To the Virgins, to Make Much of Time
"To the Virgins, to Make Much of Time" is a poem by Robert Herrick.
The genre of the poem is carpe diem.
- Gather ye rosebuds while ye may,
- Old Time is still a-flying;
- And this same flower that smiles today,
- 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 nearer he's to setting.
- That age is best, which is the first,
- When youth and blood are warmer;
- But being spent, the worse, and worst
- Time still succeed the former.
- Then be not coy, but use your time,
- And while ye may go marry;
- For having lost but once your prime,
- You may for ever tarry.