 That age is best, which is the first, When youth and blood are warmer; But being spent, the worse, and worst Times still succeed the former. Then be not coy, but use your time, And while ye may, go marry: For having lost but once your prime, You may for...  Accepted Addresses; Or, Proemium Poetarum: To which are Added, Macbeth ... - Page 1651813 - 195 pagesFull view - About this book
 | William Cullen Bryant - 1877 - 576 pages
...lamp of heaven, the sun, The higher he 'sa getting, The sooner will his race be run, And nearer he 's to setting. The age is best which is the first, When youth and blood are wanner ; But being spent, the worse and worst Times still succeed the former. Then be not coy, but... | |
 | Language - 1877 - 316 pages
...the sun, The higher he's a getting, The sooner will his race be run. And nearer he's to setting. That age is best which is the first, When youth and blood...are warmer ; But being spent, the worse, and worst Times, still succeed the former. Then be not coy, but use your time. And while ye may, go marry : For... | |
 | Robert Herrick - 1877 - 120 pages
...sun, The higher he 's a-getting, The sooner will his race be run, And nearer he 's to setting. That age is best, which is the first, When youth and blood...are warmer ; But being spent, the worse, and worst Times, still succeed the former. — Then be not coy, but use your time, And while ye may, go marry... | |
 | Robert Herrick - 1877 - 240 pages
...the Sun, The higher he's a-getting, The sooner will his race be run, And nearer he's to setting. That age is best, which is the first, When youth and blood...are warmer ; But being spent, the worse, and worst Times, still succeed the former. — Then be not coy, but use your time, And while ye may, go marry... | |
 | Robert Herrick - 1877 - 244 pages
...the Sun, The higher he's a-getting, The sooner will his race be run, And nearer he's to setting. That age is best, which is the first, When youth and blood...are warmer ; But being spent, the worse, and worst Times, still succeed the former. — Then be not coy, but use your time, And while ye may, go marry... | |
 | Jon Stallworthy - 1986 - 422 pages
...the sun, The higher he's a-getting, The sooner will his race be run, And nearer he's to setting. That age is best which is the first, When youth and blood...are warmer; But being spent, the worse, and worst Times still succeed the former. Then be not coy, but use your time, And while ye may, go marry: For... | |
 | 1993 - 412 pages
...the Sun, The higher he's a-getting, The sooner will his race be run, And nearer he's to setting. That age is best which is the first, When youth and blood...are warmer; But being spent, the worse, and worst Times, still succeed the former. Then be not coy, but use your time; And while ye may, go marry: For... | |
 | William Harmon - 1998 - 386 pages
...the sun, The higher he's a-getting, The sooner will his race be run, And nearer he's to setting. That age is best which is the first, When youth and blood...are warmer; But being spent, the worse, and worst Times, still succeed the former. Then be not coy, but use your time, And while ye may, go marry; For... | |
 | Rachel R. Baum - 1999 - 188 pages
...the Sun, The higher he's a-getting; The sooner will his race be run, And nearer he's to setting. That age is best, which is the first, When youth and blood...are warmer; But being spent, the worse, and worst Times still succeed the former. Then be not coy, but use your time, And while ye may, go marry; For... | |
 | Frances Mayes - 2001 - 548 pages
...the sun, The higher he's a-getting, The sooner will his race be run, And nearer he's to setting. That age is best which is the first, When youth and blood...are warmer; But being spent, the worse, and worst Times still succeed the former. Then be not coy, but use your time, And, while ye may, go marry; For,... | |
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