 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...  The Yellowplush Papers - Page 251by William Makepeace Thackeray - 1853 - 514 pagesFull view - About this book
 | 1846 - 780 pages
...have come to forty year. Pledge me round, I bid ye declare, All good fellows whose beards are gray ; Did not the fairest of the fair Common grow and wearisome,...not list, Or look away and never be missed, Ere yet a month is gone. Gillian's dead, God rest her bier, How I loved her twenty years' syne ! Marian's married,... | |
 | C. Gough - 1853 - 428 pages
...fellows whose beards are grey, Did not the fairest of the fair, Common grow, and wearisome, ere, Even a month was past away? The reddest lips that ever...not list, Or look away and never be missed, Ere yet even a month were gone. Gillian's dead, ever rest her bier, How I loved her twenty years syno ! Marriau's... | |
 | William Makepeace Thackeray - English literature - 1855 - 526 pages
...Under Bonnybell's window panes, — Wait till you come to Forty Year ! Forty times over let Michaelmas pass, Grizzling hair the brain doth clear — Then...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 married, but... | |
 | William Makepeace Thackeray - 1856 - 260 pages
...come to Forty Year. (88) Pledge me round, I bid ye declare, All good fellows whose beards are gray, Did not the fairest of the fair Common grow and wearisome...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 married,... | |
 | William Makepeace Thackeray - English literature - 1856 - 538 pages
...have come to forty year. Pledge me round, I bid ye declare, AM good fellows whose beards are gn?y : Did not the fairest of the fair Common grow and wearisome,...that ever have shone, May pray and whisper and we nut list, Or look away and never be missed, Ere yet ever a month was gone. Gillian 's dead, Heaven... | |
 | Beautiful poetry - 1857 - 418 pages
...Common grow and wearisome, ere Ever a month was pass'd away ? The reddest lips that ever have 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 was gone. Gillian's dead, Heaven rest her bier, How I loved her twenty... | |
 | Richard Henry Stoddard - English poetry - 1865 - 562 pages
...gray, Did not the fairest of the fair Common grow and wearisome ere Ever a month was passed away ? May pray and whisper, and we 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 married,... | |
 | William Makepeace Thackeray - England - 1869 - 436 pages
...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...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 married, but... | |
 | William Makepeace Thackeray - England - 1869 - 432 pages
...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...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 married, but... | |
 | James Hogg, Florence Marryat - English literature - 1870 - 686 pages
...fellows whose beards are grey, Pid not the. fairest of the fair Common grow and wearisome ere KVLT a month was past away ? ' The reddest lips that ever...have kissed. The brightest eyes that ever have shone, M.iy pray and whisper, and we not list. Or louk away, and never be missed, Ere yet ever a month is... | |
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