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

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

   Leonora, Leonora, How the word rollsöLeonoraö 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.

-Craik, Dinah Maria ne¤  e Mulock
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.

-Stevenson, Robert Louis
  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.

-Thomas, (Philip) Edward
  'Roads'.