Children become, while little, our delights,
When they grow bigger, they begin to fright's.
Children Quotes
A short page with no flagged entries, which is rare. Shakespeare, Robert Louis Stevenson, Suman Pokhrel, Alice Meynell and Isaiah lead. Wordsworth’s Lyrical Ballads (1798) asks what a simple child that lightly draws its breath and feels its life in every limb should know of death. Goldsmith’s The Traveller (1764) says the sports of children satisfy the child. Byron, in Beppo (1818), complains about them with the line that they always smell of bread and butter.
The sourced entries here are all poems, and every quote page shows the poem’s source and date.
Childhood is measured out by sounds and smells
And sights, before the dark of reason grows.
Teach your child to hold his tongue,
He'll learn fast enough to speak.
Behold the child, by Nature's kindly law,
Pleas'd with a rattle, tickled with a straw.
Your children were vexation to your youth,
But mine shall be a comfort to your age.
Better to be driven out from among men than to be disliked of children.
Childhood has no forebodings; but then, it is soothed by no memories of outlived sorrow.
And all your sons will be persons taught by Jehovah, and the peace of your sons will be abundant.