 | Robert Chambers - Authors, English - 1847 - 712 pages
...Time. Gather the rose-buds, while ye may, Old Time is still a-flying, And this same flower that smiles he's a getting, The sooner will his race be run, And nearer he's to setting. That age is best which... | |
 | Adela Sidney - 1848 - 310 pages
...while ye may, Old Time is still a flying ; And this same flower which smiles to-day, To-morrow may be dying. The glorious lamp of Heaven, the sun, The higher he 'sa getting, The sooner will his race be run, The nearer he 's to setting. HERRICK. ONE common interest... | |
 | Abraham Mills - English literature - 1851 - 594 pages
...ROSE-BUDS. Gather the rose-buds while ye may, Old Time is still a-flylng, 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. That age is best which... | |
 | Abraham Mills - English literature - 1851 - 602 pages
...ROSE-BUDS. Gather the 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, 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... | |
 | Mary Russell Mitford - Authors - 1852 - 592 pages
...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 sun, The higher he's a getting, The sooner will his race he run, The nearer he's to setting. The age is best which... | |
 | Mary Russell Mitford - American literature - 1852 - 344 pages
...tomb. 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, The nearer he's to setting. The age is best which... | |
 | Robert Herrick - 1852 - 744 pages
...ye rose-buds while ye may, Old Time is still a flying : And this same flower, that smiles to-daj ; 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. That age is best which... | |
 | Thomas Campbell - English poetry - 1853 - 838 pages
...SONO. GATHER ye rose-buds, while ye may, Old Time is etill 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 'sa getting, The sooner will his race be run, And nearer he 's to setting. The age is best which is... | |
 | Poets, American - 1853 - 560 pages
...HOSE-BUDS. GATHER ye Kose-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, the Sun, The higher he 'aa getting ; The sooner will his race be run, And nearer he 's to setting. That age is best, which... | |
 | Frederick Edward Gretton - English language - 1853 - 152 pages
...VII. 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, 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... | |
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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... 
