Robert Herrick: Quotes about time

Robert Herrick was 17th-century English poet and cleric. Explore interesting quotes on time.
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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.”

Robert Herrick book Hesperides

"To the Virgins to Make Much of Time". Compare: "Gather the rose of love whilest yet is time", Edmund Spenser, The Faerie Queene, book ii. canto xii. stanza 75. ; "Let us crown ourselves with rose-buds, before they be withered", Wisdom of Solomon, ii. 8.
Hesperides (1648)
Context: 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.

Smile , Flowers , Time , Flying

“God doth not promise here to man that He
Will free him quickly from his misery;
But in His own time, and when He thinks fit,
Then He will give a happy end to it.”

Robert Herrick book Hesperides

"God's Time Must End Our Trouble".
Hesperides (1648)

God , Thinking , Time , Happiness

“Then while time serves, and we are but decaying.
Come, my Corinna, come, let's go a Maying.”

Robert Herrick book Hesperides

"Corinna's Going a Maying" http://books.google.com/books?id=2epaAAAAMAAJ&q=%22Then+while+time+serves+and+we+are+but+decaying+come+my+Corinna+come+let's+goe+a+maying%22&pg=PA123#v=onepage.
Hesperides (1648)

Time

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

Robert Herrick book Hesperides

"Ceremonies for Candlemas Eve".
Hesperides (1648)

Time