Are gods more ruthless than mortals?
Have they no mercy for youth? no love for the souls who have loved them?
Wut's words to them whose faith an' truth
On war's red techstone rang true metal;
Who ventered life an' love an' youth
For the gret prize o' death in battle?
Youth, large, lusty, loving--Youth, full of grace, force, fascination!
Do you know that Old Age may come after you, with equal grace, force, fascination?
When youth as lord of my unchallenged fate,
And time seemed but the vassal of my will,
I entertained certain guests of state--
The great of older days.
The enthusiastic and pleasing illusions of youth.
Gentlest and bravest in the battle-brunt--
The Champion of the Truth--
He bore his banner to the very front
Of our immortal youth.
The pure, the beautiful, the bright,
That stirred our hearts in youth,
The impulse to a wordless prayer,
The dreams of love and truth,
The longings after something lost,
The spirit's yearning cry,
The strivings after better hopes,--
These things can never die.
I 'd rather be handsome than homely;
I 'd rather be youthful than old;
If I can't have a bushel of silver
I'll do with a barrel of gold.
Youth now flees on feathered foot.
Youth is wholly experimental.
By the margin of fair Zurich's waters
Dwelt a youth, whose fond heart, night and day,
For the fairest of fair Zurich's daughters
In a dream of love melted away.
Learning is ever in the freshness of its youth, even for the old.
Whoso neglects learning in his youth, loses the past and is dead for the future.
He whom the gods favour dies in youth.
Of surpassing beauty and in the bloom of youth.
The very flower of youth.
Once he saw a youth blushing, and addressed him, "Courage, my boy! that is the complexion of virtue."
Thy people shall be willing in the day of thy power, in the beauties of holiness from the womb of the morning: thou hast the dew of thy youth.
Rejoice, O young man, in thy youth.
Remember now thy Creator in the days of thy youth.
The melodic gift is a property of youth, like the lyric one
I shall never again know the aesthetic thrills which, from books and music and pictures, permeated my youth
One of the delights known to age, and beyond the grasp of youth, is that of Not Going
And then I see myself as ageing, bald, rheumy, three teeth but newly drawn, a man who should think it foul shame to drivel and froth so in youth's lust
In youth is pleasure