"You have the Pyrrhic dance as yet, Where is the Pyrrhic phalanx gone? Of two such lessons, why forget The nobler and …"

"Leaves grow green to fall, Flowers grow fair to fade, Fruits grow ripe to rot — All but for passing made."

"The body politic, as well as the human body, begins to die as soon as it is born, and carries in itself the causes of…"

"The ripest fruit first falls, and so doth he; His time is spent."

"As is the bud bit with an envious worm, Ere he can spread his sweet leaves to the air, Or dedicate his beauty to the …"

"In the sweetest bud The eating canker dwells."

"Fires that shook me once, but now to silent ashes fall'n away. Cold upon the dead volcano sleeps the gleam of dying day."

"He that loves a rosy cheek, Or a coral lip admires, Or from star-like eyes doth seek Fuel to maintain his fires;— As …"

"A worm is in the bud of youth, And at the root of age."

"An age that melts with unperceiv'd decay, And glides in modest innocence away."