4 Robert Herrick Quotes on Life

Robert Herrick quotes on life

17. Gather ye rosebuds while ye may, Old Time is still a-flying, And this same flower that smiles today Tomorrow 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.

19. Thus woe succeeds a woe, as wave a wave.

23. Thus times do shift, each thing his turn does hold; New things succeed, as former things grow old.

27. But ne'er the rose without the thorn.