To the Virgins, to Make Much of Time. By Robert Herrick

Herrick’s images presents young women beautiful and full of live and color, just as a flower. That is why in the poem the virgins are compares with a flower.

The speaker tell the virgins that the flower (their youth) can die sooner as everything, so they should take advantage of that age in which they are passing through and find a husband before it is too late.

The passing of the time is impossible to control, he says that the adulthood is the best stage of life and that when that flower starts dying people get old and inactive.

He advices the virgins to get married, to find a husband while they can because once they beauty and youth they might have no other chances.