 | Abraham Mills - 1851 - 594 Seiten
...cherries grow. GATHER THE 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...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 is the... | |
 | James Orchard Halliwell-Phillipps - 1851 - 486 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... | |
 | Percy Society - 1851 - 450 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... | |
 | 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... | |
 | Mary Russell Mitford - 1852 - 344 Seiten
...loom, And closed her up, as in a tomb. Gather ye rosebuds, while ye may, Old Time is still a flying ; And this same flower that smiles to-day, To-morrow...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 is the... | |
 | Robert Herrick - 1852 - 744 Seiten
...myrtles to be writ ; That my poor name 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... | |
 | Oskar Ludwig Bernhard Wolff - 1852 - 442 Seiten
...and with teares brought forth." Song. 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 heav'n, the sun, The higher he's a getting, The sooner will his race be run, And neerer he's to setting.... | |
 | Charles Dickens - 1852 - 644 Seiten
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 | Charles Dickens - 1852 - 252 Seiten
...Herrick has signalised himself by the finest " Anacreontic" in our language. I mean the one beginning, " Gather ye rosebuds while ye may : Old Time is still a-flying, And the same flower that blooms to day, To-morrow will be dying." Here is a pretty love conceit. "TO ELECTRA.... | |
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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... 
