 Grizzling hair the brain doth clear — Then you know a boy is an ass, Then you know the worth of a lass, Once you have come to Forty Year. Pledge me round, I bid ye declare, All good fellows whose beards are...  Fraser's Magazine - Page 2441846Full view - About this book
 | William Makepeace Thackeray - English literature - 1884 - 856 pages
...are gray : Did not the fairest of the fair Common grown, and wearisome, ere Ever a month was passed away ? " The reddest lips that ever have kissed, The...not list, Or look away and never be missed, Ere yet ever a month was gone. *' Gillian's dead, Heaven rest her bier, How I loved her twenty years syne?... | |
 | William Davenport Adams - Ballads, English - 1885 - 190 pages
...Pledge me round, I bid ye declare, All good fellows whose beards are gray : Did not the fairest of all the fair Common grow and wearisome, ere Ever a month...not list, Or look away and never be missed, Ere yet ever a month was gone. Gillian's dead, Heaven rest her bier, How I loved her twenty years syne ! Marian's... | |
 | Literature - 1886 - 548 pages
...and singing of midnight strains Under Bonnybell's window-panes : Wait till you come to forty year. Forty times over let Michaelmas pass : Grizzling hair...not list, Or look away and never be missed, Ere yet ever a month is gone. Gillian's dead ! God rest her bier ! How I loved her twenty years syne I Marian's... | |
 | William Makepeace Thackeray - 1886 - 884 pages
...are gray : Did not the fairest of the fair Common grow, and wearisome, ere Ever a month was passed away ' " The reddest lips that ever have kissed, The...not list, Or look away and never be missed, Ere yet ever a month was gone. " Gillian's dead, Heaven rest her bier, How I loved her twenty years ayne !... | |
 | William Makepeace Thackeray - 1887 - 376 pages
...beards are grey, Did not the fairest of the fair Common grow and wearisome ere Ever a month was passed away ? The reddest lips that ever have kissed. The...not list, Or look away, and never be missed, Ere yet ever a month is gone. Gillian's dead, God rest her bier, How I loved her twenty years syne ! Marian's... | |
 | Henry Fitz Randolph - Ballads, English - 1887 - 344 pages
...beards are gray, Did not the fairest of the fair Common grow and wearisome ere Ever a month was passed away ? The reddest lips that ever have kissed, The...not list, Or look away, and never be missed, Ere yet ever a month is gone. Gillian's dead, God rest her bier, How I loved her twenty years syne ! Marian's... | |
 | English wit and humor - 1888 - 344 pages
...year. Pledge me round, I bid ye declare, All good fellows whose beards are grey : Did not the faiiest of the fair Common grow and wearisome, ere Ever a...not list, Or look away and never be missed, Ere yet ever a month was gone. Gillian's dead, Heaven rest her bier, How I loved her twenty years syne ! Marian's... | |
 | William Makepeace Thackeray - English literature - 1889 - 492 pages
...beards are gray: Did not the fairest of the fair Common grow, and wearisome, ere Ever a month was passed away ? " The reddest lips that ever have kissed, The...not list, Or look away and never be missed, Ere yet ever a month was gone. . " Gillian's dead, Heaven rest her bier, How I loved her twenty years syne!... | |
 | Charles Anderson Dana - American poetry - 1890 - 976 pages
...the fair Common grow and wearisome ere Ever a month was past away Î The reddest lips that everflave kissed, The brightest eyes that ever have shone, May...list, Or look away and never be missed — Ere yet ever a month is gone, Gillian 's dead ! God rest her bier — How I loved her twenty years syne ! Marian... | |
 | William Makepeace Thackeray - 1891 - 458 pages
...are gray : Did not the fairest of the fair Common grow, and wearisome, ere Ever a month was passed away ? " The reddest lips that ever have kissed, The...not list, Or look away and never be missed, Ere yet ever a month was gone. " Gillian's dead, Heaven rest her bier, How I loved her twenty years syne! Marian's... | |
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