 | 1876 - 396 páginas
...make her one whit happier. Others seek their happiness in pleasure, but the poet tells us that — ' " Pleasures are like poppies spread, You seize the flower, its bloom is shed ! Or like the snow-fall in the river, A moment white — then melts for ever ; Or like the borealis race, That flit... | |
 | John Aikin - 1850 - 764 páginas
...way wi' 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,...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 j Or... | |
 | Pliny Miles - 1850 - 372 páginas
...fall, Arts fade— but Nature doth not die. Childe Harold — Canto 4, Stanza 3. BTRON. ROME. 40. — Pleasures are like poppies spread, You seize the flower, its bloom is shed ; Or like the snow fells in the river, A moment white — then melts forever ; Or like the borealis race, That flit... | |
 | Pliny Miles - 1850 - 374 páginas
...fall, Arts fade— but Nature doth not die. Childe Harold — Canto 4, Stanza 3. BYRON. ROUE. 40. — 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 forever ; Or like the borealis race, That flit... | |
 | John Campbell Baron Campbell - 1851 - 560 páginas
...better, and not a little relieved in point of anxiety by the vote on the Catholic question." " But pleasures are like poppies spread — You seize the...the snow-falls in the river, A moment white — then melt for ever; Or like the Borealis race, That flit ere you can point the place ; Or like the rainbow's... | |
 | John Campbell Baron Campbell - 1851 - 566 páginas
...bstler, and not a little relieved in point of anxiety by the vote on the Catholic question." " But pleasures are like poppies spread — You seize the...the snow-falls in the river, A moment white — then melt for ever; Or like the Borealis race, That flit ere you can point the place; Or like the rainbow's... | |
 | Catherine Sinclair - 1851 - 256 páginas
...pleasures are like poppies spread; We snatch the flower, the bloom is fled; Or like the snow-falls on the river, A moment white, then melts forever; Or like the Borealis race, That flit e'er you can point their place ; Or like the rainbow's lovely form Evanishing amidst the storm. . BUBNS.... | |
 | 1852 - 746 páginas
...vapid moods, forcibly tells us that " pleasures are like poppies spread, You seize the flow'r — the bloom is shed ; Or like the snow-falls in the river, A moment white — then gone for ever." We do not mean to quarrel with the poet for liis opinion — doubtless he wrote as... | |
 | Henrietta Dumont - 1852 - 330 páginas
...beautiful, but deadly ; like those of the corrupt and treacherous, to be found in every society. 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 Aikin - 1852 - 792 páginas
...way wi' 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,...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... | |
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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... 
