 | 1841
...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...point their place : Or like the rainbow's lovely form Evanishing amid the storm — Nae man can tether time or tide. Bunys. LONDON : JOHN WILLIAM PARKER,... | |
 | 1841
...flow'r, 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 ere you can point their place , Or like the rainbow's lovely form Evanishing amid the storm. Tossed on the waves of an incongruous experience, elevated by his gifts,... | |
 | Henry Theodore Tuckerman - 1841 - 436 pages
...— Bat pleasures are like poppies spread, You seize the flow'r, its bloom a shed ; Or like the snow falls in the river, A moment white — then melts for ever ; Or like the borealis race, That flit era you can point their place ; Or like the rainbow's lovely form Evanishing amid the storm. Tossed... | |
 | 1841
...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, Thnt flit ere you can point their place : Or like the rainbow's lovely form Evanishing amid the storm... | |
 | Trip - 1842
...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 borealis' race, That flit ere...point their place ; Or like the rainbow's lovely form, Evanishing amid the storm! Well, the minute so anxiously expected by thousands was passed, the hurrying... | |
 | John D. Post - 1842 - 304 pages
...flower, its bloom is sped ; Or like the snow falls in the river, A moment white — then melts forever ; Or like the borealis' race, That flit ere you can...point their place ; Or like the rainbow's lovely form, Evanishing amid the storm." 8. " As the stern grandeur of the gothic tower Awes not so deeply in its... | |
 | Robert Burns, James Currie - 1844 - 575 pages
...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...point their place ; Or like the rainbow's lovely form Evanishing amid the storm — Nae man can tether time or tide ; The hour approaches Tam maun ride ;... | |
 | 1902
...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...point their place; Or like the rainbow's lovely form Evanishing amid the storm. Thenceforward for a time the poet holds a middle course. The dialect is... | |
 | 1862
...example of devotion to a fixed object, dating from a period at which literary plans are mostly dreams or " Like the borealis race. That flit ere you can point their place." The pages which he gave to the world, as well as those which remained to be written, were planned by... | |
 | William Hazlitt - 1845
...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;...point their place ; Or like the rainbow's lovely form, Evanishing amid the storm." On the contrary, I think they leave traces of themselves behind them, durable... | |
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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... 
