 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....  Alumni Report - Page 54by Philadelphia College of Pharmacy. Alumni Association - 1907Full view - About this book
 | William Linwood - College verse - 1846 - 372 pages
...vivere lustro. Tu vero faustos quicunque voles hymenœos, Aspice in octavo qualis sit Delia lustro. XXI. 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,... | |
 | William Linwood - College verse - 1846 - 342 pages
...vivere lustro. Tu vero faustos quicunque voles hymenaeos, Aspice in octavo qualis sit Delia lustro. XX. 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,... | |
 | Thomas Campbell - 1848 - 468 pages
...very heart, and where he frolics like a being made up of melody and pleasure ; as when he sings — " Gather ye rose-buds while ye may, Old Time is still a-flying; And this same flower that blooms to-day, To-morrow will be dying." * [Told on the authority of Dryden.... | |
 | Thomas Campbell - English poetry - 1848 - 452 pages
...very heart, and where he frolics like a being made up of melody and pleasure ; as when he sings — " Gather ye rose-buds while ye may, Old Time is still a-flying ; And this same flower that blooms to-day, To-morrow will be dying." * [Told on the authority of Dryden.... | |
 | Household words - 1852 - 252 pages
...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. " I dare not ask... | |
 | Christianity - 1879 - 474 pages
...unwritten story of your (it may be short, but) useful life, and will bless God that ever you were born. " Gather ye rosebuds while ye may, Old Time is still a-flying ; And flowers which bloom so fair to-day To-morrow may be dying." RCC Prayer and Praise. " Search, ine, O... | |
 | Frederick Edward Gretton - English language - 1853 - 152 pages
...perpetual darkness, shall henceforth know still silence." TO THE 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 will be dying. The glorious lamp of heaven, the Sun,... | |
 | Eliza Rooke - 1854 - 200 pages
...and eternity ; as equally our check, if we remember it watches over us." BALL-DRESS. 17 CHAPTER V. "Gather ye rose-buds while ye may, Old Time is still a-flying ; And this same flower which smiles to-day, To-morrow may be dying." " I AM quite tired," said Laura, seating... | |
 | John Bartlett - Quotations - 1856 - 660 pages
...and then, As if they played at Bo-peep, Did soon draw in again. To the Virgins to make much of Time. 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.* N!ght Piece to Julia. Her eyes the... | |
 | William Maginn, Robert Shelton Mackenzie - 1857 - 514 pages
...beginning " Wirasthru then my beautiful jewel," is not the potato. HERRICK LATINIZED. SONG. BY HERRICK. GATHER ye rose-buds while ye may, Old Time is still a-flying; And this same flower that smiles to-day, To morrow may be dying. The glorious lamp of Heaven, the Sun,... | |
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