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" Oh, talk not to me of a name great in story ; The days of our youth are the days of our glory ; And the myrtle and ivy of sweet two-and-twenty Are worth all your laurels, though ever so plenty. "
Letters and Journals of Lord Byron: With Notices of His Life - Page 421
by George Gordon Byron Baron Byron - 1830 - 512 pages
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The Works of Lord Byron, Volume 12

George Gordon Byron Baron Byron - 1904 - 656 pages
...indisputable, and occurred but a few weeks ago, before I left Ravenna. Pisa, Nov? 6"? 1821. 118. I. Oh I talk not to me of a name great in story The days of our Youth are the days of our Glory, And the myrtle and ivy of sweet two and twenty Are worth all your...
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The Works of Iván Turgénieff, Volume 7

Ivan Sergeevich Turgenev - 1904 - 806 pages
...that, later on, many of us turned out decidedly commonplace persons. But youth .... youth .... " O talk not to me of a name great in story ! The days of our youth are the ctays of our glory. . . . "' remarked the pale man who had spoken before. " Devil take...
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Works, Volume 4

George Gordon Byron Baron Byron - 1905 - 632 pages
...Bishoprick."—Letters and Journals, 183o, ii. 527, note. 1. ["Signed WL B , MA, and written with a view to a 2. j" I composed these stanzas (except the fourth, added now) a few days ago, on the road from Florence to Pisa."—Pisa, 6th November, 1821, Detached Thoughts. No. 118, Letters, 19o1, v. 466.] Endorsed, "MS....
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Humanistic Studies, Volume 3

University of Iowa - 1928 - 760 pages
...green plains under; And then again I dissolve in rain, And laugh as I pass in thunder. —Shelley. O talk not to me of a name great in story ; The days of our youth are the days of our glory; And the myrtle and ivy of sweet two-and twenty Are worth all your...
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The Columbia Granger's Dictionary of Poetry Quotations

Edith P. Hazen - 1992 - 1172 pages
...that it takes away, EnRP; GTBS; GTBS-P; HAP Stanzas Written on the Road between Florence and Pisa 66 ؞ . youth are the days of our glory; (1. 1-2) EnRP; GTBS; GTBS-P; NAEL-2 The Vision of Judgment 67 Saint...
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The 149th Pennsylvania Volunteer Infantry Unit in the Civil War

Richard E. Matthews - 1994 - 350 pages
...exalt its action nor dwell on its failings. Only the men who filled its ranks know its true history. "Talk not to me of a name great in story. The days of our youth are the days of our glory. " LORD BYRON "Their conduct was more than heroic. It was glorious....
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The Collected Poems of Lord Byron

George Gordon Byron - 1994 - 884 pages
...and genius of Moore ! September, 1821. STANZAS WRITTEN ON THE ROAD BETWEEN FLORENCE AND PISA. Он, talk not to me of a name great in story ; The days of our youth are the days of our glory; And the myrtle and ivy of sweet two-aridtwenty Are worth all your...
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Meter in English: A Critical Engagement

David Baker - 1996 - 404 pages
...their different effect on the ear and mind and soul of listeners. Nobody, swinging into Byron's lusty Oh, talk not to me of a name great in story; The days of our youth are the days of our glory . . . is going to think, "Ah, trisyllabic substitutions for the basic...
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Rules for the Dance: A Handbook for Writing and Reading Metrical Verse

Mary Oliver - 1998 - 212 pages
...In her sepulchre there by the sea — In her tomb by the side of the sea. George Gordon, Lord Byron Oh, talk not to me of a name great in story; The days of our youth are the days of our glory; And the myrtle and ivy of sweet two-and-twenty Are worth all your...
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Byron and Shakespeare

George Wilson Knight - 2002 - 416 pages
...young, and youth reflects it. In another of his Detached Thoughts (118) is the famous lyric starting Oh! talk not to me of a name great in story, The days of our Youth are the days of our Glory, And the myrtle and ivy of sweet two and twenty Are worth all your...
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