2081 HAMLIN GARLAND: _The Gaunt Gray Wolf._

=Woman.=

Women are as roses; whose fair flower, Being once display'd, doth fall that very hour.

2082 SHAKS.: _Tw. Night,_ Act ii., Sc. 4.

Honor to women! to them it is given To garden the earth with the roses of Heaven.

2083 SCHILLER: _Honor to Women._

Nothing lovelier can be found In woman, than to study household good, And good works in her husband to promote.

2084 MILTON: _Par. Lost,_ Bk. ix., Line 232.

O woman! lovely woman! Nature made thee To temper man; we had been brutes without you.

2085 OTWAY: _Venice Preserved,_ Act i., Sc. 1.

Where is the man who has the power and skill To stem the torrent of a woman's will?

For if she will, she will, you may depend on 't; And if she won't, she won't; so there's an end on 't.

2086 _Copied from the pillar erected on the mount in the Dane John Field, Canterbury._ [_Examiner_: May 31, 1829.]

And yet believe me, good as well as ill, Woman's at best a contradiction still.

Heaven, when it strives to polish all it can Its last best work, but forms a softer man.

2087 POPE: _Moral Essays,_ Epis. ii., Line 269.

Earth's noblest thing, a woman perfected.

2088 JAMES RUSSELL LOWELL: _Irene._

And whether coldness, pride, or virtue, dignify A woman; so she's good, what does it signify?

2089 BYRON: _Don Juan,_ Canto xiv., St. 57.

Oh, woman! in our hours of ease, Uncertain, coy, and hard to please, And variable as the shade By the light quivering aspen made; When pain and anguish wring the brow, A ministering angel thou!

2090 SCOTT: _Marmion,_ Canto vi., St. 30.

The woman that deliberates is lost.

2091 ADDISON: _Cato,_ Act iv., Sc. 1.

A woman mixed of such fine elements That were all virtue and religion dead She'd make them newly, being what she was.

2092 GEORGE ELIOT: _The Spanish Gypsy,_ Bk. ii.

Till we are built like angels, with hammer, and chisel, and pen, We will work for ourselves and a woman, for ever and ever, Amen.

2093 RUDYARD KIPLING: _An Imperial Rescript._

=Wonder.=

A schoolboy's tale, the wonder of an hour!

2094 BYRON: _Ch. Harold,_ Canto ii., St. 2.

=Woodland.=

Yon woodland, like a human mind, Has many a phase of dark and light; Now dim with shadows wandering blind, Now radiant with fair shapes of light.

2095 PAUL HAMILTON HAYNE: _The Woodland._

=Woodman.=

Woodman, spare that tree!

Touch not a single bough!

In youth it sheltered me, And I'll protect it now.

2096 GEORGE P. MORRIS: _Woodman, Spare that Tree._

=Woods.=

Fresh gales and gentle airs Whisper'd it to the woods, and from their wings Flung rose, flung odors from the spicy shrub.

2097 MILTON: _Par. Lost,_ Bk. viii., Line 508.

=Words.=

'Tis well said again, And 'tis a kind of good deed to say well: And yet words are no deeds.

2098 SHAKS.: _Henry VIII.,_ Act iii., Sc. 2.

My words fly up, my thoughts remain below: Words without thoughts, never to heaven go.

2099 SHAKS.: _Hamlet,_ Act iii., Sc. 3.

Apt words have power to 'suage The tumors of a troubled mind; And are as balm to fester'd wounds.

2100 MILTON: _Samson Agonistes,_ Line 184.

Our words have wings, but fly not where we would.

2101 GEORGE ELIOT: _Spanish Gypsy,_ Bk. iii.

Words, however, are things.

2102 OWEN MEREDITH: _Lucile,_ Pt. i., Canto ii., St. 6.

=Wordsworth.=

Time may restore us in his course Goethe's sage mind and Byron's force; But where will Europe's latter hour Again find Wordsworth's healing power?

2103 MATTHEW ARNOLD: _Memorial Verses._

=Work.=

Free men freely work: Whoever fears God, fears to sit at ease.

2104 MRS. BROWNING: _Aurora Leigh,_ Bk. viii., Line 752.

Men must work, and women must weep.