The World's Best Poetry, Volume 10: Poetical Quotations

I Home: Friendship II Love III Sorrow and Consolation IV The Higher Life V Nature VI Fancy: Sentiment VII Descriptive: Narrative VIII National Spirit IX Tragedy: Humor X Poetica...

It was not by vile loitering in ease That Greece obtained the brighter palm of art, That soft yet ardent Athens learnt to please, To keen the wit, and to sublime the heart, In a...

Huntsman, rest! thy chase is done; Think not of the rising sun, For, at dawning to assail ye, Here no bugles sound reveille. _Lady of the Lake, Canto I_. SIR W. SCOTT.

I give thee all--I can no more. Though poor the offering be; My heart and lute are all the store That I can bring to thee. _My Heart and Lute_. T. MOORE.

In his brain-- Which is as dry as the remainder biscuit After a voyage--he hath strange places crammed With observation, the which he vents In mangled forms. _As You Like it, Ac...

Yes,--rather plunge me back in pagan night, And take my chance with Socrates for bliss, Than be the Christian of a faith like this, Which builds on heavenly cant its earthly swa...

Power, like a desolating pestilence, Pollutes whate'er it touches; and obedience, Bane of all genius, virtue, freedom, truth, Makes slaves of men, and of the human frame. A mech...

What things have we seen Done at the Mermaid! heard words that have been So nimble, and so full of subtle flame, As if that every one from whence they came Had meant to put his...

Whose horrid image doth unfix my hair And make my seated heart knock at my ribs, Against the use of nature. Present fears Are less than horrible imaginings. _Macbeth, Act i. Sc....

Without the bed her other fair hand was, On the green coverlet; whose perfect white Showed like an April daisy on the grass, With pearly sweat, resembling dew of night. _Lucrece...

To be no more--sad cure; for who would lose, Though full of pain, this intellectual being, Those thoughts that wander through eternity, To perish rather, swallowed up and lost I...

And then he drew a dial from his poke, And, looking on it with lack-lustre eye, Says very wisely, "It is ten o'clock: Thus may we see," quoth he, "how the world wags: 'T is but...

Friendship is the cement of two minds, As of one man the soul and body is; Of which one cannot sever but the other Suffers a needful separation. _Revenge_. G. CHAPMAN.

Cried, "'T is resolved, for Nature pleads that he Should only rule who most resembles me. Shadwell alone my perfect image bears, Mature in dulness from his tender years; Shadwel...

Imperious Cæsar, dead and turned to clay, Might stop a hole to keep the wind away: O, that that earth, which kept the world in awe, Should patch a wall to expel the winter's fla...

No visual shade of some one lost, But he, the spirit himself, may come Where all the nerve of sense is numb; Spirit to spirit, ghost to ghost. _In Memoriam, XCII_. A. TENNYSON.

The thorns which I have reaped 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. _Childe Harold, Canto IV_...

I trust in Nature for the stable laws Of beauty and utility. Spring shall plant And Autumn garner to the end of time. I trust in God--the right shall he the right And other than...

Oh, sons of earth! attempt ye still to rise By mountains piled on mountains to the skies? Heaven still with laughter the vain toil surveys, And buries madmen in the heaps they r...

From snow-topped hills the whirlwinds keenly blow, Howl through the woods, and pierce the vales below, Through the sharp air a flaky torrent flies, Mocks the slow sight, and hid...

God mark thee to his grace! Thou wast the prettiest babe that e'er I nursed: An I might live to see thee married once, I have my wish. _Romeo and Juliet, Act_ i. _So_. 3. SHAKES...

Under the cooling shadow of a stately elm, Close sat I by a goodly river's side. Where gliding streams the rocks did overwhelm; A lonely place, with pleasures dignified. I, that...

SAVAGE, RICHARD England, 1698-1743 SAXE, JOHN GODFREY America, 1816-1887 SCHILLER, JOHANN C. FRIEDRICH VON Germany, 1759-1805 SCOTT, SIR WALTER Scotland, 1771-1832 SEDLEY, SIR C...

Lest one should conclude that this is the verdict of an exclusively artistic spirit, bent upon the development of "art for art's sake" alone, disregardful of the spiritual essen...

ADAMS, JOHN QUINCY America, 1767-1848 ADDISON, JOSEPH England, 1672-1719 AKENSIDE, MARK England, 1721-1770 AKERS, ELIZABETH (ALLEN, ELIZABETH AKERS) America, 1832- ALDRICH, THOM...