THE SOUL. The soul is like a bird that soars While song its liquid fulness pours And as the bird at last returns, To seek its leaf-shrined nest, So in our lives the pure soul yearns -J. C. H. A noble soul is like a ship at sea, That sleeps at anchor when the ocean's calm ; But when she rages, and the wind blows high, He cuts his way with skill and majesty. -Beaumont and Fletcher. The Honest Man's Fortune (Charlotte), Act IV., Sc. I. By harmony our souls are sway'd ; Thought is deeper than all speech; What unto themselves was taught. -C. P. Cranch. God be thanked, the meanest of His creatures Brevity is the soul of wit. -Shakspere. Hamlet (Polonius), Act II., The soul may be compared to a field of battle, where the armies are ready every moment to encounter. Not a single vice but has a more powerful opponent, and not one virtue but may be overborne by a combination of vices. The tocsin of the soul-the dinner bell. (For) what is form, or what is face, -N. Cotton. Visions in Verse, Pleasure. The soul o' the purpose, ere 'tis shaped as act, Takes flesh i' the world, and clothes itself a king, But when the act comes, stands for what 'tis worth. -R. Browning. Luria (Luria), Act III. The soul of a high intent, be it known, Which God keeps by Him under the throne. He that stabs another, can kill his body but he that stabs himself, kills his own soul. -Burton. Anatomy of Melancholy, Pt. I., Sec. I V., Mem, I. Eternal form shall still divide The Eternal soul from all beside; And I shall know him when we meet. -Tennyson. In Memoriam, XLVII. There is a kindly mood of melancholy To look upon the soul as going on from strength to strength, to consider that she is to shine forever with new accessions of glory, and brighten to all eternity; that she will be still adding virtue to virtue, and knowledge to knowledge, carries in it something wonderfully agreeable to that ambition which is natural to the mind of man. -Addison. (Yet stab at thee who will,) No stab the soul can kill. -Sir John Davis. The Soul's Errand. [This is generally attributed to Sir Walter Raleigh; but in Davison's Rhapsody it is definitely attributed to Sir John Davis.] My soul is up in arms, ready to charge My soul's in arms and eager for the fray. Colley Cibber. Richard III., altered by. (Richard), Act V., Sc. III. As cold waters to a thirsty soul, Though absent, present in desires they be ; Our soul much further than our eyes can see. -M. Drayton. The Baron's Wars, Bk. III., XX. In the soul Are many lesser faculties, that serve Reason as chief; among these Fancy next -Milton. Paradise Lost, Bk. V., line 100. Charms strike the sight, but merit wins the soul. -Pope. The Rape of the Lock, Can. V., line 33. (For) when the power of imparting joy -Shelley. Queen Mab, II. Every subject's duty is the king's; but every subject's soul is his own. -Shakspere. Henry V. (King Henry), Time Works miracles. In one hour many thousands Of grains of sand run out; and quick as they, Thought follows thought within the human soul. -Coleridge. The Death of Wallenstein. Star to star vibrates light; may soul to soul Strike thro' a finer element of her own? -Tennyson. Aylmer's Field. The pure soul Shall mount on native wings, disdaining little sport, And cut a path into the heaven of glory, Leaving a track of light for men to wonder at. -Blake. King Edward the Third. Life makes the soul dependent on the dust; Death gives her wings to mount above the spheres. --Young. Night Thoughts, Night III., line 458. Hands of invisible spirits touch the strings -Longfellow. The Spanish Student, |