yawning deep,
And set the ministers of hell at work.
2077
ROWE: _Jane Shore,_ Act iv., Sc. 1.

=Woe.=

But I have that within which passeth show;
These but the trappings and the suits of woe.
2078
SHAKS.: _Hamlet,_ Act i., Sc. 1.

Woes cluster; rare are solitary woes;
They love a train, they tread each other's heel.
2079
YOUNG: _Night Thoughts,_ Night iii., Line 63.

Chords that vibrate sweetest pleasure
Thrill the deepest notes of woe.
2080
BURNS: _Sweet Sensibility._

=Wolf.=

He's the symbol of hunger the whole earth through,
His spectre sits at the door or cave,
And the homeless hear with a thrill of fear
The sound of his wind-swept voice on the air.
2081
HAMLIN GARLAND: _The Gaunt Gray Wolf._

=Woman.=

Women are as roses; whose fair flower,
Being once display'd, doth fall that very hour.
2082
SHAKS.: _Tw. Night,_ Act ii., Sc. 4.

Honor to women! to them it is given
To garden the earth with the roses of Heaven.
2083
SCHILLER: _Honor to Women._

Nothing lovelier can be found
In woman, than to study household good,
And good works in her husband to promote.
2084
MILTON: _Par. Lost,_ Bk. ix., Line 232.

O woman! lovely woman! Nature made thee
To temper man; we had been brutes without you.
2085
OTWAY: _Venice Preserved,_ Act i., Sc. 1.

Where is the man who has the power and skill
To stem the torrent of a woman's will?
For if she will, she will, you may depend on 't;
And if she won't, she won't; so there's an end on 't.
2086
_Copied from the pillar erected on the mount in the
Dane John Field, Canterbury._ [_Examiner_: May 31, 1829.]

And yet believe me, good as well as ill,
Woman's at best a contradiction still.
Heaven, when it strives to polish all it can
Its last best work, but forms a softer man.
2087
POPE: _Moral Essays,_ Epis. ii., Line 269.

Earth's noblest thing, a woman perfected.
2088
JAMES RUSSELL LOWELL: _Irene._

And whether coldness, pride, or virtue, dignify
A woman; so she's good, what does it signify?
2089
BYRON: _Don Juan,_ Canto xiv., St. 57.

Oh, woman! in our hours of ease,
Uncertain, coy, and hard to please,
And variable as the shade
By the light quivering aspen made;
When pain and anguish wring the brow,
A ministering angel thou!
2090
SCOTT: _Marmion,_ Canto vi., St. 30.

The woman that deliberates is lost.
2091
ADDISON: _Cato,_ Act iv., Sc. 1.

A woman mixed of such fine elements
That were all virtue and religion dead
She'