ungrown

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Though joy be done with and grief be vain, Time shall not sever us wholly in twain; Earth is not spoilt for a single shower; But the rain has ruined the ungrown corn.

From Poems & Ballads (First Series) by Swinburne, Algernon Charles

To-day Love ’s mute, but time hath sown A soul in her to match thine own, Though yet ungrown.

From Victorian Songs Lyrics of the Affections and Nature by Garrett, Edmund Henry

To the latter kind of soul, grown or ungrown, you can never give happiness, for there are not enough toys to supply everybody.

From More Toasts by Mosher, Marion Dix

Why, some of them are little quick-eyed boys, Some, pretty, ungrown maidens—children's children Of those who called me to the pastorate.

From The Poems of Emma Lazarus, Volume 2 Jewish poems: Translations by Lazarus, Emma

"A promise—a promise made by an ungrown girl to a brute—a thief—!"

From The Cords of Vanity A Comedy of Shirking by Cabell, James Branch