Robert Herrick Quotes on Time
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Fair pledges of a fruitful tree, Why do ye fall so fast? Your date is not so past But you may stay yet here awhile To blush and gently smile, And go at last.
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You say to me-wards your affection's strong; Pray love me little, so you love me long.
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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.
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I saw a flie within a beade Of amber cleanly buried.
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Thus times do shift, each thing his turn does hold; New things succeed, as former things grow old.
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So when or you or I are made A fable, song, or fleeting shade, All love, all liking, all delight Lies drowned with us in endless night.