 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 - Executions and executioners - 1903 - 496 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...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 - 1899 - 494 pages
...grey, Did not the fairest of the fair Common grow and wearisome ere Ever a month was passed away t The reddest lips that ever have kissed, The brightest...not list, Or look away, and never be missed, Ere yet ever a month is gone. Gillian's dead, G<xl rest her bier, How I loved her twenty years syne ! Marian's... | |
 | George Otis Draper - Middle East - 1903 - 182 pages
...ramp and they roar, When they roll and they break, When they drag down poor sailors to watery graves? The reddest lips that ever have kissed, The brightest eyes that ever have shone, Might sigh and linger and He not list — She flew to the rail, and 'twill never be missed, Even though... | |
 | English poetry - 1904 - 542 pages
...to forty year. Forty times over let Michaelmas pass; drizzling hair the brain doth clear; Then yon know a boy is an ass. Then you know the worth of a...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 - 1905 - 116 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...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 ?... | |
 | Henry Van Dyke, Hardin Craig - American poetry - 1907 - 348 pages
...gray, Did not the fairest of the fair Common grow and wearisome ere Ever a month was past away? 20 The reddest lips that ever have kissed, The brightest...not list, Or look away, and never be missed, Ere yet ever a month is gone. 2 5 Gillian's dead, God rest her bier, How I loved her twenty years syne! Marian's... | |
 | Henry Van Dyke - American poetry - 1905 - 354 pages
...past away ? 2° The reddest lips that ever have kissed, The brightest eyes that ever have shone, 255 May pray and whisper, and we not list, Or look away, and never be missed, Ere yet ever a month is gone. as Gillian 's dead, God rest her bier, How I loved her twenty years syne ! Marian... | |
 | Henry Van Dyke, Hardin Craig - American poetry - 1905 - 346 pages
...gray, Did not the fairest of the fair Common grow and wearisome ere Ever a month was past away? 20 The reddest lips that ever have kissed, The brightest eyes that ever have shone, 255 May pray and whisper, and we not list, Or look away, and never be missed, Ere yet ever a month... | |
 | Francis Fisher Browne - American poetry - 1906 - 548 pages
...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... | |
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