| John Bartlett (1820–1905). Familiar Quotations, 10th ed. 1919. |
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| NUMBER: | 2270 |
| AUTHOR: | Robert Herrick (1591–1674) |
| QUOTATION: | Gather ye rosebuds while ye may,
Old Time is still a-flying,
And this same flower that smiles to-day
To-morrow will be dying. 1 |
| ATTRIBUTION: | To the Virgins to make much of Time. |
| BIOGRAPHY: | Columbia Encyclopedia. |
| | Note 1.
Let us crown ourselves with rose-buds, before they be withered.—Wisdom of Solomon, ii. 8.
Gather the rose of love whilest yet is time.—Edmund Spenser: The Faerie Queene, book ii. canto xii. stanza 75. [back] |
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