 | James Orchard Halliwell-Phillipps - 1851 - 488 Seiten
...GATHER your rose-buds whilst you may, For time is still a flying, And that same flower which grows to-day, To-morrow will be dying. The glorious lamp of heaven, the sun, The higher he is getting, The sooner will his race be run, And nearer is to setting. That age is best that is the... | |
 | Percy Society - 1851 - 464 Seiten
...GATHER your rose-buds whilst you may, For time is still a flying, And that same flower which grows to-day, To-morrow will be dying. The glorious lamp of heaven, the sun, The higher he is getting, The sooner will his race be run, And nearer is to setting. That age is best that is the... | |
 | Mary Russell Mitford - 1852 - 344 Seiten
...And rites were all accomplished, They, weeping, spread a lawny loom, And closed her up, as in a tomb. Gather ye rosebuds, while ye may, Old Time is still...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... | |
 | Oskar Ludwig Bernhard Wolff - 1852 - 438 Seiten
...things of greatest, so of meanest worth, Conceiv'd with grief are, and with teares brought forth." Song. Gather .ye rose-buds while ye may, Old Time is still...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 Herrick - 1852 - 744 Seiten
...may have the glory To live remember'd in your story ! D8 XCIII. TO THE VIRGINS, TO MAKE MUCH OF TIME. Gather 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 ;... | |
 | Thomas Campbell - 1853 - 838 Seiten
...lamentations and anathemas.— O.] 284 286 SONO. GATHER ye rose-buds, while ye may, Old Time is etill a flying ; And this same flower that smiles to-day,...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... | |
 | 1853 - 560 Seiten
...Cloudland. MACKAY. 20 GATHER YE 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...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 - 1853 - 152 Seiten
...VIBGINS, TO MAKE MUCH OF TIME. VII. 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... | |
 | Society for promoting Christian knowledge - 1853 - 646 Seiten
...OF THEIR TIME. GATHER the rosebuds — while ye may, Old Time is still a-flying, And this «ате 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. Then be not coy, but use... | |
 | 1855 - 834 Seiten
...the church and served well to round the periods of Puritan lamentations and anathemas.— 0.] SONG. GATHER ye rose-buds, while ye may, Old Time is still...The glorious lamp of heaven, the sun, The higher he 'ea getting, The sooner will his race he run, And nearer he's to setting. The age is best which is... | |
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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... 
