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Anne Bradstreet: Youth

Youth My goodly clothing and beauteous skin Declare some greater riches are within, But what is best I'll first present to view, And then the worst, in a more ugly hue, For thus to do we on…

Coleridge: Youth and Age

Dejection: an OdeWork without HopeYouth and Age Verse, a breeze mid blossoms straying, Where Hope clung feeding, like a bee— Both were mine! Life went a-maying With Nature, Hope…

The Devil's Dictionary: Youth

by Ambrose Bierce YOKEYOUTH -n. The Period of Possibility, when Archimedes finds a fulcrum, Cassandra has a following and seven cities compete for the honor of endowing a living Homer…

Brewer's: Fountain of Youth

A fountain supposed to possess the power of restoring youth. It was thought to be in one of the Bahama Islands. Source: Dictionary of Phrase and Fable, E. Cobham Brewer, 1894Four…

Brewer's: Heyday of Youth

The prime of youth. (Anglo-Saxon, heh-dag, high-day or mid-day of youth.) Source: Dictionary of Phrase and Fable, E. Cobham Brewer, 1894Hiawath'aHext A B C D E F G H I J K L M…

Youth Employment Trends

Source: U.S. Department of Labor. Report on the Youth Labor Force, November 2000. Based on Current Population Survey data. Web: stats.bls.gov/opub/rylf/rylfhome.htm . How Many…

Brewer's: Youth Restored

Iolaus was restored to youth, as Euripldes says. Phaon, the beloved of Sappho, was restored to youth on the behalf of Venus. Æson was restored to youth by Medæa, and so was Jason. The…

World Youth Championship

Championship for the Under-20 national teams contested for the 10th time since its inception in 1977. Held Apr. 3-24, 1999 in Nigeria.First Round Round Robin; each team plays the other teams…

Youth Employment Status

Here's a look at the number of employed youth ages 16–24 by sex, race, and ethnicity, July 2009–2012. July Characteristic 2009…

National Youth Administration

(Encyclopedia) National Youth Administration (NYA), former U.S. government agency established in 1935 within the Works Progress Administration; it was transferred in 1939 to the Federal Security…