HANDY DICTIONARY
OF
POETICAL QUOTATIONS
COMPILED BY
GEORGE W. POWERS
AUTHOR OF "IMPORTANT EVENTS," ETC.
NEW YORK
THOMAS Y. CROWELL & CO.
PUBLISHERS
1901
BY T.Y. CROWELL & COMPANY.
Henry W. Longfellow
Table of Contents
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PREFACE.
It has been the aim of the compiler of this little book to present aDictionary of Poetical Quotations which will be a ready reference tomany of the most familiar stanzas and lines of the chief poets of theEnglish language, with a few selections from Continental writers; andalso some less familiar selections from more modern poets, which may intime become classic, or which at least have a contemporary interest.Readers of English literature are aware that the few great poets of ourlanguage have struck perhaps every chord of human sentiment capable ofillustration in verse, and even these few have borrowed the ideas, andsometimes almost the exact words, of predecessors or contemporaries.
But often old ideas in a new dress are welcome to readers who might nothave b