 Wait till you come to Forty Year ! 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.  Poems - Page 74by George Lunt - 1883 - 285 pagesFull view - About this book
 | William Makepeace Thackeray - 1902 - 460 pages
...with the dimpled chin, That never has known the barber's shear, All your wish is woman to win, This is the way that boys begin, — Wait till you come...and singing of midnight strains, Under Bonnybell's window panes, — Wait till you come to Forty Year. Forty times over let Michaelmas pass, Grizzling... | |
 | Thomas Bailey Aldrich - 1902 - 336 pages
...His exhaustless ignorance at that age is a discovery which is left for him to make in his prime. " Curly gold locks cover foolish brains, Billing and...window-panes — Wait till you come to Forty Year ! " In one sense Margaret's husband had come to forty year — she was forty to a day. Mrs. Margaret... | |
 | William Makepeace Thackeray - 1899 - 494 pages
...with the dimpled chin, That never has known the barber's shear, All your wish is woman to win, This is the way that boys begin, — Wait till you come...cheer ; Sighing and singing of midnight strains, Under Bonnytiell's window panes, — • Wait till you come to Forty Year. Forty times over let Michaelmas... | |
 | William Makepeace Thackeray - 1903 - 506 pages
...the barber's shear, All your aim is woman to win. This is the way that hoys begin. Wait till you've come to forty year ! Curly gold locks cover foolish...cheer, .Sighing and .singing of midnight strains Under honnybells' window-panes. Wait till you've come to forty year ! Forty times over let Michaelmas pass,... | |
 | William Makepeace Thackeray - 1903 - 496 pages
...barber's shear, All your aim is woman to win — This is the way that boys begin — Wait till you've come to forty year ! Curly gold locks cover foolish...cheer, Sighing and singing of midnight strains Under Bonnybells' window-panes. Wait till you've come to forty year. Forty times over let Michaelmas pass,... | |
 | Thomas L. Masson - 1903 - 202 pages
...does. His exhaustless ignorance at that age is a discovery which is left for him to make in his prime. "Curly gold locks cover foolish brains, Billing and...and singing of midnight strains, Under Bonnybell's window panes — Wait till you come to Forty Year!" In one sense Margaret's husband had come to forty... | |
 | William Makepeace Thackeray - 1904 - 610 pages
...with the dimpled chin, That never has known the Barber's shear, All your wish is woman to win, This is the way that boys begin, — Wait till you come...cheer; Sighing and singing of midnight strains, Under Bonny bell's window panes, — Wait till you come to Forty Year. Forty times over let Michaelmas pass,... | |
 | 1904 - 542 pages
...that boys begin, — Wait till you come to forty year. Curly gold locks cover foolish brains; Hilling and cooing is all your cheer, — Sighing, and singing of midnight strains, Under Bonny bell's window-panes, — Wait till you come to forty year. Forty times over let Michaelmas pass;... | |
 | William Makepeace Thackeray - 1905 - 116 pages
...barber's shear, All your aim is woman to win — This is the way that boys begin — Wait till you 've come to forty year ! " Curly gold locks cover foolish...cheer, Sighing and singing of midnight strains Under Bonnybells' window-panes. Wait till you 've come to forty year ! " Forty times over let Michaelmas... | |
 | Henry Van Dyke, Hardin Craig - 1905 - 346 pages
...your wish is woman to win, This is the way that boys begin, — Wait till you come to Forty Year. S Curly gold locks cover foolish brains, Billing and...and singing of midnight strains, Under Bonnybell's window panes, — Wait till you come to Forty Year. 10 Forty times over let Michaelmas pass, Grizzling... | |
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