"Golden years" Quotes from Famous Books
 ... mysterious jewel whereof he Knows not the secret worth. And when at last The emerald stone in thy own hands thou hast, Itself shall guide thee whither thou would'st go— Ev'n to the land revealed of sleep, where no Grief comes to mar their music, neither sound Of sighing, while the golden years ...
— The Poems of William Watson • William Watson
... Thomas Conneff from the short-grass county of Kildare? Who does not know of his brilliant performances on the track? We in Ireland, who had seen him defeat Carter, the great Canadian, over the four-mile course at Ballsbridge one summer's eve now nearly twenty golden years ago, knew his worth before he crossed the broad Atlantic to show to thousands of admiring spectators in America that Ireland was the breeder of fleet-footed sons, who lacked neither the courage, nor the thews and sinews, nor the staying ...
— The Glories of Ireland • Edited by Joseph Dunn and P.J. Lennox
... my praying, Thou shouldst hear me weeping, Ever was I wayward, always full of tears, Take no heed of this grief. Sweet the gift Thou gavest All the cherished treasure of those golden years. ...
— The Home Book of Verse, Vol. 1 (of 4) • Various
... age; oldness^ &c adj.; old age, advanced age, golden years; senility, senescence; years, anility^, gray hairs, climacteric, grand climacteric, declining years, decrepitude, hoary age, caducity^, superannuation; second childhood, second childishness; dotage; vale of years, decline of life, ...
— Roget's Thesaurus of English Words and Phrases: Body • Roget |
