Handy Dictionary of Poetical Quotations
Chapter 17
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 a friend, 1071.
Locks, never shake thy gory, 1108.
Lodge in some vast wilderness, 2049.
Logic, in, a great critic, 1110.
London, the villain's home, 1111.
Longings, immortal, in me, 1112.
Looks, talked with, profound, 1114. woman's, my only books, 1113.
Lord of himself, that heritage of woe, 1115. of himself, though not of lands, 1116.
Loss is common, 1117.