 | Robert Herrick - Elegiac poetry, English - 1825 - 334 pages
...lamp of heaven, the Sun, The higher he's a getting, 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.... | |
 | John Johnstone (of Edinburgh.) - English poetry - 1828 - 600 pages
...heav'n, the sun, The higher he's a getting, The sooner will his race be run, And nearer he's to setting. But being spent, the worse and worst Times still succeed...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. THE NIGHTLY... | |
 | Poor Humphrey's calendar - 1828 - 60 pages
...heaven, the sun, The higher he's a getting, The sooner will his race be run, The nearer he .s to setting. Then be not coy, but use your time, And while ye may, go marry ; For having lost for once your prime. Ye may for ever tarry.— Herrick. J?t. J3antabaS. „ Old Saying. Barnaby bright... | |
 | 1830 - 428 pages
...The higher he's a-getting. The sooner will his race be run, And nearer he's to setting. That age it best which is the first. When youth and blood are...Times still succeed the former. Then be not coy, but use'your time, And while ye may, go marry ; For having lost but once your prime, You may for ever tarry.... | |
 | 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... | |
 | 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
...The higher he's agetting, VOL. u. (1839). NO. ii. x The sooner will his race be run, And nearer he's to setting. That age is best which is the first. When...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... | |
 | Fitz-Greene Halleck - English poetry - 1840 - 372 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 are wanner ; But, being spent, the worse and worst Times still succeed the former. TO MEADOWS. FAIR daffodils,... | |
 | 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.... | |
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But being spent, the worse, and worst Times still succeed the former. Then be not coy, but use your time, And while ye may, go marry; For having lost but once your prime, You may for ever tarry. 
