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Gather ye Rose-buds while ye may, Old Time is still a-flying: And this same flower that smiles to day, To morrow will be dying. The glorious Lamp of Heaven, the Sun, The higher he's a getting; The sooner will his Race be run, And neerer he's to Setting. That Age is best, which is the first,
LIKE TO THE DAMASK ROSE Like [to] [4] the damask rose you see, Or like the blossom on [a] [5] tree, Or like the dainty flow’r of May, Or like the morning [of] [6] the day, Or like the sun, or like the shade, Or like the gourd which Jonas had, Even such is man, whose thread is spun, Drawn out, and cut, and so is done : The rose withers, the ...
Born in Cheapside, London, Robert Herrick was the seventh child and fourth son of Julia Stone and Nicholas Herrick, a prosperous goldsmith. [2] He was named after an uncle, Robert Herrick (or Heyrick), a prosperous Member of Parliament (MP) for Leicester, who had bought the land Greyfriars Abbey stood on after Henry VIII's dissolution in the mid-16th century.
Gather ye rosebuds while ye may is the first line from the poem "To the Virgins, to Make Much of Time" by Robert Herrick. The words come originally from the Book of Wisdom in the Bible, chapter 2, verse 8. It was the inspiration for several works of art: Gather Ye Rosebuds While Ye May (Waterhouse painting 1908) by John William Waterhouse.
Elisabeth Lutyens set the poem for unaccompanied chorus, but later withdrew this work. [31] Alan Rawsthorne's Chamber Cantata (c. 1937), scored for soprano and chamber ensemble, includes "Lenten" along with Alexander Montgomerie's "The nicht is neir gone", and the anonymous poems "Of a rose is al myn song" and "Wynter wakeneth all my care". [32]
The rose always was, and is, and will be forever on the "Rood of Time. The poem is settled in the rose, to the point that the poem’s tone is one of sweet, suffering melancholy, a tone that is reaching for the sublime. In the 1890s, says Stephen Coote, Yeats was concerned for the "spiritual regeneration of his people": he felt that a spiritual ...
The former Oasis frontman, who is preparing to release his debut collaborative album with The Stone Roses musician John Squire, is known for some of the UK’s best-loved rock songs, from ...
Sonnet 54 is an English or Shakespearean sonnet.The English sonnet contains three quatrains followed by a final rhyming couplet.This poem follows the rhyme scheme of the English sonnet, abab cdcd efef gg and is composed in iambic pentameter, a type of metre in which each line has five feet, and each foot has two syllables that are accented weak/strong.