 | Book - 1854 - 496 pages
...And take the harmless folly of the time. We shall grow old apace, and die Before we know our liberty. Our life is short, and our days run As fast away as...fleeting shade ; All love, all liking, all delight, Lies drown'd with us in endless night. Then, while time serves, and we are but decaying, Come, my Corinua,... | |
 | English poetry - 1856 - 754 pages
...fast away as dos the sunne. And, as a vapour, or a drop of raine Once lost, can ne'r be found againe, So when or you, or I, are made ' A fable, song, or fleeting shade, All love, all liking, all delight Lies drown'd with us in endlesse night. Then, while time serves, and we are but decaying, Come, my... | |
 | Robert Herrick - 1856 - 380 pages
...away as do's the sunne ; And as a vapour, or a drop of raine, Once lost, can ne'er be found againe, So when or you or I are made A fable, song, or fleeting shade, All love, all liking, all delight, Lies drown'd with us in endlesse night. Then while time serves, and we are but decaying ; Come, my... | |
 | Beautiful poetry - 1857 - 418 pages
...And take the harmless folly of the time ; We shall grow old apace and die Before we know our liberty. Our life is short, and our days run As fast away as...fleeting shade ; All love, all liking, all delight Lies drown'd with us in endless night. Then, while time serves, and we are but decaying, Come, my Corinna,... | |
 | Abraham Mills - English literature - 1858 - 594 pages
...take the harmless folly of the. time. We shall grow old apace, and die Before we know our liberty. Our life is short, and our days run As fast away as...fleeting shade ; All love, all liking, all delight Lies drown'd with us in endless night. Then, while time serves, and wo are but decaying, Come, my Corinna,... | |
 | Robert Herrick - 1859 - 660 pages
...fast away as do's the sunne; And as a vapour, or a drop of raine Once lost, can ne'r be found againe; So when or you or I are made A fable, song, or fleeting shade ; All love, all liking, all delight Lies drown'd with us in endlesse night. Then while time serves, and we are but decaying, Come, my Corinna,... | |
 | American poetry - 1859 - 148 pages
...And take the harmless folly of the time ; We shall grow old apace and die Before we know our liberty. Our life is short, and our days run As fast away as does the sun : And as a vapor, or a drop of rain, Once lost, can ne'er be found again, So when or you or I are made A fable,... | |
 | George Gilfillan - English poetry - 1860 - 364 pages
...And take the harmless folly of the time: We shall grow old apace, and die Before we know our liberty: Our life is short, and our days run As fast away as...fleeting shade, All love, all liking, all delight Lies drown'd with us in endless night. Then, while time serves, and we are but decaying, Come, my Corinna,... | |
 | Gaius Valerius Catullus - 1861 - 256 pages
...And take the harmless folly of the time. We shall grow old apace, and die Before we know our liberty. Our life is short, and our days run As fast away as...fleeting shade, All love, all liking, all delight, Lies drown'd with us in endless night. Then, while time serves, and we are but delaying, Come, my Corinna,... | |
 | English poems - 1863 - 364 pages
...And take the harmless folly of the time. We shall grow old apace, and die Before we know our liberty. Our life is short, and our days run As fast away as...fleeting shade ; All love, all liking, all delight Lies drown'd with us in endless night. Then, while time serves, and we are but decaying, Comc, my Corinna,... | |
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Come, let us go while we are in our prime; And take the harmless folly of the time. We shall grow old apace, and die Before we know our liberty. Our life is short, and our days run As fast away as does the sun... 
