Skip to content

Poetry Database

  • Home
  • Poems
  • Poets
Poem of the Day

To the Virgins, to Make Much of Time

By Robert Herrick
Gather ye rosebuds while ye may,
Old Time is still a-flying;
And this same flower that smiles today
Tomorrow will be dying.
Read the Full Poem ›
168Poems
51Poets
7Eras
10Forms

Browse by Era

RenaissanceMetaphysicalRomanticVictorianModernistHarlem RenaissanceAmerican

Most Read

1When You Are Old · W. B. Yeats2No Man Is An Island · John Donne3Fire and Ice · Robert Frost4I Heard a Fly Buzz When I Died · Emily Dickinson5Ulysses · Alfred Lord Tennyson6Tell All the Truth but Tell It Slant · Emily Dickinson7The Road Not Taken · Robert Frost8O Captain! My Captain! · Walt Whitman9She Walks in Beauty · Lord Byron10To the Virgins, to Make Much of Time · Robert Herrick

Recently Added

The LambWilliam BlakeThe Rape of the Lock (Selected Excerpts)Alexander PopeIn Memoriam A.H.H. (Selected Excerpts)Alfred TennysonTears, Idle TearsAlfred TennysonTithonusAlfred TennysonNeutral TonesThomas Hardy
Poetry Database

An archive of timeless poetry — with summaries, analyses, and reading notes for every poem.

Eras
RenaissanceMetaphysicalRomanticVictorianModernistHarlem Renaissance
Forms
SonnetVillanelleOdeElegyBalladLyric
Site
Home Poems Poets Search
© 2026 Poetry Database About · Privacy Policy