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Habit
Habit: A civil habit Oft covers a good man.
Hair
Hair: Guilt's a terrible thing.
Hand
Hand: Even to the delicacy of their hand There was resemblance such as true blood wears.
Happiness
Happiness: O, that her hand, In whose comparison all whites are ink, Writing their own reproach, to whose soft seizure The cygnet's down is…
Harvest
Harvest: For now, the corn house filled, the harvest home, Th' invited neighbors to the husking come; A frolic scene, where work and mirth…
Haste
Haste: Then horn for horn they stretch and strive; Deil tak the hindmost, on they drive.
Hatred
Hatred: Hatred is self-punishment.
Health
Health: Health and cheerfulness mutually beget each other.
Hearing
Hearing: There are three wicks you know to the lamp of a man's life: brain, blood, and breath. Press the brain a little, its light goes…
Heart
Heart: A man's first care should be to avoid the reproaches of his own heart.
Heaven
Heaven: Love lent me wings; my path was like a stair; A lamp unto my feet, that sun was given; And death was safety and great joy to find…
Hell
Hell: It was the rampart of God's house That she was standing on ; By God built over the sheer depth, The which is Space begun; So high…
Help
Help: To rest, the cushion and soft dean invite, Who never mentions hell to ears polite.
Heroes
Heroes: Now, ye familiar spirits, that are cull'd Out of the powerful regions under earth, Help me this once.
Herbage
Herbage: Grass grows at last above all graves.
History
History: The idol of to-day pushes the hero of yesterday out of our recollection; and will, in turn, be supplanted by his successor of…
Holidays
Holidays: The second day of July, 1776, will be the most memorable epoch in the history of America. I am apt to believe that it will be…
Holiness
Holiness: Might make a saintship of an anchorite.
Home
Home: At length his lonely cot appears in view, Beneath the shelter of an aged tree; Th' expectant wee-things, toddlin, stacher thro' To…
Honesty
Honesty: Ye gentlemen of England, That live at home at ease, Ah! little do you think upon The dangers of the seas.
Honor
Honor: "Honesty is the best policy," but he who acts on that principle is not an honest man.
Hope
Hope: Know then, whatever cheerful and serene Supports the mind, supports the body too : Hence, the most vital movement mortals feel Is…
Hospitality
Hospitality: He kept no Christmas-house for once a yeere, Each day his boards were fild with Lordly fare: He fed a rout of yeoman with his…
Humanity
Humanity: I am your host; With robbers' hands my hospitable favours You should not ruffle thus.
Humility
Humility: Lowliness is the base of every virtue, And he who goes the lowest builds the safest.
Humor
Humor: At whose sight all the stars Hide their diminished heads.
Hunger
Hunger: Hunger is sharper than the sword.
Husband
Husband: And truant husband should return, and say, "My dear, I was the first who came away."
Hypocrisy
Hypocrisy: And the veil Spun from the cobweb fashion of the times, To hide the feeling heart?
Hood
Hood: Sonnet. For the 14th of February. Oh, cruel heart! ere these posthumous papers Have met thine eyes, I shall be out of breath; Those…
Hafiz, Mohammed Shems-Ed-Deen
Hafiz, Mohammed Shems-Ed-Deen: poet............ PERSIA, about 1300-1388 34 206 358 HAGEMAN, SAMUEL MILLER, author,
Haliburton, Thomas Chandler
Haliburton, Thomas Chandler: author,... NOVA SCOTIA, 1797-1865 96 HALL, JOSEPH, bishop and learned writer...... ENGLAND 1574-1656 134 289…
Hansard, Richard
Hansard, Richard: 301 HARE, AUGUSTUS WILLIAM, English clergyman and writer.. ITALY, 1792-1834 HARE, JULIUS CHARLES, clergyman and writer…
Heath, Leonard
Heath, Leonard: 134 316 585 HEBEL, JOHN PETER, poet.. GERMANY, 1760-1826 536 HEBER, REGINALD, bishop and poet, ENGLAND, 1783-1826 122 134…
Hooper, Ellen Sturgis
Hooper, Ellen Sturgis: 163 HOOPER, LUCY, poet, UNITED STATES, 1816-1841 231 HOPKINSON, JOSEPH, jurist and author, 301 UNITED STATES…
Horace, Quintus Horatius Flaccus
Horace, Quintus Horatius Flaccus: poet. ITALY, B.C. 65-8 10 12 162 167 206 260 278 396 422 428 431 479 632 649 675 676 677 678 679 680 682…
Hunt, Helen, See Jackson, Helen
Hunt, Helen, See Jackson, Helen: HUNT, JAMES HENRY LEIGH, poet and littérateur.. ENGLAND, 1784-1859 80 160 213 233 238 241 244 248 323 359…
Hunter, John
Hunter, John: 80 HURD, RICHARD, D.D., writer and writer and critic............ ENGLAND, 1720-1808 528 HURDIS, REV. JAMES, poet, ENGLAND…
Horne
Horne: lator. ENGLAND, 1735-1779 387 LANIER, SIDNEY, poet, UNITED STATES, 1842-1881 405 530 LA NOUE, FRANÇOIS DE, "Bras de Fer," general…
Halpine
Halpine: ORLEANS, CHARLES D', See CHARLES