 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 - 1880 - 142 pagesFull view - About this book
 | Thomas Budd Shaw, William Smith - 1850 - 492 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...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 forever tarry. To MEADOWS. Fair... | |
 | George Rhett Cathcart - 1871 - 200 pages
...the sun, The higher he 'aa getting The sooner will his race be run, And nearer he 'a to setting. The age is best which is the first, When youth and blood...are warmer ; But being spent, the worse and worst Time still succeed the former. Then be not coy, but use your time, And while ye may go marry ; Ex.... | |
 | Barry Gray - 1871 - 376 pages
...scattered, nor our almonds grown bitter in the mouth. WILD OATS AND APPLE-BLOSSOMS. " That age is bc«t which is the first, When youth and blood are warmer; But, being spent, the worse and worst Timea still succeed the former. " Then he not coy, hut use your time, And, while ye may, go marry ;... | |
 | William Henry Davenport Adams - 1872 - 396 pages
...higher he's a-getting, The sooner will his race be run, z I V, 1 s And nearer he's to setting. £ | That age is best which is the first, When youth and...worse, and worst Times, still succeed the former. | [ROBERT HERRICK. From the " Hesperides."] "WE TAKE NO NOTE OF TIME BUT FROM ITS LOSS." — YOUNG.... | |
 | Robert Bell - 1872 - 420 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...the worse, and worst Times still succeed the former. ROBERT HERRICK. Then be not coy, but use your time, And while ye may, go marry; For having lost but... | |
 | 1872 - 232 pages
...best which is the first, When youth and blood are warmer ; But being spent, the worse and worst Time still succeed the former. Then be not coy, but use...may go marry ; For, having lost but once your prime, You may forever tarry. Ex. 108. — FROM THANATOPSIS. — Bryant. gay will laugh -1_ When thou art... | |
 | William Cullen Bryant - 1872 - 898 pages
...tho 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 warmer ; But being spent, the worse and worst Time still succeed the former. Then be not coy, but use your time, And while ye 7nay, go marry ; For... | |
 | Mary Russell Mitford - 1872 - 582 pages
...is hest which is the first, When youth and blood are wanner; But, being spent, the worse and worse Times still succeed the former. Then be not coy, but use your time, And, while ye may, go many; For having lost but once your prime, You may forever tarry. TO MEADOWS. Ye have been fresh and... | |
 | Thomas Arnold - 1873 - 622 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, ( You may for ever tarry. Milton, Dryden, and Pope, furnish us with nothing to quote under this head.... | |
 | Thomas Arnold - 1873 - 590 pages
...getting, Tho sooner will his race be run, And nearer he's to sotting. That age is best which is tho first, When youth and blood are warmer ; But being...may, go marry ; For having lost but once your prime, You may for ever tarry. Milton, Dryden, and Pope, furnish us with nothing to quote under this head.... | |
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