| Quotes |
Topic |
| May | For I'm to be Queen o' the May, mother, I'm to be Queen o' the May. |
| Motherhood | The bearing and the training of a child Is woman's wisdom. |
| Motherhood | Happy he With such a mother! faith in womankind Beats with his blood, and trust in all things high Comes easy to him, and though he trip and fall, He shall not blind his soul with clay. |
| Mountains | And o'er the hills and far away, Beyond their utmost purple rim, Beyond the night, across the day, Thro' all the world she followed him. |
| Nobility | Better not to be at all Than not to be noble. |
| Nothingness | A life of nothing's nothing worth, From that first nothing ere his birth, To that last nothing under earth. |
| Owls | When cats run home and light is come, And dew is cold upon the ground, And the far-off stream is dumb, And the whirring sail goes round, And the whirring sail goes round, Alone and warming his five wits, The white owl in the belfry sits. |
| Pain | Sweet is true love that is given in vain, and sweet is death that takes away pain. |
| Pansies | Darker than darkest pansies. |
| Parting | Gone--flitted away, Taken the stars from the night and the sun From the day! Gone, and a cloud in my heart. |
| Passion | He will hold thee, when his passion shall have spent its novel force, Something better than his dog, a little dearer than his horse. |
| Patriotism | A savior of the silver-coasted isle. |
| Peacocks | And there they placed a peacock in his pride, Before the damsel. |
| Proverbs | Mariana in the moated grange. |
| Proverbs | Modred's narrow foxy face, Heart hiding smile, and gray persistent eye. |
| Proverbs | Not perfect, nay, but full of tender wants. |
| Proverbs | O well for him whose will is strong, He suffers, but he will not suffer long. |
| Proverbs | One of Satan's shepherdesses caught And meant to stamp him with her master's mark. |
| Proverbs | Others' follies teach us not, Nor much their wisdom teaches, And most of sterling worth is what Our own experience preaches. |
| Proverbs | Seeming genial, venial fault. |
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