tread quotes

All that tread The globe are but a handful to the tribes That slumber in its bosom.

-William Cullen Bryant
  'Thanatopsis', in the North  American Review, Sep.

   Leonora, Leonora, How the word rollsLeonora Lion-like, in full-mouthed sound, Marching o'er the metric ground With a tawny tread sublime; So your name moves, Leonora, Down my desert rhyme.

- Dinah Maria ne  e Mulock Craik
Collected Poems,'Leonora'.

Must we to bed indeed? Well then, Let us arise and go like men, And face with an undaunted tread The long black passage up to bed.

- Robert Louis Stevenson
  A Child's Garden ofVerses, XLI,'North-West Passage', pt.1, 'Good Night', stanza 3.

There has fallen a splendid tear From the passion-flower at the gate. She is coming, my dove, my dear; She is coming, my life, my fate; The red rose cries,'She is near, she is near;' And the white rose weeps,'She is late;' The larkspur listens,'I hear, I hear;' And the lily whispers,'I wait.' She is coming, my own, my sweet; Were it ever so airya tread, My heart would hear her and beat, Were it earth in an earthy bed; My dust would hear her and beat; Had I lain for a century dead; Would start and tremble under her feet, And blossom in purple and red.

-Tennyson
  Maud, pt.1, sect.22, stanzas10^11, l. 908^23.

Now all the roads lead to France And heavy is the tread Of the living: but the dead Returning lightly dance.

- (Philip) Edward Thomas
  'Roads'.