But 'neath yon crimson tree

Lover to listening maid might breathe his flame,

Nor mark, within its roseate canopy,

Her blush of maiden shame.

William Cullen Bryant (1794-1878): Autumn Woods.

Pryde will have a fall;

For pryde goeth before and shame commeth after.

John Heywood (Circa 1565): Proverbes. Part i. Chap. x.

Thou wear a lion's hide! doff it for shame,

And hang a calf's-skin on those recreant limbs.

William Shakespeare (1564-1616): King John. Act iii. Sc. 1.

Saint Augustine! well hast thou said,

That of our vices we can frame

A ladder, if we will but tread

Beneath our feet each deed of shame.

Henry W Longfellow (1807-1882): The Ladder of Saint Augustine.

And lovelier things have mercy shown

To every failing but their own;

And every woe a tear can claim,

Except an erring sister's shame.

Lord Byron 1788-1824: The Giaour. Line 418.

Men the most infamous are fond of fame,

And those who fear not guilt yet start at shame.

Charles Churchill (1731-1764): The Author. Line 233.

The only art her guilt to cover,

To hide her shame from every eye,

To give repentance to her lover,

And wring his bosom, is—to die.

Oliver Goldsmith (1728-1774): The Hermit. On Woman. Chap. xxiv.

Honour and shame from no condition rise;

Act well your part, there all the honour lies.

Alexander Pope (1688-1744): Essay on Man. Epistle iv. Line 193.

Ye towers of Julius, London's lasting shame,

With many a foul and midnight murder fed.

Thomas Gray (1716-1771): The Bard. II. 3, Line 11.

If yet not lost to all the sense of shame.

Alexander Pope (1688-1744): The Iliad of Homer. Book vi. Line 350.

Love taught him shame; and shame, with love at strife,

Soon taught the sweet civilities of life.

John Dryden (1631-1701): Cymon and Iphigenia. Line 133.

Laborin' man an' laborin' woman

Hev one glory an' one shame;

Ev'y thin' thet's done inhuman

Injers all on 'em the same.

James Russell Lowell (1819-1891): The Biglow Papers. First Series. No. i.

And there's a lust in man no charm can tame

Of loudly publishing our neighbour's shame;

On eagles' wings immortal scandals fly,

While virtuous actions are but born and die.

Stephen Harvey (circa 1627): Juvenal, Satire ix.

Nature her custom holds,

Let shame say what it will.

William Shakespeare (1564-1616): Hamlet. Act iv. Sc. 7.

While you live, tell truth and shame the devil!

William Shakespeare (1564-1616): King Henry IV. Part I. Act iii. Sc. 1.

Fired that the house rejects him, "'Sdeath! I 'll print it,

And shame the fools."

Alexander Pope (1688-1744): Epistle to Dr. Arbuthnot. Prologue to the Satires. Line 61.

Men the most infamous are fond of fame,

And those who fear not guilt yet start at shame.

Charles Churchill (1731-1764): The Author. Line 233.

Oh, shame to men! devil with devil damn'd

Firm concord holds, men only disagree

Of creatures rational.

John Milton (1608-1674): Paradise Lost. Book ii. Line 496.

O shame! where is thy blush? Rebellions hell,

If thou canst mutine in a matron's bones,

To flaming youth let virtue be as wax,

And melt in her own fire: proclaim no shame

When the compulsive ardour gives the charge,

Since frost itself as actively doth burn,

And reason panders will.

William Shakespeare (1564-1616): Hamlet. Act iii. Sc. 4.

Who fears to speak of Ninety-eight?

Who blushes at the name?

When cowards mock the patriot's fate,

Who hangs his head for shame?

John K. Ingram (1820-1907): The Dublin Nation, April 1, 1843, Vol. ii. p. 339.