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, And nearer he's to setting.... Progressive Exercises in Latin Elegiac Verse - 第56页作者:Charles Granville Gepp - 1830 - 142 页全本阅读 - 图书信息
| Little folk - 1873 - 282 页
...may, Old Time is still a-flying : And this same flower that smiles to-day. To-morrow will be dying. That age is best which is the first, When youth and...worse, and worst Times, still succeed the former. A'. Herrick. I MY LOST CHILD. CANNOT make him dead ! His fair sunshiny head Is ever bounding round... | |
| Francis Jacox - 1873 - 516 页
...the worst sign of all. As Robert Herrick has it, in perhaps the most familiar of his lyrics,—- " That age is best which is the first, When youth and...are warmer ; But, being spent, the worse, and worst Time shall succeed the former." We are old fellows, it is said, from the moment the fire begins to... | |
| Anthologia Anglica - 1873 - 512 页
...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 first, When youth and...are warmer : But being spent, the worse, and worst Time shall succeed the former. Then be not coy, but use your time, And while ye may, go marry : For... | |
| Casket - 1873 - 882 页
...his race be run, And nearer he'« to Betting. That age is beet which is the first, When youth anil blood are warmer; But being spent, the worse and worst Times still succeed the former. Then bo not coy, but use your time, And while you may, go marry ; For having lost but once your prime, You... | |
| William Cullen Bryant - 1873 - 906 页
...the sun, The higher he 'sa getting, The sooner will his race be run, And nearer he 's to setting. The summoned to my final call, The Mercy of my God. WASHING wanner ; But being spent, the worse and worst Time still succeed the former. Then be not coy, but use... | |
| Robert Andrews - 1997 - 666 页
...AROUET], (1694-1778) French philosopher, author. Quoted in Byron's Letters and Journals, Women: Single 1 Then be not coy, but use your time; And while ye may, go marry: For having lost but once your prime, You may for ever tarry. ROBERT HERRICK, (1591-1674) British poet, clergyman. "To the Virgins, to Make... | |
| William Harmon - 1998 - 386 页
...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 first, When youth and...may, go marry; For having lost but once your prime, You may for ever tarry. COMPOSED AROUND 1630; PUBLISHED 1648. Herrick must have written poems all the... | |
| Connie Robertson - 1998 - 686 页
...same flower that smiles to-day, To-morrow will be dying. 4593 To the Virgins, to Make Much of Time' ken, and so x You may for ever tarry. HERSCHENSOHN Bruce 4594 Boredom turns a man to sex, a woman to shopping, and... | |
| Ilona Bell - 1998 - 298 页
...the Virgins, to Make Much of Time" conclude by subjecting frail female bodies to male verbal power: "Then be not coy, but use your time, / And, while...go marry; / For, having lost but once your prime, / You may forever tarry" (13-16). Dropping the apostrophe and speaking directly to her, Spenser avoids... | |
| Rachel R. Baum - 1999 - 188 页
...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 first, When youth and...may, go marry; For having lost but once your prime, You may for ever tarry. -Robert Herrick (1591-1674). Recited in the 1989 film Dead Poets Society. Turn... | |
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