 GATHER ye rosebuds while ye may, Old Time is still a-flying; And this same flower that smiles to-day, To-morrow will be dying. The glorious lamp of heaven, the sun, The higher he's a-getting, The sooner will his race be run, And nearer he's to setting....  The Onlooker - Page 191902Full view - About this book
 | Robert Chambers - 1850 - 710 pages
...honey yields, but nerer stings. To the Virgin», to malee much, of thar Time. Gather the rose-buds, while ye may, Old Time is still a-flying, And this same flower that smilea to-day, To-morrow will be dying. The glorious lamp of heaven, the SUB, The higher he's a getting,... | |
 | Abraham Mills - 1851 - 594 pages
...When youth and blood are warmer; But being spent, the worse, and worst Tune shall succeed the former. Then be not coy, but use your time, And while ye may,...having lost but once your prime, You may forever tarry. TO BLOSSOMS. Fair pledges of a fruitful tree, Why do ye fall BO fasti Your date is not so past, But... | |
 | Mary Russell Mitford - 1852 - 592 pages
...youth and blood are *varmer; But, being spent, the worse and worse Times still succeed the former. Then be not coy, but use your time, And, while ye...having lost but once your prime, You may forever tarry. TO MEADOWS. Ye have been fresh and green, Ye have been filled with flowers; And ye the walks have been,... | |
 | Abraham Mills - 1851 - 602 pages
...plantations fully show All the year where cherries grow. GATHER THE ROSE-BUDS. Gather the rose-buds while ye may, Old Time is still a-flying, And this...flower that smiles to-day, To-morrow will be dying. The glorious lamp of heaven, the Sun, The higher he's a getting, The sooner will his race be run, And... | |
 | Robert Herrick - 1852 - 744 pages
...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...marry : For, having lost but once your prime, You may for ever tarry. xciv. UPON HIS GREY HAIRS. Fly me not, though I be gray Lady, this I know you'll say,... | |
 | Mary Russell Mitford - 1852 - 344 pages
...the worse and worse Times still succeed the former. Then be not coy, but use your time, And, whilst ye may, go marry ; For having lost but once your prime, You may for ever tarry. TO MEADOWS. Ye have been fresh and green, Ye have been filled with flowers ; And ye... | |
 | Oskar Ludwig Bernhard Wolff - 1852 - 438 pages
...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, goe marry ; For having lost but once your prime, You may for ever tarry. 80 Quarles. uarle s. Francis... | |
 | 1852 - 252 pages
...Herrick has signalised himself by the finest " Anacreontic" in our language. I mean the one beginning, " Gather ye rosebuds while ye may : Old Time is still a-flying, And the same flower that blooms to day, To-morrow will be dying." Here is a pretty love conceit. "TO ELECTRA.... | |
 | Society for promoting Christian knowledge - 1853 - 646 pages
...heaven, the Sun, The higher he's a-getting, The sooner will his race be run, And nearer he's to setting. Then be not coy, but use your time, And, while ye...marry ; For having lost but once your prime, You may for ever tarry. Eobert Herrick, a lyric poet of great eminence, lived from 1591 to a late period of... | |
 | Frederick Edward Gretton - 1853 - 152 pages
...perpetual darkness, shall henceforth know still silence." TO THE VIBGINS, TO MAKE MUCH OF TIME. VII. Gather ye rose-buds while ye may, Old Time is still...flower, that smiles to-day, To-morrow will be dying. The glorious lamp of heaven, the Sun, The higher he's a-getting ; The sooner will his race be run,... | |
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