{"id":9606,"date":"2023-08-08T01:00:00","date_gmt":"2023-08-08T05:00:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newspaperhistory.com\/gather-ye-rosebuds\/"},"modified":"2023-08-08T01:00:00","modified_gmt":"2023-08-08T05:00:00","slug":"gather-ye-rosebuds","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/desperaudio.com\/newspaperpoetry\/gather-ye-rosebuds\/","title":{"rendered":"Gather Ye Rosebuds"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p><em>From the <a href=\"https:\/\/chroniclingamerica.loc.gov\/lccn\/sn83045389\/1915-08-08\/ed-1\/seq-20\/\">Richmond Times Dispatch, August 8, 1915<\/a>. By Robert Herrick.<\/em><\/p>\n\n\n\n\n<p>Gather ye rosebuds while ye may,<br\/>&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;Old Time is still a-flying,<br\/>And this same flower that smiles today<br\/>&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;Tomorrow may be dying.<\/p>\n\n\n\n\n<p>The glorious lamp of heaven, the sun,<br\/>&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;The higher he\u2019s a-getting,<br\/>The sooner will his race be run<br\/>&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;And nearer he\u2019s to setting.<\/p>\n\n\n\n\n<p>That age is best which is the first,<br\/>&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;When youth and blood are warmer;<br\/>But being spent, the worse, and worst<br\/>&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;Times still succeed the former.<\/p>\n\n\n\n\n<p>Then be not coy, but use your time,<br\/>&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;And while ye may, go marry;<br\/>For having lost but once your prime,<br\/>&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;Ye may forever tarry.<\/p>\n\n\n\n\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>From the Richmond Times Dispatch, August 8, 1915. By Robert Herrick. Gather ye rosebuds while ye may,&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;Old Time is still a-flying,And this same flower that smiles today&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;Tomorrow may be dying. The glorious lamp of heaven, the sun,&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;The higher he\u2019s a-getting,The sooner will his race be run&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;And nearer he\u2019s to setting. That age is best which [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[3,6],"tags":[261],"class_list":["post-9606","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-newspapers","category-richmond-times-dispatch","tag-robert-herrick"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/desperaudio.com\/newspaperpoetry\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/9606","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/desperaudio.com\/newspaperpoetry\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/desperaudio.com\/newspaperpoetry\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/desperaudio.com\/newspaperpoetry\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/desperaudio.com\/newspaperpoetry\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=9606"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/desperaudio.com\/newspaperpoetry\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/9606\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/desperaudio.com\/newspaperpoetry\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=9606"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/desperaudio.com\/newspaperpoetry\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=9606"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/desperaudio.com\/newspaperpoetry\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=9606"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}