 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...  The Saturday Magazine - Page 2041841Full view - About this book
 | Sir Egerton Brydges - Bibliography - 1806 - 416 pages
...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,...— 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... | |
 | Robert Burns - 1806 - 446 pages
...victorious ! i But pleasures are like poppies spread, You seize the flow'r, its bloom is shed ; Or 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.... | |
 | Robert Burns, Thomas Park - Bookbinding - 1808 - 330 pages
...glorious, O'er a' the ills o' life victorious. But pleasures are like poppies spread, You seize the flow Y, its bloom is shed ; Or like the snow-falls in the...— 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.... | |
 | Scottish uses - Scottish poetry - 1808 - 228 pages
...pleasures are like poppies spread, You seize the flow'r, its bloom is shed ; O^ like the snow-falls in a 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, Evanishin amid the storm.... | |
 | Richard Cumberland - 1809 - 518 pages
...of that word. Such are the following: " 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 tor ever ; ******* Or like the rainbow's lovely form Evanishing amid the storm." — (Vol. III. p.... | |
 | Robert Burns - 1811 - 416 pages
...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.... | |
 | Thomas Garnett - Clyde, Firth of (Scotland) - 1811 - 354 pages
...excursion, I can scarcely think it real, so faint a trace has it left behind. 'Tis 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.*... | |
 | Sir Egerton Brydges - 1813 - 354 pages
...the charm is gone ; they separate the parts, and find nothing in them. We may say with Burns, These " pleasures are like poppies spread ; You seize the...white, then melts for ever; Or like the borealis race, ^Thal flit ere you can point their place } Or like the rainbow's lovely form, Evanishing amid the storm."... | |
 | Robert Burns - Scotland - 1815 - 364 pages
...glorious, O'er a' the ills o' life vietorious. But pleasures are like poppies spread, You seize the flow'r, its bloom is shed ; Or like the snow-falls in the...A moment white— then melts for ever; Or like the boreulis raee, That flit ere you ean point their plaee ; Or like the rainbow's lovely form Evanishing... | |
 | William O'Regan - 1817 - 342 pages
...works are like to poppies strewn, You seize the fiWr, the bloom is gone : Or, like the snow, falls in the river, A moment white, then melts for ever ; Or, like the Borealis' race, Which flits ere you can point the place; Or, like the rainbow's lovely form, Evanishing amidst the... | |
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