They have measured many a mile

To tread a measure with you on this grass.

William Shakespeare (1564-1616): Love's Labour's Lost. Act v. Sc. 2.

Who that hath ever been

Could bear to be no more?

Yet who would tread again the scene

He trod through life before?

James Montgomery (1771-1854): The Falling Leaf.

Woes cluster. Rare are solitary woes;

They love a train, they tread each other's heel.

Edward Young (1684-1765): Night Thoughts. Night iii. Line 63.

And seem to walk on wings, and tread in air.

Alexander Pope (1688-1744): The Iliad of Homer. Book xiii. Line 106.

For wheresoe'er I turn my ravish'd eyes,

Gay gilded scenes and shining prospects rise,

Poetic fields encompass me around,

And still I seem to tread on classic ground.

Joseph Addison (1672-1719): A Letter from Italy.

All that tread

The globe are but a handful to the tribes

That slumber in its bosom.

William Cullen Bryant (1794-1878): Thanatopsis.

One woe doth tread upon another's heel,

So fast they follow.

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

For fools rush in where angels fear to tread.

Alexander Pope (1688-1744): Essay on Criticism. Part iii. Line 66.

Where'er we tread, 't is haunted, holy ground.

Lord Byron 1788-1824: Childe Harold's Pilgrimage. Canto ii. Stanza 88.