 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....  Progressive Exercises in Latin Elegiac Verse - Page 56by Charles Granville Gepp - 1830 - 142 pagesFull view - About this book
 | Richard Henry Stoddard - Ballads, English - 1866 - 240 pages
...a-getting, The sooner will his race be run, And nearer he's to setting. That age is beft which is the firft, When youth and blood are warmer ; But being spent, the worse, and worft Times ftill succeed the former. Then be not coy, but use your time, And while ye may, go marry... | |
 | J. H. - English poetry - 1867 - 860 pages
...the sun, The higher he's a 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...may, go marry ! For having lost but once your prime, 6a HOW PANSIES OR HEART'S EASE CAME FIRST. FROLIC virgins once there were, Over-loving, living here... | |
 | Frederick Locker- Lampson - 1867 - 428 pages
...heaven, 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...former. Then be not coy, but use your time, And while you may, go marry : For having lost but once your prime, You may for ever tarry. Robert Herrick. XLL... | |
 | Henry George Bohn - Quotations - 1867 - 752 pages
...it wears, Than settled age his sables, and bis weeds Importing health and graveness. Sh. Ham, Iv. 7. That age is best which is the first, When youth and...worse, and worst Times still succeed the former. Then bo not coy, but use your time ; And while ye mav, go marry : For, having lost but once your prime,... | |
 | Henry Morley - Ballads, English - 1868 - 284 pages
...heaven, the sun, The higher he 'sa 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...may, go marry ; For having lost but once your prime, You may for ever tarry. Robert Berrick. TO A LADY SINGING A SONG OF HIS COMPOSING. 5, yourself you... | |
 | T. R. M. - 1868 - 80 pages
...Heaven, 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...Then be not coy, but use your time, And while ye may, goe marry; For having lost but once your prime, Ye may for ever tarry. /^*ARPITE, dura liceat, roseos... | |
 | Henry Morbey - 1869 - 386 pages
...heaven, the sun, The higher he 'sa 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...succeed the former. Then be not coy, but use your tune, And while ye may, go marry ; For having lost but once your prime, You may for ever tarry. Robert... | |
 | Robert Herrick - 1869 - 304 pages
...heaven, the sun, The higher he's a getting ; The sooner will his race be run, And neerer he's to setting. That age is best, which is the first, When youth and blood are warmer ; Then be not coy, but use your time ; And while ye may, goe marry : For having lost but once your... | |
 | Thomas Budd Shaw, William Smith - English literature - 1869 - 420 pages
...the sun, The higher he's a 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 Then be not coy, but use your time And, whilst ye may,... | |
 | Hubert Ashton Holden - English poetry - 1870 - 524 pages
...heaven, 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...may, go marry: for having lost but once your prime, ye may for ever tarry. R. HERRICK me fugere ipsum. Quid enim iuvat otia vitae quidve voluptatem prccul... | |
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