Handy Dictionary of Poetical Quotations

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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, 2[50].
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, 1[945].
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].