 | Thomas Percy - 1844
...their mothers features, To hear them lisp their mothers tongue. And when with envy time transported, Shall think to rob us of our joys, * You'll in your...again be courted, And I'll go a wooing in my boys. XIV. THE WITCH OF WOKEY — was published in a small collection of poems, intitled, "Eutheznia, or... | |
 | Robert Chambers - 1844
...their mother's features, To hear them lisp their mother's tongue ! And when with envy Time transported, Shall think to rob us of our joys ; You'll in your girls again be courted, And I'll go wooing in my boys. TRAGIC DRAMATISTS. The tragic drama of this period bore the impress of the French... | |
 | Robert Chambers - 1844
...their mother's features, To hear them lisp their mother's tongue 1 And when with envy Time transported, Shall think to rob us of our joys ; You'll in your girls again be courted, And I'll go wooing in my boys. TRAGIC DRAMATISTS. The tragic drama of this period bore the impress of the French... | |
 | Martin Farquhar Tupper - 1845 - 110 էջ
...find, as to other folks, who once were young together ; ' And when with Envy Time transported Seoks to rob us of our joys, You'll in your girls again be courted, And I'll go wooing in my hoys.'" So said or sung the flighty Mrs. Tracy. It was as simple and innocent a quotation... | |
 | Martin Farquhar Tupper - 1846 - 292 էջ
...find, as to other folks, who once were young together; ' And when with Envy Time transported Seeks to rob us of our joys, You'll in your girls again be courted, And I '11 go wooing in my boys.' " So said or sung the flighty Mrs. Tracy. It was as simple and innocent... | |
 | Martin Farquhar Tupper - 1847 - 110 էջ
...find, as to other folks, who once were young together; ' And when with Envy Time transported Seeks to rob us of our joys, You'll in your girls again be courted, And I '11 go wooing in my boys.'" So said or sung the flighty Mrs. Tracy. It was as simple and innocent... | |
 | 1898
...occur the well-known lines (often referred to in ' N. A Q.') :— And when with envy time transported Shall think to rob us of our joys, You'll in your girls again be courted, And I 'II go wooing in my boys. There is this foot-note to the lyric: "This pleasing delineation of conjugal... | |
 | Martin Farquhar Tupper - 1850 - 527 էջ
...find, as to other folks, who once were young together : •"And when with envy Time, transported, seeks to rob us of our joys, You'll in your girls again be courted, and I'll go wooing in my boys.'" So said or sung the flighty Mrs. Tracy. It was as simple and innocent a quotation... | |
 | Bernard Burke - 1850
...happily expressed by a poet of no great eminence — " And when with envy time transporte d, Shall seek to rob us of our joys, You'll in your girls again be courted, And I go wooing on my boys." It is possible, very possible, that half the hopes thus formed may disappoint... | |
 | Mary Russell Mitford - 1851 - 558 էջ
...their mother's features, To hear them lisp their mother's tongue. And when with envy, time transported, Shall think to rob us of our joys, • You'll in your girls again be courted, And I'll go wooing in my boys. Surely this is the sort of poetry that ought to be popular—to be sung in our concert-rooms,... | |
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How should I love the pretty creatures, While round my knees they fondly clung ; To see them look their mother's features, To hear them lisp their mother's tongue. And when with envy, time transported, Shall think to rob us of our joys, You'll in your... 
