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The brown caramel days of youth - Maya Angelou "Faces"

Better dwell with youth upon the mountains - "Anthology of Jugoslav Poetry LXXX: Youth and Age" transl. by Sir John Bowring

Old jokes from a wild youth - Atticus "Love Her Wild"

youth's honor on a windless sky - Elizabeth Bartlett "time is a palette"

Gave her youth like a burning rose - Stephen Vincent Benet "The Retort Discourteous"

Rise to the sun of my youth - Richard Blanco "Maine Yet Miami"

A kiss in youth upon a dead man's brow - William Stanley Braithwaite "Scintilla" [Caroling Dusk: An Anthology of Verse by Negro Poets, ed. by Countee Cullen, 1927]

Youthful joys too soon decay - Anne Bronte "Consolation"

In drunken pride of youth - Sterling A. Brown "Challenge"

Awake the Heroic of youth from the Hades of joy - Bulwer Lytton publishing as Owen Meredith "Lucile: Part I Canto I"

My joy of youthful sports - Lord Byron "Childe Harold's Pilgrimage" (selections)

This fair tribunal of ambitious youth - Bliss Carman "Phi Beta Kappa Poem"

Filled to the splendid brim with youth's new wine - Elizabeth Rachel Chapman "A Little Child's Wreath XXI"

Youth is time for careless weather - Countee Cullen "To a Brown Girl (for Roberta)"

Her fiery youth poured o'er them - Allan Cunningham "The British Sailor's Song" [Mirror of Literature, Amusement, and Instruction v.10 no.288, supplementary number, 1828]

The register of youth's and joy's decline - J.D. [Julia Day] "Clara" [Blackwood's Edinburgh Magazine, no.CCCLXII, v.LVIII, Dec. 1845]

The apple green water of my mother's youthful memory - Jasmeet Dosanjh "A Spirit Friend"

Ill can these youths be qualified to fight - Euripedes "The Children of Hercules" transl. by Michael Wodhull

after keeping you up late as my youth last night - Logan February "I Woke You with Wagner,"

Touched by youth's wayward astonishment - Dana Gioia "Autumn Inaugural"

The air breathed rapture, and love, and youth - J.C.H. "Long Ago" [Chambers' Journal of Popular Literature, Science, and Art, 4th series, no.736, 2 Feb. 1878]

Put on youth in her look and air - Thomas Hardy "A Wife Comes Back"

Youth's buoyant spirit wakes for me - Felicia Hemans "The Abencerrage Canto I"

Age, with a pitiful smudge of Youth - Samuel Hoffenstein "In a Cafe" [The Broadway Anthology]

Let me stay and taste undying Youth - Wallace Irwin "The Rubáiyát of Omar Khayyám Jr."

They have hoped as youth will hope - Georgia Douglas Johnson "Old Black Men" [Caroling Dusk: An Anthology of Verse by Negro Poets, ed. by Countee Cullen, 1927]

Snapped the chain of tranquil youth - G.H. Johnstone "Oxford in May"

Kindling the London darkness with youth's eternal fires - Sheila Kaye-Smith "Willow's Forge"

Choice honey for a favoured youth - John Keats "Endymion, Book I [A thing of beauty is a joy for ever]"

All youth's brightest power - Fanny Kemble "A Promise [In the dark, lonely night]"

The darkening cynosure of passionate youth - W.E.L. "A Dirge of Love" [Chambers' Edinburgh Journal, no.454, 11 Sept. 1852]

That hard country of his youth - Thomas Lynch "O Canada"

Could bring to the veins of Time the world's lost youth - Wilson MacDonald "The Miracle Songs of Jesus"

The bioluminscent waters of his youth - Sally Wen Mao "Nucleation"

Your youth upon its golden way - Jeannette Marks "Sun-Path"

Genius is wisdom and youth - Edgar Lee Masters "Alexander Throckmorton"

Weep not for your youth's despair - Justin H. McCarthy "Consolation"

Winking at the golden jest of youth - Justin H. McCarthy "Eld"

All my youth's desires are buried - Justin H. McCarthy "Long Ago"

Stars in which my youth delighted - Justin H. McCarthy "Long Ago"

Must remember that my youthful days are dead - Justin H. McCarthy "Long Ago"

These haunting phantoms conjure up my youth again - Justin H. McCarthy "Memory"

Youth's a juggle, love's a jest - Justin H. McCarthy "Wisdom"

In the fragrance of your youthful meadows - D'Arcy McNickle "Old Isidore"

Youth of abounding blood - Alice Meynell "The Unexpected Peril"

Mirth and youth and young desire - John Milton "Song on May Morning"

Through the swirling dust of our youth - Walter Dean Myers "John Reese, 70, Ballplayer, Janitor"

Lacking the quickness of youth - Ron Padgett "Sideways Guy"

Our private fountain of youth - Andre F. Peltier "After Soccer Practice"

By youthful error first misled - Petrarch "Sonnet I. Voi, ch' ascoltate in rime sparse il suono: He Confesses the Vanity of his Passion" transl. by 'various hands'

The sweet romances of Youth's enchanted land - Horatio Nelson Powers "Delectatio Piscatoria" [Lippincott's Magazine of Popular Literature and Science, v.26, Sept. 1880]

Beams of youth's forgotten spring - Marguerite Radclyffe-Hall "Ode to Sappho"

Nectar strong with youth and mirth - Marguerite Radclyffe-Hall "The Road to Colla"

Youthful in the count of years - Marguerite Radclyffe-Hall "To --"

Drained the wild honey of their youth - Isaac Rosenberg "Dead Man's Dump"

An echo of youth from its far sunny shore - I.A.S. "In the Rhine Woods: Cuckoo! Cuckoo!" [Chambers' Journal of Popular Literature, Science, and Art, 5th series, no.24-v.I, 14 June 1884]

The home of my youth would be joyless to me - I.A.S. "In the Rhine Woods: Cuckoo! Cuckoo!" [Chambers' Journal of Popular Literature, Science, and Art, 5th series, no.24-v.I, 14 June 1884]

Bannered with youth and lanterned with the stars - Herman George Scheffauer "The Masque of the Elements"

The private gazebo of their youth - Solmaz Sharif "Patronage"

Liquid with the light of youth - Mrs. Seba Smith "To Fanny H***" [Graham's Magazine v.XXI no.3, Sept. 1842]

The sigh of remembered names, the wine of remembered youth - Arthur Stringer "Letters from Home"

All this youth in Earth's old veins - Bayard Taylor "Ariel in the Cloven Pine" [Graham's Magazine v.XXXIV no.5, May 1849]

Exiled from youth's golden hosts - Rachel Annand Taylor "The Hours of Fiammetta III: The Peace to Be"

Quaint undoing of youth's horoscope - Rachel Annand Taylor "The Hours of Fiammetta LV: Treasure"

As long as youth breathes living fire - Edward Thring "Borth Lyrics: XIV. The Flags"

Youth and strength and life made answer - Miss Virginia Townsend "The House in the Lane" [The Continental Monthly v.5 no.5, May 1864]

Tear the fresh rose from the garland of youth - H.T. Tuckerman "[You call us inconstant]" [Graham's Magazine v.XXI no.3, Sept. 1842]

The playground of youth and of ghostly tradition - Morris Tyler "Under the Arch I Passed"

Wondrous fountains of joy and youth - Irvin W. Underhill "Winter to Spring"

With the fragile armor of youth - Louis Untermeyer "On the Birth of a Child"

The songs of my youth are frozen - Katri Vala "Winter Is Here" transl. by Jaakko A. Ahoksas

And restore the beautiful hopes of youth - Henry van Dyke "God of the Open Air"

The youthful world's grey fathers - Henry Vaughan "The Rainbow"

Spoons dip up the sugars of youth - Judy Patterson Wenzel "Who Really Stirs the World"

For pride of spendthrift youth - Helen Hay Whitney "Age"

The old fruitless quest of ardent youth - Constance Fenimore Woolson "Commonplace" [Lippincott's Magazine of Popular Literature and Science, v.11, no.23, Feb. 1873]

As in the hour of thoughtless youth - William Wordsworth "On Revisiting the Banks of the Wye"

The aspirations of youth burn down to char - Charles Wright "Grace II"

Wings of your youth - Elinor Wylie "Fire and Sleet and Candlelight"

In the same house with Youth and warm Desire - Yakrang "[O ask not frigid Piety to dwell" transl. by Inayat Khan and Jessie Duncan Westbrook


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