John Bartlett (1820–1905). Familiar Quotations, 10th ed. 1919.
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| William Ross Wallace. (1819–1881) |
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| They say that man is mighty, He governs land and sea; He wields a mighty scepter O’er lesser powers that be; And the hand that rocks the cradle Is the hand that rules the world. |
| What rules the World? |
| Harriet Winslow Sewall. (1819–1889) |
| 7282 |
| Why thus longing, thus forever sighing For the far-off, unattained, and dim, While the beautiful all round thee lying Offers up its low, perpetual hymn? |
| Why thus longing? |
| 7283 |
| Poor indeed must thou be, if around thee Thou no ray of light and joy canst throw— |
| Why thus longing? |
| James Russell Lowell. (1819–1891) |
| 7284 |
| Earth’s noblest thing,—a woman perfected. |
| Irené. |
| 7285 |
| Be noble! and the nobleness that lies In other men, sleeping but never dead, Will rise in majesty to meet thine own. |
| Sonnet iv. |
| 7286 |
| Great truths are portions of the soul of man; Great souls are portions of eternity. |
| Sonnet vi. |
| 7287 |
| To win the secret of a weed’s plain heart. |
| Sonnet xxv. |
| 7288 |
| Two meanings have our lightest fantasies,— One of the flesh, and of the spirit one. |
| Sonnet xxxiv. (Ed. 1844). |
| 7289 |
| Who speaks the truth stabs Falsehood to the heart. |
| L’ Envoi. |