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diff --git a/15119.txt b/15119.txt new file mode 100644 index 0000000..419e85d --- /dev/null +++ b/15119.txt @@ -0,0 +1,21662 @@ +Project Gutenberg's Handy Dictionary of Poetical Quotations, by Various + +This eBook is for the use of anyone anywhere at no cost and with +almost no restrictions whatsoever. You may copy it, give it away or +re-use it under the terms of the Project Gutenberg License included +with this eBook or online at www.gutenberg.org + + +Title: Handy Dictionary of Poetical Quotations + +Author: Various + +Release Date: February 21, 2005 [EBook #15119] + +Language: English + +Character set encoding: ASCII + +*** START OF THIS PROJECT GUTENBERG EBOOK POETICAL QUOTATIONS *** + + + + +Produced by Audrey Longhurst and the PG Online Distributed +Proofreading Team. + + + + + + + +[Illustration: Henry W. Longfellow.] + +HANDY DICTIONARY +OF +POETICAL QUOTATIONS + + +COMPILED BY +GEORGE W. POWERS + +AUTHOR OF "IMPORTANT EVENTS," ETC. + +NEW YORK +THOMAS Y. CROWELL & CO. +PUBLISHERS + + + + +1901 +BY T.Y. CROWELL & COMPANY. + + + + +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 predecessors or contemporaries. + +But often old ideas in a new dress are welcome to readers who might not +have been attracted by the old forms; and each generation 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 making this a "handy" dictionary of +quotations and, at the same time, as comprehensive as the space +permitted, it has been necessary to confine the illustration of the +topics selected to brief extracts from each author. Of course, in all +books of quotations the great name of Shakespeare fills the largest +space; and the compiler of this book, as well as all students of +Shakespeare, 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, especially to the _Poetical +Quotations_ 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 +assistance in preparing the copy for the press and in reading the +proofs. + +G.W.P. + +DORCHESTER, MASS., +July, 1901. + + + + +HANDY DICTIONARY OF POETICAL +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. Lost,_ 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 301. + + +=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; +With mine own tears I wash away my balm, +With 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. 1. + + +=Abdiel.= + +So spake the seraph Abdiel, faithful found; +Among the faithless, faithful only he. +4 +MILTON: _Par. Lost,_ Bk. v., Line 896. + + +=Ability.= + + I profess not talking; only this, +Let each man do his best. +5 +SHAKS.: _1 Henry IV.,_ Act v., Sc. 2. + + +=Absence.= + +What! keep a week away! Seven days and nights? +Eight score eight hours? and lovers' absent hours, +More tedious than the dial eight score times? +O weary reckoning! +6 +SHAKS.: _Othello,_ Act iii., Sc. 1. + +Though lost to sight, to memory dear +Thou ever wilt remain. +7 +GEORGE LINLEY: _Song, Though Lost to Sight._ + +Condemn'd whole years in absence to deplore, +And image charms he must behold no more. +8 +POPE: _Eloisa to A.,_ Line 361. + +O last love! O first love! +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. +10 +FREDERICK W. THOMAS: _Absence Conquers Love._ + + +=Abstinence.= + +Against diseases here the strongest fence +Is the defensive virtue abstinence. +11 +HERRICK: _Aph. Abstinence._ + + +=Abuse.= + +Thou thread, thou thimble, +Thou yard, three quarters, half-yard, quarter, nail, +Thou flea, thou nit, thou winter cricket thou: +Away thou rag, thou quantity, thou remnant. +12 +SHAKS.: _Tam. 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. +15 +CHARLES KINGSLEY: _Saints' Tragedy,_ Act ii., Sc. 4. + +By many a happy accident. +16 +MIDDLETON: _No Wit, No Help, Like a Woman's,_ Act ii., Sc. 2. + + +=Account.= + +No reckoning made, but sent to my account +With all my imperfections on my head. +17 +SHAKS.: _Hamlet,_ Act i., Sc. 5. + + +=Accusation.= + +Accuse not Nature: she hath done her part; +Do thou but thine. +18 +MILTON: _Par. Lost,_ Bk. viii., Line 561. + + +=Achievements.= + +Great things thro' greatest hazards are achiev'd, +And then they shine. +19 +BEAUMONT AND FLETCHER: _Loyal Subject,_ 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. +22 +BEAUMONT AND FLETCHER: _Captain,_ Act v., Sc. 5. + +Only the actions of the just +Smell sweet and blossom in their dust. +23 +JAMES SHIRLEY: _Death's Final Conquest,_ Sc. iii. + +Who sweeps a room as for Thy laws + Makes that and th' action fine. +24 +HERBERT: _The Elixir._ + + +=Activity.= + +If it were done, when 'tis done, then 'twere well +It were done quickly. +25 +SHAKS.: _Macbeth,_ Act i., Sc. 7. + +Wise 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 follow'd perhaps by a smile. +30 +COWPER: _The Rose._ + + +=Adieu.= + +Adieu, adieu! my native shore + Fades o'er the waters blue. +31 +BYRON: _Ch. Harold,_ Canto i., St. 13. + +Adieu, she cried, and waved her lily hand. +32 +GAY: _Sweet William's Farewell to 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: _It is a Beauteous Evening._ + + +=Adorning.= + +Her modest looks the cottage might adorn, +Sweet as the primrose 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, +Wears 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. + +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. +39 +BUTLER: _Hudibras,_ Pt. i., Canto iii., 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. +40 +CHAUCER: _Troilus and Creseide,_ Bk. iii., Line 1625. + + +=Advice.= + +Give every man thine ear, but few thy voice; +Take each man's censure, but reserve thy judgment. +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._ + + +=Affectation.= + +There affectation, 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 31. + + +=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, suffer'd, it will set the heart on fire. +47 +SHAKS.: _Venus and A.,_ 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. 5. + + +=Age.= + +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. Caesar,_ Act ii., Sc. 1. + +Manhood, when verging into age, grows thoughtful. +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 him 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. + +O, sir! I must not tell my age. +They say women and music should never be dated. +58 +GOLDSMITH: _She Stoops to Con.,_ Act iii. + +What is the worst of woes that wait on age? +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 +BYRON: _Ch. Harold,_ Canto ii., St. 98. + +Old age comes on apace to ravage all the clime. +60 +BEATTIE: _The Minstrel,_ 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. +63 +WALLER: _Divine Love,_ Canto iii. + +Where order in variety we see, +And where, though all things differ, all agree. +64 +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,_ iv. + + +=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'Allegro,_ 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. + + +=Amber.= + +Pretty! in amber to observe the forms +Of hairs, or straws, or dirt, or grubs, or worms! +The things, we know, are neither rich nor rare, +But wonder how the devil they got there. +73 +POPE: _Epis. to Arbuthnot,_ Line 169. + + +=Ambition.= + + Fling away ambition; +By that sin fell the angels: how can man then, +The image of his Maker, hope to win by it? +74 +SHAKS.: _Henry VIII.,_ 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! +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._ + + +=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: _To Zelinda._ + +What 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 off 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. + + +=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 +SHAKS.: _Much Ado,_ Act iii., Sc. 1. + + 'Twas 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 Cleo.,_ 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 date 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 meed! +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. +92 +WARTON: _Written on a Blank Leaf of Dugdale's Monasticon._ + + +=Apathy.= + +In lazy apathy let stoics boast +Their virtue fix'd; 'tis fixed as in a frost. +93 +POPE: _Essay on Man,_ Epis. ii., Line 101. + + +=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! +Like apparitions seen and gone. +95 +JOHN NORRIS: _The Parting._ + + +=Appeal.= + +I have done the state some service, and they know it. +No more of that; I pray you in your letters, +When you shall these unlucky deeds relate, +Speak of me as I 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,_ Line 299. + + +=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. + + +=Applause.= + +I would applaud thee to the very echo, +That should applaud again. +101 +SHAKS.: _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. +104 +CHAUCER: _Canterbury Tales,_ Prologue, 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,_ Line 124. + +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, +Love, wi' her auld recruitin' drum, + Than taks the gate. +106 +ROBERT LOUIS STEVENSON: _Underwoods,_ Bk. ii., iii. + + +=Argument.= + +In arguing, too, the parson owned his skill, +For e'en though vanquish'd, he could argue still. +107 +GOLDSMITH: _Des. Village,_ Line 211 + + +=Aristocracy.= + +'Tis from high life high characters drawn; +A saint in 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 2. + +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: _Keramos._ + + +=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. +112 +MILTON: _Par. Lost,_ Bk. ii., Line 300. + + +=Aspiration.= + +'Tis he, I ken the manner of his gait; +He rises on the toe; that spirit of his +In aspiration lifts him from the earth. +113 +SHAKS.: _Troil. and Cress.,_ Act iv., Sc. 5. + + +=Assurance.= + +I'll make assurance double sure, +And take a bond of fate. +114 +SHAKS.: _Macbeth,_ Act iv., Sc. 1. + + +=Atheism.= + +By night an atheist half believes a God. +115 +YOUNG: _Night Thoughts,_ Night v., Line 176. + + +=Athens.= + +Ancient of days! august Athena! where, +Where are thy men of might, thy grand in soul? +Gone--glimmering through the dream of things that were +First in the race that led to glory's goals +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 +SHAKS.: _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, + + +=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 +RUSKIN: _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.= + + Man, 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. + + +=Autumn.= + +Season of mists and mellow fruitfulness! +Close bosom friend of the maturing sun; +Conspiring with him how to load and bless +With, 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 +R.H. 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 and 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: _Autumn._ + + +=Avarice.= + +The lust of gold succeeds the rags of conquest: +The lust of gold, unfeeling and remorseless! +The last corruption of degenerate man. +132 +DR. JOHNSON: _Irene,_ Act i., Sc. 1. + +So for a good old-gentlemanly vice, +I think I must take up with avarice. +133 +BYRON: _Don Juan,_ Canto i., St. 216. + + That disease +Of which all old men sicken,--avarice. +134 +MIDDLETON: _Roaring Girl,_ Act i., Sc. 1. + + +=Awkwardness.= + +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. + + + + +==B.== + + +=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 II.,_ Act iii., Sc. 1. + + Banished? +O friar, the damned use that word in hell; +Howlings 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 +SHAKS.: _Rom. and Jul.,_ Act iii., Sc. 3 + + +=Banner.= + +Hang out our banners on the outward walls. +140 +SHAKS.: _Macbeth,_ Act v., Sc. 5. + +A banner with the strange device. +141 +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 Nubibus._ + + +=Bars.= + +Stone walls do not a prison make, + Nor iron bars a cage. +144 +LOVELACE: _To Althea from Prison,_ iv. + + +=Baseness.= + + Since Cleopatra died, +I have lived in such dishonor that the gods +Detest my baseness. +145 +SHAKS.: _Ant. and Cleo.,_ Act iv., Sc. 14. + + +=Bashfulness.= + +I pity bashful men, who feel the pain +Of fancied scorn, and undeserv'd disdain, +And bear 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 +BYRON: _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. +150 +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._ + + +=Beard.= + +His beard was as white as snow, +All flaxen was his poll. +152 +SHAKS.: _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 nether, orange mix'd with grey. +153 +BUTLER: _Hudibras,_ Pt. i., Canto i., Line 241. + + +=Beast.= + +A beast, that wants discourse of reason. +154 +SHAKS.; _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 +SHAKS.: _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 +Led captive; cease to admire, and all her plumes +Fall flat 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: _Cym. 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: _Endymion,_ 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? +160 +MRS. BROWNING: _Drama of Ex. Extrem. 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 unremoved +Till heart with heart in concord beats, + And the lover is beloved. +163 +WORDSWORTH: _To ----. Let Other Bards of Angels Sing._ + + +=Bed.= + +In bed we laugh, in bed we cry, +And born in bed, in bed we die; +The near approach a bed may show +Of human bliss and human woe. +164 +ISAAC DE BENSERADE: _Trans._ by Dr. 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 Henry VI.,_ Act i., Sc. 4. + +When beggars die, there are no comets seen; +The heavens themselves blaze forth the death of princes. +168 +SHAKS.: _Jul. Caesar,_ 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. + + +=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: _Those Evening 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 +TENNYSON: _In Memoriam,_ Pt. cv. + + Hear the mellow wedding bells, + Golden bells! +What a world of happiness their harmony foretells! +173 +EDGAR ALLAN POE: _The Bells._ + + +=Benediction.= + +The thought of our past years in me doth breed +Perpetual benediction. +174 +WORDSWORTH: _Intimations of Immortality,_ 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 Hymns,_ No. 30. + + +=Bigotry.= + +Christians have burnt each other, quite persuaded +That all the Apostles would have done as they did. +176 +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. +178 +WORDSWORTH: _Intimations of Immortality,_ 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 camping-ground + Their silent tents are spread, +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.: _M. 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. +183 +ROBERT LOUIS STEVENSON: _The House Beautiful._ + + +=Blessings.= + +How blessings brighten as they take their flight! +184 +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 Agonistes,_ Line 80. + +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 God, to me 's extinct, +And all her various objects of delight +Annul'd, which might in part my grief have eas'd, +187 +MILTON: _Samson Agonistes,_ Line 67. + + +=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 +SHAKS.: _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 +EMERSON: _Epigraph to Friendship._ + +Blood is a juice of very special kind. +192 +GOETHE: _Faust_ (Swanwick's Trans.), 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 Poesy,_ Pt. i., St. 1, Line 3. + + +=Blossoms.= + +Who in life's battle firm doth stand +Shall bear hope's tender blossoms + Into the silent land. +194 +J.G. VON SALIS: _The Silent Land._ + + +=Bluntness.= + +I 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. Caesar,_ Act iii., Sc. 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. +What then? +Who's sorry for a gnat ... or girl? +196 +MRS. BROWNING: _Aurora Leigh,_ Bk. ii., Line 732. + + +=Boasting.= + + Here's a large mouth, indeed, +That spits forth death, and mountains, rocks, and seas; +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, +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: _Temple, Church Porch,_ St. 34. + + +=Bond.= + +I'll have my bond; I will not hear thee speak; +I'll have my bond; and therefore speak no more. +200 +SHAKS.: _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; +And sometimes, for variety, I confer +With kings and emperors, and weigh their counsels. +204 +BEAUMONT AND FLETCHER: _The Elder 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 +WORDSWORTH: _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._ + + +=Borrowing.= + +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 any man. +211 +SHAKS.: _Hamlet,_ Act i., Sc. 3. + + +=Boston.= + +Solid men of Boston, banish long potations! +Solid men of Boston, make no long orations! +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 winter 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, + Heaven did a recompense as largely send; +He gave to mis'ry (all he had) a tear, + He gain'd from Heav'n ('t was 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 be 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. +220 +SHAKS.: _As You Like It,_ Act ii., Sc. 7. + + 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._ + + +=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 +SHAKS.: _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.= + + 'Tis more brave +To live, than to die. +225 +OWEN MEREDITH: _Lucile,_ Pt. ii., Canto vi., 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. + + +=Bread.= + +O God! that bread should be so dear, + And flesh and blood so cheap! +229 +HOOD: _The Song of the Shirt._ + + +=Breast.= + +The yielding marble of her snowy breast. +230 +WALLER: _On a Lady passing through a Crowd 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). +232 +JAMES MONTGOMERY: _The Wanderer of 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._ + + +=Brevity.= + + Since brevity is the soul of wit, +And tediousness the limbs and outward flourishes-- +I will be brief. +235 +SHAKS.: _Hamlet,_ Act ii., Sc. 2. + +For brevity is very good, +When we are, or are not, understood. +236 +BUTLER: _Hudibras,_ Pt. i., Canto i., Line 669. + + +=Bribes.= + + What! shall one of us, +That struck the foremost man of all this world, +But for supporting robbers;--shall we now +Contaminate our fingers with 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 the moon, +Than such a Roman. +237 +SHAKS.: _Jul. Caesar,_ Act iv., Sc. 3. + + +=Bride.= + +You are just a sweet bride in her bloom, +All sunshine, and snowy, and pure. +238 +THOMAS B. ALDRICH: _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. +239 +EMERSON: _Hymn sung at the Completion of the Battle Monument._ + + +=Brooks.= + +A silvery brook comes stealing + From the shadow of its trees, +Where slender herbs of the forest stoop + Before the entering breeze. +240 +WILLIAM CULLEN BRYANT: _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: _A 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. +245 +CHARLES JEFFERYS: _The Meeting of Spring and Summer_ + + +=Bugle.= + +Blow, bugle, blow! set the wild echoes flying! +And answer, echoes, answer! dying, dying, dying. +246 +TENNYSON: _The Princess,_ Pt. iii., Line 360. + + +=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. +248 +FRANCES ANNE KEMBLE: _To the Young +Gentlemen leaving Lenox Academy, Mass._ + + +=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. + + +=Buttercups.= + +All will be gay when noontide wakes anew +The buttercups, the little children's dower. +251 +ROBERT BROWNING: _Home-Thoughts, From Abroad._ + + + + +==C.== + + +=Cadence.= + + Wit will shine +Through the harsh cadence of a rugged line. +252 +DRYDEN: _To the Memory of Mr. Oldham,_ 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. Caesar,_ 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._ + + +=Calumny.= + + Calumny will sear +Virtue itself: these shrugs, these hums, and ha's. +257 +SHAKS.: _Wint. Tale,_ Act ii., Sc. 1. + + +=Camping.= + +The bed was made, the room was fit, +By 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 +ROBERT LOUIS STEVENSON: _A Camp._ + + +=Candle.= + +How far that little candle throws his beams! +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 are 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. + + +=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: _Gebir,_ Bk. 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. +264 +WALT WHITMAN: _O Captain! My Captain_! (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. and 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. + +Care, whom not the gayest can outbrave, +Pursues its feeble victim to the grave. +268 +HENRY KIRKE WHITE: _Childhood,_ Pt. ii., 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'll husband them so well, +They shall go far with little. +271 +SHAKS.: _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. +274 +WORDSWORTH: _Lines composed a few miles 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: _Il Penseroso,_ Line 157. + + +=Cato.= + +Like Cato, give 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: _Kubla Khan._ + + +=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 +SHAKS.: _Mid. N. Dream,_ Act i., Sc. 1. + +Our Maker bids increase; who bids abstain +But our destroyer, foe to God and man? +284 +MILTON: _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. 1. + + +=Chance.= + + That power +Which erring men call Chance. +288 +MILTON: _Comus,_ Line 587. + +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. +294 +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. + + +=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: _Comus,_ 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 beadroll worthie to be fyled. +302 +SPENSER: _Faerie Queene,_ Bk. iv., Canto ii., St. 32. + + +=Cheating.= + +Doubtless the pleasure is as great, +Of being cheated as to cheat. +303 +BUTLER: _Hudibras,_ Pt. ii., Canto iii., Line 1. + + +=Cheerfulness.= + + It is good +To lengthen to the last a sunny mood. +304 +JAMES RUSSELL LOWELL: _Legend of Brittany,_ Pt. i., St. 35. + + +=Chickens.= + +To swallow gudgeons ere they 're catch'd, +And count their chickens ere they 're hatch'd. +305 +BUTLER: _Hudibras,_ Pt. ii., Canto ii., 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: _Essay on Man._ Epis. ii., Line 275. + +The child is father of the man. +309 +WORDSWORTH: _My Heart Leaps,_ Line 7. + +Children 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._ + +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 +CHARLES 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. +313 +ELIZABETH AKERS ALLEN: _Rock Me to Sleep._ + + +=Chime.= + +Faintly as tolls the evening chime, +Our voices keep tune and our oars keep time. +314 +MOORE: _A Canadian Boat-Song._ + + +=Chivalry.= + +Cervantes smil'd Spain's chivalry away. +315 +BYRON: _Don Juan,_ Canto xiii., St. 11. + + +=Choice.= + +There's small choice in rotten apples. +316 +SHAKS.: _Tam. of the S.,_ Act i., Sc. 1. + +Follow thou thy choice. +317 +WILLIAM CULLEN BRYANT: _Alcayde of Molina._ + + +=Choler.= + +Must I give way and room to your rash choler? +Shall I be frighted when a madman stares? +318 +SHAKS.: _Jul. Caesar,_ Act iv., Sc. 3. + + +=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 +TENNYSON: _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. +320 +JULIA WARD HOWE: _Battle Hymn of the Republic._ + +Hail to the King of Bethlehem, +Who weareth in his diadem +The yellow crocus for the gem +Of his authority. +321 +LONGFELLOW: _Christus, Golden Legend,_ Pt. 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. +323 +JAMES RUSSELL LOWELL: _Biglow Papers,_ No. iii. + + +=Christmas.= + +At Christmas play, and make good cheer, +For Christmas comes but once a year. +324 +TUSSER: 500 _Pts. Good Hus.,_ Ch. 12. + +Again at Christmas did we weave + The holly round the Christmas hearth; + The silent snow possess'd the earth. +325 +TENNYSON: _In Memoriam,_ Pt. lxxvii., St. 1. + +Bright be thy Christmas tide! +Carol it far and wide, +Jesus, the King and the Saviour, is come! +326 +FRANCES R. HAVERGAL: _Christmas Mottoes._ + +Heap on more wood! the wind is chill; +But let it whistle as it will, +We'll keep our Christmas merry still. +327 +SCOTT: _Marmion,_ Canto vi., Introduction. + +'Twas the night before Christmas, when all through the house +Not a creature was stirring,--not even a mouse. +328 +CLEMENT C. MOORE: _A Visit from St. Nicholas._ + + +=Church.= + +Who builds a church to God, and not to fame, +Will never mark the marble with his name. +329 +POPE: _Moral Essays,_ 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 scene, +Where Caesars, heroes, peasants, hermits lie, +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 folly sleeps. +331 +DYER: _Ruins of Rome,_ Line 540. + + +=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. lxiii., St. 2. + + +=Citadel.= + +A tower'd citadel, a pendent rock, +A forked mountain, or blue promontory +With trees upon't. +334 +SHAKS.: _Ant. and Cleo.,_ Act iv., Sc. 14. + + +=Citizens.= + +Before man made us citizens, great Nature made us men. +335 +JAMES RUSSELL LOWELL: _The Capture 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. + + +=Civilities.= + +Love taught him shame; and shame, with love at strife, +Soon 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 copse, where once the garden smil'd, +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. + + +=Clime.= + +Forc'd from their homes, a melancholy train, +To traverse climes beyond the western main. +342 +GOLDSMITH: _Traveller,_ Line 409. + + +=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: _Oedipus,_ 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._ + +Those clouds are angels' robes.--That fiery west +Is paved with smiling faces. +348 +CHARLES KINGSLEY: _Saint's Tragedy,_ Act i., Sc. 3. + + +=Coach.= + +Go, call a coach, and let a coach be call'd, +And let the man who calleth be the caller, +And in his calling let him nothing call +But coach! coach! coach! oh, for a coach, ye gods! +349 +CAREY: _Chrononhotonthologos,_ Act i., Sc. 3. + + +=Cock-crowing.= + + The early village cock +Hath twice done salutation to the morn. +350 +SHAKS.: _Richard III.,_ Act v., Sc. 3. + + +=Coincidence.= + +A "strange coincidence," to use a phrase +By which such things are settled nowadays. +351 +BYRON: _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: 'tis bitter cold, +And I am sick at heart. +353 +SHAKS.: _Hamlet,_ Act i., Sc. 1. + + +=Coliseum.= + +"While stands the Coliseum, Rome shall stand; +When falls the Coliseum, Rome shall fall; +And when Rome falls--the world." +354 +BYRON: _Ch. Harold,_ Canto iv., St. 145. + + +=Colossus.= + +Why, man, he doth bestride the narrow world +Like a Colossus, and we petty men +Walk under his huge legs and peep about +To find ourselves dishonorable graves. +355 +SHAKS.: _Jul. Caesar,_ 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 +MILTON: _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 Essays,_ Epis. iii., Line 339. + + +=Combat.= + +The combat deepens. On, ye brave, +Who rush to glory or the grave! +359 +CAMPBELL: _Hohenlinden._ + + +=Comet.= + +Incens'd with indignation Satan stood +Unterrify'd, and like a comet burn'd +That fires the length of Ophiuchus huge +In th' Arctic sky, and from his horrid hair +Shakes pestilence and war. +360 +MILTON: _Par. Lost,_ Bk. ii., Line 707. + + +=Comfort.= + +O, my good lord, that comfort comes too late; +'Tis 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 VIII.,_ Act iv., Sc. 2. + + +=Commandments.= + +Could I come near your beauty with my nails, +I'd set my ten commandments in your 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.= + +Where wealth and freedom reign contentment fails, +And honor sinks where commerce long prevails. +364 +GOLDSMITH: _Traveller,_ Line 91. + + +=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, +'Tis e'en as if an angel shook his wings. +365 +COWPER: _Charity,_ Line 435. + + +=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. +36 +SHAKS.: _M. 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 And.,_ 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._ + + +=Complexion.= + +Mislike me not for my complexion, +The shadow'd livery of the burnish'd sun. +372 +SHAKS.: _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.: _Tw. Night,_ Act ii., Sc. 3. + + +=Conceit.= + +Conceit in weakest bodies strongest works. +375 +SHAKS.: _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, + Condemn'd alike to groan,-- +The tender for another's pain, + Th' unfeeling for his own. +378 +GRAY: _On a Distant Prospect of Eton College._ + + +=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,_ Pt. 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 the madding wheels +Of brazen chariots rag'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. + +With ruin upon ruin, rout on rout, +Confusion worse confounded. +383 +MILTON: _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. +384 +DEFOE: _True-Born Englishman,_ Pt. i., Line 1. + + +=Conquest.= + +Though fann'd by Conquest's crimson wing, + They mock the air with idle slate. +385 +GRAY: _The Bard,_ Pt. i., St. 1. + + +=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 torn awry, +And lose the name of action. +386 +SHAKS.: _Hamlet,_ Act iii., Sc. 1. + +O conscience, into what abyss of fears +And horrors hast thou driven me; out of which +I 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, and draw the accounts of evil, +And find a deuced balance with the devil. +388 +BYRON: _Don Juan,_ Canto i., St. 167. + + +=Consideration.= + +Consideration like an angel came, +And whipp'd the offending Adam out of him. +389 +SHAKS.: _Henry V.,_ Act i., Sc. 1. + + +=Consistency.= + +Gineral C. is a dreffle smart man; + He's ben on all sides thet give places or pelf; +But consistency still wuz a part of his plan,-- + He's ben true to _one_ party, an' thet is himself. +390 +JAMES RUSSELL LOWELL: _Biglow Papers,_ 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 diseas'd; +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, +Which weighs upon the heart? +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. Caesar,_ 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: _Christabel,_ Pt. ii. + + +=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 +SHAKS.: _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. +401 +HENRY KIRKE WHITE: _Clifton Grove,_ Line 139. + + +=Contradiction.= + +Woman'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: _Task,_ Bk. iii., Line 161. + + +=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 i' th' right. +405 +BUTLER: _Misc. Thoughts,_ Line 113. + + +=Cooks.= + +Heaven sends us good meat; but the devil sends cooks. +406 +GARRICK: _Epigr. 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.B. ALDRICH: _Coquette._ + + +=Corruption.= + +Corruption is a tree, whose branches are +Of an unmeasurable length: they spread +Ev'rywhere; and the dew that drops from thence +Hath infected some chairs and stools of authority. +408 +BEAUMONT AND FLETCHER: _Hon. Man's For.,_ 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'll find it wholesome. +410 +SHAKS.: _Henry VIII.,_ Act i., Sc. 1. + +Here thou, great Anna! whom 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. +413 +GEORGE BARRINGTON: _Prologue written for +the Opening of the Playhouse at New South +Wales, Jan. 16, 1796._ + + +=Courage.= + + What man dare, I dare. +Approach thou like the rugged Russian bear, +The arm'd Rhinoceros, or th' Hyrcanian tiger. +Take any shape but that, and my firm nerves +Shall never tremble. +414 +SHAKS.: _Macbeth,_ Act iii., Sc. 4. + +I dare do all that may become a man: +Who dares do more is none. +415 +SHAKS.: _Macbeth,_ Act i., Sc. 7. + + No thought of flight, +None of retreat, no unbecoming deed +That argued fear; each on himself relied, +As only in his arm the moment lay +Of victory. +416 +MILTON, _Par. Lost,_ Bk. vi., Line 236. + + +=Court--Courtiers.= + +The caterpillars of the commonwealth, +Whom I have soon to weed and pluck away. +417 +SHAKS.: _Richard II.,_ Act ii., Sc. 3. + + Not 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.: _Cymbeline,_ Act i., Sc. 1. + + A mere court butterfly, +That flutters in the pageant of a monarch. +419 +BYRON: _Sardanapalus,_ Act v., Sc. 1. + + +=Courtesy.= + +How sweet and gracious, even in common speech, +Is that fine 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 dismay,-- +These engines can the proudest love convert. +421 +SPENSER: _Amoretti and Epithalamion,_ 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. +423 +BUTLER: _Hudibras,_ Pt. ii., Canto i., 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. + + +=Cowardice.= + +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.: _Tam. of the S.,_ Introduction, Sc. 2. + +Cowards die many times before their deaths; +The valiant never taste of death but once. +426 +SHAKS.: _Jul. Caesar,_ 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 gross 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 defac'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 408. + + +=Craftiness.= + +That for ways that are dark +And for tricks that are vain, +The heathen Chinee is peculiar. +433 +BRET HARTE: _Plain Language from 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 +YOUNG: _Night Thoughts,_ Night i., Line 23. + + +=Credit.= + +Bless paper credit! last and best supply! +That lends corruption lighter wings to fly. +435 +POPE: _Moral Essays,_ Epis. iii., Line 39. + + +=Creed.= + +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 +MOORE: _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. Caesar,_ Act ii., Sc. 1. + + One murder made a villain, +Millions a hero. Princes were privileged +To kill, and numbers sanctified the crime. +438 +BEILBY PORTEUS: _Death,_ Line 154. + + +=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,_ Line 37. + + +=Cromwell.= + +Cromwell, our chief of men, who through a cloud, +Not of war only, but detractions rude, +Guided by faith and matchless fortitude, +To peace and truth thy glorious way hast plough'd. +441 +MILTON: _Sonnets, To the Lord General 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. + + +=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 wait 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. +449 +SIR HENRY TAYLOR: _Philip Van Artevelde,_ 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. + + +=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. Caesar,_ Act iv., Sc. 3. + + +=Curses.= + + Let this pernicious hour +Stand aye accursed in the calendar. +454 +SHAKS.: _Macbeth,_ Act iv., Sc. 1. + + But in their stead +Curses, not loud but deep, mouth-honor, breath, +Which 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 +MILTON: _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. + +Assume a virtue, if you have it not. +That monster, custom, who all sense doth eat, +Of habits devil, is angel yet in this. +459 +SHAKS.: _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 286. + + + + +==D.== + + +=Daffadills.= + +Fair daffadills, we weep to see + You haste away so soon: +As yet the early rising sun + Has not attained his noon. +461 +HERRICK: _To Daffadills._ + + +=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 +HOOD: _Flowers._ + + +=Damnation.= + +And deal damnation round the land. +464 +POPE: _The Universal Prayer,_ St. 7. + + +=Damsel.= + +A damsel with a dulcimer +In a vision once I saw. +465 +COLERIDGE: _Kubla 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: _Traveller,_ 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: _L'Allegro,_ Line 33. + +On with the dance! let joy be unconfined! +No 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 Pyrrhic 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., Sc. 4. + +Out of this nettle, danger, we pluck this flower, safety. +472 +SHAKS.: _1 Henry IV.,_ Act ii., Sc. 3. + +Whom neither shape of danger can dismay, +Nor thought of tender happiness betray. +473 +WORDSWORTH: _Character of the Happy 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 649. + + +=Dart.= + +Th' adorning thee with so much art + Is but a barb'rous skill; +'Tis 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 v., 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. +484 +COLERIDGE: _Death of Wallenstein,_ Act i., 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._ + +My days are in the yellow leaf; + The flowers 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. Caesar,_ Act ii., Sc. 2. + +Kings and mightiest potentates must die, +For that's the end of human misery. +489 +SHAKS.: _1 Henry VI.,_ Act iii., Sc. 2. + +Death lies on her, like an untimely frost +Upon the sweetest flower of all the field. +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 +That close the pestilence are broke, +And crowded cities wail its stroke; +Come in consumption's ghastly form, +The earthquake shock, the 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-GREENE HALLECK: _Marco Bozzaris._ + +Death loves a shining mark, a signal blow. +494 +YOUNG: _Night Thoughts,_ Night v., Line 1011. + +To every man upon this earth +Death cometh soon or late. +495 +MACAULAY: _Lays Anc. 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. HEMANS: _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. + +Our days begin with trouble here, + Our life is but a span, +And cruel death is always near, + So frail a thing is man. +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. +503 +JAMES RUSSELL LOWELL: _To George 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. + + +=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 he made +And great bonfires, did not the cold remember; +His Saviour's birth his mind so much did glad. +510 +SPENSER: _Faerie Queene,_ Bk. vii., Canto vii., St. 41. + + As soon +Seek roses in December, ice in June. +511 +BYRON: _English Bards and Scotch Reviewers,_ Line 75. + + +=Decency.= + +Immodest words admit of no defence, +For want of decency is want of sense. +512 +EARL OF ROSCOMMON: _Essay on Translated 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; +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 darkness 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 threading in cold blood each mean detail, +And furze brake of half-pertinent circumstance-- +There lies the self-denial. +516 +CHARLES KINGSLEY: _Saint's Tragedy,_ Act iv., Sc. 3. + + +=Deep.= + +Embosom'd in the deep where Holland lies, +Methinks 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._ + + +=Defence.= + +What boots it at one gate to make defence, +And at another to let in the foe? +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 would 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 thoughts +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. +523 +WORDSWORTH: _Resolution and Independence,_ 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; +Next day the fatal precedent will plead; +Thus on, till wisdom is push'd out of life. +525 +YOUNG: _Night Thoughts,_ Night i., Line 390. + + +=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. +527 +WORDSWORTH: _She was a Phantom of 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 +SHAKS.: _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: _Rosciad,_ Line 741. + + +=Depravity.= + +God's love seemed lost upon him. +531 +BAILEY: _Festus,_ 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 Receiving 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. +534 +BYRON: _Giaour,_ Line 957. + + +=Desire (Love).= + +It liveth not in fierce desire, + With dead desire it doth not die. +535 +SCOTT: _Lay of the Last Minstrel,_ Canto v., 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 CARY: _Life._ + + +=Despair.= + +Despair defies even despotism; there is +That in my 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: _Par. Lost,_ Bk. ii., Line 44. + + +=Destiny.= + + That old miracle--Love-at-first-sight-- +Needs no explanations. The heart reads aright +Its destiny sometimes. +540 +OWEN MEREDITH: _Lucile,_ Pt. ii., Canto vi., St. 16. + +Where'er she lie, +Locked up from mortal eye, +In shady leaves of destiny. +541 +RICHARD CRASHAW: _Wishes to his Supposed Mistress._ + + +=Determination.= + +I'll speak to it, though hell itself should gape, +And bid me hold my peace. +542 +SHAKS.: _Hamlet,_ Act i., Sc. 2. + + +=Detraction.= + +Happy are they that hear their detractions, +And can put them to mending. +543 +SHAKS.: _Much Ado,_ Act ii., Sc. 3. + +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 the eye of childhood +That fears a painted devil. +545 +SHAKS.: _Macbeth,_ Act ii., Sc. 2. + +The devil was sick, the devil a saint would be; +The devil was well, the devil a saint was he. +546 +RABELAIS: _Works,_ 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 by the world, rises silent to Thee. +517 +MOORE: _As Down 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 Pawlet._ + + +=Dial.= + +True as the dial to the sun, +Although it be not shin'd upon. +549 +BUTLER: _Hudibras,_ Pt. iii., Canto ii., 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 II.,_ Act v., Sc. 5. + + +=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 +BURNS: _The Twa Dogs._ + + +=Dinner.= + +Since Eve ate apples, much depends on dinner. +553 +BYRON: _Don Juan,_ Canto xiii., St. 99. + + +=Disappointment.= + +Oh! that a dream so sweet, so long enjoy'd, +Should be so sadly, cruelly destroy'd! +554 +MOORE: _Lalla Rookh, Veiled Prophet of Khorassan._ + + +=Discord.= + +Discord oft in music makes the sweeter lay. +555 +SPENSER: _Faerie Queene,_ Bk. iii., Canto ii., 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. + + +=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. +559 +BEAUMONT AND FLETCHER: _King and No 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. +561 +YOUNG: _Night Thoughts,_ Night viii., Line 372. + + +=Dislike.= + +I 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. I.,_ 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. + + +=Disorder.= + +You have displac'd the mirth, broke the good meeting, +With most admir'd disorder. +564 +SHAKS.: _Macbeth,_ Act iii., Sc. 4. + + +=Disposition.= + +He is of a very melancholy disposition. +565 +SHAKS.: _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. +566 +BUTLER: _Hudibras,_ Pt. ii., Canto ii., Line 1. + + +=Dissension.= + +Now join your hands, and with your hands your hearts, +That no dissension hinder government. +567 +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 +SHAKS.: _Tempest,_ Act iv., Sc. 1. + + +=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. +574 +BUTLER: _Hudibras,_ Pt. i., Canto i., Line 205. + + +=Dogs.= + +Ay, in the catalogue ye go for men; +As hounds, 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. + + +=Dominion.= + +Here we may reign secure, and in my choice +To reign is worth ambition, though 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 call'd +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. +580 +DR. JOHNSON: _Pro. On Opening Drury Lane 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. + +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 than fictions. +583 +HOOD: _The Haunted House._ + +Like glimpses of forgotten dreams. +584 +TENNYSON: _The Two Voices,_ St. cxxvii. + + +=Dress.= + +Be plain in dress, and sober in your diet; +In short, my deary, kiss me, and be quiet. +585 +LADY M.W. MONTAGU: _A Summary of 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.: _Othello,_ 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, +There let him house and deep carouse, +Wi' bumpers flowing o'er, +Till he forgets his loves or debts, +An' minds his griefs no more. +588 +BURNS: _Scotch Drink._ + + +=Dryden.= + +Waller 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 267. + + +=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. JOHNSON: _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,_ Line 415. + + +=Dungeon.= + +Dweller in yon dungeon dark, +Hangman of creation, mark! +592 +BURNS: _Ode on Mrs. Oswald._ + + +=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._ + + + + +==E.== + + +=Eagle.= + +So the struck eagle, stretch'd upon the plain, +No more through rolling clouds to soar again, +View'd his own feather on the fatal dart, +And wing'd the shaft that quiver'd in his heart. +594 +BYRON: _English Bards and Scotch Reviewers,_ Line 826. + + +=Ear.= + +Where more is meant than meets the ear. +595 +MILTON: _Il 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. +598 +BEAUMONT AND FLETCHER: _Maid's Tragedy,_ 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. + + +=East.= + + An hour before the worshipp'd sun +Peered forth the golden window of the east. +601 +SHAKS.: _Rom. and Jul.,_ Act i., Sc. 1. + + +=Easter.= + +Rise, heart; thy Lord is risen. Sing His praise + Without delays, +Who takes thee by the hand, that thou likewise + With Him mayst rise: +That, as His death calcined thee to dust, +His life may make thee gold, and, much more, just. +602 +HERBERT: _The Church._ _Easter._ + + +=Eating.= + +Unquiet meals make ill digestions. +603 +SHAKS.: _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 grow for ever and for ever. +606 +TENNYSON: _The Princess,_ Pt. iii., _Song._ + + +=Eclipse.= + + The sun, ... +In dim eclipse, disastrous twilight sheds +On half the nations, and with fear of change +Perplexes monarchs. +607 +MILTON: _Par. Lost,_ Bk. i., Line 597. + + +=Eden.= + +They hand in hand, with wand'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 +MILTON: _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 RUSSELL LOWELL: _A 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. + + +=Empire.= + +Hands that the rod of empire might have sway'd, + Or waked to ecstasy the living lyre. +613 +GRAY: _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.= + +'Tis not now who's stout and bold? +But who bears hunger best, and cold? +And he's approv'd the most deserving, +Who longest can hold out at starving. +615 +BUTLER: _Hudibras,_ Pt. iii., Canto iii., Line 353. + + +=England.= + +O England!--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.= + +'Tis death to me to be at enmity; +I hate it, and desire all good men's love. +617 +SHAKS.: _Richard III.,_ Act ii., Sc. 1. + + +=Ensign.= + +Ay, tear her tattered ensign down! + Long has it waved on high, +And many an eye has danced to see + That banner in the sky. +618 +OLIVER WENDELL HOLMES: _Old Ironside._ + + +=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 +PRIOR: _Ep. Extempore._ + +Here rests his 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: _Elegy, Epitaph._ + + +=Equality.= + +The trickling rain doth fall +Upon us one and all; +The south wind kisses +The saucy milkmaid's cheek, +The nun's demure and meek, +Nor any misses. +625 +E.C. STEDMAN: _A Madrigal,_ St. 3. + + +=Error.= + + Shall Error in the round of time +Still father Truth? +626 +TENNYSON: _Love and Duty._ + +But Error, wounded, writhes with pain, + And dies among his worshippers. +627 +WILLIAM CULLEN BRYANT: _The Battle-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 cycle 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._ + +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, +Wakes not one ripple from its silent dream. +633 +SHELLEY: _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. +634 +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. +636 +SHAKS.: _Jul. Caesar,_ Act iii., Sc. 2. + + By his life alone, +Gracious and sweet, the better way was shown. +637 +WHITTIER: _The Pennsylvania Pilgrim._ + + +=Excess.= + +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. + + +=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.= + +'Tis expectation makes a blessing dear; +Heaven were not heaven if we knew what it were. +640 +SUCKLING: _Against Fruition._ + + +=Experience.= + +Experience is by industry achieved, +And perfected by the swift course of time. +641 +SHAKS.: _Two Gent, of V.,_ Act i., Sc. 3. + +His head was silver'd o'er with age, +And long experience made him sage. +642 +GAY, _Fables,_ Pt. i., _The Shepherd and the Philosopher._ + + +=Extremes.= + +Extremes in nature equal good produce, +Extremes in man concur to general use. +643 +POPE: _Moral Essays,_ Epis. iii., Line 161. + + +=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. +645 +OWEN MEREDITH: _Lucile,_ Pt. ii., Canto ii., St. 3. + +There are eyes half defiant, +Half meek and compliant; +Black eyes, with a wondrous, witching charm +To bring us good or to work us harm, +646 +PHOEBE CARY: _Doves' Eyes._ + +Soul-deep eyes of darkest night. +647 +JOAQUIN MILLER: _Californian,_ Pt. iv. + +Her eyes are homes of silent prayer. +648 +TENNYSON: _In Memoriam,_ Pt. xxxii., St. 1. + +The bright black eye, the melting blue,-- +I cannot choose between the two. +649 +OLIVER WENDELL HOLMES: _The Dilemma._ + +These poor eyes, you called, I ween, +"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. + + + + +==F.== + + +=Fabric.= + +Anon out of the earth a fabric huge +Rose, like an exhalation. +652 +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. + + The light upon her face +Shines from the windows of another world. +Saints only have such faces. +654 +LONGFELLOW: _Michael Angelo,_ 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_? +655 +MOORE: _The Farmer, the Spaniel, and 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 +SHAKS.: _Com. 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._ + +Whose faith, has centre everywhere, +Nor cares to fix itself to form. +661 +TENNYSON: _In Memoriam,_ Pt. xxxiii., St. 1. + +'Tis hers to pluck the amaranthine flower +Of faith, and round the sufferer's temples bind +Wreaths 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. + + +=Fall.= + +He that is down, needs fear no fall. +664 +BUNYAN: _The Author's Way of Sending 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. +665 +SHAKS.: _Troil. 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 971. + +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, + There was a noontide when I passed it by. +There is an evening when I think not shame + Its substance and its being to deny. +669 +JEAN INGELOW: _The Star's Monument,_ 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,_ Epis. iv., Line 281. + + +=Family.= + +Birds in their little nest agree; + And 'tis 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 +SHAKS.: _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? +Reply, reply. +It is engendered in the eyes, +With gazing fed: and fancy dies +In the cradle where it lies. +674 +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._ + + +=Farewell.= + +Farewell! Farewell! 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.: _Much 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 Henry VI.,_ Act iv., Sc. 3. + +All human things are subject to decay, +And when fate summons, monarchs 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._ + +And binding Nature fast in fate, + Left free the human will. +682 +POPE: _The Universal Prayer,_ St. 3. + +For fate has wove the thread of life with pain, +And twins ev'n from the birth are misery and man! +688 +POPE: _Odyssey,_ Bk. vii., Line 263. + + +=Father.= + +It is a wise father that knows his own child. +684 +SHAKS.: _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 write as others wrote + On Sunium's hight. +688 +WALTER SAVAGE LANDOR: _The Last Fruit of an Old Tree,_ Epigram cvi. + + +=Favor.= + + Poor wretches, that depend +On greatness' favor, dream as I have done; +Wake, and find nothing. But, alas, I swerve. +Many dream not to find, neither deserve, +And yet are steep'd in favors. +689 +SHAKS.: _Cymbeline,_ Act v., Sc. 4. + + +=Fawning.= + +And crook the 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 accurs'd. +692 +SHAKS.: _1 Henry 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 hand the wretch in order; +But where ye feel your honor grip, + Let that aye be your border. +694 +BURNS: _Ep. 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: _Traveller,_ Line 17. + + Swinish gluttony +Ne'er looks to heav'n amidst his gorgeous feast, +But with besotted 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, +While the slant sun of February pours +Into the bowers a flood of light. +697 +WILLIAM COLLEN BRYANT: _A Winter Piece._ + + +=Feeling.= + +But spite of all the criticising elves, +Those who would make us feel, must feel themselves. +698 +CHURCHILL: _Rosciad,_ Line 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.= + +In 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. 68. + + +=Female.= + +But who is this, what thing of sea or land,-- +Female of sex it seems. +701 +MILTON: _Samson Agonistes,_ Line 710. + + +=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.= + +When 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: _Epis. to Hogarth,_ Line 291. + +And truth severe, by fairy fiction drest. +704 +GRAY: _The Bard,_ Pt. 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 It,_ Act ii., Sc. 3. + +To God, thy country, and thy friend be true. +706 +HENRY VAUGHAN: _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, +And turns no more his head, +Because he knows a frightful fiend +Doth close behind him tread. +708 +COLERIDGE: _The Ancient Mariner,_ Pt. v. + + +=Fighting.= + +I'll fight, till from my bones my flesh be hack'd. +709 +SHAKS.: _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.= + + Now glow'd the firmament +With living sapphires. +712 +MILTON: _Par. Lost,_ Bk. iv., Line 598. + +The spacious firmament on high, +With 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! +By angel hands to valor given; +Thy stars have lit the welkin dome, +And all thy hues were born in heaven. +714 +JOSEPH RODMAN DRAKE: _The American Flag._ + +The meteor flag of England +Shall yet terrific 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 +HEMANS: _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. + +'Tis 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._ + + +=Flesh.= + +Oh, that 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.= + + Darest thou, Cassius, now +Leap in with me into this angry flood, +And swim to yonder point? +724 +SHAKS.: _Jul. Caesar,_ Act i., Sc. 2. + + +=Flowers.= + + The gentle race of flowers +Are lying in their lowly beds. +725 +WILLIAM CULLEN BRYANT: _Death of the Flowers._ + +Flowers preach to us if we will hear. +726 +CHRIS. G. ROSSETTI: _Consider the Lilies of the Field._ + +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._ + + +Ye living flowers that skirt the eternal frost. +728 +COLERIDGE: _Hymn in the Vale of Chamouni._ + + +=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: _New Morality._ + + +=Folly.= + + Fools, to talking ever prone, +Are sure to make their follies known. +730 +GAY: _Fables,_ Pt. i., Fable 44. + +Whether the charmer sinner it, or saint it, +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. +734 +BYRON: _English Bards and Scotch Reviewers,_ Line 6. + + Since call'd +The Paradise of Fools, to few unknown. +735 +MILTON: _Par. Lost,_ Bk. iii., Line 495. + +And ever since the Conquest have been fools. +736 +EARL OF ROCHESTER: _Artemisia in the Town 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, every day they live, +To pity, and perhaps forgive. +739 +COWPER: _Mutual Forbearance._ + + +=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'll take mine ease +Under the trees, under the trees. +741 +R.H. STODDARD: _Under the Trees._ + +This is the forest primeval. +742 +LONGFELLOW: _Evangeline,_ Introduction. + + +=Forgetfulness.= + + Not in entire forgetfulness, + 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 hand 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,_ Pt. ii., Line 324. + +They who forgive most shall be most forgiven. +746 +BAILEY: _Festus,_ Sc. _Home._ + +Good, to forgive; +Best to forget! +747 +ROBERT BROWNING: _La Saisiaz,_ Prologue. + + +=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. + + +=Fortitude.= + +True fortitude is seen in great exploits +That 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 IV.,_ 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, +Who 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. + + +=France.= + +'Tis better using France, than trusting France; +Let us be back'd with God, and with the seas, +Which he hath given for fence impregnable, +And with their helps only defend ourselves; +In them, and in 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. +756 +CHARLES G. HALPINE ("MILES 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. +757 +WORDSWORTH: _Sonnet. It is not to be thought of, etc._ + +Oh, FREEDOM! thou art not, as poets dream, +A fair young girl, with light and delicate limbs, +And wavy tresses gushing from the cap +With which the Roman master crowned his slave +When he took off the gyves. A bearded man, +Armed to the teeth, art thou; 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. +758 +WILLIAM CULLEN BRYANT: _Antiquity of Freedom._ + +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. +761 +JOSEPH RODMAN DRAKE: _The American Flag._ + + +=Freeman.= + +He is the freeman whom the truth makes free. +762 +COWPER: _Task,_ Bk. v., Line 733. + + +=Friendship.= + +I count myself in nothing else so happy, +As in a soul rememb'ring my good friends. +763 +SHAKS.: _Richard II.,_ 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._ + + 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. +768 +DR. JOHNSON: _Verses on the Death of Mr, Robert Levet,_ 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 with 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! +772 +WHITTIER: _The Pageant,_ St. 8 + +But, oh! fell death's untimely frost + That nipt my flower sae early. +773 +BURNS: _Highland Mary._ + + +=Fruit.= + +The ripest fruit first falls. +774 +SHAKS.: _Richard II.,_ Act ii., Sc. 1. + + +=Fury.= + +Heaven has no rage like love to hatred turned, +Nor hell a fury like a woman scorned. +775 +CONGREVE: _Mourning Bride,_ Act iii., Sc. 8. + +Beware the fury of a patient man. +776 +DRYDEN: _Absalom and Achitophel,_ Pt. i., Line 1005. + + +=Futurity.= + +The dread of something after death, +The undiscover'd country, from whose bourn +No traveller returns, puzzles the will; +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! +778 +MRS. BROWNING: _Rhapsody of Life's 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._ + + + + +==G.== + + +=Gain.= + +Remote from cities liv'd a swain, +Unvex'd with all the cares of gain. +781 +GAY: _Fables,_ Pt. i., _The Shepherd and the 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. +783 +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 together. +785 +CHARLES KINGSLEY: _Saint's Tragedy,_ Act v., Sc. 1. + +God the first garden made, and the first city, Cain. +786 +COWLEY: _The Garden,_ Essay v. + + +=Garret.= + +Born in the garret, in the kitchen bred. +787 +BYRON: _A Sketch._ + + +=Garrick.= + +Here lies David Garrick--describe him who can, +An 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: +'Twas 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 +EMERSON: _In Memoriam._ + + +=Gentleman.= + + We are gentlemen, +That neither in our hearts, nor outward eyes, +Envy the great, nor do the low despise. +792 +SHAKS.: _Pericles,_ Act ii., Sc. 3. + +When Adam dolve, and Eve span, +Who was then the gentleman? +793 +_Lines used by John Ball in Wat Tyler's Rebellion._ + + +=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.= + +Avaunt! and quit my sight! Let the earth hide thee! +Thy bones are marrowless, thy blood is cold; +Thou hast no speculation in those eyes, +Which thou dost glare with! +795 +SHAKS.: _Macbeth,_ 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, +No goblin, or swart fairy of the mine, +Hath hurtful power o'er true virginity. +797 +MILTON: _Comus,_ 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. + + +=Girdle.= + +I'll 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, the 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: _Il Penseroso,_ Line 79. + + +=Glory.= + +Glory is like a circle in the water, +Which never ceaseth to enlarge itself, +Till, by broad spreading, it disperse to nought. +803 +SHAKS.: _1 Henry 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 591. + +Go where glory waits thee! +But while fame elates thee, + Oh, still remember me! +805 +MOORE: _Go Where Glory Waits Thee._ + + 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 +Ne'er looks to Heav'n amidst his gorgeous feast, +But with besotted, base ingratitude +Crams, and blasphemes his Feeder. +809 +MILTON: _Comus,_ Line 776. + + +=God.= + +'T is heaven alone that is given away, +'T is only God may be had for the asking. +810 +JAMES RUSSELL LOWELL: _The Vision of Sir Launfal._ + +All are but parts of one stupendous whole, +Whose body Nature 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 caught from Thee: +Where'er we turn, Thy glories shine, +And all things fair and bright are Thine. +812 +MOORE: _Thou Art, O 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 +BYRON: _The 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, +When half-gods go, +The gods arrive. +817 +EMERSON: _Give All to Love._ + + +=Gold.= + + Gold; worse poison to men's souls, +Doing more murther in this loathsome world, +Than these poor compounds that thou mayst not sell. +818 +SHAKS.: _Rom. and Jul.,_ 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. + +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.: _Henry VIII.,_ 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 +CHARLES 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 good night, +And pleasing dreams, and slumbers light. +826 +SCOTT: _Marmion,_ Canto vi., L'Envoy. + + +=Government.= + +'T is government that makes them seem divine. +827 +SHAKS.: _3 Henry VI.,_ Act 1., Sc. 4. + + Each petty hand +Can steer a ship becalm'd; but he that will +Govern and carry her to her ends, must know +His tides, his currents, how to shift his sails; +What she will bear in foul, what in fair weathers; +Where her springs are, her leaks, and how to stop 'em; +What strands, what shelves, what rooks 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. + +I've heard of hearts unkind, kind deeds +With coldness still returning; +Alas! the gratitude of men +Hath oftener left me mourning. +834 +WORDSWORTH: _Simon 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 firmness. +836 +BLAIR: _The Grave,_ Line 9. + +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 greatness. +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. + +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 +BYRON: _Ch. Harold,_ 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! +Where 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,_ Act iv., 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 +SHAKS.: _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. + +O 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. Village,_ Line 384. + + +=Ground.= + +Where'er we tread, 't is haunted, holy ground. +850 +BYRON: _Ch. Harold._ Canto ii., St. 88. + + +=Groves.= + +The groves were God's first temples. +851 +WILLIAM CULLEN BRYANT: _A 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, +I will feed fat the ancient grudge I bear him. +853 +SHAKS.: _M. of Venice,_ Act 1., 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. + + +=Guilt.= + +So full of artless jealousy is guilt, +It spills itself in fearing to be spilt. +856 +SHAKS.: _Hamlet,_ Act iv., Sc. 5. + +How guilt, once harbor'd in the conscious breast, +Intimidates the brave, degrades the great! +857 +DR. JOHNSON: _Irene,_ Act iv., Sc. 8. + + + + +==H.== + + +=Habit.= + +Ill habits gather by unseen degrees, +As brooks make rivers, rivers run to seas. +858 +DRYDEN: _Ovid's Metamorphoses,_ Bk. xv., Line 155. + +Small habits well pursued betimes +May reach the dignity of crimes. +859 +HANNAH MORE: _Floris,_ 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 Lover's Vision,_ St. 3. + + When you see fair hair +Be pitiful. +862 +GEORGE ELIOT: _Spanish Gypsy,_ Bk. 4. + +Loose his beard, and hoary hair +Stream'd like a meteor to the troubled air. +863 +GRAY: _The Bard,_ Pt. i., St. 2. + + +=Halter.= + +No man e'er felt the halter draw, +With good opinion of the law. +864 +JOHN TRUMBULL: _McFingal,_ Canto iii., 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 graceless in truth; +Does its beauty refine, as its pulses grow calm, +Or as Sorrow has, crossed the life-line in the palm? +866 +OWEN MEREDITH: _Lucile,_ Pt. i., Canto iii., 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 246. + +O happiness! our being's end and aim! +Good, pleasure, ease, content! whate'er thy name: +That something 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. +871 +DRYDEN: _A Song for St. Cecilia's Day,_ Line 11. + + +=Harp.= + +The harp that once through Tara's halls + The soul of music shed, +Now hangs as mute on Tara's walls + As if that soul were fled. +872 +MOORE: _The Harp That Once Through Tara's 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: _Ghost,_ Bk. iv., Line 1159. + + +=Hat.= + +So Britain's monarch once uncovered sat, +While Bradshaw bullied in a broad-brimmed hat. +875 +JAMES BRAMSTON: _Man of Taste._ + + +=Hatred.= + +To vow, and swear, and superpraise 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'Allegro,_ Line 67. + + +=Head.= + +Oh good gray head which all men knew! +881 +TENNYSON: _Ode on the Death of the Duke of Wellington,_ St. 4. + +The tall, the wise, the reverend head +Must lie as low as ours. +882 +WATTS: _Hymns and Spiritual Songs,_ Bk. ii., Hymn 63. + + +=Health.= + +Nor love, nor honor, wealth, nor power, +Can give the heart a cheerful hour +When health is lost. Be timely wise; +With health all taste of pleasure flies. +883 +GAY: _Fables,_ Pt. i., Fable 31. + +Better to hunt in fields for health unbought +Than fee the doctor for a nauseous draught. +884 +DRYDEN: _Epis. to John Dryden of Chesterton,_ 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. +887 +MRS. BROWNING: _Lady Geraldine's Courtship,_ xli. + +The heart bowed down by weight of woe +To weakest hope will cling. +888 +ALFRED BUNN: _Song._ + + Here the heart +May give a useful lesson to the head. +And Learning 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. +890 +RICHARD M. MILNES: _Tragedy of the Lac de Gaube,_ St. 2. + + +=Heaven.= + +Heaven is above all yet; there sits a Judge +That no king can corrupt. +891 +SHAKS.: _Henry VIII.,_ Act iii., Sc. 1. + + Heaven +Is as the Book of God before thee set, +Wherein to read his wondrous works. +892 +MILTON: _Par. 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. + + +=Hell.= + +'Tis 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 61. + + Hell +Grew darker at their frown. +896 +MILTON: _Par. Lost,_ Bk. ii., Line 719. + +To rest, the cushion 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 +BYRON: _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,_ Pt. iii. + + +=Heritage.= + +I, the heir of all the ages, in the foremost files of time. +900 +TENNYSON: _Loksley 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 +Death's voice sounds like a prophet's word; +And in its hollow tones are heard +The thanks of millions yet to be! +904 +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 North, +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: _Ch. Harold,_ Canto iv., St. 141. + + +=Holiness.= + +Whoso lives the holiest life +Is fittest far to die. +911 +MARGARET J. PRESTON: _Ready._ + + +=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: _Alaric the 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: _Requiem._ + +'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._ + + +=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. +918 +SHEFFIELD, DUKE OF BUCKINGHAMSHIRE: _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. +919 +KEATS: _On first looking into Chapman's Homer._ + +Seven cities warred for Homer being dead; +Who living had no roofe to shrowd his head. +920 +THOMAS HEYWOOD: _Hierarchie of the Blessed Angells._ + + +=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 work of God. +922 +POPE: _Essay on Man,_ Epis. iv., Line 247. + + +=Honor.= + + Too much honor: +O, 'tis a burthen, ... 'tis a burthen, +Too heavy for a man that hopes for heaven. +923 +SHAKS.: _Henry VIII.,_ Act iii., Sc. 2. + +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 1746._ + + +=Hood.= + +A page of Hood may do a fellow good +After a scolding from Carlyle or Ruskin. +929 +OLIVER WENDELL HOLMES: _How Not to Settle It._ + + +=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. + +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 'tis fair. +934 +HEBER: _On Heavenly Hope and Earthly 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. +936 +DANTE: _Inferno, Longfellow's Trans.,_ Canto iii., Line 9. + + +=Horn.= + +Have sight of Proteus rising from the sea, +Or hear old Triton blow his wreathed horn. +937 +WORDSWORTH: _Miscellaneous Sonnets,_ Pt. i., xxxiii. + + +=Horror.= + + My fell of hair +Would at a dismal treatise louse and stir +As life were in 't: I have supp'd full with horrors. +938 +SHAKS.: _Macbeth,_ Act v., Sc. 5. + +On horror's head horrors accumulate. +939 +SHAKS.: _Othello,_ Act iii., Sc. 3. + + +=Horse.= + +A horse! a horse! my kingdom for a horse! +940 +SHAKS.: _Richard III.,_ Act v., Sc. 4. + + +=Hospitality.= + +My 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. +942 +LONGFELLOW: _Evangeline,_ Pt. I., iv., Line 15. + + +=Host.= + +The leader, mingling with the vulgar host, +Is in the common mass of matter lost. +943 +POPE: _Odyssey,_ 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 each 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'; +There 's little pleasure in the house + When our gudeman 's awa'. +946 +WILLIAM J. MICKLE: _Manner's Wife._ + + +=Humanity.= + + But hearing oftentimes +The still, sad music of humanity. +947 +WORDSWORTH: _Lines composed a few miles above Tintern 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 21. + +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. + + +=Husband.= + +As the husband is, the wife is; thou art mated with 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'Shanter._ + + +=Hypocrisy.= + + This outward-sainted deputy,-- +Whose settled visage and deliberate word +Nips 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. + + + + +==I.== + + +=Ice.= + +Yon foaming flood seems motionless as ice; +Its dizzy turbulence eludes the eye, +Frozen by distance. +958 +WORDSWORTH: _Address to Kilchurn 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 Hon. C. Montague._ + + Where ignorance is bliss +'Tis folly to be wise. +963 +GRAY: _Ode on Eton College._ + + +=Ills.= + +Kings may be blest, but Tam was glorious, +O'er a' the ills o' life victorious. +964 +BURNS: _Tam O'Shanter._ + +There mark what ills the scholar's life assail,-- +Toil, envy, want, the patron, and the jail. +965 +DR. JOHNSON: _Van. of Human Wishes,_ Line 159. + + +=Imagination.= + +The lunatic, the lover, and the poet, +Are of imagination all compact. +966 +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!-- +Else 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 thoughts whose very sweetness yieldeth proof +That they were born for immortality. +970 +WORDSWORTH: _Ecclesiastical Sonnets,_ Pt. iii., xliii. + + +=Impossibility.= + +And what's impossible can't be, +And never, never comes to pass. +971 +COLMAN, JR.: _Maid of the Moor._ + + +=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 +BUTLER: _Misc. Thoughts,_ Line 17. + + +=Inconstancy.= + +Sigh no more, ladies, sigh no more; +Men 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. +974 +SOUTHEY: _Madoc,_ Pt. ii., _Caradoc and Senena,_ Line 51. + + +=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 HOPKINSON: _Hail, Columbia!_ + + +=Indifference.= + +What's Hecuba to him, or he to Hecuba. +977 +SHAKS.: _Hamlet,_ Act ii., Sc. 2. + +Let ev'ry man enjoy his whim; +What's he to me, or I to him? +978 +CHURCHILL: _Ghost,_ Bk. iv., Line 215. + + +=Infancy.= + +Ere sin could blight, 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, +From 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. +981 +OWEN MEREDITH: _Lucile,_ Pt. ii., Canto vi., St. 40. + + Ladies, whose bright eyes +Rain influence, and judge the prize. +982 +MILTON: _L'Allegro,_ 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. + +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 was 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. +987 +SHENSTONE: _Lines on Window of Inn at 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? +Instinct and reason how can we divide? +'Tis the fool's ignorance, and the pedant's pride. +990 +PRIOR: _Solomon on the V-of the World,_ Bk. i., Line 231. + + +=Invention.= + +Th' invention all admir'd, and each how he +To be th' inventor miss'd; so easy it seem'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: _Hudibras,_ Canto iii., Line 1. + + +=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. +994 +ROBERT BROWNING: _Cleon._ + + +=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. 4. + +Italy, my Italy! +Queen Mary's saying serves for me + (When fortune's malice + Lost her Calais): +"Open my heart, and you will see +Graved inside of it 'Italy.'" +996 +ROBERT BROWNING: _De Gustibus,_ ii. + + +=Ivy.= + +Oh, 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. 6. + + + + +==J.== + + +=January.= + +Then came old January, wrapped well + In many weeds to keep the cold away; +Yet did he quake and quiver like to quell, + And blow his nails to warm them if he may. +998 +SPENSER: _Faerie Queene,_ Bk. vii., Canto vii., St. 42. + + +=Jealousy.= + + O beware, my lord, of jealousy; +It is the green-eyed monster, 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. +1000 +OWEN MEREDITH: _Lucile,_ Pt. ii., Canto i., St. 24 + + Nor jealousy +Was understood, the injur'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.= + +It 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. +1006 +MRS. BROWNING: _Aurora Leigh,_ Bk. i., 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_ + +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. Caesar,_ Act iii., Sc. 2. + + +=July.= + +Then came hot July, boiling like to fire, +That all his garments he had cast away. +1011 +SPENSER: _Faerie Queene,_ Bk. vii., Canto vii., 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. +1012 +JAMES RUSSELL LOWELL: _Vision of Sir 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 M.,_ 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. +1014 +BUTLER: _Hudibras,_ Pt. ii., Canto ii., Line 365. + + +=Justice.= + + And then, the justice; +In fair round belly, with good capon lin'd, +With eyes severe, and beard of formal cut, +Fall 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 +MILTON: _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.: _Troil. and Cress.,_ Act iii., Sc. 3. + + +=Kindness.= + +Kindness in women, not their beauteous looks, +Shall win my love. +1021 +SHAKS.: _Tam. of the S.,_ Act iv., Sc. 2. + + That best portion of a good man's life,-- +His little, nameless, unremembered acts +Of kindness and of love. +1022 +WORDSWORTH: _Lines composed a few miles 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: _Hellas,_ Line 195. + +Or where the gorgeous East with richest hand +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 III.,_ Act i., Sc. 2. + + When my lips meet thine +Thy very soul is wedded unto mine. +1028 +H.H. BOYESEN: _Thy Gracious Face I Greet with Glad Surprise._ + +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. +1029 +DANTE GABRIEL ROSSETTI: _Love-Sweetness,_ Sonnet xiii. + +I rest content, I kiss your eyes, +I kiss your hair, in my delight: +I kiss my hand, and say, Good night. +1030 +JOAQUIN MILLER: _Isles of the Amazons,_ Pt. v. + +One kiss--and then another--and another-- +Till 't is too late to go--and so return. +1031 +CHARLES KINGSLEY: _Saint's Tragedy,_ Act ii., 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. +1034 +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. +1036 +COWPER: _Verses supposed to be written by Alexander Selkirk._ + + +=Knowledge.= + + Knowledge is as food, and needs no less +Her temp'rance over appetite, to know +In measure what the mind may well contain; +Oppresses else with surfeit, and soon turns +Wisdom to folly. +1037 +MILTON: _Par. Lost,_ Bk. vii., Line 126. + +All our knowledge is, ourselves to know. +1038 +POPE: _Essay on Man,_ Epis. iv., Line 397. + +_I 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: _Elegy,_ St. 13. + + Oh, be wiser thou! +Instructed that true knowledge leads to love. +1042 +WORDSWORTH: _Lines left upon a Seat in a Yew-tree._ + + + + +==L.== + + +=Labor.= + + I 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. + +Labor, you know, is Prayer. +1044 +BAYARD TAYLOR: _Improvisations,_ St. 11. + + Taste the joy +That springs from labor. +1045 +LONGFELLOW: _Masque of Pandora,_ Pt. vi. + +To fall'n humanity our Father said, +That food and bliss should 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: _To Seneca Lake._ + + +=Land.= + +Breathes there the man with soul so dead +Who never to himself hath said +This is my own, my native land! +1050 +SCOTT: _Lay of the Last Minstrel,_ Canto vi., St. 1. + +O Caledonia! stern and wild, +Meet nurse for a poetic child! +Land of brown heath and shaggy wood; +Land of the mountain and the flood! +1051 +SCOTT: _Lay of the Last Minstrel,_ Canto vi., 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, +When 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. +1054 +JAMES RUSSELL LOWELL: _Legend of Brittany,_ 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, + Stars, 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 vaulty 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 + + +=Lass.= + +A penniless lass wi' a lang pedigree. +1058 +LADY NAIRNE: _The Laird o' Cockpen._ + + +=Latin.= + + That soft bastard Latin, +Which melts like kisses from a female mouth. +1059 +BYRON: _Beppo,_ St. 44. + + +=Laughter.= + +Laughter, holding both his sides. +1060 +MILTON: _L'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. +1064 +SIR WILLIAM JONES: _Ode in Im. of Alcoeus._ + + +=Leaf--Leaves.= + + My way of life +Is fall'n into the sere, the yellow leaf. +1065 +SHAKS.: _Macbeth,_ Act v., Sc. 3. + +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. +1066 +JOHN WEBSTER: _The White Devil,_ Act v., Sc. 2. + +Like leaves on trees the race of man is found,-- +Now green in youth, now withering on the ground. +1067 +POPE: _Iliad,_ 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: _Shipwreck,_ Canto i., Line 166. + +Some for renown, on scraps of learning dote, +And think they grow immortal as they quote. +1070 +YOUNG: _Love of Fame,_ 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 +SHAKS.: _M. of Venice,_ Act i., Sc. 3. + + +=Letters.= + +My letters! all dead paper, mute and white! +And yet they seem alive, and quivering +Against my tremulous hands which loose the string +And let them drop down on my knee to-night. +1073 +MRS. BROWNING: _Sonnets fr. Portuguese,_ 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! +1074 +LONGFELLOW: _Dedication to Seaside and 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.: _As 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: Sonnet xxii., _To Cyriack Skinner._ + + When liberty is gone, +Life grows insipid and has lost its relish. +1078 +ADDISON: _Cato,_ Act ii., Sc. 3. + + Liberty, like day, +Breaks on the soul, and by a flash from Heaven +Fires all the faculties with glorious joy. +1079 +COWPER: _Task,_ Bk. v., Line 882. + +Liberty 's in every blow! + Let us do or die. +1080 +BURNS: _Bannockburn._ + +The mountain nymph, sweet Liberty. +1081 +MILTON: _L'Allegro,_ Line 36. + + +=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. +1084 +SHAKS.: _Macbeth,_ Act v., Sc. 5. + +Nor love thy life, nor hate; but what thou livest, +Live well; how long or short, permit to Heav'n. +1085 +MILTON: _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. + +Between two worlds, life hovers like a star +'Twixt night and morn, upon 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. +1089 +LONGFELLOW: _T. of a Wayside Inn,_ Emma and Eginhard. + +What is life? A thawing iceboard + 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,_ lv., St. 2. + + +=Light.= + +Hail, holy Light! offspring of Heaven first-born! +Or of the Eternal coeternal beam, +May I express thee unblam'd? since God is light, +And never but in unapproached light +Dwelt from eternity, dwelt then in thee, +Bright effluence of bright essence increate! +1094 +MILTON: _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. +1096 +WORDSWORTH: _Suggested by a Picture of Peele 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. 1. + + +=Lilies.= + + Like the lily, +That once was mistress of the field and flourish'd, +I'll hang my head and perish. +1099 +SHAKS.: _Henry VIII,_ Act iii., Sc. 1. + + In twisted braids of lilies knitting +The loose train of thy amber-dropping hair. +1100 +MILTON: _Comus,_ Line 859. + + +=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 +Straight to his mark, which 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. +1102 +BEN JONSON: _To the Memory of 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 the earth, if nothing else, with rage +To be o'erpowered. +1104 +SHAKS.: _Richard II.,_ Act v., Sc. 1. + + +=Lips.= + +Her lips are roses over-washed with dew, +Or like the purple of Narcissus' flower; +No frost their fair, no wind doth waste their power, +But by her breath her beauties do renew. +1105 +ROBERT GREENE: _From Menaphon. Menaphon's Ecl._ + + +=Little.= + +Contented wi' little, and cantie wi' mair. +1106 +BURNS: _Contented wi' Little._ + +Man wants but little here below, +Nor 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 +BURNS: _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-west side. +1110 +BUTLER: _Hudibras,_ Pt. i., Canto i., 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. + + +=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: _The Time I've Lost in Wooing._ + +Where village statesmen talk'd with looks profound, +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. +1117 +TENNYSON: _In Memoriam,_ Pt. vi., 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. + +Love is a spirit all compact of fire; +Not gross to sink, but light, and will aspire. +1119 +SHAKS.: _Venus 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 +JEAN INGELOW: _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: _Aph. of Love._ + + Love is the only good in the world. +Henceforth be loved as heart can love, +Or brain devise, or hand approve. +1123 +ROBERT BROWNING: _Flight of the Duchess,_ Pt. xv. + +Mutual love brings mutual delight-- +Brings beauty, life; for love is life, hate, death. +1124 +R.H. DANA: _The Dying Raven._ + +Let those 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, includes heart and mind. +1127 +OWEN MEREDITH: _Lucile,_ Pt. ii., Canto i., St. 17. + +I hold it true, whate'er befall, + I 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, +We 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. + +Why 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. + +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. +1134 +SCOTT: _Lay of the Last Minstrel,_ Canto iii., 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 joys; +'T is the highest heaven of pleasure, +'T is a bliss which never cloys. +1136 +THOMAS CHATTERTON: _The Revenge,_ Act i., 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! +1138 +COLERIDGE: _Reflections on Having Left a Place of Retirement._ + + + + +==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 mix'd in him, that Nature might stand up, +And say to all the world, "This was a man!" +1144 +SHAKS.: _Jul. Caesar,_ 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. + +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 +BURNS: _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 by 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: _Cui Bono._ + + +=Manners.= + +Fit for the mountains and the barb'rous caves, +Where manners ne'er were preach'd. +1151 +SHAKS.: _Tw. 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.: _Henry VIII.,_ Act iii., Sc. 2. + + All your better deeds +Shall be in water writ, but this in marble. +1154 +BEAUMONT AND FLETCHER: _Philaster,_ Act v., Sc. 3. + + +=March.= + +The stormy March is come at last, +With wind, and clouds, and changing skies; +I hear the rushing of the blast, +That through the snowy valleys flies. +1155 +WILLIAM CULLEN BRYANT: _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 +Than 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. +1161 +CHARLES KINGSLEY: _Saint's Tragedy,_ Act ii., Sc. 9. + + +=Martyrs.= + +Life has its martyrs, as brave, as strong, and as faithful, +E'en as the martyrs of death. +1162 +H.H. BOYESEN: _Calpurnia,_ 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. Caesar,_ 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! +1167 +HELEN HUNT: _May._ + + The new-born May, +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. +1168 +ERASMUS DARWIN: _L. of the Plants,_ Canto ii., Line 307. + +Now the bright morning-star, Day's harbinger, +Comes dancing from the east, and leads with her +The flowery May, who, from her green lap, throws +The yellow cowslip, and the pale primrose. +1169 +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. +1171 +DANTE GABRIEL ROSSETTI: _Winged Hours,_ 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: _Il 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: _Human Life._ + + +=Memory.= + + Remember thee? +Yea, from the table of my memory +I 'll 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., Sc. 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? +1181 +SPENSER: _Faerie Queene,_ Bk. v., Canto ii., St. 42. + + +=Merit.= + +Be thou the first true merit to befriend; +His praise is lost, who stays till all commend. +1182 +POPE: _E. on Criticism,_ Pt. ii., Line 274. + + +=Midnight.= + +The iron tongue of midnight hath told twelve:-- +Lovers to bed; 'tis 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 +WORDSWORTH: _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. +1189 +JANE TAYLOR: _Essays in Rhyme,_ Essay i., St. 45. + +My mind to me a kingdom is; + Such present joys therein I 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: _L'Allegro,_ Line 11. + +As Tammie glow'red, amazed and curious, +The mirth and fun grew fast and furious. +1193 +BURNS: _Tam o' Shanter._ + + +=Mischief.= + + O, mischief! thou art swift +To enter in the thoughts of desperate men! +1194 +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. +1196 +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. + + +=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 +NICHOLAS 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. + +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 accurs'd; +Make the hoar leprosy ador'd; place thieves, +And give them title, knee, and approbation, +With 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 Kilmansegg._ + +'T is true we've money, th' only power +That all mankind falls down before. +1209 +BUTLER: _Hudibras,_ Pt. iii., Canto ii., Line 1327. + +Get money; still get money, boy, +No matter by what means. +1210 +BEN JONSON: _Every Man in His Humour,_ Act ii., Sc. 3. + + +=Months.= + +Thirty days hath September, +April, June, and November, +All the rest have thirty-one, +Excepting February alone: +Which hath but twenty-eight, in fine, +Till leap year gives it twenty-nine. +1211 +_Common in the New England States._ + + +=Monuments.= + +Not marble, nor the gilded monuments +Of princes, shall outlive this powerful rhyme. +1212 +SHAKS.: _Sonnet 55._ + + +=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: _Lady 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 the 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 comes forth the lonely Moon +From the slow opening curtains of the clouds; +Walking in beauty to her midnight throne! +1216 +GEORGE CROLY: _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! +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. +1222 +ROBERT BROWNING: _Return of the Druses,_ Act i. + +Lord, in the morning thou shalt hear +My voice ascending high. +1223 +WATTS: _Psalm_ v. + + +=Mortality.= + + All, that in this world 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. +1226 +JAMES RUSSELL LOWELL: _Legend of Brittany,_ Pt. ii., St. 43. + +A mother is a mother still, +The holiest thing alive. +1227 +COLERIDGE: _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. +1228 +ROBERT BROWNING: _Rudel To The Lady 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, +Nor how, so we die well: and can that man that does so +Need lamentation for him? +1231 +BEAUMONT AND FLETCHER: _Valentinian,_ Act iv., Sc. 4. + +Ah, surely nothing dies but something mourns. +1232 +BYRON: _Don Juan,_ Canto iii., St. 108. + + +=Murder.= + +Murder 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. +1234 +DRYDEN: _Cock and Fox,_ Line 285. + + +=Music.= + +The man that hath no music in himself, +Nor 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. + +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: _The Passions,_ 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! +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. + +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.= + +Nature ever yields reward +To him who seeks, and loves her best. +1244 +BARRY CORNWALL: _Above and Below._ + + O Nature, how fair is thy face, +And how light is thy heart, and how friendless thy grace! +1245 +OWEN MEREDITH: _Lucile,_ Pt. i., Canto v., 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--Newspapers.= + + 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 Henry IV.,_ Act i., Sc. 1. + +Evil news rides post, while good news baits. +1248 +MILTON: _Samson Agonistes,_ Line 1538. + +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. +1250 +POPE: _Epitaph intended for Sir Isaac 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 +BYRON: _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 +SHAKS.: _Mid. N. Dream,_ Act iii., Sc. 2. + + 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 409. + + Awful Night! +Ancestral mystery of mysteries. +1256 +GEORGE ELIOT: _Spanish Gypsy,_ Bk. iv. + +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. +1257 +ROBERT LOUIS STEVENSON: _The Feast of Famine._ + +Night is the time to weep, + To wet with unseen tears +Those graves of memory where sleep + The joys of other years. +1258 +JAMES MONTGOMERY: _The Issues of Life and Death._ + + +=Nightingale.= + +The nightingale, if she should sing by day, +When every goose is cackling, would 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._ + + +=Nobility.= + +Noble by birth, yet nobler by great deeds. +1261 +LONGFELLOW: _Tales of a Wayside Inn. Emma and Eginhard._ + +For he who is honest is noble, +Whatever his fortunes or birth. +1262 +ALICE CARY: _Nobility._ + + +=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. + + +=November.= + +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. +1264 +SPENSER: _Faerie Queene,_ Bk. vii., Canto vii., St. 40. + +In 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: _Prologue to the Satires,_ Line 127. + + + + +==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. +1267 +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,_ Pt. ii., Canto ii., Line 197. + + +=Obedience.= + +Let them obey that know not how to rule. +1272 +SHAKS.: _2 Henry VI.,_ Act v., Sc. 1. + +Obedience is the Christian's crown. +1273 +SCHILLER: _Fight with the Dragon,_ St. 24. + + +=Observation.= + +For he is but a bastard to the time +That doth not smack of observation. +1274 +SHAKS.: _King John,_ Act i., Sc. 1. + + +=Ocean.= + +Roll on, thou deep and dark blue Ocean--roll! +Ten thousand fleets sweep over thee in vain; +Man 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 unknown. +1275 +BYRON: _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 of Jubal,_ 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 +WILLIAM CULLEN BRYANT: _October, 1866._ + +October's foliage yellows with his cold. +1278 +RUSKIN: _The Months._ + + +=Offence.= + +In such a time as this, it is not meet +That every nice offence should bear his comment. +1279 +SHAKS.: _Jul. Caesar,_ Act iv., Sc. 3. + +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 with 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. +1284 +BUTLER: _Hudibras,_ Pt. iii., Canto iii., 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. + + +=Oracle.= + + I am Sir Oracle, +And when I ope my lips, let no dog bark! +1286 +SHAKS.: _M. of Venice,_ Act i., Sc. 1. + + +=Oratory.= + +Thence to the famous orators repair, +Those ancient, whose resistless eloquence +Wielded at will that fierce democracy, +Shook the Arsenal, and fulmined 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.: _R. of Lucrece,_ Line 334. + +Pain is no longer pain when it is past. +1292 +MARGARET J. PRESTON: _Sonnet._ _Nature's Lesson._ + + 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. 23. + + +=Palm.= + +No 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 +KEBLE: _Burial of the Dead._ + + +=Pardon.= + +Forgiveness to the injured does belong; +But they ne'er pardon who have done the wrong. +1299 +DRYDEN: _Conquest of Granada,_ Pt. ii., Act i., Sc. 2. + + +=Parents.= + +Great families of yesterday we show, +And lords, whose parents were the Lord knows who. +1300 +DEFOE: _True-Born Englishman,_ Pt. i., Line 1. + + +=Parting.= + + What! gone without a word? +Ay, so true love should do: it cannot speak; +For truth hath better deeds, than words, to grace it. +1301 +SHAKS.: _Two 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 Angelo,_ Pt. I., i. + +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. +1304 +JOHN FLETCHER: _The Nice Valour,_ 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. + +Build thee more stately mansions, O my soul, +As the swift seasons roll! +Leave thy low-vaulted past! +1307 +OLIVER WENDELL HOLMES: _Chambered 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 Agonistes,_ Line 1287. + + Patience is a plant +That grows not in all gardens. +1311 +LONGFELLOW: _Michael Angelo,_ 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-GREENE HALLECK: _Marco Bozzaris._ + +One flag, one land, one heart, one hand, +One Nation evermore! +1314 +OLIVER WENDELL HOLMES: _Voyage of 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: _National Hymn._ + + Sail on, O Ship of State! +Sail on, O Union, strong and great! +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._ + + Peace hath her victories, +No less renowned than war. +1320 +MILTON: Sonnet xvi. + +Peace was on the earth and in the air. +1321 +WILLIAM CULLEN BRYANT: _The Ages,_ St. 30. + + +=Pearls.= + +Go boldly forth, my simple lay, +Whose accents flow with artless ease, +Like orient pearls at random strung. +1322 +SIR WILLIAM JONES: _A Persian Song of Hafiz._ + + +=Pen.= + +Beneath the rule of men entirely great, +The pen is mightier than the sword. +1323 +BULWER-LYTTON: _Richelieu,_ Act ii., Sc. 2. + +This dull product of a scoffer's pen. +1324 +WORDSWORTH: _Excursion,_ Bk. ii. + + +=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 +MILTON: _Par. Regained,_ Bk. iii., Line 49. + + +=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. + + +=Perjury.= + + At lovers' perjuries, +They say, Jove laughs. +1327 +SHAKS.: _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 iii., Sc. 3. + + +=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 i., 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: _Comus,_ Line 476. + + +=Physic.= + +Throw physic to the dogs, I'll none of it. +1332 +SHAKS.: _Macbeth,_ Act v., Sc. 3. + + Take physic, pomp; +Expose thyself to feel what wretches feel. +1333 +SHAKS.: _King Lear,_ Act iii., Sc. 4. + + +=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 +BUTLER: _Misc. Thoughts,_ Line 295. + + +=Pilot.= + +Oh pilot, 'tis 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,_ Line 161. + + +=Place.= + +The fittest place where man can die + Is where he dies for man! +1340 +MICHAEL J. BARRY: _The Dublin Nation, Sept. 28, 1844._ + + +=Play.= + + The play 's the thing +Wherein I'll catch the conscience of the king. +1341 +SHAKS.: _Hamlet,_ Act ii., Sc. 2. + + +=Pleasure.= + + Pleasure, and revenge, +Have ears more deaf than adders, 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. +1343 +THOMSON: _Castle of Indolence,_ Canto i., 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. + +Poets are all who love, who feel great truths, +And tell them; and the truth of truths is love. +1349 +BAILEY: _Festus,_ Sc. _Another and a Better 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_ + + +=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 offence in us, +His countenance, like richest alchymy, +Will change to virtue and to worthiness. +1357 +SHAKS.: _Jul. Caesar,_ Act i., Sc. 3. + +Bareheaded, popularly low he bow'd, +And paid the salutations of the crowd. +1358 +DRYDEN: _Palamon and Arcite,_ Bk. iii., Line 689. + + +=Possession.= + + What we have we prize not to the worth, +Whiles we enjoy it; but being lacked and lost, +Why 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. +1360 +CHARLES KINGSLEY: _Saint's Tragedy,_ Act i., Sc. 2. + + +=Poverty.= + +My poverty, but not my will, consents. +1361 +SHAKS.: _Rom. and Jul.,_ Act v., Sc. 1. + +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. + + +=Power.= + +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: _Rob 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. +No accent wounds the reverent air,-- + No footprint dints the sod,-- +Low in the light the prairie lies + Rapt in a dream of God. +1367 +JOHN HAY: _The Prairie._ + + +=Praise.= + + Praising what is lost, +Makes the remembrance dear. +1368 +SHAKS.: _All 's 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 unhallowed pass, +But still remember what the Lord hath done. +1370 +SHAKS.: _2 Henry VI.,_ Act ii., Sc. 1. + + If by 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,_ Pt. vii. + +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 +MRS. BROWNING: _Aurora Leigh,_ Bk. ii. + + More things are wrought by prayer +Than this world dreams of. +1374 +TENNYSON: _Morte d'Arthur,_ Line 247. + + +=Preaching.= + +I preached as never sure to preach again, +And as a dying man to dying men. +1375 +RICHARD BAXTER: _Love Breathing 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 +WHITTIER: _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. +1377 +JOSEPH STORY: _Motto of the "Salem 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.: _Troil. and Cress.,_ Act iii., Sc. 3. + +And the Devil did grin, for his darling sin + Is pride that apes humility. +1379 +COLERIDGE: _The Devil's 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. + + +=Primrose.= + +A primrose by a river's brim +A yellow primrose was to him, +And it was nothing more. +1381 +WORDSWORTH: _Peter Bell,_ Pt. i., St. 12. + + +=Printing.= + +Blest be the gracious Power, 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." +1383 +BUNYAN: _Pilgrim's Progress, Apology for his Book._ + + +=Prison.= + +Stone walls do not a prison make, +Nor iron bars a cage; +Minds innocent and quiet, take +That for an hermitage. +1384 +LOVELACE: _To Althea, 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. Caesar,_ Act i., Sc. 3. + + +=Progress.= + +Yet I doubt not thro' the ages one increasing purpose 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., Sc. 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: _Lochiel's 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 Ab.,_ 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. + +And Sidney, warbler of poetic prose. +1393 +COWPER: _Task,_ Bk. iv., Line 514. + + +=Proselytes.= + +The greatest saints and sinners have been made +Of proselytes of one another's trade. +1394 +BUTLER: _Misc. Thoughts,_ Line 315. + + +=Prospects.= + +As distant prospects please us, but when near +We find but desert rocks and fleeting air. +1395 +SAMUEL GARTH: _Dispensatory,_ Canto iii., 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. + +Surer 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 raise 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. + +Who 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. +1401 +COWPER: _A Fable. Moral._ + + +=Prudence.= + +Henceforth His might we know, and know our own, +So as not either to provoke, or dread +New war, provoked. +1402 +MILTON: _Par. Lost,_ Bk. i., Line 643. + +Where passion leads or prudence points the way. +1403 +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. +1404 +COWPER: _Truth,_ Line 13. + + +=Pulpit.= + +And pulpit, drum ecclesiastick, +Was beat with fist instead of a stick. +1405 +BUTLER: _Hudibras,_ Pt. i, Canto i., Line 11. + + +=Punishment.= + + Back to thy punishment, +False fugitive, and to thy speed, add wings. +1406 +MILTON: _Par. Lost,_ Bk. ii., Line 699. + + +=Purity.= + +'Tis said the lion will turn and flee +From a maid in the pride of her purity. +1407 +BYRON: _Siege of Corinth,_ St. 21. + + +=Purpose.= + +Make 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; +'Twas mine, 'tis his, and has been slave to thousands. +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. + +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,_ Pt. 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. + + +=Quiet.= + +Quiet to quick bosoms is a hell. +1419 +BYRON: _Ch. Harold,_ Canto iii., St. 42. + +Safe in the hallowed quiets of the past. +1420 +JAMES RUSSELL LOWELL: _The 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 scripture 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,_ Pt. iii., Line 103. + + + + +==R.== + + +=Race.= + +He lives to build, not boast, a generous race; +No tenth transmitter of a foolish face. +1424 +RICHARD SAVAGE: _The Bastard,_ Line 7. + + +=Rage.= + +Could swell the soul to rage, or kindle soft desire +1425 +DRYDEN: _Alex. Feast,_ Line 160. + + +=Rain.= + +For the rain it raineth every day. +1426 +SHAKS.: _Tw. Night,_ Act v., Sc. 1. + +How beautiful is the rain! +After the dust and heat, +In the broad and fiery street, +In the narrow lane, +How beautiful is the rain! +1427 +LONGFELLOW: _Rain in Summer,_ Sts. 1 and 2. + +The rain comes when the wind calls. +1428 +EMERSON: _Woodnotes,_ Pt. ii., Line 271. + +In winter, when the dismal rain + Came down in slanting lines. +1429 +ALEXANDER SMITH: _A Life Drama,_ Sc. 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. +1430 +SHAKS.: _Tempest,_ Act iv., Sc. 1. + +That gracious thing made up of tears and light. +1431 +COLERIDGE: _Two Founts,_ St. 5. + +The rainbow comes and goes, +And lovely is the rose. +1432 +WORDSWORTH: _Intimations of Immortality,_ 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. +1433 +KEATS: _Lamia,_ Pt. ii. + + +=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! +For him no minstrel raptures swell. +1436 +SCOTT: _Lay of the Last Minstrel,_ Canto vi., 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. + +When the last reader reads no more. +1440 +OLIVER WENDELL HOLMES: _The Last Reader._ + + Stuff the head +With all such reading as was never read: +For thee explain a thing till all men doubt it. +1441 +POPE: _Dunciad,_ Bk. iv., Line 249. + + +=Realms.= + +These are our realms, no limit to their sway,-- +Our flag the sceptre all who meet obey. +1442 +BYRON: _Corsair,_ Canto i., St. 1. + + +=Reason.= + +I 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., Sc. 2. + +Reason raise o'er instinct as you can, +In this 'tis God directs, in that 'tis man. +1444 +POPE: _Essay on Man,_ Epis. iii., Line 97. + + I would make +Reason my guide. +1445 +WILLIAM CULLEN BRYANT: _Conjunction 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. + + +=Rebellion.= + + Their weapons only +Seem'd on our side, but, for their spirits and souls, +This word, rebellion, it had froze them up, +As fish are in a pond. +1448 +SHAKS.: _2 Henry IV.,_ Act i., Sc. 1. + +Rebellion now began, for lack +Of zeal and plunder, to grow slack. +1449 +BUTLER: _Hudibras,_ Pt. iii., Canto ii., Line 31. + + +=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 death 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 childhood, +When fond recollection presents them to view. +1453 +WORDSWORTH: _The Old Oaken Bucket._ + + +=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. +1457 +IZAAK WALTON: _The Complete Angler._ _The Angler's Song._ + + +=Redress.= + +What need we any spur but our own cause +To prick us to redress. +1458 +SHAKS.: _Jul. Caesar,_ 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. + + +=Reformation.= + +'Tis the talent of our English nation, +Still to be plotting some new Reformation. +1460 +DRYDEN: _Sophonisba,_ Prologue. + + +=Regret.= + +O last regret, regret can die! +1461 +TENNYSON: _In Memoriam,_ lxxviii., St. 5. + +Deep as first love, and wild with all regret. +Oh death in life, the days that are no more! +1462 +TENNYSON: _The Princess,_ Pt. iv., Line 36. + + +=Religion.= + + In Religion +What damned error, but some sober brow +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. +1465 +YOUNG: _Public Situation of the Kingdom,_ 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 +SHAKS.: _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. + +I 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 'tis little joy +To know I'm farther off from heaven +Than when I was a boy. +1472 +HOOD: _I Remember, I Remember._ + + +=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 the inmost, +Weeps only tears of poison. +1473 +COLERIDGE: _Remorse,_ Act i., Sc. 1. + + +=Renown.= + +Short is my date, but deathless my renown. +1474 +POPE: _Iliad,_ Bk. ix., Line 535. + + +=Repartee.= + +A man renown'd for repartee +Will seldom scruple to make free +With friendship's finest feeling, +Will thrust a dagger at your breast, +And say he wounded you in jest, +By way of balm for healing. +1475 +COWPER: _Friendship,_ Line 16. + + +=Repentance.= + +Who by repentance is not satisfied +Is nor of heaven nor earth; for these are pleased; +By penitence the Eternal's wrath's appeased. +1476 +SHAKS.: _Two Gent. of V.,_ Act v., Sc. 4. + +Illusion is brief, but Repentance is long! +1477 +SCHILLER: _Lay of the Bell,_ St. 4. + + Repentance is the weight +Of 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. + + +=Repose.= + +The best of men have ever loved repose: +They hate to mingle in the filthy fray, +Where the soul sours, and gradual rancor grows, +Imbitter'd more from peevish day to day. +1480 +THOMSON: _Castle of Indolence,_ Canto i., 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. +1481 +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, +Men are but gilded loam, or painted clay. +1484 +SHAKS.: _Richard II.,_ Act i., Sc. 1. + +At every word a reputation dies. +1485 +POPE: _R. 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 II._ Act v., Sc. 2. + +While Resignation gently slopes away, +And all his prospects brightening to the last, +His heaven commences ere the world be past. +1487 +GOLDSMITH: _Des. Village,_ Line 110. + + +=Resolution.= + + 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. +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.= + +Who with a body filled and vacant mind +Gets him to rest, crammed with distressful bread. +1490 +SHAKS.: _Henry V.,_ Act iv., Sc. 1. + +Rest is sweet after strife. +1491 +OWEN MEREDITH: _Lucile,_ Pt. i., Canto vi., 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._ + + +=Retirement.= + +Retiring from the popular noise, I seek +This unfrequented place to find some ease. +1494 +MILTON: _Samson Agonistes,_ 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: _Hudibras,_ Pt. i., Canto iii., Line 607. + + +=Revelry.= + +Midnight shout and revelry, +Tipsy dance and jollity. +1497 +MILTON: _Comus,_ 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 Caesar'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. Caesar,_ Act iii., Sc. 1. + + 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: _Marmion,_ Canto vi., St. 7. + + +=Reverence.= + + Let the air strike our tune, +Whilst we show reverence to yond peeping moon. +1502 +MIDDLETON: _The 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: _Hudibras,_ 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 +Frowns o'er the wide and winding Rhine. +1506 +BYRON: _Ch. Harold,_ Canto iii., St. 55. + +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: _Lycidas,_ Line 10. + +For rhyme the rudder is of verses, +With which, like ships, they steer their courses. +1510 +BUTLER: _Hudibras,_ Pt. 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._ + +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 right, and there he would abide. +1515 +CRABBE: _Tales:_ Tale xv., _The Squire and 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. +1516 +FREDERICK W. FABER: _The Right Must 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. +1518 +MARLOWE: _The Passionate Shepherd to His Love._ + +See the rivers, how they run, +Changeless to the changeless sea. +1519 +CHARLES KINGSLEY: _Saint's Tragedy,_ Act ii., Sc. 2. + +The river glideth at his own sweet will. +1520 +WORDSWORTH: _Earth has not anything to show more fair._ + + +=Robbery.= + + I'll 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 +Than 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. Caesar,_ Act iv., Sc. 3. + +This was the noblest Roman of them all. +1528 +SHAKS.: _Jul. Caesar,_ 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. +1530 +WORDSWORTH: _A Narrow Girdle of Rough 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. + +The rose saith in the dewy morn, +I am most fair; +Yet all my loveliness is born +Upon a thorn. +1536 +CHRISTINA G. ROSSETTI: _Consider the 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: _Requiescat._ + + +=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 King's 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: _Ruins of Time,_ Line 127. + +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 shall 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 +SHAKS.: _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. + + + + +==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! +1547 +OLIVER WENDELL HOLMES: _A Rhymed Lesson. Urania._ + +E'en Sunday shines no Sabbath-day to me. +1548 +POPE: _Epis. to Arbuthnot,_ Line 12. + +Nor 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. +1550 +OLIVER WENDELL HOLMES: _A Rhymed Lesson,_ Line 229. + +Take the Sunday with you through the week, +And sweeten with it all the other days. +1551 +LONGFELLOW: _Michael Angelo,_ Pt. i., 5. + + +=Sailors.= + +Lives like a drunken sailor on a mast, +Ready with every nod to tumble down. +1552 +SHAKS.: _Richard III.,_ Act iii., Sc. 4. + +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: _The 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, I 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 the 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. +1556 +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. +1557 +BUTLER: _Hudibras,_ Pt. iii., Canto ii., Line 237. + +For virtue's self may too much zeal be had; +The worst of madmen is a saint run mad. +1558 +POPE: Satire iv., Line 26. + +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. +1560 +TICKELL: _On the Death of Mr. Addison,_ Line 41. + +That saints will aid if men will call; +For the blue sky bends over all. +1561 +COLERIDGE: _Christabel,_ 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. + +Why 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. + + +=Sands.= + +Come unto these yellow sands, + And then take hands; +Courtesied 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. +1568 +BEAUMONT: _On the Tombs of Westminster 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. + + +=Satire.= + +Satire's my weapon, but I'm too discreet +To run a-muck, 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'll 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. +1576 +CRABBE: _Advice,_ 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. +1577 +DRYDEN: _Conquest of Granada,_ Pt. i., Act i., Sc. 1. + + +=Scandal.= + +For greatest scandal waits on greatest state. +1578 +SHAKS.: _Lucrece,_ Line 1006. + + You know +That I do fawn on men, and hug them hard, +And after scandal them. +1579 +SHAKS.: _Jul. Caesar,_ 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 + + +=Scars.= + +He jests at scars, that never felt a wound. +1581 +SHAKS.: _Rom. and Jul.,_ Act ii., Sc. 2. + +Gashed with honorable scars, + Low in Glory's lap they lie. +1582 +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 expanse, +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? +1584 +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. + + +=Scholar.= + +He was a scholar, and a ripe and good one; +Exceeding wise, fair-spoken, and persuading; +Lofty and sour to them that loved him not, +But to those men that sought him sweet as summer. +1587 +SHAKS.: _Henry VIII.,_ Act iv., Sc. 2. + +His locked, lettered, braw brass collar +Showed him the gentleman and scholar. +1588 +BURNS: _The Twa Dogs_ + +The land of scholars and the nurse of arms. +1589 +GOLDSMITH: _Traveller,_ Line 356. + + +=School.= + +And then the whining school-boy, 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 way, +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. Village,_ 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; +Expunge the whole, or lop th' excrescent parts +Of all our vices have created arts; +Then see how little the remaining sum +Which 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,_ Pt. 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 +SHAKS.: _Macbeth,_ Act iv., Sc. 3. + +O Scotia! my dear, my native soil! +For whom my warmest wish to heaven is sent! +Long may thy hardy sons of rustic toil +Be blest with health, and peace, and sweet content. +1599 +BURNS: _Cotter's Saturday Night,_ St. 20. + +It was a' for our rightfu' 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 Nature, +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. +1604 +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._ + +Broad based upon her 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_ grows adult, and ripens into man.... +_Autumn_ succeeds, a sober, 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. +1610 +DRYDEN: _Of Pythagorean Phil. From, 15th Book Ovid's Metamorphoses,_ + Line 206. + +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! +1613 +LEIGH HUNT: _Politics and Poetics._ + + +=Secrecy.= + +Be innocent of the knowledge, dearest chuck, +Till thou applaud the deed. +1614 +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. +1615 +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 +BEN JONSON: _Case is Altered,_ Act iii., Sc. 3 + + +=Sects.= + +His liberal soul with every sect agreed, +Unheard their reasons, he received their creed. +1617 +CRABBE: _Tales, Convert,_ Line 45. + +Slave to no sect, who takes no private road, +But looks through Nature up to Nature's God. +1618 +POPE: _Essay on Man,_ Epis. iv., Line 331. + + +=Security.= + + You all know, security +Is 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 +BYRON: _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. +1622 +SCOTT: _Lay of the Last Minstrel,_ Canto vi., 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. + + +=Self-Control.= + +May I govern my passions with absolute sway, +And grow wiser and better as my strength wears away, +... by a gentle decay. +1624 +DR. WALTER POPE: _The Old Man's Wish,_ Chorus. + + +=Self-Defence.= + + Self-defence is a virtue, +Sole bulwark of all right. +1625 +BYRON: _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 +MILTON: _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._ + + +=Self-Love.= + +Self-love, my liege, is not so vile a sin +As self-neglecting. +1630 +SHAKS.: _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 +No self-reproach. +1632 +WORDSWORTH: _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 Angelo,_ 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 + + +=Sensibility.= + +Our sensibilities are so acute, +The fear of being silent makes us mute. +1637 +COWPER: _Conversation,_ Line 351. + +Sweet sensibility! thou keen delight! +Unprompted moral! sudden sense of right! +1638 +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 for 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. +1640 +ELLEN MACKAY HUTCHINSON: _The Prince._ + + +=Sermons.= + +Finds tongues in trees, books in the running brooks, +Sermons in stones, and good in everything. +1641 +SHAKS.: _As You Like It,_ Act ii., Sc. 1. + +Perhaps it may turn out a sang, +Perhaps turn out a sermon. +1642 +BURNS: _Epistle to a Young Friend._ + + +=Serpent.= + +What! would'st thou have a serpent sting thee twice? +1643 +SHAKS.: _M. of Venice,_ Act iv., Sc. 1. + +Where's my serpent of old Nile? +1644 +SHAKS.: _Ant. and Cleo.,_ Act i., Sc. 5. + +And hence one master-passion in the breast, +Like Aaron's serpent, swallows up the rest. +1645 +POPE: _Essay on Man,_ Epis. ii., Line 131. + +Some flow'rets of Eden ye still inherit, + But the trail of the Serpent is over them all. +1646 +MOORE: _Paradise and the Peri._ + + +=Service.= + +Ful wel she sange the service devine, +Entuned in hire nose ful swetely. +1647 +CHAUCER: _Canterbury Tales, Prologue,_ 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. Caesar,_ Act ii., Sc. 1. + + Spirits when they please, +Can either sex assume, or both. +1650 +MILTON: _Par. 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, +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 452. + +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 70. + +Our acts our angels are, or good or ill, +Our fatal shadows that walk by us still. +1655 +JOHN FLETCHER: _Upon an "Honest Man's Fortune."_ + + +=Shaft.= + +In my school-days, when I had lost one shaft, +I shot his fellow of the selfsame flight +The selfsame way, with more advised watch, +To find the other forth; and by adventuring both +I oft found both. +1656 +SHAKS.: _M. of Venice,_ Act i., Sc. 1. + +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. +1657 +WALLER: _To a Lady Singing a Song of his Composing._ + + +=Shakespeare.= + + Soul of the age! +Th' applause! delight! the wonder of our stage! +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 wits to read, and praise to give. +1658 +BEN JONSON: _Underwoods, To the Mem. of Shakespeare._ + +There, Shakespeare, on whose forehead climb +The crowns o' the world. Oh, eyes sublime, +With tears and laughters for all time! +1659 +MRS. 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._ + + +=Shame.= + +O, shame! where is thy blush? +1662 +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 call'd 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,_ Bk. iv. + + +=Shelley.= + +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,_ i. + + +=Sheridan.= + +Long 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. +1669 +SCOTT: _Marmion,_ Introduction to Canto iii. + + +=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 +COLERIDGE: _The Ancient Mariner,_ Pt. ii. + + +=Shipwreck.= + + O, I have suffer'd +With those that I saw suffer! a brave vessel, +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.: _Tempest,_ 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. +1676 +JAMES SMITH: _Rejected Addresses, The 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. + +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 Sailor's 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. +1682 +BUTLER: _Hudibras,_ Pt. iii., Canto iii., 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. +1684 +SHAKS.: _1 Henry IV.,_ Act iv., Sc. 1. + + +=Sighs.= + + My story being done, +She gave me for my pains a world of sighs. +1685 +SHAKS.: _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. +1686 +BYRON: _Don Juan,_ Canto xvi., St. 13. + + +=Sight.= + +Visions of glory, spare my aching sight +Ye unborn ages, crowd not on my soul! +1687 +GRAY: _The Bard,_ Pt. iii., St. 1. + +O Christ! it is a goodly sight to see +What Heaven hath done for this delicious land. +1688 +BYRON: _Ch. Harold,_ Canto i., St. 15. + + +=Signs.= + +Sometime we see a cloud that's dragonish: +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 eyes with air: thou hast seen these signs; +They are black vesper's pageants. +1689 +SHAKS.: _Ant. and Cleo.,_ Act iv., Sc. 12. + + +=Silence.= + +Silence is the perfectest herald of joy: +I 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._ + +Silence accompany'd; for beast and bird, +They to their grassy couch, these to their nests, +Were 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.= + +Like 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 lxvi. + +Rich in saving common-sense, +And, as the greatest only are. +In his simplicity sublime. +1699 +TENNYSON: _Ode on the Death of the Duke of Wellington,_ St. 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, Advice,_ Line 242. + +But sad as angels for the good man's sin, +Weep to record, and blush to give it in. +1703 +CAMPBELL: _Pl. 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! +1704 +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. + + +=Sincerity.= + +I never tempted her with word too large, +But, as a brother to his sister, show'd +Bashful sincerity and comely love. +1706 +SHAKS.: _Much Ado,_ Act iv., Sc. 1. + +His nature is too noble for the world: +He would not flatter Neptune for his trident, +Or Jove 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.: _M. 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 +MRS. 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,_ St. 11. + + +=Singularity.= + +No two on earth in all things can agree; +All have some darling singularity. +1713 +CHURCHILL: _Apology,_ 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.: _Cymbeline,_ Act v., Sc. 5. + + +=Skill.= + +How 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._ + + +=Skull.= + +Look on its broken arch, its ruined wall, +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. Harold,_ Canto iii., St. 92. + + +=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. +1719 +SPENSER: _Faerie Queene,_ Bk. ii., Canto xi., St. 10. + + 'T is slander, +Whose edge is sharper than the sword: whose tongue +Outvenoms all the worms of Nile; whose breath +Bides 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.: _Cymbeline,_ 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._ + + 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. +1728 +SIR PHILIP SIDNEY: _Astrophel and Stella,_ 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 +YOUNG: _Night Thoughts,_ Night i., Line 1. + +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. + +Sleep the sleep that knows not breaking, +Morn of toil, nor night of waking. +1732 +SCOTT: _Lady 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"? +1733 +MRS. BROWNING: _Sleep._ + + Be thy sleep +Silent as night is, and as deep. +1734 +LONGFELLOW: _Christus, Golden Legend,_ Pt. ii. + +Sleep will bring thee dreams in starry number-- +Let him come to thee and be thy guest. +1735 +AYTOUN: _Hermotimus._ + + +=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 complain, +"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 +SHAKS.: _Hamlet,_ Act i., Sc. 5. + +With the smile that was childlike and bland. +1739 +BRET HARTE: _Plain Language from Truthful James._ + + Death +Grinn'd horrible a ghastly smile, to hear +His famine should be filled. +1740 +MILTON: _Par. Lost,_ Bk. ii., Line 815. + +Without the smile from partial beauty won, +Oh what were man?--a world without a sun. +1741 +CAMPBELL: _Pl. of Hope,_ Pt. ii., Line 21. + +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.= + +I 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'll close, and be herself; whilst our poor malice +Remains in danger of her former tooth. +1745 +SHAKS.: _Macbeth,_ Act iii., Sc. 2. + + +=Snow.= + +Or wallow naked in December snow +By thinking on fantastic summer's heat? +1746 +SHAKS.: _Richard II.,_ 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 the 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._ + + +=Snow-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._ + + +=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.: _As 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._ + + +=Solitude.= + +Solitude sometimes is best society, +And short retirement urges sweet return. +1758 +MILTON: _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. +1759 +COWPER: _Verses supposed to be written by 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. +1760 +JEAN INGELOW: _Afternoon at a Parsonage, 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._ + + +=Son.= + +Thence to be wrench'd with an unlineal hand, +No 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. + + +=Song.= + +And heaven had wanted one immortal song. +1764 +DRYDEN: _Absalom and Achitophel,_ Pt. i., 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 +WORDSWORTH: _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. 4. + +Nothing 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. 38. + + +=Soul.= + +But whither went his soul, let such relate +Who search the secrets of the future state. +1772 +DRYDEN: _Palamon and Arcite,_ Bk. iii., Line 2120. + +It is the Soul's prerogative, its fate +To shape the outward to its own estate. +1773 +R.H. DANA: _Thoughts on the Soul._ + + The gods approve +The depth, and not the tumult, of the soul. +1774 +WORDSWORTH: _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! +1776 +MRS. HEMANS: _Abencerrage,_ Canto ii., 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 +SHAKS.: _Othello,_ Act i., Sc. 3. + +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.= + +Nor 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. +1784 +WORDSWORTH: _Intimations of Immortality,_ St. 10. + + +=Sport.= + + Thick around +Thunders the sport of those, who with the gun +And dog, impatient bounding at the shot, +Worse than the 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 +TENNYSON: _Locksley 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!"-- +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 IV.,_ Act v., Sc. 4. + +The stars of the night +Will lend thee their light, +Like tapers clear without number! +1791 +HERRICK: _Aph. Night Piece, To Julia._ + +Ye stars! which are the poetry of Heaven, +If in your bright leaves we would read the fate +Of men and empires,--'t is to be forgiven, +That in our aspirations to be great, +Our destinies o'erleap their mortal state, +And claim a kindred with you. +1792 +BYRON: _Ch. Harold,_ Canto iii., St. 88. + + Now only here and there a little star +Looks forth alone. +1793 +WILLIAM CULLEN BRYANT: _The Constellations._ + + +=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. 84. + + +=Statesman.= + + An honest statesman to a prince, +Is like a cedar planted by a spring; +The spring bathes the tree's root, the grateful tree +Rewards it with his shadow. +1795 +WEBSTER: _Duchess of Malfi,_ 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 +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 Caesar that should move +The stones of Rome to rise and mutiny. +1797 +SHAKS.: _Jul. Caesar,_ 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. + + 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. +1803 +POPE: _To the Memory of an Unfortunate 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! +1806 +LONGFELLOW: _Christus, Golden Legend,_ Pt. ii. + + +=Strife.= + +No fears to beat away, no strife to heal,-- +The past unsighed for, and the future sure. +1807 +WORDSWORTH: _Laodamia._ + + +=Striving.= + +How far your eyes 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. +1811 +BUTLER: _Sat. on Abuse of Human Learning,_ Line 211. + + +=Success.= + +Didst thou never hear +That things ill got had ever bad success? +1812 +SHAKS.: _3 Henry VI.,_ Act ii., Sc. 2. + +Life lives only in success. +1813 +BAYARD TAYLOR: _Amran's Wooing,_ St. 5. + +'Tis not in mortals to command success; +But we'll do more, Sempronius--we'll deserve it. +1814 +ADDISON: _Cato,_ Act i., Sc. 2. + + +=Suffering.= + +Yet tears to human suffering are due; +And mortal hopes defeated and o'erthrown +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. Caesar,_ 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 elm +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 CULLEN BRYANT: _Summer Wind._ + + +=Sun.= + + 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. + +Busy old fool, unruly sun, +Why dost thou thus, +Through windows 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 +ROBERT BROWNING: _Apparent Failure,_ vii. + + +=Sunflower.= + +Light enchanted sunflower, thou +Who gazest ever true and tender +On the sun's revolving splendor! + * * * * * +Restless sunflowers, cease to move. +1823 +SHELLEY: _Tr. of "Magico Prodigioso" of Calderon,_ 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. +1824 +MOORE: _Believe Me, If all Those Endearing Young Charms._ + +Miles and miles of gold and green +Where 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. + + +=Sunrise.= + +When from the opening 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._ + +'Tis 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,_ Sc. 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 Angelo,_ Pt. i., 2. + + The sun is going down, +And I must see the glory from the hill. +1832 +GEORGE ELIOT: _Agatha._ + + +=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: _Festus,_ Sc. _The Surface._ + +As sunshine broken in the rill, +Though turned astray, is sunshine still. +1834 +MOORE: _The Fire-Worshippers._ + + +=Surfeit.= + +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. + + +=Swallow.= + +When Autumn scatters his departing gleams, +Warned 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. + + +=Swans.= + + 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. + + +=Swearing.= + +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. + + +=Sweetness.= + +Things sweet to taste prove in digestion sour. +1843 +SHAKS.: _Richard II.,_ Act i., Sc. 3. + +Married to immortal verse, +Such as the meeting soul may pierce, +In notes with many a winding bout +Of linked sweetness long drawn out. +1844 +MILTON: _L'Allegro,_ Line 135. + + +=Swiftness.= + +I go, I go; look how I go; +Swifter than arrow from the Tartar's bow. +1845 +SHAKS.: _Mid. N. Dream,_ Act iii., Sc. 2. + +His golden locks time hath to silver turned; + O time too swift! O swiftness never ceasing! +1846 +GEORGE PEELE: _Sonnet, Polyhymnia._ + + +=Swimming.= + + How many a time have I +Cloven with arm still lustier, breast more daring, +The wave all roughen'd; 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. + + +=Sword.= + + 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. +1849 +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. + +There's nought in this bad world like sympathy: +'Tis 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 mystical bear-gardens, +Where elders, deputies, church-wardens, +And other members of the court, +Manage the Babylonish sport. +1852 +BUTLER: _Hudibras,_ Pt. i., Canto iii., 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. +1853 +CHAUCER: _Canterbury Tales, Prologue,_ Line 733. + + But that I 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., Sc. 5. + +I will a round unvarnish'd tale deliver +Of my whole course of love. +1855 +SHAKS.: _Othello,_ Act i., Sc. 3. + +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. 3. + +But still his tongue ran on, the less +Of weight it bore, with greater ease +And with its everlasting clack, +Set all men's ears upon the rack. +1858 +BUTLER: _Hudibras,_ Pt. iii., Canto ii., Line 443. + +They always talk who never think. +1859 +PRIOR: _Upon this Passage in the Scaligeriana._ + +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! how it talked! +1861 +BEAUMONT AND FLETCHER: _Scornful Lady,_ Act v., Sc. 1. + + +=Tasso.= + +Tasso is their glory and their shame. +Hark to his strain! and then survey his cell! +And see how dearly earn'd Torquato's fame, +And where Alfonso bade his poet dwell. +1862 +BYRON: _Ch. Harold,_ Canto iv., St. 36. + + +=Taste.= + +Talk what you will of taste, my friend, you'll find +Two of a face as soon as of a mind. +1863 +POPE: Satire vi., Line 268. + +Good native Taste, tho' rude, 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. +1865 +AKENSIDE: _Pl. of the Imagination,_ Bk. iii., 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. Caesar,_ Act iv., Sc. 3. + +Who nothing has to lose, the war bewails; +And he who nothing pays, at taxes rails. +1867 +CONGREVE: _Epis. to Sir Richard Temple. Of Pleasing,_ Line 17. + + +=Tea.= + +For her own breakfast she'll project a scheme, +Nor 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 +SHAKS.: _Henry VIII.,_ Act v., Sc. 2. + + +=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 And.,_ Act iii., Sc. 1. + +Our present tears here, not our present laughter, +Are but the handsells of our joys hereafter. +1872 +HERRICK: _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: +But woe awaits 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 +WORDSWORTH: _Intimations of Immortality._ + +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 happy Autumn fields, +And thinking of the days that are no more. +1876 +TENNYSON: _The Princess,_ Pt. iv., Line 21. + +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. FINCH: _The Blue and the Gray._ + + +=Temper.= + + 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. Caesar,_ 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,_ Letter xvii., Line 198. + + +=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 from 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. +1882 +SPENSER: _Faerie Queene,_ Bk. ii., Canto xii., St. 21. + +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. + +'Tis 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. +1886 +BUTLER: _Hudibras,_ Pt. ii., Canto ii., Line 233. + +Safe from temptation, safe from sin's pollution, + She lives whom we call dead. +1887 +LONGFELLOW: _Resignation_ + + +=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. Caesar,_ 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. + + +=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? +Why choose the rankling thorn to wear? +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. +1900 +OWEN MEREDITH: _Lucile,_ Pt. ii., Canto v., St. 16. + + No thought which ever stirred +A human breast should be untold. +1901 +ROBERT BROWNING: _Paracelsus,_ Sc. 2. + + 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 +HOOD: _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., Sc. 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 Ormus and of Ind. +1908 +MILTON: _Par. Lost,_ Bk. ii., Line 1. + + +=Thunder.= + +And threat'ning France, plac'd like a painted Jove, +Kept idle thunder in his lifted 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. Caesar,_ 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. +1914 +HERRICK: _To Virgins to Make Much of Time._ + +Threefold the stride of Time, from first to last! +Loitering slow, the FUTURE creepeth-- +Arrow-swift, the PRESENT sweepeth-- +And motionless forever stands the PAST. +1915 +SCHILLER: _Sentences of Confucius, Time._ + + +=Tithes.= + +This priest he merry is and blithe + Three quarters of a year, +But oh! 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 in men's worth, +Titles are jests. +1917 +BEAUMONT AND FLETCHER: _King or No 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 137. + + +=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 Island,_ Canto ii., St. 19. + + +=To-day.= + +Happy the man and happy he alone, +He who can call to-day his own. +1921 +DRYDEN: _Im. of Horace,_ Bk. iii., Ode 29, 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_ + + +=Toil.= + +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. +1923 +JAMES RUSSELL LOWELL: _A Glance Behind 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-morrow.= + +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., Sc. 5. + +Defer not till to-morrow to be wise, +To-morrow's sun on thee may never rise. +1926 +CONGREVE: _Letter to Cobham._ + +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 thing we fled--To-day. +1928 +SHELLEY: _To-morrow._ + + +=Tongue.= + +While thou livest, keep a good tongue in thy head. +1929 +SHAKS.: _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. +1934 +GOLDSMITH: _Traveller,_ Line 217. + + +=Torture.= + +The hell of waters! where they howl and hiss, +And boil in endless torture. +1935 +BYRON: _Ch. Harold,_ Canto iv., St. 69. + + +=Towers.= + +Towers and battlements it sees +Bosom'd high in tufted trees. +1936 +MILTON: _L'Allegro,_ Line 75. + + +=Town.= + +God made the country, and man made the town. +1937 +COWPER: _Task,_ Bk i., Line 749. + + +=Toys.= + +Seeks painted trifles and fantastic toys, +And eagerly pursues imaginary joys. +1938 +AKENSIDE: _Virtuoso,_ St. 10. + + +=Trade.= + +But times are alter'd; 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. +1940 +DR. JOHNSON: _Line added to Goldsmith's Des. Village._ + + +=Tranquillity.= + +Like ships that have gone down at sea +When heaven was all tranquillity. +1941 +MOORE: _Lalla Rookh, The Light of the Harem._ + + +=Traveller--Travelling.= + +Now spurs the lated traveller apace +To gain the timely inn. +1942 +SHAKS.: _Macbeth,_ Act iii., Sc. 3. + +When I was at home, I was in a better place; +But travellers 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. Caesar,_ Act iii., Sc. 2. + + So Judas kiss'd his master, +And cried--All hail! when as he meant--all harm. +1946 +SHAKS.: _3 Henry VI.,_ Act v., Sc. 7. + +Treason doth never prosper: what's the reason? +Why, if it prosper, none dare call it treason. +1947 +SIR JOHN HARRINGTON: _Epigrams,_ Bk. iv., Epigram 5. + +Treason is not own'd when 'tis descried; +Successful crimes alone are justified. +1948 +DRYDEN: _Medals,_ Line 207. + + +=Treasure.= + + The unsunn'd heaps +Of miser's treasure. +1949 +MILTON: _Comus,_ 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: _Pauline,_ Line 726. + +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.= + +Why comes temptation, but for man to meet +And master, and make crouch beneath his foot, +And so be pedestaled in triumph? +1957 +ROBERT BROWNING: _The Ring and the Book,_ Line 1185. + + +=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: +Whether 'tis 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. +1960 +CHAUCER: _The Frankeleines Tale,_ 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-field._ + +Dare to be true. Nothing can need a lie; +A fault, which 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 lov'd, needs only to be seen. +1964 +DRYDEN: _Hind and Panther,_ Pt. i., Line 33. + +He is the freeman whom the truth makes free, +And all are slaves beside. +1965 +COWPER: _Task,_ Bk. v., Line 133. + + Truth is one; +And, in all lands beneath the sun, +Whoso hath eyes to see may see +The tokens of its unity. +1966 +WHITTIER: _Miriam._ + +Truth is truth howe'er it strike. +1967 +ROBERT BROWNING: _La Saisiaz,_ Line 198. + +I love truth: truth's no cleaner thing than love. +1968 +MRS. BROWNING: _Aurora Leigh,_ Bk. iii., 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. +1970 +JAMES RUSSELL LOWELL: _Present Crisis,_ 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! +1972 +WATTS: _Hymns and Spiritual Songs,_ Bk. ii., Hymn 19. + + +=Turf.= + +Green be the turf above thee, + Friend of my better days! +1973 +FITZ-GREENE HALLECK: _On Joseph 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 Summer Day,_ St. 15 + + +=Tyranny.= + +'Tis 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. + + + + +==U.== + + +=Uncertainty.= + +Oh, how this spring of love resembleth +The uncertain glory of an April day! +1980 +SHAKS.: _Two Gent. of V.,_ Act i., Sc. 3. + + +=Unity.= + +Two souls with but a single thought, +Two hearts that beat as one. +1981 +MARIA WHITE LOWELL: _Ingomar the Barbarian,_ Act ii. + + +=Unkindness.= + +This was the most unkindest cut of all. +1982 +SHAKS.: _Jul. Caesar,_ Act iii., Sc. 2. + + +=Use.= + + These things are beyond all use, +And I do fear them. +1983 +SHAKS.: _Jul. Caesar,_ Act ii., Sc. 2. + + + + +==V.== + + +=Vacuity.= + +He trudged along, unknowing what he sought, +And whistled as he went, for want of thought. +1984 +DRYDEN: _Cym. 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._ + + +=Valor.= + +Fear to do base unworthy things is valor; +If 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 modern brain? +1988 +COWPER: _Expostulation,_ Line 630. + + +=Vapor.= + +A wing vapor melting in a tear. +1989 +POPE: _Odyssey,_ 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. + +In Venice, Tasso's echoes are no more, +And silent rows the songless gondolier. +1994 +BYRON: _Ch. Harold,_ Canto iv., St. 3. + + +=Venus.= + +Love seldom haunts the breast where learning lies, +And Venus sets ere Mercury can rise. +1995 +POPE: _Wife of Bath, Her Prologue,_ Line 369. + + +=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 GIFFORD: _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 when 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: _Essay on Man,_ Epis. ii., Line 217. + + +=Victory.= + +Thus far our fortune keeps an upward course, +And we are grac'd with wreaths of victory. +2001 +SHAKS.: _3 Henry VI.,_ Act v., Sc. 3. + +"But what good came of it at last?" +Quoth little Peterkin. +"Why, that I cannot tell," said he; +"But 'twas a famous victory." +2002 +ROBERT 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. + + +=Violet.= + +A violet by a mossy stone + Half hidden from the eye; +Fair as a star, when only one + Is shining in the sky. +2007 +WORDSWORTH: _She Dwelt among the 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! +What tender thought, what speechless pain! +I hold thy faded lips to mine, +Thou darling of the April rain! +2009 +THOMAS BAILEY ALDRICH: _The Faded Violet._ + + +=Virtue.= + +Heaven doth with us, as we with torches do; +Not light them for themselves: for if our virtues +Did not go forth of us, 'twere 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.: _Henry 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 happy trial prove most glory. +2013 +MILTON: _Comus,_ Line 589. + +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: _Comus,_ 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 needfully be broken. +2017 +SHAKS.: _Two Gent. of V.,_ Act ii., Sc. 6. + +It is the hour when lovers' vows + 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. +2019 +BUTLER: _Hudibras,_ Pt. ii., Canto i., Line 297. + + +=Walks.= + + A pillar'd shade +High overarch'd, and echoing walks between. +2020 +MILTON: _Par. Lost,_ Bk. ix., Line 1106. + +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'ns 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. +2026 +LONGFELLOW: _Courtship of Miles Standish,_ Pt. iv., Line 135. + + +=Warning.= + +Men that stumble at the threshold, +Are well foretold that danger lurks within. +2027 +SHAKS.: _3 Henry VI.,_ Act iv., Sc. 7. + + +=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 +BYRON: _Age of Bronze,_ St. 5. + + +=Water.= + +Smooth runs the water where the brook is deep. +2030 +SHAKS.: _2 Henry VI.,_ Act iii., Sc. 1. + + Till taught by pain, +Men really know not what good water'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 desert 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: _Il Penseroso,_ Line 65. + + +=Weakness.= + + If weakness may excuse, +What murderer, 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 life, 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: _Tr. of Horace,_ Bk. i., Ode 5. + + +=Welcome.= + +So, 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: Welcome. +2040 +SHAKS.: _Coriolanus,_ Act ii., Sc. 1. + + +=Wheel.= + +I wandered by the brookside, + I wandered by the mill; +I could not hear the brook flow, + The noisy wheel was still. +2041 +RICHARD MONCKTON MILNES: _The Brookside._ + + +=Wickedness.= + +There is a method in man's wickedness,-- +It grows up by degrees. +2042 +BEAUMONT AND FLETCHER: _A King 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 +DRYDEN: _Wife of Bath,_ Line 543. + + +=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.: _Two Gent. of V.,_ Act ii., Sc. 4. + +We'll 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. + +She is a bonnie wee thing, +This sweet wee wife o' mine. +2047 +BURNS: _My Wife's a Winsome Wee Thing._ + +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 +COWPER: _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: _A Word from 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; +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 in the wintry earth. +2054 +GEORGE MACDONALD: _Songs of the Spring Days._ + +A melancholy sound is in the air, +A deep sigh in the distance, a shrill wail +Around my dwelling. 'Tis the Wind of night. +2055 +WILLIAM CULLEN BRYANT: _A Rain Dream._ + + +=Windows.= + +Rich 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. +2057 +PARNELL: _Anacreontic, "Gay Bacchus, etc.",_ 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. + +How at heaven's gates she claps her wings, +The morne not waking til she sings. +2060 +JOHN LYLY: _Cupid and Campaspe,_ Act v., 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: _Seasons, 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. +2063 +WILLIAM CULLEN BRYANT: _A Winter 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. 11. + + What is it to be wise? +'Tis 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: _Comus,_ Line 373. + + +=Wishes.= + +Thy wish was father, Harry, to that thought. +2070 +SHAKS.: _2 Henry IV.,_ Act iv., Sc. 4. + +Our wishes lengthen, as our sun declines. +2071 +YOUNG: _Night Thoughts,_ Night v., Line 662. + + +=Wit--Wits.= + +I hold a mouses wit not worth a leke, +That hath but one hole for to sterten to. +2072 +CHAUCER: _Canterbury Tales, The Wif of Bathes Prologue,_ Line 6154. + +Wit's an unruly engine, wildly striking +Sometimes a friend, sometimes the engineer. +2073 +HERBERT: _Temple, Church Porch,_ St. 41. + +Great wits are sure to madness near allied, +And thin partitions do their bounds divide. +2074 +DRYDEN: _Absalom and Achitophel,_ Pt. i., Line 163. + +Men famed for wit, of dangerous talents vain, +Treat those of common parts with proud disdain. +2075 +CRABBE: _Patron,_ Line 229. + +Though I am young, I scorn to flit +On the wings of borrowed wit. +2076 +GEORGE WITHER: _The Shepherd's Hunting._ + + +=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 +SHAKS.: _Hamlet,_ Act i., Sc. 1. + +Woes cluster; rare are solitary woes; +They love a train, they tread each other's heel. +2079 +YOUNG: _Night Thoughts,_ Night iii., Line 63. + +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. +2081 +HAMLIN GARLAND: _The Gaunt Gray Wolf._ + + +=Woman.= + +Women are as roses; whose fair flower, +Being once display'd, doth fall that very hour. +2082 +SHAKS.: _Tw. 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. +2086 +_Copied from the pillar erected on the mount in the + Dane John Field, Canterbury._ [_Examiner_: May 31, 1829.] + +And yet believe me, good as well as ill, +Woman'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._ + +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; +When pain and anguish wring the brow, +A ministering angel thou! +2090 +SCOTT: _Marmion,_ Canto vi., St. 30. + +The woman that deliberates is lost. +2091 +ADDISON: _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 +GEORGE ELIOT: _The Spanish Gypsy,_ Bk. ii. + +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 HAYNE: _The Woodland._ + + +=Woodman.= + +Woodman, spare that tree! + Touch not a single bough! +In youth it sheltered me, + And I'll protect it now. +2096 +GEORGE P. MORRIS: _Woodman, Spare 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.= + + 'Tis well said again, +And 'tis a kind of good deed to say well: +And yet words are no deeds. +2098 +SHAKS.: _Henry VIII.,_ 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 words 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. +2102 +OWEN MEREDITH: _Lucile,_ Pt. i., Canto ii., St. 6. + + +=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. +2104 +MRS. BROWNING: _Aurora Leigh,_ Bk. viii., Line 752. + +Men must work, and women must weep. +2105 +CHARLES KINGSLEY: _The Three Fishers._ + + +=World.= + +Why, then, the world's mine oyster, +Which I 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 Show._ + +I have not loved the world, nor the world me. +2110 +BYRON: _Ch. Harold,_ Canto iii., 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: _My 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 III.,_ 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.: _Two Gent. of 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. + + +=Wrecks.= + +Methought 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 writing well. +2122 +SHEFFIELD, DUKE OF BUCKINGHAMSHIRE: _Essay on Poetry._ + + +=Wrong.= + + Behold on wrong +Swift vengeance waits; and art subdues the strong! +2123 +POPE: _Odyssey,_ Bk. viii., Line 367. + +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._ + + + + +==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, +But watch the years that hasten by. +Look, how they come,--a mingled crowd +Of bright and dark, but rapid days. +2128 +WILLIAM CULLEN BRYANT: _Lapse of Time._ + + None would live past years again, +Yet all hope pleasure in what yet remain. +2129 +DRYDEN: _Aurengzebe,_ 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 Memoriam,_ Pt. ii., St. 1. + + +=Youth.= + + For youth no less becomes +The light and careless livery that it wears, +Than settled age his sables, and his weeds, +Importing health and graveness. +2132 +SHAKS.: _Hamlet,_ Act iv., Sc. 7. + +Home-keeping youth have ever homely wits. +2133 +SHAKS.: _Two 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! +2135 +LONGFELLOW: _Morituri Salutamus._ + +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 VIII.,_ 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. London, Eng., 1719. +--50, 393, 556, 629, 700, 713, 749, 766, 925, 969, +1078, 1583, 1814, 2091. + +Akenside, Mark. +b. Newcastle-upon-Tyne, 1721; d. London, Eng., 1770. +--1865, 1938. + +Aldrich, James. +b. New York, 1810; d 1856. +--1481. + +Aldrich, Thomas Bailey. +b. Portsmouth, N.H., 1836; d. 1907. +--238, 407, 771, 2009. + +Allen, Elizabeth Akers. +b. Strong, Me., 1832; .... +--313. + +Armstrong, John. +b. Liddesdale, Eng, 1709; d. London, Eng., 1779. +--1864. + +Arnold, Sir Edwin. +b. London, 1832; d. 1904. +--498. + +Arnold, Matthew. +b. Laleham, Middlesex, Eng., 1822; d. Eng, 1888. +--1537, 2103. + +Aytoun, William Edmondstoune. +b. Fifeshire, 1813; d. 1865. +--1735. + + +Bailey, Philip James. +b. Nottingham, Eng, 1816; d. 1902. +--43, 79, 322, 531, 614, 746, 967, 1349, 1770, 1833. + +Baillie, Joanna. +b. Lanarkshire, Scot, 1762; d. Hampstead, Eng., 1851. +--198. + +Barbauld, Anna Laetitia. +b. Leicestershire, Eng., 1743; d. 1825. +--782, 1717, 2032. + +Barrington, George. +b. Maynooth, Ireland, 1755; d. New South Wales at a great age. +--413. + +Barry, Michael J. +_Circa_ 1815. +--1340. + +Baxter, Richard. +b. Rowdon, Shropshire, Eng., 1615; d. 1691. +--1375. + +Bayly, Thomas Haynes. +b. near Bath, Eng., 1797; d. 1839. +--218, 1335. + +Beattie, James. +b. Laurencekirk Scot., 1735; d. Aberdeen, Scot., 1803. +--60, 485, 670, 837. + +Beaumont and Fletcher. + Beaumont, Francis. + b. Leicestershire, Eng., 1586; d. 1615. + Fletcher, John. + b. Rye, Eng., 1576; d. London, Eng., 1625. +--19, 22, 204, 408, 559, 598, 1154, +1231, 1568, 1861, 1917, 2042. + +Benserade, Isaac de. +b. in Upper Normandy, 1612; d. 1691. +--164. + +Blair, Robert. +b. Edinburgh, Scot., 1699; d. Athelstaneford, Scot., 1747. +--85, 819, 836, 1651. + +Booth, Barton. +b. Lancashire, Eng, 1681; d. 1733. +--1354. + +Boyesen, Hjalmar Hjorth. +b. Fredericksvern, Norway, 1848; d. 1895. +--1028, 1162. + +Bramston, James. +b. England; d. 1744. +--875. + +Brown, John. +b. England, 1715; d. 1766. +--49, 431. + +Brown, Tom. +b. Shropshire, Eng., 1663; d. 1704. +--562. + +Browning, Elizabeth Barrett. +b. London, Eng., 1809; d. Florence, Italy, 1861. +--160, 196, 650, 778, 848, 887, 1006, 1039, 1073, 1296, 1373, 1659, +1709, 1733, 1968, 2104. + +Browning, Robert. +b. Camberwell, Eng., 1812; d. 1889. +--65, 129, 251, 474, 519, 681, 747, 865, 993, 994, 996, 1086, 1123, +1188, 1222, 1228, 1312, 1344, 1351, 1450, 1667, 1710, 1822, +1825, 1901, 1950, 1957, 1967. + +Bryant, William Cullen. +b. Cummington, Mass., 1794; d. New York, 1878. +--234, 240, 317, 627, 697, 725, 758, 851, 906, +1155, 1246, 1277, 1321, 1445, 1604, 1663, 1793, 1819, 1951, +1962, 2055, 2063, 2128. + +Bulwer, Edward George Earle Lytton [Baron Lytton]. +b. London, Eng., 1803; d. Torquay, France, 1873. +--1323. + +Bunn, Alfred. +b. England; d. 1860. +--888. + +Bunyan, John. +b. Elstow, Eng., 1628; d. London, Eng., 1688. +--664, 1383. + +Burns, Robert. +b. Ayr, Scot., 1759; d. Dumfries, Scot., 1796. +--20, 208, 222, 242, 552, 588, 592, 604, 694, 773, 783, 954, 964, 986, +1080, 1095, 1106, 1109, 1129, 1147, 1193, 1345, 1435, 1588, +1599, 1600, 1642, 1704, 2047, 2080. + +Butler, Samuel. +b. Worcestershire, Eng., 1612; d. London, Eng., 1680. +--39, 153, 236, 303, 305, 405, 423, 549, 566, 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., 1788; d. Missolonghi, Greece, 1824. +--31, 59, 62, 116, 133, 148, 169, 176, 209, 315, 351, 352, 354, +368, 388, 419, 451, 460, 469, 470, 486, 506, 511, 534, 537, 553, 582, +594, 612, 619, 651, 677, 734, 748, 751, 787, 813, 841, 842, 843, 850, +878, 879, 898, 908, 910, 995, 1059, 1075, 1087, 1115, 1131, 1133, +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, 1862, 1884, 1897, 1910, 1920, 1935, 1979, 1993, 1994, +2018, 2025, 2029, 2031, 2059, 2089, 2094, 2110. + + +Campbell, Thomas. +b. Glasgow, 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. Ecclefechan, Scot., 1795; d. Chelsea, near London, Eng., 1881. +--1090, 1150. + +Cary, Alice. +b. near Cincinnati, O., 1820; d. New York City, 1871. +--536, 1262. + +Cary, Phoebe. +b. near Cincinnati, O., 1824; d. New York City, 1871. +--646. + +Chapman, George. +b. Hitchin, Eng, 1557; d. London, Eng., 1634. +--658. + +Chatterton, Thomas. +b. Bristol, Eng, 1752; d. London, Eng., 1770. +--1136. + +Chaucer, Geoffrey. +b. London, Eng., 1328; d. 1400. +--40, 104, 1647, 1853, 1960, 2072. + +Chorley, Henry Fothergill. +b. 1808; d. 1872. +--1268. + +Churchill, Charles. +b. Westminster, Eng., 1731; d. Boulogne, France, 1764. +--98, 100, 135, 530, 698, 703, 874, 978, 1713, 1749. + +Clemmer, Mary. +b. Utica, N.Y., 1839; d. 1884. +--676. + +Coleridge, Samuel Taylor. +b. Devonshire, Eng., 1772; d. London, Eng., 1834. +--71, 143, 282, 395, 465, 484, 599, 708, 728, +979, 1138, 1227, 1336, 1372, 1379, 1431, 1473, 1507, 1561, 1673. + +Collins, William. +b. Chichester, Eng., 1720; d. Chichester, Eng., 1756. +--227, 928, 1035, 1239. + +Colman, George [the younger]. +b. 1762; d. London, Eng., 1836. +--971. + +Congreve, William. +b. Bardsey, Eng., 1670; d. London, Eng., 1729. +--185, 775, 1237, 1867, 1926. + +Cook, Eliza. +b. London, Eng., 1817; d. 1889. +--1747. + +"Cornwall, Barry." +_See_ PROCTER, BRYAN WALLER. + +Cowley, Abraham. +b. London, Eng., 1618, d. Chertsey, Eng., 1667. +--479, 786. + +Cowper, William. +b. Great Berkhamstead, Hertfordshire, Eng., 1731; d. 1800. +--30, 102, 146, 175, 365, 403, 412, 586, 591, +656, 739, 762, 868, 889, 914, 960, 1036, 1079, 1201, 1393, 1401, 1404, +1437, 1466, 1475, 1571, 1637, 1723, 1752, 1759, 1799, 1916, 1931, 1937, +1965, 1988, 1990, 2004, 2024, 2049. + +Crabbe, George. +b. Aldborough, Eng., 1754; d. Trowbridge, Eng., 1832. +--44, 205, 330, 379, 428, 1382, 1412, 1515, 1576, 1617, 1702, 1880, 2075. + +Cranch, Christopher Pearse. +b. Alexandria, Va., 1813; d. 1892. +--1903. + +Crashaw, Richard. +b. 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[Duke of Buckinghamshire]. +b. 1649; d. 1720. +--918, 2122. + +Shelley, Percy Bysshe. +b. near Horsham, Eng., 1792, drowned in the Gulf of Spezia, Italy, 1822. +--442, 502, 538, 596, 633, 899, 1024, 1294, 1363, 1503, +1823, 1928, 1991, 2008. + +Shenstone, William. +b. Leasowes, Eng., 1714; d. Leasowes, Eng. 1763. +--987, 1736. + +Sheridan, Richard Brinsley Butler. +b. Dublin, Ireland, 1751; d. London. Eng., 1816. +--2121. + +Shirley, James. +b. London, Eng, 1594; d. London, Eng., 1666. +--23. + +Sidney, Sir Philip. +b. Penshurst, Eng., 1554; d. Arnheim, Holland, 1586. +--1728. + +Sigourney, Lydia Huntley. +b. Norwich, Conn., 1791; d. Hartford, Conn., 1863. +--1253. + +Smith, Alexander. +b. Kilmarnock, 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, Tobias George. +b. near Renton, Eng., 1721; d. Leghorn, Italy, 1771. +--975. + +Southey, Robert. +b. Bristol, Eng., 1774; d. Cumberland, Eng., 1843. +--147, 974, 2002. + +Spenser, Edmund. +b. London, Eng., 1553; d. London, Eng., 1599. +--125, 302, 421, 510, 555, 998, 1011, 1120, 1181, 1224, +1264, 1540, 1719, 1882. + +Sprague, Charles. +b. Boston, Mass., 1791; d. Boston, Mass., 1875. +--1249. + +Stedman, Edmund Clarence. +b. Hartford, Conn., 1833; .... +--296, 625, 1639. + +Stevens, George Alexander. +b. London, Eng., 1720; d. 1784. +--1554. + +Stevenson, Robert Louis Balfour. +b. Edinburgh, Scot., 1850; d. Island of Samoa, 1894. +--106, 183, 258, 915, 1257, 1319, 2065. + +Stoddard, Richard Henry. +b. Hingham, Mass, 1825; d. 1903. +--84, 128, 310, 741, 1101, 1539. + +Story, Joseph. +b. Marblehead, Mass., 1779; d. Cambridge, Mass., 1845. +--1377. + +Suckling, Sir John. +b. Whitton, Eng., 1608-9; d. Paris, France, 1641-2. +--467, 640, 1122. + +Swift, Jonathan. +b. Dublin, Ireland, 1667; d. Dublin, Ireland, 1745. +--719, 721, 903, 1005. + +Swinburne, Algernon Charles. +b. Holmwood, Eng., 1837; .... +--1097. + + +Taylor, Bayard. +b. Kennett Sq., Penn., 1825; d. Berlin, Ger., 1878. +--476, 1044, 1088, 1813, 1888, 2068. + +Taylor, Sir Henry. +b. Durham, Eng., 1800; d. 1886. +--449. + +Taylor, Jane. +b. London, Eng., 1783; d. Ongar, Essexshire, 1824. +--1189. + +Tennyson, Alfred. +b. Somersby, Eng., 1810; d. 1892. +--151, 166, 172, 246, 292, 319, 325, 333, 338, 584, 606, 626, 630, 648, +661, 779, 820, 881, 900, 927, 953, 1032, 1040, 1093, 1117, 1128, +1293, 1374, 1387, 1461, 1462, 1607, 1699, 1711, 1771, 1786, +1826, 1876, 1902, 2131. + +Thaxter, Celia Leighton. +b. Portsmouth, N.H., 1835; d. 1894. +--1976. + +Thomas, Frederick William. +b. Providence, R.I., 1811; d. 1866. +--10. + +Thomson, James. +b. Ednam, Scot., 1700; d. Kew, Eng., 1748. +--36, 339, 522, 622, 693, 752, 913, 951, 959, 1206, 1343, +1479, 1480, 1545, 1780, 1785, 1787, 1827, 1839, 1883, 1971, 2062. + +Tickell, Thomas. +b. near Carlisle, Eng., 1686; d. Bath, Eng., 1740. +--1560. + +Tobin, John. +b. Salisbury, Eng., 1770; d. 1804. +--427. + +Toplady, Augustus Montague. +b. Surrey, Eng., 1640; d. 1778. +--1523. + +Trumbull, John. +b. Lebanon, Conn., 1750; d. New York City, 1831. +--864. + +Tupper, Martin Farquhar. +b. London, Eng., 1810; d. 1889. +--1513, 1922. + +Tusser, Thomas. +b. Rivenhall, Eng., 1515-23; d. London, Eng., 1580. +--324. + + +Usteri, Johann Martin. +b. Zurich, Switzerland, 1763; d. 1827. +--1898. + + +Vaughan, Henry. +b. Brecknockshire, Wales, 1621; d. 1695. +--706, 1148, 1464, 1952. + + +Wade, J.A. +b. 1800; d. 1875. +--1856. + +Waller, Edmund. +b. Coleshill, Eng., 1605; d. Beaconsfield, Eng., 1687. +--63, 81, 230, 852, 1657. + +Walton, Izaak. +b. Stafford, Eng., 1593; d. 1683. +--1457. + +Warton, Thomas. +b. Basingstoke, Eng., 1728; d. 1790. +--92. + +Watts, Isaac. +b. South Hampton, Eng., 1674; d. Theobalds, Eng., 1748. +--672, 882, 1223, 1559, 1570, 1737, 1972, 2021. + +Webster, John. +b. _circa_ 1570; d. 1638. +--1066, 1795. + +White, Henry Kirke. +b. Nottingham, Eng., 1785; d. Cambridge, Eng., 1806. +--268, 401. + +Whitman, Walt. +b. Long Island, N.Y., 1819; d. 1892. +--264. + +Whittier, John Greenleaf. +b. Haverhill, Mass., 1807; d. 1892. +--532, 637, 760, 772, 1149, 1177, 1252, 1355, 1376, 1966. + +Willis, Nathaniel Parker. +b. Portland, Me., 1807; d. Idlewild, N.Y., 1867. +--1135, 2048. + +Winter, William. +b. Gloucester, Mass., 1836; .... +--76. + +Wither, George. +b. Brentworth, Eng., 1588; d. London, Eng., 1667. +--270, 2076. + +Wolfe, Charles. +b. Dublin, Ireland, 1791; d. Cove of Cork, 1823. +--2028. + +Woodworth, Samuel. +b. Scituate, Mass., 1785; d. New York City, 1842. +--244. + +Wordsworth, William. +b. Cockermouth, Eng., 1770; d. Rydal Mount, Eng., 1850. +--34, 61, 163, 174, 178, 206, 256, 274, 301, 309, 473, 487, 523, 527, +571, 593, 662, 743, 757, 769, 806, 822, 834, 917, 937, 947, 958, 968, +970, 1022, 1042, 1096, 1186, 1324, 1353, 1366, 1381, 1432, 1446, +1453, 1520, 1526, 1530, 1627, 1632, 1634, 1666, 1753, 1767, +1774, 1781, 1784, 1807, 1815, 1875, 1953, 2007, 2124. + +Wotton, Sir Henry. +b. Boughton Malherbe, Eng., 1568; d. Eaton, Eng., 1639. +--1116, 1715. + + +Young, Edward. +b. Upham, Eng., 1684; d. Welwyn, Eng., 1765. +--48, 57, 115, 179, 184, 363, 404, 434, 494, 525, 561, 980, 1070, +1385, 1410, 1455, 1465, 1471, 1602, 1729, 1763, 1810, 1860, +1868, 1918, 1956, 2071, 2079. + + + + +INDEX TO QUOTATIONS + + +The references designate the _numbers_ 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, 628. + +Accident, by many a happy, 16. + the unthought-on, 13. + +Accidents by flood and field, 14. + our wanton, take root, 15. + +Account, sent to my, 17. + +Accounts, draw the, of evil, 388. + +Acquaintance, should auld, be forgot, 20. + +Acting of a dreadful thing, 437. + +Action, of every noble, the intent, 22. + pleasure and, make the hours seem short, 21. + +Actions of the just, 23. + +Acts, our, our angels are, 1655. + +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 shining scene, 48. + tries our virtue, 49. + +Affliction's sons are brothers in distress, 242. + +Affronts, young men soon give, 50. + +Age cannot wither her, 55. + I must not tell my, 58. + rock the cradle of, 432. + when, is in, wit is out, 51. + +Agent, trust no, 279. + +Ages, alike all, 466. + +Aim, failed in the high, 65. + +Air, the, a chartered libertine, 66. + +Alacrity in sinking, 67. + +Ale, drink of Adam's, 69. + the spicy nut-brown, 68. + +Alexandrine, a needless, 70. + +Alone on a wide 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, 80. + +Ancient of days, 116. + +Angels come and go, 84. + lackey her, 300. + where, fear to tread, 83. + +Angels' visits, short and far between, 85. + +Anger never made good guard, 87. + +Anger's my meat, 86. + +Angling, the pleasantest, 88. + wagered on your, 89. + +Anna, here thou, great, 411. + +Antiquity, ways of 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, 678. + 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, 276. + 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, 1889. + +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, 289. + 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'll make, 114. + +Asters, purple, nod, 130. + +Atheist, by night an, half believes a God, 115. + +Athena, august, 116. + +Athens, the eye of Greece, 117 + +Attachment to the well-known place, 914. + +Attempt and not the deed, 118. + +Auburn, sweet, 2003. + +August round her precious gifts is flinging, 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 paint 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 backward, 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. + +Beams athwart the sea, 151. + +Bear, rugged Russian, 414. + +Beard, his tawny, 153. + was as white as snow, 152. + +Beast, that wants discourse of reason, 154. + +Beauty, a thing of, is a joy, 159. + cost her nothing, 658. + 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, 164. + the, was made, 258. + +Bees, murmuring of innumerable, 166. + +Beggars, mounted, 167. + when, die, 168. + +Beggary, impotent and snail-paced, 524. + +Behavior, upon his good, 169. + +Belial, sons of, 170. + +Bell, merry 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, 178. + +Birthday, a day that rose, 180. + +Bivouac of the dead, 181. + +Blasphemy in the soldier, 182. + +Blessedness, dies in single, 283. + +Blessings brighten as they take their flight, 184. + wait on virtuous deeds, 185. + +Blind among enemies, 187. + +Bliss which centres in the mind, 189. + +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 bonnie, 198. + +Body, upon my burned, 598. + +Bond, I'll 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 marrowless, 795. + +Book, a, O rare one, 203. + +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, 208. + 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 husbandry, 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, fashion-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, 228 + +Bread, crammed with distressful, 1490. + should be so dear, 229. + +Breast, calm the troubled, 231. + +Breath, good man yields his, 232. + +Breeches are so queer, 233. + +Breezes of the South, 234. + +Brevity is very good, 236. + the soul of wit, 235. + +Bride in her bloom, 238. + +Bridge of sighs, 1993. + that arched the flood, 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, 244. + +Bud is on the bough, 245. + +Bugle, blow, 246. + +Bully, like a tall, 358. + +Buttercups, the children's dower, 251. + +Butterfly, a mere court, 419. + I'd be a, 218. + + +Caesar, dead and turned to clay, 253. + the word of, 253. + +Calamity, thou art wedded to, 255. + +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, 367. + hold their farthing, 363. + throws his beams, 259. + +Cannons spit forth their indignation, 261. + +Canteen, we have drunk from the same, 756. + +Captain, boisterous, of the sea, 265. + my, our fearful trip is done, 264. + +Caravanserai, God's green, 258. + +Care keeps his watch, 266. + pursues its victim, 268. + that is entered once, 267. + to our coffin adds a nail, 269. + will kill a cat, 270. + +Cat, a harmless, necessary, 272. + care will kill a, 270. + will mew, 273. + +Catalogue, go for men in the, 575. + +Cataract haunted me, 274. + +Caterpillars of the Commonwealth, 417. + +Cato, give his senate laws, 276. + +Cattle, call the, home, 277. + +Cause, little shall I grace my, 278. + +Caverns measureless to man, 282. + +Censure from a foe, 285. + take each man's, 41. + +Ceremony was but devised, 286. + +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, 333. + power men call, 288. + +Change, fear of, perplexes monarchs, 607. + itself can give no more, 291. + ringing grooves of, 292. + +Chaos, black, comes again, 293. + eldest night and, 80. + of thought and passion, 294. + +Character in thy life, 295. + +Charity, alas for the rarity of, 298. + fulfils the law, 297. + +Charm, the, by sages often told, 401. + +Charms strike the sight, 299. + +Chastity, saintly, 300. + +Chatterton, the marvellous boy, 301. + +Chaucer, well of English, 302. + +Cheek, fed on her damask, 374. + o'er her warm, 193. + +Cherubims, still quiring to the, 1708. + +Chickens, count their, 305. + +Child, a thankless, 985. + is father of the man, 309. + +Childhood, the scenes of my, 1453. + +Children are the keys of Paradise, 310. + gathering pebbles, 312. + if the, were no more, 307. + +Chime, faintly as tolls the evening, 314. + +Chivalry, charge with all thy, 142. + +Choice, follow thou thy, 317. + goes by forever, 514. + +Choler, room to your 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, merry, 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 year, 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. + +Cliff, as some tall, 341. + +Clime, cold in, are cold in blood, 352. + +Climes beyond the western main, 342. + +Cloake, take thine old, 343. + +Clock worn out, 844. + +Cloud that's dragonish, 1689. + +Clouds are angels' robes, 348. + heavy with storms, 346. + hooded, like friars, 150. + on the western side, 347. + trailing, of glory, 743. + +Clown, thou art mated 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, 311. + +Compass, I mind my, 369. + +Complexion, mislike me not for my, 372. + +Compulsion, sweet, in music, 373. + +Concealment, like a worm, 374. + +Conceit in weakest bodies strongest works, 375. + lies 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 affections, 1626. + +Conquest's crimson wing, 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. + +Consistency wuz a part of his plan, 391. + +Consolation, grief is crowned with, 390. + +Conspiracies no sooner should be formed, 393. + +Constancy lives in realms above, 395. + +Consummation devoutly to be wished, 396. + +Consumption's ghastly form, 493. + +Contemplation and valor formed, 397. + +Contempt, contemptible to shun, 398. + +Content can soothe, 401. + commends me to mine own, 400. + +Contest, great, follows, 403. + +Convents bosomed deep in vines, 2. + +Conversation, in, boldness bears sway, 199. + skill of, lies in, 404. + +Copse, near yonder, 340. + +Corruption is a tree, 408. + mining all within, 528. + shall deluge all, 409. + +Counsel, bosom up my, 410. + +Countenance will change to virtue, 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. + +Courtesy, that fine sense which men 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, 386. + 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, 1783. + +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, 671. + 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, 707. + +Cupid is a casuist, 448. + is painted blind, 447. + +Cure for life's ills, 449. + +Curfew tolls the knell, 450. + +Curiosity, that low vice, 451. + +Curls, shakes his ambrosial, 452. + +Current, take the, when it serves, 453. + +Curs, like to village, bark, 1200. + +Curses, 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. + + +Daffadills, we weep to see, 461. + +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 faint praise, 1369. + +Damnation, deal, round the land, 464. + +Damned use that word 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 down like 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, 483. + each, critique on the last, 260. + is done, 632. + it is a sultry, 1819. + the kingly, 1828. + +Days are in the yellow leaf, 486. + heavenly, that cannot die, 487. + +Days, nor mourn the unalterable, 791. + our, begin with trouble, 500. + thirty, hath September, 1211. + +Death, a necessary end, 488. + a strange, delicious amazement, 498. + all seasons for thine own, 496. + came with friendly care, 979. + close folio wing, 492. + cometh soon or late, 495. + 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, 503. + lies on her, 490. + loves a shining mark, 494. + lurks in every flower, 501. + only kind to mortals, 497. + rides on every 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, 508. + +December, came the chill, 510. + +Decency, want of, 512. + +Deed, so shines a good, 259. + +Deeds, easy to beget great, 516. + excused his devilish, 515. + +Deep where Holland lies, 517. + +Defence, at one gate, to make, 520. + +Delay leads impotent beggary, 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, 533. + +Desire, bloom of young, 193. + liveth not in fierce, 535. + +Despair 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, 384. + can cite scripture, 1422. + has the largest congregation, 384. + 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. + +Digression, 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, with 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 very melancholy, 565. + +Dispute, could we forbear, 63. + +Distance lends enchantment, 570. + +Diver did hang a salt-fish, 89. + +Divinity that shapes our ends, 573. + +Doctor Fell, I do not love thee, 562. + +Dog, I'd rather be a, 237. + will have his day, 273. + +Dogs of war, let slip the, 1499. + +Dolphins play, pleased to see, 369. + +Dome, hand that rounded Peter's, 247. + +Dominion over palm and pine, 744. + +Done, if it were, when 't is, 25. + +Doubt, modest, is called, 578. + +Doubts, our, are traitors, 579. + +Doves, the moan of, 166. + +Drama's laws, the, 580. + +Dream, a, so sweet, 554. + fickle as a changeful, 702. + +Dreams are a world, 206. + are children of an idle brain, 581. + have breath and tears, 582. + glimpses of forgotten, 584. + some, are nothing but dreams, 583. + such stuff as, are made on, 1726. + +Dress, be plain in, 585. + drains our cellar dry, 586. + we sacrifice to, 586. + +Drink, give him strong, 588. + +Drunkard, some frolic, 590. + +Dulcimer, damsel with a, 465. + +Dunce, a, at home, 591. + +Dungeon, dweller in yon, 592. + +Duty, if that name thou love, 593. I + + +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, 595. + +Earth doth like a snake renew, 596. + felt the wound, 597. + hath bubbles, 243. + is a thief, 1521. + lie lightly, gentle, 598. + with her thousand voices, 599. + +Ease, I'll take mine, 741. + would recant vows, 600. + +East, opening chambers of the, 1827. + +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 day, 186. + +Eden, through, took their solitary way, 608. + +Education forms the common mind, 609. + +Eloquence, mother of arts and, 117. + +Elves, the criticising, 698. + +Embers, glowing, through the room, 802. + +Embroidery, sad, wears, 429. + +Emerson 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 inebriety, 619. + +Envy is a kind of praise, 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 shadows before, 1390. + +Evil, be thou my good, 634. + springs up, 635. + that men do lives, 636. + +Exercise, the sad mechanic, 1293. + +Expectation makes a blessing dear, 640. + +Experience is by industry achieved, 641. + long, made him sage, 642. + +Extremes in nature equal good produce, 643. + +Eye, let every, negotiate for itself, 279. + of childhood fears a painted devil, 545. + the black, the blue, 649. + +Eyes are homes of silent prayer, 648. + bright, rain influence, 982. + 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, 569. + +Face, can't I another's, commend, 655. + false, must hide, 568. + he hides a shining, 656. + light upon her, 654. + that launched a thousand ships, 1670. + 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, 662. + for modes of, 663. + 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, 669. + +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, 673. + +Fancy, she's all my, painted her, 675. + where is, bred, 674. + +Farewell, a word that must be, 677. + through keen delights, 676. + to thee, Araby's daughter, 481. + +Farmers, the embattled, stood, 239. + +Fashion wears out more apparel, 678. + +Fate, binding Nature fast in, 682. + has wove the thread of life, 683. + take a bond of, 114. + when, summons, monarchs obey, 680. + +Fates, what, impose, 679. + +Father of all, in every age, 685. + wise, knows his own child, 684. + +Fathers, God of our, 744. + +Fault, 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, 711. + +Firmament, now glowed the, 712. + spacious, on high, 713. + +Fish, I can, and study too, 1457. + +Flag of the free heart's hope, 714. + the meteor, of England, 715. + +Flame, freedom's holy, 716. + that lit the battle's wreck, 717. + +Flatter, I cannot, 718. + +Flattery, can, soothe the ear of death, 720. + the food of fools, 719. + +Flea has smaller fleas, 721. + +Flesh, this too solid, 722. + +Flight, no thought of, 416. + +Flood, leap into this angry, 724. + taken at the, 1912. + +Flowers preach to us, 726. + that skirt the frost, 728. + the gentle race of, 725. + they talk in, 727. + wither at the 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, 731. + lovely woman stoops to, 733. + +Fools are my theme, 734. + ever since the Conquest, 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, 1282. + +Fortitude is seen in great exploits, 749. + +Fortune, forever, wilt thou prove, 752. + is female, 751. + +Fortune keeps an upward course, 2001. + stings and arrows of, 1959. + will, never come, 750. + +Fortune's power, I am not now in, 39. + +Frailty, thy name is Woman, 753. + +France, 't is better using, 755. + +Freedom from her mountain-height, 761. + my angel, 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 me 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 falls, 774. + +Funeral baked meats, 1907. + +Furrows, 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. + unvexed with cares of, 781. + +Gait, I ken the manner of his, 113. + +Gale, so sinks the, 782. + thorn that scents the evening, 783. + +Garden, God the first, made, 786. + where flowers were heaped, 785. + +Garden, where the, smiled, 340. + +Garret, born in the, 787. + +Garrick, here lies David, 788. + +Garth did not write his own Dispensary, 123. + +Gem of purest ray serene, 789. + +Genius commands thee, 357. + goes and Folly stays, 791. + must be born, 790. + +Gentleman, who was then the, 793. + +Gentlemen, that neither envy the great, 792. + +Gentleness shall force, 794. + +Ghost, like an ill-used, 85. + what gentle, 548. + +Ghosts and forms of fright, 796. + +Gifts are locked up in my heart, 798. + free of, that cost them nothing, 799. + +Girdle round the earth, 800. + +Girls blush, sometimes, 196. + +Gloamin, late in a, 801. + +Gloom, teach light to counterfeit a, 802. + +Glory, awake to, 807. + excess of, obscured, 804. + from defect arise, 519. + gilds the sacred page, 175. + go where, waits thee, 805. + greater, dim the less, 367. + guards with solemn round, 181. + is like a circle in water, 803. + or the grave, 859. + pursue, and generous shame, 716. + +Glow-worm shows the matin, 808. + +Gluttony, 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, 384. + from thee, great, we spring, 815. + is the perfect poet, 1351. + made the country, 412. + of our fathers, 744. + +God, only, may be had for the asking, 810. + the life and light, 812. + +Goddess fair and free, 1192. + she moves a, 1417. + +Gods arrive when half-gods go, 817. + grow angry with your patience, 1016. + the, detest my baseness, 145. + the, are just, 816. + +God's love seemed lost, 531. + +Going, the order of your, 824. + +Gold, all that glisters 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 off, 85. + 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 monument, 821. + +Government, for forms of, 829. + makes them seem divine, 827. + +Gowans fine, pu'd the, 222. + +Grace beyond the reach of art, 831. + 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 dishonorable, 355. + +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, 1531. + sad relic of departed 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's gone should be past, 846. + +Ground, haunted, holy, 850. + +Groves, frequenting sacred, 852. + were God's first temples, 1951. + +Grudge, feed fat the ancient, 853. + +Gudgeons, to swallow, 305. + +Guest, welcome the coming, 855. + +Guests, unbidden, 854. + +Guilt, full of artless jealousy, 856. + once harbored, 857. + + +Habit, costly thy, 94. + +Habits, ill, gather by unseen degrees, 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 sunlight, 861. + streamed like a meteor, 863. + when you see fair, 862. + 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 being's end and aim, 869. + that makes 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 flies, 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, 602. + she wants a, 886. + we cannot heal the throbbing, 379. + +Hearts, great, have largest room to bless, 840. + +Heathen Chinee is peculiar, 433. + +Heaven doth with us as we with torches, 2010. + hath a hand in these events, 1486. + is above all yet, 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 whip, 694. + grew darker at their frown, 896. + is a city much like London, 899. + itself should gape, 542. + merit heaven by making earth a, 898. + never mentions, to ears polite, 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, 905. + +Hesperus rode brightest, 1215. + +High as we have mounted, 523. + +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. + +Holiday, butchered to make a Roman, 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, 916. + +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, 165. + +Honor and shame from no condition 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. + flies with swallows' wings, 930. + heavenly, is all serene, 934. + in thy sweet garden grow, 933. + never comes that comes to all, 935. + springs eternal, 932. + withering fled, 878. + +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 wife despises, 954. + as the, is, the wife is, 953. + +Hypocrisy, evil that walks invisible, 956. + +Hypocrite had left his mark, 957. + + +Ice in June, 511. + motionless as, 958. + +Idea, teach the young, 959. + +Ignorance, from, our comfort flows, 962. + is the curse of God, 961. + +Ilium, topless towers of, 1670. + +Ills, cure for life's worst, 449. + the scholar's life assail, 965. + +Illusion is brief, 1477. + +Image, a lasting, of the mind, 1382. + +Imagination all compact, 966. + appear so fair to, 968. + is the air of mind, 967. + +Immortality, thoughts born 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, 980. + +Ingratitude, I hate, 983. + thou marble-hearted fiend, 984. + +Inhumanity, man's, to man, 986. + +Inn, every house was an, 942. + warmest welcome at an, 987. + +Innocence, glides in modest, away, 989. + silence of pure, 988. + +Instinct and reason, how divide, 990. + +Invention, the, all admired, 991. + +Iron, man that meddles with cold, 992. + +Isle in far-off seas, 993. + +Isles that o'erlace the sea, 994. + +Italia, who has fatal beauty, 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, 1003. + +Jest's, a, prosperity lies in the, 1002. + +Jewel in an Ethiope's ear, 1004. + +John Anderson, my jo, 1109. + some said, print it, 1383. + +Joke to cure the dumps, 1005. + +Jove laughs at lovers' perjuries, 1327. + lifts the golden balances, 136. + +Joy, capacity for, 1006. + is the mainspring, 1007. + +Joys, how fading are the, 95. + too exquisite to last, 1008. + +Judas 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, 1437. + +July, boiling like to fire, 1011. + +June, what so rare as a day 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, 1018. + +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, 489. + 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, 787. + +Knave, he's an arrant, 1033. + +Knaves, whip me such honest, 1034. + +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, 1038. + to their eyes 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, 1048. + 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, my native, 1051. + of brown heath, 1051. + +Landscape tire the view, 1053. + +Language, fit, there is none, 1054. + quaint and olden, 1055. + +Lark, the herald of the morn, 1056. + the, left his nest, 1057. + +Larks, the early, 1827. + +Lass, a penniless, 1058. + +Latin, that soft bastard, 1059. + +Laughter, holding his sides, 1060. + shakes the skies, 1061. + +Law, in, what plea so tainted, 1062. + 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, 1068. + on 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 history, 1074. + +Liberty, I must have, 1076. + like day, breaks, 1079. + mountain nymph, sweet, 1081. + when, is gone, 1078. + +Liberty's, in, defence, 1077. + in every blow, 1080. + +Lie, an odious, damned, 1082. + nothing can need a, 1088. + +Life a curse and not a blessing, 1086. + by his, alone, 637. + high, 108. + hovers like a star, 1087. + is but a span, 500. + is not to be bought, 1092. + is scarce the twinkle of a star, 1088. + is so dreary, 536. + is the gift of God, 1089. + nor love thy, nor hate, 1085. + pure in its purpose, 981. + sacred burden is this, 248. + so careless of the single, 1093. + twenty years of, 1816. + 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 religious, 275. + offspring of Heaven, 1094. + that led astray, 1095. + that never was, 1096. + the prime work of God, 187. + to break and melt in sunder, 1097. + +Lightning, brief as the, 1098. + +Lightnings, the rending, 1883. + +Likeness, long shall we seek his, 1668. + +Lilacs, April brings again, 105. + +Lilies, in the beauty of the, 320. + in twisted braids of, 1100. + +Lily, mistress of the field, 1099. + +Line, cadence of a rugged, 252. + Marlowe's mighty, 1102. + marred the lofty, 1103. + will the, stretch, 577. + +Lion, wounds the earth, 1104. + +Lions, talks familiarly of, 197. + +Lips, her, are roses washed with dew, 1105. + when my, meet thine, 1028. + +Little, contented with, 1106. + man wants but, 1107. + +Lives of great men, 738. + +Loan, a, oft loses 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+ she never told her, 374. + taught him shame, 337. + this spring of, 1118. + took up the harp of Life, 319. + tunes the shepherd's reed, 1134. + what, can do, 1122. + when he draws his bow, 423. + +Loved and lost, better to have, 1128. + so 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, 1132. + +Luxury, cursed by heaven, 1137. + it was a, to be, 1138. + + +Mad, I am not, 1139. + +Madding crowd's ignoble strife, 443. + +Madmen, the worst of, 1558. + +Madness, moody, laughing wild, 1141. + must not unwatched go, 1140. + +Madrigals, birds sing, 1518. + +Mahomet, moon of, 442. + +Maid, be good, sweet, 823. + +Maker, our, bids increase, 284. + +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, 237. + good, never dies, 282. + groan, hear a 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joys of, 1159. + +Martyr in his shirt of fire, 1163. + +Martyrs, life has its, 1162. + +Master is of churlish 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. + +May, leads with her the flowery, 1169. + the new-born, 1168. + the voice is thine, sweet, 1167. + +Meals, unquiet, make ill digestions, 603. + +Means, I'll 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, 733. + +Melodies unheard before, 1175. + +Memory, dear to, though lost to sight, 1178. + eyes 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, 182. + that stumble at 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+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 greenwood, 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, 2033. + +October, calm sunshine of, 1277. + +October's foliage yellows, 1278. + +Odds, I would allow him, 521. + +Odors, when sweet violets sicken, 2008. + +Odyssey, Iliad and the, 143. + +Offence, detest the, 1280. + should bear his comment, 1279. + +Oil, incomparable, Macassar, 368. + +Old age 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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, you say, 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, 1689. + +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, 1303. + +Passion leads or prudence points the way, 1403. + places which, loves, 1304. + the power of that sweet, 1120. + +Passions are likened to floods, 1305. + may I govern my, 1624. + oft, to hear her shell, 1239. + various ruling, 1543. + +Past, let the dead, bury its dead, 780. + over the trackless, 1306. + +Patience is a plant, 1311. + is the exercise of saints, 1310. + poor they are, that have not, 1308. + thou young cherubim, 1309. + times when, proves at fault, 1312. + +Patriots, true, all, 413. + +Pauper, he's only a, 202. + +Peace, a, is of the nature of a conquest, 1317. + hath her victories, 1320. + uproar the universal, 377. + was on the earth, 1321. + weak piping time of, 1318. + 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 divine, 1331. + will clip an angel's wings, 1433. + +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, 1338. + +Place, 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 adders, 1342. + is as great, 303. + must succeed to pleasure, 1344. + to excess, 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, 1363. + not, that makes men poor, 1347. + +Poets are all who love, 1349. + have made us heirs, 1353. + +Pole, true as the needle to the, 1354. + +Poll, flaxen was his, 152. + +Pomegranate, from Browning some, 887. + +Poppies, with rain, overcharged, 1356. + +Possession means to sit astride of the world, 1360. + +Potations, banish long, 212. + +Poverty, but not my will, consents, 1361. + stood smiling in my sight, 1364. + +Power, they 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. + +Prayer incessant, if by, 1371. + more things are wrought by, 1374. + +Prayers, God answers sharp and sudden, 1373. + +Prayeth best who loveth best, 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, 1381. + peeps beneath the thorn, 35. + +Princes, the death of, 168. + were privileged to kill, 438. + +Prior, here lies Matthew, 623. + +Prison make, stone walls do not a, 1384. + +Procrastination is the thief of time, 1385. + +Prodigies, when these, do meet, 1386. + +Promise, keep the word of, 1388. + +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, 1395. + +Prosperity, surer to prosper than, 1397. + +Prosperity's the very 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, 1399. + there 's a special, 1398. + +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, 1409. + +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, they 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 suffer in wrong, 1423. + + +Rabble all alive, 1201. + +Race, he lives to build a generous, 1424. + +Rage, could swell the soul to, 1425. + +Rain came down in slanting lines, 1429. + comes when the wind calls, 1428. + how beautiful is the, 1427. + it raineth every day, 1426. + trickling, doth fall, 625. + +Rainbow, an awful, 1433. + be thou the, 1391. + colors of the, 356. + comes and goes, 1432. + God hath set his, 1253. + +Rank is but the guinea stamp, 1435. + superior worth your, requires, 1434. + +Rattle, pleased with a, 308. + +Reader reads no more, 1440. + +Reading, such, as was never read, 1441. + +Realms, these are our, 1442. + +Reason, a woman's, 1443. + feast of, 219. + guides our deeds, 990. + I would make, my guide, 1445. + raise o'er instinct, 1444. + sanctity of, 1447. + the confidence of, give, 1446. + war with rhyme, 1508. + +Rebellion began to grow slack, 1449. + froze them up, 1448. + +Rebuff, then welcome each, 1450. + +Rebukes, a lady so tender of, 1451. + +Rechabite poor Will must live, 69. + +Reckoning, no, made, 17. + when the banquet's o'er, 1452. + +Reconcilement, never can, grow, 1454. + +Records that defy the tooth of time, 1455. + +Recreation, none so free as fishing, 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, 1468. + +Remember the fir trees dark and high, 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, 1480. + in statue-like, 1481. + +Reproaches, slanderous, 1719. + +Reproof on her lips, 1483. + those can bear, 1482. + +Reputation, at every word a, dies, 544. + seeking the bubble, 1754. + the purest treasure, 1484. + +Resignation gently slopes away, 1487. + +Resolution, the native hue of, 386. + +Respect upon the world, 1489. + +Respects himself, he that, 1633. + +Rest is sweet after strife, 1491. + too much, becomes a pain, 1492. + +Retirement, O blest, 1495. + +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, 254. + to yond peeping moon, 1502. + +Revolution, there is great talk of, 1503. + +Rhetoric, dear wit and gay, 1505. + he could not ope his mouth, 1504. + +Rhetorician's, a, rules, 1932. + +Rhine, the river, 1507. + the wide and winding, 1506. + +Rhinoceros, the armed, 414. + +Rhyme, build the lofty, 1509. + hitches in a, 1996. + the rudder is of verses, 1510. + +Rich, if thou art, thou art poor, 2036. + +Rich with forty pounds a year, 340. + +Riches in a little room, 1511. + the toil of fools, 1512. + +Ride, a wild and lonely, 1761. + +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, 708. + +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, 1528. + +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, 283. + looks fair, 1533. + no more desire a, 1532. + saith in the dewy morn, 1536. + would smell as sweet, 1242. + +Rosebuds, gather ye, 1914. + +Roses, I wish the sky would rain, 1534. + in December, 511. + strew on her, 1537. + +Rousseau, self-torturing sophist, wild, 1538. + +Rout on rout, 383. + +Ruin, fires of, glow, 1541. + prodigious, swallows all, 1542. + seize thee, 382. + upon ruin, 383. + +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, 1554. + +Sails, purple the, 1555. + that drift at night, 1671. + +Saint, a, run mad, 1558. + in crape, 108. + John mingles with my friendly bowl, 219. + would be, the devil a, 546. + +Saints began their reign, 1557. + immortal reign, 1559. + who led the way to heaven, 1560. + will aid, 1561. + +Salt, the, is spilt, 1562. + who ne'er knew, 1564. + why shun the, 1563. + +Salutations of the crowd, 1358. + +Salvation, no relish of, 1565. + none of us should see, 1566. + +Sand, an heap of lime and, 1540. + +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, 1585. + +Sceptre, a barren, 444. + shows the force of power, 1586. + +Schemes, our most romantic, 583. + +Scholar, a ripe and good, 1587. + the gentleman and, 1588. + +Scholars, the land of, 1589. + +School, the master taught his, 1591. + +School-boy, the whining, 1590. + +Schools, bewildered in the maze of, 430. + +Science frowned not on his humble birth, 1174. + O star-eyed, 1593. + 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, 1598. + +Scotland's strand, fair, 1600. + +Scribblers are my game, 1601. + +Scripture, the devil can cite, 1422. + writ by God's own hand, 1602. + +Sculptor wields the chisel, 1604. + +Sculpture is more divine, 1603. + +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, 1606. + when the, was roaring, 1608. + +Seamen on the deep, 1553. + +Seas roll to waft me, 262. + +Seasons, all please alike, 1611. + 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 enemy, 1619. + +Seed, fruit from such a, 1620. + who soweth good, 1493. + +Self, smote the chord of, 319. + something dearer than, 1621. + to thine own, be true, 211. + +Self-concern, in others, 1629. + +Self-defence is a virtue, 1625. + +Self-dispraise, a luxury in, 1627. + +Self-esteem, nothing profits more than, 1628. + +Self-love is not so vile a sin, 1630. + +Self-love, the spring of motion, 1631. + +Self-reproach, men who feel no, 1632. + +Self-sacrifice, the spirit of, 1634. + +Senates, the applause of listening, 103. + +Sense, good, the gift of heaven, 1636. + motions of the, 1635. + +Sensibilities are so acute, 1637. + +Sensibility, thou keen delight, 1638. + +September waves his golden-rod, 1640. + +Sermon, perhaps turn out a, 1642. + +Sermons in stones, 1641. + +Serpent, like Aaron's, 1645. + of old Nile, 1644. + sting thee twice, 1643. + the trail of the, 1646. + +Serpent's tooth, sharper than a, 985. + +Serve, 't is nobleness to, 1648. + +Service devine, she sange the, 1647. + poorest, is repaid, 1893. + small, is true service, 769. + +Sex, no stronger than my, 1649. + spirits can either, assume, 1650. + +Sexton, hoary-headed chronicle, 1651. + tolled the bell, 1652. + +Shadow both ways falls, 1654. + see my, as I pass, 1653. + +Shaft, when I had lost one, 1656. + +Shakespeare, Fancy's child, 1660. + on whose forehead, 1659. + thou art a monument, 1658. + tongue that, spake, 757. + what needs my, 1661. + +Shame, her blush of maiden, 1663. + where is thy blush, 1662. + +Shape, if, it might be called, 1665. + take any, but that, 1664. + +She is mine own, 2044. + walks the waters, 1672. + was a form of life, 748. + +Shell, applying to his ear a, 1666. + +Shelley, did you once see, 1667. + +Shells, picking up, by the ocean, 1251. + +Shepherd, every, tells his tale, 880. + +Sheridan, hurrah for, 1796. + nature formed but one such man, 1668. + +Ship, as idle as a painted, 1673. + has weathered every rack, 264. + of State, 1316. + steer a, becalmed, 828. + +Ships have gone down at sea, 1941. + +Shore, a rapture on the lonely, 1679. + left their beauty on the, 1678. + +Shot, bounding at the, 1785. + heard round the world, 239. + +Show and gaze o' the time, 1681. + books and money placed for, 1682. + +Shriek, a solitary, 62. + +Shrine, a faith's pure, 1683. + +Sickness, this, doth infect, 1684. + +Sighs, a world of, 1685. + +Sight, it is a goodly, 1688. + lost to, to memory dear, 7. + O 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 off in my, 1700. + I waive the quantum o' the, 1704. + 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. + +Singularity, all have some darling, 1713. + +Sins they are inclined to, 1705. + +Sister, when I 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 whelp 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, 1734. + 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. + +Smiles, the tears, of boyhood's years, 221. + +Smoke that so gracefully curled, 1748. + +Snail, creeping like, 220. + shrinks backward, 1744. + +Snails, her feet like, 699. + +Snake, we have scotch'd the, 1745. + +Snow, a cheer for the, 1747. + in December, 1746. + the, arrives, 1748. + +Snow-drop, the, comes on, 1749. + +Snuff, 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, 1763. + no, of mine succeeding, 1762. + +Song, dear to gods and men is sacred, 1766. + forbids deeds to die, 1712. + higher than the perfect, 1888. + moralized his, 1765. + one immortal, 1764. + still govern thou my, 120. + +Sonnet, scorn not the, 1767. + +Sons and brothers at a strife, 399. + of France, awake to glory, 807. + +Sorrow comes too soon, 1770. + give, words, 1768. + 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, 38. + Charoba once possest, 263. + discontented with capacity, 263. + flow of, 219. + he shall not blind his, 338. + is as free as the stars, 1639. + that rises with us, 178. + the depth of the, 1774. + the sleepless, 301. + whither went his, 1772. + +Soul's, the, prerogative, 1773. + +Souls, two, with but a single thought, 1981. + +Sound must seem an echo, 1775. + +Source of being, hail, 522. + +Spain, lovely, 1776. + +Sparrow, providence in the fall of a, 1398. + +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, 1778. + +Spenser, fancy's pleasing son, 1780. + +Spires, whose finger points to heaven, 1781. + +Spirit, the strongest, that fought in heaven, 539. + +Spirits from the vasty deep, 1782. + +Splendor in the grass, 1784. + +Spring, come, gentle, 1787. + first, like infancy, 1610. + in the, a livelier iris, 1786. + of love resembleth, 1980. + there's no such season, 1788. + +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. + +Starving, who longest can hold out at, 615. + +State, done the, some service, 96. + mock the air with idle, 385. + thousand years scarce form a, 1794. + +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 Rome to rise, 1797. + +Storm, against some, 1798. + rides upon the, 1799. + under the, and the cloud, 371. + +Storms, give her to the god of, 1800. + +Story of my life, 1801. + teach him how to tell my, 1802. + +Strangers, by, honored, and by strangers mourned, 1803. + +Straw, tickled with a, 308. + +Streets, gibber in the Roman, 1804. + +Strength, excellent to have a giant's, 1805. + +Strife, no, to heal, 1807. + the madding crowd's ignoble, 443. + +Strike, for your altars and your fires, 1313. + +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, 1812. + +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, 1822. + hath made a golden set, 1829. + in dim eclipse, 607. + is going down, 1882. + 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, 1823. + shining fair, 1826. + the, turns on her god, 1824. + +Sunflowers blow in a glow, 1825. + +Suns to light me rise, 262. + +Sunset, the wondrous golden, 1830. + +Sunshine broken in the rill, 1834. + eternal, settles on its head, 341. + is a glorious birth, 806. + see the gold, 1833. + shall follow the rain, 371. + +Surfeit is the father of fast, 1835. + +Surprise, mouth that testified, 1836. + +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 snowy sail, 1050. + with arched neck, 1840. + +Swears a prayer or two, 1841. + +Sweet, things, to taste, 1843. + +Sweetness, of linked, 1844. + +Swiftness never ceasing, 1846. + +Swimmer in his agony, 62. + +Swimmer's, a, stroke, 1847. + +Sword, a naked, 1849. + 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, 1853. + +Talk, it would, 1861. + they, who never think, 1859. + to conceal the mind, 1860. + +Talkers are no good doers, 1857. + +Talking, I profess not, 5. + +Tasso, their glory and their shame, 1862. + +Tasso's echoes are no more, 1994. + +Taste, good native, 1864. + talk what you will of, 1863. + +Tastes, various are the, 1865. + +Taxes, at, rails, 1867. + +Tea, sometimes take, 411. + without a stratagem, 1868. + +Teaching and my authority, 1869. + +Tear wiped with a little address, 30. + +Tears and love for the Gray, 1878. + beauty's, are lovelier, 1877. + idle tears, 1876. + more merry, 1191. + of bearded men, 1874. + our present, 1872. + stood on her cheeks, 1871. + such as angels weep, 1873. + the big round, 1870. + 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, 1881. + +Temptation, safe from, 1887. + why comes, 1957. + +Terror, there is no, in your threats, 1890. + +Test, bring me to the, 1891. + +Text, many a holy, 1892. + +Thane, your face, my, 653. + +Thanks to men of noble minds, 1894. + +Theatre, as in a, 1895. + 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, all, are ready, 29. + are where things are, 681. + +Thinking, with too much, 1418. + +Thirst, that panting, 1897. + +Thorn that scents the evening gale, 783. + why choose the rankling, 1898. + +Thought is deeper than speech, 1903. + is eternal, 1900. + no, should be untold, 1901. + of our past 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 Hyrcanian, 414. + +Tile, in cut and die so like a, 153. + +Time, away and mock the, 568. + 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, 1928. + +To-morrow's sun may never rise, 1926. + +Tongue, a good, in thy head, 1929. + +Tongue, his, dropt manna, 610. + in every wound, 1797. + let the, lick pomp, 1930. + still his, ran on, 1858. + that Shakespeare spake, 757. + who dare dishonor the, 1931. + +Tongues in trees, 37. + of dying men, 119. + +Toothache, could endure the, 1933. + +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, 1938. + +Trade's proud empire, 1940. + unfeeling train, 1939. + +Train, a melancholy, 342. + +Tranquillity, heaven was all, 1941. + +Trash, wring from peasants their, 1866. + +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, 408. + dark, still sad, 460. + fruit of that forbidden, 563. + +Trees, a brotherhood of venerable, 1953. + can smile in light, 1950. + mine ease under the, 741. + the lives of, 1811. + +Trial, we learn through, 1954. + +Tribe, the daring, compound their trash, 1412. + +Tricks that are vain, 433. + +Trifle, think nought a, 1956. + +Trifles make the sum of human things, 1955. + +Trouble, double toil and, 1958. + +Trust thee, so far will I, 380. + +Truth and loyalty, 705. + beauty is, 1969. + crushed to earth, 1962. + forever on the scaffold, 1970. + has such a face, 1964. + hath better deeds than words, 1301. + is one, 1966. + is the highest thing, 1960. + is truth, 1967. + no cleaner thing than love, 1968. + 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. + gray, 1975. + +Twins from the birth, 683. + +Tyranny of blood and chains, 1979. + +Tyrants seem to kiss, 1977. + 'twixt kings and, 1978. + + +Unction, flattering, to your soul, 528. + +Unfortunate, one more, 1438. + +Union, strong and great, 1316. + +Unity, confound all, 377. + +Urania govern thou my song, 120. + +Urn, has filled his, 365. + +Use doth breed a habit in a man, 457. + things beyond all, 1983. + +Utter what thou dost not know, 1615. + + +Vale of years, declined into the, 54. + +Valentine, couple with my, 1985. + +Valiant never taste of death, 426. + +Valor, fear to do base things is, 1986. + shows but a bastard, 1817. + +Vanity, insatiate cormorant, 1987. + what will not, maintain, 1988. + +Vapor, as a, all doth vanish, 1224. + melting in a tear, 1989. + +Variety, order in, 64. + +Variety 's the spice of life, 1990. + +Vault, heaven's ebon, 1991. + +Vengeance, in, there is scorn, 1992. + to God alone belongs, 1501. + +Venice, I stood in, 1993. + +Ventures, lose our, 453. + +Verse, a, may find him, 1348. + married to immortal, 1844. + sweetens toil, 1997. + +Vessel, a brave, 1674. + 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, 1998. + +Victory, graced with wreaths of, 2001. + it was a famous, 2002. + +Villain, a, in all Denmark, 1033. + one murder made a, 438. + which is the, 2005. + +Villas, suburban, 2004. + +Vine, monarch of the, 2006. + +Vines that round the thatch-eaves run, 127. + +Violet by a mossy stone, 2007. + throw a perfume on the, 638. + +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, 2033. + is breaking on the shore, 1252. + so dies a, 2032. + +Way, 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, 2053. + more inconstant than the, 581. + of western birth, 2054. + the, of night, 2055. + the southern, 1881. + what, blew you hither, 2052. + +Windows that exclude the light, 2056. + +Wine can make the sage frolic, 2058. + makes love forget, 2057. + +Wing, this sail is as a noiseless, 2059. + +Wings, at heaven's gates she claps her, 2060. + +Winter chills the lap of May, 2064. + comes to rule, 2062. + creeps along with tardy 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-day, be, 525. + what is it to be, 2067. + +Wish was father to that thought, 2070. + +Wishes lengthen as our sun declines, 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 madness allied, 2074. + +Wives may be merry, 2045. + +Woe doth tread upon another's heel, 1198. + the deepest notes of, 2080. + trappings and the suits of, 2078. + +Woes, rare are solitary, 2079. + that wait on age, 59. + +Woman, earth's noblest thing, 2088. + in our hours of ease, 2090. + lovely, stoops to folly, 733. + mixed of such fine elements, 2092. + nothing lovelier in, 2084. + she is a, 422. + so she's good, 2089. + that deliberates is lost, 2091. + we had been brutes without you, 2085. + we will work for a, 2093. + +Woman 's a contradiction still, 2087. + will, torrent of a, 2086. + +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, 2098. + are things, 2102. + chaste, from a bashful mind, 1697. + 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, 355. + I have not loved the, 2110. + is all a fleeting show, 2109. + service of the antique, 91. + this pendent, 2108. + 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. + +Wound, willing to, 2115. + +Wounds bind up my, 2114. + wept o'er his, 707. + +Wrath, Achilles', 2117. + come not within my, 2116. + +Wreaths, victorious 2118. + +Wrecks, a thousand fearful, 2119. + +Wretch, a needy, 2120. + an inhuman, 446. + +Wretches hang that jurymen may dine, 950. + that depend on greatness' favor, 689. + +Wrinkle what stamps the, 59. + +Write you, with ease 2121. + +Writing well, nature's chief masterpiece, 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, 2128. + none would live past, 2129. + the accomplishment of, 2126. + +Yesterday, oh, call back, 2130. + the word of Caesar might, 254. + +Yew, hails me to wonder, 548. + old, which graspest, 2131. + +Youth, home keeping, 2133. + how beautiful is, 2135. + how buoyant are thy hopes, 2134. + lost days of our, 1306. + no less becomes, 2132. + on the prow, 2136. + + +Zeal, his, none seconded, 2138. + served my God with, 2137. + +Zealots, graceless, fight, 663. + + + + + +End of Project Gutenberg's Handy Dictionary of Poetical Quotations, by Various + +*** END OF THIS PROJECT GUTENBERG EBOOK POETICAL QUOTATIONS *** + +***** This file should be named 15119.txt or 15119.zip ***** +This and all associated files of various formats will be found in: + 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