fresh tears
Stood on her cheeks, as doth the honey-dew
Upon a gather'd lily almost wither'd.
1871
SHAKS.: _Titus And.,_ Act iii., Sc. 1.

Our present tears here, not our present laughter,
Are but the handsells of our joys hereafter.
1872
HERRICK: _Noble Numbers, Tears._

Thrice he assay'd, and thrice in spite of scorn,
Tears, such as angels weep, burst forth.
1873
MILTON: _Par. Lost,_ Bk. i., Line 619.

A child will weep a bramble's smart,
A maid to see her sparrow part,
A stripling for a woman's heart:
But woe awaits a country, when
She sees the tears of bearded men.
1874
SCOTT: _Marmion,_ Canto v., St. 16.

To me the meanest flower that blows can give
Thoughts that do often lie too deep for tears.
1875
WORDSWORTH: _Intimations of Immortality._

Tears, idle tears, I know not what they mean,
Tears from the depth of some divine despair
Rise in the heart, and gather to the eyes,
In looking on the happy Autumn fields,
And thinking of the days that are no more.
1876
TENNYSON: _The Princess,_ Pt. iv., Line 21.

Beauty's tears are lovelier than her smile.
1877
CAMPBELL: _Pl. of Hope,_ Pt. i., Line 180.

Under the sod and the dew,
Waiting the judgment day;
Love and tears for the Blue,
Tears and love for the Gray.
1878
FRANCIS M. FINCH: _The Blue and the Gray._

=Temper.=

Ye gods, it doth amaze me
A man of such a feeble temper should
So get the start of the majestic world
And bear the palm alone.
1879
SHAKS.: _Jul. Caesar,_ Act i., Sc. 2.

=Temperance.=

Temp'rate in every place,--abroad, at home.
Thence will applause, and hence will profit come;
And health from either--he in time prepares
For sickness, age, and their attendant cares.
1880
CRABBE: _The Borough,_ Letter xvii., Line 198.

=Tempests.=

The southern wind
Doth play the trumpet to his purposes;
And, by his hollow whistling in the leaves,
Foretells a tempest and a blustering day.
1881
SHAKS.: _1 Henry IV.,_ Act v., Sc. 1.

Suddeine they see from midst of all the maine
The surging waters like a mountaine rise,
And the great sea puft up with proud disdaine,
To swell above the measure of his guise,
As threatning to devoure all that his powre despise.
1882
SPENSER: _Faerie Queene,_ Bk. ii., Canto xii., St. 21.

From cloud to cloud the rending lightnings rage;
Till, in the furious elemental war
Dissolv'd, the whole precipitated mass,
Unbroken floods and solid torrents pours.
1883
THOMSON: _S