Such Were The Joys

Famous quotes containing the words such were the, such were and/or joys:

    “Such, such were the joys
    When we all, girls and boys,
    In our youth time were seen
    On the Echoing Green.”
    William Blake (1757–1827)

    “Such, such were the joys
    When we all, girls and boys,
    In our youth time were seen
    On the Echoing Green.”
    William Blake (1757–1827)

    Yet, haply, in some lull of life,
    Some Truce of God which breaks its strife,
    The worldling’s eyes shall gather dew,
    Dreaming in throngful city ways
    Of winter joys his boyhood knew;
    And dear and early friends—the few
    John Greenleaf Whittier (1807–1892)