.......The speaker says the young lady wastes her time and his (line 2) by remaining aloof. Before she realizes it, she will wither and die, like the rose that he is sending her. Therefore, the speaker says, she should come out of hiding and reveal her beauty, like a blooming rose, in order to take advantage of what life has to offer before youth passes her by.
.......The Roman poet Horace (65-8 BC) popularized the idea of living for the moment in an ode published in 23 BC. He wrote, "Carpe diem, quam minimum credula postero." Loosely translated, this sentence says, "Seize the day rather than placing your trust in the future." Over the centuries, the words carpe diem, or seize the day, gained widespread currency as a term for categorizing any literary work whose primary purpose was to persuade readers to make the most of the here and now. Although Edmund Waller does not use these Latin words in his poem, he expresses a carpe diem theme.