6 Robert Herrick Quotes on Time

Robert Herrick quotes on time

2. 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.

14. You say to me-wards your affection's strong; Pray love me little, so you love me long.

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.

22. I saw a flie within a beade Of amber cleanly buried.

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

30. 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.