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Harp of thousand strings, 1972.
through Tara's halls, 872.

Haste, let your, commend your duty, 873.
more, worst speed, 874.

Hat, broad-brimmed, 875.
the old three-cornered, 233.

Hate me with your hearts, 876.
wounds of deadly, 877.

Hazards, great things are achieved through, 19.

Head, here rests his, 624.
oh good gray, 881.
the wise, the reverend, 882.

Health, better to hunt in fields for, 884.
with, all pleasure flies, 883.

Heart bowed down by weight of woe, 888.
incessant battery to her, 421.
may give a lesson, 889.
merry, goes all the day, 885.
rise, thy Lord is risen, 602.
she wants a, 886.
we cannot heal the throbbing, 379.

Hearts, great, have largest room to bless, 840.

Heathen Chinee is peculiar, 433.

Heaven doth with us as we with torches, 2010.
hath a hand in these events, 1486.
is above all yet, 891.
is as the book of God, 892.
sends us good meat, 406.

Hecuba, what's, to him, 977.

Heir, creation's, 901.
of all the ages, 900.

Hell, better to reign in, 576.
breathes out contagion, 894.
fear of, a hangman's whip, 694.
grew darker at their frown, 896.
is a city much like London, 899.
itself should gape, 542.
merit heaven by making earth a, 898.
never mentions, to ears polite, 897.

Heralds high before him run, 448.

Hero in our eyes, 903.
when his sword, 904.

Heroes are much the same, 902.
as great have died, 905.

Hesperus rode brightest, 1215.

High as we have mounted, 523.

Highland Mary, spare his, 1355.

Hill, mine be the breezy, 837.

Hills of the stormy North, 907.
rock-ribbed and ancient, 906.

History hath but one page, 908.

Holiday, butchered to make a Roman, 910.

Holidays, if all the year were, 909.

Holly round the Christmas hearth, 325.

Homage, no worthless pomp of, 912.

Home is the resort of love, 913.
is the sailor, 915.
kindred points of heaven and, 917.
no place like, 916.

Homer, deep-browed, 919.
seven cities warred for, 920.
will be all the books you need, 918.

Homes, forced from their, 639.

Honest man's the noblest work of God, 922.

Honey, surfeited with, 1572.

Honey-bees, so work the, 165.

Honor and shame from no condition rise, 926.
comes, a pilgrim gray, 928.
rooted in dishonor, 927.
sinks where commerce long prevails, 364.
too much, a burthen, 923.
travels in a strait so narrow, 924.

Honor's a fine imaginary notion, 925.
at the stake, 839.

Hood, a page of, 929.

Hope abandon, ye who enter in, 936.
farewell, and farewell, fear, 634.
flies with swallows' wings, 930.
heavenly, is all serene, 934.
in thy sweet garden grow, 933.
never comes that comes to all, 935.
springs eternal, 932.
withering fled, 878.

Hope's tender blossoms, 194.

Horn, Triton blow his wreathed, 937.

Horrors, on horror's head, 939.
supped full with, 938.

Horse, my kingdom for a, 940.
one, was blind, 1676.

Hospitality, doing deeds of, 332.

Host, leader, mingling with the vulgar, 943.
such a numerous, 518.

Hounds, they rouse from sleep, 952.

Hour, catch the transient, 945.
for one short, to see the souls, 779.
this pernicious, 454.
too busy with the crowded, 944.
when lover's vows, 2018.

Hours, lovers' absent, 6.

House, a naked, 183.
there's nae luck about the, 946.

Humanity, O suffering, sad, 948.
still, sad music of, 947.

Hunger best, who bears, 615.

Huntsman, the healthy, 952.

Husband, advices frae the wife despises, 954.
as the, is, the wife is, 953.

Hypocrisy, evil that walks invisible, 956.

Hypocrite had left his mark, 957.


Ice in June, 511.
motionless as, 958.

Idea, teach the young, 959.

Ignorance, from, our comfort flows, 962.
is the curse of God, 961.

Ilium, topless towers of, 1670.

Ills, cure for life's worst, 449.
the scholar's life assail, 965.

Illusion is brief, 1477.

Image, a lasting, of the mind, 1382.

Imagination all compact, 966.
appear so fair to, 968.
is the air of mind, 967.

Immortality, thoughts born for, 970.
this longing after, 969.

Impossible, what's, can't be, 971.

Impudence, he that has but, 972.

Independence, let, be our boast, 976.
thy spirit, let me share, 975.

Infidel, a daring, 980.

Ingratitude, I hate, 983.
thou marble-hearted fiend, 984.

Inhumanity, man's, to man, 986.

Inn, every house was an, 942.
warmest welcome at an, 987.

Innocence, glides in modest, away, 989.
silence of pure, 988.

Instinct and reason, how divide, 990.

Invention, the, all admired, 991.

Iron, man that meddles with cold, 992.

Isle in far-off seas, 993.

Isles that o'erlace the sea, 994.

Italia, who has fatal beauty, 995.

Italy, my Italy, 996.

Ivy green, a dainty plant, 997.


January, then came old, 998.

Jealousy, beware, my lord, of, 999.
no true love without, 1000.
the injured lover's hell, 1001.

Jest, a scornful, 1003.

Jest's, a, prosperity lies in the, 1002.

Jewel in an Ethiope's ear, 1004.

John Anderson, my jo, 1109.
some said, print it, 1383.

Joke to cure the dumps, 1005.

Jove laughs at lovers' perjuries, 1327.
lifts the golden balances, 136.

Joy, capacity for, 1006.
is the mainspring, 1007.

Joys, how fading are the, 95.
too exquisite to last, 1008.

Judas kissed his master, 1946.

Judges soon the sentence sign, 950.

Judgment, a Daniel come to, 1009
reserve thy, 41.
thou art fled to brutish beasts, 1010.
where men of, creep, 1437.

July, boiling like to fire, 1011.

June, what so rare as a day in, 1012.

Juries give their verdict, 1014.

Jury passing on the prisoner's life, 1013.

Just, actions of the, 23.

Justice, finally, triumphs, 1017.
in fair round belly, 1015.
will o'ertake the crime, 1234.


Keys, two massy, he bore, 1018.

Kin, a little more than, 1019.
makes the whole world, 1020.

Kindness shall win my love, 1021.
unremembered acts of, 1022.

Kings and mightiest potentates, 489.
are like stars, 1024.
may be blest, 964.
showers on her, barbaric pearl, 1025.
what have, save ceremony, 1023.
wretched state of, 1539.

Kiss, I, your eyes, 1030.
me, and be quiet, 585.
one, and then another, 1031.

Kisses, plucked up, by the roots, 1026.
remembered after death, 1032.
sweetness shed by, 1029.

Kissing, for, not for contempt, 1027.

Kitchen, in the, bred, 787.

Knave, he's an arrant, 1033.

Knaves, whip me such honest, 1034.

Knell, by fairy hands is rung, 1035.
ne'er sighed at the sound of a, 1036.

Knowledge, be innocent of the, 1614.
by suffering entereth, 1039.
comes, but wisdom lingers, 1040.
is as food, 1037.
is ourselves to know, 1038.
to their eyes her ample page, 1041.
true, leads to love, 1042.


Labor for his daily bread, 1046.
is prayer, 1044.
joy that springs from, 1045.
swan with bootless, swim, 1043.
to, is the lot of man, 1047.

Ladies, like variegated tulips, 1048.
sigh no more, 973.

Lady, accept the gift, 1751.

Lake, on thy fair bosom, silver, 1049.

Lamentation, its lonesome and low, 536.

Land, my own, my native, 1051.
of brown heath, 1051.

Landscape tire the view, 1053.

Language, fit, there is none, 1054.
quaint and olden, 1055.

Lark, the herald of the morn, 1056.
the, left his nest, 1057.

Larks, the early, 1827.

Lass, a penniless, 1058.

Latin, that soft bastard, 1059.

Laughter, holding his sides, 1060.
shakes the skies, 1061.

Law, in, what plea so tainted, 1062.
sovereign, sits empress, 1064.

Laws grind the poor, 1063.

Leaf is on the tree, 245.
the sere, the yellow, 1065.

Learning enlightens to corrupt the mind, 1069.
mourning for the death of, 1068.
on scraps of, dote, 1070.

Leaves have their times to fall, 496.
like, on trees, 1067.
shady, of destiny, 541.

Letters, all dead paper, 1073.
Cadmus gave, 1075.
that betray the heart's history, 1074.

Liberty, I must have, 1076.
like day, breaks, 1079.
mountain nymph, sweet, 1081.
when, is gone, 1078.

Liberty's, in, defence, 1077.
in every blow, 1080.

Lie, an odious, damned, 1082.
nothing can need a, 1088.

Life a curse and not a blessing, 1086.
by his, alone, 637.
high, 108.
hovers like a star, 1087.
is but a span, 500.
is not to be bought, 1092.
is scarce the twinkle of a star, 1088.
is so dreary, 536.
is the gift of God, 1089.
nor love thy, nor hate, 1085.
pure in its purpose, 981.
sacred burden is this, 248.
so careless of the single, 1093.
twenty years of, 1816.
what is, 1090.
whoso lives the holiest, 911.

Life 's a short summer, 945.
a vast sea, 1091.
but a means, 614.
but a walking shadow, 1084.

Light, a dim religious, 275.
offspring of Heaven, 1094.
that led astray, 1095.
that never was, 1096.
the prime work of God, 187.
to break and melt in sunder, 1097.

Lightning, brief as the, 1098.

Lightnings, the rending, 1883.

Likeness, long shall we seek his, 1668.

Lilacs, April brings again, 105.

Lilies, in the beauty of the, 320.
in twisted braids of, 1100.

Lily, mistress of the field, 1099.

Line, cadence of a rugged, 252.
Marlowe's mighty, 1102.
marred the lofty, 1103.
will the, stretch, 577.

Lion, wounds the earth, 1104.

Lions, talks familiarly of, 197.

Lips, her, are roses washed with dew, 1105.
when my, meet thine, 1028.

Little, contented with, 1106.
man wants but, 1107.

Lives of great men, 738.

Loan, a, oft loses a friend, 1071.

Locks, never shake thy gory, 1108.

Lodge in some vast wilderness, 2049.

Logic, in, a great critic, 1110.

London, the villain's home, 1111.

Longings, immortal, in me, 1112.

Looks, talked with, profound, 1114.
woman's, my only books, 1113.

Lord of himself, that heritage of woe, 1115.
of himself, though not of lands, 1116.

Loss is common, 1117.

Love and tears for the Blue, 1878.
hail, wedded, 1160.
has an eye for a dinner, 1135.
him, why did she, 1131.
how could I tell I should, 1121.
in a hut is ashes, 1130.
includes heart and mind, 1127.
is a spirit of fire, 1119.
is at home on a carpet, 1135.
is nature's treasure, 1136.
is the only good, 1123.
let those, who never loved before, 1125.
looks not with the eyes, 447.
man's, is a thing apart, 1133.
mutual, brings delight, 1124.
no partnership allows, 1126.
O last, O first, 9.
purple light of, 193.
rules the court, 1134.
seldom haunts the breast where, 1995.
she never told her, 374.
taught him shame, 337.
this spring of, 1118.
took up the harp of Life, 319.
tunes the shepherd's reed, 1134.
what, can do, 1122.
when he draws his bow, 423.

Loved and lost, better to have, 1128.
so kindly, had we never, 1129.

Loveliness needs not ornament, 36.
when unadorned, adorned the most, 36.

Lover rooted stays, 191.

Loving are the daring, 476.
no pleasure like the pain of, 1132.

Luxury, cursed by heaven, 1137.
it was a, to be, 1138.


Mad, I am not, 1139.

Madding crowd's ignoble strife, 443.

Madmen, the worst of, 1558.

Madness, moody, laughing wild, 1141.
must not unwatched go, 1140.

Madrigals, birds sing, 1518.

Mahomet, moon of, 442.

Maid, be good, sweet, 823.

Maker, our, bids increase, 284.

Malice, nor set down aught in, 96.

Man, what, dare, I dare, 414.
dare do all that may become a, 415.
dwells apart, 1760.
foremost, of this world, 237.
good, never dies, 282.
groan, hear a good, 370.

Man 's a man for a' that, 1147.
is a summer's day, 1148.
is one world, 1145.
is the nobler growth, 1717.
let each, do his best, 5.
made the town, 412.
O good old, 91.
O that a mighty, 425.
proper study of mankind is, 1146.
take him for all in all, 1143.
that lays his hand upon a woman, 427.
the eternal epic of the, 1149.
this was a, 1144.
to all the country dear, 340.
what is, 1150.
what may, within him hide, 1142.
while, is growing, 179.

Manhood, when verging into age, 53.

Mankind, he who surpasses or subdues, 612.

Manna, his tongue dropt, 610.

Manners ne'er were preached, 1151.
with fortunes, 1152.

Mansions, build thee more stately, 1307.

Marble, in water writ, but this in, 1154.
of her snowy breast, 230.
sleep in dull cold, 1153.

March is come at last, 1155.
we know thou art kind-hearted, 1156.

Marlowe's mighty line, 1102.

Marriage is a matter of more worth, 1158.
is the life-long miracle, 1161.
the joys of, 1159.

Martyr in his shirt of fire, 1163.

Martyrs, life has its, 1162.

Master is of churlish disposition, 332.

Masters, men are, of their fates, 1165.
we cannot all be, 1164.

Match, sun ne'er saw her, 1326.

Matter, Berkeley said there was no, 1166.

Maxim, old, in the schools, 719.

May, leads with her the flowery, 1169.
the new-born, 1168.
the voice is thine, sweet, 1167.

Meals, unquiet, make ill digestions, 603.

Means, I'll husband them, 271.

Meat, some hae, and canna eat, 604.

Meeting, at the hour of, 1171.

Melancholy marked him for her own, 624.
there 's such a charm in, 1172.
these pleasures, give, 1173.
what charm can soothe her, 733.

Melodies unheard before, 1175.

Memory, dear to, though lost to sight, 1178.
eyes of, will not sleep, 1177.
from the table of, 1176.
pluck from, a rooted sorrow, 392.

Men are children of larger growth, 1179.
I pity bashful, 146.
may jest with saints, 182.
that stumble at the threshold, 2027.
were deceivers ever, 973.
wise, ne'er wail their loss, 26.

Men's evil manners live in brass, 2011.

Mercie, who will not, show, 1181.

Mercy, quality of, is not strained, 1180.

Merit true, to befriend, 1182.
wins the soul, 299.

Messenger, many-colored, 1430.

Meteor flag of England, 715.

Midnight brought on the dusky hour, 1184.
iron tongue of, 1183.
't is, 1185.

Milk, sweet, of concord, 377.

Milton, that mighty orb of song, 1186.

Mind, body filled and vacant, 1490.
grand prerogative of, 1189.
is its own place, 1187.
leafless desert of the, 534.
minister to a, diseased, 392.
to me a kingdom is, 1190.

Mind's height, measure your, 1188.

Minstrel raptures swell, for him no, 1436.

Miracle, love-at-first-sight, 540.

Mirth and fun grew fast, 1193.
can into folly glide, 732.
heart-easing, 1192.
you have displaced the, 564.

Mischief, thou art swift, 1194.
to, mortals bend, 1195.

Misery had worn him to the bones, 1196.
he gave to, all he had, 216.
sacred even to gods, 1197.

Misfortune made the throne her seat, 1199.

Mists, season of, 127.

Mockery, unreal, hence, 1202.

Modesty, grace and blush of, 1204.
looks replete with, 1203.

Monarch, a morsel for a, 1205.

Monarchs, fate of mighty, 1206.

Money, get, no matter by what means, 1210.
if thou wilt lend this, 1072.
rolled in, like pigs, 1208.
the only power, 1209.

Monuments of princes, 1212.

Mood, a sunny, 304.
fantastic as a woman's, 1214.

Moon is an arrant thief, 1521.
had climbed the highest hill, 1217.
how like a queen, 1216.
is carried off in purple fire, 1222.
of Mahomet, 442.
unveiled her peerless light, 1215.
when the, shone, 367.
where sighs are deposited, 1686.

Moonlight, meet me by, 1856.

Moor, a naked, 183.

Morality, unawares, expires, 1218.

Morn, sweet is the breath of, 1220.

Morning, in the, thou shalt hear, 1223.
opes her golden gates, 1219.
steals upon night, 482.

Morning-star of memory, 748.

Mortality's strong hand, 1225.

Mother is a mother still, 1227.

Mother's heart is weak, 1226.

Motions, a third interprets, 544.

Mount, I know a, 1228.
I, toward the sky, 1230.

Mountain tops, he who ascends to, 612.

Mountains, circling the, 346.
high, are a feeling, 1229.

Mountebanks, cheating, 1411.

Mourner, the only constant, 460.

Mouth that spits forth death, 197.

Murder may pass unpunished, 1234.
most foul, 1233.
one, made a villain, 438.

Music has charms to soothe, 1237.
heavenly maid, 1239.
in them, die with all their, 1241.
man that hath no, 1235.
slumbers in the shell, 1240.
sweet compulsion in, 373.
the fiercest grief can charm, 1238.

Music's golden tongue, 1236.


Nails, come near your beauty with my, 362.

Naked, the, every day he clad, 345.

Name, take not his, 1842.
the magic of a, 1243.
what's in a, 1242.

Nation, one, evermore, 1314.

Nations, fierce contending, 556.

Nature, accuse not, 18.
Art is the child of, 110.
ever yields reward, 1244.
gave signs of woe, 597.
how fair is thy face, 1245.
is but art, 289.
made a pause, 434.
made us men, 335.
speaks a various language, 1246.

Nature's heart beats strong, 890.

Necessity, the tyrant's plea, 515.

Neptune, he would not flatter, 1707.

Nettle, out of this, danger, 472.

News, bringer of unwelcome, 1247.
evil, rides post, 1248.

Newton, let, be, 1250.

Night, ancestral mystery, 1256.
darkens the streets, 170.
is the time to weep, 1258.
shadow of a starless, 538.
that from the eye takes, 1254.
upon the palms, 1257.
wanes, 1221.
witching time of, 894.
with her sullen wing, 1255.

Nightingale, if she should sing by day, 1259.
that on yon bloomy spray, 1260.

Noble by birth, 1261.
who is honest is, 1262.

Noon, dark amid the blaze of, 186.

Noontide wakes the buttercups, 251.

North, ask where 's the, 1263.

November, he full gross and fat, 1264.

November's rain descends, 1265.

Numbers, I lisped in, 1266.

Nun, quiet as a, 34.


Oak, I will rend an, 19
who hath ruled in the greenwood, 1268.

Oaks, charmed by the stars, 1267.

Oar, soft moves the dipping, 198.

Oars, our, keep time, 314.
were silver, 1269.

Oaths that make the truth, 1270.
were not purposed to, 1271.

Obedience is the Christian's crown, 1273.

Obey, let them, 1272.

Observation, doth not smack of, 1274.

Observations which ourselves make, 1623.

Ocean leans against the land, 517.
stretched in light, 1276.
sunless retreats of the, 547.
thou deep and dark blue, 1275.
wave, a life on the, 2033.

October, calm sunshine of, 1277.

October's foliage yellows, 1278.

Odds, I would allow him, 521.

Odors, when sweet violets sicken, 2008.

Odyssey, Iliad and the, 143.

Offence, detest the, 1280.
should bear his comment, 1279.

Oil, incomparable, Macassar, 368.

Old age comes on apace, 60.
age serene and bright, 61.
as I am, 158.
though I look, 1281.

Ones, how many great, 125.

Ophiuchus huge, 360.

Opinion, of his own, still, 1284.

Opinion's but a fool, 1283.

Opportunity, thy guilt is great, 1285.

Oracle. I am Sir, 1286.

Orations, make no long, 212.

Orators, to the famous, repair, 1287.

Order in variety we see, 64.
is heaven's first law, 1288.

Ornament is but the guiled shore, 1289.

Orthodox, prove their doctrine, 574.

Owe, you say, you nothing, 505.

Owl, the fatal bellman, 1290.

Oyster, the world's mine, 2106.


Page, glory gilds the sacred, 175.

Pageant, insubstantial, faded, 569.

Pageants, they are black vesper's, 1689.

Pain is no longer pain, 1292.
pays the income, 1291.

Painter, when some great, 1294.

Pair, kindest and the happiest, 739.

Palm, like some tall, 1295.

Palpable and familiar, 484.

Pan is dead, 1296.

Pang preceding death, 1297.

Pangs, the keenest, the wretched find, 534.

Paradise, how grows in, our store, 1298.
of Fools, 735.

Pardon, a, after execution, 361.

Parting is such sweet sorrow, 825.
the pain of, 1302.

Partings break the heart, 1303.

Passion leads or prudence points the way, 1403.
places which, loves, 1304.
the power of that sweet, 1120.

Passions are likened to floods, 1305.
may I govern my, 1624.
oft, to hear her shell, 1239.
various ruling, 1543.

Past, let the dead, bury its dead, 780.
over the trackless, 1306.

Patience is a plant, 1311.
is the exercise of saints, 1310.
poor they are, that have not, 1308.
thou young cherubim, 1309.
times when, proves at fault, 1312.

Patriots, true, all, 413.

Pauper, he's only a, 202.

Peace, a, is of the nature of a conquest, 1317.
hath her victories, 1320.
uproar the universal, 377.
was on the earth, 1321.
weak piping time of, 1318.
why prate of, 1319.

Pearls at random strung, 1322.

Pen, dull product of a scoffer's, 1324.
is mightier than the sword, 1323.

People, a herd confused, 1325.

Perseverance keeps honor bright, 1328.

Person, what's a fine, 530.

Persuasion, divine, flows, 1329.

Petitions, petition me no, 1330.

Phalanx, they move in perfect, 1213.

Phantom of delight, 527.

Philosophy, how charming is divine, 1331.
will clip an angel's wings, 1433.

Physic, take, pomp, 1333.
throw, to the dogs, 1332.

Piety, a trade, 1334.

Pilot, 't is a fearful night, 1335.

Pines, silent sea of, 1336.

Pipe when tipped with amber, 1337.

Pity gave ere charity began, 1339.
is the virtue of the law, 1338.

Place, fittest, where man can die, 1340.
give me the lowest, 949.
stands upon a slippery, 471.

Player, a strutting, 27.

Playmates, I have had, 311.

Pleasure and action make the hours seem short, 21.
and revenge more deaf than adders, 1342.
is as great, 303.
must succeed to pleasure, 1344.
to excess, 1343.
with, drugged, 1573.

Pleasures are like poppies spread, 1345.
he soothed his soul to, 1346.
that to verse belong, 1352.

Plough, following his, 301.

Ploughman homeward plods, 450.

Poet, God is the perfect, 1351.
worships without reward, 1350.

Poetry, men are cradled into, by wrong, 1363.
not, that makes men poor, 1347.

Poets are all who love, 1349.
have made us heirs, 1353.

Pole, true as the needle to the, 1354.

Poll, flaxen was his, 152.

Pomegranate, from Browning some, 887.

Poppies, with rain, overcharged, 1356.

Possession means to sit astride of the world, 1360.

Potations, banish long, 212.

Poverty, but not my will, consents, 1361.
stood smiling in my sight, 1364.

Power, they should take who have the, 1366.
what can, give, 1365.

Prairie, low in the light the, lies, 1367.

Praise from a friend, 285.

Praising what is lost, 1368.

Prayer incessant, if by, 1371.
more things are wrought by, 1374.

Prayers, God answers sharp and sudden, 1373.

Prayeth best who loveth best, 1372.

Preached as never sure to preach again, 1375.

Present is all thou hast, 1376.

Press the people's right maintain, 1377.
turn to the, 1249.

Priam's self shall fall, 1542.

Pride hath no other glass, 1378.
that apes humility, 1379.
that putts the countrye doune, 343.

Priest, the pale-eyed, 1380.
this, he merry is, 1916.

Primrose, a, by a river's brim, 1381.
peeps beneath the thorn, 35.

Princes, the death of, 168.
were privileged to kill, 438.

Prior, here lies Matthew, 623.

Prison make, stone walls do not a, 1384.

Procrastination is the thief of time, 1385.

Prodigies, when these, do meet, 1386.

Promise, keep the word of, 1388.

Promotion, none will sweat but for, 91.

Proof, give me the ocular, 1389.

Prose run mad, 1392.
warbler of poetic, 1393.

Proselytes and converts, 405.
of one another's trade, 1394.

Prospects, distant, please us, 1395.

Prosperity, surer to prosper than, 1397.

Prosperity's the very bond of love, 1396.

Proteus rising from the sea, 937.

Providence all good and wise, 1400.
alone secures, 1401.
behind a frowning, 656.
I may assert eternal, 1399.
there 's a special, 1398.

Prude, yon ancient, 1404.

Prussia hurried to the field, 1669.

Pulpit, drum ecclesiastick, 1405.

Punishment, back to thy, 1906.

Puppets led about by wires, 530.

Purity, a maid in the pride of her, 1407.
from the body's, 339.

Purpose, shake my fell, 1408.

Purse, costly as thy, can buy, 94.
who steals my, 1409.

Pyramids are pyramids, 1410.


Quaker loves an ample brim, 1414.

Quakers, upright, 1413.

Quarrel, beware of entrance to a, 1415.
what is your, 399.

Quarrels, they who in, interpose, 1416.

Quickness, with too much, 1418.

Quiet to quick bosoms is a hell, 1419.

Quiets of the past, 1420.

Quips and cranks, 1421.

Quotations, critics suffer in wrong, 1423.


Rabble all alive, 1201.

Race, he lives to build a generous, 1424.

Rage, could swell the soul to, 1425.

Rain came down in slanting lines, 1429.
comes when the wind calls, 1428.
how beautiful is the, 1427.
it raineth every day, 1426.
trickling, doth fall, 625.

Rainbow, an awful, 1433.
be thou the, 1391.
colors of the, 356.
comes and goes, 1432.
God hath set his, 1253.

Rank is but the guinea stamp, 1435.
superior worth your, requires, 1434.

Rattle, pleased with a, 308.

Reader reads no more, 1440.

Reading, such, as was never read, 1441.

Realms, these are our, 1442.

Reason, a woman's, 1443.
feast of, 219.
guides our deeds, 990.
I would make, my guide, 1445.
raise o'er instinct, 1444.
sanctity of, 1447.
the confidence of, give, 1446.
war with rhyme, 1508.

Rebellion began to grow slack, 1449.
froze them up, 1448.

Rebuff, then welcome each, 1450.

Rebukes, a lady so tender of, 1451.

Rechabite poor Will must live, 69.

Reckoning, no, made, 17.
when the banquet's o'er, 1452.

Reconcilement, never can, grow, 1454.

Records that defy the tooth of time, 1455.

Recreation, none so free as fishing, 1457.
sweet, barred, 1456.

Reflection, remembrance and, 1459.

Reformation, plotting some new, 1460.

Regret can die, 1461.
wild with all, 1462.

Reign, to, is worth ambition, 576.

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There was once a kindly old wizard who used his magic generously and wisely for the benefit of his neighbours." So begins the first tale, the Wizard and the Hopping Pot, an odd story about a cauldron that takes on the troubles of afflicted people and hops about on its own brass foot.

Fans of the Harry Potter series will know that the Tales of Beedle the Bard is a well-known book among wizard children, "as familiar to many of the students of Hogwarts as Cinderella and Sleeping Beauty are to Muggle children."

It is in fact the very book that Dumbledore bequeathed to Hermione in the final Harry Potter instalment, the Deathly Hallows, in which she discovered the highly significant symbol of the Hallows. The plot of that story, told in full in the Deathly Hallows, is said to owe a debt to Chaucer's Pardoner.

In the Fountain of Fair Fortune, three woeful witches and a luckless knight (Sir Luckless, as it happens) seek to bathe in a magical fountain which can cure them of their ills.

Along the journey they manage to cure each other, and "none of them ever knew or suspected that the Fountain's waters carried no enchantment at all".

This reviewer, it must be said, saw that one coming. The Warlock's Hairy Heart is an unhappy tale concerning a wizard who uses magic to inoculate himself against falling in love (a decidedly qualified success); Babbitty Rabbitty and Her Cackling Stump has a charlatan instructing a foolish king in wizardry.

These little morality tales are complicated (and for those of us without a background in the Dark Arts, muddled) by the varying degrees of powers which the characters do or do not possess, and which may or may not work when the time comes.

This edition of The Tales carries explanatory notes by Dumbledore himself. These are more anecdote than exegesis but they occasionally amuse, and encourage further study. On the subject of bringing back the dead, for example, Dumbledore quotes the author of A Study into the Possibility of Reversing the Actual and Metaphysical Effects of Natural Death, With Particular Regard to the Reintegration of Essence and Matter, who famously said: "Give it up. It's never going to happen."

Additional footnotes by Rowling only serve further to confuse the lay reader. This one is strictly for the fan base, and it should make them very happy.

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