T.

Tale.

Who so shall telle a tale after a man,

He moste reherse, as neighe as ever he can,

Everich word, if it be in his charge,

All speke he never so rudely and so large.

1853

CHAUCER:

Canterbury Tales, Prologue,

Line 733.

But that I am forbid

To tell the secrets of my prison-house,

I could a tale unfold, whose lightest word

Would harrow up thy soul.

1854

SHAKS.:

Hamlet,

Act i., Sc. 5.

I will a round unvarnish'd tale deliver

Of my whole course of love.

1855

SHAKS.:

Othello,

Act i., Sc. 3.

Meet me by moonlight alone,

And then I will tell you a tale

Must be told by the moonlight alone,

In the grove at the end of the vale!

1856

J.A. WADE:

Meet Me by Moonlight.

Talk.

We will not stand to prate;

Talkers are no good doers; be assured

We go to use our hands, and not our tongues.

1857

SHAKS.:

Richard III.,

Act i., Sc. 3.

But still his tongue ran on, the less

Of weight it bore, with greater ease

And with its everlasting clack,

Set all men's ears upon the rack.

1858

BUTLER:

Hudibras,

Pt. iii., Canto ii., Line 443.

They always talk who never think.

1859

PRIOR:

Upon this Passage in the Scaligeriana.

Where Nature's end of language is declin'd,

And men talk only to conceal the mind.

1860

YOUNG:

Love of Fame,

Satire ii., Line 207.

It would talk,—

Lord! how it talked!

1861

BEAUMONT AND FLETCHER:

Scornful Lady,

Act v., Sc. 1.

Tasso.

Tasso is their glory and their shame.

Hark to his strain! and then survey his cell!

And see how dearly earn'd Torquato's fame,

And where Alfonso bade his poet dwell.

1862

BYRON:

Ch. Harold,

Canto iv., St. 36.

Taste.

Talk what you will of taste, my friend, you'll find

Two of a face as soon as of a mind.

1863

POPE: Satire vi., Line 268.

Good native Taste, tho' rude, is seldom wrong,

Be it in music, painting, or in song:

But this, as well as other faculties,

Improves with age and ripens by degrees.

1864

ARMSTRONG:

Taste,

Line 26

Such and so various are the tastes of men.

1865

AKENSIDE:

Pl. of the Imagination,

Bk. iii., Line 567.

Taxation.

By heaven, I had rather coin my heart,

And drop my blood for drachmas, than to wring

From the hard hands of peasants their vile trash,

By any indirection.

1866

SHAKS.:

Jul. Cæsar,

Act iv., Sc. 3.

Who nothing has to lose, the war bewails;

And he who nothing pays, at taxes rails.

1867

CONGREVE:

Epis. to Sir Richard Temple. Of Pleasing,

Line 17.

Tea.

For her own breakfast she'll project a scheme,

Nor take her tea without a stratagem.

1868

YOUNG:

Love of Fame,

Satire vi., Line 190.

Teaching.

I have labored,

And with no little study, that my teaching

And the strong course of my authority

Might go one way.

1869

SHAKS.:

Henry VIII.,

Act v., Sc. 2.

Tears.

The big round tears

Cours'd one another down his innocent nose

In piteous chase.

1870

SHAKS.:

As You Like It,

Act ii., Sc. 1.

']

Then fresh tears

Stood on her cheeks, as doth the honey-dew

Upon a gather'd lily almost wither'd.

1871

SHAKS.:

Titus And.,

Act iii., Sc. 1.

Our present tears here, not our present laughter,

Are but the handsells of our joys hereafter.

1872

HERRICK:

Noble Numbers, Tears.

Thrice he assay'd, and thrice in spite of scorn,

Tears, such as angels weep, burst forth.

1873

MILTON:

Par. Lost,

Bk. i., Line 619.

A child will weep a bramble's smart,

A maid to see her sparrow part,

A stripling for a woman's heart:

But woe awaits a country, when

She sees the tears of bearded men.

1874

SCOTT:

Marmion,

Canto v., St. 16.

To me the meanest flower that blows can give

Thoughts that do often lie too deep for tears.

1875

WORDSWORTH:

Intimations of Immortality.

Tears, idle tears, I know not what they mean,

Tears from the depth of some divine despair

Rise in the heart, and gather to the eyes,

In looking on the happy Autumn fields,

And thinking of the days that are no more.

1876

TENNYSON:

The Princess,

Pt. iv., Line 21.

Beauty's tears are lovelier than her smile.

1877

CAMPBELL:

Pl. of Hope,

Pt. i., Line 180.

Under the sod and the dew,

Waiting the judgment day;

Love and tears for the Blue,

Tears and love for the Gray.

1878

FRANCIS M. FINCH:

The Blue and the Gray.

Temper.

Ye gods, it doth amaze me

A man of such a feeble temper should

So get the start of the majestic world

And bear the palm alone.

1879

SHAKS.:

Jul. Cæsar,

Act i., Sc. 2.

Temperance.

Temp'rate in every place,—abroad, at home.

Thence will applause, and hence will profit come;

And health from either—he in time prepares

For sickness, age, and their attendant cares.

1880

CRABBE:

The Borough,

Letter xvii., Line 198.

Tempests.

The southern wind

Doth play the trumpet to his purposes;

And, by his hollow whistling in the leaves,

Foretells a tempest and a blustering day.

1881

SHAKS.:

1 Henry IV.,

Act v., Sc. 1.

Suddeine they see from midst of all the maine

The surging waters like a mountaine rise,

And the great sea puft up with proud disdaine,

To swell above the measure of his guise,

As threatning to devoure all that his powre despise.

1882

SPENSER:

Faerie Queene,

Bk. ii., Canto xii., St. 21.

From cloud to cloud the rending lightnings rage;

Till, in the furious elemental war

Dissolv'd, the whole precipitated mass,

Unbroken floods and solid torrents pours.

1883

THOMSON:

Seasons, Summer,

Line 799.

The sky

Is overcast, and musters muttering thunder,

In clouds that seem approaching fast, and show

In forked flashes a commanding tempest.

1884

BYRON:

Sardanapalus,

Act ii., Sc. 1.

Temptation.

Oftentimes, to win us to our harm,

The instruments of darkness tell us truths;

Win us with honest trifles, to betray us

In deepest consequence.

1885

SHAKS.:

Macbeth,

Act i., Sc. 3.

'Tis the temptation of the devil

That makes all human actions evil;

For saints may do the same things by

The spirit, in sincerity,

Which other men are tempted to,

And at the devil's instance do:

And yet the actions be contrary,

Just as the saints and wicked vary.

1886

BUTLER:

Hudibras,

Pt. ii., Canto ii., Line 233.

Safe from temptation, safe from sin's pollution,

She lives whom we call dead.

1887

LONGFELLOW:

Resignation

Tenderness.

Higher than the perfect song

For which love longeth,

Is the tender fear of wrong,

That never wrongeth.

1888

BAYARD TAYLOR:

Improvisations,

Pt. v.

Tents.

Shall fold their tents like the Arabs,

And as silently steal away.

1889

LONGFELLOW:

The Day is Done.

Terror.

There is no terror, Cassius, in your threats.

1890

SHAKS.:

Jul. Cæsar,

Act iv., Sc. 3.

Test.

Bring me to the test,

And I the matter will re-word.

1891

SHAKS.:

Hamlet,

Act iii., Sc. 4.

Text.

And many a holy text around she strews,

That teach the rustic moralist to die.

1892

GRAY:

Elegy,

St. 21.

Thankfulness.

The poorest service is repaid with thanks.

1893

SHAKS.:

Tam. of the S.,

Act iv., Sc. 3.

Thanks to men

Of noble minds, is honorable meed.

1894

SHAKS.:

Titus And.,

Act i., Sc. 2.

Theatre.

As in a theatre, the eyes of men,

After a well-graced actor leaves the stage,

Are idly bent on him that enters next,

Thinking his prattle to be tedious.

1895

SHAKS.:

Richard II.,

Act v., Sc. 5.

Thief.

The robb'd that smiles, steals something from the thief.

1896

SHAKS.:

Othello,

Act i., Sc. 3.

Thirst.

That panting thirst, which scorches in the breath

Of those that die the soldier's fiery death,

In vain impels the burning mouth to crave

One drop—the last—to cool it for the grave.

1897

BYRON:

Lara,

Canto ii., St. 16.

Thorn.

Why are we fond of toil and care?

Why choose the rankling thorn to wear?

1898

J.M. USTERI:

Life let us Cherish.

Thought.

Our thoughts are ours, their ends none of our own.

1899

SHAKS.:

Hamlet,

Act iii., Sc. 2.

Thought alone is eternal.

1900

OWEN MEREDITH:

Lucile,

Pt. ii., Canto v., St. 16.

No thought which ever stirred

A human breast should be untold.

1901

ROBERT BROWNING:

Paracelsus,

Sc. 2.

Thought leapt out to wed with Thought

Ere Thought could wed itself with Speech.

1902

TENNYSON:

In Memoriam,

Pt. xxiii., St. 4.

Thought is deeper than all speech,

Feeling deeper than all thought;

Souls to souls can never teach

What unto themselves was taught.

1903

CHRISTOPHER P. CRANCH:

Stanzas.

Thread.

Sewing at once a double thread,

A shroud as well as a shirt.

1904

HOOD:

Song of the Shirt.

Threats.

If thou more murmur'st, I will rend an oak,

And peg thee in his knotty entrails, till

Thou hast howl'd away twelve winters.

1905

SHAKS.:

Tempest,

Act i., Sc. 2.

Back to thy punishment,

False fugitive, and to thy speed add wings,

Lest with a whip of scorpions I pursue

Thy ling'ring.

1906

MILTON:

Par. Lost,

Bk. ii., Line 699.

Thrift.

Thrift, thrift, Horatio! the funeral baked meats

Did coldly furnish forth the marriage tables.

1907

SHAKS.:

Hamlet,

Act i., Sc. 2.

Throne.

High on a throne of royal state, which far

Outshone the wealth of Ormus and of Ind.

1908

MILTON:

Par. Lost,

Bk. ii., Line 1.

Thunder.

And threat'ning France, plac'd like a painted Jove,

Kept idle thunder in his lifted hand.

1909

DRYDEN:

Annus Mirabilis,

St. 39.

Far along,

From peak to peak, the rattling crags among,

Leaps the live thunder.

1910

BYRON:

Ch. Harold,

Canto iii., St. 92.

Tide.

Even at the turning o' the tide.

1911

SHAKS.:

Henry V.,

Act ii., Sc. 3.

There is a tide in the affairs of men

Which taken at the flood, leads on to fortune.

1912

SHAKS.:

Jul. Cæsar,

Act iv., Sc. 3.

Time.

I wasted time, and now doth time waste me.

1913

SHAKS.:

Richard II.,

Act v., Sc. 5.

Gather ye rosebuds while ye may,

Old time is still a-flying;

And this same flower that smiles to-day,

To-morrow will be dying.

1914

HERRICK:

To Virgins to Make Much of Time.

Threefold the stride of Time, from first to last!

Loitering slow, the FUTURE creepeth—

Arrow-swift, the PRESENT sweepeth—

And motionless forever stands the PAST.

1915

SCHILLER:

Sentences of Confucius, Time.

Tithes.

This priest he merry is and blithe

Three quarters of a year,

But oh! it cuts him like a scythe,

When tithing-time draws near.

1916

COWPER:

Yearly Distress,

St. 2.

Titles.

We all are soldiers, and all venture lives;

And where there is no difference in men's worth,

Titles are jests.

1917

BEAUMONT AND FLETCHER:

King or No King,

Act i., Sc. 1.

Titles are marks of honest men and wise;

The fool or knave that wears a title, lies.

1918

YOUNG:

Love of Fame,

Satire i., Line 137.

Toad.

Squat like a toad, close at the ear of Eve.

1919

MILTON:

Par. Lost,

Bk. iv., Line 800.

Tobacco.

Sublime tobacco! which from east to west

Cheers the tar's labor or the Turkman's rest.

1920

BYRON:

The Island,

Canto ii., St. 19.

To-day.

Happy the man and happy he alone,

He who can call to-day his own.

1921

DRYDEN:

Im. of Horace,

Bk. iii., Ode 29, Line 65.

Our cares are all To-day, our joys are all To-day;

And in one little word, our life, what is it but—To-day?

1922

TUPPER:

Proverbial Phil. of To-day

Toil.

No man is born into the world whose work

Is not born with him. There is always work,

And tools to work withal, for those who will;

And blessed are the horny hands of toil.

1923

JAMES RUSSELL LOWELL:

A Glance Behind the Curtain.

Tomb.

E'en from the tomb the voice of nature cries,

E'en in our ashes live their wonted fires.

1924

GRAY:

Elegy,

St. 23.

To-morrow.

To-morrow, and to-morrow, and to-morrow,

Creeps in this petty pace from day to day,

To the last syllable of recorded time;

And all our yesterdays have lighted fools

The way to dusty death.

1925

SHAKS.:

Macbeth,

Act v., Sc. 5.

Defer not till to-morrow to be wise,

To-morrow's sun on thee may never rise.

1926

CONGREVE:

Letter to Cobham.

To-morrow comes and we are where?

Then let us live to-day.

1927

SCHILLER:

The Victory Feast,

St. 13.

Where art thou, beloved To-morrow?

Whom young and old, and strong and weak,

Rich and poor, through joy and sorrow,

Thy sweet smiles we ever seek—

In thy place—ah! well-a-day!

We find the thing we fled—To-day.

1928

SHELLEY:

To-morrow.

Tongue.

While thou livest, keep a good tongue in thy head.

1929

SHAKS.:

Tempest,

Act iii., Sc. 2.

No, let the candied tongue lick absurd pomp,

And crook the pregnant hinges of the knee

Where thrift may follow fawning.

1930

SHAKS.:

Hamlet,

Act iii., Sc. 2.

Sacred interpreter of human thought,

How few respect or use thee as they ought!

But all shall give account of every wrong,

Who dare dishonor or defile the tongue.

1931

COWPER:

Conversation,

Line 23.

Tools.

For all a rhetorician's rules

Teach nothing but to name his tools.

1932

BUTLER:

Hudibras,

Pt. i., Canto i., Line 89.

Toothache.

There was never yet philosopher

That could endure the toothache patiently.

1933

SHAKS.:

Much Ado,

Act v., Sc. 1.

Torrent.

So the loud torrent and the whirlwind's roar

But bind him to his native mountains more.

1934

GOLDSMITH:

Traveller,

Line 217.

Torture.

The hell of waters! where they howl and hiss,

And boil in endless torture.

1935

BYRON:

Ch. Harold,

Canto iv., St. 69.

Towers.

Towers and battlements it sees

Bosom'd high in tufted trees.

1936

MILTON:

L'Allegro,

Line 75.

Town.

God made the country, and man made the town.

1937

COWPER:

Task,

Bk i., Line 749.

Toys.

Seeks painted trifles and fantastic toys,

And eagerly pursues imaginary joys.

1938

AKENSIDE:

Virtuoso,

St. 10.

Trade.

But times are alter'd; trade's unfeeling train

Usurp the land, and dispossess the swain;

Along the lawn, where scatter'd hamlets rose,

Unwieldy wealth and cumbrous pomp repose.

1939

GOLDSMITH:

Des. Village,

Line 63.

Trade's proud empire hastes to swift decay.

1940

DR. JOHNSON:

Line added to Goldsmith's Des. Village.

Tranquillity.

Like ships that have gone down at sea

When heaven was all tranquillity.

1941

MOORE:

Lalla Rookh, The Light of the Harem.

Traveller—Travelling.

Now spurs the lated traveller apace

To gain the timely inn.

1942

SHAKS.:

Macbeth,

Act iii., Sc. 3.

When I was at home, I was in a better place;

But travellers must be content.

1943

SHAKS.:

As You Like It,

Act ii., Sc. 4.

In travelling

I shape myself betimes to idleness

And take fools' pleasures....

1944

GEORGE ELIOT:

Spanish Gypsy,

Bk. i.

Treason.

Then I, and you, and all of us fell down,

Whilst bloody treason flourish'd over us.

1945

SHAKS.:

Jul. Cæsar,

Act iii., Sc. 2.

So Judas kiss'd his master,

And cried—All hail! when as he meant—all harm.

1946

SHAKS.:

3 Henry VI.,

Act v., Sc. 7.

Treason doth never prosper: what's the reason?

Why, if it prosper, none dare call it treason.

1947

SIR JOHN HARRINGTON:

Epigrams,

Bk. iv., Epigram 5.

Treason is not own'd when 'tis descried;

Successful crimes alone are justified.

1948

DRYDEN:

Medals,

Line 207.

Treasure.

The unsunn'd heaps

Of miser's treasure.

1949

MILTON:

Comus,

Line 398.

Trees.

Trees can smile in light at the sinking sun

Just as the storm comes, as a girl would look

On a departing lover—most serene.

1950

ROBERT BROWNING:

Pauline,

Line 726.

The groves were God's first temples. Ere man learned

To hew the shaft, and lay the architrave,

And spread the roof above them.

1951

WILLIAM CULLEN BRYANT:

Forest Hymn.

Sure thou didst flourish once! and many springs,

Many bright mornings, much dew, many showers,

Passed o'er thy head; many light hearts and wings,

Which now are dead, lodg'd in thy living bowers.

1952

HENRY VAUGHAN:

The Timber.

A brotherhood of venerable trees.

1953

WORDSWORTH:

Sonnet composed at —— Castle.

Trial.

We learn through trial.

1954

MARGARET J. PRESTON:

Attainment,

St. 7.

Trifles.

Since trifles make the sum of human things,

And half our misery from our foibles springs.

1955

HANNAH MORE:

Sensibility.

Think nought a trifle, though it small appear;

Small sands the mountain, moments make the year;

And trifles life.

1956

YOUNG:

Love of Fame,

Satire vi., Line 193.

Triumph.

Why comes temptation, but for man to meet

And master, and make crouch beneath his foot,

And so be pedestaled in triumph?

1957

ROBERT BROWNING:

The Ring and the Book,

Line 1185.

Trouble.

Double, double toil and trouble,

Fire burn, and cauldron bubble.

1958

SHAKS.:

Macbeth,

Act iv., Sc. 1.

To be, or not to be: that is the question:

Whether 'tis nobler in the mind to suffer

The stings and arrows of outrageous fortune,

Or to take arms against a sea of troubles,

And by opposing end them.

1959

SHAKS.:

Hamlet,

Act iii., Sc. 1.

Truth.

Truth is the highest thing that man may keep.

1960

CHAUCER:

The Frankeleines Tale,

Line 11789.

O, while you live, tell truth, and shame the devil.

1961

SHAKS.:

1 Henry IV.,

Act iii., Sc. 1.

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.