 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 - 1898 - 630 pages
...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 brightest eyes that cver have shone, May pray and whisper and wo not list, Or look away and never bo missed, Ere yet ever... | |
 | Richard Garnett, Leon Vallée, Alois Brandl - Anthologies - 1899 - 452 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... | |
 | William Makepeace Thackeray - 1899 - 606 pages
...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 Brightest eyes that ever have shone, May prny and whisper and we not list, Or look away and never be missed, Ere yet ever a month was gone.... | |
 | Henry Coppée - Literature - 1900 - 544 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 ! Marian's... | |
 | Rossiter Johnson - Literature - 1900 - 252 pages
...gray, — Did not the fairest of the fair Common grow and wearisome ere Ever a month was passed away P The reddest lips that ever have kissed, The brightest...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 !... | |
 | William Makepeace Thackeray - 1900 - 384 pages
...you know the worth of a lass, Once you have come to forty year. " Pledge me round, I bid ye declare, <:The reddest lips that ever have kissed, The brightest...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... | |
 | Frederic Lawrence Knowles - American poetry - 1901 - 494 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...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... | |
 | William Makepeace Thackeray - 1902 - 172 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... | |
 | William Makepeace Thackeray - 1902 - 460 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 1 Marian's... | |
 | William Makepeace Thackeray - English wit and humor - 1903 - 506 pages
...have come to forty yo^r. Pledge me round, I bid ye declare, All good fellows whose beards are grey ; Did not the fairest of the fair Common grow and wearisome,...and we not list, Or look away and never be missed, Ero yet ever a month was gone. Gillian's dead, Heaven rest her bier, How I loved her twenty years'... | |
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