Love's Young Dream

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, 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, and contains the lines,

Examples

Examples of the phrase's use include:

Written works

• Kitty Crump: a Romance of "Love's Young Dream :" and Other Poems (1871), collection of poems by Frederick Langbridge
• Love's Young Dream (1877), novel by Frances Eliza Millett Notley
• Love's Young Dream (), novel by Laura Jean Libbey
• Love's Young Dream (1910), novel by Samuel Rutherford Crockett
• Love's Young Dream (1914), novel by Effie Adelaide Rowlands
• "Love's Young Dream" (1989), poem in the collection Shadows of Dreams by Robert E. Howard

Plays

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

Films

• "Love's Young Dream", chapter in The Mark of the Lash (1911)
• Mr. Jarr and Love's Young Dream (1915, short), starring Harry Davenport
• Love's Young Dream (1925), starring Lawrence B. McGill
• "Love's Young Dream", sung by Shirley Temple in The Little Colonel (1935)

TV

• "Love's Young Dream" (1960), episode of Have Gun – Will Travel
• "Love's Young Dream" (1987), episode of Me and My Girl
• "Love's Young Dream" (2018), episode of 24 Hours in A&E

Music

• "Love's Young Dream Waltz" (Knight), from the 1866 collection Favorite Waltzes Made Easy
• "Love's Young Dream" (1961), B-side of a single by Johnny Nash
• "Love's Young Dream", from the albums Merseybeast (1996) and Boots (2003) by Ian McNabb
• "Love's Young Dream", from the album Sleep Has His House (2000) by Current 93
• "Love's Young Dream", from the album The Deep Blue (2007) by Charlotte Hatherley

Paintings

• Love's Young Dream (), by William Henry Kearney
• Love's Young Dream (), by John Burr
• Love's Young Dream (1883), by Henrietta Rae
• Love's Young Dream (1887), by Jennie Augusta Brownscombe

Journalism

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

References