 | Christianity - 1879 - 474 pages
...unwritten story of your (it may be short, but) useful life, and will bless God that ever you were born. " Gather ye rosebuds while ye may, Old Time is still a-flying ; And flowers which bloom so fair to-day To-morrow may be dying." RCC Prayer and Praise. " Search, ine, O... | |
 | Eliza Rooke - 1854 - 200 pages
...and eternity ; as equally our check, if we remember it watches over us." BALL-DRESS. 17 CHAPTER V. "Gather ye rose-buds while ye may, Old Time is still a-flying ; And this same flower which smiles to-day, To-morrow may be dying." " I AM quite tired," said Laura, seating herself in her... | |
 | Random readings - 1854 - 204 pages
...to me, Since when it grows and smells, I swear. AiMeretn. Hajiz. Not of itself but thee. Ben Jan.mn, Old Time is still a-flying; And this same flower, that smiles to-day, Gather ye row-buds while ye may, To-morrev will be dying. Herrick. HISTORICAL EPISODES. L'XDEK this... | |
 | John Bartlett - Quotations - 1856 - 660 pages
...snails, did creep A little out, and then, As if they played at Bo-peep, Did soon draw in again. To the Virgins to make much of Time. Gather ye rosebuds...flower, that smiles to-day, To-morrow will be dying.* N!ght Piece to Julia. Her eyes the glow-worm lend thee, The shooting stars attend thee ;. And the elves... | |
 | Benjamin Hall Kennedy - 1856 - 384 pages
...swear, Not of itself, but thee. 796. Gather ye rose-buds while ye may ; Old Time is still a flying, And this same flower, that smiles to-day, To-morrow...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 - 1856 - 380 pages
...Within my Lucia's cheek, Whose livery ye weare, Play ye at hide or seek, I'm sure to find ye there. TO THE VIRGINS, TO MAKE MUCH OF TIME. GATHER ye rose-buds while ye may, Old time is still a Hying, And this same flower that Smiles to-day, To-morrow will be dying. i The glorious lamp... | |
 | William Maginn - 1857 - 524 pages
...beginning " Wirasthru then my beautiful jewel" is not the potato. HERRICK LATINIZED. SONG. BY HERBICK. GATHER ye rose-buds while ye may, Old Time is still...a-flying; And this same flower that smiles to-day, To morrow may be dying. The glorious lamp of Heaven, the Sun, The higher he's a-getting, The sooner... | |
 | William Maginn, Robert Shelton Mackenzie - 1857 - 514 pages
...beginning " Wirasthru then my beautiful jewel," is not the potato. HERRICK LATINIZED. SONG. BY HERRICK. GATHER ye rose-buds while ye may, Old Time is still...a-flying; And this same flower that smiles to-day, To morrow may be dying. The glorious lamp of Heaven, the Sun, The higher he's a-getting, The sooner... | |
 | Mary Russell Mitford - American literature - 1857 - 396 pages
...And closed her up as in a tomb. SONG. 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 surf The higher he's a getting, The sooner will his race he run, The nearer he's to setting. The age... | |
 | Henry Reed - English poetry - 1857 - 424 pages
...sportiveness, as in the first stanzas of that light lyric. of Herrick's : — " Gather the rose-buds while ye may ; Old Time is still a-flying ; And this same flower that smiles to-day To-morrow may be dying. " The glorious lamp of heaven, the sun, The higher he "s a-getting The sooner will his... | |
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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 worst Times still succeed the former. Then be not coy, but use your time, And while you may, go marry : For having lost but... 
