 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
 | England - 1829 - 840 pages
...indeed rallied us upon the occasion ; and I thought Julia never appeared half so beautiful as now. " But pleasures are like poppies spread : You seize the flower, its bloom is »he«J." So saith Robert Burns ; and, truth to speak, his distich was never more effectually verified... | |
 | William Hazlitt - English poetry - 1818 - 338 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 Campbell - Authors, English - 1819 - 466 pages
...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...— 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.... | |
 | John Moore - 1820 - 532 pages
...which, as a genuine poet beautifully observes of pleasures, has had the fate Or snow that falls upon 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.*... | |
 | British poets - Classical poetry - 1822 - 270 pages
...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...— 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.... | |
 | Ezekiel Sanford, Robert Walsh - English poetry - 1822 - 418 pages
...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...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 Banks - English language - 1823 - 462 pages
...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... | |
 | English literature - 1832 - 358 pages
...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 pages
...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 - English literature - 1824 - 406 pages
...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,...— 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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