Handy Dictionary of Poetical Quotations eBook

This eBook from the Gutenberg Project consists of approximately 261 pages of information about Handy Dictionary of Poetical Quotations.

Handy Dictionary of Poetical Quotations eBook

This eBook from the Gutenberg Project consists of approximately 261 pages of information about Handy Dictionary of Poetical Quotations.

Truth crushed to earth shall rise again: 
The eternal years of God are hers.
1962
WILLIAM CULLEN BRYANT:  The Battle-field.

Dare to be true.  Nothing can need a lie; A fault, which needs it most, grows two thereby. 1963 HERBERT:  Temple, Church Porch, St. 13.

Truth has such a face and such a mien,
As to be lov’d, needs only to be seen.
1964
DRYDEN:  Hind and Panther, Pt. i., Line 33.

He is the freeman whom the truth makes free,
And all are slaves beside.
1965
COWPER:  Task, Bk. v., Line 133.

Truth is one;
And, in all lands beneath the sun,
Whoso hath eyes to see may see
The tokens of its unity.
1966
WHITTIER:  Miriam.

Truth is truth howe’er it strike. 1967 ROBERT BROWNING:  La Saisiaz, Line 198.

I love truth:  truth’s no cleaner thing than love. 1968 MRS. BROWNING:  Aurora Leigh, Bk. iii., Line 735.

Beauty is truth, truth beauty,—­that is all Ye know on earth, and all ye need to know. 1969 KEATS:  Ode on a Grecian Urn.

Truth forever on the scaffold, Wrong forever on the throne. 1970 JAMES RUSSELL LOWELL:  Present Crisis, St. 8.

=Tulips.=

Then comes the tulip race, where beauty plays Her idle freaks; from family diffused To family, as flies the father-dust, The varied colors run; and while they break On the charmed eye, the exulting florist marks, With secret pride, the wonders of his hand. 1971 THOMSON:  Seasons, Spring, Line 539.

=Tune.=

Strange that a harp of thousand strings
Should keep in tune so long!
1972
WATTS:  Hymns and Spiritual Songs, Bk. ii., Hymn 19.

=Turf.=

Green be the turf above thee,
  Friend of my better days!
1973
FITZ-GREENE HALLECK:  On Joseph Rodman Drake.

=Turk.=

Should such a man, too fond to rule alone, Bear, like the Turk, no brother near the throne. 1974 POPE:  Prologue to the Satires, Line 197.

=Twilight.=

Now came still evening on, and twilight gray Had in her sober livery all things clad. 1975 MILTON:  Par.  Lost, Bk. iv., Line 598.

Peacefully
The quiet stars came out, one after one;
The holy twilight fell upon the sea,
The summer day was done.
1976
CELIA THAXTER:  A Summer Day, St. 15

=Tyranny.=

’Tis time to fear, when tyrants seem to kiss. 1977 SHAKS.:  Pericles, Act i., Sc. 2.

’Twixt kings and tyrants there’s this difference known—­ Kings seek their subjects’ good, tyrants their own. 1978 HERRICK:  Aph.  Kings and Tyrants.

Think’st thou there is no tyranny but that
Of blood and chains?
1979
BYRON:  Sardanapalus, Act i., Sc. 2.

==U.==

=Uncertainty.=

Oh, how this spring of love resembleth
The uncertain glory of an April day!
1980
SHAKS.:  Two Gent. of V., Act i., Sc. 3.

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