 | Aesthetics - 1861 - 144 pages
...this same flower that smiles to-day To-morrow will be dying. The glorious lamp of heaven, the Bun, 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 are warmer ; But being spent, the worse and... | |
 | Mary Russell Mitford - Authors - 1862 - 592 pages
...is best which is the first, When youth and blood are warmer; But, being spent, the worse and worse Times still succeed the former. Then be not coy, but use your time, And, while ye may, go many ; For having lost but once your prime, You may forever tarry. TO MEADOWS. Ye have been fresh and... | |
 | English poetry - 1863 - 438 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 prime, You may for ever tarry. R. Herrick LXXXIII TO LUCASTA, ON GOING TO THE WARS ' I "'ELL me not,... | |
 | Thomas Budd Shaw, sir William Smith - 1864 - 554 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.... | |
 | Chambers W. and R., ltd - 1865 - 252 pages
...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. ABRAHAM COWLEY:... | |
 | Pen and pencil pictures - American poetry - 1866 - 176 pages
...Lamp of Heaven, the Sun, The higher he 's a-getting, The sooner will his race be run, The 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 prime, You may for ever tarry. Rohm Redbreast. I HOMSON. cherished fields Put on their winter robe... | |
 | 1866 - 388 pages
...same flower that smiles to-day, To-morrow will be dying. The sooner will his race be run, And neerer he's to setting. That age is best which is the first,...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.... | |
 | English literature - 1866 - 612 pages
...which either ' pejor ' or ' in pejus ' is used to represent the word ' worse ' in the lines : — ' That age is best which is the first, When youth and...the worse and worst Times still succeed the former.' We cannot think that any great difficulty would have been experienced in introducing ' deterior ' or... | |
 | Richard Henry Stoddard - Ballads, English - 1866 - 240 pages
...this same ftoiver that smiles to-day, To-morro-iv 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. That age is beft which is the firft, When youth and blood are warmer ; But being spent, the worse, and worft Times... | |
 | John William Stanhope Hows - English poetry - 1866 - 574 pages
...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 nearer he's to setting. The age is best which is the first, When youth and blood are warmer ; But being spent, the worse and... | |
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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.... 
