 | Francis Turner Palgrave - 1867 - 360 pages
...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 best which is the first, When...lost but once your prime, You may for ever tarry. LXXXUI TO LUCASTA. ON GOLYG TO THE WARS Tell me not, Sweet, I am unkind That from the nunnery Of thy... | |
 | Henry Morley - 1868 - 282 pages
...smiles to-day To-morrow will be dying. The glorious lamp of heaven, the sun, The higher he 'sa getting, The sooner will his race be run. And nearer he 's...lost but once your prime, You may for ever tarry. Robert Herrick. TO A LADY SINGING A SONG OF HIS COMPOSING. 3, yourself you so excel When you vouchsafe... | |
 | 1896 - 726 pages
...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 best which is the first, When...lost but once your prime, You may for ever tarry. It is difficult to give in so many words precise reasons for Herrick's greatness as a lyrical poet.... | |
 | Henry Morley - 1868 - 284 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,...lost but once your prime, You may for ever tarry. Robert Berrick. TO A LADY SINGING A SONG OF HIS COMPOSING. 5, yourself you so excel When you vouchsafe... | |
 | Hubert Ashton Holden - 1870 - 524 pages
...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 best which is the first, when...may, go marry: for having lost but once your prime, ye may for ever tarry. R. HERRICK me fugere ipsum. Quid enim iuvat otia vitae quidve voluptatem prccul... | |
 | Thomas Arnold - 1873 - 622 pages
...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 best which is the first, When...lost but once your prime, ( You may for ever tarry. Milton, Dryden, and Pope, furnish us with nothing to quote under this head. When we come to modern... | |
 | Lyrics, William Davenport Adams - 1874 - 312 pages
...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 best which is the first, When...lost but once your prime, You may for ever tarry. Robert Hcrrich. CCIX. A LOVER FOR A FRIEND. Is it not, Celia, in your power To say how long our love... | |
 | 1874 - 870 pages
...Sun, The higher he's a-getting. The sooner will his race be run, And nearer he's to setting. That eye is best which is the first, When youth and blood are...marry: For having lost but once your prime, You may forever tarry. Herrick was born in 1591, but did not reach his poetical prime till he was considerably... | |
 | Floral poesy - 1875 - 360 pages
...he's a-getting ; The sooner will his race be run, The nearer he's a-setting. That age is best, that is the first, When youth and blood are warmer ; But...lost but once your prime, You may for ever tarry. ROSES. LEIGH HUNT. WE are blushing roses, Bending with our fulness, 'Midst our close-capped sister... | |
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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.... 
