Young Men

Famous quotes containing the words young men, young and/or men:

    “Twenty-eight young men bathe by the shore,
    Twenty-eight young men and all so friendly;”
    —Walt Whitman (1819–1892)

    “My mother dandled me and sang,
    “How young it is, how young!”
    And made a golden cradle
    That on a willow swung.
    “He went away,” my mother sang,
    “When I was brought to bed....””
    —William Butler Yeats (1865–1939)

    “When men change swords for ledgers, and desert
    The student’s bower for gold, some fears unnamed
    I had, my Country—am I to be blamed?”
    —William Wordsworth (1770–1850)