Handy Dictionary of Poetical Quotations | Page 9

=Cæsar.=
Imperious Cæsar, dead and turn'd to clay,
Might stop a hole to keep
the wind away.
253
SHAKS.: Hamlet, Act v., Sc. 1.
But yesterday the word of Cæsar might
Have stood against the world;

now lies he there,
And none so poor to do him reverence.
254

SHAKS.: _Jul. Cæsar,_ Act iii., Sc. 2.
=Calamity.=
Affliction is enamour'd of thy parts,
And thou art wedded to calamity.

255
SHAKS.: Rom. and Jul., Act iii., Sc. 3.
=Calmness.=
And through the heat of conflict keeps the law
In calmness made, and
sees what he foresaw.
256
WORDSWORTH: Character of the
Happy Warrior.
=Calumny.=
Calumny will sear
Virtue itself: these shrugs, these hums, and ha's.

257
SHAKS.: Wint. Tale, Act ii., Sc. 1.
=Camping.=
The bed was made, the room was fit,
By punctual eve the stars were
lit;
The air was still, the water ran,
No need was there for maid or
man,
When we put up, my ass and I,
At God's green caravanserai.

258
ROBERT LOUIS STEVENSON: A Camp.
=Candle.=
How far that little candle throws his beams!
So shines a good deed in
a naughty world.
259
SHAKS.: M. of Venice, Act v., Sc. 1.
=Candor.=
Some positive, persisting fops we know,
Who, if once wrong, will
needs be always so;
But you with pleasure own your errors past,

And make each day a critique on the last.
260
POPE: E. on
Criticism, Pt. iii., Line 9.
=Cannons.=
The cannons have their bowels full of wrath;
And ready mounted are
they, to spit forth
Their iron indignation.
261
SHAKS.: King John,
Act ii., Sc. 1.
=Canopy.=
Seas roll to waft me, suns to light me rise;
My footstool earth, my
canopy the skies.
262
POPE: Essay on Man, Epis. i., Line 139.
=Capacity.=
That wondrous soul Charoba once possest,--
Capacious, then, as earth

or heaven could hold,
Soul discontented with capacity,--
Is gone (I
fear) forever.
263
WALTER SAVAGE LANDOR: Gebir, Bk. ii.
=Captain.=
O Captain! my Captain! our fearful trip is done,
The ship has
weathered every rack, the prize we sought is won. The port is near, the
bells I hear, the people all exulting, While follow eyes the steady keel,
the vessel grim and daring.
But O heart! heart! heart!
O the bleeding drops of red,
Where on the
deck my Captain lies,
Fallen cold and dead.
264
WALT
WHITMAN: O Captain! My Captain! (On Death of Lincoln.)
A rude and boisterous captain of the sea.
265
JOHN HOME:
Douglas, Act iv., Sc. 1.
=Care.=
Care keeps his watch in every old man's eye,
And where care lodges,
sleep will never lie.
266
SHAKS.: Rom. and Jul., Act ii., Sc. 1.
Care that is enter'd once into the breast,
Will have the whole
possession, ere it rest.
267
BEN JONSON: Tale of a Tub, Act i., Sc.
3.
Care, whom not the gayest can outbrave,
Pursues its feeble victim to
the grave.
268
HENRY KIRKE WHITE: Childhood, Pt. ii., Line
17.
Care to our coffin adds a nail, no doubt;
And every grin, so merry,
draws one out.
269
PETER PINDAR: Ex. Odes, Ode 15.
Hang sorrow! care will kill a cat,
And therefore let's be merry.
270

GEORGE WITHER: Poem on Christmas.
=Carefulness.=
For my means, I'll husband them so well,
They shall go far with little.

271

SHAKS.: Hamlet, Act iv., Sc. 5.
=Cat.=
A harmless necessary cat.
272
SHAKS.: M. of Venice, Act iv., Sc.
1.
Let Hercules himself do what he may,
The cat will mew and dog will
have his day.
273
SHAKS.: Hamlet, Act v., Sc. 1.
=Cataract.=

The sounding cataract
Haunted me like a passion.
274

WORDSWORTH: Lines composed a few miles above Tintern Abbey.
=Cathedrals.=
The high embower'd roof,
With antique pillars, massy proof,
And
storied windows, richly dight,
Casting a dim religious light.
275

MILTON: Il Penseroso, Line 157.
=Cato.=
Like Cato, give his little senate laws,
And sit attentive to his own
applause.
276
POPE: Prologue to the Satires, Line 207.
=Cattle.=
O Mary, go and call the cattle home,
And call the cattle home,
And
call the cattle home,
Across the sands o' Dee.
277
CHARLES
KINGSLEY: The Sands of Dee.
=Cause.=
And therefore little shall I grace my cause
In speaking for myself.

278
SHAKS.: Othello, Act i., Sc. 3.
=Caution.=
Let every eye negotiate for itself
And trust no agent.
279
SHAKS.:
Much Ado, Act ii, Sc. 1.
Know when to speak; for many times it brings
Danger, to give the
best advice to kings.
280
HERRICK: Aph. Caution in Council,
Vessels large may venture more,
But little boats should keep near
shore.
281
FRANKLIN: Poor Richard.
=Caverns.=
Where Alph, the sacred river, ran
Through caverns measureless to
man
Down to a sunless sea.
282
COLERIDGE:
Kubla Khan.
=Celibacy.=
But earthly happier is the rose distill'd,
Than that, which, withering
on the virgin thorn,
Grows, lives and dies in single blessedness.
283

SHAKS.: Mid. N. Dream, Act i., Sc. 1.
Our Maker bids increase; who bids abstain
But our destroyer, foe to
God and man?
284
MILTON: Par. Lost, Bk. iv., Line 748.
=Censure.=

Praise from a friend, or censure from a foe,
Are lost on hearers that
our merits know.
285
POPE: Iliad, Bk. x., Line 293.
=Ceremony.=
Ceremony was but devised at first
To set a gloss on faint
deeds--hollow welcomes,
Recanting goodness, sorry ere 't is shown;

But where there is true friendship, there needs none.
286

SHAKS.: Timon of A., Act i., Sc. 2.
=Challenge.=
There I throw my gage,
To