Robert Herrick Quotes About Youth

Quotes about: Youth

• To the Virgins, To Make much of Time Gather ye rose-buds 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 is to setting. That age is best which is the first, When youth and blood are warmer; But being spent, the worse, and worst Times still succeed the former. Then be not coy, but use your time, And while you may, go marry; For having lost but once your prime, You may for ever tarry.

  Robert Herrick

  Running, Flower, Race

  'To the Virgins, to Make Much of Time'

• That age is best which is the first
  When youth and blood are warmer.

  Robert Herrick

  Spring, Blood, Age

  Robert Herrick (1869). “Hesperides: The Poems and Other Remains of Robert Herrick Now First Collected”, p.87

• Oft have I heard both youths and virgins say,
  Birds chuse their mates and couple too this day:
  But by their flight I never can devine
  When I shall couple with my valentine.

  Robert Herrick

  Couple, Valentine, Bird

  Robert Herrick, Samuel Weber Singer (1856). “Hesperides: Or, The Works Both Humane and Divine of Robert Herrick ...”, p.243

• When the tempter me pursueth
  With the sins of all my youth,
  And half damns me with untruth,
  Sweet Spirit, comfort me!

  Robert Herrick

  Sweet, Prayer, Temptation

  Robert Herrick (1887). “Hesperides: Or, Works Both Human an Divine of Robert Herrick”

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