To the Virgins to make much of Time by Robert Herrick
R Herrick read by Classic Poetry Aloud:\nhttp://www.classicpoetryaloud.com/\n\nGiving voice to the poetry of the past.\n\n---------------------------------------------------\n\nTo the Virgins to make much of Time\nby Robert Herrick (1591 \u2013 1674)\n\nGather ye rosebuds while ye may,\n Old Time is still a-flying:\nAnd this same flower that smiles to-day\n To-morrow will be dying.\nThe glorious lamp of heaven, the sun,\n The higher he's a-getting,\nThe sooner will his race be run,\n And nearer he's to setting.\n\nThat age is best which is the first,\n When youth and blood are warmer;\nBut being spent, the worse, and worst\n Times still succeed the former.\n\nThen be not coy, but use your time,\n And while ye may, go marry:\nFor having lost but once your prime,\n You may for ever tarry.\n\nFirst aired: 11 December 2007\n\nFor hundreds more poetry readings, visit the Classic Poetry Aloud index.\n\nReading \xa9 Classic Poetry Aloud 2008