=Wine.=

Wine makes Love forget its care, And mirth exalts a feast.

2057 PARNELL: _Anacreontic, "Gay Bacchus, etc.",_ St. 2.

And wine can of their wits the wise beguile, Make the sage frolic, and the serious smile.

2058 POPE: _Odyssey,_ Bk. xiv., Line 520.

=Wing.=

This quiet sail is as a noiseless wing To waft me from distraction.

2059 BYRON: _Ch. Harold,_ Canto iii., St. 85.

How at heaven's gates she claps her wings, The morne not waking til she sings.

2060 JOHN LYLY: _Cupid and Campaspe,_ Act v., Sc. 1

=Winter.=

Now is the winter of our discontent Made glorious summer by this sun of York.

2061 SHAKS.: _Richard III.,_ Act i., Sc. 1.

See, Winter comes to rule the varied year, Sullen and sad, with all his rising train, Vapors, and clouds, and storms.

2062 THOMSON: _Seasons, Winter,_ Line 1.

But Winter has yet brighter scenes--he boasts Splendors beyond what gorgeous Summer knows; Or Autumn with his many fruits, and woods All flushed with many hues.

2063 WILLIAM CULLEN BRYANT: _A Winter Piece._

No vernal blooms their torpid rocks array, But winter lingering chills the lap of May.

2064 GOLDSMITH: _Traveller,_ Line 171.

In rigorous hours, when down the iron lane The redbreast looks in vain For hips and haws, Lo, shining flowers upon my window-pane The silver pencil of the winter draws.

2065 ROBERT LOUIS STEVENSON: _Winter._

=Wisdom.=

Wisdom and fortune combating together, If that the former dare but what it can, No chance may shake it.

2066 SHAKS.: _Ant. and Cleo.,_ Act iii., Sc. 11.

What is it to be wise?

'Tis but to know how little can be known; To see all others' faults, and feel your own.

2067 POPE: _Essay on Man,_ Epis. iv., Line 260.

The stream from Wisdom's well, Which God supplies, is inexhaustible.

2068 BAYARD TAYLOR: _Wisdom of All._

And Wisdom's self Oft seeks to sweet retired solitude.

2069 MILTON: _Comus,_ Line 373.

=Wishes.=

Thy wish was father, Harry, to that thought.

2070 SHAKS.: _2 Henry IV.,_ Act iv., Sc. 4.

Our wishes lengthen, as our sun declines.

2071 YOUNG: _Night Thoughts,_ Night v., Line 662.

=Wit--Wits.=

I hold a mouses wit not worth a leke, That hath but one hole for to sterten to.

2072 CHAUCER: _Canterbury Tales, The Wif of Bathes Prologue,_ Line 6154.

Wit's an unruly engine, wildly striking Sometimes a friend, sometimes the engineer.

2073 HERBERT: _Temple, Church Porch,_ St. 41.

Great wits are sure to madness near allied, And thin partitions do their bounds divide.

2074 DRYDEN: _Absalom and Achitophel,_ Pt. i., Line 163.

Men famed for wit, of dangerous talents vain, Treat those of common parts with proud disdain.

2075 CRABBE: _Patron,_ Line 229.

Though I am young, I scorn to flit On the wings of borrowed wit.

2076 GEORGE WITHER: _The Shepherd's Hunting._

=Witches.=

Midnight hags, By force of potent spells, of bloody characters, And conjurations, horrible to hear, Call fiends and spectres from the yawning deep, And set the ministers of hell at work.

2077 ROWE: _Jane Shore,_ Act iv., Sc. 1.

=Woe.=

But I have that within which passeth show; These but the trappings and the suits of woe.

2078 SHAKS.: _Hamlet,_ Act i., Sc. 1.

Woes cluster; rare are solitary woes; They love a train, they tread each other's heel.

2079 YOUNG: _Night Thoughts,_ Night iii., Line 63.

Chords that vibrate sweetest pleasure Thrill the deepest notes of woe.

2080 BURNS: _Sweet Sensibility._

=Wolf.=

He's the symbol of hunger the whole earth through, His spectre sits at the door or cave, And the homeless hear with a thrill of fear The sound of his wind-swept voice on the air.