 | Robert Herrick - 1810 - 280 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...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 ever tarry. LXXIlt. TO THE... | |
 | 1813 - 410 pages
...God bless all such as she." TIME. ROBERT HERRICK. Gather ye rosebuds while ye may, Old Time is still a' flying; And this same flower that smiles to-day...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 age is best which... | |
 | 1828 - 454 pages
...grow. To THE VIRGINS, TO MAKE MUCH OF TIIEIH TIME. iGather ye rosebuds, while ye may, Old Time is still a flying, And this same flower that smiles to-day,...dying. The glorious lamp of heaven, the Sun, The higher he's a getting, The sooner will his race be run, And nearer be'* to setting. That age is best which... | |
 | Richard Alfred Davenport - 1823 - 470 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...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 ever tarry. HERRICK. SONG.... | |
 | Richard Alfred Davenport - 1823 - 406 pages
...and die for thee. HERRICK. SONG TO THE VIRGINS. GATHER ye rosebuds while ye may, Old Time is still a flying ; And this same flower, that smiles to-day,...dying. The glorious lamp of heaven, the sun, The higher he's a getting, The sooner will his race be run, That age is best which is the first, When youth and... | |
 | New elegant extracts - 1823 - 402 pages
...and die for thee. HERRICK. SONG TO THE VIRGINS. GATHER ye rosebuds while ye may, Old Time is still a flying ; And this same flower, that smiles to-day,...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. That age is best which... | |
 | Robert Herrick - 1823 - 330 pages
...ye there. TO THE VIRGIN'S, TO MAKE MUCH OF TIME. GATHER ye rose-buds while ye may, Old Time is still a flying ; And this same flower that smiles to-day,...dying. The glorious lamp of heaven, the Sun, The higher he's a getting, The sooner will his race be run, That age is best, which is the lir.it. When youth... | |
 | Robert Herrick - 1825 - 334 pages
...ye there. TO THE VIRGINS, TO MAKE MUCH OF TIME. GATHER ye rose-buds while ye may, Old Time is still a flying ; And this same flower that smiles to-day,...dying. The glorious lamp of 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... | |
 | Richard Ryan - 1826 - 318 pages
...beautiful song has few equals in our language. " Gather ye rosebuds while ye may, Old Time is still a flying ; And this same flower that smiles to-day,...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,... | |
 | Richard Ryan - 1826 - 318 pages
...beautiful song has few equals in our language. " Gather ye rosebuds while ye may, Old Time is still a flying ; And this same flower that smiles to-day,...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... | |
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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... 
