 | Robert Burns, James Currie - 1844 - 706 páginas
...pleasures are like poppies spread, You seize the flow'r, its bloom is sued ; 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 lovely form Evanishing amid the storm —... | |
 | 1902 - 874 páginas
...like poppies spread, You seize the flow'r, its bloom is shed! Or like the snow-flake in the river, One moment white — then melts for ever; Or like the borealis race That flit ere you can point their place; Or like the rainbow's lovely form Evanishing amid the storm. Thenceforward... | |
 | 1872 - 812 páginas
...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 melts for ever ; Or, like the borealis race, That flit ere you can point their place ; Or, like the rainbow's lovely form, Evanishing amid t ho storm."... | |
 | General reciter - 1845 - 348 páginas
...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 their place ; Or like the rainbow's lovely form Evanishing amid the storm. —... | |
 | William Hazlitt - 1845 - 432 páginas
...pleasures are not " Like poppies spread, You seize the flower, the 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 lovely form, Evanishing amid the storm."... | |
 | Catherine Sinclair - 1846 - 338 páginas
...adamant!" CHAPTER XIII. But 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 for ever; 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.... | |
 | Henry Theodore Tuckerman - 1846 - 350 páginas
...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 lovely form Evanishing amid the storm. Tossed... | |
 | Catherine Sinclair - 1848 - 478 páginas
...Books are all " like poppies spread, We seize the flower, the 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 lovely form, Evanishing amid the storm."... | |
 | Royal Institution of Cornwall - 1848 - 556 páginas
...They are so evanescent and so changeable, that it may almost be said they are " Like the snow-falls in the river, A moment white — then melts for ever : Or like the borealis race, That flit ere ye can point the place." This renders them difficult to sketch, however I have endeavored... | |
 | 1876 - 396 páginas
...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 ere you can point their place ; Or like the rainbow's lovely form, Evanishing amid the storm."... | |
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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... 
