PEN.
Beneath the rule of men entirely great
The pen is mightier than the sword.
Richelieu, Act ii. Sc 3. E. BULWER-LYTTON.
The feather, whence the pen
Was shaped that traced the lives of these good men,
Dropped from an Angel's wing.
Ecclesiastical Sonnets, Pt. III., v. Walton's Book of Lives.
W. WORDSWORTH.
Whose noble praise
Deserves a quill pluckt from an angel's wing.
Sonnet. DOROTHY BERRY.
You still shall live—such virtue hath my pen,
Where breath most breathes, even in the mouths of men.
Sonnet, LXXXI. SHAKESPEARE.
Oh! nature's noblest gift—my gray-goose quill!
Slave of my thoughts, obedient to my will,
Torn from thy parent-bird to form a pen,
That mighty instrument of little men!
English Bards and Scotch Reviewers. LORD BYRON.