Handy Dictionary of Poetical Quotations
Chapter 19
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 Cæsar 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.
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