young (n.)
young (v.)
young (adj.)
- adolescent
- babyish
- boyish
- callow
- childish
- childlike
- crude
- dewy
- evergreen
- firsthand
- fledgling
- florescent
- flowering
- fresh
- get
- girlish
- green
- immature
- inexperienced
- infantile
- innocent
- intact
- junior
- juvenile
- litter
- maiden
- maidenly
- minor
- naive
- nest
- new
- original
- pristine
- pubescent
- puerile
- raw
- teenaged
- unbeaten
- undeveloped
- unfinished
- unfledged
- unformed
- uninitiated
- unpracticed
- unripe
- unseasoned
- unsophisticated
- untouched
- untried
- untrodden
- unused
- unversed
- vernal
- virgin
- virginal
- youthful
If ladies be but young and fair,
They have the gift to know it; and in his brain,
Which is as dry as the remainder biscuit
After a voyage, he hath strange places cramm'd
With observation, the which he vents
In mangled forms.
Take her up tenderly,
Lift her with care;
Fashioned so slenderly,
Young, and so fair!
Beautiful as sweet,
And young as beautiful, and soft as young,
And gay as soft, and innocent as gay!
I never knew so young a body with so old a head.
And both were young, and one was beautiful.
Hope! thou nurse of young desire.
The young disease, that must subdue at length,
Grows with his growth, and strengthens with his strength.
Bacchus, ever fair and ever young.
Young fellows will be young fellows.
I have been young, and now am old; yet have I not seen the righteous forsaken, nor his seed begging bread.
Delightful task! to rear the tender thought,
To teach the young idea how to shoot.
Unthinking, idle, wild, and young,
I laugh'd and danc'd and talk'd and sung.
If all the world and love were young,
And truth in every shepherd's tongue,
These pretty pleasures might me move
To live with thee, and be thy love.
Much may be made of a Scotchman if he be caught young.
If ladies be but young and fair,
They have the gift to know it; and in his brain,
Which is as dry as the remainder biscuit
After a voyage, he hath strange places cramm'd
With observation, the which he vents
In mangled forms.
The reason why so few marriages are happy is because young ladies spend their time in making nets, not in making cages.
In the spring a livelier iris changes on the burnish'd dove;
In the spring a young man's fancy lightly turns to thoughts of love.
Young men think old men are fools; but old men know young men are fools.
Young men think old men are fools; but old men know young men are fools.
The people's prayer, the glad diviner's theme,
The young men's vision, and the old men's dream!
Young Obadias,
David, Josias,—
All were pious.
To be seventy years young is sometimes far more cheerful and hopeful than to be forty years old.
So wise so young, they say, do never live long.
Spurn'd by the young, but hugg'd by the old
To the very verge of the churchyard mould.
Though I am young, I scorn to flit
On the wings of borrowed wit.
I am resolved to grow fat, and look young till forty.
Young Obadias,
David, Josias,—
All were pious.
Bliss was it in that dawn to be alive,
But to be young was very heaven!
War loves to seek its victims in the young.
In life's morning march, when my bosom was young.
Olympian bards who sung
Divine ideas below,
Which always find us young
And always keep us so.
"Whom the gods love die young," was said of yore.
How sweet the moonlight sleeps upon this bank!
Here we will sit and let the sounds of music
Creep in our ears: soft stillness and the night
Become the touches of sweet harmony.
Sit, Jessica. Look how the floor of heaven
Is thick inlaid with patines of bright gold:
There's not the smallest orb which thou behold'st
But in his motion like an angel sings,
Still quiring to the young-eyed cherubins.
Such harmony is in immortal souls;
But whilst this muddy vesture of decay
Doth grossly close it in, we cannot hear it.
