 Forty times over let Michaelmas pass, 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.  Fraser's Magazine - Page 2441846Full view - About this book
 | Thomas Humphry Ward - English poetry - 1918 - 694 pages
...and singing of midnight strains Under Bonnybell's window-panes. Wait till you've come to forty year! Forty times over let Michaelmas pass, Grizzling hair...bid ye declare, All good fellows whose beards are grey; Did not the fairest of the fair Common grow and wearisome, ere Ever a month was past away? The... | |
 | Thomas Humphry Ward - English poetry - 1918 - 692 pages
...and singing of midnight strains Under Bonnybell's window-panes. Wait till you've come to forty year! Forty times over let Michaelmas pass, Grizzling hair...bid ye declare, All good fellows whose beards are grey; Did not the fairest of the fair Common grow and wearisome, ere Ever a month was past away? The... | |
 | American poetry - 1918 - 2030 pages
...Wait till you come to Forty Year. Forty times over let Michaelmas pass, Grizzling hair the brain does clear — Then you know a boy is an ass, Then you...; I bid ye declare, All good fellows whose beards arc gray, Did not the fairest of the fair Common grow and wearisome ere Ever a month was passed away?... | |
 | George Monroe Royce - England - 1918 - 366 pages
...of a purely business nature. Thackeray celebrates this day in the following verse Love at Two Score Forty times over let Michaelmas pass, Grizzling hair...worth of a lass, Once you have come to forty year. Almost every house and cottage in our village had its traditions. One was known as the "Beggarly Bird... | |
 | Henry Van Dyke, Hardin Craig, Asa Don Dickinson - American literature - 1922 - 1920 pages
...singing of midnight strains, Under Bonnybell's window panes, — Wait till you come to Forty Year. 10 Forty times over let Michaelmas pass, Grizzling hair...worth of a lass, Once you have come to Forty Year. '5 Pledge me round, I bid ye declare, All good fellows whose beards are gray, Did not the fairest of... | |
 | Clarence Edward Andrews, Milton Oswin Percival - English poetry - 1924 - 624 pages
...and singing of midnight strains Under Bonnybells window-panes, — Wait till you come to forty year ! Forty times over let Michaelmas pass, Grizzling hair...bid ye declare, All good fellows whose beards are grey, Did not the fairest of the fair Common grow and wearisome, ere Ever a month was pass'd away?... | |
 | William Cullen Bryant - American poetry - 1925 - 408 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...brain doth clear ; Then you know a boy is an ass, Th»n you know the worth of a lass, — Once you have come to forty year. Pledge me round ; I bid ye... | |
 | George Jean Nathan, Henry Louis Mencken - Literature, Modern - 1903 - 628 pages
...singing of midnight strains Under Bonnybells' window-panes. Wait till you've come to forty year. " Forty times over let Michaelmas pass, Grizzling hair the brain doth clear; Then you know the boy is an ass, Then you know the worth of a lass, Once you have come to forty year." II LEFT to... | |
 | William Gifford, Sir John Taylor Coleridge, John Gibson Lockhart, Whitwell Elwin, William Macpherson, William Smith, John Murray, George Walter Prothero - English literature - 1892 - 600 pages
...middle age, with his ' lenit albescens animos capillus,' and a hundred like phrases, in reading : ' Forty times over let Michaelmas pass, Grizzling hair the brain doth clear — Then you know a hoy is an ass, Then yon know the worth of a lass, Once you Lave come to Forty Year. ' Pledge me round,... | |
 | Edwin Markham - American poetry - 1927 - 362 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...worth of a lass, Once you have come to Forty Year. . . . 1883 Gillian's dead, God rest her bier, How I loved her twenty years syne! Marian's married,... | |
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