Latin, 
 ^V^hich melts like kisses from a female mouth. 
 
 1059 Byrox : Beppo, St. 44. 
 
 Laughter. 
 
 Laughter, holding both his sides. 
 
 1060 ^Iilton: V Allegro, Line 32. 
 
 Vulcan with awkward grace his office plies, 
 And unextinguish'd laughter shakes the skies. 
 
 1061 Pope : Iliad, Bk. i.. Line 770. 
 
 Law^. 
 
 In law, what plea so tainted and corrupt. 
 But, being seasoned with a gracious voice, 
 Obscures the show of evil ? 
 
 1062 Shaks. : M. of Venice, Act iii., Sc. 2. 
 
 Laws grind the poor, and rich men rule the law. 
 
 1063 Goldsmith.: Traveller, Line 386. 
 
 And sovereign law, that state's collected will. 
 
 O'er thrones and globes elate. 
 Sits empress, crowning good, repressing ill. 
 1061 Sir William Jones : Ode in Im. of Alcceus. 
 
 Leaf — Leaves. 
 
 My way of life 
 Is fall'n into the sere, the yellow leaf. 
 1065 Shaks. : Macbeth, Act v., Sc. 3.
 
 DICTIONARY OF POETICAL QUOTATIONS. 165 
 
 Call for the robin-redbreast and the wren, 
 Since o'er shady groves they hover, 
 And with leaves and flowers do cover 
 The friendless bodies of unburied men. 
 
 John Webster : Tlie White Devil, Act v., 
 
 1066 Sc. 2. 
 
 Like leaves on trees the race of man is fonnd, — 
 Now green in youth, now withering on the ground. 
 
 1067 ' Pope: 7/iW, Bk. vi., Line 181. 
 
 Learning. 
 
 " The thrice three Muses mourning for the death 
 Of learning, late deceas'd in beggary," — 
 That is some satire, keen and critical. 
 
 1068 Shaks. : Mid. N. Dream, Act v., Sc. 1. 
 
 Learning unrefin'd. 
 That oft enlightens to corrupt the mind. 
 
 1069 Falconer : Shipicreck; Canto i.. Line 166. 
 
 Some for renown, on scraps of learning dote. 
 And think they grow immortal as they quote. 
 
 1070 Young: Zoi-e o/jPame, Satire i., Line 89. 
 
 Lending. 
 
 Loan oft loses both itself and friend. 
 
 1071 Shaks. : Hamlet, Act i., Sc. 3. 
 
 If thou wilt lend this money, lend it not 
 
 As to thy friends; (for when did friendship take 
 
 A breed of barren metal of his friend?) 
 
 But lend it rather to thine enemy ; 
 
 Who, if he break, thou mayst with better face 
 
 Exact the penalties. 
 
 1072 Siiaks. : .V. of Venice, Act i., Sc. 3.
 
 166 DICTIOXARY OF POETICAL QUOTATION'S. 
 
 Letters. 
 
 My letters ! all dead paper, mute and white ! 
 And yet they seetn alive, and quivering 
 Against my tremulous hands which loose the string 
 And let them drop down on my knee to-night. 
 Mrs. Bhowxixg : Sonnets fr. Portuguese, 
 
 1073 Sonnet xxviii. 
 
 Kind messages, that pass from land to land ; 
 Kind letters, that betray the heart's deep history, 
 In which we feel the pressure of a hand, — 
 One touch of fire, — and all the rest is mystery ! 
 Longfellow : Dedication to Seaside and 
 
 1074 Fireside, St. 5. 
 
 You have the letters Cadmus gave, — 
 Think ye he meant them for a slave? 
 
 1075 Byron: Don Juan, Canto iii., St. 86. 10. 
 
 Liberty. 
 
 I must have liberty 
 Withal, as large a charter as the wind, 
 To blow on whom I please. 
 
 1076 Shaks. : .4s You Like It, Act ii., Sc. 7. 
 
 In liberty's defence, my noble task. 
 Of which all Europe rings from side to side; 
 This thought might lead me through the world's 
 
 vain mask. 
 Content, though blind — had I no better guide. 
 
 1077 Milton: ^onviQi's.'s.u., To Cyriack Skinner. 
 
 When liberty is gone, 
 Life grows insipid and has lost its relish. 
 
 1078 Addison : Cato, Act ii., Sc. 3.
 
 DICTIOXAKY OF POETICAL QUOTATIONS. 167 
 
 Liberty, like day, 
 Breaks on the soul, and by a flash from Heaven 
 Fires all the faculties '^vitll glorious joy. 
 
 1079 CowPER : Task, Bk. v., Line 882. 
 
 Liberty 's in every blow ! 
 Let us do or die. 
 
 1080 Burns: Bannockbum. 
 
 The mountain nymph, sweet Liberty. 
 
 1081 MiLTOX: V Allegro, lAuQ^Q. 
 
 Lies. 
 
 You told a lie ; an odious, damned lie : 
 Upon my soul, a lie ; a wicked lie. 
 
 1082 Shaks. : Othello, Act v., Sc. 2. 
 
 Dare to be true. Nothing can need a lie ; 
 
 A fault which needs it most, grows two thereby. 
 
 1083 Herbert : Temple, Church Porch, St. 13. 
 
 Life. 
 
 Life 's but a walking shadow ; a poor player, 
 
 That struts and frets his hour upon the stage, 
 
 And then is heard no more : it is a tale 
 
 Told by an idiot, full of sound and fury, 
 
 Signifying nothing. 
 
 1081 Shaks. : Macbeth, Act v., Sc. 5. 
 
 Xor love thy life, nor hate ; but what thou livest. 
 Live well; how long or short, permit to Heav'n. 
 
 1085 MiLTOx: Par. Lost, Bk. xi., Line 553. 
 
 Must we count 
 Life a curse and not a blessing, summed-up in its 
 
 whole amount. 
 Help and hindrance, joy and sorrow? 
 
 1086 Robert Browning : La Saisiaz, Line 206
 
 168 DICTIOXAKY OF POETICAL QUOTATIONS. 
 
 Between two worlds, life hovers like a star 
 'Twixt night and morn, npon the horizon's verge. 
 
 1087 Byron : Don Juan, Canto xv., St. 99. 
 
 Our life is scarce the twinkle of a star 
 In God's eternal day. 
 
 1088 Bayard Taylor: Autumnal Vespers. 
 
 Life is the gift of God, and is divine. 
 
 Longfellow: T. of a Wayside Inn, 
 
 1089 Emma and Eginliard. 
 
 What is life? A thawing icehoard 
 
 On a sea with sunny shore : 
 Gay we sail ; it melts beneath us; 
 
 We are sunk and seen no more. 
 
 1090 Carlyle : Cui Bono. 
 
 Life 's a vast sea 
 That does its mighty errand without fail, 
 Panting in unchanged strength though waves are 
 changing. 
 
 1091 George Eliot: Spanish Gypsy, Bk. iii. 
 
 Life is not to be bought with heaps of gold : 
 Not all Apollo's Pythian treasures hold, 
 Or Troy once held, in peace and pride of sway. 
 Can bribe the poor possession of a day. 
 
 1092 Pope : Iliad, Bk. ix.. Line 524. 
 
 So careful of the type she seems, 
 So careless of the single life. 
 
 1093 Tennyson: In Memoriam,\y.,^i.1. 
 
 Light. 
 
 Hail, holy Light! offspring of Heaven first-born I 
 Or of the Eternal coeternal beam,
 
 DICTIONARY OF POETICAL QUOTATIONS. 169 
 
 May I express thee unblam'd ? since God is light, 
 And never but in unapproached light 
 Dwelt from eternity, dwelt then in thee, 
 Bi'ight effluence of bright essence increate ! 
 
 1094 MiLTOx : Par. Lost, Bk. iii., Line 1. 
 
 But yet the light that led astray 
 Was light from heaven. 
 
 1095 Burns: The Vision. 
 
 The light that never was, on sea or land ; 
 The consecration, and the Poet's dream. 
 
 Wordsworth : Suggested hy a Picture of 
 
 1096 Peek Castle in a Storm, St. 4. 
 
 Light, light, and light! to break and melt in 
 sunder 
 
 All clouds and chains that in one bondage bind 
 Eyes, hands, and spirits, forged by fear and wonder 
 
 And sleek fierce fraud with hidden knife behind. 
 
 1097 Swinburne: Eve of Revolution, St. 10. 
 
 Lightning. 
 
 Swift as a shadow, short as any dream ; 
 Brief as the lightning in the collied night. 
 
 1098 Shaks. : Mid. N. Dream, Act i., Sc. L 
 
 Lilies. 
 
 Like the lily, 
 That once was mistress of the field and flourish'd, 
 I '11 hang my head and perish. 
 
 1099 Shaks. : Heyirjj VIIL, Act iii., Sc. 1. 
 
 In twisted braids of lilies knitting 
 The loose train of thy amber-dropping hair. 
 
 1100 Milton: Comw^, Line 859.
 
 170 DICTIONARY OF POETICAL QUOTATIONS. 
 
 Lincoln, Abraham. 
 
 This man, whose homely face you look upon, 
 Was one of Nature's masterful, great men ; 
 Born with strong arms, that unfought battles won 
 Direct of speech, and cunning with the pen. 
 Chosen for large designs, he had the art 
 Of winning with his humor, and he went 
 Straigl)t to his mark, whicli was the human heart; 
 Wise, too, for what he could not break he bent. 
 Upon his back a more than Atlas-load, — 
 The burden of the Commonwealth, — was laid ; 
 He stooped, and rose up to it, though the road 
 Shot suddenly downwards, not a whit dismayed. 
 Hold, warriors, councillors, kings ! All now give 
 
 place 
 To this dear benefactor of the Race. 
 
 1101 R. H. Stoddard: Abraham Lincoln. 
 
 Line. 
 
 Marlowe's mighty line. 
 
 Ben Jonson : To the Memory of 
 
 1102 Shakespeare. 
 
 Profan'd the God-given strength, and marr'd the 
 lofty line. 
 
 1103 Scott : Marmion, Introduction to Canto i. 
 
 Lion. 
 
 The lion, dying, thrusteth forth his paw, 
 
 And wounds tiie earth, if nothing else, with rage 
 
 To be o'erpovvered. 
 
 1101 Shaks. : Richard II., Act v., Sc. 1. 
 
 Lips. 
 
 Her lips are roses over-washed with dew, 
 [ Or like the purple of Narcissus' flower ;
 
 DICTIONARY OF POETICAL QUOTATIONS. 171 
 
 No frost their fair, no wind doth waste their power, 
 But by her breath her beauties do renew. 
 
 Robert Greene: From Menaphon. 
 
 1105 Menophons EcL 
 
 Xiittle. 
 
 Contented wi' little, and cantie wi' mair. 
 
 1106 Burns: Contented wi' Little. 
 
 Man wants but little here below, 
 Xor wants that little long. 
 
 1107 Goldsmith : The Hermit, Ch. viii., St. 8. 
 
 Locks. 
 
 Thou canst not say I did it ; never shake 
 Thy gory locks at me. 
 
 1108 Shaks. : Macbeth, Act iii., Sc. 4. 
 
 John Anderson my jo, John, 
 
 When we were first acquent. 
 Your locks were like the raven, 
 
 Your bonny brow was brent. 
 
 1109 B\5B.T^s: John Anderson. 
 
 Logic. 
 
 He was in logic a great critic. 
 
 Profoundly skill'd in analytic ; 
 
 He could distinguish and divide 
 
 A hair 'twixt south and south'-^vest side. 
 
 Butler : Hudibras, Pt. i., Canto i., 
 
 1110 Line 65. 
 
 London. 
 
 London ! the needy villain's general home. 
 The common-sewer of Paris and of Rome ! 
 With eager thirst, by folly or by fate. 
 Sucks in the dregs of each corrupted state. 
 
 1111 Dr. Johnson : London, Line 83.
 
 172 DICTIONARY OF POETICAL QUOTATIONS. 
 
 Longings. 
 
 I have 
 Immortal longings in me. 
 
 1112 Shaks. : Ant. and Cleo., Act v., Sc. 2. 
 
 Looks. 
 
 My only books 
 Were woman's looks, — 
 And folly 's all they 've taught me. 
 
 1113 Moore : 77<e Time Fve Lost in Wooing. 
 
 Where village statesmen talk'd with looks pro- 
 found, 
 And news much older than their ale went round. 
 
 1114 Goldsmith: Des. Village, Line 223. 
 
 Lord. 
 
 Lord of himself, — that heritage of woe ! 
 
 1115 Byron: Lara, Canto i., St. 2. 
 
 Lord of himself, though not of lands ; 
 And having nothing, yet hath all. 
 
 1116 Wotton: Character of a Happy Life. 
 
 Loss. 
 
 That loss is common would not make 
 My own less bitter — rather more ; 
 Too common ! Never morning wore 
 
 To evening but some heart did break. 
 
 Tennyson : hi Memoriam, Ft. vi., 
 
 1117 St. 2. 
 
 Love. 
 
 O, how this spring of love resembleth 
 The uncertain glory of an April day ; 
 Which now shows all the beauty of the sun, 
 And by and by a cloud takes all away. 
 
 1118 Shaks. : Two Gent, of V., Act i., Sc. 3.
 
 DICTIOXARY OF POETICAL QUOTATIONS. 173 
 
 Love is a spirit all compact of fire ; 
 
 Not gross to sink, but light, and will aspire. 
 
 1119 Shaks.: Vemi^ and A., Line 149. 
 
 Such is the power of that sweet passion, 
 That it all sordid baseness doth expel, 
 And the refined mind doth newly fashion 
 Unto a fairer form, which now doth dwell 
 In his high thought, that would itself excel ; 
 Which he, beholding still with constant sight, 
 Admires the mirror of so heavenly light. 
 
 1120 Spenser: Hymn in Honor of Love. 
 
 How could I tell I should love thee to-day, 
 
 Whom that day I held not dear? 
 How could I know I should love thee away 
 
 When I did not love thee anear? 
 
 1121 JeanIngelow: Supper at the Mill. Song. 
 
 Instruct me now what love will do ; 
 
 'T will make a tongueless man to woo. 
 
 Inform me next what love will do ; 
 
 'T will strangely make a one of two. 
 
 Teach me besides what love will do ; 
 
 'T will quickly mar and make ye too. 
 
 Tell me, now last, what love will do; 
 
 'T will hurt and heal a heart pierc'd through. 
 
 1122 Sir John Suckling: A^ih. of Love. 
 
 Love is the only good in the world. 
 Henceforth be loved as heart can love, 
 Or brain devise, or hand approve. 
 
 Robert Browning: Flight of the Duchess, 
 
 1123 Ft. XV. 
 
 Mutual love brings mutual delight — 
 
 Brings beauty, life ; for love is life, hate, death. 
 
 1124 " R. H. Dana : The Dying Raven.
 
 174 DICTIONARY OF POETICAL QUOTATIONS. 
 
 Let tliose love now, who never loved before. 
 Let those who always loved, now love the more. 
 
 1125 Parnell ; Trans, of Pervigilium Veneris. 
 
 Love, well thou know'st, no partnership allows: 
 Cupid averse rejects divided vows. 
 
 1126 Prior: Henry and Emma^ Line 590. 
 
 And love, life's fine centre, inckides heart and 
 mind. 
 
 Owen Meredith : Lucile, Pt. ii., 
 
 1127 Canto i., St. 17. 
 
 I hold it true, whate'er befall, 
 
 1 feel it when I sorrow most ; 
 
 'T is better to have loved and lost, 
 Than never to have loved at all. 
 
 1128 Tennyson : In Memoriam, Pt. xxvii., St. 4. 
 
 Had we never loved so kindly. 
 Had we never loved so blindly. 
 Never met, or never parted, 
 AVe had ne'er been broken-hearted. 
 
 1129 Burns: Song, Ae Fond Kiss. 
 
 Love in a hut, with water and a crust, 
 
 Is — Love, forgive us! cinders, ashes, dust. 
 
 1130 Keats: Lamia, Pt. ii., Line 1, 
 
 AMiy did she love him? Curious fool ! be still; 
 Is human love the growth of human will? 
 
 1131 Byron : Lara, Canto ii., St. 22. 
 
 There is no pleasure like the pain 
 Of being loved, and loving. 
 
 1132 Praed : Legend of the Haunted Tree. 
 
 Man's love is of man's life a thing apart, 
 'T is woman's whole existence. 
 
 1133 Byron : Don Juan, Canto i., St. 194.
 
 DICTIONARY OF POETICAL QUOTATIONS. 175 
 
 In peace, Love tunes the shepherd's reed; 
 
 In war, he mounts the warrior's steed; 
 
 In halls, in gay attire is seen ; 
 
 In hamlets, dances on the green ; 
 
 Love rules the court, the camp, the grove, 
 
 And men below, and saints above; 
 
 For love is heaven and heaven is love. 
 
 Scott: Lay of the Last Minstrel, Canto iii., 
 
 1134 St. 2. 
 
 True love is at home on a carpet, 
 
 And mightily likes his ease, — 
 
 And true love has an eye for a dinner. 
 
 And starves beneath shady trees. 
 
 His wing is the fan of a lady, 
 
 His foot 's an invisible thing, 
 
 And his arrow is tipp'd with a jewel, 
 
 And shot from a silver string. 
 
 1135 Willis: Love in a Cottage. 
 
 What is love? 't is nature's treasure, 
 'T is the storehouse of her jo3's ; 
 'T is the highest heaven of pleasure, 
 'T is a bliss which never cloys. 
 
 Thomas Chattertox: The Revenge, Act i., 
 
 1136 Sc. 2. 
 
 Luxury. 
 
 O Luxury ! thou curs'd by heaven's decree. 
 How ill-exchang'd are things like these for thee ! 
 How do thy potions, with insidious joy. 
 Diffuse their pleasures only to destroy ! 
 
 1137 Goldsmith : Des. Village, Line 395. 
 
 Blest hour ! it was a luxury — to be ! 
 
 Coleridge : Reflections on Having Left a 
 
 1138 Place of Retirement.
 
 17G DICTIONARY OF POETICAL QUOTATIONS. 
 
 M. 
 
 Madness. 
 
 I am not mad ; — I would to heaven I were! 
 For then, 't is like I should forget myself ; 
 O, if I could, what grief should I forget ! 
 
 1139 Shaks. : King John, Act iii., Sc. 4. 
 
 Madness in great ones must not unwatch'd go. 
 
 1140 Shaks. : Hamlet, Act iii., Sc. 1. 
 
 And moody madness laughing wild 
 Amid severest woe. 
 
 1141 Gray: On a Distant Prospect of Eton College. 
 
 Man. 
 
 O, what may man within him hide, 
 Though angel on the outward side ! 
 
 1142 Shaks. : M.for M., Act iii., Sc. 2. 
 
 He was a man, take him for all in all, 
 I shall not look upon his like again. 
 
 1143 Shaks. : Hamlet, Act i., Sc. 2. 
 
 His life was gentle ; and the elements 
 
 So niix'd in him, that Nature might stand up, 
 
 And say to all the world, " This was a man ! " 
 
 1144 Shaks. : Jul. Ccesar, Act v., Sc. 5. 
 
 Man is one world, and hath 
 Another to attend him. 
 
 1145 Herbert: The Temple. Man. 
 
 Know then thyself, presume not God to scan, 
 The proper study of mankind is Man. 
 
 1146 Pope: Essay on Man, Epis. ii., Line 1.
 
 DICTIONARY OF POETICAL QUOTATIONS. 177 
 
 What tho' on hamely fare we dine, 
 Wear hoddin gray, and a' that? 
 Gie fools their silks and knaves their wine, 
 A man 's a man for a' that ! 
 
 1147 BuRXS : For a' That and a' That. 
 
 ]Man is a summer's day; whose youth and fire 
 Cool to a glorious evening, and expire. 
 
 1148 Henry Vaughan: Rules and Lessons. 
 
 Beyond the poet's sweet dream lives 
 The eternal epic of the man. 
 
 1149 Whittier : The Grave hy the Lake, St. 34. 
 
 What is man? A foolish baby; 
 Vainly strives, and fights, and frets: 
 Demanding all, deserving nothing, 
 One small grave is all he gets. 
 
 1150 Carlyle : Cid Bono. 
 
 Manners. 
 
 Fit for the mountains and the barb'rous caves, 
 Where manners ne'er were preach'd. 
 
 1151 Shaks. : TiL\ Night, Act iv., Sc. 1. 
 
 Manners with fortunes, humors turn with climes, 
 Tenets with books, and principles with times. 
 
 1152 Pope : Moral Essays, Epis. i., Line 172. 
 
 Marble. 
 
 And sleep in dull cold marble. 
 
 1153 Shaks. : Hejiry VIIL, Act iii., Sc. 2. 
 
 All your better deeds 
 Shall be in water writ, but this in marble. 
 
 Beaumont and Fletcher : Philaster, 
 
 1154 Act v., Sc. 3.
 
 178 DICTIONARY OF POETICAL QUOTATIONS. 
 
 March. 
 
 Tlie stormy ]\Iarch is come at last, 
 
 With wind, and clouds, and ciiaiiging skies; 
 
 I liear tlie rushing of the blast. 
 
 That through the snowy valleys flies. 
 
 1155 William Cullen JBkyant: March. 
 
 Ah, March ! we know thou art 
 Kind-hearted, spite of ugly looks and threats. 
 And, out of sight, art nursing April's violets! 
 
 1156 Helen Hunt: March. 
 
 Marriage. 
 
 The ancient saying is no heresy ; — 
 Hanging and wiving goes by destiny. 
 
 1157 Shaks. : M. of Venice, Act ii., Sc. 9. 
 
 Marriage is a matter of more worth 
 Thau to be dealt in by attorneyship. 
 
 1158 Shaks. : 1 Henry VI., Act v., Sc. 5. 
 
 The joys of marriage are the heaven on earth. 
 Life's paradise, great princess, the soul's quiet, 
 Sinews of concord, earthly immortality, 
 Eternity of pleasures. 
 
 1159 Ford : Broken Heart, Act ii., Sc. 2. 
 
 Hail, wedded love ! mysterious law, true source 
 Of human offspring. 
 
 1160 Milton : Par. Lost, Bk. iv.. Line 750. 
 
 Marriage is the life-long miracle. 
 The self-begetting wonder, daily fresh. 
 
 Charles Kingsley : Saint's Tragedy, 
 
 1161 Act ii., Sc. 9.
 
 DICTIONARY OF POETICAL QUOTATIONS. 179 
 
 Martyrs. 
 
 Life has its martyrs, as brave, as strong, and as 
 
 faithful, 
 E'en as the martyrs of death. 
 
 1162 H. H. BoYESEX: Calpumia, Pt. iv. 
 
 A pale martyr in his shirt of fire. 
 
 1163 Alexander Smith : A Life Drama, Sc. 2. 
 
 Masters. 
 
 We cannot all be masters, nor all masters 
 
 Cannot be truly followed. 
 
 1161 Shaks. : Othello, Act i., Sc. 1. 
 
 Men at some time are masters of their fates : 
 The fault, dear Brutus, is not in our stars, 
 But in ourselves, that we are underlings. 
 
 1165 Shaks. : Jul. CcBsar, Act i., Sc. 2. 
 
 Matter. 
 
 When Bishop Berkeley said "there was no matter,'' 
 And proved it, — 't was no matter -what he said. 
 
 1166 Byron: Don Juan, Canto xi., St. 1. 
 
 May. 
 
 The voice of one who goes before, to make 
 The paths of June more beautiful, is thine. 
 Sweet May 1 
 
 1167 Helen Hunt: May. 
 
 The new-born iSIay, 
 As cradled yet in April's lap she lay. 
 Born in yon blaze of orient sky, 
 Sweet May ! thy radiant form unfold, 
 Unclose thy blue voluptuous eye, 
 And wave thy shadowy locks of gold. 
 
 Erasmus Darwin : L. of the Plarit.^, 
 
 1168 Canto ii., Line 307.
 
 180 DICTIOXARY OF POETICAL QUOTATIONS. 
 
 Now tlie bright moniiiig-star, Day's liarbinger, 
 Comes dancing from the east, and leads with her 
 The flowery jNIay, wlio, from her green lap, throws 
 The yellow cowslip, and the pale primrose. 
 1161) Milton: Song on May Morning. 
 
 Meeting. 
 
 It gives me wonder, great as my content, 
 To see you here before me. 
 
 1170 "^ Shaks. : Othello, Act ii., Sc. 1. 
 
 Each hour until we meet is as a bird 
 That wings from far his gradual way along 
 The rustling covert of my soul, — his song 
 Still loudlier trilled through leaves more deeply 
 
 stirr'd : 
 But at the hour of meeting, a clear word 
 Is every note he sings, in Love's own tongue. 
 Dante Gabriel Rossetti : Winged Hours, 
 
 1171 Sonnet xv. 
 
 Melancholy. 
 
 There 's such a charm in melancholy. 
 
 1172 Rogers: To . 
 
 These pleasures. Melancholy, give; 
 And I with thee will choose to live. 
 
 1173 Milton: // Penseroso, Line 175. 
 
 Fair Science frown'd not on his humble birth, 
 And Melancholy mark'd him for her own. 
 
 1174 Gray : Elegy, The Epitaph. 
 
 Melodies. 
 
 And feeling hearts, touch them but rightly, pour 
 A thousand melodies unheard before ! 
 
 1175 Rogers : Hwnnn Life.
 
 DICTIONARY OF POETICAL QUOTATIONS. 181 
 
 Memory. 
 
 Remember thee ? 
 Yea, from the table of my memory 
 I '11 wipe away all trivial fond records, 
 All saws of books, all forms, all pressures past, 
 That youth and observation copied there. 
 
 1176 Shaks. : Hamlet, Act i., So. 5. 
 
 The eyes of memory will not sleep, 
 
 Its ears are open still, 
 And vigils with the past they keep 
 
 Against my feeble will. 
 
 1177 Whittier : Knight of St. John. 
 
 Tho' lost to sight, to mem'ry dear 
 Thou ever wilt remain. 
 
 1178 George Linley : Song. 
 
 Men. 
 
 Men are but children of a larger growth. 
 
 1179 Dryden : All for Love, Act iv., Sc. 1. 
 
 Mercy. 
 
 The quality of mercy is not strain'd; 
 It droppeth, as the gentle rain from heaven 
 Upon the place beneath : it is twice bless'd; 
 It blesseth him that gives, and him that takes : 
 'T is mightiest in the mightiest; it becomes 
 The throned monarch better than his crown. 
 
 1180 Shaks. : M. of Venice, Act iv., Sc. 1. 
 
 Who will not mercie unto others show, 
 How can he mercy ever hope to have ? 
 
 Spenser : Faerie Queene, Bk. v., Canto ii., 
 
 1181 St. 42.
 
 182 DICTIONARY OP^ POETICAL QUOTATIONS. 
 
 Merit. 
 
 Be thou the first true merit to l)efriend; 
 
 His praise is lost, who stays till all conuuend. 
 
 1182 Pope: E. on Criticism, Pt. ii., Liue 274. 
 
 Midnight. 
 
 The iron tongue of midnight hath told twelve : — 
 Lovers to bed ; 't is almost fairy time. 
 
 1183 Shaks. : Mid. N. Dream, Act v., Sc. 1. 
 
 Midnight brought on the dusky hour 
 Friendliest to sleep and silence. 
 
 1184 Milton: Par. Lost, Bk. v., Line 667. 
 
 'T is midnight now. The bent and broken moon, 
 Batter'd and black, as from a thousand battles, 
 Hangs silent on the purple walls of heaven. 
 
 1185 Joaquin Miller: Ina, Sc. 2. 
 
 Milton. 
 
 That mighty orb of song. 
 The divine Milton. 
 
 1186 WoRDSW'ORTH : Excursion, Bk. i. 
 
 Mind. 
 
 The mind is its own place, and in itself 
 
 Can make a Heav'n of Hell, a Hell of Heav'n. 
 
 1187 Milton : Par. Lost, Bk. i.. Line 254. 
 
 Measure your mind's height by the shade it casts. 
 
 1188 Robert Browning: Paracelsus, Sc. 3. 
 
 Though man a thinking being is defined, 
 Few use the grand prerogative of mind. 
 
 Jane Taylor : Essays in Rhyme, Essay i., 
 
 1189 St. 45.
 
 DICTIONARY OF POETICAL QUOTATIONS. 183 
 
 My mind to me a kingdom is; 
 
 Sucii present joys tlierein 1 find, 
 That it excels all other bliss 
 
 That earth affords or grows by kind. 
 
 1190 Edward Dyer : Ms. RawL, 85, p. 17. 
 
 Mirth. 
 
 More merry tears 
 The passion of loud laughter never shed. 
 
 1191 Shaks. : Mid. N. Dream, Act v., Sc. 1. 
 
 Come, thou Goddess fair and free, 
 In heav'n yclept Euphrosyne, 
 And by men, heart-easing Mirth. 
 
 1192 Milton: U Allegro, Line 1\. 
 
 As Tammie glow'red, amazed and curious, 
 The mirth and fun grew fast and furious. 
 
 1193 Burns: Tarn o' Shanter. 
 
 Mischief. 
 
 O, mischief ! thou art swift 
 To enter in the thoughts of desperate men ! 
 1191 Shaks. : Rom. and Jul., Act v., Sc. 1. 
 
 When to mischief mortals bend their will, 
 How soon they find fit instruments of ill ! 
 1195 Pope : R. of the Lock, Canto iii., St. 125. 
 
 Misery. 
 
 Sharp misery had worn him to the bones. 
 
 119G Shaks. : Rom. and Jul., Act v., Sc. 1. 
 
 Heaven hears and pities hapless men like me. 
 
 For sacred ev'n to gods is misery. 
 
 1197 Pope : Odyssey, Bk. v., Line 572.
 
 184 DICTIONARY OF POETICAL QUOTATIONS. 
 
 Misfortune. 
 
 One woe doth tread upon another's heel, 
 So fast they follow. 
 
 1198 Shaks. : Hamlet, Act iv., Sc. 7. 
 
 As if Misfortune made the throne her seat, 
 And none could be unhappy but the great. 
 
 1199 XiCHOLAS Rowe: Fair Penitent. Prologue. 
 
 Mobs. 
 
 You have many enemies that know not 
 Why they are so, but, like to village curs, 
 Bark when their fellows do. 
 
 1200 Shaks. : Henry VIII., Act ii., Sc. 4. 
 
 The rabble all alive, 
 From tippling benches, cellars, stalls, and sties. 
 Swarm in the streets. 
 
 1201 CowPER : Task, Bk. vi., Line 704. 
 
 Mockery. 
 
 Hence, horrible shadow! 
 Unreal mockery, hence ! 
 
 1202 Shaks. : Macbeth, Act iii., Sc. 4. 
 
 Modesty. 
 
 Her looks do argue her replete with modesty. 
 
 1203 Shaks. : 3 Henry VI., Act iii., Sc. 2. 
 
 Such an act 
 That blurs the grace and blush of modesty. 
 
 1204 Shaks.: Hamlet, Act iii., Sc. 4. 
 
 Monarchs. 
 
 A morsel for a monarch. 
 
 1205 Shaks.: Ant. and Cleo., Act i., Sc. 5.
 
 DICTIOXARY OF POETICAL QUOTATION'S. 185 
 
 A lucky chance, that oft decides the fate 
 Of mighty monarchs. 
 
 1206 Thomson : Seasons, Summer, Line 1285. 
 
 Money. 
 
 This yellow slave 
 Will knit and break religions; bless the acciirs'd; 
 Make the hoar lei»rosy ador'd ; place thieves, 
 And give them title, knee, and approbation, 
 AVith senators on the bench. 
 
 1207 Shaks. : Timon of A., Act iv., Sc. 3. 
 
 He had rolled in money like pigs in mud. 
 
 1208 Hood: Miss KUmansegg. 
 
 'T is true we 've money, th' only power 
 That all mankind falls down before. 
 
 Butler : Hudibras, Pt. iii., Canto ii., 
 
 1209 Line 1327. 
 
 Get money; still get money, boy. 
 No matter by what means. 
 
 Bex Jonsox : Every Man in His 
 
 1210 Humour, Act ii., Sc. 3. 
 
 Months. 
 
 Thirty days hath September, 
 April, June, and November, 
 All the rest have thirty-one, 
 Excepting February alone : 
 AVhich hath but twenty-eight, in fine, 
 Till leap year gives it twenty-nine. 
 
 1211 Common in the Xew England States. 
 
 Monuments. 
 
 Not marble, nor the gilded monuments 
 
 Of princes, shall outlive this powerful rhyme. 
 
 1212 Shaks. : Sonnet 55.
 
 186 DICTIOXARY OF POETICAL QUOTATIONS. 
 
 Mood. 
 
 Anon they move 
 In perfect phalanx, to the Dorian mood 
 Of flutes and soft recorders. 
 
 1213 Milton : Par. Lost, Bk. i. Line 549. 
 
 Fantastic as a woman's mood, 
 
 And fierce as Frenzy's fever'd blood. 
 
 1214 Scott: Lad?j of the Lake, Canto v., St. 30. 
 
 Moon. 
 
 Now glow'd the firmament 
 With living sapphires; Hesperus, that led 
 The starry host, rode brightest, till tiie Moon, 
 Rising in clouded majesty, at length, 
 Apparent queen, unveil'd her peerless light. 
 And o'er the dark her silver mantle threw. • 
 
 1215 Milton : Par. Lost, Bk. iv., Line 604. 
 
 How like a queen conies forth the lonely Moon 
 From the slow opening curtains of the clouds ; 
 Walking in beauty to her midnight throne ! 
 
 1216 George Ckoly : Diana. 
 
 The moon had climb'd the highest hill 
 
 Which rises o'er the source of Dee, 
 And from the eastern summit shed 
 
 Her silver light on tower and tree. 
 
 1217 John Lowe : Mary's Dream. 
 
 Morality. 
 
 Religion blushing, veils her sacred fires, 
 And unawares Morality expires. 
 
 1218 Pope : Dunciad, Bk. iv., Line 649. 
 
 Morning. 
 
 See how the morning opes her golden gates, 
 And takes her farewell of the glorious sun 1
 
 DICTIONARY OF POETICAL QUOTATIONS. 187 
 
 How well resembles it the prime of youth, 
 Trimm'd like a younker, prancing to his love. 
 
 1219 Shaks. : 3 Henry VI., Act ii., Sc. 1. 
 
 Sweet is the breath of Morn, her rising sweet, 
 With charm of earliest birds. 
 
 1220 Milton: Par. Lost, Bk. iv., Line 641. 
 
 Night wanes — the vapors round the mountains 
 
 curl'd 
 Melt into morn, and light awakes the world. 
 
 1221 Byron: Lara, Canto ii., St. 1. 
 
 The moon is carried off in purple fire : 
 Day breaks at last. 
 
 Robert Browning: Return of the Druses, 
 
 1222 Act 1. 
 
 Lord, in the morning thou shalt hear 
 My voice ascending high. 
 
 1223 Watts : Psalm v. 
 
 Mortality, 
 
 All, that in this w^orld is great or gay. 
 Doth, as a vapor, vanish and decay. 
 
 1224 Spenser : Ruins of Time, Line 55. 
 
 We cannot hold mortality's strong hand. 
 
 1225 Shaks. : King John, Act iv., Sc. 2. 
 
 Mother. 
 
 A woman's love 
 Is mighty, but a mother's heart is weak, 
 And by its weakness overcomes. 
 
 James Russell Lowell: Legend of 
 
 1226 Brittany, Pt. ii., St. 43.
 
 188 DICTIOXARY OF POETICAL QUOTATIONS. 
 
 A mother is a mother still, 
 The holiest thing alive. 
 
 1227 Colkkidge: The Three Graves. 
 
 Mountains. 
 
 I know a mount, the gracious Sun perceives 
 First when he visits, last, too, when he leaves 
 The world; and, vainly favored, it repays 
 The day-long glory of his steadfast gaze 
 By no change of its large calm front of snow. 
 
 Robert Browning: Rudel To The Lnd// 
 
 1228 of Tripoli. 
 
 And to me 
 High mountains are a feeling, but the hum 
 Of human cities torture. 
 
 1229 Byron: Ch. Harold, Canto iii., St. 72. 
 
 Mounting. 
 
 I mount and mount toward the sky, 
 
 The eagle's heart is mine, 
 
 I ride to put the clouds a-by . 
 
 Where silver lakelets shine. 
 
 The roaring streams wax white with snow, 
 
 The eagle's nest draws near. 
 
 The blue sky widens, hid peaks glow, 
 
 The air is frosty clear. 
 
 And so from cliff to cliff I rise, 
 
 The eagle's heart is mine ; 
 
 Above me ever broadning skies, 
 
 Below the rivers shine. 
 
 1230 Hamlin Garland: Mounting 
 
 Mourning. 
 
 We must all die ! 
 All leave ourselves, it matters not where, when,
 
 DICTIOXARY OF POETICAL QUOTATIONS. 189 
 
 Xor how, so we die well: and can that man that 
 
 does so 
 Need lamentation for him ? 
 
 Beaumont and Fletcher: Valentinian, 
 
 1231 Act iv., So. 4. 
 
 Ah, surely nothing dies but something mourns. 
 
 1232 Byron: Don Juan, Canto iii., St. 108. 
 
 Murder. 
 
 ]\Iurder most foul, as in the best it is ; 
 But this most foul, strange, and unnatural. 
 
 1233 Shaks.: Hamlet, Act i., Sc. 5. 
 
 Murder may pass unpunish'd for a time, 
 But tardy justice will o'ertake the crime. 
 1231 Drydex : Cock and Fox, Line 285. 
 
 Music. 
 
 The man that hath no music in himself, 
 Xor is not mov'd with concord of sweet sounds, 
 Is fit for treasons, stratagems, and spoils; 
 The motions of his spirit are dull as night. 
 And his affections dark as Erebus: 
 Let no such man be trusted. 
 
 1235 Shaks. : M. of Venice, Act v., Sc. 1. 
 
 Music's golden tongue 
 Flatter'd to tears this aged man and poor. 
 
 1236 Keats: Eve of St. Agnes, St. 3. 
 
 Music has charms to soothe the savage breast, 
 To soften rocks, or bend the knotted oak ; 
 I 've read that things inanimate have mov'd, 
 And, as with living souls, have been inform'd, 
 By magic numbers and persuasive sound. 
 
 1237 Congreve: Mourning Bride, Act i., Sc. 1.
 
 190 DICTIONARY OF POETICAL QUOTATIONS. 
 
 Music the fiercest grief can charm, 
 
 And fate's severest rage disarm. 
 
 Music can soften pain to ease, 
 
 And make despair and madness please; 
 
 Our joys below it can improve. 
 
 And antedate the bliss above. 
 
 1238 Pope : Ode on St. Cecilia s Day, St. 7, 
 
 When Music, heavenly maid, was young. 
 While yet in early Greece she sung. 
 The Passions oft, to hear her shell, 
 Throng'd around her magic cell. 
 Exulting, trembling, raging, fainting, 
 Possest beyond the Muse's painting. 
 
 1239 Collins: 7'he Pa.'^sions, Line 1. 
 
 The soul of music slumbers in the shell. 
 Till wak'd and kindled by the master's spell. 
 And feeling hearts — touch them but rightly — pour 
 A thousand melodies unheard before. 
 
 1240 Rogers: Human Life, Line 362. 
 
 A few can touch the magic string. 
 
 And noisy Fame is proud to win them; 
 
 Alas for those that never sing. 
 
 But die with all their music in them 1 
 
 1241 Oliver Wendell Holmes ; The Voiceless. 
 
 N. 
 Name. 
 
 What 's in a name? That which we call a rose 
 
 By any other name would smell as sweet. 
 
 1242 Shaks.: Rom. and Jul., Act ii., Sc. 2.
 
 DICTIONARY OF POETICAL QUOTATIONS. 191 
 
 Who hath not owned, with rapture-smitten frame, 
 The power of grace, the magic of a name ? 
 
 1243 Campbell: PL of Hope, Pt. ii., Line 5. 
 
 Nature. 
 
 Xature ever yields reward 
 
 To him who seeks, and loves her best, 
 
 1244 Barky Cornwall: Abore and Beloic. 
 
 O Xature, how fair is thy face, 
 And how light is thy heart, and how friendless thy 
 grace ! 
 
 Owen Meredith: Luciie, Pt. i.. Canto v., 
 
 1245 St. 28. 
 
 To him who in the love of Nature holds 
 Communion with her visible forms, she speaks 
 A various language; for his gayer hours 
 She has a voice of gladness, and a smile 
 And eloquence of beauty, and she glides 
 Into his darker musings, with a mild 
 And healing sympathy, that steals away 
 Their sharpness, ere he is aware. 
 
 1246 William Cullen Bryant: Thanatopsis. 
 
 News — Nev^rspapers. 
 
 The first bringer of unwelcome news 
 Hath but a losing office; and his tongue 
 Sounds ever after as a sullen bell, 
 Remember'd knolling a departing friend. 
 
 1247 Shaks. : 2 Henri/ IV., Act i., Sc. 1. 
 
 Evil news rides post, while good news baits. 
 
 1248 Milton: Sa77ison Agonistes, Line 1538.
 
 192 DICTIONARY OF POETICAL QUOTATIONS. 
 
 Turn to the press — its teeming sheets survey, 
 Big with the wonders of each passing day ; 
 Births, deaths, and weddings, forgeries, fires, and 
 
 wrecks. 
 Harangues and hailstones, brawls and broken 
 
 necks. 
 
 1249 Sprague: Curiosity. 
 
 Newton. 
 
 Nature and Nature's laws lay hid in night: 
 God said, "Let Newton be ! " and all was light. 
 Pope : Epitaph intended for Sir Isaac 
 
 1250 Newton. 
 
 Newton (that proverb of the mind), alas ! 
 Declared, with all his grand discoveries recent, 
 That he himself felt only "like a youth 
 Picking up shells by the great ocean — Truth." 
 
 1251 Byrox: Don Juan, Canto vii., St. 5. 
 
 New Year. 
 
 The wave is breaking on the shore, — 
 The echo fading from the chime — 
 Again the shadow moveth o'er 
 The dial-plate of time ! 
 
 1252 Whittier : The New Year. 
 
 Niagara. 
 
 Flow on for ever in thy glorious robe 
 Of terror and of beauty; . . . God hath set 
 His rainbow on thy forehead; and the cloud 
 Mantles around thy feet. 
 
 1253 Mrs. Sigourney: Niagara. 
 
 Night. 
 
 Dark night, that from the eye his function takes. 
 The ear more quick of apprehension makes. 
 
 1254 SnAKS.
 
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 Now began 
 Night with her sullen wing to double-shade 
 The desert; fowls in their clay nests were couch'd, 
 And now wild beasts came forth, the woods to roam. 
 1255 Milton: Par. Regained, Bk. i., Line 499. 
 
 Awful Night! 
 Ancestral mystery of mysteries. 
 1'256 Gkorge Eliot: Spanish Gypsy, Bk. ivo 
 
 Night, night it is, night upon the palms. 
 Night, night it is, the land wind has blown. 
 Starry, starry night, over deep and height; 
 Love, love in the valley, love all alone. 
 
 Robert Louis Stevenson : The Feast 
 
 1257 of Famine. 
 
 Night is the time to weep. 
 
 To wet with unseen tears 
 Those graves of memoi-y where sleep 
 
 The joys of other years. 
 
 James Montgomery : The Issues of Life 
 
 1258 and Death. 
 
 Nightingale. 
 
 The nightingale, if she should sing by day, 
 When every goose is cackling, M'ould be thought 
 No better a musician than the wren. 
 How many things by season season'd are 
 To their right praise, and true perfection ! 
 
 1259 Shaks. : M. of Venice, Act v., Sc. 1. 
 
 O Nightingale, that on yon bloomy spray 
 Warblest at eve, when all the woods are still, 
 Thou with fresh hope the lover's heart dost fill. 
 
 1260 Milton: Sonnet 1.
 
 194 DICTIONARY OF POETICAL QUOTATIONS. 
 
 Nobility. 
 
 Noble by birth, yet nobler by great deeds. 
 
 Longfellow: Tales of a Wa/jside Inn. 
 
 1261 Emma and Eginhard. 
 
 For he who is honest is noble, 
 Whatever his fortunes or birth. 
 
 1262 Alice Gary: Nohilitij. 
 
 North. 
 
 Ask where 's the north? at York, 't is on the Tweed; 
 
 In Scotland, at the Orcades; and there. 
 
 At Greenland, Zembla, or the Lord knows where. 
 
 1263 Pope: Essay on Man, Epis. ii., Line 222. 
 
 Novembsr. 
 
 Next was November ; he full gross and fat 
 
 As fed with lard, and that right well might seem; 
 
 For he had been a-fatting hogs of late, 
 
 That yet his brows with sweat did reek and steam. 
 
 Spenser: Faerie Quee/ie, Bk.vii.,Ganto vii., 
 
 1264 • St. 40. 
 
 Li rattling showers dark November's rain. 
 From every stormy cloud, descends amain. 
 
 1265 Ruskin: The Months. 
 
 Numbers. 
 
 As yet a child, nor yet a fool to fame, 
 
 I lisp'd in numbers, for the numbers came. 
 
 1266 Pope: Prolorjue to the Satires, Line 127.
 
 DICTIONARY OF POETICAL QUOTATIONS. 195 
 
 o. 
 
 Oak. 
 
 Those green-robed senators of mighty woods, 
 Tall oaks, branch-charmed by the earnest stars, 
 Dream, and so dream all night without a stir. 
 12G7 Keats : Hyperion, Bk. i. 
 
 A song to the oak, the brave old oak, 
 Who hath ruled in the greenwood long! 
 
 1268 Henry F. Chorley: The Brave Old Oak, 
 
 Oars. 
 
 The oars were silver. 
 Which to the tune of flutes kept stroke, and made 
 The water which they beat to follow faster, 
 As amorous of their strokes. 
 
 1269 Shaks.: Ant. and Cleo., Act ii., Sc. 2. 
 
 Oaths. 
 
 'T is not the many oaths that make the truth ; 
 But the plain single vow, that is vow'd true. 
 
 1270 Shaks.: All 's Well, Act iv., Sc. 2. 
 
 Oaths were not purpos'd, more than law, 
 To keep the good and just in awe, 
 But to confine the bad and sinful. 
 Like moral cattle, in a pinfold. 
 
 1271 Butler : Hudibras, Ft. ii., Canto ii.. Line 197. 
 
 Obedience. 
 
 Let them obey that know not how to rule. 
 
 1272 Shaks.: 2 Henry 17., Act v., Sc. 1. 
 
 Obedience is the Christian's crown. 
 
 1273 Schiller: Fif/ht with the Dragon, St. 24.
 
 196 DICTIONARY OF POETICAL QUOTATIONS. 
 
 Observation. 
 
 For he is but a bastard to the time 
 That doth not smack of observation. 
 
 1274 SiiAKS. : King John, Act i., Sc. 1. 
 
 Ocean. 
 
 Roll on, thou deep and dark blue Ocean — roll ! 
 Ten thousand fleets sweej^ over thee in vain ; 
 ]\Ian marks the earth with ruin — his control 
 Stops with the shore; — upon the watery plain 
 The wrecks are all thy deed, nor doth remain 
 A shadow of man's ravage, save his own, 
 When, for a moment, like a drop of rain, 
 He sinks into thy depths with bubbling groan. 
 Without a grave, unknell'd, uncoffin'd, and un- 
 known. 
 
 1275 Byrox: Ch. Harold, Canto iv., St. 179. 
 
 One height 
 Showed him the ocean, stretched in liquid light, 
 And he could hear its multitudinous roar, 
 Its plunge and hiss upon the pebbled shore. 
 
 1276 George Eliot: Legend ofJuhcd, Line 506. 
 
 October. 
 
 The sweet calm sunshine of October, now 
 Warms the low spot ; upon its grassy mould 
 The purple oak-leaf falls ; the birchen bough 
 Drops its bright spoil like arrow-heads of gold. 
 
 1277 AViLLiAM CuLLEN Bryant : October, 1866. 
 
 October's foliage yellows with his cold. 
 
 1278 Ruskin: r/ie J/on/^.y. 
 
 Offence. 
 
 In such a time as this, it is not meet 
 
 That every nice offence should bear his comment. 
 
 1279 Shaks. : Jul. Ccesar, Act iv., Sc. 3.
 
 DICTIONARY OF POETICAL QUOTATIONS. 197 
 
 And love the offender, yet detest the offence. 
 
 1280 Pope: Eloisa to A., Line 192. 
 
 Old Age. 
 
 Though I look old, yet I am strong and lusty; 
 For in my youth I never did apply 
 Hot and rebellious liquors in my blood ; 
 Nor did not v^ith unbashful forehead woo 
 The means of weakness and debility : 
 Therefore my age is as a lusty winter, 
 Frosty, but kindly. 
 
 1281 Shaks. : As You Like It, Act ii., Sc. 3. 
 
 When he is forsaken. 
 
 Withered and shaken, 
 
 What can an old man do but die ? 
 
 1282 Hood: Ballad. 
 
 Opinion. 
 
 Opinion 's but a fool, that makes us scan 
 The outward habit by the inward man. 
 
 1283 Shaks. : Pericles, Act ii., Sc. 2. 
 
 He that complies against his will 
 Is of his own opinion still. 
 
 Butler: Hudihras, Pt. iii.. Canto iii., 
 1281 Line 547. 
 
 Opportunity. 
 
 O Opportunity ! thy guilt is great : 
 'T is thou that execut'st the traitor's treason ; 
 Thou sett'st the wolf where he the lamb may get; 
 Whoever plots the sin, thou point'st the season; 
 'T is thou that spurn'st at right, at law, at reason. 
 1285 Shaks.: R. of Lucrece, Line 876.
 
 198 DICTIONARY OF POETICAL QUOTATIONS. 
 
 Oracle. 
 
 I am Sir Oracle, 
 And when I ope my lips, let no dog bark ! 
 
 1286 SnAKS.: M. of I'enice, Act i., So. 1. 
 
 Oratory. 
 
 Thence to the famous orators repair. 
 Those ancient, whose resistless eloquence 
 Wielded at will that fierce democracy. 
 Shook the Arsenal, and fuhnined over Greece, 
 To Macedon, and Artaxerxes' throne. 
 
 1287 Milton: Par. Regained, Bk. iv., Line 267. 
 
 Order. 
 
 Order is heav'n's first law; and this confest, 
 Some are, and must be, greater than the rest, 
 More rich, more wise ; but who infers from hence 
 That such are happier, shocks all common sense. 
 
 1288 Pope: Essay on Man, Epis. iv., Line 49. 
 
 Ornament. 
 
 Thus ornament is but the guiled shore 
 To a most dangerous sea. 
 
 1289 Shaks. : M. of Venice, Act iii., Sc. 2. 
 
 Owl. 
 
 It was the owl that shriek'd, the fatal bellman, 
 Which gives the stern'st good-night. 
 
 1290 Shaks.: Macbeth, Act ii., Sc. 2. 
 
 P. 
 
 Pain. 
 
 Pain pays the income of each precious thing. 
 
 1291 Shaks.: /2. o/"Zwcrece, Line 3-34. 
 
 Pain is no longer pain when it is past. 
 
 Margarkt J. Preston: Sonnet. Nature's 
 
 1292 Lesson.
 
 DICTIONARY OF POETICAL QUOTATIONS. 199 
 
 The sad mechanic exercise 
 Like dull narcotics numbing pain. 
 
 1293 Tennyson : In Memoriam, Prologue, v., St. 2. 
 
 Painter. 
 
 With hue like that when some great painter dips 
 His pencil in the gloom of earthquake and eclipse. 
 
 1294 Shelley : Revolt of Islam, Canto v., St. 2^3. 
 
 Palm. 
 
 Xo hammers fell, no ponderous axes rung ; 
 Like some tall palm the mystic fabric sprung. 
 
 1295 Heber : Palestine. 
 
 Pan. 
 
 And they heard the words it said, — 
 "Pan is dead ! great Pan is dead! 
 Pan, Pan is dead ! " 
 
 1296 Mrs. Browning : The Dead Pan. 
 
 Pang. 
 
 And even the pang preceding death 
 Bids expectation rise. 
 1297 Goldsmith : The Captivity, Act ii. 
 
 Paradise. 
 
 'T is sweet, as year by year we lose 
 Friends out of sight, in faith to muse 
 How grows in Paradise our store. 
 
 1298 Keblk: Burial of the Dead. 
 
 Pardon. 
 
 Forgiveness to the injured does belong; 
 But they ne'er pardon who have done the wrong. 
 Dryden: Conquest of Granada, Pt. ii., 
 
 1299 Act i., So. 2.
 
 200 DICTIONARY OF POETICAL QUOTATIONS. 
 
 Parents. 
 
 Great families of yesterday we show, 
 
 And lords, whose parents were the Lord knows who. 
 
 1300 Defoe : True-Born EnfjUshman, Pt. i., Line L 
 
 Parting. 
 
 What ! gone without a word ? 
 Ay, so true love should do : it cannot speak ; 
 For truth hath better deeds, than words, to graee it. 
 
 1301 Shaks. : Tico Gent, of V., Act ii., Sc. 2. 
 
 They who go 
 Feel not the pain of parting; it is they 
 Who stay behind that suffer. 
 
 1302 Longfellow: Michael Angela, Pt. I., 1. 
 
 Such partings break the heart they fondly hope to 
 heal. 
 
 1303 Byron: Ch. Harold, Canto i., St. 10. 
 
 Passion. 
 
 Fountain heads and pathless groves, 
 Places which pale passion loves. 
 
 John Fletcher: The Nice Valour, 
 
 1304 Act iii., Sc. 3. 
 
 Passions are likened best to floods and streams: 
 The shallow murmur, but the deep are dumb. 
 
 1305 Sir Walter Raleigh: Silent Lover. 
 
 Past, The. 
 
 Over the trackless past, somewhere. 
 Lie the lost days of our tropic youth, 
 Only regained by faith and prayer. 
 Only recalled by prayer and plaint: 
 Each lost day has its patron saint. 
 
 1306 Bret Harte: The Lost Galleon, Last St.
 
 DICTIONARY OF POETICAL QUOTATIONS. 201 
 
 Build thee more stately mansions, O my soul, 
 As the swift seasons roll ! 
 Leave thy low-vaulted past ! 
 
 Oliver Wendell Holmes: Chambered 
 
 1307 Nautilus. 
 
 Patience. 
 
 How poor are they, that have not patience ! 
 What wound did ever heal, but by degrees ? 
 
 1308 Shaks. : Othello, Act ii., Sc. 3. 
 
 Patience, thou young and rose-lipp'd cherubim. 
 
 1309 Shaks.: Othello, Act iv., Sc. 2. 
 
 Patience is more oft the exercise 
 Of saints, the trial of their fortitude, 
 Making them each his own deliverer, 
 And victor over all 
 That tyranny or fortune can inflict. 
 
 1310 Milton: Samson A gonistes,lAue 12^1. 
 
 Patience is a plant 
 That grows not in all gardens. 
 ■ 1311 Longfellow: J/2cAaeZ ^4 n^e^o, Pt. ii., 4. 
 
 There are times when patience proves at fault. 
 
 1312 Robert Browning : Paracelsus, Sc. 3. 
 
 Patriotism. 
 
 Strike — for your altars and your fires; 
 Strike — for the green graves of your sires ; 
 God, and your native land ! 
 
 1313 Fitz-Greexe Halleck: Marco Bozzaris.
 
 202 DICTIONARY OF POETICAL QUOTATIONS. 
 
 One flag, one land, one heart, one hand, 
 One Nation evermore ! 
 
 Oliver Wendell Holmes: Voyage of 
 
 1314 the Good Ship Union. 
 
 My country, 't is of thee, 
 Sweet land of liberty, — 
 
 Of thee I sing : 
 Land where my fathers died, 
 Land of the pilgrims' pride, 
 From every mountain side 
 
 Let freedom ring. 
 
 1315 Samuel F. Smith : Nalional Hymn. 
 
 Sail on, O Ship of State ! 
 Sail on, O Union, strong and great I 
 Humanity with all its fears. 
 With all the hopes of future years, 
 Is hanging breathless on thy fate ! 
 
 1316 Longfellow: Building of the Ship. 
 
 Peace. 
 
 A peace is of the nature of a conquest; 
 For then both parties nobly are subdued, 
 And neither party loser. 
 
 1317 Shaks.: 2 Henry IV., Act iv., Sc. 2. 
 
 I, in this weak piping time of peace, 
 Have no delight to pass away the time, 
 Unless to see my shadow in the sun. 
 
 1318 Shaks.: Richard III., Act i., Sc. 1. 
 
 Why prate of peace ? when, warriors all, 
 We clank in harness into hall, 
 And ever bare upon the board 
 Lies the necessary sword. 
 
 1319 Robert Louis Stevenson : The Woodman.
 
 DICTIOXARY OF POETICAL QUOTATIONS. 203 
 
 Peace hath her victories, 
 No less renowned than war. 
 
 1320 Milton: Sonnet xvi. 
 
 Peace was on the earth and in the air. 
 
 1321 William CuLLEX Buyant: The Ages, St. SO, 
 
 Pearls. 
 
 Go boldly forth, my simple lay, 
 Whose accents flow with artless ease. 
 Like orient pearls at random strung. 
 
 Sir William Jones: A Persian Song 
 
 1322 of Hafiz. 
 
 Pen. 
 
 Beneath the rule of men entirely great, 
 The pen is mightier than the sword. 
 
 1323 Bulwer-Lyttox: Richelieu, Act ii., Sc. 2. 
 
 This dull product of a scoffer's pen. 
 
 1324 Wordsworth: Excursion^'Kk. \\. 
 
 People. 
 
 And what the people but a herd confus'd, 
 A miscellaneous rabble, who extol 
 Things vulgar, and, well weigh'd, scarce worth the 
 praise? 
 
 1325 MiLTOx: Par. Regained, Bk. iii.. Line 19. 
 
 Perfection. 
 
 One fairer than my love ! the all-seeing sun 
 Ne'er saw her match, since first the world begun. 
 
 1326 Shaks. : Rom. and Jul., Act i., Sc. 2.
 
 204 DICTIONARY OF POETICAL QUOTATIONS. 
 
 Perjury. 
 
 At lovers' perjuries, 
 They say, Jove laughs. 
 
 1327 SiiAKS. : Rom: and Jul., Act ii., Sc. 2 
 
 Perseverance. 
 
 Perseverance, dear my lord. 
 Keeps honor bright. To have done, is to hang 
 Quite out of fashion, like a rusty mail 
 In monumental mockery. 
 
 1328 Shaks.: Troil. and Cress., Act m., ^c. ?u 
 
 Persuasion. 
 
 He from whose lips divine persuasion flows. 
 
 1329 Pope: Iliad, Bk. vii., Line 143. 
 
 Petitions. 
 
 Petition me no petitions, sir, to-day ; 
 Let other hours be set apart for business. 
 
 1330 Fielding: Tom Thumb the Great, Act \.,Sc.2. 
 
 Philosophy. 
 
 How charming is divine Philosophy ! 
 
 Not harsh and crabbed, as dull fools suppose, 
 
 But musical as is Apollo's lute, 
 
 And a perpetual feast of nectar'd sweets, 
 
 Where no crude surfeit reigns. 
 
 1331 Milton: Co/nus, Line 476. 
 
 Physic. 
 
 Throw physic to the dogs, I '11 none of it. 
 
 1332 8HAKS. : Macbeth, Act v., Sc. 3. 
 
 Take physic, pomp ; 
 Expose thyself to feel what wretches feel. 
 
 1333 Shaks.: A'm^ Ze«r, Act iii., Sc. 4.
 
 DICTIONARY OF POETICAL QUOTATIONS. 205 
 
 Piety. 
 
 Why should not piety be made, 
 As well as equity, a trade, 
 And men get money by devotion, 
 As well as making of a motion ? 
 
 1334 BcTLEK : Misc. Thoughts, Line 295. 
 
 Pilot. 
 
 Oh pilot, 't is a fearful night ! 
 There 's danger on the deep. 
 
 1335 Thomas Haynes Bayly: The Pilot. 
 
 Pines. 
 
 Risest from forth thy silent sea of pines. 
 
 1336 Coleridge : Hymn in the Vale of Chamouni. 
 
 Pipe. 
 
 Divine in hookas, glorious in a pipe 
 
 When tipp'd with amber, mellow, rich, and ripe. 
 
 1337 Byron: The Island, Canto ii., St. 19. 
 
 Pity. 
 
 Pity is the virtue of the law, 
 And none but tyrants use it cruelly. 
 
 1338 Shaks.: Timon of A., Act iii., Sc. 5. 
 
 Careless their merits or their faults to scan. 
 His pity gave ere charity began. 
 
 1339 Goldsmith: Des. Village, him IQl. 
 
 Place. 
 
 The fittest place where man can die 
 Is where he dies for man ! 
 
 Michael J. Barry: The Dublin Nation, 
 
 1340 Sept. 28, 1S44.
 
 206 DICTIONARY OF POETICAL QUOTATIONS. 
 
 Play. 
 
 The play 's the thing 
 Wherein I '11 catch the conscience of the king, 
 loll SiiAKS. : Hamlet, Act ii., Sc. 2. 
 
 Pleasure. 
 
 Pleasnre, and revenge, 
 Have ears more deaf than addei's, to the voice 
 Of any true decision. 
 
 1342 Shaks.: Troil. and Cress., Act ii., Sc. 2. 
 
 But not e'en pleasure to excess is good : 
 What most elates, then sinks the soul as low. 
 
 Thomson : Castle of Indolence, Canto i., 
 
 1343 St. 63. 
 
 Pleasure must succeed to pleasure, else past pleasure 
 turns to pain. 
 
 1344 Robert Browning : La Saisiaz, Line 170. 
 
 But pleasures are like poppies spread, 
 You seize the flower, its bloom is shed. 
 
 1345 Burns: Tam o' Shanter. 
 
 Softly sweet, in Lydian measures. 
 Soon he sooth'd his soul to pleasures. 
 
 1346 Dryden: Alex. Feast, Line 97. 
 
 Poetry — Poets. 
 
 It is not poetry that makes men poor; 
 For few do write that were not so before. 
 
 1347 Butler : Misc. Thoughts, Line 441. 
 
 A verse may find him who a sermon flies, 
 And turn delight into a sacrifice. 
 
 1348 Herbert : Temple, Church Porch, St. 1.
 
 DICTIONARY OF POETICAL QUOTATIONS. 207 
 
 Poets are all who love, who feel great truths, 
 And tell them; and the truth of truths is love. 
 Bailey : Fe.stus, Sc. Another and a Better 
 
 1349 World. 
 
 The poor poet 
 Worships without reward, nor hopes to find 
 A heaven save in his worship). 
 
 1350 George Eliot : Spanish Gypsy, Bk. i. 
 
 God is the Perfect Poet, 
 Who in creation acts his own conceptions. 
 
 1351 Robert Browning : Paracelsus, Sc. 2. 
 
 Sweet are the pleasures that to verse belong, 
 And doubly sweet a brotherhood in song. 
 
 1352 Keats : Epis. to George Felton Mathews. 
 
 Blessings be with them, and eternal praise, 
 Who gave us nobler loves and nobler cares. — 
 The poets who on earth have made us heirs 
 Of truth and pure delight, by heavenly lays. 
 
 1353 Wordsworth : Personal Talk. 
 
 Pole. 
 
 True as the needle to the pole, 
 Or as the dial to the sun. 
 
 1354 Barton Booth: Song. 
 
 Pomp. 
 
 Give lettered pomp to teeth of Time, 
 
 So '• Bonnie Doon " but tarry; 
 Blot out the epic's stately rhyme, 
 
 But spare his " Highland Mary " ! 
 
 1355 Whittier : Lines on Burns
 
 20(S DICTIOXARY OF POETICAL QUOTATIONS. 
 
 Poppies. 
 
 As full-blown poppies, overcharg'd with rain, 
 Decline the head, and drooping kiss the plain, — 
 So sinks the youth. 
 
 1356 Pope : Iliad, Bk. viii., Line 371. 
 
 Popularity. 
 
 O, he sits high in all the people's hearts : 
 And that, which would appear oifence in us, 
 His countenance, like richest alchymy, 
 Will change to virtue and to worthiness. 
 
 1357 Shaks. : Jul. C<xsar, Act i., Sc. 3. 
 
 Bareheaded, popularly low he bow'd. 
 And paid the salutations of the crowd. 
 
 Dryden : Palamon and Arcite, Bk. iii., 
 
 1358 Line 689. 
 
 Possession. 
 
 What we have w^e prize not to the Avorth, 
 Whiles we enjoy it ; but being lacked and lost, 
 AVhy then we rack the value, then we find 
 The virtue that possession would not show us 
 Whiles it was ours. 
 
 1359 Shaks. : Much Ado, Act iv., Sc. 1. 
 
 Possession means to sit astride of the world, 
 Instead of having it astride of you. 
 
 Charles Kingsley: Saint's Tragedy, 
 
 1360 Act i., Sc. 2. 
 
 Poverty. 
 
 My poverty, but not my will, consents. 
 
 loGl Shaks. : Rotn. and Jul., Act v., Sc. 1.
 
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 If we from wealth to poverty descend, 
 
 Want gives to know the flatterer from the friend. 
 
 1362 Dryden : Wife of Bath, Line 485. 
 
 Most wretched men 
 Are cradled into poetry by wrong. 
 They learn in suffering what they teach in song. 
 
 1363 Shelley : Julian and Maddalo. 
 
 In ev'ry sorrowing soul I pour'd delight, 
 And poverty stood smiling in my sight. 
 
 1364 Pope : Odyssey^ Bk. xvii., Line 505. 
 
 PoTver. 
 
 What can power give more than food and drink, 
 To live at ease, and not be bound to think? 
 
 1365 Dryden : Medal, Line 235. 
 
 The good old rule 
 Sufficeth them, the simple plan, 
 That they should take who have the power, 
 And they should keep who can. 
 
 1366 Wordsworth : Roh Roy'^s Grave. 
 
 Prairie. 
 
 Far in the East like low-hung clouds 
 
 The waving woodlands lie ; 
 Far in the West the glowing plain 
 
 Melts warmly in the sky. 
 Xo accent wounds the reverent air, — 
 
 No footprint dints the sod, — 
 Low in the light the praiiie lies 
 
 Rapt in a dream of God. 
 
 1367 John Hay : The Praine.
 
 210 DICTIONARY OF POETICAL QUOTATIONS. 
 
 Praise. 
 
 Praising what is lost, 
 Makes the remenibrance dear. 
 1308 SuAKs. : All '*• Well, Act v., Sc. 3. 
 
 Damn with faint praise, assent with civil leer, 
 And without sneering teach the rest to sneer. 
 
 1369 Pope : Prologue to the Satires, Line 201. 
 
 Prayer. 
 
 Let never day nor night unhallow'd pass, 
 But still remember what the Lord hath done. 
 
 1370 Shaks. : 2 Heriry VI., Act ii., Sc. 1. 
 
 If b}^ prayer 
 Incessant I could hope to change the will 
 Of him who all things can, I would not cease 
 To weary him with my assiduous cries ; 
 But prayer against his absolute decree 
 No more avails than breath against the wind 
 Blown stifling back on him that breathes it forth : 
 Therefore to his great bidding I submit. 
 
 1371 Milton : Par. Lost, Bk. xi., Line 307. 
 
 He prayeth best who loveth best 
 All things both great and small; 
 For the dear God who loveth us, 
 He made and loveth all. 
 
 1372 Coleridge: Ancient Mariner, Vi. v'\\. 
 
 God answers sharp and sudden on some prayers, 
 And thrusts the thing we have prayed for in our 
 
 face, 
 A gauntlet with a gift in 't. 
 1373 Mks. Browning : Aurora Leigh, Bk. ii.
 
 DICTIOXARY OF POETICAL QUOTATIONS. 21 1 
 
 More things are wrought by prayer 
 Than this world dreams of. 
 
 1374 Tennysox: Morte d' Arthur, Line 247. 
 
 Preaching. 
 
 I preached as never sure to preach again, 
 And as a dying man to dying men. 
 
 Richard Baxter : Love Breathing 
 
 1375 Thanks and Praise. 
 
 Present. 
 
 The Present, the Present is all thou hast 
 For thy sure possessing ; 
 Like the patriarch's angel hold it fast 
 Till it gives its blessing. 
 
 1376 AVhittier : My Soul and I, St. 34. 
 
 Press. 
 
 Here shall the Press the People's right maintain, 
 Unaw'd by influence and unbrib'd by gain. 
 
 Joseph Story : Motto of the " Salem 
 
 1377 Register:' 
 
 Pride. 
 
 Pride hath no other glass 
 To show itself, but pride ; for supple knees 
 Feed arrogance, and are the proud man's fees. 
 
 1378 Shaks. : Troll, and Cress., Act iii., Sc. 3. 
 
 And the Devil did grin, for his darling sin 
 Is pride that apes humility. 
 
 1379 Coleridge : The DeviVs Thoughts. 
 
 Priest. 
 
 No nightly trance or breathed spell 
 
 Inspires the pale-eyed priest from the prophetic cell. 
 
 1380 Milton : Hymn on Christ's Nativity, Line 173.
 
 212 DICTIONARY OF POETICAL QUOTATIONS. 
 
 Primrose. 
 
 A primrose by a river's brim 
 A yellow primrose was to him, 
 And it was nothing more. 
 
 1381 Wordsworth : Peter Bell, Pt. 1., St. 12. 
 
 Printing. 
 
 Blest be the gracious Powder, who taught mankind 
 To stamp a lasting image of the mind ! 
 
 1382 Crabbe : The Library, Line 69. 
 
 Some said, "John, print it" ; others said, "Not so." 
 Some said, "It might do good"; others said, "No." 
 Bunyan: Pilgrim'' s Progress, Apology for 
 
 1383 his Book. 
 
 Prison. 
 
 Stone walls do not a prison make, 
 
 Nor iron bars a cage; 
 
 Minds innocent and quiet, take 
 
 That for an hermitage. 
 
 1381 Lovelace: To A Ithea, from Prison, iv. 
 
 Procrastination. 
 
 Procrastination is the thief of time: 
 Year after year it steals, till all are fled, 
 And to the mercies of a moment leaves 
 The vast concerns of an eternal scene. 
 
 1385 Young : Night Thoughts, Night i., Line 393. 
 
 Prodigies. 
 
 When these prodigies 
 Do so conjointly meet, let not men say 
 "These are their reasons, — They are natural;" 
 For, I believe, they are portentous things 
 Unto the climate that they point upon. 
 
 1386 Shaks. : Jul. Ccesar, Act i., Sc. 3.
 
 DICTIOXARY OF POETICAL QUOTATIONS. 213 
 
 Progress. 
 
 Yet 1 doubt not thro' the ages one increasing pur- 
 pose runs, 
 
 And the thoughts of men are widen 'd with the 
 process of the suns. 
 
 1387 Tennyson: Locksley Hall, St. 69. 
 
 Promise. 
 
 And be these juggling fiends no more believ'd, 
 That palter with us in a double sense : 
 That keep the word of promise to our ear 
 And break it to our hope. 
 
 1388 Shaks. : Macbeth, Act v., So. 8. 
 
 Proof. 
 
 Give me the ocular proof ; 
 
 Make me to see 't ; or, at the least, so prove it, 
 That the probation bear no hinge, nor loop. 
 To hang a doubt on. 
 
 1389 Shaks.: Othello, Act iii., Sc. 3. 
 
 Prophecy. 
 
 . Coming events cast their shadows before. 
 
 1390 Campbell : LochieVs Warning. 
 
 Be thou the rainbow to the storms of life. 
 The evening beam that smiles the cloud away, 
 And tints to-morrow with prophetic ray ! 
 
 1391 Byron: Bride of Ah., Canto ii., St. 20. 
 
 Prose. 
 
 And he whose fustian 's so sublimely bad, 
 It is not poetry, but prose run mad. 
 
 1392 Pope : Prol. to Satires, Line 186.
 
 214 DICTIONARY OF POETICAL QUOTATIONS. 
 
 And Sidney, warbler of poetic prose. 
 
 1393 CowPER : Task; Bk. iv., Line 514. 
 
 Proselytes. 
 
 'i'he greatest saints and sinners have been made 
 Of proselytes of one another's trade. 
 
 1394 Butler : Alisc. Thoughts, Line 315. 
 
 Prospects. 
 
 As distant prospects please us, but when near 
 We find but desert rocks and fleeting air. 
 
 Samuel Gartii : Dispensatory, Canto iii., 
 
 1395 Line 27. 
 
 Prosperity. 
 
 Prosperity 's the very bond of love ; 
 
 Whose fresh complexion, and whose heart together 
 
 Affliction alters. 
 
 1396 Shaks. : Wint. Tale, Act iv., Sc. 3. 
 
 Snrer to prosper than prosperity 
 Could have assured us. 
 
 1397 Milton: Par. Lost, Bk. ii., Line 39. 
 
 Providence. 
 
 There 's a special providence in the fall of a sparrow. 
 
 1398 Shaks. : Hamlet, Act v., Sc. 2. 
 
 What in me is dark 
 Illumine, what is low laise and support; 
 That, to the height of this great argument, 
 I may assert Eternal Providence 
 And justify the ways of God to men. 
 1399 Milton : Par. Lost, Bk. i., Line 22.
 
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 AVho finds not Providence all good and wise, 
 Alike in what it gives, and what denies? 
 
 1400 Pope : Essay on Man, Epis. i. Line 205. 
 
 'T is Providence alone secures 
 
 In every change both mine and yours. 
 
 1101 CowPER : A Fahle. Moral. 
 
 Prudence. 
 
 Henceforth His might we know, and know our own, 
 So as not either to provoke, or dread 
 Xew war, provoked. 
 
 1102 :Miltox: Par. Lost, Bk. L, Line 643. 
 
 "Where passion leads or prudence points the way. 
 
 1103 Robert Lowth : Choice of Hercules, i. 
 
 Prudery. 
 
 Yon ancient prude, whose wither'd features show 
 
 She might be young some forty years ago, 
 
 Her elbows pinion'd close upon her hips, 
 
 Her head erect, her fan upon her lips, 
 
 Her eyebrows arch'd, her eyes both gone astray 
 
 To watch yon amorous couple in their play, 
 
 "With bony and unkerchief'd neck defies 
 
 The rude inclemency of wintry skies, 
 
 And sails, with lappet-head and mincing airs, 
 
 Duly at chink of bell to morning prayers. 
 
 1101 CowPER : Truth, Line 13. 
 
 Pulpit. 
 
 And pulpit, drum ecclesiastick, 
 "Was beat with fist instead of a stick. 
 
 1105 Butler : Hudibras, Pt. i.. Canto i.. Line 11.
 
 216 DICTIONARY OF POETICAL QUOTATIONS. 
 
 Punishment. 
 
 Back to thy punishment, 
 False fugitive, and to thy speed add wings. 
 
 1406 Milton : Par. Lost, Bk. ii., Line 699. 
 
 Purity. 
 
 'T is said the lion will turn and flee 
 From a maid in the pride of her purity. 
 
 1407 Bykon : Siege of Corinth, St. 21. 
 
 Purpose. 
 
 ]\lake thick my blood, 
 Stop up the access and passage to remorse; 
 That no compunctious visitings of nature 
 Shake my fell purpose. 
 
 1408 Shaks. : Macbeth, Act i., Sc. 5. 
 
 Purse. 
 
 Who steals my purse steals trash ; 't is something, 
 nothing; 
 
 'T was mine, 't is his, and has been slave to thou- 
 sands. 
 
 1409 Shaks. : Othello, Act iii., Sc. 3. 
 
 Pygmies. 
 
 Pygmies are pygmies still, though percht on Alps ; 
 And pyramids are pyramids in vales. 
 
 1410 Young : Night Thoughts, Night vi., Line 309. 
 
 Q- 
 
 Quacks. 
 
 Out, you impostors ! 
 Quack-salving cheating mountebanks ! — your "skill 
 Is to make sound men sick, and sick men kill. 
 
 1411 Massinger : Virgin-Martyr, Act iv., Sc. 1.
 
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 Void of all honor, avaricious, rash, 
 
 The daring tribe compound their boasted trash — 
 
 Tincture of syrup, lotion, drop, or pill : 
 
 All tempt the sick to trust the lying bill. 
 
 1412 Crabbe : Borough, Letter vii., Line 75. 
 
 Quakers. 
 
 Upright Quakers please both man and God. 
 
 1413 Pope : Dunciad, Bk. iv., Line 208. 
 
 The Quaker loves an ample brim, 
 
 A hat that bows to no salaam ; 
 And dear the beaver is to him 
 
 As if it never made a dam. 
 
 1414 Hood : All Round my Hat. 
 
 Quarrels. 
 
 Beware 
 Of entrance to a quarrel : but, being in. 
 Bear 't that the opposed may beware of thee. 
 
 1415 Shaks. : Hamlet, Act i., Sc. 3. 
 
 They who in quarrels interpose, 
 Must often wipe a bloody nose. 
 
 1416 Gay: Fables, Ft. i., Fable 34. 
 
 Queen. 
 
 She moves a goddess, and she looks a queen. 
 
 1417 Pope : Iliad, Bk. iii., Line 208. 
 
 Quickness. 
 
 With too much quickness ever to be taught ; 
 With too much thinking to have common thought. 
 
 1418 Pope : Moral Essays, Epis. ii., Line 97.
 
 218 DICTIOXARY OF POETICAL QUOTATIONS. 
 
 Quiet. 
 
 Quiet to quick bosoms is a hell. 
 
 1419 Bykon : Ch. Harold, Canto iii., St. 42. 
 
 Safe in the hallowed quiets of the past. 
 
 1420 James Russell Lowell : Jlie Cathedral. 
 
 Quips. 
 
 Quips and Cranks and wanton Wiles, 
 Nods and Becks and wreathed Smiles. 
 
 1421 Milton : L'Allegro, Line 25. 
 
 Quotation. 
 
 The devil can cite scrij^ture for his purpose. 
 
 1422 Shaks. : M. of Venice, Act i., Sc. 3. 
 
 Nor suffers Horace more in wrong translations 
 By wits, than critics in as wrong quotations. 
 
 1423 Pope : E. on Criticism, Ft. iii., Line 103. 
 
 Race. 
 
 He lives to build, not boast, a generous race; 
 No tenth transmitter of a foolish face. 
 
 1424 IvicnARD Savage : The Bastard, Line 7. 
 
 Rage. 
 
 Could swell the soul to rage, or kindle soft desire. 
 
 1425 Dryden : Alex. Feast, Line IGO. 
 
 Rain. 
 
 For the rain it raineth every day. 
 
 1426 Shaks. : Tw. Night, Act v., Sc. 1.
 
 DICTIONARY OF POETICAL QUOTATIONS. 219 
 
 How beautiful is the rain ! 
 
 After the dust and heat, 
 
 In the broad and tiery street, 
 
 Jn the narrow- lane, 
 
 How beautiful is the rain ! 
 
 1^27 Longfellow : Rain in Summer, Sts. 1 and 2. 
 
 The rain comes when the wind calls. 
 
 1428 Emerson: Woodnoles, Pt. ii., Line 27L 
 
 In winter, when the dismal rain 
 
 Came down in slanting lines. 
 1129 Alexander '^^iityl: A Life Drama,^c.2. 
 
 Rainbow. 
 
 Hail, many-colored messenger, that ne'er 
 
 Dost disobey the wife of Jupiter; 
 
 Who, with thy saffron wings, upon my flowers 
 
 Diffusest honey-drops, refreshing showers ; 
 
 And with each end of thy blue bow dost crown 
 
 ^My bosky acres, and my unshrubb'd down. 
 
 Rich scarf to my proud earth. 
 
 1133 Shaks. : Tempest, Act iv., Sc. 1. 
 
 That gracious thing made up of tears and light. 
 
 1131 Coleridge : Two Founts, St. 5. 
 
 The rainbow comes and goes, 
 And lovely is the rose. 
 
 Wordsworth: Intimations of Immortal it i^, 
 
 1132 St. 2. 
 
 There was an awful rainbow once in heaven: 
 We know her woof, her texture ; she is given 
 In the dull catalogue of common things. 
 Philosophy will clip an angel's wings. 
 
 1133 Keats : Lamia, Pt. ii.
 
 220 DICTIOXARY OF POETICAL QUOTATIONS. 
 
 Rank. 
 
 Superior worth your rank requires : 
 For that, mankind reveres your sires; 
 If you degenerate from your race, 
 Their merits heighten your disgrace. 
 
 1434 Gay : Fables, Pt. ii., Fable 11. 
 
 The rank is but the guinea stamp. 
 The man 's the gowd for a' that. 
 
 1435 Burns : For a' That and a' That. 
 
 Raptures. 
 
 If such there breathe, go, mark him well I 
 For him no minstrel raptures swell. 
 
 Scott : Lay of the Last Minstrel, Canto vi., 
 
 1436 St. 1. 
 
 Rashness. 
 
 Where men of judgment creep and feel their way, 
 The positive pronounce without dismay. 
 
 1437 CowPER : Conversation, Line 145. 
 
 One more unfortunate 
 
 Weary of breath. 
 Rashly importunate. 
 
 Gone to her death. 
 
 1438 Hood: The Bridge of Sighs. 
 
 Reading. 
 
 Many books. 
 Wise men have said, are wearisome ; who reads 
 Incessantly, and to his reading brings not 
 A spirit and judgment equal or superior. 
 Uncertain and unsettled still remains — 
 Deep versed in books, and shallow in himself. 
 
 1439 Milton : Par. Regained, Bk. iv., Line 321.
 
 DICTIOXARY OF POETICAL QUOTATIONS. 221 
 
 When the last reader reads no more. 
 
 Oliver Wendell Holmes: The Last 
 \U0 Reader. 
 
 Stuff the head 
 With all such reading as was never read : 
 For thee explain a thing till all men doubt it. 
 U41 Pope: Dunclad, Bk. iv., Line 249. 
 
 Realms. 
 
 These are our realms, no limit to their sway, — 
 Our flag the sceptre all who meet obey. 
 
 1442 Byrox: Corsair, Canto i., St. 1. 
 
 Reason. 
 
 1 have no other but a woman's reason; 
 I think him so, because I think him so. 
 
 1443 Shaks. : Two Gent, of V., Act i., So. 2. 
 
 Reason raise o'er instinct as you can, 
 
 In this 't is God directs, in that 't is man. 
 
 1444 Pope : Essay on Man, Epis. iii., Line 97. 
 
 I would make 
 Reason my guide. 
 
 William Cullen Bryant : Conjunction 
 
 1445 of Jupiter and Venus. 
 
 The confidence of reason give, 
 
 And in the light of truth thy bondman let me live ! 
 
 1446 Wordsworth : Ode to Duty. 
 
 Indu'd 
 With sanctity of reason. 
 
 1447 Milton : Par. Lost, Bk. vii., Line 507.
 
 222 DICTIONARY OF POETICAL QUOTATIONS. 
 
 Rebellion. 
 
 Their weapons only 
 Seem'd on our side, but, for tiieir spirits and souls, 
 This word, rebellion, it had froze them up. 
 As fish are in a pond. 
 
 1448 SuAKS. : 2 Henry IV., Act i., Sc. 1. 
 
 Rebellion now began, for lack 
 
 Of zeal and plunder, to grow slack. 
 
 BuTLKR : Jludihras, Pt. iii.. Canto ii., 
 
 1449 Lineal. 
 
 Rebuff. 
 
 Then welcome each rebuff 
 That turns earth's smoothness rough, 
 Each sting that bids nor sit nor stand, but go ! 
 
 1450 Robert Browning: Rabbi Ben Ezra. 
 
 Rebuke. 
 
 Forbear sharp speeches to her ; She 's a lady 
 So tender of rebukes, that words are strokes, 
 And strokes deatli to her. 
 
 1451 Shaks. : Cymbeline, Act iii., Sc. 5. 
 
 Reckoning. 
 
 So comes a reck'ning when the banquet 's o'er. 
 The dreadful reck'ning, and men smile no more. 
 
 1452 Gay : What D' ye Call It, Act ii., Sc. 9. 
 
 Recollection. 
 
 How dear to my heart are the scenes of my child- 
 hood, 
 When fond recollection presents them to view. 
 
 1453 Wordsworth : The Old Oaken Bucket,
 
 DICTIONARY OF POETICAL QUOTATIONS. 22o 
 
 Reconciliation. 
 
 Never can true reconcilement grow, 
 
 Where wounds of deadly hate have pierc'd so deep. 
 
 1454 Milton : Par. Lost, Bk. iv., Line 98. 
 
 Records. 
 
 In records that defy the tooth of time. 
 
 1455 Young : The Statesman's Creed. 
 
 Recreation. 
 
 Sweet recreation barred, what doth ensue 
 But moody and dull melancholy. 
 Kinsman to grim and comfortless despair, 
 And, at her heels, a huge infectious troop 
 Of pale distemperatures, and foes to life ? 
 
 1456 Shaks. : Com. of Errors, Act v., Sc. 1. 
 
 Of recreation there is none 
 So free as Fishing is alone ; 
 All other pastimes do no less 
 Than mind and body both possess : 
 
 My hand alone my work can do, 
 
 So I can fish and study too. 
 
 IzAAK Walton : The Complete Angler. 
 
 1457 The Anglers Song. 
 
 Redress. 
 
 What need we any spur but our own cause 
 To prick us to redress. 
 
 1458 Shaks. : Jul. Ccesar, Act ii., Sc. 1. 
 
 Reflection. 
 
 Remembrance and reflection how allied! 
 
 What thin partitions sense from thought divide ! 
 
 1459 Pope : Essay on Man, Epis. i., Line 225.
 
 224 DICTIONARY OF POETICAL QUOTATIONS. 
 
 Reformation. 
 
 'T is the talent of our English nation, 
 Still to be plotting some new Reformation. 
 
 14G0 Dryden : Sophonisba, Prologue. 
 
 Regret. 
 
 O last regret, regret can die ! 
 
 1461 Tennyson : In Memoriam, Ixxviii., St. 5. 
 
 Deep as first love, and wild with all regret. 
 Oh death in life, the days that are no more ! 
 
 U62 Tennyson : The Princess, Pt. iv., Line 36. 
 
 Religion. 
 
 In Religion 
 What damned error, but some sober Ijrow 
 Will bless it, and approve it with a text. 
 Hiding the grossness with fair ornament. 
 
 1463 Shaks. : M. of Venice, Act iii., Sc. 2. 
 
 Religion is a spring, 
 That from some secret, golden mine 
 Derives her birth, and thence doth bring 
 Cordials in every drop, and wine. 
 
 1464 Henry Vaughan: Religion. 
 
 Religion crowns the statesman and the man, 
 Sole source of public and of private peace. 
 
 Young: Public Situation of the Kingdom, 
 
 1465 Line 500. 
 
 Pity Religion has so seldom found 
 A skilful guide into poetic ground ! 
 
 1466 CowPER : Table Talk, Line 17.
 
 Religion stands on tiptoe in our land, 
 Ready to pass to the American strand. 
 
 1467 Herbert: The Church Militant. 
 
 Remedies. 
 
 Our remedies oft in ourselves do lie, 
 Which we ascribe to Heaven; the fated sky 
 Gives us free scope; only, doth backward pull 
 Our slow designs, when we ourselves are dull. 
 
 1468 Shaks. : All 's Well, Act i., Sc. 1. 
 
 Remembrance. 
 
 The setting sun, and music at the close, 
 
 As the last taste of sweets, is sweetest last. 
 
 Writ in remembrance more than things long past. 
 
 1469 SiiAKS. : Richard II., Act ii., Sc. 1. 
 
 Praising what is lost. 
 Makes the remembrance dear. 
 
 1470 Shaks. : All's Well, Act v., Sc. 3. 
 
 I 've been so long remembered, I 'm forgot. 
 
 1471 Young : Night Thoughts, Night iv., Line 57. 
 
 T remember, I remember. 
 
 The fir trees dark and high : 
 
 I used to think their slender tops 
 
 Were close against the sky ; 
 
 It was a childish ignorance. 
 
 But now 't is little joy 
 
 To know I 'm farther oif from heaven 
 
 Than when I was a boy. 
 
 1472 Hood : / Remember, I Remember.
 
 226 DICTIONARY OF POETICAL QUOTATIONS. 
 
 Remorse. 
 
 Remorse is as the heart in which it grows, 
 
 If that be gentle, it drops balmy dews 
 
 Of true repentance ; but if proud and gloomy, 
 
 It is the poison tree that, pierced to tlie inmost, 
 
 Weeps only tears of poison. 
 
 1473 Coleuidge: llemorae, Act i., Sc. 1. 
 
 Renown. 
 
 IShort is niy date, but deathless my renown. 
 
 1471: Pope : Iliad, Bk. ix., Line 535. 
 
 Repartee. 
 
 A man renown'd for repartee 
 Will seldom scruple to make free 
 AVith friendship's finest feeling, 
 AVill thrust a dagger at your breast, 
 And say he wounded you in jest. 
 By way of balm for healing. 
 
 1475 CowPEii : Friendship, Line 16. 
 
 Repentance. 
 
 VVlio by repentance is not satisfied 
 
 Is nor of heaven nor earth ; for these are pleased ; 
 
 By penitence the Eternal's wrath 's appeased. 
 
 1476 SiiAKS. : Two Gent, of V., Act v., Sc. 4. 
 
 Illusion is brief, but Repentance is long! 
 
 1477 Schiller : Lmj of the Bell, St. 4. 
 
 Repentance is the w^eight 
 C)f indigested meals eat yesterday. 
 
 1478 George Eliot : Spanish Gypsy, Bk. ii. 
 
 Amid the roses fierce Repentance rears 
 Her snaky crest. 
 
 1479 Thomson: Seasons, Spring, Line 996.
 
 DICTIONARY OF POETICAL QUOTATIONS. 227 
 
 Repose. 
 
 The best of men have ever loved repose : 
 They hate to mingle in the filthy fray, 
 "Where the .>oul soars, and gradual rancor grows, 
 Imbitter'd more from peevish day to day. 
 
 Thomson ; Castle of Indolence, Canto i., 
 1480 St. 17. 
 
 Her suffering ended with the day, 
 
 Yet lived she at its close, 
 And breathed the long, long night away, 
 
 In statue-like repose. 
 IISI James Aldrich: A Death-Bed. 
 
 Reproof. 
 
 Fear not the anger of the wise to raise ; 
 Those best can bear reproof who merit praise. 
 
 1482 Pope : E. on Criticism, Pt. iii., Line 23. 
 
 Reproof on her lips, but a smile in her eye. 
 
 1483 Lover : Rory O'More. 
 
 Reputation. 
 
 The purest treasure mortal times afford, 
 
 Is spotless reputation ; that away, 
 
 ^len are but gilded loam, or painted clay. 
 
 1484 Shaks. : Richard IL, Act i., Sc. 1. 
 
 At every word a reputation dies. 
 
 148.5 Pope: it. of the Lock, Canto iii., Line 16. 
 
 Resignation. 
 
 But Heaven hath a hand in these events ; 
 
 To whose high will we bound our calm contents. 
 
 1486 Shaks.: Richard IL, Act v., Sc. 2.
 
 228 DICTIONARY OF POETICAL QUOTATIONS. 
 
 While Resignation gently slopes away, 
 
 And all his prospects brightening to the last, 
 
 His heaven commences ere the world he ])ast. 
 
 1487 Goldsmith : Des. Village, i.ine 110. 
 
 Resolution. 
 
 The native hue of resolution 
 Is sicklied o'er with the pale cast of tliought; 
 And enterprises of great pith and moment, 
 AVith this regard, their currents turn awry, 
 And lose the name of action. 
 
 1488 Shaks.: Hamlet, Act iii., Sc. 1. 
 
 Respect. 
 
 You have too much respect upon the world: 
 They lose it, that do buy it with much care. 
 
 1489 Shaks. : M. of Venice, Act i., Sc. 1. 
 
 Rest. 
 
 AVho with a body filled and vacant mind 
 
 Gets him to rest, crammed witli distressful bread. 
 
 1490 Shaks. : Henry V., Act iv., Sc. 1. 
 
 Rest is sweet after strife. 
 
 Owen Meredith : Lucile, Pt. i., Canto vi., 
 
 1491 St. 25. 
 
 For too much rest itself becomes a pain. 
 
 1492 Pope : Odyssey, Bk. xv.. Line 429. 
 
 Results. 
 
 Who soweth good seed shall surely reap ; 
 The year grows rich as it groweth old ; 
 And life's latest sands are its sands of gold. 
 
 1493 Julia C. R. Dorr : To the Bouquet Club.
 
 DICTIOXARY OF POETICAL QUOTATIOXS. 229 
 
 Retirement. 
 
 Retiring- from the popular noise, I seek 
 Tliis unfrequented [»lace to find some ease. 
 
 1494 Milton : Samson Agoniaies, Line 16. 
 
 O blest retirement, friend to life's decline, 
 Retreats from care that never must be mine, 
 How happy he who crowns, in shades like these, 
 A youth of labor, with an age of ease; 
 Who quits a world where strong temptations try, 
 And, since 't is hard to combat, learns to fly. 
 
 1495 Goldsmith: Des. Village, Line 97. 
 
 Retreat. 
 
 In all the trade of war, no feat 
 Is nobler than a brave retreat ; 
 For those that run away, and fly. 
 Take place at least of the enemy. 
 
 1496 Butler : Hudihras, Ft. i.. Canto iii., Line 607. 
 
 Revelry. 
 
 Midnight shout and revelry. 
 Tipsy dance and jollity. 
 
 1497 Milton : Camus, Line 103. 
 
 There was a sound of revelry by night. 
 
 And Belgium's capital had gather'd then 
 
 Her beauty and her chivalry, and bright 
 
 The lamps shone o'er fair women and brave men. 
 
 1498 Byron : Ch. Harold, Canto iii., St. 21. 
 
 Revenge. 
 
 And C?esar's spirit, ranging for revenge, 
 With Ate by his side, come hot from hell, 
 Shall in these confines, with a monarch's voice. 
 Cry "Havock," and let slip the dogs of war. 
 
 1499 Shaks. : .Jul. Ccesar, Act iii., Sc. 1.
 
 230 DICTIONARY OF POETICAL QUOTATIONS. 
 
 Revenge, at first though sweet, 
 Bitter ere long, back on itself recoils. 
 
 1500 Milton: Par. Lost, Bk. ix., Line 171. 
 
 Vengeance to God alone belongs ; 
 But, when I think of all my wrongs. 
 My blood is liquid flame. 
 
 1501 Scott : Mannion, Canto vi., St. 7. 
 
 Reverence. 
 
 Let the air strike our tune, 
 Whilst we show reverence to yond peeping moon. 
 
 1502 MiDDLETON : T/ia Witch, Act v., Sc. 2. 
 
 Revolution. 
 
 There is great talk of revolution, 
 And a great chance of despotism, 
 German soldiers, camps, confusion. 
 Tumults, lotteries, rage, delusion. 
 Gin, suicide, and Methodism. 
 
 1503 Shelley : Peter Bell the Third, Hell, St. 6. 
 
 Rhetoric. 
 
 For Rhetoric, he could not ope 
 
 His mouth, but out there flew a trope. 
 
 1504 Butler : Hudihras, Pt. i.. Canto i., Line 8. 
 
 Enjoy your dear wit and gay rhetoric. 
 
 That hath so well been taught her dazzling fence. 
 
 1505 Milton: Comus, Line 790. 
 
 Rhine. 
 
 The castled crag of Drachenfels 
 
 Fro\vns o'er the wide and winding Rhine. 
 
 1506 Byron : Ch. Harold, Canto iii., St. 55.
 
 DICTIONARY OF POETICAL QUOTATIONS. 231 
 
 The river Rhine, it is well known, 
 Doth wash your city of Cologne; 
 But tell me, nymphs! what power divine 
 Shall henceforth wash the river Rhine? 
 
 1507 Coleridge : Cologne. 
 
 Rhyme. 
 
 Still may syllables jar with time. 
 Still may reason war with rhyme. 
 
 1508 Ben Jonson : Fit of Rhyme against Rhyme. 
 
 He knew 
 Himself to sing, and build the lofty rhyme. 
 
 1509 Milton : Lyci'kis, Line 10. 
 
 For rhyme the rudder is of verses, 
 
 With which, like ships, they steer their courses. 
 
 1510 Butler : Hudihras, Ft. i.. Canto i.. Line 463. 
 
 Riches. 
 
 Infinite riches in a little room. 
 
 1511 Marlowe: The Jew of Malta, Act i. 
 
 Extol not riches then, the toil of fools, 
 
 The wise man's cumbrance, if not snare; more apt 
 
 To slacken virtue, and abate her edge. 
 
 Than prompt her to do aught may merit praise. 
 
 1512 Milton : Par. Regained, Bk. ii.. Line 453. 
 
 Ridicule. 
 
 Ridicule is a weak weapon, when levelled at a strong 
 
 mind ; 
 But common men are cowards, and dread an empty 
 
 laugh. 
 
 1513 Tupper: Proverbial Phil., Of Ridicule.
 
 232 DICTIONARY OF POETICAL QUOTATIONS. 
 
 Sacred to ridicule his whole life long, 
 And the sad burden of some merry song. 
 
 1514 Pope : Satire i., Bk. ii., Line 76. 
 
 Right. 
 
 But 't was a maxim he had often tried, 
 That right was riglit, and there he would abide. 
 Crabbe: Tales: Tale xv., The Squire and 
 
 1515 the Priest. 
 
 For right is right, since God is God, 
 
 And right the day must win ; 
 To doubt would be disloyalty. 
 
 To falter would be sin. 
 
 Frederick W. Faber : The Right Must 
 
 1516 Win. 
 
 And spite of pride, in erring reason's spite, 
 One truth is clear, Whatever is, is right. 
 
 1517 Pope : Essay on Man, Epis. i., Line 289. 
 
 Rivers. 
 
 By shallow rivers, to whose falls 
 Melodious birds sing madrigals. 
 
 Marlowe : The Passionate Shepherd to 
 
 1518 His Love. 
 
 See the rivers, how they run. 
 Changeless to the changeless sea. 
 
 Charles Kingsley: Saint's Tragedy, 
 
 1519 Act ii", Sc. 2. 
 
 The river glideth at his own sweet will. 
 
 Wordsworth : Earth has not anything to 
 
 1520 show more fair.
 
 DICTIONARY OF POETICAL QUOTATIONS. 233 
 
 Robbery. 
 
 I '11 example you with thievery : 
 The sun 's a thief, and with his great attraction 
 Robs the vast sea ; the moon 's an arrant thief, 
 And her pale fire she snatches from the sun ; 
 The sea 's a thief, whose liquid surge resolves 
 The moon into salt tears ; the earth 's a thief. 
 That feeds and breeds by a composture stolen 
 From general excrement: each thing 's a thief. 
 
 1521 Shaks.: Timon of A., Act iv., Sc. 3. 
 
 Rock. 
 
 Better to sink beneath the shock 
 Tiian moulder piecemeal on the rock. 
 
 1522 Byron : Giaour, Line 969. 
 
 Rock of Ages, cleft for me, 
 Let me hide myself in thee. 
 
 1523 ToPLADY : Salvation through Christ. 
 
 Come one, come all ! this rock shall fly 
 From its firm base as soon as I. 
 
 1524 Scott : Lady of the Lake, Canto v., St. 10. 
 
 Rod. 
 
 His rod revers'd, 
 And backward mutters of dissevering power. 
 
 1525 Milton: Comus, Line 816. 
 
 A light to guide, a rod 
 To check the erring, and reprove. 
 
 1526 Wordsworth : Ode to Duty. 
 
 Roman. 
 
 I had rather be a dog, and bay the moon. 
 Than such a Roman. 
 
 1527 Shaks. : JuL CcEsar, Act iv., Sc. 3.
 
 234 DICTIONARY OF POETICAL QUOTATIONS. 
 
 This was the noblest Roman of them all. 
 
 1528 SuAKS. : Jul. Ccesar, Act v., Sc. 5. 
 
 Romance. 
 
 Romances paint at full length people's wooings, 
 But only give a bust of marriages. 
 
 1529 Byron : Don Juan, Canto iii., St. 8. 
 
 Lady of the Mere, 
 Sole-sitting by the shores of old romance. 
 
 Wordsworth : A Narrow Girdle of Rough 
 
 1530 Stones and Crags. 
 
 Rome. 
 
 To the glory that was Greece 
 And the grandeur that was Rome. 
 
 1531 Edgar A. Poe : To Helen. 
 
 Rose. 
 
 At Christmas I no more desire a rose 
 
 Than wish a snow in May's new-fangled mirth ; 
 
 But like of each thing that in season grows. 
 
 1532 Shaks. : Love's L. Lost, Act i., Sc. 1. 
 
 The rose looks fair, but fairer we it deem, 
 For that sweet odor which doth in it live. 
 
 1533 Shaks. : Sonnet liv. 
 
 You love the roses — so do I. I wish 
 
 The sky would rain down roses, as they rain 
 
 From off the shaken bush. 
 
 1534 George Eliot : Spanish Gypsy, Bk. iii. 
 
 As though a rose should shut, and be a bud again. 
 
 1535 Keats: Eve of St. Agnes, St. 27.
 
 DICTIONARY OF POETICAL QUOTATIONS. 235 
 
 The rose saith in the dewy morn, 
 I am most fair ; 
 Yet all my loveliness is born 
 Upon a thorn. 
 
 Christina G. Rossetti : Consider the 
 
 1536 Lilies of the Field. 
 
 Strew on her roses, roses, 
 
 And never a spray of yew ! 
 In quiet she reposes ; 
 
 Ah, would that I did too. 
 
 1537 Matthew Arnold: Requiescal. 
 
 Rousseau. 
 
 The self-torturing sophist, wild Rousseau, 
 The apostle of affliction — he, who threw 
 Enchantment over passion, and from woe 
 Wrung overwhelming eloquence. 
 
 1538 Byron : Ch. Harold, Canto iii., St. 77. 
 
 Royalty. 
 
 O wretched state of Kings ! O doleful fate! 
 Greatness misnamed, in misery only great! 
 Could men but know the endless woe it brings, 
 The wise would die before they would be Kings. 
 Think what a King must do ! 
 
 1539 R. H. Stoddard : The Kings Bell. 
 
 Ruin. 
 
 Where my high steeples whilom used to stand, 
 On which the lordly falcon wont to tower. 
 There now is but an heap of lime and sand. 
 For the screech-owl to build her baleful bower. 
 
 1540 Spenser : Rui}}s of Time, Line 127
 
 236 DICTIONARY OF POETICAL QUOTATIONS. 
 
 On Prague's proud arch the fires of ruin glow, 
 His blood-dyed waters murmuring far below. 
 
 1541 Campbell: PL of Hope, Pt. i., Line 385. 
 
 The day sliall come, that great avenging day 
 Which Troy's proud glories in the dust shall lay, 
 When Priam's powers and Priam's self shall fall, 
 And one prodigious ruin swallow all. 
 
 1542 Pope : Iliad, Bk. iv., Line 196. 
 
 Ruling Passions. 
 
 In men, we various Ruling Passions find; 
 In women, two almost divide the kind; 
 Those, only fix'd, they first or last obey. 
 The love of pleasure and the love of sway. 
 
 1543 Pope : Moral Essays, Epis. ii., Line 207. 
 
 Rumor. 
 
 Rumor is a pipe 
 Blown by surmises, jealousies, conjectures; 
 And of so easy and so plain a stop 
 That the blunt monster with uncounted heads, 
 The still-discordant wavering multitude. 
 Can play upon it. 
 
 1544 SiiAKS. : Henry IV., Pt. ii., Induction.. 
 
 Rural Life. 
 
 Of men 
 The happiest he, who far from public rage, 
 Deep in the vale, with a choice few retired. 
 Drinks the pure pleasures of the rural life. 
 
 1545 Thomson: Seasons, Autumn, Line 1132.
 
 DICTIONARY OF POETICAL QUOTATIONS. 237 
 
 s. 
 
 Sabbath. 
 
 The Sabbath bell, 
 That over wood, and wild, and mountain dell 
 Wanders so far, chasing all thoughts unholy 
 "With sounds most musical, most melancholy. 
 
 1546 Rogers : Human Life, Line 515. 
 
 Yes, child of suffering, thou mayst well be sure 
 He who ordained the Sabbath loves the poor ! 
 
 Oliver Wendell Holmes : A Rhymed 
 
 1547 Lesson, tlrania. 
 
 E'en Sunday shines no Sabbath-day to me. 
 
 1548 Pope: Epis. to ArhuOinot, Line, 12. 
 
 Xor can his blessed soul look down from heaven, 
 Or break the eternal sabbath of his rest. 
 
 1549 Dryden : Spanish Friar, Act v., Sc. 2. 
 
 The Sabbath brings its kind release, 
 • And Care lies slumbering on the lap of Peace. 
 Oliver Wendell Holmes : A Rhipned 
 
 1550 Lesson, Line 229. 
 
 Take the Sunday with you through the week. 
 And sweeten with it all the other days. 
 
 1551 Longfellow : Michael Angela, Pt. i., 5. 
 
 Sailors. 
 
 Lives like a drunken sailor on a mast, 
 Ready with every nod to tumble down. 
 
 1552 Shaks. : Richard IIL, Act iii., Sc. 4.
 
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 O Thou, who in thy hand dost hold 
 The winds and waves that wake or sleep, 
 Thy tender arms of mercy fold 
 Around the seamen on the deep. 
 
 1553 Hannah F. Gould : Changes on the Deep, 
 
 Messmates, hear a brother sailor 
 Sing the dangers of the sea. 
 
 1554 George A. Stevens : lite Storm. 
 
 Sails. 
 
 Purple the sails, and so perfumed that 
 The winds were love-sick with them. 
 
 1555 Shaks. : Ant. and Cleo., Act ii., Sc. 2. 
 
 He that has sail'd upon the dark blue sea 
 
 Has view'd at times, 1 ween, a full fair sight; 
 
 When the fresh breeze is fair as breeze may be, 
 
 The white sails set, the gallant frigate tight; 
 
 Masts, spires, and strand retiring to the right. 
 
 The glorious main expanding o'er tiie bow. 
 
 The convoy spread like wild swans in their flight, 
 
 The dullest sailer wearing bravely now. 
 
 So gayly curl the waves before each dashing prow. 
 
 155G Byron : Ch. Harold, Canto ii., St. 17. 
 
 Saints. 
 
 And now the saints began their reign, 
 For which they 'd yearn'd so long in vain, 
 And felt such bowel-hankerings. 
 To see an empire, all of kings. 
 
 Butler : Hudibras, Pt. iii., Canto ii., 
 
 1557 Line 237. 
 
 For virtue's self may too much zeal be had ; 
 The worst of madmen is a saint run mad. 
 
 1 558 Pope : Satire iv., Line 26.
 
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 There is a land of pure delight, 
 Where saints immortal reign. 
 
 1559 Watts : Hymns and Spiritual Songs. 
 
 Just men, by whom impartial laws were given ; 
 And saints who taught and led the way to heaven 
 TiCKELL : On the Death of Mr. Addison, 
 
 1560 Line 41. 
 
 That saints will aid if men will call; 
 For the blue sky bends over all. 
 
 1561 Coleridge : Christahel, Conclusion to Pt. i. 
 
 Salt. 
 
 Alas ! you know the cause too well ; 
 The salt is spilt, to me it fell. 
 
 1562 Gay : Fables, Pt. i., Fable 37. 
 
 TVTiy dost thou shun the salt ? that sacred pledge, 
 Which once partaken blunts the sabre's edge, 
 Makes even contending tribes in peace unite. 
 And hated hosts seem brethren to the sight. 
 
 1563 Byron : Corsair, Canto ii., St. 4. 
 
 Who ne'er knew salt, or heard the billows roar. 
 
 1564 Pope : Odyssey, Bk. xi., Line 153. 
 
 Salvation. 
 
 About some act 
 That has no relish of salvation in 't. 
 
 1565 Shaks. : Hamlet, Act iii., Sc. 3. 
 
 Therefore, Jew, 
 Though justice be thy plea, consider this, 
 That in the course of justice none of us 
 Should see salvation. 
 
 1566 Shaks. : M. of Venice, Act iv., Sc. 1.
 
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 Sands. 
 
 Come unto these yellow sands, 
 
 And then take hands : 
 CoLirtesied when you have, and kiss'd 
 
 The wild waves whist. 
 
 1567 Shaks. : Tempest, Act i., Sc. 2. 
 
 Here are sand-, ignoble things, 
 Dropt from the ruined sides of kings. 
 
 Beaumont : On the Tombs of Westinimter 
 
 1568 Abbey. 
 
 Satan. 
 
 To whom the arch-enemy. 
 And thence in heaven call'd Satan, — with bold 
 
 words 
 Breaking the horrid silence, thus began. 
 
 1569 Milton : Par. Lost, Bk. i., Line 81. 
 
 For Satan finds some mischief still 
 For idle hands to do. 
 
 1570 Watts : Divine Songs, Song 20. 
 
 And Satan trembles when he sees 
 The weakest saint upon his knees. 
 
 1571 CowPER : Exhortation to Prayer. 
 
 Satiety. 
 
 They surfeited with honey ; and began 
 
 To loathe the taste of sweetness, whereof a little 
 
 More than a little is by much too much. 
 
 1572 Shaks. : 1 Henry IV., Act iii., Sc. 2. 
 
 With pleasure drugg'd he almost long'd for woe, 
 And e'en for change of scene would seek the shades 
 below. 
 
 1573 Byron : Ch. Harold, Canto i., St. 6.
 
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 Satire. 
 
 Satire 's my weapon, but I 'm too discreet 
 To run a-rauck, and tilt at all I meet; 
 I only wear it in a land of Hectors, 
 Thieves, supercargoes, sharpers, and directors. 
 
 1574 Pope : Satire i., Line 69. 
 
 Prepare for rhyme — I '11 publish, right or wrong ; 
 Fools are my theme, let satire be my song. 
 
 1575 Byron : Eng. Bards, Line 5. 
 
 In general satire, every man perceives 
 
 A slight attack, yet neither fears nor grieves. 
 
 L576 Crabbe: ylt/i/ce. Line 244. 
 
 Savage. 
 
 I am as free as Nature first made man, 
 Ere the base laws of servitude began, 
 When wild in woods the noble savage ran. 
 
 Dryden : Conquest of Granada, Pt. i., 
 L577 Act i., Sc. 1. 
 
 Scandal. 
 
 For greatest scandal waits on greatest state. 
 L57S Shaks. : Zucrece, Line 1006. 
 
 You know 
 That I do fawn on men, and hug them hard, 
 And after scandal them. 
 
 1579 Shaks. : Jid. Ccesar, Act i , Sc. 2. 
 
 The whole court melted into one wide whisper, 
 And all lips were applied unto all ears ! 
 The elder ladies' wrinkles curled much crisper 
 As they beheld; the younger cast some leers 
 On one another, and each lovely lisper 
 Smiled as she talked the matter o'er : but tears 
 Of rivalship rose in each clouded eye 
 Of all the standing army that stood by. 
 
 1580 Byron : Don Juan, Canto ix., St. 78
 
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 Scars. 
 
 He jesfs at scars, that never felt a wound. 
 
 1581 SiiAKS. : Rom. and Jul., Act ii., Sc. 2. 
 
 Gashed with honorable scars, 
 Low in Glory's lap they lie. 
 
 15S2 James Montgomery: Battle of Alexandria. 
 
 Scenes. 
 
 For wheresoe'er I turn my ravish'd eyes, 
 Gay gilded scenes and shining prospects rise. 
 
 1583 Addison: A Letter from Italy. 
 
 Scepticism. 
 
 Oh ! lives there, heaven ! beneath thy dread ex- 
 panse, 
 One hopeless, dark idolater of chance. 
 Content to feed with pleasures unrefin'd, 
 The lukewarm passions of a lowly mind; 
 Who mouldering earthward, 'reft of every trust, 
 In joyless union wedded to the dust, 
 Could all his parting energy dismiss, 
 And call this barren world sufficient bliss? 
 
 1581 Campbell : PL of Hope, Pt. ii., Line 295. 
 
 Whatever sceptic could inquire for. 
 For every why he had a wherefore. 
 
 1585 Butler : Hudibras, Pt. i., Canto i., Line 131. 
 
 Sceptre. 
 
 His sceptre shows the force of temporal power. 
 
 The attribute to awe and majesty. 
 
 Wherein doth sit the dread and fear of kings. 
 
 1586 Shaks. : M. of Venice, Act iv., Sc. 1.
 
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 Scholar. 
 
 He was a scholar, and a ripe and good one ; 
 Exceeding wise, fair-spoken, and persuading; 
 Lofty and sour to them tiiat loved him not, 
 But to those men that souglit him sweet as summer. 
 
 1.587 Shaks. : Henry VIII., Act iv., Sc. 2. 
 
 His locked, lettered, braw brass collar 
 Showed him the gentleman and scholar. 
 
 1.588 Burns : The Twa Dogs. 
 
 The land of scholars and the nurse of arms. 
 
 1589 Goldsmith : Traveller, JAne 356. 
 
 School. 
 
 And then the ^\hining school-hoy, with his satchel 
 And shining morning face, creeping like snail 
 Unwillingly to school. 
 
 1590 Shaks. : As You Like It, Act ii., Sc. 7. 
 
 Beside yon straggling fence that skirts the w^ay, 
 With blossom'd furze unprofitably gay, 
 There, in his noisy mansion, skill'd to rule, 
 The village master taught his little school; 
 A man severe he was, and stern to view, — 
 I knew him well, and every truant knew ; 
 Well had the boding tremblers learn'd to trace 
 The day's disasters in his morning face, 
 
 1591 Goldsmith: Des. }illage, Line 193. 
 
 Science. 
 
 Trace science then, with modesty thy guide ; 
 
 First strip off all her equipage of pride ; 
 
 Deduct what is but vanity, or dress, 
 
 Or learning's luxury, or idleness ; 
 
 Or tricks to show the stretch of human brain, 
 
 Mere curious pleasure, or ingenious pain ;
 
 244 DICTIONARY OF POETICAL QUOTATIONS. 
 
 Expunge the whole, or lop th' excrescent parts 
 
 Of all our vices have created arts ; 
 
 Then see how little the remaining sum 
 
 AVhich serv'd the past, and must the times to come. 
 
 1592 Pope : Essay on Man, Epis. ii., Line 43. 
 
 O star-eyed Science ! hast thou wander'd there, 
 To waft us home the message of despair? 
 
 1593 Campbell : PL of Hope, Ft. ii., Line 325. 
 
 Scorn. 
 
 Scorn at first, makes after-love the more. 
 
 1594 Shaks. : Two Gent, of V., Act iii., Sc. 1. 
 
 Alas ! to make me 
 The fixed figure of the time, for scorn 
 To point his slow and moving finger at. 
 
 1595 Shaks. : Othello, Act iv., Sc. 2. 
 
 So let him stand, through ages yet unborn, 
 Fix'd statue on the pedestal of scorn ! 
 
 1596 Byron : Curse of Minerva, Line 207. 
 
 He hears. 
 On all sides, from innumerable tongues, 
 A dismal universal hiss, the sound 
 Of public scorn. 
 
 1597 Milton : Par. Lost, Bk. x., Line 506. 
 
 Scotland. 
 
 Stands Scotland where it did ? 
 
 1598 SiiAKS. : Macbeth, Act iv., Sc. 3. 
 
 O Scotia! my dear, my native soil ! 
 
 For whom my warmest wish to heaven is sent ! 
 
 J^ong may thy hardy sons of rustic toil 
 
 Be blest with health, and peace, and sweet content. 
 
 1599 Burns : Cotter's Saturday Night, St. 20.
 
 DICTIONARY OF POETICAL QUOTATIONS. 245 
 
 It was a' for our rightf u' King 
 
 We left fair Scotland's strand. 
 
 1600 Burns : A' for our Rightfu' King. 
 
 Scribblers. 
 
 Laugh when I laugh, I seek no other fame, 
 The cry is up, and scribblers are my game. 
 
 1601 " Byron : English Bards, Line 43. 
 
 Scripture. 
 
 'T is elder Scripture, writ by God's own hand, — 
 Scripture authentic ! uncorrupt by man. 
 
 1602 Young : Night Thoughts, Night ix., Line 644. 
 
 Sculpture. 
 
 Sculpture is more divine, and more like Xature, 
 That fashions all her works in high relief, 
 And that is Sculpture. 
 
 1603 Longfellow : Michael Angelo, Pt. i., 5. 
 
 A sculptor wields 
 The chisel, and the stricken marble grows 
 To beauty. 
 1601 William Cullen Bryant : Flood of Years. 
 
 Sea. 
 
 • The rude sea grew civil at her song. 
 
 And certain stars shot madly from their spheres 
 To hear the sea-maid's music. 
 
 1605 Shaks. : Mid. N. Dream, Act ii., Sc. 1. 
 
 The sea ! the sea ! the open sea ! 
 
 The blue, the fresh, the ever free ! 
 
 Without a mark, without a bound, 
 
 It runneth the earth's wide region round; 
 
 It plays with the clouds ; it mocks the skies ; 
 
 Or like a cradled creature lies. 
 
 1606 Barry Cornwall : The Sea.
 
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 Broad based upon lier people's will, 
 And compassed by the inviolate sea. 
 
 1607 Tennyson : To the Queen. 
 
 'T was when the sea was roaring, 
 With hollow blasts of wind, 
 A damsel lay deploring. 
 All on a rock reclin'd. 
 
 1608 John Gay : What D' ye Call It, Act ii., Sc. 8. 
 
 Sea-weed. 
 
 A weary weed, toss'd to and fro, 
 Drearily drench'd in the ocean brine, 
 Soaring high and sinking low. 
 Lashed along without will of mine, — 
 Sport of the spoom of the surging sea. 
 Flung on the foam afar and anear, 
 Mark my manifold mystery, — 
 Growth and grace in their place appear. 
 
 1609 Cornelius G. Fenner : Gulf-Weed. 
 
 Seasons. 
 
 Perceiv'st thou not the process of the year, 
 How^ the four seasons in four forms appear, 
 Resembling human life in ev'ry shape they wear? 
 Spring first, like infancy, shoots out her head. 
 With milky juice requiring to be fed: . . . 
 Proceeding onward whence the year began. 
 The Summer growls adult, and ripens into man. . . . 
 Autumn succeeds, a soVjer, tepid age, 
 Not froze with fear, nor boiling into rage; . . . 
 Last, Winter creeps along with tardy pace, 
 Sour is his front, and furrowed is his face. 
 
 Dryden : Of Pythagorean Phil. From loth 
 
 1610 Bool: Orirrs Metamorphoses, Line 206.
 
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 With thee conversing I forget all time, 
 
 All seasons, and their change, — all please alike. 
 
 1611 Milton : Par. Lost, Bk. iv., Line 639. 
 
 Thus with the year 
 Seasons return ; but not to me returns 
 Day, or the sweet approach of even or morn, 
 Or sight of vernal bloom or summer's rose, 
 Or flocks, or herds, or human face divine. 
 
 1612 Milton : Par. Lost, Bk. iii., Line 40. 
 
 Seat. 
 
 Oh for a seat in some poetic nook, 
 
 Just hid with trees and sparkling with a brook ! 
 
 1G13 Leigh Hunt : Politics and Poetics. 
 
 Secrecy. 
 
 Be innocent of the knowledge, dearest chuck. 
 
 Till thou applaud the deed. 
 
 161-4 Shaks. : Macbeth, Act iii., Sc. 2. 
 
 I will believe 
 Thou wilt not utter what thou dost not know ; 
 . And so far will I trust thee. 
 161.5 Shaks. : 1 Henry IV., Act ii., Sc. 3. 
 
 A secret in his mouth, 
 Is like a wild bird put into a cage. 
 Whose door no sooner opens, but 't is out. 
 
 1616 Bex Joxson : Case is Altered, Act ill., Sc. 3 
 
 Sects. 
 
 His liberal soul with every sect agreed, 
 Unheard their reasons, he received their creed. 
 
 1617 Crabbe: Tales, Convert, L,me ^b.
 
 248 DICTIONARY OF POETICAL QUOTATIONS. 
 
 Slave to no sect, who takes no private road, 
 But looks through Nature up to Nature's God. 
 
 1618 Pope : I^ssdi/ un Man, Epis. iv., Line 331. 
 
 Security. 
 
 You all know, security 
 Ts mortal's chiefest enemy. 
 
 1619 Shaks. : Macbeth, Act iii., Sc. 5. 
 
 Seed. 
 
 The thorns which I have reap'd are of the tree 
 I planted ; they have torn me, and I bleed. 
 I should have known what fruit would spring from 
 such a seed. 
 
 1620 Byrox: Ch. Harold, Canto iv., St. 10. 
 
 Self. 
 
 None are so desolate but something dear, 
 
 Dearer than self, possesses or possess'd 
 
 A thought, and claims the homage of a tear. 
 
 1621 Byron : Ch. Harold, Canto ii., St. 24. 
 
 Selfishness. 
 
 Despite those titles, power and pelf, 
 
 The wretch, concentred all in self, 
 
 Living, shall forfeit fair renown. 
 
 And, doubly dying, shall go down 
 
 To the vile dust, from whence he sprung, 
 
 Unwept, unhonored, and unsung. 
 
 Scott : Lay of the Last Minstrel, Canto vi., 
 
 1622 St. 1. 
 
 Self-Conceit. 
 
 To observations which ourselves we make. 
 We grow more partial for th' observer's sake. 
 
 1623 Pope : Moral Essays, Epis. i., Line 2.
 
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 Seli-Control. 
 
 May I govern my passions with absolute sway, 
 And grow wiser and better as my strength wears 
 
 away, 
 ... by a gentle decay. 
 
 Dr. Walter Pope : The Old Mans Wish, 
 
 1624 Chorus. 
 
 Self-Defence. 
 
 Self-defence is a virtue, 
 Sole bulwark of all right. 
 
 1625 Byrox : Sardanapalus, Act ii., Sc. 1. 
 
 Self-Denial. 
 
 Brave conquerors ! for so you are, 
 That war against your own affections. 
 And the huge army of the world's desires. 
 
 1626 Shaks. : Love's L. Lost, Act i., Sc. 1. 
 
 Self-Dispraise. 
 
 There is a luxury in self-dispraise ; 
 And inward self-disparagement affords 
 To meditative spleen a grateful feast. 
 
 1627 Wordsworth : The Excursion, Bk. iv. 
 
 Self -Esteem. 
 
 Oft times nothing profits more 
 Than self-esteem, grounded on just and right 
 Well manag'd. 
 
 1628 MiLTOx : Par. Lost, Bk. viii., Line 571. 
 
 Self-Knowledge. 
 
 To know thyself — in others self-concern; 
 Would'st thou know others ? read thyself — and 
 learn ! 
 
 1629 Schiller : Votive Tablets, The Key.
 
 2r)0 DICTIOXARY OF POETICAL QUOTATIONS. 
 
 Self-Love. 
 
 Self-love, my liege, is not so vile a sin 
 As self-ueglecting. 
 
 1630 SiiAKS. : Henry V., Act ii., Sc. 4. 
 
 Self-love, the spring of motion, acts the soul; 
 Reason's comparing balance rules the whole. 
 
 1631 Pope : Essay on Man, Epis. ii., Line 59. 
 
 Self-Reproach. 
 
 Men who can hear the Decalogue, and feel 
 Xo self-reproach. 
 
 1632 AVoRDSWORTH : The Old Cumberland Beggar. 
 
 Self-Respect. 
 
 He that respects himself is safe from others ; 
 He wears a coat of mail that none can pierce. 
 
 1633 Longfellow : Michael Angela, Pt. ii. 
 
 Self-Sacrifice. 
 
 Give unto me, made lowly wise, 
 The spirit of self-sacrifice. 
 
 1634 Wordsworth : Ode to Duty. 
 
 Sense. 
 
 A man whose blood 
 Is very snow-broth ; one who never feels 
 The wanton stings and motions of the sense. 
 
 1635 Shaks. : M. for M., Act i., Sc. 4. 
 
 Good sense, which only is the gift of Heaven, 
 And though no science, fairly worth the seven. 
 
 1636 Pope: Moral Essays, Epis. iv., Line 43.
 
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 Sensibility. 
 
 Our sensibilities are so acute, 
 
 The fear of being silent makes us mute. 
 
 1637 Cowper: Con te/'sa^ion, Line 351. 
 
 Sweet sensibility ! thou keen delight ! 
 
 Unprompted moral ! sudden sense of right! 
 
 1G38 Hannah More : Sensibility, Line 227. 
 
 Separation. 
 
 Thy soul . . . 
 Is as far from my grasp, is as free, 
 As the stars from the mountain-tops be, 
 As the pearl in the depths of the sea. 
 From the portionless king that would wear it. 
 1639 E. C. Stedman: Stanzas fur Music, St. 3. 
 
 September. 
 
 September waves his golden-rod 
 
 Along the lanes and hollows, 
 And saunters round the sunny fields 
 
 A-playing with the swallows. 
 
 1610 Ellen Mackay Hutchinson : The Prince. 
 
 Sermons. 
 
 Finds tongues in trees, books in the running brooks. 
 Sermons in stones, and good in everything. 
 
 1611 Shaks. : As You Like It, Act ii., Sc. 1. 
 
 Perhaps it may turn out a sang, 
 Perhaps turn out a sermon. 
 
 1612 Burns : Epistle to a Young Friend. 
 
 Serpent. 
 
 What ! would'st thou have a serpent sting thee 
 twice V 
 
 1613 Shaks. : M. of Venice, Act iv., Sc. L
 
 252 DICTIOXARY OF POETICAL QUOTATIONS. 
 
 Where 's my serpent of old Nile ? 
 
 1644 SnAKS. : Aiit. and Cleo., Act i., Sc. 5. 
 
 And hence one master-passion in the breast, 
 
 Like Aaron's serpent, swallows up the rest. 
 
 1(345 Pope : Essay on Man, Epis. ii., Line 1:^. 
 
 Some flow'rets of Eden ye still inherit, 
 
 But the trail of the Serpent is over them all. 
 
 1646 Mooke: Paradise and the Peri 
 
 Service. 
 
 Ful wel she sange the service devine, 
 Entuned in hire nose ful swetely. 
 
 Chaucer : Canterbury Tales, Prologue, 
 
 1647 Line 122. 
 
 And ye shall succor men ; 
 
 'T is nobleness to serve ; 
 
 Help them who cannot help again : 
 
 Beware from right to swerve. 
 
 1648 Emerson: Boston Hymn, St. 13. 
 
 Sex. 
 
 Think you I am no stronger than my sex, 
 Being so father'd and so husbanded? 
 
 1649 Shaks. : Jul. Ccesar, Act ii., Sc. 1. 
 
 Spirits when they please 
 Can either sex assume, or both. 
 
 1650 Milton : Far. Lost, Bk. i., Line 423. 
 
 Sexton. 
 
 See yonder maker of the dead man's bed, 
 
 The sexton, hoary-headed chronicle ! 
 
 Of hard, unmeaning face, down which ne'er stole 
 
 A gentle tear; with mattock in his hand,
 
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 Digs thro' whole rows of kindred and acquaintance 
 By far his juniors ! Scarce a skull 's cast up 
 But well he knew its owner, and can tell 
 Some passage of his life. 
 
 1651 Blair: The Grave, Line 4ib2. 
 
 His death, which happened in his berth, 
 
 At forty-odd befell : 
 They went and told the sexton, and 
 
 The sexton tolled the bell. 
 
 1652 Hood: Faithless Sally Brown. 
 
 Shadow. 
 
 Shine out, fair sun, till I have bought a glass, 
 That I may see my shadow as I pass. 
 
 1653 Shaks. : Richard III., Act i., Sc. 2. 
 
 Syene, and where the shadow both way falls, 
 Meroe, Nilotic isle. 
 
 1654 Milton : Par. Regained, Bk. iv., Line 
 
 Our acts our angels are, or good or ill, 
 Our fatal shadows that walk by us still. 
 
 John Fletcher : Upon an " Honest 
 
 1655 Man's Fortune.'' 
 
 Shaft. 
 
 In my school-days, when I had lost one shaft, 
 
 I sliot his fellow of the selfsame flight 
 
 The selfsame way, with more advised watch. 
 
 To find the other forth ; and by adventuring both 
 
 1 oft found both. 
 
 1656 SnAKS. : .V. of ]'enice, Act i., Sc. 1.
 
 254 DICTIONARY OF POETICAL QUOTATIONS. 
 
 That eagle's fate and mine are one, 
 Which on the shaft that made him die 
 
 Espied a feather of his own, 
 
 Wherewith he wont to soar so high. 
 
 Waller : To a Lady Singing a Song of 
 
 1657 his Composing. 
 
 Shakespeare. 
 
 Soul of the age ! 
 Th' applause ! delight ! the wonder of our stage I 
 My Shakespeare, rise ! I will not lodge thee by 
 Chaucer, or Spenser, or bid Beaumont lie 
 A little further, to make thee room ; 
 Thou art a monument, without a tomb. 
 And art alive still, while thy book doth live. 
 And we have wdts to read, and praise to give. 
 
 Ben Jonson: Underwoods, To the Mem. 
 
 1658 of Shakespeare. 
 
 There, Shakespeare, on whose forehead climb 
 The crowns o' the world. Oh, eyes sublime, 
 With tears and laughters for all time 1 
 
 1659 INIus. Browning: Vision of Poets, St. 101. 
 
 Or sweetest Shakespeare, Fancy's child, 
 Warble his native wood-notes wild. 
 
 1660 Milton : L' Allegro, Line 129. 
 
 What needs my Shakespeare for his honor'd 
 
 bones, — 
 The labor of an age in piled stones? 
 Or that his hallow 'd relics should be hid 
 Under a star-y-pointing pyramid? 
 Dear son of memory, great heir of fame, 
 What need'st thou such weak witness of thy name? 
 
 1661 Milton : On Shakespeare.
 
 DICTIOXARY OF POETICAL QUOTATIONS. 255 
 
 Shame. 
 
 (), shame 1 where is thy blush? 
 
 10(32 Shaks. : Hamlet, Act iii., Sc. 4. 
 
 But 'neath yon crimson tree 
 Lover to listening maid might breathe his flame, 
 Nor mark, within its roseate canopy. 
 
 Her blush of maiden shame. 
 
 1663 William CuLLEN Bryant : Autumn Woods, 
 
 Shape. 
 
 Take any shape but that, and my firm nerves 
 Shall never tremble. 
 
 1664 Shaks. : Macbeth, Act iii., Sc. 4. 
 
 The other shape, 
 If shape it might be calPd that shape had none 
 Distinguishable in member, joint, or limb. 
 
 1665 Milton : Par. Lost, Bk. ii., Line 681. 
 
 Shell. 
 
 I have seen 
 A curious child, who dwelt upon a tract 
 Of inland ground, applying to his ear 
 The convolutions of a smooth-lipped shell, 
 To which, in silence hushed, his very soul 
 Listened intensely. 
 
 1666 Wordsworth: The Excursion, Ek. \v. 
 
 SheUey. 
 
 Ah. did you once see Shelley plain, 
 
 And did he stop and speak to you, 
 And did you speak to him again ? 
 
 How strange it seems, and new ! 
 
 1667 Robert Browning : Memorabilia, L
 
 256 DICTIONARY OF POETICAL QUOTATIONS. 
 
 Sheridan. 
 
 Lonc^ shall we seek his likeness — long in vain, 
 And turn to all of him which may remain, 
 Sighing that nature form'd but one such man. 
 And broke the die — in moulding Sheridan. 
 1668 Byron : Monody on the Death of Sheridan, 
 
 Shield. 
 
 When Prussia hurried to the field, 
 
 And snatch'd the spear, but left the shield. 
 
 Ships. 
 
 Was this the face that launch'd a thousand ships. 
 And burnt the topless towers of Ilium? 
 
 1670 Marlowe : Faustus. 
 
 Like sister sails that drift at night 
 Together on the deep, 
 Seen only where they cross the light 
 That pathless waves must pathlike keep 
 From fisher's signal fire, or pharos steep. 
 
 1671 RusKiN : The Broken Chain, Pt. v., St. 25. 
 
 She walks the waters like a thing of life. 
 And seems to dare the elements to strife. 
 
 1672 Byron : Corsair, Canto i., St. 3. 
 
 As idle as a painted ship 
 Upon a painted ocean. 
 
 1673 CoLKRiDGE : The Ancient Mariner, Pt. ii. 
 
 Shipwreck. 
 
 O, I have suffer'd 
 With those that T saw suffer ! a brave vessel,
 
 DICTIOXARY OF POETICAL QUOTATIOXS. 257 
 
 Who had no doubt some noble creature in her, 
 Dash'd all to pieces, O, the cry did knock 
 Against my very heart ! poor souls ! they perish'd. 
 
 1674 Shaks. : Tenqjest, Act i,, Sc. 2. 
 
 Again she plunges! hark! a second shock 
 Bilges the splitting Vessel on the Rock — 
 Down on the vale of death, with dismal cries 
 The fated victims shuddering cast their eyes, 
 In wild despair; while yet another stroke, 
 With strong convulsion rends the solid oak : 
 Ah Heaven ! — behold her crashing ribs divide ! 
 She loosens, parts, and spreads in ruin o'er the Tide. 
 
 1675 Falconer : Shipwreck, Canto iii., Line 642. 
 
 Shoes. 
 
 I saw them go : one horse was blind, 
 The tails of both hung down behind. 
 Their shoes were on their feet. 
 
 James Smith : Rejected Addresses, The 
 
 1676 Baby's Debut. 
 
 Let firm, well-hammer'd soles protect thy feet, 
 Thro' freezing snows, and rain, and soaking sleet. 
 
 1677 Gay: Trivia, Bk. i., Line 33. 
 
 Shore. 
 
 But the poor, unsightly, noisome things 
 
 Had left their beauty on the shore. 
 
 With the sun and the sand and the wild uproar. 
 
 1678 Emerson: Each and All. 
 
 There is a rapture on the lonely shore ; 
 There is society, where none intrudes, 
 By the deep sea, and music in its roar. 
 
 1679 Byron : Ch. Harold, Canto iv., St. 178.
 
 258 DICTIONARY OF POETICAL QUOTATIONS. 
 
 A strong nor'wester 's blowing, Bill ! 
 
 Hark ! don't ye hear it roar now ? 
 Lord help 'em, how I pities them 
 
 Unhappy folks on shore now ! 
 
 1680 William Pitt : The Sailors Consolation. 
 
 Show. 
 
 Live to be the show and gaze o' the time. 
 
 1681 Shaks. : Macbeth, Act v., Sc. 8. 
 
 With books and money plac'd for show 
 Like nest-eggs to make clients lay, 
 And for his false opinion pay. 
 
 Butlek: Hudibras, Ft. iii.. Canto iii., 
 
 1682 Line 624. 
 
 Shrine. 
 
 What sought they thus afar? 
 
 Bright jewels of the mine, 
 The wealth of seas, the spoils of war? 
 
 They sought a faith's pure shrine. 
 
 1683 Hemans: Landing of the Pilgrim Fathers. 
 
 Sickness. 
 
 This sickness doth infect 
 The very life-blood of our enterprise. 
 1081: Shaks. : 1 Henry IV., Act iv., Sc. 1. 
 
 Sighs. 
 
 My story being done, 
 She gave me for my pains a world of sighs. 
 1685 SriAKS. : Othello, Act i., Sc. 3. 
 
 He sighed ; — the next resource is the full moon, 
 
 Where all sighs are deposited; and now 
 
 It happen'd luckily, the chaste orb shone. 
 
 1680 Byron : Don Juan, Canto xvi., St. 13.
 
 DICTIONARY OF POETICAL QUOTATIONS. 259 
 
 Sight. 
 
 Visions of glory, spare my aching sight 
 Ye unborn ages, crowd not on my soul! 
 
 1G87 Gray: The Bard, Vt. in., St. 1, 
 
 Christ ! it is a goodly sight to see 
 
 What Heaven hath done for this delicious land. 
 
 1GS8 Byron: Ch. Harold, Canto i., St. 15. 
 
 Signs. 
 
 Sometime we see a cloud that 's dragon ish : 
 
 A vapor, sometime, like a bear, or lion, 
 
 A tower'd citadel, a pendent rock, 
 
 A forked mountain, or blue promontory 
 
 "With trees upon 't, that nod unto the world, 
 
 And mock our eves with air : thou hast seen these 
 
 signs ; 
 They are black vesper's pageants. 
 
 1689 SnAKS. : Ant. and Cleo., Act iv., Sc. 12. 
 
 Silence. 
 
 Silence is the perfectest herald of joy : 
 
 1 were but little happy, if I could say how much. 
 
 1690 Shaks. : Much Ado, Act ii., Sc. 1. 
 
 Silence in love bewrays more woe 
 Than words, tho' ne'er so witty; 
 A beggar that is dumb, you know, 
 May challenge double pity. 
 
 1691 Sir Walter Raleigh : Silent Lover, St. 6. 
 
 Silence more musical than any song. 
 
 1692 Christina G. Rossetti : Rest.
 
 260 DICTIOXARY OF POETICAL QUOTATIONS. 
 
 Silence accompany'd ; for beast and bird, 
 They to their ^c^rassy couch, these to their nests, 
 AVere slunk, all but the wakeful nightingale; 
 She all night long her amorous descant sung; 
 Silence was pleas'd. 
 
 1693 Milton: Par. Lost, Bk. iv., Line 598. 
 
 There was silence deep as death, 
 And the boldest held his breath 
 For a time. 
 
 1694 Campbell: Battle of the Baltic. 
 
 There is a silence where hath been no sound, 
 There is a silence where no sound may be, — 
 In the cold grave, under the deep, deep sea. 
 Or in the wide desert where no life is found. 
 
 1695 Hood : Sonnet, Silence. 
 
 Silver. 
 
 Lady, by yonder blessed moon I swear. 
 That tips with silver all these fruit-tree tops. 
 
 1696 Shaks. : Rom. and Jul., Act ii., Sc. 2. 
 
 Similarity. 
 
 J^ike will to like : each creature loves his kind. 
 Chaste words proceed still from a bashful mind. 
 
 1697 Herrick : Aph. Like Loves His Like. 
 
 Simplicity. 
 
 And simple truth miscall'd simplicity. 
 And captive good attending captive ill. 
 
 1698 Shaks. : Sonnet Ixvi.
 
 DICTIONARY OF POETICAL QUOTATIONS. 261 
 
 Rich in saving common-sense, 
 And, as the greatest only are. 
 In his simplicity sublime. 
 
 Tennyson : Ode on the Death of the Duke 
 
 1699 of Wellington, bt. 4. 
 
 Sin. 
 
 Cut off even in the blossoms of my sin, 
 Unhousell'd, disappointed, unaneled. 
 
 1700 Shaks. : Hamlet, Act i., Sc. 5. 
 
 One sin, I know, another doth provoke ; 
 Murder 's as near to lust, as flame to smoke. 
 
 1701 Shaks. : Pericles, Act i., Sc. 1. 
 
 In lashing sin, of every stroke beware, 
 
 For sinners feel, and sinners you must spare. 
 
 1702 Crabbe : Tales, Adcice, Line 212. 
 
 But sad as angels for the good man's sin, 
 Weep to record, and blush to give it in. 
 
 . 1703 Campbell : PI. of Hope, Pt. ii., Line 357. 
 
 I waive the quantum o' the sin, 
 
 The hazard of concealing; 
 But, och ! it hardens a' within. 
 
 And petrifies the feeling ! 
 
 1701 Burns : Epistle to a Young Friend. 
 
 Compound for sins they are inclined to, 
 By damning those they have no mind to. 
 
 1705 Butler : Hudibras, Pt. i., Canto i.. Line 215.
 
 262 DICTIONARY OF POETICAL QUOTATIONS. 
 
 Sincerity. 
 
 I never tempted her with word too large, 
 But, as a brother to his sister, sliow'd 
 Bashful sincerity and comely love. 
 
 1706 SiiAKs. : Much Ado, xVct iv., Sc. 1. 
 
 His nature is too noble for the world : 
 
 He would not flatter Neptune for his trident, 
 
 Or .love for 's power to thunder. His heart 's his 
 
 mouth: 
 What his breast forges that his tongue must vent. 
 
 1707 Shaks. : Coriolanus, Act iii., Sc. 1. 
 
 Singing. 
 
 But in his motion like an angel sings, 
 Still quiring to the young-eyed cherubims. 
 
 1708 Shaks.: .V. of Venice, Act v., Sc. 1. 
 
 Sing, seraph with the glory ! heaven is high. 
 Sing, poet with the sorrow ! earth is low. 
 The universe's inward voices cry 
 "Amen " to either song of joy and woe. 
 Sing, seraph, poet! sing on equally! 
 
 1709 jMhs. Browning: Sonnets, Seraph and Poet, 
 
 I send my heart up to thee, all my heart 
 
 In this my singing ! 
 
 For the stars help me, and the sea bears part. 
 
 1710 Robert Browning : In a Gondola. 
 
 I do but sing because I must. 
 
 And pipe but as the linnets sing. 
 
 1711 Tennyson : In Memoriam, Pt. xxi., St. 6. 
 
 Song forbids victorious deeds to die. 
 
 1712 Schiller: Artists, ^t.W.
 
 DICTIONARY OF POETICAL QUOTATIONS. 263 
 
 Singularity. 
 2n o two oil earth in all things can agree ; 
 All have some darling singularity. 
 
 1713 Churchill : Apologi/, Line 402. 
 
 Sister. 
 
 Oh, never say hereafter 
 But I am truest speaker. You call'd me brother 
 When I was but your sister. 
 
 1714 Shaks. : Cymheline, Act v., Sc. 5. 
 
 SkiU. 
 
 Hov\- happy is he born or taught, 
 
 That serveth not another's will; 
 Whose armor is his honest thought. 
 
 And simple truth his utmost skill! 
 
 1715 WoTTON : Character of a Happy Life. 
 
 Sk\iU. 
 
 Look on its broken arch, its ruined wail, 
 Its chambers desolate, its portals foul ; 
 Yes, this was once ambition's airy hall, 
 The dome of thought, the palace of the soul. 
 
 1716 Byron: Ch. Harold, Canto ii., St. 6. 
 
 Sky. 
 
 Man is the nobler growth our realms supply, 
 And souls are ripened in our northern sky. 
 
 1717 Mrs. Barbauld : The Invitation. 
 
 The sky is changed, — and such a change. O night 
 And storm and darkness ! ye are wondrous strong, 
 Yet lovely in your strength, as is the light 
 Of a dark eye'^in woman ! 
 
 1718 Byron : Ch. HarohL Canto iii., St. 92.
 
 264 DICTIONARY OF POETICAL QUOTATIONS- 
 
 Slander. 
 
 Slanderous reproaches, and foul infamies, 
 Leasings, backbitings, and vainglorious crakes, 
 Bad counsels, praises, and false flatteries ; 
 All those against that fort did bend their batteries. 
 Spenser : Faerie Queene, Bk. ii., Canto xi., 
 
 1719 St. 10. 
 
 'T is slander. 
 Whose edge is sharper than the sword : whose 
 
 tongue 
 Outvenonis all the worms of Nile; whose breath 
 Rides on the posting winds, and doth belie 
 All corners of the world, — kings, queens, and 
 
 states. 
 Maids, matrons, — nay, the secrets of the grave 
 This viperous slander enters. 
 
 1720 Shaks. : Cymheline, Act iii., Sc. 4. 
 
 'T was slander filled her mouth with lying words, — 
 Slander, the foulest whelp of sin. 
 
 1721 PoLLOK : Course of Time, Bk. viii., Line 715. 
 
 Slave — Slavery. 
 
 Thou art a slave, whom Fortune's tender arm 
 With favor never clasp'd : but bred a dog. 
 
 1722 Shaks. : Timon of A., Act iv., Sc. 3. 
 
 He finds his fellow guilty of a skin 
 Not color'd like his own, and having pow'r 
 T' enforce the wrong, for such a worthy cause 
 Dooms and devotes him as his lawful prey. 
 
 1723 CowPER : Task, Bk. ii., Line 12. 
 
 Corrupted freemen are the worst of slaves. 
 
 1724 David Garrick : Prologue to the Gamesters.
 
 DICTIOXARY OF POETICAL QUOTATIONS. 265 
 
 Whatever day 
 Makes man a slave, takes half his worth away. 
 1725 Pope : Odyssey, Bk. xvii.. Line 392. 
 
 Sleep. 
 
 We are such stuff 
 As dreams are made on ; and our little life 
 Is rounded with a sleep. 
 
 1726 Shaks. : Tempest, Act iv., Sc. 1. 
 
 Sleep, that knits up the ravell'd sleave of care, 
 The death of each day's life, sore labor's bath, 
 Balm of hurt minds, great nature's second course, 
 Chief nourisher in life's feast. 
 
 1727 Shaks. : Macbeth, Act ii., Sc. 2. 
 
 Come, sleep, O sleep ! the certain knot of peace, 
 The baiting-place of wit, the balm of woe; 
 The poor man's wealth, the prisoner's release. 
 The impartial judge between the high and low\ 
 Sir Philip Sidney : Astrophel and Stella, 
 
 1728 St. 39. 
 
 Tired nature's sweet restorer, balmy sleep! 
 
 He, like the world, his ready visit pays 
 
 Where fortune smiles — the wretched he forsakes. 
 
 1729 Yo\:^g: Night Thoughts, ^ig\it\.,lumQ\. 
 
 O magic sleep ! O comfortable bird 
 
 That broodest o'er the troubled sea of the mind 
 
 Till it is hush'd and smooth ! 
 
 1730 Keats : Endymion, Line 456. 
 
 Sleep hath its own world, 
 A boundary between the things misnamed 
 Death and existence : Sleep hath its own world, 
 And a wide realm of wild reality. 
 
 1731 Byron : Dream, Line 1.
 
 206 DICTIONARY OF POETICAL QUOTATIONS. 
 
 Sleep the sleep that knows not breaking, 
 Morn of toil, nor night of waking. 
 
 1732 Scott : Ladi/ of the Lake, Canto i., St. 31. 
 
 Of all the thoughts of God that are 
 Borne inward into souls afar. 
 Along the Psalmist's music deep, 
 Now tell me if that any is, 
 For gift or grace, surpassing this — 
 " He giveth His beloved sleep " V 
 
 1733 Mrs. Browning : Sleep. 
 
 Be thy sleep 
 Silent as night is, and as deep. 
 
 Longfellow" : Chi-istus, Golden Legend, 
 
 1734 Pt. ii. 
 
 Sleep will bring thee dreams in starry number — 
 Let him come to thee and be thy guest. 
 
 1735 Aytoun : Hermolunus. 
 
 Sloth. 
 
 Sloth views the towers of Fame with envious eyes, 
 Desirous still, but impotent to rise. 
 
 1736 Shenstone: Moral Pieces. 
 
 Sluggard. 
 
 'T is the voice of the sluggard ; I heard him com- 
 plain, 
 
 " You have waked me too soon, I must slumber 
 again." 
 
 1737 Watts : The Sluggard. 
 
 Smiles. 
 
 One may smile, and smile, and be a villain. 
 
 1738 SiiAKS. : Hamlet, Act i., Sc. 5.
 
 DICTIONARY OF POETICAL QUOTATIONS. 267 
 
 With the smile that was childlike and bland. 
 
 Bret Harte : Plain Language from 
 1739 Truthful James. 
 
 Death 
 Grinn'd horrible a ghastly smile, to hear 
 His famine should be tilled. 
 17-iO Milton : Par. Lost, Bk. ii., Line 84.5. 
 
 Without the smile from partial beauty won, 
 Oh what were man? — a world without a sun. 
 
 1741 Campbell: PI. of Hope, Ft. ii.. Line 2L 
 
 Even children follow 'd with endearing wile, 
 And pluck'd his gown, to share the good man's 
 smile. 
 
 1742 Goldsmith : Des. Village, Line 183. 
 
 Smoke. 
 
 1 knew, by the smoke that so gracefully curl'd 
 Above the green elms, that a cottage was near. 
 
 1743 Moore : Ballad Stanzas. 
 
 Snail. 
 
 The snail, whose tender horns being hit, 
 Shrinks backward in his shelly cave with pain, 
 And there, all smother'd up in shade, doth sit, 
 Long after fearing to creep forth again. 
 
 1744 Shaks. : Venus and A., Line 1033. 
 
 Snake. 
 
 We have scotch'd the snake, not kill'd it ; 
 She '11 close, and be herself ; whilst our poor malice 
 Remains in danger of her former tooth. 
 
 1745 Shaks. : Macbeth, Act iii., Sc. 2.
 
 268 DICTIOXAUY OF POETICAL QUOTATIONS. 
 
 Snow. 
 
 Or wallow naked in December snow 
 
 By thinking on fantastic summer's heat? 
 
 1746 Shaks. : Richard IL, Act i., Sc. 3. 
 
 A cheer for the snow — the drifting snow ; 
 Smoother and purer than Beauty's brow ; 
 The creature of thought scarce likes to tread 
 On the delicate carpet so richly spread. 
 
 1747 Eliza Cook : Snow. 
 
 Announced by all the trumpets of tlie sky, 
 Arrives the snow, and, driving o'er the fields, 
 Seems nowhere to alight : the whited air 
 Hides hills and woods, the river, and the heaven. 
 
 1748 Emerson : The Snow-Storm. 
 
 Sno"w-Drop. 
 
 The snow-drop, who, in habit white and plain. 
 Comes on, the herald of fair Flora's train. 
 
 1749 Churchill : Gotham, Bk. i., Line 245. 
 
 Snuff. 
 
 When they talked of their Raphaels, Correggios, 
 
 and stuff. 
 He shifted his trumpet and only took snuff. 
 
 1750 Goldsmith : Retaliation, Line 145. 
 
 Lady, accept the gift a hero wore 
 
 In spite of all this elegiac stuff ; 
 Let not seven stanzas written by a bore 
 
 Prevent your ladyship from taking snuff. 
 
 1751 Byron : Lines to Lady Holland.
 
 DICTIOXARY OF POETICAL QUOTATIONS. 2G9 
 
 Society. 
 
 Man in society is like a flower 
 
 Blown in its native bed ; 't is there alone 
 
 His faculties expanded in full bloom 
 
 Shine out ; there only reach their proper use. 
 
 1752 CowpER : Task; Bk. iv., Line 659. 
 
 Society became my glittering bride, 
 And airy hopes my children. 
 
 1753 Wordsworth : Excursion, Bk. iii. 
 
 Soldier. 
 
 A soldier ; 
 Full of strange oaths, and bearded like the pard, 
 Jealous in honor, sudden and quick in quarrel. 
 Seeking the bubble reputation 
 Even in the cannon's mouth. 
 
 1754 Shaks. : .4s You Like It, Act ii., Sc. 7. 
 
 And but for these vile guns. 
 He would himself have been a soldier. 
 
 1755 Shaks. : 1 Henry IV., Act i., Sc. 3. 
 
 The broken soldier, kindly bade to stay. 
 Sat by his fire, and talk'd the night away ; 
 Wept o'er his wounds, or, tales of sorrow done, 
 Shoulder'd his crutch, and show'd how fields were 
 won. 
 
 1756 Goldsmith : Des. Village, Line 155. 
 
 How shall we rank thee upon glory's page. 
 Thou more than soldier, and just less than sage? 
 
 1757 Moore : To Thomas Hume.
 
 270 DICTIONARY OF POETICAL QUOTATIONS. 
 
 Solitude. 
 
 Solitude sometimes is best society, 
 
 And short retirement urges sweet return. 
 
 1758 MiLTOX : Par. Lost, Bk. ix., Line 249. 
 
 O solitude ! where are the charms 
 That sages have seen in thy face? 
 Better dwell in the midst of alarms, 
 Than reign in this horrible place. 
 
 CowPER : Vei'ses supposed to be written by 
 
 1759 Alex. Selkirk, St. 1. 
 
 Man dwells apart, though not alone. 
 
 He walks among his peers unread ; 
 
 The best of thoughts which he hath known. 
 
 For lack of listeners are not said. 
 
 Jean Ingelow : Afternoon at a Parsoymge, 
 
 1760 Afterthought. 
 
 It was a wild and lonely ride. 
 
 Save the hid loon's mocking cry, 
 Or marmot on the mountain side, 
 
 The earth was silent as the sky. 
 
 1761 Hamlin Garland : The Long Trail. 
 
 Thence to be wrench'd with an unlineal hand, 
 Ko son of mine succeeding. 
 
 1762 Shaks. : Macbeth, Act iii., Sc. 1. 
 
 The booby father craves a booby son. 
 
 And by Heaven's blessing thinks himself undone. 
 
 1763 Young: Love of Fame, Satire ii., Line 165.
 
 DICTIONARY OF POETICAL QUOTATIONS. 271 
 
 Song. 
 
 And heaven had wanted one immortal song. 
 
 Dryden : Absalom and Ackitophel, Pt. i., 
 
 1764 Line 197. 
 
 That not in fancy's maze he wander'd long, 
 But stoop'd to truth, and moraliz'd his song. 
 
 1765 Pope : Prologue to the Satires, Line 340. 
 
 For dear to gods and men is sacred song. 
 Self-taught I sing; by Heaven, and Heaven alone, 
 The genuine seeds of poesy are sown. 
 
 1766 Pope : Odyssey, Bk. xxii., Line 382. 
 
 Sonnet. 
 
 Scorn not the sonnet. Critic, you have frowned, 
 Mindless of its just honors; with this key 
 Shakespeare unlocked his heart. 
 
 1767 AVoKDSWORTH : Scorn not the Sonnet. 
 
 Sorrow. 
 
 Give sorrow words : the grief that does not speak 
 Whispers the o'erfraught heart, and bids it break. 
 
 1768 Shaks. : Macbeth, Act iv., Sc. 3. 
 
 One sorrow never comes, but brings an heir. 
 That may succeed as his inheritor. 
 
 1769 Shaks. : Pericles, Act i., Sc. 1. 
 
 Xothing comes to us too soon but sorrow. 
 
 1770 Bailey: Festus, Sc. Home. 
 
 This is truth the poet sings. 
 That a sorrow's crown of sorrow is remembering 
 happier things. 
 
 1771 Tennyson : Locksley Hall, St. 3a
 
 272 DICTIONARY OF POETICAL QUOTATIONS. 
 
 Soul. 
 
 But whither went his soul, let such relate 
 Who searcli the secrets of the future state. 
 
 Dkyi>en : Palnmon and Arcite, Bk. iii., 
 
 1772 Line 2120. 
 
 It is the Soul's prerogative, its fate 
 To shape the outward to its owu estate. 
 
 1773 R. n. Dana : Thoughts on the Soul. 
 
 The gods approve 
 The depth, and not the tumult, of the soul. 
 
 1774 WoRDSwouTH : Laodamia. 
 
 Sound. 
 
 'T is not enough no harshness gives offence, — 
 The sound must seem an echo to the sense. 
 
 1775 Pope : E. on Criticism, Pt. ii., Line 162. 
 
 Spain. 
 
 Fair land! of chivalry the old domain, 
 Land of the vine and olive, lovely Spain ! 
 
 Mrs. Hemans: Ahencerrage, Canto ii., 
 
 1776 Line 1. 
 
 Spear. 
 
 His spear, to equal which the tallest pine 
 Hewn on Norwegian hills to be the mast 
 Of some great ammiral were but a wand. 
 
 1777 Milton : Par. Lost, Bk. i.. Line 292. 
 
 Speech. 
 
 Rude am I in my speech 
 And little bless'd with the soft phrase of peace. 
 1778
 
 DICTIONARY OF POETICAL QUOTATIONS. 273 
 
 Speech is but broken light upon the depth 
 Of the unspoken ; even your loved words 
 Float in the larger meaning of your voice 
 As something dimmer. 
 
 1779 George Eliot: Spanish Gypsy, Bk. 1. 
 
 Spenser. 
 
 Xor shall my verse that elder bard forget, 
 The gentle Spenser, fancy's pleasing son ; 
 Who, like a copious river, poured his song 
 O'er all the mazes of enchanted ground. 
 
 1780 Thomson : Seasons, Summer, Line 1574. 
 
 Spires. 
 
 Ye swelling hills and spacious plains ! 
 
 Besprent from shore to shore with steeple towers. 
 
 And spires whose "silent finger points to heaven." 
 
 1781 Wordsworth : Excursion, Bk. vi., Line 17. 
 
 Spirits. 
 
 I can call spirits from the vasty deep. 
 
 Why, so can I ; or so can any man : 
 
 But will they come, when you do call for them ? 
 
 1782 Shaks. : 1 Henry IV., Act iii., Sc. 1. 
 
 Millions of spiritual creatures walk the earth 
 Unseen, both when we wake and when we sleep. 
 
 1783 Milton : Par. Lost, Bk. iv., Line 677. 
 
 Splendor. 
 
 Though nothing can bring back the hour 
 
 Of splendor in the grass, of glory in the flower. 
 
 Wordsworth: Intimations of Immortality. 
 
 1784 St." 10
 
 274 DICTIONARY OF POETICAL QUOTATIONS. 
 
 Sport. 
 
 Thick around 
 Tliunders the sport of those, who with the gun 
 And dog, impatient bounding at tlie sliot, 
 AV'orse tiian tlie season desolate the fields. 
 
 1785 Thomson : Seasons, Winter, Line 788. 
 
 Spring. 
 
 In the spring a livelier iris changes on the burnish'd 
 
 dove; 
 In the spring a young man's fancy lightly turns to 
 
 thoughts of love. 
 
 1786 Tenxyson : Locksleij Hall, Line 19. 
 
 Come, gentle Spring, ethereal mildness, come; 
 And from the bosom of your dropping cloud, 
 While music wakes around, veiled in a shower 
 Of shadowing roses, on our plains descend. 
 
 1787 Thomson: Seasons, Spring, Line 1. 
 
 " Come, gentle Spring ! ethereal mildness, come I " — 
 Oh ! Thomson, void of rhyme as well as reason, 
 How could'st thou thus poor human nature hum? 
 There 's no such season. 
 
 1788 Hood: Spring, 
 
 Stage. 
 
 All the world's a stage, 
 And all the men and women merely players, 
 They have their exits and their entrances; 
 And one man in his time plays many parts, 
 His acts being seven ages. 
 
 1789 Shaks. : As You Like It, Act ii., Sc. 7. 
 
 Stars. 
 
 Two stars keep not their motion in one sphere. 
 
 1790 Shaks. : 1 Henry I V., Act v., Sc. 4.
 
 The stars of the night 
 
 Will lend thee their light, 
 
 Like tapers clear without number ! 
 
 1791 Herrick: A ph. Night Piece, To Julia. 
 
 Ye stars ! which are the poetry cf Heaven, 
 If in your bright leaves we would read the fate 
 Of men and empires, — 't is to be fprgiveii, 
 That in our aspirations to be great, 
 Our destinies o'erleap their mortal state, 
 And claim a kindred with you. 
 
 1792 Byron: C^. i/aroW, Canto iii., St. 88. 
 
 Now only here and there a little star 
 Looks forth alone. 
 
 William Cullen Bryant : The Con- 
 
 1793 stellations. 
 
 State. 
 
 A thousand years scarce serve to form a state : 
 An hour may lay it in the dust. 
 
 1794 Byron : Ch. Harold, Canto ii., St. 8i. 
 
 Statesman. 
 
 An honest statesman to a prince, 
 Ls like a cedar planted by a spring; 
 The spring bathes the tree's root, the grateful tree 
 Rewards it with his shadow. 
 
 1795 AVebster : Duchess of Malji, Act iii., Sc. 2. 
 
 Steed. 
 
 Hurrah, hurrah for Sheridan ! 
 
 Hurrah, hurrah for horse and man ! 
 
 And when their statues are placed on high, 
 
 Under the dome of the Union sky, — 
 
 The American soldier's Temple of Fame, — 
 
 There with the glorious General's name
 
 276 DICTIONARY OF POETICAL QUOTATIONS. 
 
 Be it said in letters both bold and bright : 
 " Here is the steed that saved the day 
 By carrying Sheridan into the fight, 
 From Winchester, — twenty miles away ! " 
 
 1796 Thomas Buchanan Read : Sheridan's Ride. 
 
 Stones. 
 
 Put a tongue 
 In every wound of Cresar that should move 
 The stones of Rome to rise and nmtiny. 
 
 1797 Shaks. : Jul Ccesar, Act iii., Sc. 2. 
 
 Storms. 
 
 We often see, against some storm, 
 A silence in the heavens, the rack stand still. 
 The bold winds speechless, and the orb below 
 As hush as death. 
 
 1798 Shaks.: Hamlet, Act ii., Sc. 2. 
 
 God moves in a mysterious way 
 
 His wonders to perform ; 
 He plants his footsteps in the sea 
 
 And rides upon the storm. 
 
 1799 CowPER : Light Shining out of Darkness, 
 
 Nail to the mast her holy flag, 
 
 Set every threadbare sail, 
 And give her to the god of storms, 
 
 The lightning and the gale ! 
 
 1800 Oliver Wendell Holmes: Old Ironsides. 
 
 Story. 
 
 Her father loved me; oft invited me; 
 Still question 'd me the story of my life. 
 From year to year, the battles, sieges, fortune , 
 That i have passed. 
 
 1801 Shaks. : Othello, Act i., Sc. 3.
 
 DICTIOXARY OF POETICAL QUOTATIONS. 277 
 
 She thank'd me, 
 And bade me, if I had a friend that loved her, 
 I should but teach him how to tell my story, 
 And that would woo her. 
 
 1802 Shaks. : Othello, Act i., Sc. 3. 
 
 Strangers. 
 
 By foreign hands thy dying eyes were clos'd, 
 By foreign hands thy decent limbs compos'd, 
 By foreign hands thy humble grave adorn'd, 
 By strangers honored, and by strangers mourn'd. 
 
 Pope : To the Memory of an Unfortunate 
 
 1803 Lady, Line 51. 
 
 Streets. 
 
 The graves stood tenantless, and the sheeted dead 
 Did squeak and gibber in the Roman streets. 
 
 1804 Shaks. : Hamlet, Act i., Sc. 1. 
 
 Strength. 
 
 O, it is excellent 
 " To have a giant's strength ; but it is tyrannous 
 To use it like a giant. 
 
 " 1805 Shaks. : M. for M., Act ii., Sc. 2. 
 
 To be strong 
 Is to be happy ! 
 
 Longfellow : Christus, Golden Legend, 
 
 1806 rt. ii. 
 
 Strife. 
 
 No fears to beat away, no strife to heal, — 
 The past unsighed for, and the future sure. 
 
 1807 Wordsworth : Laodamia.
 
 278 DICTIONARY OF POETICAL QUOTATIONS. 
 
 Striving. 
 
 How far your ej'es may pierce I cannot tell ; 
 Striving to better, oft we mar what 's well. 
 
 1808 Shaks. : King Lear, Act i., Sc. 4. 
 
 Study. 
 
 Study is like the heaven's glorious sun, 
 That will not be deep-search 'd with saucy looks ; 
 Small have continual plodders ever won, 
 Save base authority from others' books. 
 
 1809 Shaks.: Love's L. Lost, Act i., Sc. 1. 
 
 If not to some peculiar end design'd 
 Study 's the specious trifling of the mind, 
 Or is at best a secondary aim, 
 A chase for sport alone, and not for game. 
 
 1810 Young : Love of Fame, Satire ii.. Line 67. 
 
 Style. 
 
 The lives of trees lie only in the barks. 
 
 And in their styles the wit of greatest clerks. 
 
 BuTLKR : Sal. on Abuse of Human Learning, 
 
 1811 Line 211. 
 
 Success. 
 
 Didst thou never hear 
 
 That things ill got had ever bad success? 
 
 1812 Shaks. : 3 Henry VL, Act ii., Sc. 2. 
 
 Life lives only in success. 
 
 1813 Bayard Taylor: Amran's Wooing, St. 5. 
 
 'T is not in mortals to command success; 
 
 But we '11 do more, Sempronius — we '11 deserve it. 
 
 1814 Addison : Calo, Act i., Sc. 2.
 
 DICTIO>*ARY OF POETICAL QUOTATIONS. 279 
 
 Suffering. 
 
 Yet tears to human suffering are due ; 
 And mortal hopes defeated and o'erthrowu 
 Are mourned by man, and not by man alone. 
 
 1815 Wordsworth : Laodamia. 
 
 Suicide. 
 
 Why, he that cuts off twenty years of life 
 Cuts off' so many years of fearing death. 
 
 1816 Shaks. : Jul. Cctsar, Act iii., Sc. 1. 
 
 — He 
 
 That kills himself to avoid misery, fears it ; 
 And at the best shows but a bastard valor. 
 
 1817 Massinger : Maid of Honor, Act iv., Sc. 3. 
 
 Summer. 
 
 Eternal summer gilds them yet, 
 But all except their sun is set. 
 
 1818 Byron : Don Juan, Canto iii., St. 86. 1. 
 
 It is a sultry day ; the sun has drunk 
 The dew that lay upon the morning grass ; 
 There is no rustling in the lofty ehn 
 That canopies my dwelling, and its shade 
 Scarce cools me. All is silent, save the faint 
 And interrupted murmur of the bee. 
 Settling on the sick flowers, and then again 
 Instantly on the wing. 
 
 1819 William Cullex Bryant : Summer Wind. 
 
 Sim. 
 
 The glorious sun, 
 Stays in his course, and plays the alchemist ; 
 Turning, with splendor of his precious eye. 
 The meagre cloddy earth to glittering gold. 
 
 1820 Shaks, : King John, Act iii., Sc. 1.
 
 280 DICTIONARY OF POETICAL QUOTATIONS. 
 
 Busy old fool, unruly sun, 
 
 Why dost tliou thus, 
 
 Tlirough ^vindo^vs and through curtains call on us? 
 
 1821 John Donne : The Sun-Rising. 
 
 My own hope is, a sun will pierce 
 The thickest cloud earth ever stretched. 
 
 1822 RoiJERT Browning: Appm^ent Failure, vii. 
 
 Sunflower. 
 
 Light enchanted sunflower, thou 
 Who gazest ever true and tender 
 On the sun's revolving splendor 1 
 
 Restless sunflowers, cease to move. 
 
 Shellp:y : Tr. of " Magico Prodiqioso " of 
 1823 C alder on, Sc. 3. 
 
 The heart that has truly lov'd never forgets, 
 But as truly loves on to the close, 
 As the sunflower turns on her god when he sets 
 The same look which she turn'd when he rose. 
 
 MoORE : Believe Me, If all T/iose Endearing 
 
 1824 Young Charms. 
 
 ]\Iiles and miles of gold and green 
 AVhere the sunflowers blow 
 In a solid glow. 
 
 1825 Robert Browning : Lovers' Quarrel, St. 6. 
 
 Unloved, the sunflower, shining fair, 
 Ray round with flames her disk of seed. 
 
 1826 Tennyson : In Memoriam, Pt. ci., St. 2.
 
 DICTIOXARY OF POETICAL QUOTATIOXS. 281 
 
 Sunrise. 
 
 When from, the openhig chambers of the east 
 The morning springs in thousand liveries drest, 
 The early larks their morning tribute pay, 
 And, in shrill notes, salute the blooming day. 
 
 1827 Thomson : The Morning in the Country. 
 
 'T is morn. Behold the kingly Day now leaps 
 The eastern wall of earth with sword in hand, 
 Clad in a flowing robe of mellow light. 
 Like to a king that has regain'd his throne, 
 He warms his drooping subjects into joy. 
 That rise rejoiced to do him fealty, 
 And rules with pomp the universal world. 
 
 1828 Joaquin Miller : Ina, So. 2. 
 
 Sunset. 
 
 The weary sun hath made a golden set. 
 And, by the bright track of his fiery car. 
 Gives token of a goodly day to-morrow. 
 
 1829 Shaks. : Richard III., Act v., Sc. 3. 
 
 O the wondrous golden sunset of the blest October 
 day. 
 
 1830 Julia C. R. Dorr : Margery Grey, St. 24. 
 
 The descending sun 
 Seems to caress the city that he loves, 
 And crowns it with the aureole of a saint. 
 
 1831 Longfellow: Michael Angela, Ft. i., 2. 
 
 The sun is going down. 
 And I must see the glory from the hill. 
 
 1832 George Eliot : Agatha.
 
 282 DICTIONARY OF POETICAL QUOTATIONS. 
 
 Sunshine. 
 
 See the gold sunshine patching, 
 And streaming and streaking across 
 The gray-green oaks ; and catching, 
 By its soft brown beard, the moss. 
 
 1833 Bailey : Festiis, Sc. The Surface. 
 
 As sunshine broken in the rill, 
 Though turned astray, is sunshine still. 
 
 1834 Moore: The Fire-Worsldppers, 
 
 Surfett. 
 
 As surfeit is the father of much fast. 
 So every scope, by the immoderate use, 
 Turns to restraint. 
 
 1835 Shaks. : M.for M., Act i., Sc. 3. 
 
 Surprise. 
 
 The fool of nature stood with stupid eyes 
 And gaping mouth, that testified surprise. 
 
 1836 Dryden : Cymon and Iphigenia, Line 41. 
 
 Suspense. 
 
 For thee the fates, severely kind, ordain 
 
 A cool suspense, from pleasure and from pain. 
 
 1837 Pope : Eloisa to A., Line 249. 
 
 Suspicion. 
 
 Suspicion always haunts the guilty mind ; 
 The thief doth fear each bush an officer. 
 
 1838 Shaks. : 3 Henry VI., Act v., Sc. 6.
 
 DICTIOXARY OF POETICAL QUOTATIONS. 283 
 
 S-wallovr. 
 
 When Autumn scatters his departing gleams, 
 ^Va^ned of approaching Winter, gathered, play 
 The swallow-people ; and tossed wide around 
 O'er the calm sky, in convolution swift, 
 The feathered eddy floats ; rejoicing once, 
 Ere to their wintry slumbers they retire. 
 
 1839 Thomson: Seasons, Autumn, Line 836. 
 
 S"wans. 
 
 The swan, with arched neck 
 Between her white wings mantling proudly, rows 
 Her state with oary feet. 
 
 1840 Milton: Par. Lost, Bk. vii., Line 438. 
 
 S-wearing. 
 
 And being thus frighted swears a prayer or two 
 And sleeps again. 
 
 1841 Shaks. : Rom. and Jul., Act i., Sc. 4. 
 
 Take not His name, who made thy mouth, in vain ; 
 It gets thee nothing, and hath no excuse. 
 
 1842 Herbert: Temple, Church Porch, St. 10. 
 
 S-weetness. 
 
 Things sweet to taste prove in digestion sour. 
 
 1843 Shaks. : Richard 11. , Act i., Sc. 3. 
 
 Married to immortal verse. 
 Such as the meeting soul may pierce, 
 Li notes with many a winding bout 
 Of linked sweetness long drawn out. 
 
 1844 Milton: L' Allegro, Line I'do.
 
 284 DICTIONARY OF POETICAL QUOTATIONS. 
 
 S-wiftness. 
 
 I go, I go ; look how T go ; 
 
 Swifter than urrow from the Tartar's bow. 
 
 1845 Shaks, : Mid. iV. Dream, Act iii., Sc. 2. 
 
 His golden locks time hath to silver tnrned ; 
 O time too swift I O swiftness never ceasing! 
 
 1846 George Peele : Sonnet, Polyhymnia. 
 
 STvimming. 
 
 How many a time have I 
 Cloven with arm still lustier, breast more daring, 
 The wave all roughened ; with a swimmer's stroke 
 Flinging the billows back from my drench 'd hair, 
 And laughing from my lip the audacious brine, 
 Which kiss'd it like a wine-cup, rising o'er 
 The waves as they arose, and prouder still 
 The loftier they uplifted me. 
 
 1847 Byron : Two Foscari, Act i., Sc. 1. 
 
 S-word. 
 
 Full bravely hast thou fleshed 
 Thy maiden sword, 
 
 1848 Shaks. : 1 Henry IV., Act v., Sc. 4. 
 
 Chase brave employment with a naked sword 
 
 Throughout the world. 
 
 1819 Herbert: The Church Porch. 
 
 Sympathy. 
 
 Thou hast given me, in this beauteous face, 
 
 A world of earthly blessings to my soul. 
 
 If sympathy of love unite our thoughts. 
 
 1850 Shaks. : 2 Henry VI., Act i., Sc. 1.
 
 DICTIONARY OF POETICAL QUOTATION'S. 285 
 
 There 's nought in this bad world like sympathy : 
 'T is so becoming to the soul and face — 
 Sets to soft music the harmonious sigh, 
 And robes sweet friendship in a Brussels lace. 
 
 1851 Byron : Don Juan, Canto xiv., St. 47. 
 
 Synods. 
 
 Synods are mj^stical bear-gardens, 
 Where elders, deputies, church-wardens, 
 And other members of tlie court, 
 Manage the Babylonish sport. 
 
 Butler : Hudihras, Ft. i., Canto iii., 
 
 1852 Line 1095. 
 
 T. 
 
 Tale. 
 
 Who so shall telle a tale after a man, 
 
 He moste reherse, as neighe as ever he can, 
 
 Everich word, if it be in his charge, 
 
 All speke he never so rudely and so large. 
 
 Chaucer : Canterbury Tales, Prologue, 
 1853 Line 733. 
 
 But that T am forbid 
 To tell the secrets of my prison-house, 
 I could a tale unfold, whose lightest word 
 Would harrow up thy soul. 
 
 1854 Shaks. : Hamlet, Act i., So. 5. 
 
 I will a round unvarnish'd tale deliver 
 Of my whole course of love. 
 
 1855 Shaks. : Othello, Act 1., Sc. 3.
 
 286 DICTIONARY OF POETICAL QUOTATIONS. 
 
 Meet me by moonlight alone, 
 
 And then I will tell you a tale 
 Must be told by the moonlight alone, 
 
 In the grove at the end of the vale! 
 
 1856 J. A. Wade : Meet Me by Moonlight. 
 
 Talk. 
 
 We will not stand to prate; 
 Talkers are no good doers; be assured 
 We go to use our hands, and not our tongues. 
 
 1857 Shaks. : Richard III., Act i., Sc. :^. 
 
 But still his tongue ran on, the less 
 Of weight it bore, witli greater ease 
 And with its everlasting clack, 
 Set all men's ears upon the rack. 
 
 Butler : Hudihras, Ft. in., Canto ii., 
 
 1858 Line 443. 
 
 They always talk who never think. 
 
 Prior : Upo7i this Passage in the Scali- 
 
 1859 geriana. 
 
 Where Nature's end of language is declin'd, 
 And men talk only to conceal the mind. 
 
 1860 Young : Love of Fame, Satire ii.. Line 207. 
 
 It would talk, — 
 Lord I how it talked ! 
 
 Beaumont and Fletcher : Scornful 
 
 1861 Ladg, Act v., Sc. 1. 
 
 Tasso. 
 
 Tasso is their glory and their shame. 
 Hark to his strain ! and then survey his cell I 
 And see how dearly earn'd Torquato's fame, 
 And where Alfonso bade his poet dwell. 
 
 1862 Byron : Ck. Harold, Canto iv., St. 36.
 
 DICTIONARY OF POETICAL QUOTATIONS. 287 
 
 Taste. 
 
 Talk what you will of taste, my friend, you '11 find 
 Two of a face as soon as of a mind. 
 
 1863 Pope : Satire vi., Line 268. 
 
 (yood native Taste, tho' lude, is seldom wrong, 
 Be it in music, painting, or in song : 
 But this, as well as other faculties, 
 Improves with age and ripens by degrees. 
 
 1864 Armstrong : Taste, Line 26 
 
 Such and so various are the tastes of men. 
 
 Akenside : PL of the Imagination, Bk. iii., 
 
 1865 Line 567. 
 
 Taxation. 
 
 By heaven, I had rather coin my heart. 
 And drop my blood for drachmas, than to wring 
 From the hard hands of peasants their vile trash, 
 By any indirection. 
 
 1866 Shaks. : Jul. Ccesar, Act iv., So. 3. 
 
 Who nothing has to lose, the war bewails; 
 And he who nothing pays, at taxes rails. 
 
 CoNGREVE : Epis. to Sir Richard T'emple. 
 
 1867 Of Pleasing, Line 17. 
 
 Tea. 
 
 For her own breakfast she '11 project a scheme, 
 Xor take her tea without a stratagem. 
 
 1868 Young: Love of Fame, Satire vi., Line 190. 
 
 Teaching. 
 
 I have labored, 
 And with no little study, that my teaching 
 And the strong course of my authority 
 Might go one way. 
 
 1869 SuAKS. : Henry VIII., Act v., Sc. 2.
 
 '2SS DICTIUNAltY OF POETICAL (QUOTATIONS, 
 
 Tears. 
 
 The big round tears 
 Cours'd one another down his innocent nose 
 In piteous chase. 
 
 1870 Shaks. : As You Like It, Act ii., Sc. 1. 
 
 Then fresh tears 
 Stood on her cheeks, as doth the honey-dew 
 Upon a gather'd lily almost wither'd, 
 
 1871 Shaks. : Titus AjuL, Act iii., Sc. 1. 
 
 Our present tears here, not our present laughter, 
 Are but the handsells of our joys hereafter. 
 
 1872 IIeruick : Noble Numbers, Tears. 
 
 Thrice he assay'd, and thrice in spite of scorn, 
 Tears, such as angels weep, burst forth. 
 
 1873 Milton : Par. Lost, Bk. i.. Line 619. 
 
 A child will weep a bramble's smart, 
 A maid to see her sparrow part, 
 A stripling for a woman's heart : 
 Hut woe aw^aits a country, when 
 She sees the tears of bearded men. 
 
 1874 Scott : Marmion, Canto v., St, 16. 
 
 To me the meanest flower that blows can give 
 Thoughts that do often lie too deep for tears. 
 
 1875 WORDSWORTFI : Intimations of Immorta/ili/. 
 
 Tears, idle tears, I know not what they mean, 
 Tears from the depth of some divine despair 
 Rise in the heart, and gather to the eyes. 
 In looking on the hap]>y Autumn fields. 
 And thinking of the days that are no more, 
 
 1876 Tennyson : The Princess, Pt. iv,, Line 21.
 
 DICTIOXARY OF POETICAL QUOTATIONS. 289 
 
 Beauty's tears are lovelier than her smile. 
 
 1877 Campbell: PL of Hope, Pt. i., Line 180. 
 
 Under the sod and the dew, 
 
 Waiting the judgment day; 
 Love and tears for the Blue, 
 
 Tears and love for the Gray. 
 
 1878 Francis M. Fixch : The Blue ayid the Gray. 
 
 Tempsr. 
 
 Ye gods, it doth amaze me 
 A man of such a feeble temper should 
 So get the start of the majestic world 
 And bear the palm alone. 
 
 1879 Shaks. : Jul. Ccesar, Act i., Sc. 2. 
 
 Temperance. 
 
 Temp'rate in every place, — abroad, at home. 
 Thence will applause, and hence will profit come; 
 And health from either — he in time prepares 
 For sickness, age, and their attendant cares. 
 
 1880 Crabbe: The Borough, Letterxvu.,Lmel98. 
 
 Tempests. 
 
 The southern wind 
 Doth play the trumpet to his purposes ; 
 And. by his hollow whistling in the leaves, 
 Foretells a tempest and a blustering day. 
 
 1881 Shaks. : 1 Henry IV., Act v., Sc. 1. 
 
 Suddeine they see fi-oin midst of all the maine 
 The surging waters like a mountaine rise. 
 And the great sea puft up with proud disdaine, 
 To swell above the measure of his guise, 
 As threatning to devoure all that his powre despise. 
 Spenser : Faerie Queene. Bk.ii., Canto xii., 
 
 1882 St. 21.
 
 290 DICTIONARY OF POETICAL QUOTATIONS. 
 
 From cloud to cloud the rending lightnings rage ; 
 Till, in the furious elemental war 
 Dissolv'd, the whole precipitated mass, 
 Unbroken floods and solid torrents pours. 
 
 1883 Thomson : Seasons, Summer, Line 799. 
 
 The sky 
 Is overcast, and musters muttering thunder. 
 In clouds that seem approaching fast, and show 
 In forked flashes a commanding tempest. 
 
 1884 Byron : Sardanapalus, Act ii., Sc. 1. 
 
 Temptation. 
 
 Oftentimes, to win us to our harm. 
 The instruments of darkness tell us truths; 
 Win us with honest trifles, to betray us 
 In deepest consequence. 
 
 1885 Shaks. : Macbeth, Act i., Sc. 3. 
 
 'T is the temptation of the devil 
 That makes all human actions evil; 
 For saints may do the same things by 
 The spirit, in sincerity. 
 Which other men are tempted to, 
 And at the devil's instance do : 
 And yet the actions be contrary, 
 Just as the saints and wicked vary. 
 
 Butler : Hudihras, Pt. ii.. Canto ii., 
 1886 Line 233. 
 
 Safe from temptation, safe from sin's pollution, 
 She lives whom we call dead. 
 
 1887 Longfellow : Resignation.
 
 DICTIOXARY OF POETICAL QUOTATIONS. 291 
 
 Tenderness. 
 
 Higher than the perfect song 
 For which love longeth, 
 Is the tender fear of wrong, 
 That never wrongeth. 
 
 1888 Bayard Taylor : Improvisations, Pt. v. 
 
 Tents. 
 
 Shall fold their tents like the Arabs, 
 And as silently steal away. 
 
 1889 Longfellow : The Day is Done. 
 
 Terror. 
 
 There is no terror, Cassius, in your threats. 
 
 1890 Shaks. : Jul. Ccesar, Act iv., Sc. 3. 
 
 Test. 
 
 Bring me to the test, 
 And I the matter will re-word. 
 
 1891 Shaks. : Hamlet^ Act iii., Sc. 4. 
 
 Text. 
 
 And many a holy text around she strews, 
 That teach the rustic moralist to die. 
 
 1892 Gray: Elegy, St. 21. 
 
 Thankfulness. 
 
 The poorest service is repaid with thanks. 
 
 1893 Shaks. : Tam. of the S., Act iv., Sc. 3. 
 
 Thanks to men 
 Of noble minds, is honorable meed. 
 
 1894 Shaks. : Titus And., Act i., Sc. 2.
 
 292 DICTIONARY OF POETICAL QUOTATIONS. 
 
 Theatre. 
 
 As in a theatre, the eyes of men, 
 After a well-graced actor leaves the stage, 
 Are idly bent on him that enters next, 
 Thinking his prattle to be tedious. 
 
 1895 Shaks. : Richard II., Act v., Sc. 5. 
 
 Thief. 
 
 The robb'd that smiles, steals something from the 
 thief. 
 
 1896 Shaks. : Othello, Act i., Sc. 3. 
 
 Thirst. 
 
 That panting thirst, which scorches in the breath 
 Of those that die the soldier's fiery death. 
 In vain impels the burning mouth to crave 
 One drop — the last — to cool it for the grave. 
 
 1897 Byron: Lara, Canto ii., St. 16. 
 
 Thorn. 
 
 Why are we fond of toil and care? 
 AVhy choose the rankling thorn to w^ear? 
 
 1898 J. M. UsTERi : Life let us Cherish. 
 
 Thought. 
 
 Our thoughts are ours, their ends none of our own. 
 
 1899 Shaks. : Hamlet, Act iii., Sc. 2. 
 
 Thought alone is eternal. 
 
 Owen Meredith : Lucile, Pt. ii.. Canto v., 
 
 1900 St. 16. 
 
 No thought which ever stirred 
 A human breast should be untold. 
 
 1901 Robert Browning : Paracelsus, Sc. 2.
 
 DICTIOXARY OF POETICAL QUOTATIONS. 293 
 
 Thought leapt out to wed with Thought 
 Ere Thought could wed itself with Speech. 
 
 1902 Tennyson : In Memoriam, Pt. xxiii., St. 4. 
 
 Thought is deeper than all speech, 
 
 Feeling deeper than all thought ; 
 Souls to souls can never teach 
 
 What unto themselves was taught. 
 
 1903 Christopher P. Cranch : Stanzas. 
 
 Thread. 
 
 Sewing at once a double thread, 
 A shroud as well as a shirt. 
 
 1904 Rood : Song of the Shirt. 
 
 Threats. 
 
 If thou more murmur'st, I will rend an oak, 
 And peg thee in his knotty entrails, till 
 Thou hast howl'd away twelve winters. 
 
 1905 Shaks. : Tempest, Act i., So. 2. 
 
 Back to thy punishment, 
 False fugitive, and to thy speed add wings, 
 Lest with a whip of scorpions I pursue 
 • Thy ling'ring. 
 
 1906 Milton : Par. Lost, Bk. ii., Line 699. 
 
 Thrift. 
 
 Thrift, thrift, Horatio ! the funeral baked meats 
 Did coldly furnish forth the marriage tables. 
 
 1907 Shaks. : Hamlet, Act i., Sc. 2. 
 
 Throne. 
 
 High on a throne of royal state, which far 
 Outshone the wealth of Ornius and of Ind. 
 
 1908 Milton : Par. Lost, Bk. ii., Line 1.
 
 294 DICTIONARY OF POETICAL QUOTATIONS. 
 
 Thunder. 
 
 And threat'ning France, plac'd like a painted Jove, 
 Kept idle thunder in his lilted hand. 
 
 1909 Dryden : Annus Mirabilis, St. 39. 
 
 Far along, 
 From peak to peak, the rattling crags among, 
 Leaps the live thunder. 
 
 1910 Byron : Ch. Harold, Canto iii., St. 92. 
 
 Tide. 
 
 Even at the turning o' the tide. 
 
 1911 Shaks. : Henry V., Act ii., Sc. 3. 
 
 There is a tide in the affairs of men 
 
 Which taken at the flood, leads on to fortune. 
 
 1912 Shaks. : Jul. Ccesar, Act iv., Sc. 3. 
 
 Time. 
 
 I wasted time, and now doth time waste me. 
 
 1913 Shaks. : Richard II., Act v., Sc. 5. 
 
 Gather ye rosebuds while ye may, 
 
 Old time is still a-flying ; 
 And this same flower that smiles to-day, 
 
 To-morrow will be dying. 
 
 Herrick : To Vlr<jins to Make Much of 
 
 1914 Time. 
 
 Threefold the stride of Time, from first to last 1 
 Loitering slow, the Future creepeth — 
 Arrow-swift, the Present sweepeth — 
 And motionless forever stands the Past. 
 
 1915 Schiller : Sentences of Confucius, Time.
 
 DICTIONARY OF POETICAL QUOTATIONS. 295 
 
 Tithes. 
 
 This priest he merry is and blithe 
 
 Three quarters of a year, 
 But oh I it cuts him like a scythe, 
 
 When tithing-time draws near. 
 
 1916 CowPER : Yearly Distress, St. 2. 
 
 Titles. 
 
 We all are soldiers, and all venture lives ; 
 
 And where there is no difference iu men's worth, 
 
 Titles are jests. 
 
 Beaumont and Fletcher : King or No 
 
 1917 King, Act i., Sc. 1. 
 
 Titles are marks of honest men and wise ; 
 The fool or knave that wears a title, lies. 
 
 1918 Young: Love of Fame, Satire i., Line 137o 
 
 Toad. 
 
 Squat like a toad, close at the ear of Eve. 
 
 1919 Milton : Par. Lost, Bk. iv.. Line 800. 
 
 Tobacco. 
 
 Sublime tobacco ! which from east to west 
 Cheers the tar's labor or the Turkman's rest. 
 
 1920 Byron : The Lsland, Canto ii., St. 19. 
 
 To-day. 
 
 Happy the man and happy he alone. 
 He who can call to-day his own. 
 
 Dryden : Lm. of Horace, Bk. iii., Ode 29, 
 
 1921 Line 65. 
 
 Our cares are all To-day, our joys are all To-day ; 
 And in one little word, our life, what is it but — 
 To-day? 
 
 1922 Tupper: Proverbial Phil, of To-day
 
 296 DICTIONARY OF POETICAL gUOTATIOXS. 
 
 ToU. 
 
 No man is born into the world whose work 
 Is not born with him. There is always work, 
 And tools to work withal, for those who will ; 
 And blessed are the horny hands of toil. 
 
 James Russell Lowell: A Glance Behind 
 
 1923 the Curtain. 
 
 Tomb. 
 
 E'en from the tomb the voice of nature cries, 
 E'en in our ashes live their wonted fires. 
 
 1924 Gray : Elegy, St. 23. 
 
 To-inorro"w. 
 
 To-morrow, and to-morrow, and to-morrow, 
 Creeps in this petty pace from day to day, 
 To the last syllable of recorded time; 
 And all our yesterdays have lighted fools 
 The way to dusty death. 
 
 1925 Shaks. : Macbeth, Act v.. So. 5. 
 
 Defer not till to-morrow to be wise. 
 To-morrow's sun on thee may never rise. 
 
 1926 CoxGREVE : Letter to Cohham. 
 
 To-morrow comes and we are where? 
 Then let us live to-day. 
 
 1927 Schiller: The Victory Feast, St. 13. 
 
 Where art thou, beloved To-morrow ? 
 
 Whom young and old, and strong and weak, 
 
 Rich and poor, through joy and sorrow, 
 
 Thy sweet smiles we ever seek — 
 
 In thy place — ah ! well-a-day ! 
 
 We find the tiling we fled — To-day. 
 
 1928 Shelley : To-morrow.
 
 DICTIONARY OF POETICAL QUOTATIONS. 297 
 
 Tongue. 
 
 While thou livest, keep a good tongue in thy head. 
 
 1929 SiiAKS. : Tempest, Act iii., Sc. 2. 
 
 No, let the candied tongue lick absurd pomp, 
 And crook the pregnant hinges of the knee 
 Where thrift may follow fawning. 
 
 1930 Shaks. : Hamlet, Act iii., Sc. 2. 
 
 Sacred interpreter of human thought, 
 How few respect or use thee as they ought ! 
 But all shall give account of every wrong. 
 Who dare dishonor or defile the tongue. 
 
 1931 CowPER : Conversation, Line 23. 
 
 Tools. 
 
 For all a rhetorician's rules 
 
 Teach nothing but to name his tools. 
 
 1932 Butler : Hudibras, Pt. i., Canto i.. Line 89. 
 
 Toothache. 
 
 There was never yet philosopher 
 
 That could endure the toothache patiently. 
 
 1933 Shaks. : Much Ado, Act v., Sc. 1. 
 
 Torrent. 
 
 So the loud torrent and the whirlwind's roar 
 But bind him to his native mountains more. 
 1931: Goldsmith: Traveller, Liwq 2\1 . 
 
 Torture. 
 
 The hell of waters ! where they howl and hiss, 
 
 And boil in endless torture. 
 
 1935 Byron : Ch. Harold, Canto iv., St. 69.
 
 298. DICTIONARY OF POETICAL QUOTATIONS. 
 
 Towers. 
 
 Towers and battlements it sees 
 Bosom'd high in tufted trees. 
 
 1936 Milton : L' Allegro, Line 75. 
 
 Town. 
 
 (iod made the country, and man made the town. 
 
 1937 Cowpek: Task, Bk i., Line 749. 
 
 Toys. 
 
 Seeks painted trifles and fantastic toys, 
 And eagerly pursues imaginary joys. 
 
 1938 Akenside: Virtuoso, St. \0. 
 
 Trade. 
 
 But times are altered; trade's unfeeling train 
 Usurp the land, and dispossess the swain; 
 Along the lawn, where scatter'd hamlets rose, 
 Unwieldy wealth and cumbrous pomp repose. 
 
 1939 Goldsmith : Des. Village, Line 63. 
 
 Trade's proud empire hastes to swift decay. 
 
 Dr. Johnson: Line added to Goldsmifh^s 
 
 1910 Des. Village. 
 
 Tranquillity. 
 
 Like ships that have gone down at sea 
 When heaven was all tranquillity. 
 
 1911 MooRE : Lalla Rookh, The Light of the Harem. 
 
 Traveller — Travelling. 
 
 Now spurs the lated traveller apace 
 To gain the timely inn. 
 
 1912 Shaks. : Macbeth, Act iii., Sc. 3.
 
 DICTIONARY OF POETICAL QUOTATIONS. 299 
 
 When I was at home, I was in a better place ; 
 But traveUers must be content. 
 
 1943 Shaks.: As You Like It, Act ii., Sc. 4. 
 
 In travelling 
 I shape myself betimes to idleness 
 And take fools' pleasures. . . . 
 
 1944 George Eliot: Spanish Gypsy, Bk. i. 
 
 Treason. 
 
 Then I, and you. and all of us fell down, 
 Whilst bloody treason flourish 'd over us. 
 
 1945 Shaks.: Jul. Ccesar, Act iii., Sc. 2. 
 
 So Judas kiss'd his master, 
 And cried — All hail ! when as he meant — all harm. 
 
 1946 Shaks.: 3 Henry VT., Act v., Sc. 7. 
 
 Treason doth never prosper : what 's the reason? 
 Why, if it prosper, none dare call it treason. 
 
 Sir John Harrington : Epigrams, Bk. iv., 
 
 1947 Epigram 5. 
 
 Treason is not own'd when 't is descried; 
 ■ Successful crimes alone are justified. 
 
 1948 Dryden: Medals, Line 207. 
 
 Treasure. 
 
 The unsunn'd heaps 
 Of miser's treasure. 
 
 1949 Milton : Cornus, Line 398. 
 
 Trees. 
 
 Trees can smile in light at the sinking sun 
 Just as the storm comes, as a girl would look 
 On a departing lover — most serene. 
 
 1950 Robert Browning: Pau/me, Line 726
 
 300 DICTIOXARY OF POETICAL QUOTATIONS. 
 
 The groves were God's first temples. Ere man 
 
 learned 
 To hew the shaft, and lay the architrave, 
 And spread the roof above them. 
 
 1951 William Cullen Bryant: Forest Hymn. 
 
 Sure thou didst flourish once ! and many springs, 
 Many bright mornings, much dew, many showers, 
 Passed o'er thy head; many light hearts and wings, 
 Which now are dead, lodg'd in thy living bowers. 
 
 1952 Henry Vaughan: The Timber. 
 
 A brotherhood of venerable trees. 
 
 1953 Wordsworth: Sonnet composed at Castle. 
 
 Trial. 
 
 We learn through trial. 
 
 1954 Margaret J. Preston: Attainment, St. 7. 
 
 Trifles. 
 
 Since trifles make the sum of human things, 
 And half our misery from our foibles springs. 
 
 1955 Hannah More: Sensibility. 
 
 Think nought a trifle, though it small appear; 
 Small sands the mountain, moments make the year; 
 And trifles life. 
 
 1956 Young : Love of Fame, Satire vi., Line 193. 
 
 Triumph. 
 
 Wliy comes temptation, but for man to meet 
 And master, and make crouch beneath his foot, 
 And so be pedestaled in triumph ? 
 
 Robert Browning : The Ring and the Book, 
 
 1957 Line 1185.
 
 DICTIONARY OF POETICAL QUOTATIONS. 301 
 
 Trouble. 
 
 Double, double toil and trouble, 
 Fire burn, and cauldron bubble. 
 
 1958 Shaks. : Macbeth^ Act iv., Sc. 1. 
 
 To be, or not to be : that is the question : 
 AVhether 't is nobler in the mind to suffer 
 The stings and arrows of outrageous fortune, 
 Or to take arms against a sea of troubles. 
 And by opposing end them. 
 
 1959 Shaks.: Hamlet, Act iii., Sc. 1. 
 
 Truth. 
 
 Truth is the highest thing that man may keep. 
 Chaucer : The Frankeleines Tale, 
 
 1960 Line 11789. 
 
 O, while you live, tell truth, and shame the devil. 
 
 1961 Shaks.: 1 Henry IV., Act iii., Sc. 1. 
 
 Truth crushed to earth shall rise again : 
 The eternal years of God are hers. 
 
 1962 William Cullen Bryant : The Battle-Jield. 
 
 Dare to be true. Nothing can need a lie; 
 
 A fault, \yhich needs it most, grows two thereby. 
 
 1963 Herbert : Temple, Church Porch, St. 13. 
 
 Truth has such a face and such a mien, 
 As to be lovVl, needs only to be seen. 
 
 1964 Drydex : Hind and Panther, Ft. i., Line 33. 
 
 He is the freeman whom the truth makes free, 
 And all are slaves beside. 
 
 1965 Cowper: Task, Bk. v., Line 133.
 
 302 DICTIOXARY OF POETICAL QUOTATIONS. 
 
 Truth is one; 
 And, in all lands beneath the sun, 
 Whoso hath eyes to see may see 
 The tokens of its unity. 
 196(3 Whittier: Miriam. 
 
 Truth is truth howe'er it strike. 
 
 1967 Robert Browning: La Saisiaz, Line 198. 
 
 I love truth: trutli 's no cleaner thing than love. 
 Mrs. Browning: Aurora Leigh, Bk. iii., 
 
 1968 Line 735. 
 
 Beauty is truth, truth beauty, — that is all 
 Ye know on earth, and all ye need to know. 
 
 1969 Keats: Ode on a Grecian Urn. 
 
 Truth forever on the scaffold, Wrong forever on the 
 throne. 
 
 James Russell Lowell: Present Crisis, 
 
 1970 St. 8. 
 
 Tulips. 
 
 Then comes the tulip race, where beauty plays 
 
 Her idle freaks ; from family diffused 
 
 To family, as flies the father-dust. 
 
 The varied colors run; and while they break 
 
 On the charmed eye, the exulting florist marks, 
 
 With secret pride, the wonders of his hand. 
 
 1971 Thomson : Seasons, Spring, Line 539. 
 
 Tune. 
 
 Strange that a harp of thousand strings 
 Should keep in tune so long ! 
 
 Watts : Hymns and Spiritual Songs, Bk. ii., 
 
 1972 Hymn 19.
 
 DICTIOXARY OF POETICAL QUOTATIONS. 303 
 
 Turf. 
 
 Green be the turf above thee, 
 Friend of my better days ! 
 
 Fitz-Greene Halleck : On Joseph 
 
 1973 Rodman Drake. 
 
 Turk. 
 
 Should such a man, too fond to rule alone, 
 Bear, like the Turk, no brother near the throne. 
 
 1974 Pope: Prologue to the Satires, Line 197. 
 
 Twilight. 
 
 Now came still evening on, and twilight gray 
 Had in her sober livery all things clad. 
 
 1975 Milton: Par. Lost, Bk. iv., Line 598. 
 
 Peacefully 
 The quiet stars came out, one after one; 
 The holy twilight fell upon the sea, 
 The summer day was done. 
 
 1976 Celia Thaxter: A Su77uner Day, St. 15. 
 
 Tyranny. 
 
 'T is time to fear, when tyrants seem to kiss. 
 
 1977 Shaks. : Pericles, Act i., Sc. 2. 
 
 'Twixt kings and tyrants there 's this difference 
 
 known — 
 Kings seek their subjects' good, tyrants their own. 
 
 1978 Herrick: Aph. Kings and Tyrants. 
 
 Think'st thou there is no tyranny but that 
 Of blood and chains ? 
 
 1979 Byron : Sardanapalus, Act i., Sc. 2.
 
 304 DICTIONARY OF POETICAL QUOTATIONS. 
 
 Uncertainty. 
 
 Oh, how this spring of love resembleth 
 The uncertain glory of an April day! 
 
 1980 Shaks.: Two Gent, of V., Act i., So. 3. 
 
 Unity. 
 
 Two souls with but a single thought, 
 Two hearts that beat as one. 
 
 Maria White Lowell: Ingomar the 
 
 1981 Barbarian, Act ii. 
 
 Unkindness. 
 
 This was the most unkindest cut of all. 
 
 1982 Shaks.: Jul. Ccesar, Act iii., Sc. 2. 
 
 Use. 
 
 These things are beyond all use, 
 And I do fear them. 
 
 1983 Shaks. : Jul. Ccesar, Act ii., Sc. 2. 
 
 Vacuity. 
 
 He trudged along, unknowing what he sought, 
 And whistled as he went, for want of thought. 
 
 1984 Dryden : Cyin. and Iph., Line 84. 
 
 Valentine. 
 
 Oft have I heard both youths and virgins say, 
 Birds choose their mates, and couple too, this day ; 
 But by their flight I never can divine 
 When I shall couple with my Valentine. 
 
 1985 Herrick : Aph. To His Valentine.
 
 DICTIONARY OF POETICAL QUOTATIONS. 305 
 
 Valor. 
 
 Fear to do base unworthy things is valor ; 
 It" they be done to us, to suffer them, 
 Is valor too. 
 
 1986 Ben Jonson : New Inn, Act iv., Sc. 3. 
 
 Vanity. 
 
 Light vanity, insatiate cormorant 
 Consuming means, soon preys upon itself. 
 
 1987 Shaks. : Richard II., Act ii., Sc. 1. 
 
 What dotage will not Vanity maintain ? 
 "What web too weak to catch a mode' n brain ? 
 
 1988 CowPER : Expostulation, Line 630. 
 
 Vapor. 
 
 A wing vapor melting in a tear. 
 
 1989 Pope : Ody.-^sey, Bk. xix., Line 143. 
 
 Variety. 
 
 Variety 's the very spice of life, 
 That gives it all its flavor. 
 
 1990 CowPER : Task, Bk. ii., Line 606. 
 
 Vault. 
 
 Heaven's ebon vault 
 Studded with stars unutterably bright. 
 
 1991 Shelley : Queen Mab. 
 
 Vengeance. 
 
 In high vengeance there is noble scorn. 
 
 1992 George Eliot : Spanish Gypsy, Bk. iv. 
 
 Venice. 
 
 I stood in Venice, on the Bridge of Sighs, 
 A palace and a prison on each hand. 
 
 1993 Byron : Ch. Harold, Canto iv., St. 1
 
 306 DICTIONARY OF POETICAL QUOTATIONS. 
 
 In Venice, Tasso's echoes are no more, 
 And silent rows the songless gondolier. 
 
 199i Uykon: Ch. Harold, Canto iv., St. 3. 
 
 Venus. 
 
 Love seldom liaunts the breast where learning lies, 
 And Venus sets ere Mercury can rise. 
 
 Pope: Wife of Bath, Her Prologue, 
 
 1995 Lnie 309. 
 
 Verse. . 
 
 Whoe'er offends at some unlucky time 
 Slides into verse, and hitches in a rhyme. 
 
 1996 Pope : Satire i., Bk. ii., Line 76. 
 
 Verse sweetens toil, however rude the sound ; 
 She feels no biting pang the while she sings. 
 
 1997 Richard Giffoud : Contemplation. 
 
 Vice. 
 
 There is no vice so simple, but assumes 
 Some mark of virtue on his outward parts. 
 
 1998 Shaks. : M. of Venice, Act iii., Sc. 2. 
 
 I hate svhen vice can bolt her arguments, 
 And virtue has no tongue to check her pride. 
 
 1999 Milton : Comus, Line 760. 
 
 Vice is a monster of so frightful mien, 
 As to be hated needs but to be seen ; 
 Yet seen too oft, familiar with her face, 
 We first endure, then pity, then embrace. 
 
 2000 Pope : Essa?/ on Man, Epis. ii., Line 217.
 
 DICTIONARY OF POETICAL QUOTATIONS. 307 
 
 Victory. 
 
 Thus far our fortune keeps an upward course, 
 And we are grac'd with wreatlis of victory. 
 
 2001 Shaks. : 3 Henry VL, Act v., Sc. 3. 
 
 " But what good came of it at last ? " 
 Quoth little Peterkin. 
 '• Why, that I cannot tell," said he ; 
 "But 't was a famous victory." 
 
 2002 Egbert Southey : Battle of Blenheim, 
 
 Village. 
 
 Sweet Auburn ! loveliest village of the plain. 
 
 2003 Goldsmith : Des. Village. 
 
 Suburban villas, highway-side retreats, 
 That dread th' encroachment of our growing streets, 
 Tight boxes neatly sash'd, and in a blaze 
 "With all a July sun's collected rays, 
 Delight the citizen, who gasping there. 
 Breathes clouds of dust, and calls it country air. 
 
 2004 CowPER : Retirement, Line 481. 
 
 Villain. 
 
 Which is the villain ? Let me see his eyes ; 
 That when I note another man like him 
 I may avoid him. 
 
 2005 Shaks. : Much Ado, Act v., Sc. 1 
 
 Vine. 
 
 Come, thou monarch of the vine, 
 Plumpy Bacchus with pink eyne ! 
 
 2006 Shaks. : Ant. and Cleo., Act ii., Sc. 7.
 
 308 DICTIONARY OF POKTICAL QUOTATIONS. 
 
 Violet. 
 
 A violet by a mossy stone 
 
 Half hidden from the eye; 
 Fair as a star, when only one 
 
 Is shining in the sky. 
 
 WoRDSvvoKTH : She Dicelt among the 
 
 2007 Untrodden Ways. 
 
 Odors, when sweet violets sicken. 
 Live within the sense they quicken. 
 
 2008 Shelley : Music, When Soft Voices Die. 
 
 What thought is folded in thy leaves ! 
 AVhat tender thought, what speechless pain 1 
 I hold thy faded lips to mine, 
 Thou darling of the April rain ! 
 
 Thomas Bailey Aldricii : The Faded 
 
 2009 Violet. 
 
 Virtue. 
 
 Heaven doth with us, as w^e wdth torches do; 
 Not light them for themselves : for if our virtues 
 Did not go forth of us, 't w^ere all alike 
 As if we had them not. 
 
 2010 Shaks. : M.for M., Act i., Sc. 1. 
 
 Men's evil manners live in brass ; their virtues 
 We write in water. 
 
 2011 Shaks. : HeJiry III., Act iv., Sc. 2. 
 
 Assume a virtue if you have it not. 
 
 2012 Shaks. : Hamlet, Act iii., Sc. 4. 
 
 Virtue may be assail'd, but never hurt; 
 Surpris'd by unjust force, but not enthrall'd; 
 Yea, even that which mischief meant most harm, 
 Shall in the hap[>y trial prove most glory. 
 
 2013 Milton : Comus, Line 589.
 
 DICTIONARY OF POETICAL QUOTATIONS. 309 
 
 Sometimes virtue starves while vice is fed, 
 What then ? Is the reward of virtue bread? 
 
 2014 Pope : Essay on Man, Epis. iv., Line 149. 
 
 Vision. 
 
 And in clear dream and solemn vision 
 
 Tell her of things that no gross ear can hear. 
 
 2015 Milton : Camus, Line 453. 
 
 Voice. 
 
 Her voice was ever soft, 
 Gentle, and low; an excellent thing in woman. 
 
 2016 Shaks. : King Lear, Act v., Sc. 3. 
 
 Vows. 
 
 Unheedful vows may heedfully be broken. 
 
 2017 Shaks. : Two Gent, of V., Act ii., Sc. 6. 
 
 It is the hour when lovers' vow^s 
 
 Seem sweet in every whisper'd word. 
 
 2018 Byron : Parisina, St. 1. 
 
 W. 
 Wagers. 
 
 Quoth she, I 've heard old cunning stagers 
 Say fools for arguments use wagers. 
 
 Butler : Hudibras, Pt. ii., Canto i., 
 
 2019 Line 297. 
 
 Walks. 
 
 A pillar'd shade 
 High overarch'd, and echoing walks between. 
 
 2020 Milton ; Par. Lost, Bk. ix., Line 1106.
 
 -310 DICTIOXARY OF POETICAL QUOTATIONS. 
 
 Whene'er I take my walks abroad, 
 How many poor I see ! 
 
 2021 "Watts : Divine Songs, Song iv. 
 
 "War. 
 
 O war, thou son of hell, 
 Whom angry heav'iis do make their minister, 
 Throw in the frozen bosoms of our part 
 Hot coals of vengeance ! — Let no soldier fly ; 
 He that is truly delicate to war 
 Hath no self-love : nor he that loves himself. 
 
 2022 Shaks. : 2 Henry VI., Act v., Sc. 2. 
 
 Grim-visaged war hath smoothed his wrinkled 
 front. 
 
 2023 Shaks. : Richard III., Act i., Sc. 1. 
 
 War 's a game, which, were their subjects wise. 
 Kings would not play at. 
 
 2024 CowPER : Task, Bk. v.. Line 186. 
 
 War, war is still the cry, " War even to the knife ! " 
 
 2025 Byron : Ch. Harold, Canto i., St. 86. 
 
 War is a terrible trade ; but in the cause that is 
 
 righteous, 
 Sweet is the smell of powder. 
 
 Longfellow: Courtship of Miles Standish, 
 
 2026 Pt. iv.. Line 185. 
 
 "Warning. 
 
 Men that stumble at the threshold, 
 
 Are well foretold that danger lurks within. 
 
 2027 Shaks. : 3 Henry VI., Act iv., Sc. 7.
 
 DICTIOXARY OF POETICAL QUOTATIONS. 311 
 
 "Warrior. 
 
 But he lay like a warrior taking his rest, 
 With his martial cloak around him. 
 
 2028 Charles Wolfe : Burial of Sir John Moore. 
 
 "Washington. 
 
 Washington 's a watchword such as ne'er 
 Shall sink while there 's an echo left to air. 
 
 2029 Byt^o^: Age of Bronze, ^t.b. 
 
 "Water. 
 
 Smooth runs the water where the brook is deep. 
 
 2030 Shaks. : 2 Henrjj VI., Act iii., Sc. 1. 
 
 Till taught by pain, 
 Men really know not what good n\ ater 's worth : 
 If you had been in Turkey or in Spain, 
 Or with a famish'd boat's crew had your berth, 
 Or in the deseit heard the camel's bell, 
 You 'd wish yourself where truth is — in a well. 
 
 2031 Byron : Don Juan, Canto ii., St. 84. 
 
 "Wave. 
 
 So gently shuts the eye of day; 
 So dies a wave along the shore. 
 
 2032 Mrs. Barbauld : Death of the Virtuous. 
 
 A life on the ocean wave ! 
 
 A home on the rolling deep, 
 Where the scattered waters rave, 
 
 And the winds their revels keep ! 
 
 2033 Epes Sargent : Life On the Ocean Wave. 
 
 Way. 
 
 Like one that had been led astray 
 Through the heav'n's wide, pathless way. 
 
 2034 Milton : // Penseroso, Line 65.
 
 "Weakness. 
 
 If weakness may excuse, 
 What Jiiurderer, what traitor, parricide, 
 Incestuous, sacrilegious, but may plead it? 
 All wickedness is weakness; that plea, therefore, 
 With God or man will gain thee no remission. * 
 
 2035 Milton : Sam. Agonistes, Line 831. 
 
 Wealth. 
 
 If thou art rich, thou art poor ; 
 For, like an ass, whose back with ingots bows, 
 Thou bearest thy heavy riches but a journey, 
 And death unloads thee. 
 
 2036 Shaks. : M. for M., Act iii., Sc. 1. 
 
 To purchase heaven, has gold the power? 
 Can gold remove the mortal hour? 
 In lite, can love be bought with gold? 
 Are friendship's pleasures to be sold? 
 
 2037 Dr. Johnson : To a Friend. 
 
 Weeds. 
 
 Have hung 
 My dank and dropping weeds 
 To the stern god of sea. 
 
 2038 Milton : 7V. of Horace, Bk. i., Ode 5. 
 
 Welcome. 
 
 Sir, you are very welcome to our house. 
 It must appear in other ways than words. 
 Therefore, I scant this breathing courtesy. 
 
 2039 Shaks. : M. of Venice, Act v., Sc. 1. 
 
 A hundred thousand welcomes : I could weep. 
 And I could laugh; I am light and heavy: Wel- 
 come. 
 
 2040 Shaks. : Cofiolanus, Act ii., Sc. 1.
 
 DICTIONARY OF POETICAL QUOTATIONS. 313 
 
 Wheel. 
 
 I wandered by the brookside, 
 
 I wandered by the mill; 
 I could not hear the brook flow, 
 
 The noisy wheel was still. 
 
 Richard Moncktox Milnes : 
 2041 The Brookside. 
 
 "Wickedness. 
 
 There is a method in man's wickedness, — 
 It grows up by degrees. 
 
 Beau:niont AND Fletcher : A King 
 2012 and No King, Act v., Sc. 4. 
 
 Widows. 
 
 May widows wed as often as they can, 
 And ever for the better change their man ; - 
 And some devouring plague pursue their lives, 
 "Who will not well be govern'd by their wives. 
 
 2043 Drydex: Wife of Bath, Une b^^. 
 
 Wife. 
 
 She is mine own ; 
 And I as rich in having such a jewel, 
 ■ As twenty seas, if all their sands were pearl, 
 The water nectar, and the rocks pure gold. 
 
 2044 Shaks. : Tico Gent, of V., Act ii., Sc. 4. 
 
 We '11 leave a proof, by that which we will do, 
 "Wives may be merry, and yet honest too. 
 
 2045 Shaks. : Mer. W. of W., Act iv., Sc.2. 
 
 The wife, where danger or dishonor lurks. 
 Safest and seemliest by her husband stays, 
 "Who guards her, or with her the worst endures. 
 
 2046 Milton : Par. Lost, Bk. ix., Line 267
 
 314 DICTIONARY OF POETICAL QUOTATIONS. 
 
 She is a boniiie wee thing, 
 This sweet wee wife o' mine. 
 
 2047 Burns : My Wife 's a Winsome Wee Thiufj. 
 
 The world well tried — the sweetest thing in life 
 Is the unclouded welcome of a wife. 
 
 2048 N. P. Willis : Lady Jane, Canto ii., St. 11. 
 
 "Wilderness. 
 
 Oh for a lodge in some vast wilderness, 
 Some boundless contiguity of shade. 
 
 2049 Cow PER : Task, Bk. ii., Line 1. 
 
 Will. 
 
 A weapon that comes down as still 
 
 As snowflakes fall upon the sod ; 
 But executes a freeman's will, 
 
 As lightning does the will of God. 
 
 2050 John PiERPONT : ^ Wordfrom a Petitioner. 
 
 Willow. 
 
 A poore soule sat sighing under a sycamore tree; 
 
 Oh, willow, willow, willow ! 
 With his hand on his bosom, his head on his knee, 
 Oh, willow, willow, willow ! 
 
 2051 Thomas Percy : Willow, Willow, Willow. 
 
 Wind. 
 
 What wind blew you hither, Pistol? 
 
 Not the ill wind which blows none to good. 
 
 2052 Shaks. : 2 Henry IV., Act v., Sc. 3. 
 
 The wind is rising ; it seizes and shakes 
 The doors and window-blinds and makes 
 Mysterious moanings in the halls;
 
 DICTIOXARY OF POETICAL QUOTATION'S. 315 
 
 The convent-chimneys seem almost 
 The trumpets of some heavenly host, 
 Setting its watch upon our walls ! 
 
 2053 Longfellow: Christus, Abbot Joachim. 
 
 A gentle wind of western birth, 
 From some far summer sea, 
 Wakes daisies m the wintry earth. 
 
 George Macdonald : Songs of the 
 
 2054 Spring Days. 
 
 A melancholy sound is in the air, 
 
 A deep sigh in the distance, a shrill wail 
 
 Around my dwelling. 'T is the Wind of night. 
 
 2055 William Cullen Bryant; A Rain Dream. 
 
 Windows. 
 
 llicli windows that exclude the light. 
 And passages that lead to nothing. 
 
 2056 Gray ; A Long Story. 
 
 Wine. 
 
 Wine makes Love forget its care, 
 And mirth exalts a feast. 
 
 Parnell: Anacreontic, '■Gay Bacchus, etc.," 
 
 2057 St. 2. 
 
 And wine can of their wits the wise beguile. 
 Make the sage frolic, and the serious smile. 
 
 2058 Pope : Odyssey, Bk. xiv.. Line 520. 
 
 Wing. 
 
 This quiet sail is as a noiseless wing 
 To waft me from distraction. 
 
 2059 Byron : Ch. Harold, Canto iii., St. 85.
 
 316 DICTIONARY OF POETICAL QUOTATIONS, 
 
 How at heaven's gates she claps her wings, 
 The morne not waking til she sings. 
 
 John Lyly: Cupid and Cam paspe, 
 
 2060 Actv., Sc. 1. 
 
 "Winter. 
 
 Now is the winter of our discontent 
 
 Made glorious summer by this sun of York. 
 
 2061 Shaks. : Richard III., Act i., Sc. 1. 
 
 See, Winter comes to rule the varied year, 
 Sullen and sad, with all his rising train. 
 Vapors, and clouds, and storms. 
 
 2062 Thomson : Seaso7is, Winter, Line 1. 
 
 But Winter has yet brighter scenes — he boasts 
 Splendors beyond what gorgeous Summer knows; 
 Or Autumn with his many fruits, and woods 
 All flushed with many hues. 
 
 William Cullen Bryant:^ Winter 
 
 2063 Piece. 
 
 No vernal blooms their torpid rocks array, 
 But winter lingering chills the lap of May. 
 
 2064 Goldsmith : Traveller, Line 171. 
 
 In rigorous hours, when down the iron lane 
 The redbreast looks in vain 
 
 For hips and haws, 
 Lo, shining flowers upon my window-pane 
 
 The silver pencil of the winter draws. 
 
 2065 Robert Louis Stevenson: Winter. 
 
 Wisdom. 
 
 Wisdom and fortune combating together. 
 If that the former dare but what it can, 
 No chance may shake it. 
 
 2066 Shaks.: Ant. and Cleo., Act iii., Sc. IL
 
 DICTIONARY OF POETICAL QUOTATIONS. 317 
 
 What is it to be wise? 
 'T is but to know how little can be known ; 
 To see all others' faults, and feel your own. 
 
 2067 Pope : Essay on Man, Epis, iv., Line 260. 
 
 The stream from Wisdom's well, 
 Which God supplies, is inexhaustible. 
 
 2068 Bayard Taylor: Wisdom of All. 
 
 And Wisdom's self 
 Oft seeks to sweet retired solitude. 
 
 2069 Milton : Connis, Line 373. 
 
 "Wishes. 
 
 Thy wish was father, Harry, to that thought. 
 
 2070 Shaks. : 2 Henry I V., Act iv., Sc. 4. 
 
 Our wdshes lengthen, as our sun declines. 
 
 Young : Night Thoughts, Night v., 
 
 2071 Line 662. 
 
 Wit — "Wits. 
 
 I hold a mouses wit not worth a leke, 
 That hath but one hole for to sterten to. 
 
 Chaucer : Cayiterhunj Tales, The Wif of 
 
 2072 Bathes Prologue, Line 615%. 
 
 Wit 's an unruly engine, wildly striking 
 Sometimes a friend, sometimes the engineer. 
 
 2073 Herbert: Temple, Church Porch, St. 4L 
 
 Great wits are sure to madness near allied, 
 And thin partitions do their bounds divide. 
 
 Dryden : Absalom and Achitopheh Pt. i., 
 
 2074 Line 163.
 
 318 DICTIONARY OF POETICAL QUOTATIONS. 
 
 Men famed for wit, of dangerous talents vain, 
 Treat those of common parts with proud disdain. 
 
 2075 Ckabbe : Patron, Line 229. 
 
 Though I am young, I scorn to flit 
 On the wings of borrowed wit. 
 
 George Wither: The. ShephenVs 
 
 2076 Hunlimj. 
 
 "Witches. 
 
 Midnight hags, 
 By force of potent spells, of bloody characters. 
 And conjurations, horrible to hear, 
 Call fiends and spectres from the yawning deep. 
 And set the ministers of hell at work. 
 
 2077 Rowe: Jane Shore, Act iv., Sc. 1. 
 
 Woe. 
 
 But I have that within which passeth show; 
 These but the trappings and the suits of woe. 
 
 2078 SiiAKS. : Hamkt, Act i., Sc. 1. 
 
 Woes cluster ; rare ai-e solitary woes ; 
 
 They love a train, they tread each other's heel. 
 
 2079 Young: Night Thoughts, Night iii., Line 03. 
 
 Chords that vibrate sweetest pleasure 
 Thrill the deepest notes of woe. 
 
 2080 Burns: Sweet Sensibility. 
 
 Wolf. 
 
 He 's the symbol of hunger the whole earth through, 
 His spectre sits at the door or cave, 
 And the homeless hear with a thrill of fear 
 The sound of his wind-swept voice on the air. 
 
 Hamlix (Jarland: The Gaunt Gray 
 
 2081 Wolf.
 
 DICTIONARY OF POETICAL QUOTATIONS. 319 
 
 Woman. 
 
 Women are as roses ; whose fair flower, 
 Being once display'd, doth fall that very hour. 
 
 2082 IShaks. : Tu\ Night, Act ii., Sc. 4. 
 
 Honor to women ! to them it is given 
 
 To garden the earth with the roses of Heaven. 
 
 2083 Schiller : Honor to Women. 
 
 Nothing lovelier can be found 
 In woman, than to study household good, 
 And good works in her husband to promote. 
 
 2084 Milton : Par. Lost, Bk. ix.. Line 232. 
 
 O woman ! lovely woman ! Nature made thee 
 To temper man ; we had been brutes without you. 
 
 2085 Otway: Venice Preserved, Act i., Sc. 1. 
 
 "Where is the man who has the power and skill 
 To stem the torrent of a woman's will? 
 For if she will, she will, you may depend on 't; 
 And if she won't, she won't ; so there 's an end on 't. 
 Copied from the pillar erected on the mount in the 
 Dane John Field, Canterbury. {^Examiner: 
 
 2086 May 31, 1829.] 
 
 And yet believe me, good as well as ill, 
 AVoman 's at best a contradiction still. 
 Heaven, when it strives to polish all it can 
 Its last best work, but forms a softer man. 
 
 2087 Pope : Moral Essays, Epis. ii., Line 269. 
 
 Earth's noblest thing, a woman perfected. 
 
 2088 James Russell Lowell: Irene.
 
 320 DICTIONARY OF i'OETICAL QUOTATIONS. 
 
 And whether coldness, pride, or virtue, dignify 
 A woman ; so she 's good, what does it signify? 
 
 2089 Byron : Don Juan, Canto xiv., St. 57. 
 
 Oh, woman ! in our hours of ease, 
 Uncertain, coy, and hard to please, 
 And variable as the shade 
 By the light quivering aspen made; 
 AVhen pain and anguish wring the brow, 
 A ministering angel thou ! 
 
 2090 Scott : Marmion, Canto vi., St. 30. 
 
 The woman that deliberates is lost. 
 
 2091 Addisox: Cato, Act iv., Sc. 1- 
 
 A woman mixed of such fine elements 
 That were all virtue and religion dead 
 She 'd make them newly, being what she was. 
 
 2092 Gkouge Eliot : llie Spanish Gypsy, Bk. i\. 
 
 Till we are built like angels, with hammer, and 
 
 chisel, and pen. 
 We will work for ourselves and a woman, for ever 
 
 and ever. Amen. 
 
 2093 RuDYARD Kipling: An Imperial Rescript. 
 
 Wonder. 
 
 A schoolboy's tale, the wonder of an hour ! 
 
 2094 Byron : Ch. Harold, Canto ii., St. 2. 
 
 "Woodland. 
 
 Yon woodland, like a human mind, 
 Has many a phase of dark and light; 
 
 Now dim with shadows wandering blind, 
 Now radiant with fair shapes of light. 
 
 2095 Paul Hamilton Uayne: The Woodland.
 
 DICTIONARY OF POETICAL QUOTATIONS. 321 
 
 "Woodman. 
 
 Woodman, spare that tree ! 
 
 Touch not a single bough ! 
 In youth it sheltered me, 
 
 And I '11 protect it now. 
 
 George P. ^Iorris : Woodman, Spare 
 
 2096 that Tree. 
 
 "Woods. 
 
 Fresh gales and gentle airs 
 Whisper'd it to the woods, and from their wings 
 Flung rose, flung odors from the spicy shrub. 
 
 2097 Milton : Par. Lost, Bk. viii., Line 508. 
 
 "Words. 
 
 'T is well said again. 
 And 't is a kind of good deed to say well : 
 And yet words are no deeds. 
 
 2098 Shaks. : Hetiry VIIL, Act iii., Sc. 2. 
 
 My words fly up, my thoughts remain below : 
 Words without thoughts, never to heaven go. 
 
 2099 Shaks. : Hamlet, Act iii., Sc. 3. 
 
 Apt w^ords have power to 'suage 
 The tumors of a troubled mind ; 
 And are as balm to fester'd wounds. 
 
 2100 Milton : Samson Agonistes, Line 184. 
 
 Our words have wings, but fly not where we would. 
 
 2101 George Eliot : Spanish Gypsy, Bk. iii. 
 
 Words, however, are things. 
 
 Owen Meredith : Lucile, Pt. i., 
 
 2102 Canto ii., St. 6.
 
 322 DICTIONARY OF POETICAL QUOTATIONS. 
 
 "Wordsworth. 
 
 Time may restore us in his course 
 Goethe's sage mind and Byron's force ; 
 But where will Europe's latter hour 
 Again find Wordsworth's healing power? 
 
 2103 Matthew Arnold : Memorial Verses. 
 
 Work. 
 
 Free men freely work : 
 Whoever fears God, fears to sit at ease. 
 
 Mrs. Browning : Aurora Leigh, Bk. viii., 
 
 2104 Line 752. 
 
 Men must work, and women must weep. 
 
 2105 Charles Kingsley : 21ie Three Fishers. 
 
 "World. 
 
 Why, then, the world 's mine oyster, 
 Which 1 with sword will open. 
 
 2106 Shaks. : Mer. W. of W., Act ii., Sc. 2. 
 
 You have too much respect upon the world : 
 They lose it that do buy it with much care. 
 
 2107 Shaks. : M. of Venice, Act i., Sc. 1. 
 
 Fast by hanging in a golden chain, 
 This pendent world, in bigness as a star. 
 
 2108 Milton : Par. Lost, Bk. ii., Line 1051. 
 
 This world is all a fleeting show, 
 For man's illusion given ; 
 The smiles of joy, the tears of woe, 
 Deceitful shine, deceitful flow — 
 There 's nothing true but Heaven. 
 
 2109 Moore : This World is all a Fleeting Shoiv.
 
 DICTIONARY OF POETICAL QUOTATIONS. 323 
 
 I have not loved the world, nor the world me. 
 
 2110 Byron: Ch. Harold, Canto iiL, St. 113. 
 
 ■Worm. 
 
 The smallest worm will turn, being trodden on. 
 
 2111 Shaks. : 3 Henry VI., Act ii., Sc. 2. 
 
 Worship. 
 
 There may be worship without words. 
 
 2112 Longfellow : Mt/ Cathedral. 
 
 "Worth. 
 
 Worth makes the man, and want of it the fellow ; 
 The rest is all but leather or prunella. 
 
 2113 Pope : Essay on Man, Epis. iv., Line 203. 
 
 Wounds. 
 
 Give me another horse : bind up my wounds. 
 
 2114 Shaks. : Richard IIL, Act v., Sc. 3. 
 
 Willing to wound, and yet afraid to strike. 
 
 2115 Pope : Prol. to the Satires, Line 201. 
 
 Wrath. 
 
 Come not within the measure of my wrath. 
 
 2116 Shaks. : Tivo Gent, o/v., Act v., Sc. 4. 
 
 Achilles' wrath, to Greece the direful spring 
 Of woes unnumber'd, heavenly goddess, sing ! 
 
 2117 Pope : '^ Iliad, Bk. i., Line 1. 
 
 Wreaths. 
 
 Now are our brows bound with victorious wreaths, 
 Our bruised arms hung up for monuments. 
 
 2118 Shaks. : Richard III., Act i., Sc. 1.
 
 324 DICTIONARY OF POETICAL QUOTATIONS. 
 
 Wrecks. 
 
 Meth ought I saw a thousand fearful wrecks, 
 Ten thousand men that fishes gnawed upon. 
 
 2119 Shaks. : Richard III., Act i., Sc. 4. 
 
 Wretch. 
 
 A needy, hollow-eyed, sharp-looking wretch, 
 A living dead man. 
 
 2120 Shaks. : Com. of Errors, Act v., Sc. 1. 
 
 "Writing. 
 
 You write with ease to show your breeding, 
 But easy writing 's curs'd hard reading. 
 
 2121 Sheridan : Clio's Prot. 
 
 Of all those arts in which the wise excel, 
 Nature's chief masterpiece is w^riting well. 
 
 Sheffield, Duke of Buckixcjhamshihe: 
 
 2122 Essay on Poetry. 
 
 Wrong. 
 
 Behold on wrong 
 Swift vengeance waits; and art subdues the strong ! 
 
 2123 Pope : Odyssey ^ Bk. viii., Line 307. 
 
 Wrongs unredressed, or insults unavenged. 
 
 2124 Wordsworth : Excursion, Bk. iii. 
 
 X. 
 
 Xerxes. 
 
 Xerxes did die, 
 And so must I. 
 2125 From the New England Primer.
 
 DICTIONARY OF POETICAL QUOTATIONS. 325 
 
 Y. 
 
 Years. 
 
 Jumping o'er times, 
 Turning the accomplishment of many years 
 Into an hourglass. 
 
 2126 Shaks. : Henry V., Act i., Chorus. 
 
 Years following years, steal something every day ; 
 At last they steal us from ourselves away. 
 
 2127 Pope : Satire vi., Line 72. 
 
 I sigh not over vanished years. 
 Hut watch the years that hasten by. 
 Look, how they come, — a mingled crowd 
 Of bright and dark, but rapid days. 
 
 2128 William Cullex Bryaxt : Lapse of Time. 
 
 None would live past years again, 
 Yet all hope pleasure in what yet remain. 
 
 2129 Dryden: Aurengzehe, Act iv., Sc. 1. 
 
 Yesterday. 
 
 Oh, call back yesterday, bid time return ! 
 
 2130 ' Shaks. : Richard II., Act iii., Sc. 2. 
 
 Yew-Tree. 
 
 Old yew, which graspest at the stones 
 That name the underlying dead. 
 Thy fibres net the dreamless head, 
 
 Thy roots are wrapt about the bones. 
 
 2131 Tennyson: In Menwriain, Pt.ii., St. 1. 
 
 Youth. 
 
 For youth no less becomes 
 The light and careless livery that it wears,
 
 326 DICTIONARY OF POETICAL QUOTATIONS. 
 
 Than settled age bis sables, and his weeds, 
 Importing health and graveness. 
 
 2132 SiiAKS. : Hamlet, Act iv., Sc. 7. 
 
 Home-keeping youth have ever homely wits. 
 
 2133 SiiAKS. : Ttvo Gent, of V., Act i., Sc. 1. 
 
 Youth! youth! how buoyant are thy hopes! they 
 
 turn, 
 Like marigolds, toward the sunny side. 
 
 2134 Jean Ingelow : Four Bridges, St. 56. 
 
 How beautiful is youth ! how bright it gleams 
 With its illusions, aspirations, dreams 1 
 
 2135 Longfellow : Morituri Salutamm. 
 
 In gallant trim the gilded vessel goes. 
 
 Youth on the prow, and Pleasure at the helm. 
 
 2136 Gray : Bard, Pt. ii., St. 2, Line 9. 
 
 Z. 
 
 Zeal. 
 
 Had I but served my God with half the zeal 
 I served my king, he would not in mine age 
 Have left me naked to mine enemies. 
 
 2137 Shaks.: Henry VIIL, Act iii., Sc. 2. 
 
 His zeal 
 None seconded, as out of season judg'd, 
 Or singular and rash. 
 
 2138 Milton : Par. Lost, Bk. v., Line 849
 
 INDEX TO AUTHORS. 
 
 The references which follow the Chronological Data are the numbers 
 
 of the Quotations in consecutive order from the respective Authors 
 
 under which they are placed. 
 
 Addison^ Joseph, b. Milston. 
 Wiltshire, Eng., 1672; d. Lon- 
 don, Eng., 1719. —50, 393, 55<j. 
 6-29, 70U, 713, 749, 766, 925, 969, 
 1U78, 15S;3, ISU, 2191. 
 
 Akenside, Mark. b. New- 
 castle-upon-Tyne, 1721 ; d. 
 London, Eng., 1770. — 1S65, 
 1933. 
 
 Aldrich, Jaxnes. b. New 
 York, ISlM: d. 1S56. — USl. 
 
 Aldrich, Thomas Bailey. 
 b. Purtsmouih, N.H., 1S36 ; 
 d. 1907. —23S, 407, 771, 2009. 
 
 Allen, Elizabeth Akerg. b. 
 j«trong. Me., Is32 ; . . . .— 
 313. 
 
 Armstrong, John. b. Liddes- 
 dale, Eng., 1709; d. London, 
 Eng.. 1779.-1^64. 
 
 Arnold, Sir Edwin, b. Lon- 
 don, 1S32 ; d. 1904. . . .—493. 
 
 Arnold, Matthew, b. Lale- 
 ham. Middlesex. Eng., 1S22; 
 d. Ena-., is-,^. — 15:37. 2103. 
 
 Aytoun, William Edmond- 
 stoune. b. Fifeshire, 1S13 ; d. 
 1S65. — 1735. 
 
 Bailey, Philip James, b. 
 
 Nottinsrhain, Eng., lS16;d.l902. 
 -43, 79. 322. 5-31, 614, 746, 967, 
 1349. 1770, 1S33. 
 Baillie, Joanna, b. Lanark- 
 shire, Scot.. 1762; d. Hamp- 
 Btead, Eng.. 1S51. — 19S. 
 
 Barbauld, AnnaLaetitia. b. 
 
 Leicestershire, Eng., 1743 ; d. 
 
 l>2r). — 7S2, 1717, 2032. 
 Barringrton, George, b. May- 
 
 nooth, Ireland. 1755: d. New 
 
 South Wales at a great age. — 
 
 413. 
 Barry, Michael J. Circa 
 
 1S15. — 1340. 
 Baxter, Richardc b. Rowdon, 
 
 Shropshire, Eng., 1615 ; d. 1691. 
 
 — 137.5. 
 
 Bayly, Thomas Haynes. b. 
 near Bath, Eng., 1797 ; d. 1S39. 
 
 — 21S. 133.5. 
 
 Beattie, James, b. Laurence- 
 kirk. Scot., 1735; d. Aberdeen, 
 Scot., 1S03. - 60, 4S5, 670. S37. 
 
 Beaumont and Fletcher. 
 Beaumont. Francis, b. Leices- 
 tershire, Eng., 15S6; d. 1615. 
 Fletcher. John. b. Rve, Eng., 
 1576; d. London, Eng., 1625. 
 19, 22, 204, 40S, 559. 598. 1154, 
 1231. 156S, 1S61, 1917, 2042. 
 
 Benserade, Isaac de. b. in 
 Upper Normandv, 1612 ; d. 
 1691.— 164. 
 
 Blair, Robert, b. Edinburgh, 
 Scot., 1699 ; d. Athelstaneford, 
 Scot., 1747. — S5, S19. S36. 1651. 
 
 Booth, Barton, b. Lancashire, 
 Eng., 16!5l ; d. 1733. — 13.>l. 
 
 Boyesen, Hjalmar Hjorth. 
 b. Fredericksvern, Norwav 
 154S; d. 1895. -102S. 1162. 
 
 327
 
 328 
 
 INDEX TO AUTHORS. 
 
 lirainston, James, b. Eng- 
 land ; (1. 1744. - sTa. 
 
 Brown, John. b. Kngland, 
 1715; d. 17(J(J. — 49, 481. 
 
 Brown, Tom. b. Shropshire, 
 Kiiij:., 1003 ; d. 17<»4. —502. 
 
 Browning, £Iizabeth Bar- 
 rett, b. London, Ew^., LSU'J ; 
 d. Florence, Italy, 1801. — 100, 
 196, 650, 77S, 848, bS7, 1000, 
 1039, 1073, 1296. 1373, 1059, 
 1709, 1733, 190S, 2104. 
 
 Browning, Robert, b. Cani- 
 berwell, Eng., 1612; d. 1869. — 
 65, 129, 251, 474, 519, 681, 747, 
 865, 993, 994, 996, 1086, 1123, 
 1188, 1222, 1228, 1312, 1344, 
 1351, 1450, 1607, 1710, 1822, 
 1825, 1901, 1950, 1957, 1907. 
 
 Bryant, William Cullen. 
 b. Cmninintrton, Mass., 1794; 
 d. New York, 1878. —234, 240, 
 317, 627, 697, 725, 758, 851, 906, 
 1155, 1246, 1277, 1321, 1445, 
 1604, 1603. 1793, 1819, 1951. 
 1902, 2055, 2003, 2128. 
 
 Bulwer, Edward George 
 Earle Lytton [Baron Lyt- 
 ton]. b. London, Eng., 1803 ; d. 
 Torquay, France, 1873. —1323. 
 
 Bunn, Alfred, b. England ; 
 d. 1860. —88S. 
 
 Bunyan, John. b. Elstow, 
 Eng., 1628 ; d. London, Eng., 
 1688. -6(>4, 1383. 
 
 Burns, Robert, b. Ayr, Scot., 
 1759; d. Dumfries, Scot., 1790. 
 — 20, 208, 222, 242, 552, 588, 592, 
 004, 694, 773, 783, 954, 964, 986, 
 1080, 1095, 1106, 1109, 1129, 
 1147, 1193, 1345, 14-J5. 15SS, 
 1599, 1600, 1642, 1704, 2047, 
 20S0. 
 
 Butler, Samuel, b. Worces- 
 tershire, Eng., 1612 ; d. Lon- 
 don. Eng., 1080. - 39, 153, 236, 
 303, 305, 405, 423, 549, 500, 574, 
 615, 799, 972, 992, 1014, 1110, 
 1209, 1271, 1284, 1334, 1347, 
 1394, 1405, 1449, 1496, 1504, 
 1510, 1557, 1585, 1682, 1705, 
 1811, 1852, 1858, 1886, 1932, 
 2019. 
 
 Byron, George Gordon, 
 Lord. b. London, Eng., 
 1768; d. Missoionghi, Greece, 
 1824.-31, 59, 62, 116, 133, 148, 
 109, 176, 209, 315, 351, 352, 354, 
 308, 3SS, 419, 451, 460, 469, 470, 
 480, 5oO, 511, 5:i4, 537, 553, 582, 
 594, 012, 019, 051, 077, 734, 748, 
 751, 787, 813, 841, 842, 84-3, 850, 
 878, 879, 898, 908, 910, 995, 1059, 
 1075, 1087, 1115, 1131, lias, 
 1166, 1221, 1229, 1232, 1251, 
 1275, 1303, 1337, 1391, 1407, 
 1419, 1442, 1498, 1506, 1522, 
 1529, 1538, 1556, 1563, 1573, 
 1575, 1580, 1596, 1601, 1620, 
 1621, 1625, 1668, 1672, 1679, 
 1686, 1688, 1716, 1718, 1731, 
 1751, 1792, 1794, 1818, 1847, 
 1851, 1802, 1884, 1897, 1910, 
 1920, 1935, 1979, 1993, 1994, 
 2018, 2025, 2029, 2031, 2059, 
 2089, 2094, 2110. 
 
 Campbell, Thomas, b. Glas- 
 gow, Scot., 1777; d. Boulogne, 
 France, 1844.-142, 149,359, 
 570, 715. 723, 933, 1243, 1390, 
 1541, 1584, 1593, 1694, 1703, 
 1741. 1877. 
 
 Canning, George, b. London, 
 Eng., 1770; d. Cheswick, Eng., 
 1827. - 729. 
 
 Carey, Henry, b. 1663; d. 
 Coldbath-Fields, Eng., 1743. - 
 349. 
 
 Carlyle, Thomas, b. Eccle- 
 feclian, Scot., 1795; d. Chelsea, 
 near London, Eng., 1881. — 
 1090, 1150. 
 
 Cary, Alice, b. near Cincin- 
 nati, O., 1820; d. New York 
 City, 1871.— 536, 1262. 
 
 Cary, Phoebe, b. near Cincin- 
 nati, ()., 1824; d. New York 
 City, 1871.— 646. 
 
 Chapman, George. b. 
 
 Hitchin, Eng., 1557; d. Lon- 
 don, Eng., 1034. —658. 
 
 Chatterton, Thomas. b. 
 Bristol, Eng., 1752; d. Lon- 
 don, Eng., 177(1. - 1136. 
 
 Chaucer, Geoffrej'. b. Lon-
 
 INDEX TO AUTHORS. 
 
 329 
 
 don, Eng., 132S ; d. UOo. — 40, | 
 104, 1&47, 185:3, 19t)U, -jnT-i. 
 Chorley, Henry Fothergill. 
 
 b. 1MI>; d. 1?T-J. — 1•J•5^. 
 Churchill, Charles. b. 
 
 Westminster, Eng., 1731 ; d. 
 Boulogne, France, 1764. — 98, 
 liM», 185, 530, 098, 703, 874, 978, 
 IT 13, 1749. 
 Cleuiiner, Mary. b. Utica, 
 
 N.Y.. 1S39: d. l>-4. — (no. 
 Coleridge, Samuel Taylor. 
 b. Devonshire, Eng., 17V.i; d. 
 London, Eng., 18:34. —71, 143, 
 282, 395, 465, 484, 599, 708, 728, 
 979, 11:38, 1227. 1:3:36, 1:372, 1379, 
 1431, 1473, 1507. 1561. 1673. 
 Collins, William, b. Chiches- 
 ter, Eng.. 1720; d. Chichester, 
 Eng., 1756. — 227, 928, 1035, 
 12:39. 
 Colman, George [theyounger]. 
 b. IT VJ ; d. London, Eng., 1&36. 
 -9T1. 
 Congreve, William, b. Bard 
 sev. Ent:.. ItJTn; d. London, ! 
 Eng., IT-jy. — ISO, 775, 1237,1 
 Imm, 1926. ; 
 
 Cook, Eliza, b. London, Eng., j 
 I^IT ; d. l-?-li. — 1747. I 
 
 •• Cornwall, Barry." See ' 
 PRoriER, Bryan- Waller. | 
 
 Cowley, Abraham, b. Lon- j 
 don, Eng., 1618; d. Chertsev, 
 Eng., 1667. —4T9, 786. 
 Cowper, William, b. Great \ 
 Berkhainstead, Hertfordshire, ! 
 Eng., 1731; d. 180(t. -30, 102, 
 146. 175, 365, 403, 412, 586, 561, 
 650, 7:39, 762, 868, 889. 914, 960, 
 1036, 1079. 1201, 1393, 1401, 1404, 
 1437, 1466, 1475, 1571, 16:37, 1723, 
 1752. 1759. 1799, 1916, 1931, 1937, 
 19t;5. 1958. 1990, 2004, 2024, 2049. 
 Crabbe, George, b. Aldbor- 
 ough, Eng., 1754 ; d. Trow- 
 bridge, Eng., 18:32.-44, 205, 
 :33i»."379. 428, 13>2. 1412, 1515, 
 15T6. 1617, 1702. 1880. 2075. 
 Cranch, Christopher 
 Pearse. b. Alexandria, Va., 
 l5l3; d. 1892. —1903. 
 Crashaw, Richard, b. Lon 
 
 don, Eng., about 1616 ; d. Italy, 
 about 165*3. —541, 814. 
 Croly, George, b. Dublin, 
 Ireland, 17sU ; d. I860.— liOi. 
 
 Dana, Richard Henry, b. 
 
 Cambridge, Mass., 17>'7 ; d. 
 Boston, Mass., 1^7^. — 1773. 
 
 Dante, Alighieri. b. Florence, 
 Italv, 1265 ; d. liaveuna, 1321. — 
 9:30." 
 
 Darwin, Erasmus, b. New- 
 ark, Eng., 1T31; d. Derbv, Eng., 
 1802.— '1108. 
 
 Defoe, DanieL b. London, 
 Eng., 1061 ; d. London, Eng., 
 1731.-384, 1:300. 
 
 De L'Isle, Joseph Rouget. 
 b. Lons-le-.8aunice, France, 
 1700; d. 18:36.-807. 
 
 Dickens, Charles, b. Land- 
 {)ort, near Portsmouth, Eng., 
 1812 ; d. Gadshill, near Roches- 
 ter. Eng.. 1870. —997. 
 
 Donne, John, D.D. b. Lon- 
 don, Eng., 1573; d. London, 
 Eng., 1631. —1821. 
 
 Dorr, Julia Caroline Rip- 
 ley, b. Charleston. fe.C, 
 1825 ;.... — 1493, 1830. 
 
 Drake, Joseph Rodman, b. 
 New York Citv, 1T9.3; d. New 
 York City. 1^2n. — 714, 761. 
 
 Dryden, John. b. Aid win- 
 kle, Eng.. 1631 ; d. London, 
 Entr., 1701. — 158, 226, 252, 337, 
 344, 504, 680, 776. 790, 858, 860, 
 871, 884, 1179, 1234, 1299, 1:346, 
 i;358, 1362, 1365, 1425, 1460, 1519. 
 1577, 1610, 1764, 1772. 18:36, 1909, 
 1921, 1948, 1964, 1984, 2043, 2074, 
 2129. 
 
 Dwight, Timothy, b. North- 
 am;itori. Mass.. lT52;d. New 
 Haven, Conn.. 181T. — 357. 
 
 Dyer, Sir Edward, b. Sharp- 
 ham, near Glastonbury, circa 
 l.>10; d. 1607. —331. 1190. 
 Dyer, John. b. 1700; d. 1753. 
 — 1053. 
 
 Eliot, George [Marian Evans 
 Cross], b. Warwickshire, Eng..
 
 330 
 
 INDEX TO AUTHORS. 
 
 1S20; d. Loiulon, Eng., 18S0. — 
 S62, 1091, 1256, 1270, 1850, 1478, 
 1534, 1779, 1832, 1944, 1992, 2092, 
 2101. 
 
 £lliott, Ebenezer. b. Mas- 
 borough, Eng., 17S1 ; <1. near 
 Barnsley, Eng.. is4<». — 104(;. 
 
 £mer8on, Ralph Waldo, b. 
 Boston, Mass., 180;3 ; d. Con- 
 cord, Mass., 1882. — 105, 161, 
 191, 289, 247, 249, 448, 605, 759, 
 765, 791, 817, 944, 1428, 1648, 
 1678, 1748. 
 
 Everett, Edward, b. Dorches- 
 ter, Mass., 1794 ; d. 1-505. —912. 
 
 Faber, Frederick William. 
 
 b. Durham, Eag., 1S14 ; d. 
 Bronipton, Eng., 1868. — 1516. 
 
 Falconer, William, b. Edin- 
 burgh, Scot., 1782 ; shipwrecked 
 near Cape Good Hope, 1769. — 
 1069. 1675. 
 
 Fenner, Cornelius G. b. 
 1822; d. 1847. —1609. 
 
 Fielding:, Henry, b. Sharp- 
 ham Park, En;;., 1707; d. Lis- 
 bon, Spain, 1754. —1880. 
 
 Fields, James Thomas, b. 
 Portsmouth, N.H., 1S17 ; d. 
 1881. —420. 
 
 Finch, Francis M. b. Ithaca, 
 N.Y., 1827; . . . .—1878. 
 
 Fletcher, John. b. North- 
 hamptonshire, Eng., 1576; d. 
 1625.-1304, 1655. 
 
 Ford, John. b. Islington, 
 Eng., 15S6 ; d. circa 1689. — 
 115i>. 
 
 Franklin, Benjamin [" Rich- 
 ard Saunders"], b. Boston, 
 Mass., 1706; d. Philadelphia, 
 Peun., 1790. — 281. 
 
 Garland, Hamlin, b. West 
 
 Salem. Wis., 1860; . . . . - 
 
 346. 1280. 1761. 2081. 
 Garrick, David, b. Lichfield, 
 
 En?., 1716; d. London, Eng., 
 
 1779. —406, 1724. 
 Garth, Sir Samuel. b. 
 
 Bolam, Eng., circa 1670 ; d. 
 
 London, Eng., 1718. — 1895. 
 
 Gay, John. b. near Barnstaple, 
 Eng., 16SS; d. London, Eng.. 
 1732. —82, 124, 020, (V42, 7;;.l, 
 7«1, S88, 952, 1416, 14.84, 14;/:, 
 1562, 1608, 1677. 
 
 Gifford, Richard, b. 1725; 
 d. .Xoriii e>kend()n, Eng., 1807. 
 — 1997. 
 
 Goethe, Johann Wolfganj; 
 von. b. Frankfort-on-the- 
 
 Main, Germanv, 1740; d. Wei- 
 mar, Germanv. lS;i2. — 192. 
 
 Goldsmith, Oliver, b. Pallis, 
 Ireland, 172S; d. London, Eng., 
 1774. —35, 58, 107, 189, 340, 341, 
 342, 345, 864, 466, 517, 6;39, 695, 
 707, 710, 783, 788, ^49, 901, 1063, 
 1107, 1114, 1137, 1297, 1339, 14S7, 
 1495, 1589, 1591, 1742, 1750, 1756, 
 1934, 1939, 2003, 2064. 
 
 Gould, Hannah Flagg. b. 
 Lancaster, Vt., 1789 ; d. New- 
 buryport, Mass., 1865. — 1553. 
 
 Gray, Thomas, b. London, 
 Eng., 1716; d. Cambridge, Eng., 
 1771. -108, 198, 216, 378, 382, 
 385, 44;3, 450, 618, 624, 704, 716, 
 720, 789, 882, 8;33, 863, 963, 1041, 
 1141, 1174, 1687, 1892, 1924, 
 2056, 2186. 
 
 Green, Matthew, b. London 
 (?), Eng.. 169t); d. 1737. -869. 
 
 Greene, Robert. b. Nor- 
 wich (?), circit 1560; d. near 
 Dowgate, Eng., 1592. — 1105. 
 
 Halleck, Fitz-Greene. b. 
 
 Cuilford, Conn.. 1770; d. Guil- 
 ford, (%)nn., 1867.-493, 904, 
 1313. 1978. 
 
 Halpine, Charles Grahame 
 [•".Miles O'Keillv"]. b. Old- 
 castle, Meath, Ireland, 1829 ; d. 
 New York City. 1868. —756. 
 
 Harring-ton, Sir John. b. 
 ;icar Bath. Eng., circa 1561 ; d. 
 1612. — 1947. 
 
 Harte, Francis Bret. b. 
 Albanv, N. Y., 1S39 : d. London, 
 Eng., "1902. — 4.38, 1306, 1739. 
 
 Havergal, Frances Ridley. 
 b. Worcestershire, Eng., lS8i;; 
 d. Swansea, Eng., 1879. —326.
 
 INDEX TO AUTHORS. 
 
 331 
 
 TTav, John. b. Salem, Ind., 
 
 1S:^S; d. 1905. —1367. 
 llayne, Paul Hamilton, b. 
 
 Charleston, S.C, 1S31 ; d. 1886. 
 
 - 2095. 
 
 Heber, Reginald. b. Che- 
 shire, Eng., 1783; d. Trichin- 
 opoly, India, 1826. — 501, 934, 
 1295. 
 
 Hemans, Felicia Dorothea. 
 b. Liverpool, Eng., 1793; d. 
 Dublin, Ireland, 1835.-496, 
 717. 907, 1653, 1776. 
 
 Herbert, George, b. in Mont- 
 gomery Castle, Wales, 1593 ; d. 
 Bemerton, Wales, 1632. — 24, 
 199, 250, 602, 687, 7S4, 1083, 
 1145, 1348, 1467, 1842, 1849, 
 1963. 2073. 
 
 Herrick, Robert, b. London, 
 Eng., 1591; d. Dean Prior. 
 Eng., 1674. — 11, 42,280, 461, 
 699, 1697, 1791, 1872, 1914, 1978, 
 1985. 
 
 Heywood, Thomas, b. Lin- 
 colnshire, Eng., 1570 ; d. 1G49. 
 
 — 28, 920. 
 
 Hogg, James, b. Ettrick For- 
 
 e.-t, Scot., 1772 ; d. I'^i5. —801. 
 Holmes, Oliver Wendell. 
 
 b. Cambridge, Mass., l509; d. 
 
 1894.-233, 618, 649. 929, 1241. 
 
 1307, 1314, 1440, 154Y, 1550, 
 
 isoo. 
 
 Home, John. b. Ancrum, 
 Scot., 1724 ; d. 1808. — 2G5. 
 
 Hood, Thomas, b. London, 
 Eni,'., 1798-9 : d. London, Enir., 
 1845. - 131, 229. 298, 46:3, 533, 
 583. 867, 1208. 1282. 1414. 1438, 
 1472. 1652. 1695, 1788. 1904. 
 
 Hopkinson, Joseph. b. 
 Philadelphia, Penn.. 1770; d. 
 1 '-12. -976. 
 
 Howe, Julia Ward. b. New 
 York, 1819; . . . . -320. 
 
 Hunt, Helen [Mrs. Jackson], 
 b. Amherst. Mass., \SS\ ; d. 
 San Francisco, Cal,, 1885.— 130, 
 1156, 1167. 
 
 Hunt, James Henry Leigh. 
 b. Southgate, near London, 
 Eng., 1784; d. 1859. -1613. 
 
 Hutchinson, Ellen Mackay. 
 
 — 1640. 
 
 Ingelow, Jean. b. Ipswich, 
 
 Eng.. is^O ; d. 1897. —9, 180, 
 609, 1121, 176U, 2134. 
 
 Jefferys, Charles, b. 1807; 
 
 d. 1565. —231, 245. 
 Johnson, Dr. Samuel, b. 
 
 Lichfield, Eng., 1709; d. Lon- 
 don, Eng., 1784. — 132, 580, 
 590, 768, 815, 857, 945, 965, 989, 
 1003. 1111, 1940. 2037. 
 Jones, Sir William, b. Lon- 
 don. Eng.. 1746 ; d. India, 1794. 
 
 — 1064, 1322. 
 
 Jonson, Ben. b. London, 
 Eng., 1573-4 ; d. London, Eng., 
 1637.-267.548,828, 1016, 11U2. 
 1210, 1508, 1616, 1658, 1986. 
 
 Keats, John. b. London, Eng., 
 1795; d. Kome, Italv, 1821.— 
 127. 159. 919, 1130, 1236, 1267, 
 1352, 14^33. 1535, 1730, 1969. 
 
 Keble, John. b. Coln-St.-Ald- 
 wynds, Eng., ch^ca 1792 ; d. 
 Bournemouth, Eng., 1866. — 
 1298. 
 
 Kemble, Frances Anne. b. 
 London, Eng., 1811 ; d. 1893. — 
 248. 
 
 Kingsley, Charles, b. Devon- 
 shire, Eng.. 1819 ; d. Everslev, 
 Eng..l875. — 15, 277, 290, 348, 
 516. 785. 823, 1031, 1161, 1360, 
 1519. 2105. 
 
 Kipling, Rudyard. b. Bom- 
 bay, India, 1865; . . . . — 744, 
 2093. 
 
 Lamb, Charles, b. London, 
 Eng., 1775; d. London, Eng., 
 1>:U. - 311. 
 
 Landor, ^Valter Savage, b. 
 
 lp>!oy r(nirt, Warwickshire, 
 Ens.,' 1775; d. Florence, Italv, 
 18W. —26:3. 688. 
 Landsdowne, Lord [George 
 Granville], b. Bideford, Eng., 
 1667; d. London, Eng., 1735. 
 
 — 835.
 
 332 
 
 INDEX TO AUTHORS. 
 
 Larcoui, Lucy. b. Beverly 
 
 Farms, Mass., 1826, d. lii\)3. — 
 
 840. 
 Lee, Nathaniel, b. England, 
 
 lt)55; d. London, Eng., 10^2. - 
 
 844. 
 Linley, George, b. London, 
 
 Eng., 17'.»8; d. France, 1805. 
 
 - 7, 11 TS. 
 
 Lof ft, CapeL b. London, Eng., 
 1751 ; d. France, 1824. - 5:3. 
 
 Logan, John. b. Soutra, ^cot., 
 1748; d. 17S8. - mG. 
 
 Longfellow, Henry Wads- 
 worth, b. Portland, Ale., 18U7 , 
 d. Cambridge, .Mass., 18S2. — 
 110, 141, 150, 177, 307, 321, 
 499, 6:32, 654, 733, 742, 780, 
 796, 942, 948, 1017, 1045, 1055, 
 1074, 1089, 1261, 1302, 1311, 
 1316, 1427, 1551, 1603, 1633, 
 1734, 1S06, 1831, 1887, 1889, 
 2026, 20.}3, 2112, 2135. 
 
 Lovelace, Richard, b. Wool- 
 wich, Enij., 1618 ; d. London, 
 Eng., lt).-)S. — 144, 1384. 
 
 Lover, Samuel, b. Dublin, Ire- 
 land, 1797; d. 18(;8. — 1483. 
 
 Lowe, John. b. 1750; d. 1798. 
 
 — 1217. 
 
 Lowell, James Russell, b. 
 
 Cambridge, Mass., 1819; d. 
 
 1891. — 304, 323, 335, 391, 503, 
 
 514, 611, 635, 810, 1012, 1054, 
 
 1226, 1420, 1923, 1970, 2083. 
 Lowell. Maria White, b. 
 
 Watertown, Mass., 1821 ; d. 
 
 1853. — 1981. 
 Lowth, Robert, b. Winchester, 
 
 Eng., 1710; d. 1787. —1403. 
 Lyly, john.b. Kent, Eng., circ^/ 
 
 15.^3; d. eirat 1600. — 2o60. 
 
 Macaulay, Thomas Babing- 
 ton. b. Itothley Tem|)lc, Eng., 
 1800; d. Kensington, London, 
 Eng., 1859. — 495. 
 
 Macdonald, George, b. Hunt- 
 ley, Scot., 1824 ; d. 1905.— 2054. 
 
 Marlowe, Christopher, b. 
 Canterbury, Eng., 1565; d. 
 Deptford, Eng., 1593. — 213, 
 1511, 1518, 1670. 
 
 Martial [Marcus Valerius Mar- 
 tiahs]. t). liilbilis, Spain, 43; 
 d. Hilbilis, Spain, 104. - 505. 
 
 Massinger, Philip, b. near 
 Wilton, Eng., 15>4 ; d. on the 
 Hanksidc, l(i3y-40. -— 1411, lt>17. 
 
 Mee, William. - 675. 
 
 "Meredith, Owen" [Lord 
 Edward Robert Bulwer Lyt- 
 tonj. b. Herts, Eng., 1831 ; d. 
 1891. —225, 640, 645, 866, 981, 
 1000, 1127, 1245, 1491, 1900, 
 2102. 
 
 Mickle, William Julius, b. 
 Dumfriesshire, Scot., 1734; d. 
 17>5S. —946. 
 
 Middleton, Thomas, d. 1626. 
 — 16, 134, 1502. 
 
 Miller, "Joaquin" Cincin- 
 natus Uiner. b. Indiana, 
 1840 ;....- 371, 477, 647, 
 1030, 118.5, 1828. 
 
 Milnes, Richard Monckton 
 [Lord Houghton], b. York- 
 sliire, Eng., 1809; d. 1835.— 
 8;)0, -2041. 
 
 Milton, John. b. London, 
 Eng., 1608; d. London, Eng., 
 1674. - 1, 4, IS, 08, 77, 78, 
 80, 90, 112, 117, 120, 157, 170, 
 186, 187, 207, 275, 284, 288, 
 300, 312, 336, 856, 360, 373, 
 381, 383, 387, 397, 416, 429, 
 441, 445, 456, 468, 492, 515, 
 518, 520, 526, 539, 551, 563, 
 576, 595, 597, 600, 607, 608, 
 610, 628. 631, 634, 652, 667, 
 696, 701, 711, 712, 735, 740, 
 770, 797, 802, 804, 809, 847, 
 877, 880, 892, 895, 896, 931, 
 935, 956, 982, 991, 1001, 1018, 
 102.5, 1037, 1052, 1057, 1060, 
 1077, 1081, 1085, 1094, 1100, 
 1160, 1169, 1173, 1184, 1187, 
 1192, 1213, 121.5, 1220, 1248, 
 1255, 1260, 1287, 1310, 1320, 
 1325, 1331, 1371, 1380, 1397, 
 1399, 1402, 1406, 1421, 1489, 
 1447, 14.54, 1494, 1497, 1500, 
 1.505, 1509. 1512, 1525, 1569, 
 1.597, 1611, 1612, 1628, 10.50, 
 1654, 1660, 1661, 166.5, 1693, 
 1740, 1758, 1777, 1783, 1840,
 
 INDEX TO AUTHORS. 
 
 333 
 
 1&44, 1S73. 1906, 1908, 1919, 
 iy:36, 1949, 1975, 1999, 2013, 
 2015, 2020, 2(m, 2035, 2<»3>, 
 2046, 2(»rt9, 20S4, 2097, 2100, 
 210-i. 2l:>-5. 
 
 Montagu, Lady Mary Wort- 
 ley, b. Londnii, Lilt:., virca 
 liJUO ; d. Loudon, Eiii,'., HOi. - 
 5^5. 
 
 Montgomery, James, h. Ir- 
 Nine, !5C()t., 1771 , d. sliettield, 
 Ensr., 1-554. —232, 100s, 1256, 
 15S-2. 
 
 Moore, Clement C. b. New 
 York, 1779 ; d. 1>G3. - 328. 
 
 Moore, Thomas, b. Dublin, 
 Ireland, 1779 , d. near De\ize.>i, 
 Eng., 1S52. — 171, 221, 314, 436, 
 481, 547, 554, 655, &05, 812, S72, 
 1113, 1646, 1743, 1757, 1S24, 
 1534, 1941, 2109. 
 
 More, Hannah, b. Stapleton, 
 En>,'., 1745 ; d. Clifton, Eng., 
 1S;33. - 660, S.^U, 163S, 1955. 
 
 Morris, Charles, b. 1739 ; d. 
 1S32. - 212. 
 
 Morris. George P. b. Phila- 
 delphia, Penn., 1>>02 ; d. Kew 
 York City, 1S&4. — 2096. 
 
 Nairne, Lady Caroline Oli- 
 
 phant. b. Gask, Perthshire. 
 
 Scot., 1766; d. Gask, 1845.- 
 
 lO.^S. 
 Noel, Thomas. — 202. 
 Norris, John. b. Wiltshire, 
 
 Eng., 1657 ; d. 1711.- 95. 
 
 O'Hara, Theodore, b. 1820: 
 
 <i. !^<;7. — i>i. 
 
 Otway, Thomas, b. Totting- 
 ton, Eng., 1651 ; d. London, 
 Eng., 1685. -2085. 
 
 Parnell, Thomas, b. Dublin, 
 
 Ireland, 1679 : d. Chester, Eng., 
 
 1717-lS. — 112.0, 2057. 
 Payne, John Howard, b. 
 
 New Y'ork Citv, 1792 ; d. 
 
 Tunis. Africa. 1S52. — 916. 
 Peele, George, b. Devonshire, 
 
 Eng.. Iwl-h-^: d. W.><. - 1846. 
 Percival, James Gates, b. 
 
 Berlin, Conn., 1795; d. Hazel- 
 green, Wis., 1856. —727, 1049. 
 Percy, Bishop Thoiuas. b. 
 
 Uridgeiiorth, Eng., ITJ5, d. 
 Drosnore, Eng., Isll.— 343, 
 2051. 
 
 Pierpont, John. b. Litch- 
 tield, Conn., 1785; d. 1866.— 
 2050. 
 
 "Pindar, Peter" [Dr. John 
 Walcotj. b. Dodbrook, Eng., 
 173S; d. Somers' Town, Eng., 
 1S19. -269. 
 
 Pitt, William, b. Hayes, near 
 Brouilev. Eng., 1759; d. 1806. 
 — 16Ht.' 
 
 Poe, Edgar Allan, b. Bos- 
 ton, Mass.. 1N09; d. Baltimore, 
 Md.. 1^^49.-173, 1531. 
 
 Pollock, Robert, b. Eagles- 
 ham, t?cot., 1799 ; d. Shirley 
 Common, Eng., 1827.-957, 
 1721. 
 
 Pope, Alexander, b. Lon- 
 don, Eng., 10?>; d. Twicken- 
 ham, Eng., 1744.-2, 8, 45, 
 64, 70. 73, 82, 83, 93, 108. 122, 
 123, 136, 162, 188, 219, 260, 262, 
 276, 285, 289, 294, 299, 308, 329, 
 358, 898, 402. 409, 411, 430, 432, 
 436, 440, 452, 464, 478, 507, 544, 
 589, 609, 621, 64:3, 668. 668, 671, 
 682, 683, 685, 731, 737, 745, 767, 
 811, 829, 831, 855, 869, 886, 897, 
 902, 905, 922, 926, 932, 943, 95<t, 
 1038, 1047, 1048, 1061, 1067, 
 1092, 1146, 1152, 1182, 1195, 
 1197, 1218, 1238, 1250, 126:3, 
 1266, 1280, 1288, 1329, 1356, 
 1364, 1369, 1392, 140o. 1413, 
 1417, 1418, 1423, 1441, 1444, 
 1459, 1474, 1482, 1485, 1492, 
 1514, 1517, 1542, 1543, 1548, 
 l.^>58, 1564, 1574, 1592, 1618, 
 1623, 1631, 1636, 1645, 1725, 
 1765, 1766, 1775, 180;3, lh37, 
 1863, 1974, 1989, 1995, 1996, 
 2000. 2014, 2058, 2067, 2087, 
 211.3, 2115, 2117. 2123,2127. 
 
 Pope, Dr. Walter, b. circa 
 1630; d. 1714. — 1624. 
 
 Porteus, Beilby. b. York, 
 Eng., 1731; d. I&08. — 438.
 
 np>4 
 
 INDEX TO AUTHORS. 
 
 Praed, Winthrop Mac- 
 
 \vorth. 1). Lumlon, ICiiy:.. 
 
 1S02; d. London, Enj,'., ISo'J. 
 
 — 137, ll:«. 
 Preston, Margaret Junkin. 
 
 b. Lexin^'ton, Xa.., l5^35; d. 
 
 1-^97. — Oil, i>!)2, rJ54. 
 Prior, Matthew. b. near 
 
 Wiinborne-Minster, En?., 1664; 
 
 d. Wimpole, Eng., 1721. —61), 
 
 62;!, 'MVl, 900. 1126, 1359. 
 Procter, Bryan Waller 
 
 [" IJarry Cornwall"], b. Lon- 
 
 d)M, Ens?., 17S7; d. lS7i. — 
 
 1211, 1606. 
 
 Kabelais, Francois, b. Chi- 
 no:i, France, 14:S:^-:)5 : d. Paris, 
 France. ISfv-^ — 546. 
 
 Raleigh, Sir Walter. b. 
 lUidiei-h, Imi-.. 1552 ; d. Lon- 
 don. Emit.. 161S. — |:5.I5, 1611. 
 
 Read, Tlioniag Buchanan. 
 b. Chestor, Ponn.. H22 ; d. 
 New York Citv, 1ST2. - 1796. 
 
 Rochester, Earl of [.John 
 Wilinoi]. b. Ditciiley, Eng., 
 1647 ; (1. l6so. —736. 
 
 Rogers, Samuel, b. Stoi<e 
 Newington, Eng., 1763; d. 
 London, Eng., 1S55. — 1172, 
 1175, 1240, 1546. 
 
 Roscommon, Earl of [Wcnt- 
 worth Dillon]. b. Ireland, 
 1633; d. London, Eng., 16S4. 
 — 512. 
 
 Rossetti, Chri.stina Geor- 
 giana. b. London, Eng., 
 1S30: d. 1S94. — 347, 726, 949, 
 1536. ir,r»2. 
 
 Rossetti, Dante Gabriel, b. 
 London, En^., IsiS; d. Lon- 
 don. Eng., 18S2. —1029, 1171. 
 
 Rowe, Nicholas, b. Little 
 Barford, Eng., 1673-74; d. 
 London, Eng., 171S. — 1199, 
 2077. 
 
 Raskin, John. b. London, 
 Eng., 1S19; d. 1900. —121, 
 1265, 127S, 1671. 
 
 Salis, J. G. von. b. 1762 ; d. 
 lS:i4. — 194. 
 
 Sargent, Epes. b. Glouces 
 ter, Mass., 1^12; d. 18S1. - 
 2ii33. 
 
 Savage, Richard, b. Lon- 
 don. Eng., 16US; d. 1748.— 
 1424. 
 
 Saxe, John Godfrey, b. 
 llighgate, Vt., Isl6; d. lSs7. 
 
 — 210, s<;i. 
 
 Scliiller, Johann Chris- 
 toph Friedrich von. b. 
 
 Marbach, Ger., 1759; d. Wei- 
 mar, Ger., 1805. — 109, 497, 
 1007, 1273, 1477, 1629, 1712, 
 1915, 1927, 20s;3. 
 
 Scott, Sir Walter, b. Edin- 
 i)iirgh, Scot., 1771 ; d. .\bbots- 
 f,)rd, Scot., 1S32. — 327, 509, 
 .5:^5, 702, 732, 826, 893, 1050, 
 1051, 1103, 1134, 1214, 1436, 
 15)1, 1.524, 1622, 1669, 1732, 
 i ';74. 2090. 
 
 Sedley, Charles. b. Kent, 
 Knir.. 1639: d. 1701.-201. 
 
 Shakespeare, William, b. 
 Stratt'ord-on-.\von. Eng., 15fU; 
 d. Stratford-on-.Vvon, Eng., 
 1616. -3, .5. 6, 12,13, 14,17,21, 
 25, 26, 27, 29, 33, 37, 38, 41, 46, 
 47, 51, .52, .54, 55, 56, 66, (m, 72, 
 74, 75, 86, 87, 88, 89, 91, 94, 96, 
 97, 99, 101, 111, 113, 114, 118, 
 119, 126, 133, 139, 140, 145, 152, 
 1.54, 1.55, 1.56, 16.5, 167, 168, 182, 
 190, 19.5, 197, 200, 201, 203, 211, 
 214, 21.5, 217, 220, 223, 224, 228, 
 235, 237, 241, 24^?, 2.53, 2.54, 2.55, 
 2.57, 2.59, 261, 266, 271, 272, 273, 
 278, 279, 283, 286. 287, 293, 29.5, 
 297. .306, 316, 318. 332, 334, 3.50, 
 353, 3.55, 361, 362, 367, 370, 372, 
 374, 37.5, 376, 377, 380, 386, 389, 
 390, .392, 394, .396, 399, 400, 410, 
 414, 41.5, 417, 418, 422, 424, 42.5, 
 426, 437, 439, 444, 446, 447, 4.53, 
 4.54, 4.55, 4.57, 458, +59, 462, 471, 
 472, 475, 480, 482, 4^3, 48-:, 489, 
 490, 491, .508, 513. 521. .524, .528, 
 529, 542, .543, .545, .5.50, .5.57, .553, 
 560. 564, 565. 567, 568, 569, 573, 
 57.5. .577, .578. .579, .581, .587, 601, 
 603, 616, 617, t\-M\ fi38, 641, 644, 
 653, 657, 659, 665, 666, 673, 674,
 
 INDEX TO AUTHORS. 
 
 335 
 
 678, 
 
 692, 
 
 753, 
 
 792, 
 
 816, 
 
 83S, 
 
 870, 
 
 921, 
 
 941, 
 
 984, 
 
 1009, 
 
 1021, 
 
 104:3, 
 
 1072, 
 
 1104, 
 
 1140. 
 
 1157, 
 
 IISO, 
 
 1200, 
 
 1212, 
 
 1247, 
 
 1274, 
 
 1289, 
 
 1317, 
 
 1333, 
 
 1361. 
 
 1389, 
 
 1422, 
 
 145fi, 
 
 14713, 
 
 1499. 
 
 1544. 
 
 1572. 
 
 1590, 
 
 1615, 
 
 1643, 
 
 1664, 
 
 1690. 
 
 1707. 
 
 1727. 
 
 1755. 
 
 1789. 
 
 1804, 
 
 1820, 
 
 1845, 
 
 1866, 
 
 1885, 
 
 1896. 
 
 1913, 
 
 194:?. 
 
 1977, 
 
 2001, 
 
 2016, 
 
 679, 6&4, 686, 689, 690, 
 705, 709, 718, 722, 724. 
 754, 755, 763, 7&4, 774. 
 794, 795, 798, 800, 803. 
 818, 821, 824, 825, 827, 
 8:39, 845, 846, 853, 854. 
 873, 876, 885, 891, 894. 
 923, 924, 930, 938, 939. 
 955, 961, 966, 973. 977. 
 985, 988, 999, 1002, 
 ,1010,1013,1015,1019, 
 , 1023, 1026, 1027, 1033, 
 , 1056, 10r,2, 1065, 1068, 
 , 1076, 1082, 1084, 1098, 
 ,1103,1112,1118,1119, 
 ,1142,114:3,1144,1151, 
 , 115S, llt;4, 1165, 1170, 
 , 11S3, 1191, 1194, 1196, 
 , 1202, 1203, 1204, 1205, 
 , 1219, 1225, 1233, 1235, 
 , 1254, 1259, 1269, 1270, 
 ,1279,1281,1283,1285, 
 ,1290,1291, 1301,1308, 
 , 1318, 1326, 1327, 1328, 
 ,1338,1:341,1342,1357, 
 . 1368, 1370. 1378, 1386. 
 ,1:396,1398,1408.14(19. 
 , 1426, 14-30, 144:3. 144S. 
 , 1458, 1463. 1468, 1469. 
 14<4, 14>(\ 148S, 14S9, 
 1521.1527.1528,15:32, 
 15,52. 1555, 1565, 1566, 
 157^1579,1581,1586. 
 1594.1595,1598,1605. 
 1619,1626,1630,1635, 
 1644,1649,1653,1656, 
 1674,1681,1684,1685, 
 1696,1698.1700.1701, 
 170s. ITU. 1720, 1722, 
 173^.1744. 1745, 1746, 
 1762. 1763, 1769, 1778, 
 1790.1797.1798.1801, 
 130.\ l>ii3. 1^09, 1812, 
 1829,1835,1838,1841, 
 1848,1850. 1854,1855, 
 1869.1870,1871,1879, 
 1890. 1891,1893,1894, 
 1899,1905,1907,1911, 
 1925,1929,1930,193:3, 
 1945,1946,1958,1959, 
 1980,1982,1983,1987, 
 2005, 2006,2010,2011. 
 2017,2022,2023,2027, 
 
 , 691, 
 
 , 750, 
 , 777, 
 , 808, 
 , 830, 
 , 866, 
 , 909, 
 , 940, 
 , 983, 
 1004, 
 1020, 
 10:34, 
 1071, 
 1099, 
 li;39, 
 1153, 
 1176. 
 1198, 
 1207. 
 1242. 
 1272, 
 1286. 
 1809, 
 1332, 
 1359. 
 1388, 
 1415^ 
 1451. 
 1470. 
 14911. 
 15:33, 
 1567, 
 1587. 
 1614. 
 1641. 
 1662. 
 1689, 
 1706, 
 1726. 
 1754, 
 1782, 
 1802. 
 1816, 
 1843. 
 1857, 
 ISSl, 
 1895, 
 1912. 
 1942, 
 1961, 
 1993, 
 2012. 
 2030, 
 
 2036, 2039, 2040, 2044, 2045, 2052, 
 2061, 2066, 2070, 2078, 2082, 2098, 
 2099, 2106, 2107, 211 1, 2114, 2116, 
 2118, 21 19. 2120, 2126, 2130, 2132, 
 2133. 21:37. 
 
 Sheffield, John [Duke of 
 Butkinghamshirej. b. 1649; 
 d. 17-20. —918, 2122. 
 
 Shelley, Percy Bysshe. b. 
 near Horsham, tug., 1792 ; 
 drowned in the Gulf of Spezia, 
 Italy, 1822.-442, 502, 588,596, 
 683. 899. 1024, 1294, 1363, 1503, 
 1823, 1928, 1991,2008. 
 
 Shenstone, William. b. 
 Leasowes, Eng., 1714 ; d. Lea- 
 sowe?. Eng .17<;3. — 987, 17:36. 
 
 Sheridan, Richard Brinsley 
 Butler, b. Dublin, Ireland, 
 1751 ; d. London. Eng., 1816.— 
 2121. 
 
 Shirley, Janaes. b. London, 
 Eng., 1594; d. London, Eng., 
 1666.-23. 
 
 Sidney, Sir Philip, b. Pens- 
 hurst. Eng., 1554: d. Arnheim, 
 Holland, 1586. - 1728. 
 
 Sigourney, Lydia Huntley. 
 b. Korwich, Conn., 1791; 
 d. Hartford, Conn., 1863.— 
 1253, 
 
 Smith, Alexander, b. Kil- 
 marnock, Scot., 1830; d. 
 Wardie. Scot., 1867. — 572, 
 1163. 1429. 
 
 Smith, James, b. London, 
 Eng., 1775; d. London, Eng., 
 1839.- 1676. 
 
 Smith, Samuel Francis, b. 
 Boston. Mass., 1808; d. 1895. 
 — 1315. 
 
 Smollett, Tohias George, b, 
 near Kenton, Eng., 1721 ; d. 
 Leghorn. Italy, 1771. -975. 
 
 Southey, Robert, b. Bristol, 
 Eng., 1774; d. Cumberland, 
 Ens-., 1843.-147. 974, 2002. 
 
 Spenser, £dmund. b. Lon- 
 don. En?., 1553 ; d. London, 
 Eng., 1599. — 125, 302. 421, 510, 
 55.5. 998. 1011. 1120. 1181, 1224, 
 1264. 1540. 1719. 1882. 
 
 Sprague, Charles, b. Boston,
 
 330 
 
 indp:x to authors. 
 
 Mass., 1791 ; d. Boston, Mass.. 
 1875.-1249. 
 
 Stedinan, Kdiuund Clar- 
 ence. I). Hartford, (Oriti., 
 ISW; d. lyo*. — 2%, G'25, 10:39. 
 
 Stevens, George Alexaiuler. 
 b. London, Eng., 1720 ; d. 17»4. 
 
 Stevenson, Robert Loiiis 
 Balfour. b. Edinbur-,'!), 
 Scot., ls.")(l; d. Island of 
 iSainoa. 1894. — 1(16, l^, 258, 
 915. 1257. IS 1 9. 2065. 
 
 Stoddard. Richard Henry. 
 b Hinghain. Mass., 1625; d. iyo3. 
 — 54. 12S. .Sio. 741, 1101, 1,5:39. 
 
 Story, Joseph. b. Marble- 
 head, Mass., 1779; d. Cam- 
 bridire, Mass., 1>45.— 1:377. 
 
 Suckling, Sir John. b. Whit- 
 t<;n. EnfT., l(lt,'5-'J; d. Paris, 
 France, 1G41-2. —4(57, t>40, 1 122. 
 
 Swift, Jonathan, b. Dabliii. 
 Ireland, 1()(J7 ; d. Dublii. 
 Ireland, 1745.-719, 721, 'JO:!. 
 1(10."). 
 
 Swinburne, Algernon 
 Charles. b. llolmwooil, 
 Eujr., 18:37 ;.... — 1097. 
 
 Taylor, Bayard, b. Kennett 
 Sq., Penn., 1S25 ; d. Berlin, 
 Ger.. 1S7S. — 476. 1044, lOSS, 
 1S1:3, 188'^. 2()()8. 
 
 Taylor, Sir Henry, b. Dur- 
 ham, Eng., 1800; d. 1886.— 
 449. 
 
 Taylor, Jane. b. London, 
 Eng., 178:3 ; d. Ongar, Esse.x- 
 shire, 1824.-1189. 
 
 Tennyson, Alfred, b. 8om- 
 ersbv, Eng., 1810; d. 1892.— 
 151, "166, 172, 246, 292. 319, 325, 
 3:33, 3:38, 584, 606, 626, 6:30, 648, 
 661, 779, 820, 881, 900, 927, 95:3, 
 1032, 1040, 1093, 1117, iVK, 
 1293, 1374, 1387, 1461, 14(i2, 
 1607, 1699, 1711, 1771, 17^(;, 
 1826, 1876. 1902, 2131. 
 
 Thaxter, Celia Leighton. 
 b. I'ortsmouth, N.ll., 1S35 ; d. 
 ls'.»4. — 197(5. 
 
 Thomas, Frederick Will- 
 
 iam, b. Providence, R.I., 
 
 1^11 : d. 1866.-10. 
 
 Thomson, Jantes. b. Ednam, 
 Seot., 1700; (1. Kew, Eng., 
 1748. —:36, 339, :22, 622, 693, 
 752, 913, 951, 959, 1206, 1343, 
 1479, 1480, 1545, 17sO, 1785, 
 1787, 1827, 1839, 18S3, 1971, 
 20t)2. 
 
 Tickell, Thomas. b. near 
 Carlisle, Eng., 1686; d. Bath, 
 Kng., 1740. — 1560. 
 
 Tobin, John. b. Salisbury, 
 Eng., 1770; d. 1804. —427. 
 
 Toplady, Augustus Mon- 
 tague, b. Surrey, Eng., 1640 ; 
 d. 177S. — 1523. 
 
 Trumbull, John. b. Leba- 
 non, (.'onn., 175(1 ; d. New York 
 ("ity, l>:il.— bC>4. 
 
 Tupper, Martin Farquhar. 
 b. London, Eng., IblO ; d. 
 lsy>. — 151:!, 1922. 
 
 Tusser, Thomas, b. Kiveii 
 liall, Eng., 1515-23*; d. London. 
 Eng., 1550. —324. 
 
 Usteri, Johann 3Iartin. b. 
 
 Zurich, Switzerland. 1763 ; d. 
 1827.-1898. 
 
 Vaughan, Henry, b. Breck- 
 nockshire, Wales, 1621 ; d. 
 1695.-706, 1148, 1464, 1952. 
 
 Wade, J. A. b. 1800 ; d. 1875. 
 — 1>56. 
 
 Waller, Edmund, b. Coles- 
 iiill, Eng., 1605; d. Beacons- 
 field, Eng., 1687.-63, 81,230, 
 852. 1657. 
 
 Walton. Izaak. b. StaflFord, 
 Eiii:., lo<»:3; d. 1C.8;3. — 1457. 
 
 Warton, Thomas, b. liasing- 
 stoke, Eng., 1728 ; d. 1790. —92. 
 
 Watts, Isaac, b. South Hamp- 
 ton. Eng., 1674; d. Theobalds, 
 Eng., 1748.-672, 882. 1223, 
 155y. 1570, 1737, 1972, 2021. 
 
 Webster, John. b. circa 
 .1570; d. 16:38.-10(56, 1795. 
 
 White, Henry Kirke. b. 
 Nottingham, Eng., 1785; <1.
 
 IXDEX TO AUTHORS. 
 
 Cambridge, Eng., 1806. — 26S, 
 401. 
 
 Whitman, Walt. b. Long 
 Island, N.Y., 1>19 ; d. 1692. 
 — 2M. 
 
 Whittier, John Greenleaf. 
 b. Haverhill, Mass., I>u7 ; d. 
 1^92. —5:3-2, 637, TO<J. 772. 1149, 
 1177. 1252, 1355, 1376, 196(3. 
 
 Willis, Nathaniel Parker. 
 b. Portland, Me., 1S07; d. Idle- 
 wild. X.Y.. n67. — 1135, 204S. 
 
 Winter, William, b. Glou- 
 cester. Mass., 1S36; ... . — 76. 
 
 Wither, George, b. Brent- 
 worth, En?., 1.3SS; d. London, 
 En ST.. 1067: — 270, 2076. 
 
 Wolfe, Charles, b. Dublin, 
 Ireland. 1791 ; d. Cove of Cork, 
 1S23. — 202S. 
 
 Woodworth. Samuel. b. 
 Scituate. Mass., 17>5: d. New 
 York City, 1>42. — 244. 
 
 Wordsworth, William, b. 
 
 Cockermouth, Eng., 1770; d. 
 iJvdal Mount, Eng., ISoO. — 
 34, 01, 16:3, 174, 17^, 206, 256, 
 274, 301, 309, 473, 4t>7, 523, 527, 
 571, 593, 662, 743, 757, 769, 806, 
 822, 8^34, 917, 937. 947, 958, 968, 
 970, 1022, 1042, 1096, 11S6, 1324, 
 1353, 1366, 1381, 1432, 1446, 
 145:3, 1520, 1526, 1530, 1627, 
 im2, 16=34, 1660, 1753, 1767, 
 1774. 17S1, 17>4, 1807, 1815, 
 1>75, 19.^3. 2007. 2124. 
 Wotton, Sir Henry. b. 
 Boughton Malherbe, Eng., 
 156S ; d. Eaton, Eng., 1039. — 
 1116, 1715. 
 
 Young, Edward, b. Upham, 
 Eng., 16>1 ; d. Welwvn, Eng., 
 1765. —48. 57. 115, 179, 184,36:3, 
 404. 4:34. 494, 525, 561, 980, 1070, 
 13S5, 1410, 1455, 1465, 1471, 
 1602, 1729, 1763, 1810, 1860, 
 186S, 1918, 1956, 2071, 2079.
 
 INDEX TO QUOTATIONS. 
 
 The references designate the numhers of the Quotations. 
 
 Abbots, purple as their wines, 2. 
 Abdiel, so spake the seraph, 4. 
 Absence conquers love, 10. 
 
 of occupation is not rest, 960. 
 
 whole years in, to deplore, 8. 
 Abstinence, the defensive virtue, 
 
 11. 
 Abyss, beyond is all, C28. 
 Accident, by many a happy, 16. 
 
 the unthouffht-on. 13. 
 Accidents by flood and tield, 14. 
 
 our wanton, take root, 15. 
 Account, sent to m\^, IT. 
 Accounts, draw the', of evil. 3SS. 
 Acquaintance, should auld, be 
 
 forgot, 20. 
 Acting of a dreadful thing, 437. 
 Action, of everv noble, the in- 
 tent, 22. 
 
 pleasure and, make the hours 
 seem short. 21. 
 Actions of the just, 23. 
 Acts, our, our angels are, 16.55. 
 Adam dolve and Eve span, 793. 
 
 the goodliest man. 631. 
 
 whipped the offending, 389. 
 Adieu, my native shore, 31. 
 
 she cried, 32. 
 Admiration, season your, for a 
 
 while, 33. 
 Adorning with so much art, 479. 
 Adversary, a stony, 446. 
 Adversite, fortunes sharpe. 40. 
 Adversity, bruised with, 38. 
 
 sweet are the uses of 37. 
 Advice, danger to give, to kings, 
 42. 
 
 't was good, 44. 
 
 worst men often give the 
 best. 43. 
 
 Affectation, with a sickly mien, 
 
 45. 
 Affection is a coal that must be 
 
 cooled, 47. 
 Affliction is enamored of thy 
 parts, 255. 
 is the good man's shi .ng 
 
 scene, 43. 
 tries our virtue, 49. 
 Affliction's sons are brothers in 
 
 distress, 242. 
 Affronts, voung men soon give, 
 
 50. ' 
 Age cannot -vnther her, .55. 
 I must not tell my, 58. 
 rock the cradle of', 4;32. 
 when, is in, wit is out, 51. 
 Agent, trust no. 279. 
 Ages, alike all, 466. 
 Aim, failed in the high, 65. 
 Air, tlie, a chartered libertine, 66. 
 Alacrity in sinking, 67. 
 Ale, drink of Adam's, 69. 
 
 the spicy nut-brown, 6^. 
 Alexandrine, a needless, 70. 
 Alone on a ^vide sea, 71. 
 Amazement on thy mother sits, 
 
 72. 
 Amber, to observe the forms in, 
 
 73. 
 Ambition finds such joy, 78. 
 fling away, 74. 
 has but one reward, 76. 
 to reign is worth, 77. 
 which o'erleaps itself, 75. 
 America, half-brother of the 
 
 world, 79. 
 Anarch, thy hand, great, 478. 
 Anarchy, hold eternal, SO. 
 Ancient of days, 116.
 
 t40 
 
 INDEX TO QUOTATIONS. 
 
 Angels ci>me and po, 84. 
 lackey her, 30(1. 
 wliere, fear to tread, S3. 
 Angels' visits, short and far be- 
 tween, S.*i. 
 Anger never made good guard, 
 
 ST. 
 Anger's my meat, 86. 
 Angling, the pleasantest, 89. 
 
 wagered on your, S9. 
 Anna, here thou* great, 411. 
 Anti()uitv, wavs «f hoar, 92. 
 Apathy, "in lazy, 93. 
 Apollo's laurel bough, 213. 
 Apostles would have done. 176. 
 Apostolic blows and knocks, 
 
 574. 
 Apparel, fashion wears out more, 
 
 67S. 
 oft proclaims the man, 94. 
 Apparition, a lovely, 527. 
 Apparitions, like, seen and gone, 
 
 95. 
 Appearances to save, his only 
 
 care, 98. 
 Appetite, good digestion wait on, 
 
 99. 
 grown by what it fed on, 
 
 46. 
 stands cook. 100. 
 Applaud to the very echo, 101. 
 Applause, attentive to his own, 
 
 •27(). 
 of listening senates, 103. 
 oh, popular, 102. 
 Apples, since Eve ate, 553. 
 
 small choice in rotten, 316. 
 April cold with dropping rain, 
 
 105. 
 Aprile has fairly come, 106. 
 Aprille, with his shoures sote, 
 
 104. 
 Arabs, fold their tents like the, 
 
 1SS9. 
 Arch, look on its broken, 1716. 
 Arguing, in, the parson owned 
 
 his skill. 107. 
 Argument, height of this great, 
 
 1399. 
 Arms on armor clashing, 381. 
 Arrow, shot mine, o'er the house, 
 
 241. 
 swifter than, 1845. 
 
 Art is the child of Nature, 110. 
 Nature is but, 2s9. 
 O man, is thine alone, 109. 
 Artist, in framing an. 111. 
 Aspect, with grave, he rose, 112. 
 Aspiration lifts him from the 
 
 earth. 113. 
 Assurance double sure, I '11 make, 
 
 114. 
 Asters, purple, nod, 130. 
 Atheist, bv night an. half believes 
 
 a God, 115. 
 Athena, august. 116. 
 Athens, the eye of Greece. 117. 
 Attachment to the wvll-kiiown 
 
 place, 914. 
 Attempt and not the deed. IIS. 
 Auburn, sweet, 2003. 
 August round her precious gifts 
 
 is Hinging, 121. 
 Aurora, fair daughter of the 
 
 dawn, 122. 
 Author, no, ever spared a brother, 
 
 124. 
 Authority, drest in a little brief, 
 
 126. 
 Authors steal their works, 123. 
 Autumn in the misty morn. 131. 
 succeeds, a sober, tepid age, 
 
 1610. 
 who may yiaint thee, 128. 
 wins you best, 129. 
 Avarice, a good old-gentlemanly 
 
 vice. 133. 
 creeping on, 409. 
 old men sicken of, 134. 
 Awkward, embarrassed, stiff, 135. 
 
 Bacchus with pink eyne, 2006. 
 Backward, turn backw.ard, 313. 
 Balances, Jove lifts the golden, 
 
 136. 
 Ball, I saw her at a county, 137. 
 Banishment, bitter bread "of, 138. 
 Banner with the strange device, 
 
 141. 
 Banners, all thy, wave, 142. 
 
 hang out our, 140. 
 Bard, blind, on Chian strand, 143. 
 Bark, fatal and perfidious, 456. 
 Battle line, our far-flung, 744, 
 
 rages loud and long, 149. 
 
 who in life's, 194.
 
 INDEX TO QUOTATIONS. 
 
 141 
 
 Beams athwart the sea, 151. 
 Bear, rugged Russian, 414. 
 Beard, his tawny, 15;3. 
 
 was as white as snow, 152. 
 Beast, that wants discourse of 
 
 reason, 154. 
 Beauty, a thing of, is a joy, 159. 
 
 cost her nothing, 65S. 
 
 draws us with a single hair, 
 162. 
 
 dwells in deep retreats, 163. 
 
 is a vain and doubtful good, 
 156. 
 
 is its own excuse, 161. 
 
 needs not the flourish of 
 praise, 155. 
 
 stands in the admiration, 157. 
 Bed, in, we laugh, 1(34. 
 
 the, was made, "iSS. 
 Bees, murmuring of innumer- 
 able, 166. 
 Beggars, mounted, 167. 
 
 when, die. 16S. 
 Beggary, impotent and snail- 
 paced, 524. 
 Behavior, upon his good, 169. 
 Belial, sons of, 170. 
 Bell, merrj' as a marriage, 651. 
 
 the Sabbath, 1546. 
 Bells, mellow wedding, 173. 
 
 ring out, wild, 172. 
 
 those evening, 171. 
 Bethlehem, hail to the king of, 
 
 321. 
 Birds in their little nests, 672. 
 Birth is but a sleep, 173. 
 Birthday, a day that rose, ISO. 
 Bivouac of the dead, 181. 
 Blasphemy in the soldier, 1S2. 
 Blessedness, dies in single, 2SS. 
 Blessings brighten as they take 
 their flight, 1S4. 
 
 wait on virtuous deeds, 1S5. 
 Blind among enemies, 187. 
 Bliss which centres in the mind, 
 
 1S9. 
 Blood, a drop of manly, 191. 
 
 flesh and, so cheap, 229. 
 
 is a juice of special kind, 192. 
 
 when the, burns, 190. 
 Boat, swiftly glides the bonniw. 
 
 19S. 
 Body, upon my burned, 598. 
 
 Bond, I '11 have my, 200. 
 Bones, come to lay his, among 
 ye, 56. 
 cursed be he that moves my, 
 
 201. 
 flesh hacked from, 709. 
 rattle his, over the stones, 
 
 202. 
 thy, are raarrowless, 795. 
 Book, a, rare one, 2o3, 
 Books are a world, 206. 
 
 cannot always please, 205. 
 deep versed'in, 207. 
 in the running brooks, 37. 
 many, are wearisome, 1439. 
 some, are lies, 2o3. 
 the best companions, 204. 
 Bore, sound that ushers in a, 
 
 210. 
 Bores and bored, the, 209. 
 Borrower, neither a, nor a lender 
 
 be, 211. 
 Borrowing dulls the edge of h'js- 
 
 bandry, 211. 
 Boston, solid men of, 212. 
 Bound, there 's nothing but hath 
 
 his, 214. 
 Bounty, large was his, 216. 
 
 no winter in 't, 215. 
 Bourn no traveller returns, 777. 
 Bowers, lodged in thy living, 
 
 1952. 
 Boys, scrambling, outfacing, fash- 
 
 ion-monging, 223. 
 Braes, we twa hae run about the, 
 
 222. 
 Brains, steal away their, 587. 
 when the, were out, 224. 
 Branch, cut is the, 213. 
 Brave deserves the fair, 226. 
 how sleep the, 227. 
 more, to live, 225. 
 on, ye, 359. 
 Bravest are the tenderest, 476. 
 Breach, once more unto the, 22S 
 Bread, crammed with distressful 
 1490. 
 should be so dear, 229. 
 Breast, calm the troubled, 231. 
 Breath. ?ood man vields bis, 
 
 232. 
 Rreeohes are so queer, 233. 
 Breezes of the South, 234.
 
 342 
 
 IXDKX TO QUOTATIONS. 
 
 Brevity is very pood, 236. 
 
 the soul of wit, 2S^k 
 Bride in her bloom, 23S. 
 Bridf;e ofsi^'lis, 1993. 
 
 tiiat arched the Hood, 239. 
 Brook, a, comes stealing, 240. 
 Brookside, I wandered by the, 
 
 2041. 
 Brother, be not over-exquisite, 
 
 90. 
 Bubbles, the earth hath, 243. 
 Bucket, old oaken, 241. 
 Bud is on the bough, 245. 
 Bufrle, blow, 240. 
 Bully, like a tall, 358. 
 Buttercups, the children's dower, 
 
 251. 
 Butterflv, a mere court, 419. 
 
 I 'd"be a, 21S. 
 
 Caesar, dead and turned to clay, 
 253. 
 the word of, 253. 
 Calamity, thou art wedded to, 
 
 265. 
 Caledonia, stern and wild, 1052. 
 Calendar, accursed in the, 454. 
 Caliban, sweet eyes at, 407. 
 Calumny will sear Virtue, 257. 
 Camel to thread a needle's eye, 
 
 550. 
 Candle, did not see the, 867. 
 hold their f-irlhing, 303. 
 throws his beams, 259. 
 Cannons spit torth their indigna- 
 tion, 201. 
 Canteen, we have drunk from 
 
 the same, 756. 
 Captain, boisterous, of the sea, 
 205. 
 mv, our fearful trip is done, 
 '204. 
 Caravanserai, God's greon, 258. 
 Care keei)s his watch, 2(;6. 
 pursue: its victim, 208. 
 that is entered once, 207. 
 to our coffin adds a nail, 269. 
 will kill a cat, 270. 
 Cat, a harmless, nc-cfssar\', 272. 
 care will kill a, 270. 
 will mew, 278. 
 Catalogue, go for men in the, 575. 
 Cataract haunted me, 274. 
 
 Caterpillars of the Common- 
 wealth, 417. 
 Cato, give his senate laws, 276. 
 Cattle, call (lie, home, 277. 
 Cause, little shall I grace my, 278. 
 Caverns measureless to man, 
 
 2&>2. 
 Censure from a foe, 285. 
 take each man's, 41. 
 Ceremony was but devised, 2S0. 
 Cervantes smiled Spain's chivalry 
 
 away, 315. 
 Chamber, come to the bridal, 493. 
 Chance, all, direction, 289. 
 dark idolater of, 1584. 
 grasps the skirts of, 833. 
 l)ower men call, 288. 
 Change, fear of, perplexes mon- 
 archs, Oo7. 
 itself can give no more, 291. 
 ringing grooves of, 292. 
 Chaos, black, comes again, 293. 
 eldest night and, 80. 
 of thouglit and passion, 294. 
 Character in tliy life, 295. 
 Charitv, alas for the rarity of, 
 298. 
 fulfils the law, 297. 
 Charm, the, by sages often told, 
 
 401. 
 Charms strike the sight, 299. 
 Chastity, saintly, 800. 
 Chattertou, the marvellous boy, 
 
 801. 
 Chaucer, well of Knglish, 302. 
 Cheek, fed on her damask, 374. 
 
 o'er her warm, 193. 
 Cherubim s, still quiring to the, 
 
 1708. 
 Chickens, count their, 805. 
 Child, a thankless, 985. 
 
 is father of the man, 809. 
 Childhood, the scenes of mv, 
 
 145:1 
 Children are the keys of Para- 
 dise, 310. 
 gathering i)ebbles, 312. 
 if the, were no more, 307. 
 Chime, faintly as tolls the even- 
 ing, 314. 
 Chivalry, charge with all thy, 142. 
 Choice, follow thou thy, 317. 
 goes by forever, 514.
 
 INDEX TO QUOTATIONS. 
 
 343 
 
 Choler, room to yonr rash, 318. 
 Christ, ring in the, 172. 
 
 the one great word, 322. 
 
 was born across the sea, 320. 
 
 went agin war, 323. 
 Christians have burnt each other, 
 
 176. 
 Christmas comes but once a year, 
 324. 
 
 hearth, holly round the, 325. 
 
 keep our, merrv, 327. 
 
 tide, bright be thy, 326. 
 
 't was the night before, 328. 
 Church, what is a, 330. 
 
 who builds a, 329. 
 Churchyards, when, yawn, 894. 
 Circle of the golden j^ear, 151. 
 Citadel, a towered, 334. 
 Citizens, before man made us, 
 
 335. 
 City, Cain, the first, made, 786. 
 
 ' one who, in, pent, 336. 
 Clay, blind his soul with. 338. 
 Cleopatra, since, died, 145. 
 CliflF, as some tall, 341. 
 Clime, cold m, are cold in blood. 
 
 352. 
 Climes bevond the western main, 
 
 342." 
 Cloake, take thine old, 343. 
 Clock worn out. 344. 
 Cloud that 's dragonish, 1689. 
 Clouds are angels' robes, 343. 
 
 heavy with storms, 346. 
 
 hooded, like friars, 150. 
 
 on the western side, 347. 
 
 trailing, of glory, 743. 
 Clown, thou art inated with a, 
 
 953. 
 Coach, go call a, 349. 
 Cock, the early village, 350. 
 Coincidence, a strange, 351. 
 Cold, 't is bitter, 353. 
 Coliseum, while stands the, 354. 
 Colossus, like a, 355. 
 Columbia, to glory arise, 357. 
 Column, where London's, 358. 
 Combat, the, deepens, 359. 
 Comfort comes too late, 361. 
 Commandments, set my ten, 362. 
 Commentators each dark passage 
 
 shun, 363. 
 Communion with the skies, 365. 
 
 Companions, I have had, Sll. 
 Compass, I mind my, 369. 
 Complexion, mislike me not for 
 
 ray, 372. 
 Compulsion, sweet, in music. 
 
 373. 
 Concealment, like a worm, 874. 
 Conceit in weakest bodies strong- 
 est works, 375. 
 liSs in his hamstring, 27. 
 what are they in their, 249. 
 Conclusion, a foregone. 376. 
 Condition is not the thing, 188. 
 Conflict, dire was the noise of, 
 
 381. 
 more fierce the, grew, 147. 
 through the heat of, 256. 
 Confusion on thy banners wait, 
 
 382. 
 worse confounded, 383. 
 Conquerors that war against your 
 
 own aftections, 1626. 
 Conquest's crimson ^^'ing, 385. 
 Conscience does make cowards, 
 
 386. 
 into what abyss, 387. 
 of the king, 1341. 
 the, rarely gnaws, 388. 
 Conscious stone to beauty grew, 
 
 247. 
 Consideration like an angel came, 
 
 389. 
 Consistencv wuz a part of his 
 
 plan,'391. 
 Consolation, grief is crowned 
 
 with, 390. 
 Conspiracies no sooner should be 
 
 formed, 893. 
 Constancy lives in realms above, 
 
 395. 
 Consummation devoutly to be 
 
 wished, 396. 
 Consumption's ghastly form, 498. 
 Contemplation and valor formed, 
 
 397. 
 Contempt, contemptible to shun, 
 
 898. 
 Content can soothe, 401. 
 
 commends me to mine own, 
 
 400. 
 Contest, great, follows, 408. 
 Convents bosomed deep in vines, 
 
 2.
 
 344 
 
 INDEX TO QUOTATIONS. 
 
 Conversation, in, boldness bears 
 swav, 199. 
 skill of, lies in, 404. 
 Copse, ne^ir yonder, 340. 
 Corruiition is a tree, 408. 
 milling ail within, 528. 
 shall delupe all, 409. 
 Counsel, bosom up my, 410. 
 Countenance will change to vir- 
 tue, 1357. 
 Country, God made the, 1937. 
 left our, for our country's 
 
 good, 413. 
 my, 'tis of thee, 1315. 
 the undiscovered, 217. 
 Court melted into one whisper, 
 
 1580. 
 Courtesv, that fine sense which 
 
 inen call, 420. 
 Courtier,, not a, hath a heart, 418. 
 Coward, call him a slanderous, 
 521. 
 never on himself relies, 428. 
 Cowards, common men are, 1513. 
 conscience does make, 3S6 
 die many times, 426. 
 Cowslips wan, 429. 
 Coxcombs, some made, 430. 
 vanquish Berkeley, 431. 
 Crack of doom, 577. 
 Cradle of reposing age, 432. 
 Cradles rock us nearer to the 
 
 tomb, 179. 
 Creation sleeps, 434. 
 Creatures, millions of spiritual, 
 
 1733 
 Credit, blest paper, 435. 
 Cricket, thou winter, 12. 
 Critical, I am nothing if not, 439. 
 Critics I saw, that names deface, 
 
 440. 
 Crocus, the yellow, 321. 
 Cromwell, damned to everlasting 
 fame, G71. 
 our chief of men, 441. 
 Cross, the, leads generations on, 
 
 442. 
 Crown, a fruitless, 444. 
 I give away my, 3. 
 likeness of a kingly, 445. 
 Crutch, shoulders his, 7o7. 
 Cupid is a casuist, 44s. 
 is painted blind, 447, 
 
 Cure for life's ills, 449. 
 Curfew tolls the knell, 450. 
 Curiosity, that low vice, 451, 
 ("urls, shakes his ambrosial, 452. 
 Current, take the, when it serves, 
 
 45:3. 
 ('urs, like to village, bark, 1200. 
 Cnrses, mouth-honor, breath, 455. 
 Custom calls me to it, 458, 
 
 that monster, 459. 
 Cut, unkindest, of all, 1982. 
 Cygnet to this pale faint swan, 
 
 754. 
 
 DaflFadills, we weep to see, 401, 
 Dagger, is this a, 462. 
 
 of the mind, 462. 
 Daisy's cheek is tipped, 463. 
 Dame, he that would win his, 423. 
 Dames of ancient days, 466. 
 Damn with foint praise, ]3(',9. 
 Damnation, deal, round the land, 
 
 464, 
 Damned use that Avord in hell, 
 
 139. 
 Damsel, a, lay deploring, 1608, 
 
 with a dulcimer, 465, 
 Dance, on with the, 469. 
 
 the Pyrrhic, 470, 
 Danger, out of this nettle, 472, 
 
 shape of, 473. 
 Dante of the dread Inferno, 474, 
 Dare do all that may become a 
 
 man, 475. 
 Darkness, all day the, 532, 
 
 bends dowii Uke a mother, 
 477. 
 
 the instruments of, 1885, 
 
 universal, buries all, 478. 
 
 visible, no light but, 895. 
 Darling of the April rain, 2009, 
 Daughter of the voice of God, 
 593, 
 
 still harping on my, 480. 
 Day, at the close of the, 485. 
 
 begins to break, 4s;3. 
 
 each, critique on the last, 260. 
 
 is done, 632, 
 
 it is a sultrv, 1819. 
 
 the kingly,'l828. 
 Days are in the yellow leaf, 486. 
 ' heavenly, that cannot die, 
 487,
 
 INDEX TO QUOTATIONS. 
 
 345 
 
 Days, nor mourn the unalter- 
 able. 791. 
 our, begin with trouble, 500. 
 thirty, hath September, 1'211. 
 Death, a necessary end, 4SS. 
 
 a strange, delicious amaze- 
 ment, 49S. 
 all seasons for thine own, 
 
 496. 
 came with friendly care, 979. 
 close following, 492. 
 Cometh soon or late, 49.5. 
 cruel, is always near, 500. 
 dread of something after, 777. 
 his, calcined thee to dust, 
 
 602. 
 how wonderful is, 502. 
 in itself is nothing, 504. 
 is beautiful, 50-3. 
 lies on her, 490. 
 loves a shining mark, 494. 
 lurks in every flower, 501. 
 only kind to mortals, 497. 
 rides on everv passing breeze, 
 
 501. 
 there is no, 499. 
 thou art sweet, 778. 
 though, be poor, 491. 
 't is, to me to be at enmity, 
 617. 
 Death's untimely frost, 773. 
 
 voice sounds like a prophet's, 
 904. 
 Debts, call our old, in, 388. 
 Decay's effacing fingers, 506. 
 Deceit should steal such gentle 
 
 shapes, 503. 
 December, came the chill, 510. 
 Decency, want of, 512. 
 Deed, so shines a good, 2.59. 
 Deeds, easy to beget great. 516. 
 
 excused his devilish, 515. 
 Deep where Holland hes, 517. 
 Defence, at one gate, to make, 
 
 520. 
 Delav leads impotent beggarv, 
 
 " 524. ^ ■ 
 
 Deliberation, deep on his front 
 
 engraven, .526. 
 Denmark, something is rotten in, 
 
 529. 
 Deputy, this outward-sainted, 
 955. 
 
 Desert, where no life is found, 
 
 5.33. 
 Desire, bloom of young, 193. 
 liveth not in fierce, 535. 
 Desjjair defies even despotism, 
 537. 
 then black, 538. 
 Despotism, despair defies even, 
 
 537. 
 Destiny, shady leaves of, 541. 
 Detractions, they that hear their, 
 
 543. 
 Devil, abashed the, stood, 1. 
 the, builds a chapel, 8S4. 
 can cite scripture, 1422. 
 has the largest congregation, 
 
 3St. 
 laughing, in his sneer, 878. 
 sends cooks, 406. 
 temptation of the, 1886. 
 was sick, the, 546. 
 Dew, resolve itself into a, 722. 
 Dial, true as the, to the sun, 
 
 549. 
 Die, we must all, 1231. 
 Dies, nothing, but something 
 
 mourns, 1232. 
 Digestion, good, wait on appetite, 
 
 99. 
 Diirression, there began a lang, 
 
 552. 
 Dinner, much depends on, 553. 
 Discontent, the winter of our, 
 
 2061. 
 Discord, brayed horrible, 381. 
 effects from civil, 556. 
 oft in music, 555. 
 Discourse, Avith such large, 557. 
 Discretion, not to outsport, 558. 
 
 the best part of valor, 559. 
 Diseases, desperate grown, 560. 
 Disguise, 't is manly to disdain, 
 
 561. 
 Disobedience, of man's first. 563. 
 Disposition, a verv melancholv, 
 
 565. 
 Dispute, could we forbear, 63. 
 Distance lends enchantment, 570. 
 Diver did hang a salt-fish, 89. 
 Divinitv that shapes our ends, 
 
 573. 
 Doctor Fell, I do not love thee, 
 562.
 
 346 
 
 INDEX TO QUOTATIONS. 
 
 Dogr, I 'd rather be a, 237. 
 
 will have his day, 273. 
 Dogs of war, let slip the, 1499. 
 Dolphins play, please«.l to see, 
 
 369. 
 Dome, hand that rounded Peter's, 
 
 247. 
 Dominion over palm and pine, 
 
 744. 
 Done, if it were, when 'tis, 25. 
 Doubt, modest, is called, 578. 
 Doubts, our, are traitors, 579. 
 Doves, the moan of, ItiG. 
 Drama's laws, the, 580. 
 Dream, a, so sweet, 554. 
 
 fickle as a chanfjcful, 702. 
 Dreams are a world, 20(). 
 
 are children of an idle brain, 
 5S1. 
 
 have breath and tears, 582. 
 
 glimpses of forgotten, 584. 
 
 some, are nothing but dreams, 
 583. 
 
 such stutf as, are made on, 
 1726. 
 Dress, be plain in, 585. 
 
 drains our cellar dry, 586. 
 
 we sacrifice to, 5S6. 
 Drink, give him strong, 583. 
 Drunkard, some frolic, 590. 
 Dulcimer, damsel with a, 465. 
 Dunce, a, at home, 591. 
 Dun^'eon, dweller in yon, 592. 
 Duty, if that name thou love, 
 593. 
 
 Eagle, stretched upon the plain, 
 
 594. 
 Eagle's fate and mine are one, 
 
 1657. 
 Ear, give every man thine, 41. 
 more is meant than meets 
 the, 51>5. 
 Earth doth like a snake renew, 
 596. 
 felt the wound, 597. . 
 hath bubbles, 24^3. 
 is a thief, 1521. 
 lie lightly, gentle, 593. 
 with her thousand voices, 
 599. 
 Ease, I '11 take mine, 741. 
 would recant vows, 600. 
 
 East, opening chambers of the. 
 
 1^27. 
 Echo, applaud thee to the very, 
 
 101. 
 fading from the chime, 1252. 
 waits with art, 605. 
 Echoes roll from soul to soul, 
 
 606. 
 set the wild, flying, 246. 
 Eclipse, built in the, 456. 
 
 total, without all hope of dav, 
 
 1S6. 
 Eden, through, took their solitary 
 
 way, 60S. 
 Education forms the common 
 
 mind, 609. 
 Eloquence, mother oi arts and, 
 
 117. 
 Elves, the criticising, 698. 
 Embers, glowing, through the 
 
 room, S02. 
 Embroidery, sad, wears, 429. 
 lunerson first, there comes, 611. 
 Enchantment, distance lends, 
 
 570. 
 Enemy in their mouths, 587. 
 England, model to thy inward 
 
 greatness, 616. 
 Ensign, tear her tattered, 618. 
 Enthusiasm, a moral inebrietv, 
 
 619. 
 Envy is a kind of prai.se, 610. 
 will pursue merit, 621. 
 withers at joy, 622. 
 Err, to, is human, 745. 
 Error and mistake are infinite, 
 
 405. 
 shall, father truth, 626. 
 wounded, writhes with pain, 
 
 627. 
 Eternity, thou pleasing, dreadful 
 
 thought, 629. 
 Europe, better fifty years of, 
 
 630. 
 Eve, since, ate apples, 553. 
 Events, coming, cast their shad- 
 ows before, 1390. 
 Evil, be thou my good, 634. 
 springs up, 635. 
 that men do lives, 636. 
 Exercise, the sad mechanic, 1293. 
 E.xpectation M)akes a blessing 
 
 dear, 640.
 
 INDEX TU QUOTATIONS. 
 
 347 
 
 Experience is by industry 
 achieved, 641. 
 long, luiidf hitri sage, 642. 
 Extremes in nature equal good 
 
 produce, 648. 
 Eve, let everv, negotiate for it- 
 self, 279. 
 of childhood fears a painted 
 
 devil, 545. 
 the black, the blue, 649. 
 Eves are homes of silent praver, 
 W3. 
 bright, rain influence, 9S2. 
 half defiant, 646. 
 soft, looked love, 651. 
 soul-deep, 647. 
 
 sweetest, were ever seen, 650. 
 true, too pure, 645. 
 were made for seeing, 161. 
 with a wondrous charm, 646. 
 
 Fabric, like an exhalation, 652. 
 
 like the baseless, 509. 
 Face, can't I another's, com- 
 mend, 655. 
 false, must hide, 563. 
 ne hides a shining, 656. 
 light upon her, 654. 
 that launched a thousand 
 
 ships, 1070. 
 this man, whose homely, 
 1101. 
 Face, the old familiar, 311. 
 Fair, exceeding, she was not, 
 658. 
 is foul, and foul is, 657. 
 Fairy land, this is the, 659. 
 Faith, amaranthine flower of. 602. 
 for modes of, 6t>3. 
 has centre everywhere, 661. 
 if. produce no works, 660. 
 saddest thing, to lose, 571. 
 Faithless, among the, faithful, 4. 
 Fall, he that is down needs fear 
 
 no, 664. 
 False as air, 665. 
 Falsehood, strife of Truth with, 
 
 514. 
 Fame, damned to everlasting, 
 671. 
 is double-mouthed, 667. 
 morning when I longed for. 
 
 Fame, that all hunt after, 666. 
 
 what 's. 668. 
 Fame's eternall beadroll, 302. 
 
 eternal camping-ground, 181. 
 
 proud temple shines afar, 670, 
 Families of yesterday, 1300. 
 Famine is in thy cheeks, 073. 
 Fancv, she 's all my, painted her, 
 
 '675. 
 
 where is, bred, 674. 
 Farewell, a word that must be, 
 077. 
 
 through keen delights, 676. 
 
 to thee, Araby's daughter, 
 4S1. 
 Farmers, the embattled, stood, 
 
 239. 
 Fashion wears out more apparel, 
 
 678. 
 Fate, binding Nature fast in, 682. 
 
 has wove the thread of life, 
 68:3. 
 
 take a bond of, 114. 
 
 when, summons, monarchs 
 obey, 6sO. 
 Fates, what, impose, 679. 
 Father of all, in every age, 6S5. 
 
 wise, knows his own child, 
 684. 
 Fathers, God of our, 744. 
 '. ault, condemn the, 686. 
 Faults, chide him for, 306. 
 
 in vain, my, ye quote, 688. 
 Fear, desponding, 693. 
 
 is most accursed. 692. 
 
 what should be the, 691. 
 Feasts, blest be those, 695. 
 February, slant sun of, 697. 
 Feelings, some, are to mortals 
 
 given, 893. 
 Feet beneath her petticoat, 467. 
 
 her, like snails, 699. 
 Fellow, touchy, testy, pleasant, 
 
 700. 
 Female of sex it seems. 701. 
 Fiction, by fairy, drest. 704. 
 
 rises to the eye. 703. 
 Fields, rejoice ye, 121. 
 Fiend, a frightful, 708. 
 Fight another day, 710. 
 Fire, from beds of raging. Til. 
 Firmament, now glowed the, 712. 
 
 spacious, on high, 713.
 
 348 
 
 INDEX TO QUOTATIONS. 
 
 Fish, I can, and study too, 1457. 
 Flag of the free heart's hope, 714. 
 
 the meteor, of Knfrland, 715. 
 Flame, freedom's holy, 71(). 
 
 that lit the battle's wreck, 
 717. 
 Flatter, 1 cannot, 71'^. 
 Flattery, can, soothe the ear of 
 death, 720. 
 
 the food of fools, 719. 
 Flea has sm.aller fleas, 721. 
 Flesh, this too solid. 722. 
 Flif,'ht. no thou-jrht of, 410. 
 Flood, leap into this angry, 724. 
 
 taken at the, li)12. 
 Flowers preach to us, 726. 
 
 that skirt the frost, 72S. 
 
 the gentle race of, 725. 
 
 they talk in, 727. 
 
 wither at tlie north-wind's 
 breath, 496. 
 Fly, oh could I, 366. 
 Foe, the erect, the manly, 729. 
 Folks, unhappy, on shore now, 
 
 1680. 
 Folly, if, grow romantic, 781. 
 
 lovely woman stoops to, 733. 
 Fools are ray theme, 734. 
 
 ever since the C )nquest, 736. 
 
 our scorn may raise, 620. 
 
 Paradise of, 735. 
 
 rush in where angels fear, 
 737. 
 
 to talking ever prone, 730. 
 Footprints on the sands of time, 
 
 738. 
 Fop, some fiery, 590. 
 Fops, positive, persisting, 260. 
 Force, who overcomes by, 740. 
 Forest primeval, this is the, 742. 
 Forget, lest we, 744. 
 Forgetfulness, not in entire, 743. 
 Forgive, good to. 747. 
 
 those who, most, 746. 
 Forgiveness to the injured does 
 
 belong, 1299. 
 Form of life and light, 748. 
 Forsaken, when he is, 12S2. 
 Fortitude is seen in great ex- 
 
 ploits, 749. 
 Fortune, forever, wilt thou prove, 
 7.52. 
 
 is female, 751. 
 
 Fortune keeps an upward course 
 2001. 
 stings and arrows of, 1959. 
 will, never come, 7.50. 
 Fortune's power, 1 am not now 
 
 in, 89. 
 Frailty, thy name is Woman. 753. 
 France, 'tis blotter using, 755. 
 Freedom from her mountain- 
 height, 761. 
 my angol, his name is, 759. 
 sternly said, 760. 
 thou art not a girl, 758. 
 Freedom's battle, once begun, 
 
 148. 
 Freeman whom the truth makes 
 
 free, 1965. 
 Freemen, corrupted, the worst of 
 
 slaves, 1724. 
 Friend, of every friendless name 
 the, 768. 
 oh, be my, 765. 
 save uie "from the candid, 729. 
 to thy, be true, 706. 
 Friends in youth, 395. 
 
 of humblest, scorn not one, 
 
 769. 
 remembering my good, 763. 
 thou hast, and their adoption 
 
 tried, 764. 
 two, two bodies, 767. 
 Friendships of the world, 766. 
 Front, his fair large, 770. 
 Frost and light, work of, 772. 
 fell death's untimely, 773. 
 the panes are hung with, 771. 
 Fruit, the ripest, first lalls, 774. 
 Funeral baked meats, 1907. 
 I'urrows, we see time's, 57. 
 Fury like a woman scorned, 775. 
 
 of a patient man, 776. 
 Future, trust no, 780. 
 
 Gage, there I throw my, 287. 
 Gain, play not for, 784. 
 
 unve.ved with cares of, 781. 
 Gait, I ken the manner of his, 1 13. 
 Gale, so sinks the, 7b2. 
 
 thorn that scents the even- 
 ing, 783. 
 Garden, God the first, made, 786. 
 
 where tlowers were heajted, 
 785.
 
 INDEX TO QUOTATIONS. 
 
 349 
 
 Garden, where the, smiled, 340. 
 Garret, born in the, 7S7. 
 Garrick, here lies David. 7SS. 
 Garth did not write his own Dis- 
 pensary, VIS. 
 Gem of purest ray serene. 7s9. 
 Genius commands thee, 367. 
 goes and Folly stays, 791. 
 must be born, 790." 
 Gentleman, who was then the, 
 
 79y. 
 Gentlemen, that neither envy the 
 
 great. 792. 
 Gentleness shall force, 794. 
 Ghost, like an ill-used. So. 
 
 what gentle, 54S. 
 Ghosts and forms of fright, 796. 
 Gifts are locked up in my heart, 
 798. 
 free of, that cost them noth- 
 ing, 799. 
 Girdle round the earth, 800. 
 Girls blush, sometimes, 196. 
 Gloamin, late in a. SOI. 
 Gloom, teach lisht to counterfeit 
 
 a, 802, 
 Glory, awake to, 807. 
 
 excess of, obscured, 804. 
 from defect arise, 519. 
 gilds the sacred page, 17.5. 
 go where, waits thee, 80.\ 
 greater, dim the less, 367. 
 guards with solemn round, 
 
 181. 
 is like a circle in water, 803. 
 • or the grave, 359. 
 
 pursue, and generous shame, 
 716. 
 Glow-worm shows the matin, 
 
 808. 
 Gluttonv, swinish, ne'er looks to 
 
 heaven, 809. 
 Gnat, who 's sorry for a, 196. 
 God, all but, is changing, 290. 
 alone was seen in heaven, 813. 
 an atheist half believes a, 115. 
 conscious water saw its, 814. 
 erects a house of prayer, 3S4. 
 from thee, great, we spring, 
 
 815. 
 is the perfect poet, 1351. 
 made the country, 412. 
 of our fathers, 744. 
 
 God, onlv, may be had for the ask- 
 ing, 810. 
 
 the Hfe and light, 812. 
 Goddess fair and free. 1192. 
 
 she moves a, 1417. 
 Gods arrive when half-gods go, 
 SI 7. 
 
 grow angrv with your pa- 
 tience, 10"l6. 
 
 the, detest my baseness, 145. 
 
 the, are just, 816. 
 God's love seemed lost, 531. 
 Going, the order of your, 824. 
 Gold, all that gHsters is not, 97. 
 
 can love be bought with, 2037. 
 
 crying is a cry for, 820. 
 
 cursed lust of, 819. 
 
 narrowing lust of, 172. 
 
 poison to men's souls, 818. 
 
 the lust of. 132. 
 
 to gild refined, 638. 
 Golden Rod, autumn blaze of, 130. 
 Good he scorned stalked otf, S5. 
 
 is oft interred with their 
 bones, 636. 
 
 night, at once, 824. 
 
 night, till it be morrow, 825. 
 
 night, to each a fair, 826. 
 
 the, die first, 822. 
 Goodness and he fill up one monu- 
 ment, 821. 
 Government, for forms of. 829. 
 
 makes them seem divine, 827. 
 Gowans fine, pu'd the, 222. 
 Grace bevond the reach of art, 
 S3i: 
 
 sweet attractive, 397. 
 
 was in all her steps, 551. 
 
 we have forgot, 830. 
 Grandeur with a disdainful smile, 
 
 832. 
 Grandsire, skilled in gestic lore, 
 
 466. 
 Gratitude of men, 834. 
 
 still small voice of, 833. 
 Grave, companions in the, 835. 
 
 hungry as the. 951. 
 
 men shiver when thou 'rt 
 named, 836. 
 
 sun shine sweetly on my, 837. 
 
 under the deep sea, 533. 
 Graves, find ourselves dishonor- 
 able, 355.
 
 350 
 
 INDEX TO QUOTATIONS. 
 
 Great, rightly to be, 839. 
 
 some are born, 838. 
 Greatness, highest point of all my, 
 
 838. 
 Greece, but living, no more, 842. 
 
 glory that was, ir>;51. 
 
 sad relic of dei>arted worth, 
 841. 
 
 the isles of, 843. 
 Greeks joined Greeks, 844. 
 Grief, forestall his date of, 847. 
 
 is crowned with consolation, 
 390. 
 
 my, lies onward, 845. 
 
 silent manliness of, 849. 
 
 the holy name of, 848. 
 
 what 3 gone should be past, 
 84(5. 
 Ground, haunted, holy, 850. 
 Groves, fre(|uenting sacred, 8.52. 
 
 were God's first temples, 
 1951. 
 Grudge, feed fat the ancient, 853. 
 Gudgeons, to swallow, 805, 
 Guest, welcome the coming, 8.55. 
 Guests, unbidden, 8.54. 
 Guilt, full of artless .jealousy, 856. 
 
 once harbored, 857. 
 
 Habit, costly thy, 94. 
 Habits, ill, gather by unseen de- 
 grees, 858. 
 small, well pursued, 859. 
 Hags, midnight, call fiends, 2077. 
 Hair, beauty draws us with a 
 single, 162. 
 draws you with a single, 860. 
 from his horrid, 360. 
 golden, like sunUght, 861. 
 streamed like a meteor, 863. 
 when you see fair, 802. 
 would rouse and stir, 938. 
 Hairs, his silver, 52. 
 Halter, felt the, draw, 864. 
 Hand in hand with you, 865. 
 that rounded Peter's dome, 
 
 247. 
 white, delicate, dimpled, 866. 
 Hands, now join your, 567. 
 
 that the rod of empire might 
 have swayed, 613. 
 Hanging and wiving goes by 
 destiny, 1157. 
 
 Hangman of creation, 592. 
 Happiness depends, as nature 
 shows, 868. 
 our beings end and aim, 869. 
 that luakes the heart afraid, 
 867. 
 Harm, to win us to our, 1885. 
 Harmony, from heavenly, 871. 
 
 touches of sweet, 870. 
 Harp of thousand strings, 1972. 
 
 through Tara's halls, 872. 
 Haste, let your, commend your 
 duty, 873. 
 more, worst speed, 874. 
 Hat, broad-brimmed, 875. 
 
 the old three-cornered, 233. 
 Hate me with your hearts, 876. 
 
 wounds of deadly, 877. 
 Hazards, great things are achieved 
 
 through, 19. 
 Head, here rests his, 624. 
 oh good gray, 881. 
 the wise, the reverend, 882. 
 Health, better to hunt in fields 
 for, 884. 
 with, all pleasure Hies, 883. 
 Heart bowed down by weight 
 of woe, 888. 
 incessant battery to her, 421. 
 may give a lesson, 889. 
 merry, goes all the day, 885. 
 rise, thy Lord is risen, 002. 
 she wants a, 886. 
 we cannot heal the throbbing, 
 379. 
 Hearts, great, have largest room 
 
 to bless, 84<.». 
 Heathen Chinee is peculiar, 433. 
 Heaven doth with us as we with 
 torches, 2010. 
 hath a hand in these events, 
 
 14S6. 
 is above all vet, 891. 
 is as the book of God, 892. 
 sends us good meat, 406. 
 Hecuba, what 's, to him, 977. 
 Heir, creation's, 901. 
 
 of all the ages, 900. 
 Hell, better to reign in, 576. 
 
 breathes out contagion, 894. 
 fear of, a hangman's whi[), 694. 
 grew darker at their frown, 
 896.
 
 INDEX TO QUOTATIONS. 
 
 351 
 
 Hell is a citv much like London, 
 899. 
 itself should gape, 542. 
 merit heaven by making 
 
 earth a, 898. 
 never mentions, to ears po- 
 lite, 897. 
 Heralds high before him run, 
 
 448. 
 Hero in our eyes, 903. 
 
 when his sword, 904. 
 Heroes are much the same, 902. 
 
 as great have died, 9U5. 
 Hesperus rode brightest, 1215. 
 High as we have mounted, 52a. 
 Highland Mary, spare his, 1355. 
 Hill, mine be the breezy, 837. 
 Hills of the stormy North, 907. 
 
 rock-ribbed and ancient, 906. 
 History hath but one page, 908. 
 Holidav, butchered to make a 
 
 Koman, 910. 
 Holidays, if all the year were, 909. 
 Holly round the Christmas hearth, 
 
 325. 
 Homage, no worthless pomp of, 
 
 912. 
 Home is the resort of love, 913. 
 is the sailor, 915. 
 kindred points of heaven 
 
 and, 917. 
 no place like, 91G. 
 Homer, deep-browed, 919. 
 
 seven cities warred for, 920. 
 will be all the books you 
 need, 918. 
 Homes, forced from their, 639. 
 Honest man 's the noblest 
 
 work of God, 922. 
 Honey, surfeited with, 1572. 
 Honey-bees, so work the, 105. 
 Honor and shame from no condi- 
 tion rise, 926. 
 comes, a pilgrim gray, 928. 
 rooted in dishonor, 927. 
 sinks where commerce long 
 
 prevails, 364. 
 too much, a burthen, 923. 
 travels in a strait so narrow, 
 924. 
 Honor 's a fine imaginary notion, 
 925. 
 at the stake, 839. 
 
 Hood, a page of, 929. 
 Hope abandon, ye who enter in, 
 936. 
 farewell, and farewell, fear, 
 
 634. 
 tlies with swallows' wings, 
 
 930. 
 heavenly, is all serene, 934. 
 in thy sweet garden grow, 
 
 933. 
 never comes that comes to 
 
 all, 9:35. 
 springs eternal, 932. 
 withering tied, 87S. 
 Hope's tender blossoms, 194. 
 Horn, Triton blow his wreathed, 
 
 937. 
 Horrors, on horror's head, 939. 
 
 supped full with. 938. 
 Horse, my kingdom for a, 940. 
 
 one, was blind, 1676. 
 Hospitality, doing deeds of, 332. 
 Host, leader, mingling with the 
 vulgar, 943. 
 such a numerous, 518. 
 Hounds, they rouse from sleep, 
 
 952. 
 Hour, catch the transient, 945. 
 for one short, to see the souls, 
 
 779. 
 this pernicious, 454. 
 too busy with the crowded, 
 
 944. 
 when lover's vows, 2018. 
 Hours, lovers' absent, 6. 
 House, a naked, 183. 
 
 there 's nae luck about the, 
 946. 
 Humanity, O suffering, sad, 948. 
 
 still, "sad music of^ 947. 
 Hunger best, who bears, 615. 
 Huntsman, the healthy, 952. 
 Husband, advices frae the wiff 
 despises, 954. 
 as the, is, the wife is, 953. 
 Hypocrisy, evil that walks invisi- 
 ble," 956. 
 Hypocrite had left his mark, 
 957. 
 
 Ice in June. 511. 
 
 motionless as, 958. 
 Idea, teach the young, 959. «
 
 352 
 
 INDEX TO QUOTATIONS. 
 
 Ignorance, from, our comfort 
 Hows, 962. 
 
 is the curse of God, 9fi1. 
 Ilium, topless towers of. IdTO. 
 Ills, cure for life's worst, 44lt. 
 
 the scholar's lite assail, 965. 
 Illusion is brief, 1477. 
 Image, a lasting, of the mind, 
 
 i:lv2. 
 Imagination all compact, 966. 
 
 appear so fair to, yOS. 
 
 is the air of mind, 967. 
 Immortality, thoughts boru for, 
 970. 
 
 this longing after. 969. 
 Impossible, what 's, can't be, 971. 
 Impudence, he that has but. 972. 
 Independence, let, be our boast, 
 976. 
 
 thy spirit, let me share, 975. 
 Infidel, a daring, USO. 
 Ingratitude, I hate, 933. 
 
 thou marble-hearted fiend, 
 9S4. 
 Inhumanity, man's, to man, 9S6. 
 Inn, every house was an, 942. 
 
 warmest welcome at an, 9S7. 
 Innocence, glides in modest, 
 away, 9S9. 
 
 silence of pure, 9S8. 
 Instinct and reason, how divide, 
 
 990. 
 Invention, the, all admired, 991. 
 Iron, man that meddles with cold, 
 
 992. 
 Isle In far-otf seas, 993. 
 Isles that o'erlace the sea, 994. 
 Italia, who has fatal beautv, 995. 
 Italy, my Italy. 996. 
 Ivy green, a dainty plant, 997. 
 
 January, then came old, 998. 
 Jealousy, beware, my lord, of, 
 999. 
 
 no true love without. 1000. 
 
 the injured lover's hell, 1001. 
 Jest, a scornful, 1(X»3. 
 Jest's, a, prosi)erity lies in the, 
 
 1002. 
 Jewel in an Ethiope's ear, 1004. 
 John Anderson, my jo, 1109. 
 
 some said," print "it, 13S;^>. 
 ■Joke to cure the dumps, 1005. 
 
 Jove laughs at lovers' perjuries. 
 1:327. 
 
 lifts the golden balances, 136. 
 Joy, capacity for, 1im»6. 
 
 is the mainspring. 1007. 
 Joys, how fading are the, 95. 
 
 too e.\-<iuisite to last, lOOS. 
 .ludas kissed his master, 1946. 
 Judges soon the sentence sign, 
 
 950. 
 Judgment, a Daniel come to, 1009. 
 
 reserve thy, 41. 
 
 thou art fled to brutish beasts, 
 1010. 
 
 where men of, creep, 14^^7. 
 July, boiling like to fire, 1011. 
 June, what so rare as a dav in, 
 
 1012. 
 Juries give their verdict, 1014. 
 Jury passing on the prisoner's 
 
 life, 1013. 
 Just, actions of the, 23. 
 Justice, finally, triumphs, 1017. 
 
 in fair round belly, 1015. 
 
 will o'ertake the crime, 1234. 
 
 Keys, two massy, he bore, lOlS. 
 Kin, a little more than, 1019. 
 
 makes the whole world, 1020. 
 Kindness shall win my love, 1021. 
 
 unremembered acts of, 1022. 
 Kings and mightiest potentates, 
 4S9. 
 
 are like stars, 1024. 
 
 may be blest, 964. 
 
 showers on her, barbaric 
 pearl, 1025. 
 
 what have, save ceremony, 
 1023. 
 
 wretched state of, 1539. 
 Kiss, I, your eyes, 1030. 
 
 me, and be quiet, 585, 
 
 one, and then another, 1031. 
 Kisses, plucked up, by the roots, 
 1026. 
 
 remembered after death, 1032. 
 
 sweetness shed by, 1029. 
 Kissing, for, not for contempt, 
 
 1027. 
 Kitchen, in the, bred, 7S7. 
 Knave, he 's an arrant, 1033. 
 Knaves, whip me such honest,
 
 INDEX TO QUOTATIONS. 
 
 353 
 
 Knell, by fairy hands is rung, 
 
 1035. 
 ne'er sighed at the sound of a, 
 
 1036. 
 Knowledge, be innocent of the, 
 
 1614. 
 by suffering entereth, 1039. 
 comes, but wisdom lingers, 
 
 1040. 
 is as food, 1037. 
 is ourselves to know, 1033. 
 to their eves her ample page, 
 
 1041. 
 true, leads to love, 1042, 
 
 Labor for his daily bread, 1046. 
 is prayer, 1044. 
 joy that springs from, 1045. 
 swan with bootless, swim, 
 
 1043. 
 to, is the lot of man, 1047. 
 Ladies, like variegated tulips, 
 104S. 
 sigh no more. 973. 
 Lady, accept the gift, 1751. 
 Lake, on thy fair bosom, silver, 
 
 1049. 
 Lamentation, its lonesome and 
 
 low, 536. 
 Land, my own, ray native, 1051. 
 
 of brown heath, 1051. 
 Landscape tire the view, 1053. 
 Language, fit, there is none, 1(J54. 
 
 quaint and olden. iao5. 
 Lark, the herald of the morn, 
 1056. 
 the, left his nest, 1057. 
 Larks, the early, l!?27. 
 Lass, a penniless. lU-'^S. 
 Latin, that soft bastard, 1059. 
 Laughter, holding his sides, 1060. 
 
 shakes the skies, 1061. 
 Law, in, what plea so tainted, 
 106-2. 
 sovereign, sits empress, 1064. 
 Laws grind the poor, 1063. 
 Leaf is on the tree, 245. 
 
 the sere, the yellow, 1065. 
 Learning enlightens to corrupt 
 the mind, 1069. 
 mourning for the death of, 
 
 106S. 
 oa scraps of, dote, 1070. 
 
 Leaves have their times to fall, 496. 
 
 like, on trees, 1067. 
 
 shady, of destiny, 541. 
 Letters, all dead paper, 1073. 
 
 Cadmus gave. 1075. 
 
 that betray the heart's his- 
 tory, 1074. 
 Libertv, 1 must have, 1076. 
 
 like day, breaks, 1079. 
 
 mountain nymph, sweet, 
 lOSl. 
 
 when, is gone, 1078. 
 Liberty's, in, defence, 1077. 
 
 in every blow, lOSO, 
 Lie, an odious, damned, 10S2. 
 
 nothing can need a, 10S3. 
 Life a curse and not a blessing, 
 i0S6. 
 
 bv his, alone, 637. 
 
 high, 108. 
 
 hovers like a star, 1087. 
 
 is but a span, 6<J0. 
 
 is not to be bought, 1092. 
 
 is scarce the twinkle of a 
 star. loss. 
 
 is so drearv. 536. 
 
 is the gift "of God. 1089. 
 
 nor love thy. nor hate, 1085. 
 
 pure in its purpose, 931. 
 
 sacrexi burden is this, 243- 
 
 so careless of the single, 1093. 
 
 twentv vears of, 1S16. 
 
 what IS," 1090. 
 
 whoso lives the holiest, 911. 
 Life 's a short summer, 945. 
 
 a vast sea, 1091. 
 
 but a means. 614. 
 
 but a walking shadow, 1084. 
 Light, a dim relieious, 275. 
 
 offspring of Heaven, 1094. 
 
 that led astray, 1095. 
 
 that never was, 1096. 
 
 the prime work of God, 137. 
 
 to break and melt in sunder, 
 lll*.^7. 
 Lightning, brief as the, 1098. 
 Lightnings, the rending, 1SS3. 
 Likeness, long shall we seek his, 
 
 1663. 
 Lilacs, April brings again, 105. 
 Lilies, in the beautv of the, 320. 
 
 in twisted braids of, 1100. 
 Lily, mistress of the field, 1 099,
 
 354 
 
 INDEX TO QUOTATIONS. 
 
 Line, cadence of a ragged, 252. 
 Marlowe's inif^hty, 1102. 
 marred the lofty, 1103. 
 will tlie, stretch, 577. 
 Lion, wounds the etirth, 1104. 
 Lions, talks familiarly of, 197. 
 Lips, her, are roses washed with 
 dew, 1105. 
 when mv, meet thine, 1023. 
 Little, contented with, HOG. 
 
 man wants but, 1107. 
 Lives of great men, 1'4S. 
 Loan, a, oft loses a friend, 1071. 
 Locks, never shake thy gorv, 
 
 1103. 
 Lodg^e in some vast wilderness, 
 
 2049. 
 Logic, in, a great critic, 1110. 
 London, the villain's home, 1111. 
 Longings, immortal, in me. 1112. 
 Looks, talked with, profound, 
 1114. 
 woman's, my only books, 
 1113. 
 Lord of himself, that heritage of 
 woe, 1115. 
 of himself, though not of 
 lands, 1116. 
 Loss is common, 1117. 
 Love and tears for the Blue, ls7S. 
 hail, wedded, 1160. 
 has an eye for a dinner, 1135. 
 him, why did she, 1131. 
 how could I tell I should, 
 
 1121. 
 in a hut is ashes, 1130. 
 includes heart and mind, 
 
 1127. 
 is a spirit of fire, 1119. 
 is at home on a carpet, 1135. 
 is nature's treasure, 1136. 
 is the only good, 1123. 
 let those, who never loved 
 
 before, 1125. 
 looks not with the eyes, 447. 
 man's, is a thing apart, 1133. 
 mutual, brings delight, 1124. 
 no partnership allows, 1126. 
 O last. O first. 9. 
 purple light of, 193. 
 rules the court, 1134. 
 seldom haunts the breast 
 where, 1995. 
 
 Love, she never told her, 874. 
 taught him shame, 337. 
 this spring of, 1118. 
 tO()k ui> the harp of Life, 819. 
 tunes the shepherd's reed, 
 
 1134. 
 what, can do, 1122. 
 when he draws his bow, 423. 
 Loved and lost, better to have, 
 1128. 
 80 kindly, had we never, 
 1129. 
 Loveliness needs not ornament, 
 36. 
 when unadorned, adorned 
 the most, 36. 
 Lover rooted stays, 191. 
 Loving are the daring, 476. 
 
 no pleasure like the pain of, 
 1 132. 
 Luxury, cursed by heaven, 1137. 
 it was a, to be, 1138. 
 
 Mad, I am not, 1139. 
 
 Madding crowd's ignoble strife, 
 
 44:3. 
 Madmen, the worst of, 1558. 
 Madness, moody, laughing wild, 
 1141. 
 
 must not unwatchedgo, 1140. 
 Madrigals, birds sing, 1513. 
 Mahomet, moon of, 442. 
 Maid, be good, sweet, 823. 
 Maker, our, bids increase, 234. 
 Malice, nor set down aught in, 
 
 96. 
 Man, what, dare, I dare, 414. 
 
 dare do all that may become 
 a, 415. 
 
 dwells apart, 1760. 
 
 foremost, of this world, 23'. 
 
 good, never dies, 232. 
 
 groan, hear a good, 370. 
 Man 's a man for a' that, 1147. 
 
 is a summer's day, 1143. 
 
 is one world, 1145. 
 
 is the nobler grosvth, 1717. 
 
 let each, do his best, 5. 
 
 made the town, 412. 
 
 O good old, 91. 
 
 O that a mighty, 425. 
 
 proper study of mankind is 
 1146.
 
 INDEX TO QUOTATIONS. 
 
 355 
 
 Man, take him for all in all, 1143. 
 that lays his hand upon a 
 
 woman, 421. 
 the eternal epic of the, 1149. 
 this was a, 1144. 
 to all the country dear, 340. 
 what is, 1150. 
 what may, -within him hide, 
 
 1142. 
 while, is gro%\ing, 179. 
 Manhood, when verging into age, 
 
 53. 
 Mankind, he who surpasses or 
 
 subdues, 612. 
 Manna, his tongue dropt, 610. 
 Manners ne'er were preached, 
 1151. 
 with fortunes. 1152. 
 Mansions, build thee more state- 
 ly, 1307. 
 Marble! in water writ, but this in, 
 1154. 
 of her snowy breast, 230. 
 sleep in dull cold, 1153. 
 March is come at last, 1155. 
 
 we know thou art kind- 
 hearted, 1156. 
 Marlowe's mighty line, 1102. 
 Marriage is a matter of more 
 worth. 115S. 
 is the hfe-lon? miracle, 1161. 
 the joys of, 1159. 
 Martyr inhis shirt of fire, 1163. 
 Martyrs, life has its, 1162. 
 Master is of churUsh disposition, 
 
 332. 
 Masters, men are, of their fates, 
 1165. 
 we cannot all be, 1164. 
 Match, sun ne'er saw her, 1326. 
 Matter, Berkeley said there was 
 
 no, 1166. 
 Maxim, old, in the schools, 719. 
 Mav, leads with her the flowery, 
 1169. 
 the new-born, 1163. 
 the voice is thine, sweet, 
 1167. 
 Meals, unquiet, make ill diges- 
 tions, 603. 
 Means, I "11 husband them, 271. 
 Meat, some hae, and canna eat, 
 604. 
 
 Meeting, at the hour of, 1171. 
 Melancholy marked him for her 
 own, 624. 
 there 's such a charm In, 1172. 
 these pleasures, give, 1173. 
 what charm can soothe her, 
 7*3. 
 Melodies unheard before, 1175. 
 Memory, dear to, though lost to 
 sight, 117S. 
 eves of, will not sleep, 1177. 
 from the table of, 1176. 
 pluck from, a rooted sorrow, 
 392. 
 Men are children of larger growth, 
 1179. 
 I pity bashful, 146. 
 may jest with saints, 1S2. 
 that stumble at the thresh- 
 old, 2027. 
 were deceivers ever, 973. 
 wise, ne'er wail their loss, 26. 
 Men's evil manners live in brass, 
 
 2011. 
 Mercie, who will not, show, 11 SI. 
 Mercy, quality of, is not strained, 
 
 IISO. 
 Merit true, to befriend, 11S2. 
 
 wins the soul, 299. 
 Messenger, man\'-colored, 1430. 
 Meteor flag of England, 715. 
 Midnight brought on the dusky 
 hour, 11>4. 
 iron tongue of, 11S3. 
 'tis, 11S5. 
 Milk, sweet, of concord, 377. 
 Mflton, that mighty orb of song, 
 
 11S6. 
 Mind, body filled and vacant, 1490. 
 grand" prerogative of, 11S9. 
 is its own place, 11S7. 
 leafless desert of the, 534. 
 minister to a, diseased, 392. 
 to me a kingdom is, 1190. 
 Mind's height, measure your, 
 
 IISS. 
 Minstrel raptures sweU, for him 
 
 no. 14:36. 
 Miracle, love-at-first-sight, 540. 
 Mirth and fun grew fast, 1193. 
 can into folly glide, 732. 
 heart-easing, 1192. 
 you have displaced the. 564.
 
 356 
 
 INDEX TO QUOTATIONS. 
 
 Mischief, thou art swift, 1194. 
 
 to, mortals bend, 1195. 
 
 Misery had worn hiui to the 
 
 "bones, 1196. 
 
 he f^ave to, all he had, 216. 
 
 sacred even to gods, 1197. 
 
 Misfortune made the throne her 
 
 seat, 1199. 
 Mists, season of, 1'27. 
 Mockery, unreal, hence, 1202. 
 Modesty, grace and blush of, 
 1204. 
 looks replete with, 1203. 
 Monarch, a morsel for a, 1205. 
 Monarchs, fate of mighty, 1206. 
 Money, get, no matter by what 
 'means, 1210. 
 if thou wilt lend this, 1072. 
 rolled in, Hke pigs, 1203. 
 the only power, 1209. 
 Monuments of princes, 1212. 
 Mood, a sunny, 304. 
 
 fantastic as a woman's, 
 1214. 
 Moon is an arrant thief, 1521. 
 had climbed the highest hill, 
 
 1217. 
 how like a queen, 1216. 
 is carried otf in purple fire, 
 
 1222. 
 of Mahomet, 442. 
 unveiled her peerless light, 
 
 1215. 
 when the, shone, 367. 
 where sighs are deposited, 
 1686. 
 Moonlight, meet me by, 1356. 
 Moor, a naked, 1S3. 
 Morality, unawares, expires, 
 
 1218. 
 Morn, sweet is the breath of, 
 
 1220. 
 Morning, in the, thou shalt hear, 
 1223. 
 opes her golden gates, 1219. 
 steals upon night, 4s2. 
 Morning-star of memory, 743. 
 Mortalit3'"s strong hand", 122"). 
 Mother is a mother still, 1227. 
 Mother's heart is weak, 1220. 
 Motions, a third interprets, 544. 
 Mount, I know a, 1223. 
 
 I, toward the sky, 1230. 
 
 Mountain tops, he who ascends 
 
 to, 612. 
 Mountains, circling the, 346. 
 high, are a feeling, 122'.t. 
 Mountebanks, cheating, 1411. 
 .Mourner, the only constant, 460. 
 .Mouth that si)its forth death, 197. 
 Murder may pass unpunished, 
 1234. 
 most foul, 1233. 
 one, made a villain, 438. 
 Music has charms to soothe, 
 1237. 
 heavenly maid, 1239. 
 in them, die with all their, 
 
 1241. 
 man that hath no, 1235. 
 slumbers in the shell, 1240. 
 sweet compulsion in, 373. 
 the fiercest grief can charm, 
 1233. 
 Music's golden tongue, 1236. 
 
 Nails, come ne.ar your beauty 
 
 with my, 362. " 
 Naked, the, "every day he clad, 
 
 345. 
 Name, take not his, 1842. 
 
 the magic of a, 1243. 
 
 what 's in a, 1242. 
 Nation, one, evermore, 1314. 
 Nations, fierce contending, 556. 
 Nature, accuse not, IS. 
 
 Art is the child of. 110. 
 
 ever yields reward, 1244. 
 
 gave signs of woe, 597. 
 
 how fair is thy face, 1245. 
 
 is but art, 289. 
 
 made a pause, 434. 
 
 made us men, 335. 
 
 speaks a various language, 
 
 1246. 
 
 Nature's heart beats strong, 890. 
 
 Necessity, the tyrant's plea, 515. 
 
 Neptune, he would not flatter, 
 
 1707. 
 Nettle, out of this, danger, 472. 
 News, bringer of unwelcome, 
 1247. 
 
 evil, rides post, 1248. 
 Newton, let, be, 12.50. 
 Night, ancestral mystery, 1256. 
 
 darkens the streets, 170.
 
 IXDEX TO QUOTATIONS. 
 
 357 
 
 Night is the time to weep, 1258. 
 shadow of a starless, 538. 
 that from the eye takes, 1254. 
 upon the palms, 1257. 
 wanes, 1221. 
 •witching- time of, 894. 
 with her sullen ^^^ng, 1255. 
 Nightingale, if she should sing by 
 day, 1259. 
 that on yon bloomy spray, 
 1260. 
 Noble by birth, 1261. 
 
 who is honest is, 1262. 
 Noon, dark amid the blaze of, 
 
 186. 
 Noontide wakes the buttercups, 
 
 251. 
 North, ask where 's the, 1263. 
 November, he full gross and fat, 
 
 1264. 
 November's rain descends, 1265. 
 Numbers, I lisped in, 1266. 
 Nun, quiet as a, 34. 
 
 Oak, I will rend an, 19 
 
 who hath ruled in the green- 
 wood, 1268. 
 Oaks, charmed by the stars, 
 
 1267. 
 Oar, soft moves the dipping, 198. 
 Oars, our, keep time, 314. 
 
 were silver, 1269. 
 Oaths that make the truth, 1270. 
 were not purposed to, 1271. 
 Obedience is the Christian's 
 
 crown, 1273. 
 Obey, let them, 1272. 
 Observation, doth not smack of, 
 
 1274. 
 Observations which ourselves 
 
 make, 1623. 
 Ocean leans against the land, 517. 
 stretched in light, 1276. 
 sunless retreats of the, 547. 
 thou deep and dark blue, 
 
 1275. 
 wave, a life on the, 2038. 
 October, calm sunshine of, 1277. 
 October's foliage yellows, 1278. 
 Odds, I would allow him, 521. 
 Odors, when sweet violets sicken, 
 
 200S. 
 Odyssey, Iliad and the, 143. 
 
 Offence, detest the, 1280. 
 
 should bear his comment, 
 
 1279. 
 Oil, incomparable. Macassar, 368. 
 Old age conies on apace, 60. 
 age serene and bright, 61. 
 as I am, 158. 
 though I look, 1281. 
 Ones, how many great, 125. 
 Ophiuchus huge, 360. 
 Opinion, of his own, still, 1284. 
 Opinion 's but a fool, 1233. 
 Opportunity, thy guilt is great, 
 
 12S5. 
 Oracle, I am Sir, 1286. 
 Orations, make no long, 212. 
 Orators, to the famous, repair, 
 
 1287. 
 Order in variety we see, 64. 
 
 is heaven's first law, 1288. 
 Ornament is but the guiled shore, 
 
 1289. 
 Orthodox, prove their doctrine, 
 
 574. 
 Owe, vou sav, you nothing, 505. 
 Owl, the fatal bellman, 1290. 
 Oyster, the world 's mine, 2106. 
 
 Page, glory gilds the sacred, 
 
 175. 
 Pageant, insubstantial, faded, 
 
 569. 
 Pageants, they are black vesper's, 
 
 16S9. 
 Pain is no longer pain, 1292. 
 
 pays the income, 1291. 
 Painter, when some great, 1294. 
 Pair, kindest and the happiest, 
 
 739. 
 Palm, like some tall, 1295. 
 Palpable and familiar, 484. 
 Pan is dead. 1296. 
 Pang preceding death, 1297. 
 Pangs, the keenest, the wretched 
 
 find, 534. 
 Paradise, how grows in, our 
 
 store, 1298. 
 of Fools. 735. 
 Pardon, a, after execution, 361. 
 Parting is such sweet sorrow, 
 
 825. 
 the pain of, 1302. 
 Partings break the heart, 1308.
 
 358 
 
 INDEX TO QUOTATIONS. 
 
 Passion leads or prudence points 
 the way, 1403. 
 places which, loves, 1304. 
 the power of that sweet, 11 20. 
 Passions are likened to floods, 
 1305. 
 may I govern my, 1624. 
 oft, to hear her shell, 1239. 
 various rulin-^, 154^3. 
 Past, let the dead, bury its dead, 
 780. 
 over the trackless, 13()6. 
 Patience is a plant, 1311. 
 
 is the exercise of saints, 1310. 
 poor they are, that have not, 
 
 1303. 
 thou young cherubim, 13)9. 
 times when, proves at fault, 
 1312. 
 Patriots, true, all, 413. 
 Pauper, he's only a, 202. 
 Peace, a, is of the nature of a con- 
 quest, 1317. 
 hath her victories, 1320. 
 uproar the universal, 377. 
 was on the earth, 1321. 
 weak piping time of, 13 IS. 
 why prate of, 1319. 
 Pearls at random strung, 1322. 
 Pen, dull product of a scoffer's, 
 1324. 
 is mightier than the sword, 
 1323. 
 People, a herd confused, 1325. 
 Perseverance keeps honor bright, 
 
 1328. 
 Person, what 's a fine, 530. 
 Persuasion, divine, flows, 1329. 
 Petitions, petition me no, 1330. 
 Phalanx, they move in perfect, 
 
 1213. 
 Phantom of delight, 527. 
 Philosophy, how charming is di- 
 vine, 1331. 
 will clip an angel's wings, 
 143;3. 
 Physic, take, pomp, 1333. 
 
 throw, to the dogs, 1332. 
 Piety, a trade, 1334. 
 Pilot, 't is a fearful night, 1335. 
 Pines, silent sea of, 1336. 
 Pipe when tipped with amber, 
 1337. 
 
 Pity gave ere charity began, 1339. 
 is the virtue of the law, 13:38. 
 IMace, fittest, where man can 
 die, 1340. 
 give me the lowest, 949. 
 stands upon a slippery, 471. 
 Player, a strutting, 27. 
 Playmates, I have had, 311. 
 Pleasure and action make the 
 hours seem short, 21. 
 and revenge more deaf than 
 
 ad<lers, 1342. 
 is as great, 303. 
 must succeed to pleasure, 
 
 1344. 
 to e.vcess, 1343. 
 with, drugged, 1573. 
 Pleasures are like poppies spread, 
 1345. 
 he soothed his soul to, 1346. 
 that to verse belong, 1352. 
 Plough, following his, 301. 
 Ploughman homeward plods, 450. 
 Poet, God is the perfect, 1351. 
 worships without reward, 
 1350. 
 Poetry, men are cradled into, by 
 wrong, 136:3. 
 not, that makes men poor, 
 1347. 
 Poets are all who love, 1349. 
 
 have made us heirs, 135:3. 
 Pole, true as the needle to the, 
 
 1354. 
 Poll, flaxen was his, 152. 
 Pomegranate, from Browning 
 
 some, 8S7. 
 Poppies, with rain, overcharged, 
 
 i;356. 
 Possession means to sit astride 
 
 of the world, 1360. 
 Potations, banish long, 212. 
 Povertv, but not my will, con- 
 sents, 1361. 
 stood smiling in my sight, 
 1364. 
 Power, thev should take who 
 have the, 1366. 
 what can, give, 1365. 
 Prairie, low in the light the, lies, 
 
 1367. 
 Praise from a friend, 285. 
 Praising what is lost, 1368.
 
 IXDEX TO QUOTATIONS. 
 
 359 
 
 Prayer incessant, if by, 1371. 
 
 more things are wrought by, 
 1374. 
 Prayers, God answers sharp and 
 
 sudden, 1373. 
 Prayethbest who lovethbest, 1372. 
 Preached as never sure to preach 
 
 again, 1375. 
 Present is all thou hast, 1376. 
 Press the people's right maintain, 
 1377. 
 turn to the, 1249. 
 Priam's self shall fall, 1542. 
 Pride hath no other glass, 1378. 
 that apes humility, 1379. 
 that putts the countrye 
 doune. 343. 
 Priest, the pale-eyed, 1380. 
 this, he merry is, 1916. 
 Primrose, a, by a river's brim, 
 13S1. 
 peeps beneath the thorn, 35. 
 Princes, the death of, 16?. 
 
 were privileged to kill, 438. 
 Prior, here hes Matthew, 623. 
 Prison make, stone walls do not 
 
 a, 13S4. 
 Procrastination is the thief of 
 
 time, 13S5. 
 Prodigies, when these, do meet, 
 
 13S6. 
 Promise, keep the word of, 13SS. 
 Promotion, none will sweat but 
 
 for, 91. 
 Proof, give me the ocular, 1389. 
 Prose run mad, 1392. 
 
 warbler of poetic, 1393. 
 Proselytes and converts. 405. 
 
 of one another's trade, 1394. 
 Prospects, distant, please us, 
 
 1-395. 
 Prosperity, surer to prosper than, 
 
 1397. 
 Prosperity 's the Tery bond of 
 
 love, 1396. 
 Proteus rising from the sea, 937. 
 Providence all good and wise, 
 1400. 
 alone secures, 1401. 
 behind a frowning, 656. 
 I may assert eternal, 1.399. 
 there 's a special, 1.398. 
 Prude, yon ancient, 1404. 
 
 Prussia hurried to the field, 1669. 
 Pulpit, drum ecclesiastick, 1405. 
 Punishment, back to thy, 1906. 
 Puppets led about by wires, 530. 
 Purity, a maid in the pride of 
 'her, 1407. 
 
 from the body's, -339. 
 Purpose, shake my fell, 1408. 
 Purse, costly as thy, can buy, 94. 
 
 who steals my, 14U9. 
 Pyramids are pyramids, 1410. 
 
 Quaker loves an ample brim, 1414. 
 Quakers, upright, 1413. 
 Quarrel, beware of entrance to a, 
 
 1415. 
 what is your, 399. 
 Quarrels, tliey who in, interpose, 
 
 1416. 
 Quickness, with too much, 1418. 
 Quiet to quick bosoms is a hell, 
 
 1419. 
 Quiets of the past, 1420. 
 Quips and cranks, 1421. 
 Quotations, critics sufiFer in 
 
 wrong, 1423. 
 
 Rabble all alive, 1201. 
 
 Pace, he lives to build a generous, 
 
 1424. 
 Rage, could swell the soul to, 
 
 1425. 
 Rain came down in slanting Hues, 
 1429. 
 comes when the wind calls, 
 
 1428. 
 how beautiful is the, 1427. 
 it raineth everv dav, 1426. 
 trickhng. doth fall,' 625. 
 Rainbow, an awful. 1433. 
 be thou the, 1391. 
 colors of the, 356. 
 comes and goes, 14.32. 
 God hath set his, 1253. 
 Rank is but the guinea stamp, 
 1435. 
 superior worth your, re- 
 quires. 1434. 
 Rattle, pleased with a, 308. 
 Reader reads no more, 1440. 
 Reading, such, as was never read, 
 
 1441. 
 Realms, these are our, 1442.
 
 360 
 
 INDEX TO QUOTATIONS. 
 
 Ueason, a woman's, 1443. 
 feast of, 219. 
 
 fuides our deeds, 990. 
 would make, my guide, 
 1445. 
 raise o'er instinct, 1444. 
 sanctity of, 1447. 
 the confidence of, pive, 1446. 
 war with rhyme, 150S. 
 Rebellion begau to grow slack. 
 1449. 
 froze them up, 144S. 
 Rebutt', then welcome each, 1450. 
 Rebukes, a lady so tender of, 
 
 1451. 
 iiechabite poor Will must live. 
 
 69. 
 Reckoning, no, made, 17. 
 
 when the banquet 's o'er, 
 14.T2. 
 Reconcilement, never can, grow, 
 
 1454. 
 Records that defy the tooth of 
 
 time, 145.5. 
 Recreation, none so free as fish- 
 ing, 1457. 
 sweet, barred, 1456. 
 Reflection, remembrance and, 
 
 1459. 
 Reformation, plotting some new, 
 
 1460. 
 Regret can die, 1461. 
 
 wild with all, 1462. 
 Reign, to, is worth ambition, .576. 
 Relief, for this, much thanks, 353. 
 Religion crowns the statesman, 
 1465. 
 has so seldom found, 1466. 
 in, what error, 1463. 
 is a spring, 1464. 
 stands on tiptoe, 1467. 
 veils her sacred fires, 1218. 
 Remedies oft in ourselves do lie, 
 
 146S. 
 Remember the fir trees dark and 
 hi-,'h, 1472. 
 what the Lord hath done, 
 1370. 
 Remembered, I 've been so long, 
 
 1471. 
 Remembrance, makes the, dear, 
 1470. 
 writ in, 1469. 
 
 Remorse is as the heart, 1473. 
 Renown, deathless my, 1474. 
 Repartee, a man renowned for, 
 
 1475. 
 Repentance is long, 1477. 
 is the weight, 1478. 
 rears her snaky crest, 1479. 
 who by, is not' satisfied, 1476. 
 Repose, best of men have loved, 
 14S0. 
 in statue-like, 1481. 
 Reproaches, slanderous, 1719. 
 Reproof on her lips, 14S;3. 
 those can bear, 1482. 
 Reputation, at every word a, 
 dies, 544. 
 seeking the bubble, 17.54. 
 the purest treasure, 1464. 
 Resignation gently slopes away, 
 
 14S7. 
 Resolution, the native hue of, 
 
 386. 
 Respect upon the world, 1489. 
 Resi)ects himself, he that, 16.33. 
 Rest is sweet after strife, 1491. 
 too much, becomes a pain, 
 1492. 
 Retirement, blest, 149.5. 
 Retiring from the popular noise, 
 
 1494. 
 Retreat, a brave, 1496. 
 Revelry, midnight shout and, 
 1497. 
 there was a sound of, 1498. 
 Revenge, back on itself recoils, 
 
 1500. 
 Reverence, none so poor to do 
 him, 2.'>4. 
 to yond peeping moon, 1502. 
 Revolution, there is great talk of, 
 
 1503. 
 Rhetoric, dear wit and gay, 1.50.5. 
 he could not ope his mouth, 
 1504. 
 Rhetorician's, a, rules, 1932. 
 Rhine, the river, 15ii7. 
 
 the wide and winding, 1506. 
 Riiinoceros, the armed, 414. 
 Rhvme. build the loftv, 1509. 
 ■ hitches in a, 1996." 
 the rudder is of verses, 1610. 
 Rich, if thou art, thou art poor, 
 2036.
 
 INDEX TO QUOTATIONS. 
 
 3G1 
 
 Rich with forty pounds a year, 340. 
 Riches in a little room, 1511. 
 
 the toil of fools, 1512. 
 Ride, a wild and lotiely, 1T61. 
 Ridicule is a weak weapon, 1513. 
 
 sacred to, 1514. 
 Right the day must win, 1516. 
 
 was right, 1515. 
 
 whatever is, is, 1517. 
 River glideth, 1520. 
 Rivers, by shallow, 1518. 
 
 how they run. 1519. 
 Road, on a lonesome, 70S. 
 Robin, call for the, and the wren, 
 
 1066. 
 Rock, moulder piecemeal on the, 
 1522. 
 
 of Ages, 1523. 
 
 this, shall fly, 1524. 
 Rod, his, reversed, 1525. 
 
 to check the erring, 593. 
 Roman, rather be a dog than such 
 a, 1527. 
 
 the noblest, 152S. 
 Romance, shores of old, 1530. 
 Romances paint people's wooings, 
 
 1529. 
 Rome, aisles of Christian. 247. 
 
 grandeur that was, 1531. 
 Room, who sweeps a, 24. 
 Rose, a. should shut, 1535. 
 
 distilled. 2S3. 
 
 looks fair, 15=33. 
 
 no more desire a. 1532. 
 
 salth in the dewy morn. 
 1536. 
 
 would smell as sweet, 1242. 
 Rosebuds, gather ye, 1914. 
 Roses, I wish the sky would 
 rain, 15:34. 
 
 in December, 511. 
 
 strew on her, 1537. 
 Rousseau, self-torturing sophist, 
 
 wild. 1.5:3s. 
 Rout on rout, 3S3. 
 Ruin, fires of, glow. 1541. 
 
 prodigious, swallows all, 
 1542. 
 
 seize thee, 382. 
 
 upon ruin, 38-3. 
 Ruins of himself, 507. 
 Rumor is a pipe, 1544. 
 Rural life, pleasures of the, 1545. 
 
 Sabbath brings its release, 1550. 
 
 eternal, of his rest, 1549. 
 
 he who ordained the, 1547. 
 Sailor, a drunken, on a mast, 
 1552. 
 
 messmate, hear a brother, 
 15.54. 
 Sails, purple the, 1555. 
 
 that drift at night, 1671. 
 Saint, a, run mad, 155S. 
 
 in crape, 108. 
 
 John mingles with my 
 fi-iendly bowl, 219. 
 
 would be, the devil a, .546. 
 Saints began their reign, 1557. 
 
 immortal reign. 1559. 
 
 who led the way to heaven, 
 1.560. 
 
 will aid, 1561. 
 Salt, the, is spilt, 1562. 
 
 who ne'er knew, 1564. 
 
 why shun the, 156:3. 
 Salutations of the crowd, 1358. 
 Salvation, no relish of, 1565. 
 
 none of us should see, 1.566. 
 Sand, an heap of lime and, 1.540. 
 Sands, come unto these yellow, 
 1567. 
 
 ignoble things, 1568. 
 
 o' Dee. 277. 
 Sappho loved and sung. 843. 
 Satan, arch-enemy, called. 1569. 
 
 finds some mischief still, 
 1570. 
 
 stood unterrify'd. 360. 
 
 trembles when he sees, 1571. 
 
 was now at hand. 445. 
 Satire, in general, 1576. 
 
 let, be my song, 1575. 
 Satire 's my weapon. 1574. 
 Savage, wild in woods, 1577. 
 Saws, full of wise, 1015. 
 Scandal them, fawn on men, and, 
 1579. 
 
 waits on greatest state, 1578. 
 Scars, gashed with honorable. 
 1582. 
 
 he jests at, 1581. 
 Scene, solitary, silent, solemn, 
 
 331. 
 Scenes, gay gilded, 1583. 
 Sceptic, whatever, could inquire 
 for, loSo.
 
 362 
 
 INDEX TO QUOTATIONS. 
 
 Sceptre, a barren, 444. 
 
 shows the force of power, 
 15S6. 
 Schemes, our most romantic, 5S3. 
 Scholar, a rijie and good, 1587. 
 
 the gentleman and, 1588. 
 Scholars, the land of, ir)8;». 
 School, the master taught his, 
 
 1591. 
 School-boy, the whining, 1590. 
 Schools, bewildered in the maze 
 
 of, 481). 
 Science frowned not on his hum- 
 ble birth, 1174. 
 O star-eyed, 159:3. 
 trace, then, with modesty thy 
 guide, 1592. 
 Scorn makes after-love the more, 
 1594. 
 on the pedestal of, 1596. 
 the sound of public, 1597. 
 to point his finger at, 1595. 
 Scotia, my native soil, 1599. 
 Scotland, stands, where it did, 
 
 1593. 
 Scotland's strand, fair, 1600. 
 Scribblers are my game, 1601. 
 Scripture, the devil can cite, 1422. 
 writ by God's own hand, 1002. 
 Sculptor wields the chisel, 1604. 
 Sculpture is more divine, 1003. 
 Sea, alone on a wide, 71. 
 
 compassed by the inviolate, 
 
 1607. 
 down to a sunless, 282. 
 grew civil at her song, 1605. 
 is a thief, 1521. 
 puft up with proud disdaine, 
 
 1882. 
 sailed upon the dark blue. 
 
 1556. 
 the blue, the fresh, 1006. 
 when the, was roaring, IGOS. 
 Seamen on the deep, 155;3. 
 Seas roll to waft me, 262. 
 Seasons,' all please alike, ICIl. 
 in four forms appear, 1610. 
 return, with the year, 1612. 
 Seat, a, in some poetic nook, 
 
 1613. 
 Secret, a, in his mouth, 1616. 
 Sect, slave to no, 1618. 
 
 with every, agreed, 1617. 
 
 Security is mortal's chiefest en- 
 emy, 1619. 
 Seed, fruit from such a, 1620. 
 
 who sowt'th good, 1493. 
 Self, smote the chord of, 319. 
 something deari-r than, 1621. 
 to thine own, be true, 211. 
 Solf-concern, in others, 1629. 
 Self-defence is a virtue, 1625. 
 8elf-disi)raise, a luxury in, 1627. 
 Self-esteem, nothing profits more 
 
 than, 1628. 
 St'lf-love is not so vile a sin, 1630. 
 Self-love, the spring of motion, 
 
 1631. 
 Self-reproach, men who feel no, 
 
 16=32. 
 Self-sacrifice, the spirit of, 1634. 
 Senates, the applause of listen- 
 ing, 103. 
 Sense, good, the gift of heaven, 
 16:36. 
 motions of the, 1635. 
 Sensibilities are so acute, 1687. 
 Sensibility, thou keen delight, 
 
 1038. 
 September waves his golden-rod, 
 
 1040. 
 Sermon, perhaps turn out a, 1(U2. 
 Sermons in stones, 1641. 
 Serpent, like Aaron's, 1645. 
 of old Nile, 1644. 
 sting thee twice, ICAS. 
 the trail of the. IWO. 
 Serpent's tooth, sharper than a, 
 
 985. 
 Serve, 't is nobleness to, 1&48. 
 Service devine, she sange the, 
 1W7. 
 poorest, is repaid, 1893. 
 small, is true service, 769. 
 Sex, no stronger than my, 1649. 
 spirits can either, assume, 
 1650. 
 Sexton, hoary-headed chronicle, 
 1051. 
 tolled the bell, 1652. 
 Shadow both ways falls, 1654. 
 
 see my, as I pass, 165:3. 
 
 Shaft, when I had lost one, 1656. 
 
 Sliakespeare, Fancy's child, 1660. 
 
 on whose forehead, 1659. 
 
 thou art a monument, 1658.
 
 INDEX TO QUOTATIONS. 
 
 363 
 
 Shakespeare, tongue that, spake, 
 757. 
 
 what needs my, 1661. 
 Shame, her blush of maiden, 1663. 
 
 where is thy blush, 16C2. 
 Shape, if, it might be called, 1G65. 
 
 take any, but that, 1064. 
 She is mine own, 2044. 
 
 waks the waters, 1672. 
 
 was a form of life, 74S. 
 Shell, applying to his ear a, 1666. 
 Shelley, did you once see, 1667. 
 Shellsj picking up, by the ocean, 
 
 1251. 
 Shepherd, every, tells his tale, 
 
 sso. 
 
 Sheridan, hurrah for, 1796. 
 
 nature* formed but one .such 
 man, 166S. 
 Ship, as idle as a painted, 1673. 
 
 has weathered every rack, 264. 
 
 of State, 1316. 
 
 steer a, becalmed, S2S. 
 Ships have gone down at sea, 
 
 1941. 
 Shore, a rapture on the lonely, 
 1679. 
 
 left their beauty on the, 167S. 
 Shot, bounding at the, 17So. 
 
 heard round the world, 239. 
 Show and gaze o' the time, 16S1. 
 
 books and money placed for, 
 16S2. 
 Shriek, a solitary, 62. 
 Shrine, a faith's pure, 16S3. 
 Sickness, this, doth infect, 16S4. 
 Sighs, a world of, 1685. 
 Sight, it is a goodly, 16SS. 
 
 lost to, to memory dear, 7. 
 
 loss of, 187. 
 
 Silence bewrays more woe, 1691. 
 
 deep as death, 1694. 
 
 is the herald of joy, 1690. 
 
 more musical than song, 1692. 
 
 was pleased, 1693. 
 
 where hath been no sound, 
 1695. 
 Silver, moon that tips with, 1696. 
 Simplicity, in his, sublime, 1699. 
 
 simple truth miscalled, 1698. 
 Sin, cut otf in my, 1700. 
 
 1 waive the quantum o' the, 
 1704. 
 
 Sin, in lashing, 1702. 
 
 one, another doth provoke, 
 
 1701. 
 the good man's, 1703. 
 Sincerity, showed bashful, 1706. 
 Sing because I must, 1711. 
 
 seraph, poet. 1709. 
 Singing, all my heart in my, 
 
 1710. 
 Singularitv, all have some darling, 
 
 1718. 
 Sins they are inclined to, 1705. 
 Sister, when 1 was but your, 1714. 
 Skill, simple truth his utmost, 
 
 1715. 
 Skin not colored like his own, 
 
 1723. 
 Sky, souls are ripened in our 
 northern, 1717. 
 the, is changed, 1718. 
 the, is overcast, 1884. 
 Slackness breeds worms, 250. 
 Slander, foulest whelj) of sin, 1721. 
 sharper than the sword, 1720. 
 Slave, this yellow. 1207. 
 thou art a, 1722. 
 whatever day makes man a, 
 1725. 
 Sleep hath its own world, 1731. 
 he giveth his beloved, 1733. 
 life is rounded with a, 1727. 
 O magic, 1730. 
 silent as night, 17-34. 
 that knits "up the ravelled 
 
 sleave of care, 1728. 
 that knows not breaking, 
 
 1732. 
 the poor man's wealth, 1728. 
 tired nature's sweet restorer, 
 
 1729. 
 will bring thee dreams, 1735. 
 Slime that sticks on filthy deeds, 
 
 921. 
 Sloth views the towers of Fame, 
 
 1736. 
 Sluggard, 't is the voice of the. 
 
 1737. 
 Smile, and be a villain. 1738. 
 
 Death grinned a ghastly, 1740. 
 from partial beauty won, 1741. 
 that was childlike and bland, 
 
 1739. 
 the good man's, 1742.
 
 364 
 
 INDEX TO QUOTATIONS. 
 
 Smiles, the tears, of boj-hood's 
 
 years, 221. 
 Smoke that so gracefully curled, 
 
 ]74,S. 
 Snail, creeping like, 220. 
 
 shrinks backward, 1744. 
 Snails, her feet like, fttO. 
 Snake, we have scotch'd the. 
 
 1745. 
 Snow, a cheer for the, 1747. 
 in December, 174G. 
 the. arrives, 174S. 
 Snow-drop, the. comes on, 1749. 
 Snutf, he only took, 1750. 
 
 prevent your ladyship from 
 taking, 1751. 
 Society became my glittering 
 bride, 1753. 
 man in, is like a flower, 1752. 
 one polished horde, 209. 
 Softness and attractive grace, 
 
 397. 
 Soldier, full of oaths, 1754. 
 
 he would have been a, 1755. 
 shall I ask the brave, 436. 
 the broken, 1756. 
 thou more than, 1757. 
 Soles, let firm, protect thy feet, 
 
 1677. 
 Solid men of Boston, 212. 
 Solitude sometimes is society, 
 1758. 
 where are the charms, 1759. 
 Son, a booby, 176;}. 
 
 no, of mine succeeding, 1762. 
 Song, dear to gods and men is 
 sacred, 1766. 
 forbids deeds to die, 1712. 
 higher than the perfect, ISSS, 
 moralized his, 1765. 
 one immortal, 1764. 
 still govern thou my, 120. 
 Sonnet, scorn not the, 1767. 
 Sons and brothers at a strife. 390. 
 of France, awake to glory, 
 S07. 
 Sorrow comes too soon, 1770. 
 give, words, 176S. 
 hang, 270. 
 
 one. never comes, 1769. 
 Sorrow's crown of sorrow, 1771. 
 Sorrows, tell all thy, 379. 
 Sots, what can ennoble, 82. 
 
 Soul, bruised with adversity, SS. 
 Charoba once possest, 263. 
 discontented with capacity, 
 
 26;3. 
 tlow of, 219. 
 
 he shall not blind his, 338. 
 is as free as the stars, 1(W9. 
 that rises with us, 11^. 
 the depth of the, 1774. 
 the sleepless, 301. 
 whither went his, 1772. 
 Soul's, the, prerogative, 1773. 
 Souls, two, with but a ^inirle 
 
 thought, ly^il. 
 Sound must seem an echo, 1775. 
 Source of being, hail, 522. 
 Spain, lovely, 1776. 
 Sparrow, providence "in the fill 
 
 of a, 139S. 
 Speak, know when to, 42. 
 Spear, to equal the tallest pine, 
 
 1777. 
 Speculation in those eyes, 795. 
 Speech is but broken light, 1779. 
 
 rude in my, 177S. 
 Spenser, fancy's pleasing son, 
 
 17S0. 
 Spires, whose finger points to 
 
 heaven, 17S1. 
 Spirit, the strongest, that fought 
 
 in heaven, 5S9. 
 Spirits from the vasty deep, 17S2. 
 Splendor in the grass, 17S4. 
 Spring, come, gentle, 17S7. 
 first, like infancy. 1610. 
 in the, a livelieriris. 17S6. 
 of love resembleth, 19S0. 
 there's no such season, 178'^. 
 Springe, she sets a, 407. 
 Spur, I have no. 75. 
 
 to prick us to redress, 1458. 
 Stage, all the world 's a, 1789. 
 Star, constant as the northern, 
 394. 
 looks forth alone, 1793. 
 Stars have lit the welkin dome, 
 714. 
 keep not their motion, 1790. 
 of the night. 1791. 
 shot madly from their 
 
 spheres. 1605. 
 the poetry of heaven, 1792. 
 two of the fairest, 644.
 
 INDEX TO QUOTATIOXS, 
 
 365 
 
 Starving, who longest can hold 
 
 out at, 615. 
 State, done the, some service, 96. 
 mock the air with idle. 3S5. 
 thousand years scarce form a, 
 179-1. 
 Statesman to a prince, 1795. 
 Steed that saved the day, 1796. 
 Steeples, where my high, 1540. 
 Step, I hear that creaking. 210. 
 Stoics boast their virtue fixed, 93. 
 Stones of Konie to rise, 1797. 
 Storm, against some, 179S. 
 rides upon the, 1799. 
 under the, and the cloud, 371. 
 Storms, give her to the god of, 
 
 ISOO. 
 story of my life, 1801. 
 
 teach him how to tell my. 
 ISO'2. 
 Strangers, by, honored, and by 
 
 strangers mourned, 1803. 
 Straw, tickled with a, SOS. 
 Streets, gibber in the Roman, 
 
 1804. 
 Strength, excellent to have a 
 
 giant's, 1S05. 
 Strife, no. to heal, 1807. 
 
 the madding crowd's ignoble, 
 443. 
 Strike, for vour altars and vour 
 
 fires, 1813. 
 Striving to better, oft we mar, 
 
 1808. 
 Strong, to be. is to be happy, 1806. 
 Study is like the sun, 1809. 
 
 is the trifling of the mind, 
 1810. 
 Success, life lives only in, 1813. 
 not in mortals to command, 
 
 1814. 
 things ill got had ever bad, 
 1S12. 
 Suffering ended with the day, 
 1481. 
 to, tears are due, 1815. 
 Sufferings, to each his. 378. 
 Summer, eternal, gilds them yet, 
 1818. 
 grows adult, 1610. 
 Sun, a, will pierce, 1S22. 
 
 hath made a golden set, 1829. 
 in dim eclipse, 607. 
 
 Sun is going down, 1832. 
 
 the descending, 1831. 
 
 the glorious, 1820. 
 
 the, is set, 633. 
 
 the worshipped, peered forth, 
 601. 
 
 unruly, 1821. 
 
 upon an Easter-day, 467. 
 Sunday shines no Sabbath-day, 
 "1548. 
 
 take, through the week, 1551. 
 Sunflower, light enchanted, 1S23. 
 
 shining fair, 1S26. 
 
 the. turns on her god, 1824. 
 Sunflowers blow in a glow, 1S25. 
 Suns to light nie rise, 262. 
 Sunset, the wondrous golden, 
 
 1S30. 
 Sunshine broken in the rill, 1834. 
 
 eternal, settles on its head, 341. 
 
 is a glorious birth, S06. 
 
 see the gold, 1S33. 
 
 shall follow the rain, 371. 
 Surfeit is the father of fast, 1835. 
 Surprise, mouth that testified, 
 
 1S30. 
 Suspense, a cool, 1837. 
 Suspicion haunts the guilty mind, 
 
 1838. 
 Swain, remote from cities lived 
 
 a, 781. 
 Swallow-people, play the, 1839. 
 Swan, cygnet to this pale faint, 
 754. 
 
 spreads his snowv- sail, 1050. 
 
 with arched neck', 1840. 
 Swears a prayer or two, 1841. 
 Sweet, things, to taste. 1843. 
 Sweetness, of linked. ISW. 
 Swiftness never ceasing, 1846. 
 Swimmer in his agony, 62. 
 Swimmer's, a, stroke, 1847. 
 Sword, a naked, 18*9. 
 
 thy maiden, 1848. 
 Symbol of hunger, 2081. 
 Sympathy of love, 1850. 
 
 there' "s naught like, 1851. 
 Synods are mystical bear-gardens, 
 1852. 
 
 Tale, a round unvarnished, 1855. 
 I could a, unfold. 1854. 
 who so shall tell a, 1863.
 
 3G6 
 
 INDEX TO QUOTATIONS. 
 
 Talk, it would, 1861. 
 
 they, who never think, 1859. 
 
 to conceal the mind, ISGO. 
 Talkers are no f?ood doers, 1857. 
 Talking, I profess not, 5. 
 Tasso, their n\ovy and their 
 
 shame, 1SG2. 
 Tasso's echoes are no more, 1994. 
 Taste, good native, 1SC4. 
 
 talk what you will of, 1863. 
 Tastes, various are the, 1865. 
 Taxes, at, rails, 1S67. 
 Tea, sometimes take, 411. 
 
 without a stratagem, 1S69. 
 Teaching and my authority, 1SG9. 
 Tear wiped with a little address, 
 
 80. 
 Tears and love for the Gray, 1878. 
 
 beauty's, are lovelier, 1877. 
 
 idle tears, 1S76. 
 
 more merry, 1191. 
 
 of bearded men, 1874. 
 
 our present, 1S72. 
 
 stood on her cheeks, 1871. 
 
 such as angels weep, 1S73. 
 
 the big round, 1S70. 
 
 thoughts too deep for, 1875. 
 Temper, man of such a feeble, 
 
 1879. 
 Temperate in every place, 1880. 
 Tempers, strange how some 
 
 men's, 566. 
 Tempest, foretells a, 18S1. 
 Temptation, safe from, 1887. 
 
 why comes, 1957. 
 Terror, there is no, in your 
 
 threats, 1S90. 
 Test, bring me to the, 1S91. 
 Text, many a holy, 1892. 
 Thane, your face, my, 653. 
 Thanks to men of noble minds, 
 
 1894. 
 Theatre, as in a, 1S95. 
 
 the world 's a, 28. 
 Thief, steals from the, 1896. 
 
 the sun *s a, 1521. 
 Thieves and pillagers, 177. 
 Thing, evil, that walks by night, 
 797. 
 
 made up of tears and light, 
 1431. 
 Things a wise man will not trust, 
 974. 
 
 Things, ail, are ready, 29. 
 
 are where things are, 681. 
 Thinking, witli too much, 1418. 
 Thirst, tliat panting, 1^97. 
 Thorn that scents the evening 
 gale, 763. 
 
 why choose the rankling, 
 1898. 
 Thought is deeper than speech, 
 1903. 
 
 is eternal, 1900. 
 
 no, should be untold, 1901. 
 
 of our {mst years, 174. 
 • wed with thought, 1902. 
 
 what is this, 160. 
 Thoughts of men are widened, 
 1387. 
 
 our, are ours, 1899. 
 
 too deep for tears, 1875. 
 Thread, sewing a double, 1904. 
 Thrift, thrift, Horatio, 1907. 
 
 may follow fawning, 690. 
 Throne of royal state, 1908. 
 Thunder, idle, in his hand, 1909. 
 
 leaps the live, 1910. 
 Tide in the affairs of men, 1912. 
 
 the turning o' the, 1911. 
 Tiger, the Ilyrcanian, 414. 
 Tile, in cut and die so like a, ir)3. 
 Time, away and mock the, 56S. 
 
 doth waste me, 1913. 
 
 threefold the stride of, 1915. 
 Titles are jests, 1917. 
 
 are marks of honest men, 
 1918. 
 
 despite those, 1622. 
 Toad, squat like a, 1919. 
 
 ugly and venomous, 37. 
 Tobacco, sublime, 1920. 
 To-day, call, his own, 1921. 
 
 our cares are all, 1922. 
 Toe, on the light, fantastic, 468. 
 Toil, the horny hands of, 1923. 
 Tomb, from the, nature cries, 
 
 1924. 
 Tombs, gilded, worms infold, 97. 
 To-morrow, and to-morrow, 1925. 
 
 comes, 1927. 
 
 where art thou, beloved, 1923. 
 To-morrow's sun may never rise, 
 
 1926. 
 Tongue, a good, in thy head, 
 1929.
 
 iXDEX TO QUOTATIOXS. 
 
 3G7 
 
 Tongue, his, dropt manna, 610. 
 
 in every wound, 1797. 
 
 let the." lick pomp, 1930. 
 
 still his, ran on, 1S5S. 
 
 that 5^ hakes peare spake, 757. 
 
 who dare dishonor the, 1931. 
 Tongues in trees, 37. 
 
 of dying men, 119. 
 Toothache, could endure the, 
 
 19*3. 
 Torrent, the loud, 1934. 
 Torture, waters boil in endless, 
 
 1935. 
 Towers and battlements, 1936. 
 
 the cloud-capped, 569. 
 Town, man made the, 1937. 
 Toys, seeks fantastic, 193S. 
 Trade's proud empire, 1940. 
 
 unfeeling train, 1939. 
 Train, a melancholy, 342. 
 Tranquillity, heaven was all, 1941. 
 Trash, wring from peasants their, 
 
 1S66. 
 Traveller, now spurs the, 1942. 
 Travellers must be content, 1943. 
 Travelling, in, I take pleasures. 
 
 1944. 
 Treason doth never prosper, 1947. 
 
 flourished over us, 1945. 
 
 is not owned, 1948. 
 Treasons, stratagems, and spoils, 
 
 1235. 
 Treasure, heaps of miser's, 1949. 
 Tree, corruption is a, 403. 
 
 dark, still sad, 460. 
 
 fruit of that forbidden, 563. 
 Trees, a brotherhood of vener- 
 able, 105:3. 
 
 can smile in light, 1950. 
 
 mine ease under the, 741. 
 
 the lives of. ISll. 
 Trial, we learn through, 1954. 
 Tribe, the daring, compound their 
 
 trash. 1412. 
 Tricks that are vain. 433. 
 Tritie, think nought a, 1956. 
 Triries make the sura of human 
 
 things, 1955. 
 Trouble, double toil and, 195S. 
 Trust thee, so far will I, 3S0. 
 Truth and lovaltv. 705. 
 
 beauty is, 1969. 
 
 crushed to earth, 1962, 
 
 Truth forever on the scaffold, 
 1970. 
 
 has sucb a face, 1964. 
 
 hath better deeds than words, 
 1301. 
 
 is one, 1966. 
 
 is the his-hest thing, 1960. 
 
 is truth, 1967. 
 
 no cleaner thing than love, 
 196S. 
 
 severe, by fairy fiction, 704. 
 
 tell, and shame'the devil, 1961. 
 
 whispering tongues can 
 poison, .395. 
 Tulip, then comes the, 1971. 
 Turf, green be the. 1973. 
 Turk, like the, 1974. 
 Twig is bent, the tree 's inclin'd, 
 
 609. 
 Twilight, disastrous, sheds, 607. 
 
 fell upon the sea, 1976. 
 
 grav. 1975. 
 Twins from the birth, 6S3. 
 Tyranny of blood and chains, 1979. 
 Tyrants seem to kiss, 1977. 
 
 'twixt kings and, 197S. 
 
 Unction, flattering, to your soul, 
 
 52S. 
 Unfortunate, one more, 1433. 
 Union, strong and great, 1316. 
 Unity, confound all, 377. 
 Urania govern thou my song, 120. 
 Urn, has filled his, 36o. 
 Use doth breed a habit in a man, 
 
 457. 
 things beyond all, 19S3. 
 Utter what thou dost not know, 
 
 1615. 
 
 Vale of vears, decHned into the, 
 
 54". 
 Valentine, couple with my, 19S5. 
 Valiant never taste of death, 426. 
 Valor, fear to do base things is, 
 19S6. 
 
 shows but a bastard. 1S17. 
 Vanity, insatiate cormorant, 19S7. 
 
 what will not, maintain, 1983. 
 Vapor, as a. all doth vanish, 1224. 
 
 melting in a tear, 19S9. 
 Varietv. order in. (>4. 
 Variety 's the spice of life, 1990.
 
 368 
 
 INDEX TO QUOTATIOXS. 
 
 Vault, heaven's ebon, 1991. 
 Vengeance, in, there is scorn, 1992. 
 
 to God alone belongs, 1501. 
 Venice, I stood in, 199:3. 
 Ventures, lose our, 45;3. 
 Verse, a, may find him, 1348. 
 
 married to immortal, 1844. 
 
 sweetens toil, 1997. 
 Vessel, a brave, 1(574. 
 
 splitting, on the rock, 1675. 
 Vessels large may venture, 281. 
 Vice, a, good old-gentlemanly, 
 133. 
 
 can bolt her arguments, 1999. 
 
 from no one, exempt, 398. 
 
 is a monster, 2000. 
 
 there is no, so simple, 1993. 
 Victory, graced with wreaths of, 
 2001. 
 
 It was a famous, 2002. 
 Villain, a, in all Denmark, 1033. 
 
 one murder made a, 43S. 
 
 which is the, 20i»5. 
 Villas, suburban, 2i)04. 
 Vine, monarch of the, 2006. 
 Vines that round the thatch-eaves 
 
 run, 127. 
 Violet by a mossy stone, 2007. 
 
 throw a perfume on the, tWS. 
 Violets, when sweet, sicken, 2008. 
 Virginity, hath hurtful power 
 
 o'er, 797. 
 Virtue, assume a, 2012. 
 
 calumny will sear, 257. 
 
 may be assailed, 2013. 
 
 starves while vice is fed, 2014. 
 
 that possession would not 
 show us, 1359. 
 Virtues, their, we write in water, 
 2011. 
 
 which in parents shine, 81. 
 Vision, a faery, 356. 
 
 in solemn, 2015. 
 Visions of glory, 1687. 
 Visit, annual, o'er the globe, 366. 
 Voice, her, was ever soft, 2016. 
 Vows, lovers', seem sweet, 2018. 
 
 made in pain, 600. 
 
 may be broken, 2017. 
 Vulcan his office plies, 1061. 
 
 Wagers, fools for arguments use, 
 2019. 
 
 Walks abroad, whene'er I take 
 my, 2021. 
 
 echoing, between, 2020. 
 Waller was smooth, 589. 
 Want gives to know the friend, 
 
 1362. 
 War, grim-visaged, 2023. 
 
 is a game, 2024. 
 
 is a terrible trade, 2026. 
 
 is still the cry, 2025. 
 
 then was the tug of, 844. 
 
 thou son of hell, 2022. 
 
 to provoke, 1402. 
 Wardens of your farms, 177. 
 Warrior, he lay like a, 2028. 
 Washington 's a watchword, 2029, 
 Water, smooth runs the, 2030. 
 
 what good, is worth, 2031. 
 Wave, a life on the ocean, 2(W3. 
 
 is breaking on the shore, 1252. 
 
 so dies a, 2032. 
 Wav, the heaven's pathless, 2034. 
 Ways that are dark, 433. 
 Weakness, all wickedness is, 2035. 
 Web, a tangled, we weave, .509. 
 Wedding, never, ever wooing, 
 
 723. 
 Weed, a, tossed to and fro, 1609. 
 Weeds, dank and dropping, 2038. 
 Weep, women must, 2105. 
 Weight, I give this heavy, 3. 
 Welcome to our house, 2039. 
 Welcomes, a hundred thousand, 
 
 2040. 
 Wheels of weary life stood still, 
 
 344. 
 Whim, let every man enjoy his, 
 
 978. 
 Whistled as he went, 1984. 
 Whole, all are parts of one, 811. 
 Wickedness, a method in man's, 
 
 2042. 
 Widows, may, wed, 2043. 
 Wife by her "husband stays, 2046. 
 
 this sweet wee, 2047. 
 
 unclouded welcome of a, 2048. 
 Will, executes a freeman's, 2050. 
 Willow, willow, willow, 2051. 
 Wind is rising, 205:3. 
 
 more inconstant than the, 
 .581. 
 
 of western birth, 2054. 
 
 the, of night, 2055.
 
 IXDEX TO QU0TATI02sS. 
 
 369 
 
 Wind, the southern, 1881. 
 
 what, blew you hither, 2052. 
 Windows that exclude the light, 
 
 2056. 
 Wine can make the sage frolic, 
 205S. 
 makes love forget, 2057. 
 Wing, this sail is as a noiseless, 
 
 2059. 
 Wings, at heaven's gates she 
 
 claps her, 20C0. 
 Winter chills the lap of May, 206i. 
 comes to rule, 2nG2. 
 creeps along with tardv pace, 
 
 1610. 
 has yet brighter scenes, 2063. 
 of our discontent, 2061. 
 the silver pencil of the, 2065. 
 Wisdom and fortune, 2066. 
 Wisdom's self oft seeks, 2069. 
 
 well, the stream from. 2068. 
 Wise, 't is folly to be, 963^ 
 to-dav, be, 525. 
 what'is it to be, 2067. 
 Wish was father to that thought, 
 
 2070. 
 Wishes lengthen as our sun de- 
 clines, 2071. 
 Wit, a mouse's. 2072. 
 
 brevity the soul of, 235. 
 
 I have neither, 195. 
 
 is out, when age is in, 51. 
 
 men famed for, 2075. 
 
 on the -wings of borrowed, 
 
 2076. 
 will shine, 252. 
 Wit 's, a. a feather, 922. 
 
 an unruly engine. 2073. 
 Wits are to liiadness allied, 2074. 
 Wives may be merry, 2(>45. 
 Woe doth tread upon another's 
 heel, 119S. 
 the deepest notes of, 20S0. 
 trappings and the suits of, 
 2078. ' 
 Woes, rare are solitary, 2079. 
 
 that wait on age, 59. 
 Woman, earth's noblest thing, 
 20SS. 
 in our hours of ease, 2090. 
 lovely, stoops to folly, 733. 
 mixed of such fine elements, 
 2092. 
 
 Woman, nothing lovelier in, 2084. 
 
 she is a, 422. 
 
 80 she 's good, 2089. 
 
 that deliberates is lost, 2091. 
 
 we had been brutes without 
 you, 20S5. 
 
 we will work for a, 2093. 
 Woman 's a contradiction still, 
 20S7. 
 
 will, torrent of a, 20S6. 
 Women are as roses, 2082. 
 
 honor to, 2083. 
 
 should never be dated, 58. 
 Wonder, it gives me, 1170. 
 
 of an hour, 2094. 
 Woodland, like a human mind, 
 
 2095. 
 Woodman, spare that tree, 2096. 
 Woods are an ever-new delight, 
 741. 
 
 whispered it to the, 2097. 
 Word in season spoken, 231. 
 Words, a dearth of. 404. 
 
 are no deeds, 209S. 
 
 are things, 2102. 
 
 chaste, from a bashful mind, 
 
 have power to assuage, 2100. 
 
 immodest, admit no defence, 
 512. 
 
 never to heaven go, 2099. 
 
 our, have wings, 2101. 
 Wordsworth's healing power, 
 
 2103. 
 Work, free men freely, 2104. 
 
 men must, 2105. 
 
 there is always, 1923. 
 Workmen, when, strive, 424. 
 World, bestride the narrow. 356. 
 
 I have not loved the, 2110. 
 
 is all a fleeting show, 2109. 
 
 service of the antique, 91. 
 
 this pendent. 210S. 
 
 too much respect upon the, 
 2107. 
 
 uncertain comes and goes, 
 191. 
 World 's, the, a theatre, 28. 
 Worm, the smallest, will turn, 
 
 2111. 
 Worship without words, 2112. 
 Worth, courage, honor, 296. 
 
 makes the man, 2113.
 
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 INDEX TO QUOTATIONS. 
 
 Wound, willing to, 2115 
 Wounds, binll up my, 2114. 
 
 Wfjit o'er his, 707. 
 Wrath, .\chilles', 2117. 
 
 come not within my, 21IC. 
 Wri-alhs, victorious. 211S. 
 Wre.ks. a thousand fearful, 2119. 
 Wretch, a needy, 2120. 
 
 an inhuman, 440 
 Wretches hang that jurymen 
 may dine, 95tJ. 
 that depend on greatness' 
 favor, 6s9. 
 Wrinkle, what stamps the, 59, 
 Write, you, with case. 2121 
 Writing well, nature's chief mas- 
 terpiece, 2122. 
 Wrong forever on the throne, 
 1970. 
 on, swift vengeance waits, 
 2123. 
 Wrongs unredressed, 2124. 
 
 Xerxes did die, 2125. 
 
 Years following years, 2127. 
 
 I sigh not over vanished, 
 212v 
 
 none would live past, 2129. 
 
 the accomplishment of. 2120. 
 Yesterday, oh. call back, 2130. 
 
 the word of Ca-sar might, 254. 
 Yew. hails me to yonder, 548. 
 
 old, which praspest, 2181 
 Y'outh, home keeping, 2183. 
 
 how beautiful is. 2135. 
 
 how buoyant are thv hopes, 
 2134. 
 
 lost days of our, 1306. 
 
 no less becomes, 2132. 
 
 on the prow, 2136. 
 
 Zeal. his. none seconded, 2188. 
 served my God with, 2137. 
 Zealots, graceless, fight, 663. 
 
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