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You snug-faced crowds with kindling eye
Who cheer when soldier lads march by,
Sneak home and pray you’ll never know
The hell where youth and laughter go.
Siegfried Sassoon1886–1967Suicide in the Trenches (1918)In context
- War & Peace
- Youth
They shall grow not old, as we that are left grow old,
Age shall not weary them, nor the years condemn.
At the going down of the sun and in the morning
We will remember them.
Laurence Binyon1869–1943For the Fallen (1914)In context
- War & Peace
I cannot say what loves have come and gone,
I only know that summer sang in me
A little while, that in me sings no more.
Edna St. Vincent Millay1892–1950What Lips My Lips Have Kissed, and Where, and Why (1920)In context
- Love
Swelling words of high-flown might
Mightily the gods do smite.
Chastisement for errors past
Wisdom brings to age at last.
Sophocles496–406 BCAntigone (c. 441 BC), spoken by ChorusIn context
- Pride
- Wisdom
Age childish makes, they say, but ’tis not true;
We’re only genuine children still, in Age’s season!
Johann Wolfgang von Goethe1749–1832Faust (1808), Prelude at the Theatre, spoken by Merry-AndrewIn context
That time of year thou mayst in me behold
When yellow leaves, or none, or few, do hang
Upon those boughs which shake against the cold,
Bare ruin’d choirs, where late the sweet birds sang.
William Shakespeare1564–1616Sonnet 73 (1609)In context
Anne hoped she had outlived the age of blushing; but the age of emotion she certainly had not.
Jane Austen1775–1817Persuasion (1817), Chapter VIIn context
- Emotion
Old age is always wakeful; as if, the longer linked with life, the less man has to do with aught that looks like death.
Herman Melville1819–1891Moby-Dick (1851), Chapter XXIXIn context
Áh! ás the heart grows older
It will come to such sights colder
By and by, nor spare a sigh
Though worlds of wanwood leafmeal lie;
And yet you wíll weep and know why.
Gerard Manley Hopkins1844–1889Spring and Fall (1880)In context
- Emotion
She bid me take love easy, as the leaves grow on the tree;
But I, being young and foolish, with her would not agree.
W. B. Yeats1865–1939Down by the Salley Gardens (1889)In context
- Love
- Youth
My salad days,
When I was green in judgment, cold in blood,
To say as I said then.
William Shakespeare1564–1616Antony and Cleopatra (c. 1606), Act I, Scene V, spoken by CleopatraIn context
- Maturity
- Youth
Age cannot wither her, nor custom stale
Her infinite variety.
William Shakespeare1564–1616Antony and Cleopatra (c. 1606), Act II, Scene II, spoken by EnobarbusIn context
- Beauty
We could never have loved the earth so well if we had had no childhood in it
George Eliot1819–1880The Mill on the Floss (1860), Book First: Boy and Girl, Chapter VIn context
- Nature
- Youth
It is an illusion that youth is happy, an illusion of those who have lost it; but the young know they are wretched, for they are full of the truthless ideals which have been instilled into them, and each time they come in contact with the real they are bruised and wounded.
W. Somerset Maugham1874–1965Of Human Bondage (1915), Chapter XXIXIn context
- Happiness
- Youth
He had been to touch the great death, and found that, after all, it was but the great death. He was a man.
Stephen Crane1871–1900The Red Badge of Courage (1895), Chapter XXIVIn context
- Life & Death
- Maturity