{"id":5998,"date":"2006-08-07T15:35:22","date_gmt":"2006-08-07T19:35:22","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.pioneergirl.com\/blog\/?p=5998"},"modified":"2016-01-26T19:10:06","modified_gmt":"2016-01-27T00:10:06","slug":"gather-ye-rosebuds-while-ye-may","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/www.pioneergirl.com\/blog\/archives\/5998","title":{"rendered":"Gather ye rosebuds while ye may&#8230;"},"content":{"rendered":"<blockquote><p>Variation of first line of a poem by Robert Herrick.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p><\/p>\n<p><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/www.pioneergirl.com\/tbl_bullet.gif\"\/> <em>\u201cGather ye rosebuds while ye may,\u201d Mary began, and she quoted the poem for Laura. \u2013 These Happy Golden Years, Chapter 16, \u201cSummer Days\u201d<\/em><\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;<br \/>\n<img decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/www.pioneergirl.com\/gatherye01.gif\" align=\"right\" \/><span style=\"float: left; color: #6384bd; font-size: 44px; line-height: 35px; padding-top: 3px; padding-right: 3px; font-family: Times, serif, Georgia;\">T<\/span>he poem Mary Ingalls quoted was &#8220;To the Virgins, To Make Much of Time,&#8221; by Robert Herrick (1591-1674). It was first published in a volume of verse titled <em>Hesperides<\/em>, and is perhaps the most famous poem to extol the notion of Carpe diem, or \u201cseize the day.\u201d To live in the moment, here, is to recognize the ephemeral quality of life by celebrating life and all its pleasures&#8230; after marriage, or course.<\/p>\n<p>The image at right is of the oil painting on canvas, &#8220;Gather Ye Rosebuds While Ye May,&#8221; by British Pre-Raphaelite artist, John William Waterhouse, painted in 1909. This was the second Waterhouse painting of the same subject.<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;<br \/>\n<strong>To the Virgins, To Make Much of Time.<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>Gather ye rosebuds while ye may,<br \/>\nOld Time is still a-flying:<br \/>\nAnd this same flower that smiles to-day<br \/>\nTo-morrow will be dying.<\/p>\n<p>The glorious lamp of heaven, the sun,<br \/>\nThe higher he\u2019s a getting,<br \/>\nThe sooner will his race be run,<br \/>\nAnd nearer he \u2018s to setting.<\/p>\n<p>That age is best which is the first,<br \/>\nWhen youth and blood are warmer;<br \/>\nBut being spent, the worse, and worst<br \/>\nTimes still succeed the former.<\/p>\n<p>Then be not coy, but use your time,<br \/>\nAnd while ye may, go marry:<br \/>\nFor having lost but once your prime,<br \/>\nYou may for ever tarry.<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;<br \/>\n<img decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/www.pioneergirl.com\/tbl_book.gif\" \/><br \/>\n<strong>\u201cGather ye roses while ye may\u201d<\/strong> (THGY 16)<br \/>\n&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>From Robert Herrick poem.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":7653,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[640],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.pioneergirl.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5998"}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.pioneergirl.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.pioneergirl.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.pioneergirl.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.pioneergirl.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=5998"}],"version-history":[{"count":7,"href":"http:\/\/www.pioneergirl.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5998\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":9404,"href":"http:\/\/www.pioneergirl.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5998\/revisions\/9404"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.pioneergirl.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/7653"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.pioneergirl.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=5998"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.pioneergirl.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=5998"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.pioneergirl.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=5998"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}