Love's Young Dream

"Love's Young Dream"

Oh! the days are gone, when Beauty bright
My heart's chain wove;
When my dream of life, from morn till night,
Was love, still love.
New hope may bloom,
And days may come,
  Of milder calmer beam,
But there's nothing half so sweet in life
  As love's young dream:
No, there's nothing half so sweet in life
  As love's young dream.

Though the bard to purer fame may soar,
When wild youth's past;
Though he win the wise, who frown'd before,
To smile at last;
He'll never meet
A joy so sweet,
  In all his noon of fame,
As when first he sung to woman's ear
  His soul-felt flame,
And, at every close, she blush'd to hear
  The one loved name.

No, — that hallow'd form is ne'er forgot
Which first love traced;
Still it lingering haunts the greenest spot
On memory's waste.
'Twas odour fled
As soon as shed;
  'Twas morning's winged dream;
'Twas a light, tht ne'er can shine again
  On life's dull stream:
Oh! 'twas light that n'er can shine again
  On life's dull stream.

Love's Young Dream is a phrase used to describe the early stages of romantic love between two young people. The term is often used in literature, music, films, TV, and other media.

Origin

The phrase comes from lyrics written by Thomas Moore to accompany a series of Irish tunes arranged for piano by John Stevenson,[1] forming the popular collection titled Irish Melodies, published between 1808 and 1835. His poem "Love's Young Dream" celebrates the bittersweet memories of youthful love,[2] and contains the lines,[3]

But there's nothing half so sweet in life
 As love's young dream:
No, there's nothing half so sweet in life
 As love's young dream.

Examples

Examples of the phrase's use include:

Written works

Plays

  • Love's Young Dream – A Domestic Drama in One Act (1882), by Anonymous[10]
  • Love's Young Dream (1916), by Radcliffe Martin[11]
  • Love's Young Dream (1918), by Eva Elwes[12]

Films

TV

Music

Paintings

Journalism

  • "Kit Harington and Rose Leslie look like love’s young dream in unearthed pictures"[23]
  • "Katy Perry & Orlando Bloom Look Like Love’s Young Dream In Previously Unseen Photos"[24]

References

  1. ^ Moore's Irish Melodies. Oliver Ditson Company. 1893.
  2. ^ Moore, Thomas. "Love's Young Dream". All Poetry. Retrieved 4 February 2025.
  3. ^ Thompson, Nathan David, ed. (1886). The Royal Gallery of Poetry and Art. N.D. Thompson Publishing Company.
  4. ^ Langbridge, Frederick (1871). Kitty Crump: a Romance of "Love's Young Dream" and Other Poems. J. C. Hotten.
  5. ^ Notley, Frances Eliza Millett (1877). Love's Young Dream. London: Tinsley Brothers.
  6. ^ Libbey, Laura Jean (c. 1902). "Love's young dream, or, Why men worshiped her". Syracuse University Libraries. Street and Smith Publications.
  7. ^ Crockett, Samuel Rutherford (1910). Love's Young Dream. Macmillan.
  8. ^ "Effie Adelaide Rowlands". Bear Alley. 27 February 2010.
  9. ^ Howard, Robert E. (1989). Shadows of Dreams. Donald M. Grant Pub Inc. ISBN 978-0937986943.
  10. ^ Anonymous (1882). Love's Young Dream. A Domestic Drama in One Act. BoD – Books on Demand. ISBN 9783385414648. {{cite book}}: ISBN / Date incompatibility (help)
  11. ^ Martin, Radcliffe. "Love's Young Dream". Great War Theatre.
  12. ^ Elwes, Eva. "Love's Young Dream". Great War Theatre.
  13. ^ "The Mark of the Lash". AustLit. Retrieved 6 February 2025.
  14. ^ "Mr. Jarr and Love's Young Dream. Motion picture copyright descriptions collection. Class L, 1912-1977". Library of Congress. Retrieved 6 February 2025.
  15. ^ "Lawrence B. McGill presents". The Buffalo Times. 14 April 1925. p. 16. Retrieved 18 April 2021.
  16. ^ "Shirley Temple Love's Young Dream From The Little Colonel 1935". YouTube. 20 January 2017. Retrieved 6 February 2025.
  17. ^ "New episode of 24 Hours in A&E: Love's Young Dream…". St George's University Hospitals. 12 September 2018.
  18. ^ Knight (1866). Favorite Waltzes Made Easy by Ernest Leslie. G. D. Russell.
  19. ^ O'Donnel, Elliott (1915). The Irish ABroad (PDF). Sir Isaac Pitman & Sons, Ltd. p. 140. Retrieved 6 February 2025.
  20. ^ Burr, John. "Love's Young Dream". Art UK. Retrieved 6 February 2025.
  21. ^ Fish, Arthur (1905). Henrietta Rae (Mrs. Ernest Normand) (PDF). Cassell and Company, Limited. p. 31.
  22. ^ Brownscombe, Jennie Augusta. "Love's Young Dream". National Museum of Women in the Arts. Retrieved 6 February 2025.
  23. ^ Lewis, Rebecca (1 January 2019). "Kit Harington and Rose Leslie look like love's young dream in unearthed pictures". Metro. Associated Newspaper Limited.
  24. ^ Devaney, Susan (13 January 2021). "Katy Perry & Orlando Bloom Look Like Love's Young Dream In Previously Unseen Photos". British Vogue. Condé Nast.
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