 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. Pledge me round, I bid ye declare, All good fellows whose beards are...  Poems - Page 75by George Lunt - 1883 - 285 pagesFull view - About this book
 | Richard Henry Stoddard - 1866 - 240 pages
...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 gray, Did not the faireft of the fair Common grow and wearisome ere Ever a month was paft away ? The reddeft lips that... | |
 | William Makepeace Thackeray - 1869 - 436 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 ere Ever a month was pass'd away? The reddest lips that ever have kissed, The brightest eyes that ever have shone, May... | |
 | William Makepeace Thackeray - 1869 - 992 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, ere Ever a month was passed away ? " The reddest lips that ever have kissed, The brightest eyes that ever have shone,... | |
 | William Makepeace Thackeray - 1869 - 508 pages
...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, ere Ever a month was passed away ? " The reddest lips that ever have kissed, The brightest eyes that ever have shone,... | |
 | William Makepeace Thackeray - 1869 - 484 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, ere Ever a month was passed away ? " The reddest lips that ever have kissed, The brightest eyes that ever have shone,... | |
 | William Makepeace Thackeray - 1869 - 482 pages
...have come to forty year. " Pledge me round, I bid ye declare, All good fellows whose beards are grey t 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,... | |
 | William Cullen Bryant - 1871 - 968 pages
...an ass, Then you know the worth of a lass, — Once you have come to forty year. Pledge me round ; T Z~Z Z was past away ? The reddest lips that ever have kissed, The brightest eyes that ever have shone, May... | |
 | Edmund Hodgson Yates - 1871 - 298 pages
...the least ashamed of it — in one of his ballads calls upon all his coevals of forty to declare : " Did not the fairest of the fair Common grow, and wearisome, ere Ever a month had passed away 3" Middle-aged man has other aims, other resources, other objects. The " court, camp, grove, the vessel... | |
 | Samuel Orchart Beeton - 1873 - 782 pages
...have come to Forty Year. Pledge me round, I bid ye declare, All good fellows whose beards are grey ; my child's by thee dovonr'd," Tho frantic father cried ; And to the hilt h was past away ? The reddest lips that ever have kissed, The brightest eyes that ever have Rhone, May... | |
 | 1874 - 588 pages
...have come to Forty Year. Pledge me round, I bid ye declare, AH good fellows whose beards are grey, Did not the fairest of the fair Common grow and wearisome ere Ever a month was pasa'd away ? The reddest lips that ever have kissed, The brightest eyes that ever have shone,... | |
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