=Voice.=

Her voice was ever soft,
Gentle, and low; an excellent thing in woman.
2016
SHAKS.:  King Lear, Act v., Sc. 3.

=Vows.=

Unheedful vows may needfully be broken. 2017 SHAKS.:  Two Gent. of V., Act ii., Sc. 6.

It is the hour when lovers’ vows
  Seem sweet in every whisper’d word.
2018
BYRON:  Parisina, St. 1.

==W.==

=Wagers.=

Quoth she, I’ve heard old cunning stagers
Say fools for arguments use wagers.
2019
BUTLER:  Hudibras, Pt. ii., Canto i., Line 297.

=Walks.=

A pillar’d shade
High overarch’d, and echoing walks between.
2020
MILTON:  Par.  Lost, Bk. ix., Line 1106.

Whene’er I take my walks abroad,
  How many poor I see!
2021
WATTS:  Divine Songs, Song iv.

=War.=

O war, thou son of hell,
Whom angry heav’ns do make their minister,
Throw in the frozen bosoms of our part
Hot coals of vengeance!—­Let no soldier fly;
He that is truly delicate to war
Hath no self-love:  nor he that loves himself.
2022
SHAKS.:  2 Henry VI., Act v., Sc. 2.

Grim-visaged war hath smoothed his wrinkled front. 2023 SHAKS.:  Richard III., Act i., Sc. 1.

War’s a game, which, were their subjects wise,
Kings would not play at.
2024
COWPER:  Task, Bk. v., Line 186.

War, war is still the cry, “War even to the knife!” 2025 BYRON:  Ch.  Harold, Canto i., St. 86.

War is a terrible trade; but in the cause that is righteous,
Sweet is the smell of powder.
2026
LONGFELLOW:  Courtship of Miles Standish, Pt. iv., Line 135.

=Warning.=

Men that stumble at the threshold, Are well foretold that danger lurks within. 2027 SHAKS.:  3 Henry VI., Act iv., Sc. 7.

=Warrior.=

But he lay like a warrior taking his rest,
  With his martial cloak around him.
2028
CHARLES WOLFE:  Burial of Sir John Moore.

=Washington.=

Washington’s a watchword such as ne’er Shall sink while there’s an echo left to air. 2029 BYRON:  Age of Bronze, St. 5.

=Water.=

Smooth runs the water where the brook is deep. 2030 SHAKS.:  2 Henry VI., Act iii., Sc. 1.

Till taught by pain,
Men really know not what good water’s worth: 
If you had been in Turkey or in Spain,
Or with a famish’d boat’s crew had your berth,
Or in the desert heard the camel’s bell,
You’d wish yourself where truth is—­in a well.
2031
BYRON:  Don Juan, Canto ii., St. 84.

=Wave.=

So gently shuts the eye of day;
  So dies a wave along the shore.
2032
MRS. BARBAULD:  Death of the Virtuous.

A life on the ocean wave! 
  A home on the rolling deep,
Where the scattered waters rave,
  And the winds their revels keep!
2033
EPES SARGENT:  Life On the Ocean Wave.