her and a Better World._

The poor poet
Worships without reward, nor hopes to find
A heaven save in his worship.
1350
GEORGE ELIOT: _Spanish Gypsy,_ Bk. i.

God is the PERFECT POET,
Who in creation acts his own conceptions.
1351
ROBERT BROWNING: _Paracelsus,_ Sc. 2.

Sweet are the pleasures that to verse belong,
And doubly sweet a brotherhood in song.
1352
KEATS: _Epis. to George Felton Mathews._

Blessings be with them, and eternal praise,
Who gave us nobler loves and nobler cares.--
The poets who on earth have made us heirs
Of truth and pure delight, by heavenly lays.
1353
WORDSWORTH: _Personal Talk._

=Pole.=

True as the needle to the pole,
Or as the dial to the sun.
1354
BARTON BOOTH: _Song._

=Pomp.=

Give lettered pomp to teeth of Time,
So "Bonnie Doon" but tarry;
Blot out the epic's stately rhyme,
But spare his "Highland Mary"!
1355
WHITTIER: _Lines on Burns_

=Poppies.=

As full-blown poppies, overcharg'd with rain,
Decline the head, and drooping kiss the plain,--
So sinks the youth.
1356
POPE: _Iliad,_ Bk. viii., Line 371.

=Popularity.=

O, he sits high in all the people's hearts:
And that, which would appear offence in us,
His countenance, like richest alchymy,
Will change to virtue and to worthiness.
1357
SHAKS.: _Jul. Caesar,_ Act i., Sc. 3.

Bareheaded, popularly low he bow'd,
And paid the salutations of the crowd.
1358
DRYDEN: _Palamon and Arcite,_ Bk. iii., Line 689.

=Possession.=

What we have we prize not to the worth,
Whiles we enjoy it; but being lacked and lost,
Why then we rack the value, then we find
The virtue that possession would not show us
Whiles it was ours.
1359
SHAKS.: _Much Ado,_ Act iv., Sc. 1.

Possession means to sit astride of the world,
Instead of having it astride of you.
1360
CHARLES KINGSLEY: _Saint's Tragedy,_ Act i., Sc. 2.

=Poverty.=

My poverty, but not my will, consents.
1361
SHAKS.: _Rom. and Jul.,_ Act v., Sc. 1.

If we from wealth to poverty descend,
Want gives to know the flatterer from the friend.
1362
DRYDEN: _Wife of Bath,_ Line 485.

Most wretched men
Are cradled into poetry by wrong.
They learn in suffering what they teach in song.
1363
SHELLEY: _Julian and Maddalo._

In ev'ry sorrowing soul I pour'd delight,
And poverty stood smiling in my sight.
1364
POPE: _Odyssey,_ Bk. xvii., Line 505.

=Power.=

What can power give more than food and drink,
To l