 | William Linwood - College verse - 1846 - 372 pages
...faustos quicunque voles hymenœos, Aspice in octavo qualis sit Delia lustro. XXI. GATHER ye rose-buds while ye may, Old Time is still a-flying ; And this...he's a-getting ; The sooner will his race be run, The nearer he's to setting. That age is best, which is the first, When youth and blood are warmer ;... | |
 | William Linwood - College verse - 1846 - 342 pages
...faustos quicunque voles hymenaeos, Aspice in octavo qualis sit Delia lustro. G. XXI. GATHER ye rose-buds while ye may, Old Time is still a-flying ; And this...he's a-getting ; The sooner will his race be run, The nearer he's to setting. That age is best, which is the first, When youth and blood are warmer ;... | |
 | Languages, Modern - 1914 - 496 pages
...smiles to-day, To morrow will be dying. The glorious of Heaven, the Sun, The higher he is getting, The sooner will his race be run, And nearer he's to setting. That age is best which is the first, Whilst youth and blood are warmer; Expect not then the last and worst, Time still succeeds the former.... | |
 | Hannah J. Woodman - American poetry - 1846 - 226 pages
...careless heart, A bitter mockery ! a Gather ye rose-buds 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, tne sun, The higher he 'sa getting, The sooner will his race be run, And nearer he 's to setting. That... | |
 | Robert Herrick - 1846 - 330 pages
...Rofe-buds while ye may, Old Time is ftill a flying : And this fame flower that fmiles to day, To morrow will be dying. The glorious Lamp of Heaven, the Sun, The higher he's a getting ; The fooner will his Race be run, And neerer he's to Setting. That Age is beft, which is... | |
 | Robert Herrick - 1846 - 324 pages
...Rofe-buds while ye may, Old Time is ftill a flying : And this fame flower that fmiles to day, Xo morrow will be dying. The glorious Lamp of Heaven, the Sun, The higher he's a getting ; The fooner will his Race be run, And neerer he's to Setting. That Age is beft, which is... | |
 | Robert Chambers - Authors, English - 1847 - 712 pages
...honey yields, but never stings. To Ле Virgin», to make muck of Лаг Time. Gather the rose-buds, a getting, The sooner will his race be run, And nearer he's to setting. That age is best which is the... | |
 | Thomas Campbell - 1848 - 468 pages
...he frolics like a being made up of melody and pleasure ; as when he sings — " Gather ye rose-buds while ye may, Old Time is still a-flying; And this same flower that blooms to-day, To-morrow will be dying." * [Told on the authority of Dryden. (Malone, vol. iv. p. 6... | |
 | Thomas Campbell - English poetry - 1848 - 452 pages
...he frolics like a being made up of melody and pleasure ; as when he sings — " Gather ye rose-buds while ye may, Old Time is still a-flying ; And this same flower that blooms to-day, To-morrow will be dying." * [Told on the authority of Dryden. (Maloue, vol. iv. p. 612.)... | |
 | Questions and answers - 1850 - 524 pages
...efiusion of Herrick " to the Virgins, to make much of Time," beginning — •' Gather you rose-buds while ye may, Old Time is still a-flying ; And this...that smiles to-day, To-morrow will be dying." The following "Answer" appeared in a publication not so well known as the Hesperides. I have therefore... | |
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Gather ye rosebuds while ye may, Old time is still a-flying, And this same flower that smiles to-day, Tomorrow will be dying. 
