Charles Stuart Calverley Quotes (10 quotes)

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Famous Charles Stuart Calverley Quotes

“I can not sing the old songs now!
It is not that I deem them low;
’T is that I can’t remember how
They go.”

Changed; reported in Bartlett's Familiar Quotations, 10th ed. (1919).

“White is the wold, and ghostly
The dank and leafless trees;
And 'M's and 'N's are mostly
Pronounced like 'B's and 'D's:
'Neath bleak sheds, ice-encrusted,
The sheep stands, mute and stolid:
And ducks find out, disgusted,
That all the ponds are solid.”

Charles Stuart Calverley

Dirge, from Verses and Translations (1862).

“O Beer! O Hodgson, Guinness, Allsop, Bass!
Names that should be on every infant's tongue!
Shall days and months and years and centuries pass,
And still your merits be unrecked, unsung?
Oh! I have gazed into my foaming glass,
And wished that lyre could yet again be strung
Which once rang prophet-like through Greece, and taught her
Misguided sons that "the best drink was water."”

Charles Stuart Calverley

Beer, from Verses and Translations (1862).

“O my own, my beautiful, my blue-eyed!
To be young once more and bite my thumb
At the world and all its cares with you, I’d
Give no inconsiderable sum.”

Charles Stuart Calverley

First Love; reported in Bartlett's Familiar Quotations, 10th ed. (1919).

“The farmer’s daughter hath soft brown hair
(Butter and eggs and a pound of cheese)
And I met with a ballad, I can’t say where,
That wholly consisted of lines like these.”

Charles Stuart Calverley

Ballad; reported in Bartlett's Familiar Quotations, 10th ed. (1919).

“T was ever thus from childhood’s hour!
My fondest hopes would not decay:
I never loved a tree or flower
Which was the first to fade away.”

Charles Stuart Calverley

Disaster; reported in Bartlett's Familiar Quotations, 10th ed. (1919). Compare:
Oh, ever thus, from childhood’s hour,
I ’ve seen my fondest hopes decay;
I never loved a tree or flower
But ’t was the first to fade away.
- Thomas Moore, The Fire Worshippers, p. 26.