Kookaburra Sits In The Old Gum Tree.
“A very merry, dancing, drinking,
Laughing, quaffing, and unthinkable time.”
Source: Fables, Ancient and Modern (1700), The Secular Masque (1700), Lines 38–39.
“Let me go warm and merry still;
And let the world laugh, an' it will.”
Andeme yo caliente
y ríase la gente.
Letrillas, "Andeme yo caliente", line 1, cited from Robert Jammes (ed.) Letrillas (Madrid: Castalia, 1980) p. 115. Translation from Henry Wadsworth Longfellow The Poets and Poetry of Europe (New York: C. S. Francis, 1855) p. 695
Act III, scene 2. Song.
Rollo, Duke of Normandy, or The Bloody Brother, (c. 1617; revised c. 1627–30; published 1639)
Variant: Three merry boys, and three merry boys,
And three merry boys are we,
As ever did sing in a hempen string
Under the gallow-tree.
What a gay little man in gray.
The Little Man all in Gray, translation by Amelia B. Edwards; reported in Hoyt's New Cyclopedia Of Practical Quotations (1922), p. 133.
So I piped; he wept to hear.
Introduction, st. 1–2
Songs of Innocence (1789–1790)
“I am all for the short and merry life.”
FitzGerald's epitaph, originally a statement in a letter to Frederick Tennyson (31 December 1850); Letters of Edward FitzGerald (1894), p. 261.
Puck Lost and Found (1891)
Three Sunsets and Other Poems (1898)
“I sit and talk to God, and he just laughs at my plans.”
Feel
Escapology (2002)
