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. Caesar,_ 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.=