P.

Pain.

Pain pays the income of each precious thing.

1291

SHAKS.:

R. of Lucrece,

Line 334.

Pain is no longer pain when it is past.

1292

MARGARET J. PRESTON:

Sonnet.

Nature's Lesson.

The sad mechanic exercise

Like dull narcotics numbing pain.

1293

TENNYSON:

In Memoriam, Prologue,

v., St. 2.

Painter.

With hue like that when some great painter dips

His pencil in the gloom of earthquake and eclipse.

1294

SHELLEY:

Revolt of Islam,

Canto v., St. 23.

Palm.

No hammers fell, no ponderous axes rung;

Like some tall palm the mystic fabric sprung.

1295

HEBER:

Palestine.

Pan.

And they heard the words it said,—

"Pan is dead! great Pan is dead!

Pan, Pan is dead!"

1296

MRS. BROWNING:

The Dead Pan.

Pang.

And even the pang preceding death

Bids expectation rise.

1297

GOLDSMITH:

The Captivity,

Act ii.

Paradise.

'T is sweet, as year by year we lose

Friends out of sight, in faith to muse

How grows in Paradise our store.

1298

KEBLE:

Burial of the Dead.

Pardon.

Forgiveness to the injured does belong;

But they ne'er pardon who have done the wrong.

1299

DRYDEN:

Conquest of Granada,

Pt. ii., Act i., Sc. 2.

Parents.

Great families of yesterday we show,

And lords, whose parents were the Lord knows who.

1300

DEFOE:

True-Born Englishman,

Pt. i., Line 1.

Parting.

What! gone without a word?

Ay, so true love should do: it cannot speak;

For truth hath better deeds, than words, to grace it.

1301

SHAKS.:

Two Gent. of V.,

Act ii., Sc. 2.

They who go

Feel not the pain of parting; it is they

Who stay behind that suffer.

1302

LONGFELLOW:

Michael Angelo,

Pt. I., i.

Such partings break the heart they fondly hope to heal.

1303

BYRON:

Ch. Harold,

Canto i., St. 10.

Passion.

Fountain heads and pathless groves,

Places which pale passion loves.

1304

JOHN FLETCHER:

The Nice Valour,

Act iii., Sc. 3.

Passions are likened best to floods and streams:

The shallow murmur, but the deep are dumb.

1305

SIR WALTER RALEIGH:

Silent Lover.

Past, The.

Over the trackless past, somewhere,

Lie the lost days of our tropic youth,

Only regained by faith and prayer,

Only recalled by prayer and plaint:

Each lost day has its patron saint.

1306

BRET HARTE:

The Lost Galleon,

Last St.

Build thee more stately mansions, O my soul,

As the swift seasons roll!

Leave thy low-vaulted past!

1307

OLIVER WENDELL HOLMES:

Chambered Nautilus.

Patience.

How poor are they, that have not patience!

What wound did ever heal, but by degrees?

1308

SHAKS.:

Othello,

Act ii., Sc. 3.

Patience, thou young and rose-lipp'd cherubim.

1309

SHAKS.:

Othello,

Act iv., Sc. 2.

Patience is more oft the exercise

Of saints, the trial of their fortitude,

Making them each his own deliverer,

And victor over all

That tyranny or fortune can inflict.

1310

MILTON:

Samson Agonistes,

Line 1287.

Patience is a plant

That grows not in all gardens.

1311

LONGFELLOW:

Michael Angelo,

Pt. ii., 4.

There are times when patience proves at fault.

1312

ROBERT BROWNING:

Paracelsus,

Sc. 3.

Patriotism.

Strike—for your altars and your fires;

Strike—for the green graves of your sires;

God, and your native land!

1313

FITZ-GREENE HALLECK:

Marco Bozzaris.

One flag, one land, one heart, one hand,

One Nation evermore!

1314

OLIVER WENDELL HOLMES:

Voyage of the Good Ship Union.

My country, 't is of thee,

Sweet land of liberty,—

Of thee I sing:

Land where my fathers died,

Land of the pilgrims' pride,

From every mountain side

Let freedom ring.

1315

SAMUEL F. SMITH:

National Hymn.

Sail on, O Ship of State!

Sail on, O Union, strong and great!

Humanity with all its fears,

With all the hopes of future years,

Is hanging breathless on thy fate!

1316

LONGFELLOW:

Building of the Ship.

Peace.

A peace is of the nature of a conquest;

For then both parties nobly are subdued,

And neither party loser.

1317

SHAKS.:

2 Henry IV.,

Act iv., Sc. 2.

I, in this weak piping time of peace,

Have no delight to pass away the time,

Unless to see my shadow in the sun.

1318

SHAKS.:

Richard III.,

Act i., Sc. 1.

Why prate of peace? when, warriors all,

We clank in harness into hall,

And ever bare upon the board

Lies the necessary sword.

1319

ROBERT LOUIS STEVENSON:

The Woodman.

Peace hath her victories,

No less renowned than war.

1320

MILTON: Sonnet xvi.

Peace was on the earth and in the air.

1321

WILLIAM CULLEN BRYANT:

The Ages,

St. 30.

Pearls.

Go boldly forth, my simple lay,

Whose accents flow with artless ease,

Like orient pearls at random strung.

1322

SIR WILLIAM JONES:

A Persian Song of Hafiz.

Pen.

Beneath the rule of men entirely great,

The pen is mightier than the sword.

1323

BULWER-LYTTON:

Richelieu,

Act ii., Sc. 2.

This dull product of a scoffer's pen.

1324

WORDSWORTH:

Excursion,

Bk. ii.

People.

And what the people but a herd confus'd,

A miscellaneous rabble, who extol

Things vulgar, and, well weigh'd, scarce worth the praise?

1325

MILTON:

Par. Regained,

Bk. iii., Line 49.

Perfection.

One fairer than my love! the all-seeing sun

Ne'er saw her match, since first the world begun.

1326

SHAKS.:

Rom. and Jul.,

Act i., Sc. 2.

Perjury.

At lovers' perjuries,

They say, Jove laughs.

1327

SHAKS.:

Rom. and Jul.,

Act ii., Sc. 2.

Perseverance.

Perseverance, dear my lord,

Keeps honor bright. To have done, is to hang

Quite out of fashion, like a rusty mail

In monumental mockery.

1328

SHAKS.:

Troil. and Cress.,

Act iii., Sc. 3.

Persuasion.

He from whose lips divine persuasion flows.

1329

POPE:

Iliad,

Bk. vii., Line 143.

Petitions.

Petition me no petitions, sir, to-day;

Let other hours be set apart for business.

1330

FIELDING:

Tom Thumb the Great,

Act i., Sc. 2.

Philosophy.

How charming is divine Philosophy!

Not harsh and crabbed, as dull fools suppose,

But musical as is Apollo's lute,

And a perpetual feast of nectar'd sweets,

Where no crude surfeit reigns.

1331

MILTON:

Comus,

Line 476.

Physic.

Throw physic to the dogs, I'll none of it.

1332

SHAKS.:

Macbeth,

Act v., Sc. 3.

Take physic, pomp;

Expose thyself to feel what wretches feel.

1333

SHAKS.:

King Lear,

Act iii., Sc. 4.

Piety.

Why should not piety be made,

As well as equity, a trade,

And men get money by devotion,

As well as making of a motion?

1334

BUTLER:

Misc. Thoughts,

Line 295.

Pilot.

Oh pilot, 'tis a fearful night!

There's danger on the deep.

1335

THOMAS HAYNES BAYLY:

The Pilot.

Pines.

Risest from forth thy silent sea of pines.

1336

COLERIDGE:

Hymn in the Vale of Chamouni.

Pipe.

Divine in hookas, glorious in a pipe

When tipp'd with amber, mellow, rich, and ripe.

1337

BYRON:

The Island,

Canto ii., St. 19.

Pity.

Pity is the virtue of the law,

And none but tyrants use it cruelly.

1338

SHAKS.:

Timon of A.,

Act iii., Sc. 5.

Careless their merits or their faults to scan,

His pity gave ere charity began.

1339

GOLDSMITH:

Des. Village,

Line 161.

Place.

The fittest place where man can die

Is where he dies for man!

1340

MICHAEL J. BARRY:

The Dublin Nation, Sept. 28, 1844.

Play.

The play 's the thing

Wherein I'll catch the conscience of the king.

1341

SHAKS.:

Hamlet,

Act ii., Sc. 2.

Pleasure.

Pleasure, and revenge,

Have ears more deaf than adders, to the voice

Of any true decision.

1342

SHAKS.:

Troil. and Cress.,

Act ii., Sc. 2.

But not e'en pleasure to excess is good:

What most elates, then sinks the soul as low.

1343

THOMSON:

Castle of Indolence,

Canto i., St. 63.

Pleasure must succeed to pleasure, else past pleasure turns to pain.

1344

ROBERT BROWNING:

La Saisiaz,

Line 170.

But pleasures are like poppies spread,

You seize the flower, its bloom is shed.

1345

BURNS:

Tam o' Shanter.

Softly sweet, in Lydian measures,

Soon he sooth'd his soul to pleasures.

1346

DRYDEN:

Alex. Feast,

Line 97.

Poetry—Poets.

It is not poetry that makes men poor;

For few do write that were not so before.

1347

BUTLER:

Misc. Thoughts,

Line 441.

A verse may find him who a sermon flies,

And turn delight into a sacrifice.

1348

HERBERT:

Temple, Church Porch,

St. 1.

Poets are all who love, who feel great truths,

And tell them; and the truth of truths is love.

1349

BAILEY:

Festus,

Sc.

Another and a Better World.

The poor poet

Worships without reward, nor hopes to find

A heaven save in his worship.

1350

GEORGE ELIOT:

Spanish Gypsy,

Bk. i.

God is the PERFECT POET,

Who in creation acts his own conceptions.

1351

ROBERT BROWNING:

Paracelsus,

Sc. 2.

Sweet are the pleasures that to verse belong,

And doubly sweet a brotherhood in song.

1352

KEATS:

Epis. to George Felton Mathews.

Blessings be with them, and eternal praise,

Who gave us nobler loves and nobler cares.—

The poets who on earth have made us heirs

Of truth and pure delight, by heavenly lays.

1353

WORDSWORTH:

Personal Talk.

Pole.

True as the needle to the pole,

Or as the dial to the sun.

1354

BARTON BOOTH:

Song.

Pomp.

Give lettered pomp to teeth of Time,

So "Bonnie Doon" but tarry;

Blot out the epic's stately rhyme,

But spare his "Highland Mary"!

1355

WHITTIER:

Lines on Burns

Poppies.

As full-blown poppies, overcharg'd with rain,

Decline the head, and drooping kiss the plain,—

So sinks the youth.

1356

POPE:

Iliad,

Bk. viii., Line 371.

Popularity.

O, he sits high in all the people's hearts:

And that, which would appear offence in us,

His countenance, like richest alchymy,

Will change to virtue and to worthiness.

1357

SHAKS.:

Jul. Cæsar,

Act i., Sc. 3.

Bareheaded, popularly low he bow'd,

And paid the salutations of the crowd.

1358

DRYDEN:

Palamon and Arcite,

Bk. iii., Line 689.

Possession.

What we have we prize not to the worth,

Whiles we enjoy it; but being lacked and lost,

Why then we rack the value, then we find

The virtue that possession would not show us

Whiles it was ours.

1359

SHAKS.:

Much Ado,

Act iv., Sc. 1.

Possession means to sit astride of the world,

Instead of having it astride of you.

1360

CHARLES KINGSLEY:

Saint's Tragedy,

Act i., Sc. 2.

Poverty.

My poverty, but not my will, consents.

1361

SHAKS.:

Rom. and Jul.,

Act v., Sc. 1.

If we from wealth to poverty descend,

Want gives to know the flatterer from the friend.

1362

DRYDEN:

Wife of Bath,

Line 485.

Most wretched men

Are cradled into poetry by wrong.

They learn in suffering what they teach in song.

1363

SHELLEY:

Julian and Maddalo.

In ev'ry sorrowing soul I pour'd delight,

And poverty stood smiling in my sight.

1364

POPE:

Odyssey,

Bk. xvii., Line 505.

Power.

What can power give more than food and drink,

To live at ease, and not be bound to think?

1365

DRYDEN:

Medal,

Line 235.

The good old rule

Sufficeth them, the simple plan,

That they should take who have the power,

And they should keep who can.

1366

WORDSWORTH:

Rob Roy's Grave.

Prairie.

Far in the East like low-hung clouds

The waving woodlands lie;

Far in the West the glowing plain

Melts warmly in the sky.

No accent wounds the reverent air,—

No footprint dints the sod,—

Low in the light the prairie lies

Rapt in a dream of God.

1367

JOHN HAY:

The Prairie.

Praise.

Praising what is lost,

Makes the remembrance dear.

1368

SHAKS.:

All 's Well,

Act v., Sc. 3.

Damn with faint praise, assent with civil leer,

And without sneering teach the rest to sneer.

1369

POPE:

Prologue to the Satires,

Line 201.

Prayer.

Let never day nor night unhallowed pass,

But still remember what the Lord hath done.

1370

SHAKS.:

2 Henry VI.,

Act ii., Sc. 1.

If by prayer

Incessant I could hope to change the will

Of him who all things can, I would not cease

To weary him with my assiduous cries;

But prayer against his absolute decree

No more avails than breath against the wind

Blown stifling back on him that breathes it forth:

Therefore to his great bidding I submit.

1371

MILTON:

Par. Lost,

Bk. xi., Line 307.

He prayeth best who loveth best

All things both great and small;

For the dear God who loveth us,

He made and loveth all.

1372

COLERIDGE:

Ancient Mariner,

Pt. vii.

God answers sharp and sudden on some prayers,

And thrusts the thing we have prayed for in our face,

A gauntlet with a gift in 't.

1373

MRS. BROWNING:

Aurora Leigh,

Bk. ii.

More things are wrought by prayer

Than this world dreams of.

1374

TENNYSON:

Morte d'Arthur,

Line 247.

Preaching.

I preached as never sure to preach again,

And as a dying man to dying men.

1375

RICHARD BAXTER:

Love Breathing Thanks and Praise.

Present.

The Present, the Present is all thou hast

For thy sure possessing;

Like the patriarch's angel hold it fast

Till it gives its blessing.

1376

WHITTIER:

My Soul and I,

St. 34.

Press.

Here shall the Press the People's right maintain,

Unaw'd by influence and unbrib'd by gain.

1377

JOSEPH STORY:

Motto of the "Salem Register."

Pride.

Pride hath no other glass

To show itself, but pride; for supple knees

Feed arrogance, and are the proud man's fees.

1378

SHAKS.:

Troil. and Cress.,

Act iii., Sc. 3.

And the Devil did grin, for his darling sin

Is pride that apes humility.

1379

COLERIDGE:

The Devil's Thoughts.

Priest.

No nightly trance or breathèd spell

Inspires the pale-eyed priest from the prophetic cell.

1380

MILTON:

Hymn on Christ's Nativity,

Line 173.

Primrose.

A primrose by a river's brim

A yellow primrose was to him,

And it was nothing more.

1381

WORDSWORTH:

Peter Bell,

Pt. i., St. 12.

Printing.

Blest be the gracious Power, who taught mankind

To stamp a lasting image of the mind!

1382

CRABBE:

The Library,

Line 69.

Some said, "John, print it"; others said, "Not so."

Some said, "It might do good"; others said, "No."

1383

BUNYAN:

Pilgrim's Progress, Apology for his Book.

Prison.

Stone walls do not a prison make,

Nor iron bars a cage;

Minds innocent and quiet, take

That for an hermitage.

1384

LOVELACE:

To Althea, from Prison,

iv.

Procrastination.

Procrastination is the thief of time:

Year after year it steals, till all are fled,

And to the mercies of a moment leaves

The vast concerns of an eternal scene.

1385

YOUNG:

Night Thoughts,

Night i., Line 393.

Prodigies.

When these prodigies

Do so conjointly meet, let not men say

"These are their reasons,—They are natural;"

For, I believe, they are portentous things

Unto the climate that they point upon.

1386

SHAKS.:

Jul. Cæsar,

Act i., Sc. 3.

Progress.

Yet I doubt not thro' the ages one increasing purpose runs,

And the thoughts of men are widen'd with the process of the suns.

1387

TENNYSON:

Locksley Hall,

St. 69.

Promise.

And be these juggling fiends no more believ'd,

That palter with us in a double sense:

That keep the word of promise to our ear

And break it to our hope.

1388

SHAKS.:

Macbeth,

Act v., Sc. 8.

Proof.

Give me the ocular proof;

Make me to see 't; or, at the least, so prove it,

That the probation bear no hinge, nor loop,

To hang a doubt on.

1389

SHAKS.:

Othello,

Act iii., Sc. 3.

Prophecy.

Coming events cast their shadows before.

1390

CAMPBELL:

Lochiel's Warning.

Be thou the rainbow to the storms of life,

The evening beam that smiles the cloud away,

And tints to-morrow with prophetic ray!

1391

BYRON:

Bride of Ab.,

Canto ii., St. 20.

Prose.

And he whose fustian's so sublimely bad,

It is not poetry, but prose run mad.

1392

POPE:

Prol. to Satires,

Line 186.

And Sidney, warbler of poetic prose.

1393

COWPER:

Task,

Bk. iv., Line 514.

Proselytes.

The greatest saints and sinners have been made

Of proselytes of one another's trade.

1394

BUTLER:

Misc. Thoughts,

Line 315.

Prospects.

As distant prospects please us, but when near

We find but desert rocks and fleeting air.

1395

SAMUEL GARTH:

Dispensatory,

Canto iii., Line 27.

Prosperity.

Prosperity's the very bond of love;

Whose fresh complexion, and whose heart together

Affliction alters.

1396

SHAKS.:

Wint. Tale,

Act iv., Sc. 3.

Surer to prosper than prosperity

Could have assured us.

1397

MILTON:

Par. Lost,

Bk. ii., Line 39.

Providence.

There's a special providence in the fall of a sparrow.

1398

SHAKS.:

Hamlet,

Act v., Sc. 2.

What in me is dark

Illumine, what is low raise and support;

That, to the height of this great argument,

I may assert Eternal Providence

And justify the ways of God to men.

1399

MILTON:

Par. Lost,

Bk. i., Line 22.

Who finds not Providence all good and wise,

Alike in what it gives, and what denies?

1400

POPE:

Essay on Man,

Epis. i., Line 205.

'T is Providence alone secures

In every change both mine and yours.

1401

COWPER:

A Fable. Moral.

Prudence.

Henceforth His might we know, and know our own,

So as not either to provoke, or dread

New war, provoked.

1402

MILTON:

Par. Lost,

Bk. i., Line 643.

Where passion leads or prudence points the way.

1403

ROBERT LOWTH:

Choice of Hercules,

i.

Prudery.

Yon ancient prude, whose wither'd features show

She might be young some forty years ago,

Her elbows pinion'd close upon her hips,

Her head erect, her fan upon her lips,

Her eyebrows arch'd, her eyes both gone astray

To watch yon amorous couple in their play,

With bony and unkerchief'd neck defies

The rude inclemency of wintry skies,

And sails, with lappet-head and mincing airs,

Duly at chink of bell to morning prayers.

1404

COWPER:

Truth,

Line 13.

Pulpit.

And pulpit, drum ecclesiastick,

Was beat with fist instead of a stick.

1405

BUTLER:

Hudibras,

Pt. i, Canto i., Line 11.

Punishment.

Back to thy punishment,

False fugitive, and to thy speed, add wings.

1406

MILTON:

Par. Lost,

Bk. ii., Line 699.

Purity.

'Tis said the lion will turn and flee

From a maid in the pride of her purity.

1407

BYRON:

Siege of Corinth,

St. 21.

Purpose.

Make thick my blood,

Stop up the access and passage to remorse;

That no compunctious visitings of nature

Shake my fell purpose.

1408

SHAKS.:

Macbeth,

Act i., Sc. 5.

Purse.

Who steals my purse steals trash; 't is something, nothing;

'Twas mine, 'tis his, and has been slave to thousands.

1409

SHAKS.:

Othello,

Act iii., Sc. 3.

Pygmies.

Pygmies are pygmies still, though percht on Alps;

And pyramids are pyramids in vales.

1410

YOUNG:

Night Thoughts,

Night vi., Line 309.