 | Samuel Carter Hall - 1836 - 336 pagina’s
...things of greatest, so of meanest worth, Concciv'd with grief are, and with teares brought forth. GATHER ye rose-buds while ye may, Old Time is still a flying...to-day, To-morrow will be dying. The glorious lamp of heav'n, the sun, The higher he's a getting, The sooner will his race be run, And neerer he's to setting.... | |
 | Samuel Carter Hall - 1836 - 390 pagina’s
...of greatest, so of meanest worth, Conceiv'd with grief are, and with teares brought forth." GATHER ye rose-buds while ye may, Old Time is still a flying...to-day, To-morrow will be dying. The glorious lamp of heav'n, the sun, The higher he's a getting, The sooner will his race be run, And neerer he's to setting.... | |
 | Robert Walsh - 1837 - 572 pagina’s
...shall have become general. Old Herrick's stanza will then be every one's motto : " Gather the rose-buds while ye may, Old Time is still a flying, And this same flovv'r that smiles lo day, To-morrow will be dying." The two last lines, by the way, are striking... | |
 | 1837 - 536 pagina’s
...shall have become general. Old Herrick's stanza will then be every one's motto : " Gather the rose-buds while ye may, Old Time is still a flying, And this same flow'r that smiles to day, To-morrow will be dying." The two last lines, by the way, are striking and... | |
 | 1839 - 56 pagina’s
...silvei-y feet, My soul I will pour into thee. PORTION OP A SONG. BY THE SAME. Gather the rose-buds while ye may, Old time is still a flying- ; And this...dying. The glorious lamp of heaven, the sun, The higher he,sa getting, The sooner will his race be run, And nearer he,s to setting. LINES. BY MA YN E . Time... | |
 | 1839 - 658 pagina’s
...THE VIRGINS. TO MAKE MUCH OF TIME. Gather ye rose-buds while you may ; Old Time is still aflying ; And this same flower, that smiles to-day, To-morrow...glorious lamp of heaven, the sun, The higher he's agetting, VOL. u. (1839). NO. ii. x The sooner will his race be run, And nearer he's to setting. That... | |
 | Robert Chambers - 1844 - 692 pagina’s
...Viiyitu, to make much of thci,' Time. Gather the rose-buds, while ye may, Old Time is still a-flying, Ami M1Ik 3 a z J (y \ Ar Iͥ @ G`oMٕmo ... 78 E ؘM O \աI P 氜R wj( -eI G @ e w"S R "+ he's to setting. That age is best which is the first, When youth and blood are wanner ; But, being... | |
 | Thomas Campbell - 1844 - 846 pagina’s
...heart, and where lie frolics like a being made up of melody and pleasure ; as when he sings — Gather thee. By what authority didst thou execute This bloody sentence ? Bos. By yours. blooms to-day, To-morrow will be dying. In the same spirit are his verses to Anthea, concluding —... | |
 | 1844 - 148 pagina’s
...her full lips derive, Honey enough to fill his hive. , TO THE ViROINS, TO HAKE MUCH OF TIME. Gather ye rose-buds while ye may, Old Time is still a flying ; And this same flower th.it smiles to-day. To-morrow will be dying. j. The glorious lamp of heaven, the Sun, The higher he's... | |
 | 1845 - 614 pagina’s
...MAKE MUCH OF TIME, GATHER ye rose-buds while ye may, Old Time is still a flying j And this same ttower me. One sink of level avarice shall lie, And scholars,...Yet think not, thus when Freedom's ills I state, ran, And nearer he's to setting. That age is best, wnich is the first, When vouth and blood are warmer... | |
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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 are warmer; But being spent, the worse and worst Times still succeed the former. Then be not coy, but use... 
