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 - 1881 - 848 pages
...beards are gT. 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 - 1881 - 878 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...pray and whisper and we not list, Or look away and nuver be missed. Ere yet ever a month was gone. " Gillian's dead. Heaven rest her bier, How I loved... | |
| Henry Troth Coates - American poetry - 1881 - 1138 pages
...Common grow and wearisome ere Ever a month was pass'd away ? The reddest lips that ever have kiss'd, To CYRIAC SKINNER. miss'd, Ere yet ever a month is gone. Gillian's dead, God rest her bier ! How I loved her twenty years... | |
| William Makepeace Thackeray - 1882 - 394 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...ever have kissed, The brightest eyes that ever have shono, May pray and whisper, and we not list, Or look away, and never be missed, Ere yet ever a month... | |
| Charles Anderson Dana - American poetry - 1882 - 906 pages
...gray — Did not the fairest of the fair Common grow and wearisome ere Ever a month was past away 1 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 ! Marian... | |
| William Makepeace Thackeray - American literature - 1883 - 122 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 ioved her twenty years syne? Marian's... | |
| William Makepeace Thackeray - 1883 - 238 pages
...to Forty Year. Did not the fairest of the fair Common grow and wearisome ere Ever a month was pass'd 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... | |
| George Lunt - American poetry - 1883 - 306 pages
...beards are gray, Did not the fairest of the fair Common grow, and wearisome, ere Ever a month had passed away ? The reddest lips that ever have kissed, The...not list, Or look away and never be missed, Ere yet even a month was gone. Gillian *s dead, heaven rest her bier, How I loved her twenty year syne 1 Marian... | |
| William James Linton, Richard Henry Stoddard - English poetry - 1883 - 402 pages
...Common grow and wearisome ere Ever a month was pass'd away ? The reddest lips that ever were kiss'd, The brightest eyes that ever have shone, May pray...whisper, and we not list, Or look away ; and never be miss'd Ere yet ever a month is gone. Gillian's dead : God rest her bier ! How I loved her twenty years... | |
| English wit and humor - 1888 - 344 pages
...have come to forty year. 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,...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 I Marian's... | |
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