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Robert Herrick Quotes about Time

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

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

Robert Herrick
Song, Time, Lying
'Corinna's Going a-Maying'

Gather ye rose-buds while ye may, Old Time is still a flying: And this same flower that smiles to day, Tomorrow will be dying.

Robert Herrick
Death, Time, Flower
"To the Virgins, to Make Much of Time" l. 1 (1648)

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

Robert Herrick
Time, Succeed, Doe
Robert Herrick (1844). “Hesperides Or Works Both Human and Divine”, p.91

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