 | Thomas Campbell - 1819 - 466 páginas
...O'er a' the ills o' life victorious ! But pleasures are like poppies spread, You seize the flow'r, its bloom is shed ! Or like the snow-falls in the river, A moment white — then melts for ever ; Or like the borealis race, That flit ere you can point their place ; Or like the rainbow's... | |
 | Ezekiel Sanford, Robert Walsh - 1822 - 418 páginas
...glorious, O'er a' the ills o' life victorious. But pleasures are like poppies spread, You seize the flow'r, its bloom is shed ; Or like the snow-falls in the river, .A, moment white, then melts for ever ; Or like the borealis race, That flit ere you can point their place ; Or like the rainbow's... | |
 | British poets - 1822 - 270 páginas
...glorious, O'er a' the ills o' life victorious. But pleasures are like poppies spread, You seize the flow'r, its bloom is shed ; Or like the snow-falls in the river, A moment white — then melts for ever; Or like the borealis race, That flit ere you can point their place ; Or like the rainbow's... | |
 | William Banks - 1823 - 462 páginas
...recovering soon, her visage rears, All moist and trickling with her Ipver's tears." Jerusalem Delivered. " Pleasures are like poppies spread, You seize the flower, — its bloom is shed ; Or like the snow-falls hi the river, A moment white, — then melts for ever ; Or like the horealis race, That flit ere you... | |
 | 1832 - 358 páginas
...a word, what is pleasure? but what the immortal Scottish bard tells us — " Pleasures are like the poppies spread, You seize the flower, its bloom is shed ; Or like the snow-falls on the river, A moment white, then melts for ever; Or, like the Borealis race, That flits ere you can... | |
 | Charles Burton - 1823 - 234 páginas
...lines, however, are extremely beautiful: " But pleasures are like poppies spread, You seize the flow'r, its bloom is shed! Or like the snow-falls in the river, A moment white—then melts for ever; Or like the borealis race, That flit ere you can point their place ; Or... | |
 | Richard Alfred Davenport - 1824 - 406 páginas
...way wi' pleasure : Kings may be blest, but Tam was glorious, O'er a' the ills o' life victorious. But pleasures are like poppies spread, You seize the flower,...snow-falls in the river, A moment white — then melts for ever ; Or like the borealis race, That flit ere you can point their place ; Or like the rainbow's... | |
 | Lady Maria Callcott - 1824 - 376 páginas
...breaking up a pleasant party — " Pleasures are like poppies spread, — You seize the flower, the bloom is shed ; Or like the snow-falls in the river, — A moment white, then lost for ever ; Or like the rainbow's fleeting form, Evanishing amid the storm ; Or like the borealis... | |
 | British anthology - 1825 - 464 páginas
...wi' pleasure . Kings may be blest, but Tam was glorious, O'er a' the ills o' life victorious ! But pleasures are like poppies spread, You seize the flower...snow-falls in the river, A moment white — then melts for ever ; Or like the Borealis race, That flit ere you can point their place ; Or like the rainbow's... | |
 | John Bull - 1825 - 782 páginas
...pleasure : Kings may be blest, but Tarn was glorious, O'er a" the ills o' life victorious. But-pleasures are like poppies spread, You seize the flower, its bloom is shed ; Or lilte the snow-falls in the river, A moment white — then melts for ever ; Oi like the borealis race,... | |
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O'er a' the ills o' life victorious. But pleasures are like poppies spread, You seize the flower, its bloom is shed ; Or like the snow-falls in the river, A moment white — then melts for ever ; Or like the borealis race, That flit ere you can point... 
