 | Ballads, English - 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...while ye may, go marry ; For having lost but once your prime, You may for ever tarry. [From " Hesperides, or the works both Humane and Divine of Robert Herrick,... | |
 | England - 1835 - 794 pages
...dying. The glorious lamp of Heaven, the Sun, The higher he's a getting, The sooner will his race be run, That Age is best, which is the first, When youth and...But being spent, the worse, and worst Times, still sueceed the former. Then be not coy, but use your time, And while ye may, go marry ; For having lost... | |
 | Garland - English poetry - 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...while ye may, go marry ; For having lost but once your prime, You may for ever tarry. THE BLEEDING HAND i OR THE SPRIG OF EGLANTINE GIVEN TO A MAID. FROM... | |
 | Samuel Carter Hall - English poetry - 1836 - 390 pages
...the sun, The higher he's a getting, The sooner will his race be run, And neerer he's to setting. The age is best which is the first, When youth and blood...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. cc FRANCtS QUARLES was born... | |
 | Samuel Carter Hall - English poetry - 1836 - 336 pages
...the sun, The higher he's a getting, The sooner will his race be run, And neerer he's to setting. The age is best which is the first, When youth and blood...warmer; But being spent, the worse and worst Times still suceeed the former. Then be not coy, but use your time, And while ye may, goe marry; For having lost... | |
 | Books - 1839 - 658 pages
...be dying. The glorious lamp of heaven, the sun, The higher he's agetting, VOL. u. (1839). NO. ii. x The sooner will his race be run, And nearer he's to...youth and blood are warmer ; But being spent, the worst ; and worse Times still succeed the former. Then be not coy, but use your time ; And while ye... | |
 | Thomas Campbell - Authors, English - 1841 - 844 pages
...the Sun, The higher he's a getting, The sooner will his race be run, And nearer he's to setting. The age is best which is the first, When youth and blood...the former. Then be not coy, but use your time, And, whilst ye may, go marry ; For having lost but once your prime, You may for ever tarry. To MEADOWS.... | |
 | English poetry - 1844 - 148 pages
...best which is the first. When youth and blood are warmer I But being spent, the worse and worstTimes still succeed the former. Then be not coy, but use your time, And while ye may go marry ; For linving lost but once your prime, DR. HENRY KINO. HYMN TO VENDS. Goddess II do love a Girl Ruby-lipt,... | |
 | Robert Chambers - American literature - 1844 - 692 pages
...which is the first, When youth and blood are wanner ; But, being spent, the worse, and worst Time shall h crosses and with cares ; To cat thy heart through comfortless despairs ; To fawn ; Kor, having lost but oiwe your prime, You muy for ever tarry. Ticclfth Kit/hi, or King ami Queen.... | |
 | English literature - 1845 - 614 pages
...will his race be ran, And nearer he's to setting. That age is best, wnich is the first, When vouth ound beneath far Eastern skies, — Whose wings, though...this dang'rous kind, — By which, though light, the prime, • You may for ever tarry. ROBKRT HFHIUCK. THE BLEEDING HAND. FBOM this bleeding hand of mine,... | |
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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.... 
