 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, The higher he's a getting, The sooner will his race be run, And neerer he's to setting.  The Odes, Epodes, and Carmen Seculare - Page 170by Horace - 1902 - 465 pagesFull view - About this book
 | Charles Donald Maclean - English poetry - 1880 - 104 pages
...Timon of Athens, ' act iv. sc. 3) . . . .48 TRANSLATIONS. I. TO THE VIRGINS, TO MAKE MUCH OF TIME, 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, The higher he's a getting... | |
 | Quintus Horatius Flaccus - 1881 - 118 pages
...breve lilium. Notice the pathos of the epithet thus introduced in an ode on the short life of man. i 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.' 15. res] ' circumstances,' ' fortune.' I much prefer some... | |
 | Sylvia (pseud.) - 1881 - 148 pages
...that are " for man's illusion given," and passes more quickly than any other kind of loveliness. " Gather ye rosebuds while ye may, Old time is still a flying ; And that same flower that smiles to-day. To-morrow may be dying." 1 And he tucks into his wallet yearly,... | |
 | H. L. Sidney Lear - Quotations - 1882 - 204 pages
...off a common ; But surely he 's without excuse Who steals the common from the goose ! CCXIX. YOUTH. 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 'sa getting,... | |
 | Annie Brassey, Henry Stuart Wortley - Tahiti - 1882 - 208 pages
...and where most visitors from afar are but such fleeting guests, the wisdom of the poet's advice : — Gather ye rosebuds while ye may, Old time is still a flying ; And then some flower that smiles to day To-morrow will be dying. If day had its charms, they were equalled,... | |
 | Ward, Lock and co, ltd - 1882 - 1146 pages
...that are " for man's illusion given," and. passes more quickly than any oiher kind of loveliness. " Gather ye rosebuds while ye may, Old time is still a flying ; And that same flower that smiles to-day, To-morrow may be dying."' And he tucks into his wallet yearly,... | |
 | Mary Russell Mitford - American literature - 1883 - 544 pages
...And rites were all accomplished, They, weeping, spread a lawny loom, And closed her up as in a tomb. 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 'sa getting,... | |
 | Horace, Thomas Ethelbert Page - 1881 - 116 pages
...breve lilium. Notice the pathos of the epithet thus introduced in an ode on the short life of man. ' 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.' 15. res] ' circumstances,' ' fortune.' I much prefer some... | |
 | Quintus Horatius Flaccus - 1884 - 128 pages
...breve lilium.. Notice the pathos of the epithet thus introduced in an Ode on the short life of man. Cf. '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.' 15. res] 'circumstances,' ' fortune.' sororum fila] The Fates... | |
 | William Shakespeare - 1889 - 172 pages
...his case ; the second, "Beauty's a flower," applies to hers. For this latter proverb cp. Herrick's " Gather ye rosebuds while ye may, Old time is still a flying." 48 Cuckold. Hanmer suggests counsellor, Cnpell school. Hunter says this is intentional nonsense. 52... | |
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