"Youngling" Quotes from Famous Books
 ... take off their several way; The youngling cottagers retire to rest: The parent-pair their secret homage pay, And proffer up to Heaven the warm request, That He, who stills the raven's clamorous nest, And decks the lily fair in flowery pride, Would, in the way His wisdom sees the best, ...
— Six Centuries of English Poetry - Tennyson to Chaucer • James Baldwin
... For I have dreamed of clashing teeth that guarded me from harm. And was I born an Only Son and did I play alone? For I have dreamed of comrades twain that bit me to the bone. And did I break the barley-cake and steep it in the tyre? For I have dreamed of a youngling kid new-riven from the byre. For I have dreamed of a midnight sky and a midnight call to blood, And red-mouthed shadows racing by, that thrust me from my food. 'Tis an hour yet and an hour yet to the rising of the moon, But I can see the black roof-tree as plain as it were noon. ...
— Songs from Books • Rudyard Kipling
... Thou youngling drawer of Falernian old Crown me the goblets with a bitterer wine As was Postumia's law that rules the feast Than ebriate grape-stone more inebriate. But ye fare whither please ye (water-nymphs!) 5 To wine pernicious, and to sober folk Migrate ...
— The Carmina of Caius Valerius Catullus • Caius Valerius Catullus
... while the sun peered over, We lapped the grass on that youngling spring, Swept back its rushes, smoothed its clover, And said, ...
— The World's Best Poetry, Volume 3 - Sorrow and Consolation • Various |
