 | Robert Herrick - 1810 - 280 pages
...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 nearer he's...lost but once your prime, You may for ever tarry. LXXIlt. TO THE LARK. GOOD speed, for I this day Betimes my mattins say ; Because I do Begin to woo;... | |
 | Robert Herrick - 1810 - 278 pages
...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 nearer he's to...ye may, go marry : For, having lost but once your primef You may for ever tarry. LXXm. TO THE LARK. GOOD speed, for I this day Betimes my mattins say... | |
 | New elegant extracts - 1823 - 402 pages
...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...lost but once your prime, You may for ever tarry. HERRICK. SONG. WHEN Fanny, blooming fair, First caught my ravish'd sight, Struck with her shape and... | |
 | Richard Alfred Davenport - 1823 - 470 pages
...smiles to-day, To-morrow will be dying. The glprious lamp of heaven, the sun, The higher he's a getting, The sooner will his race be run, And nearer he's to...lost but once your prime, You may for ever tarry. HERRICK. SONG. WHEN Fanny, blooming fair, First caught my ravish'd sight, Struck with her shape and... | |
 | Robert Herrick - 1825 - 334 pages
...glorious lamp of heaven, the Sun, The higher he's a getting, The sooner will his race be run, And neerer he's to setting. ' That age is best, which is the...Then be not coy, but use your time, And while ye may, goe marry ; For having lost but once your prime, You may for ever tarry. SAFETY TO LOOK TO ONE'S SELFE.... | |
 | Richard Ryan - 1826 - 312 pages
...lamp of heaven, the Sun, The higher he 'sa getting, The sooner will his race be run, And nearer he "s to setting. That age is best which is the first, When...lost but once your prime, You may for ever tarry." The gaiety and sprightliness of the next specimen are eminently characteristic. " I could never love... | |
 | Richard Ryan - 1826 - 318 pages
...lamp of heaven, the Sun, The higher he 'sa getting, The sooner will his race be run, And nearer he 's to setting. That age is best which is the first, When...while ye may, go marry; For, having lost but once your primej You may for ever tarry." " I could never love indeed ; Never see mine own heart bleed ; Never... | |
 | Charles Granville Gepp - 1830 - 194 pages
...Observe the repetition of the verb in Stanza I. 1. See Poet. Orn. f 2. EXERCISE LXXXV. (same continued). That age is best which is the first, When youth and...may, go marry : For having lost but once your prime, . Stanza I. 1, 2. Best are those times of life which flourish first, when the veins swell with hotter... | |
 | 1835 - 378 pages
...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...lost but once your prime, You may for ever tarry. [From " Hesperides, or the works both Humane and Divine of Robert Herrick, Esq. 1648." The idea is... | |
 | Garland - 1836 - 246 pages
...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...lost but once your prime, You may for ever tarry. THE BLEEDING HAND i OR THE SPRIG OF EGLANTINE GIVEN TO A MAID. FROM this bleeding hand of mine, Take... | |
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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.... 
