 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
 | Denny R. Thomason - Amusements - 1831 - 212 pages
...regrets? The evanescent nature of such gratifications is fully adequate to produce this effect, for Pleasures are like poppies spread, You seize the flower,...— then melts for ever ; Or like the borealis race, That flits ere you can point their place ; Or like the rainbow's lovely form, Evanishing amid the storm.*... | |
 | Denny R. Thomason - Amusements - 1831 - 218 pages
...regrets? The evanescent nature of such gratifications is fully adequate to produce this effect, for 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 flits ere you can point their place ;... | |
 | Robert Burns - Scotland - 1831 - 484 pages
...may be blest, but Tarn was glorious O'er a' the ills o' life victorious. pread, You seize the flow*r, its bloom is shed ; Or like the snow-falls in the...moment white — then melts for ever; Or like the boreal is race, That flit ere you can point their place ; Or like the rainbow's lovely form Evanishing... | |
 | 1831 - 426 pages
...o' life victorious. But pleasures are like popples spread. You seize the flow'r, its bloom is (bed; 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.... | |
 | Aeschylus - Greek drama - 1831 - 352 pages
...somewhat similar accumulation of images to illustrate the fugitive nature of earthly pleasures. — " 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... | |
 | Aeschylus - 1831 - 332 pages
...somewhat similar accumulation of images to illustrate the fugitive nature of earthly pleasures. — " 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... | |
 | 1832 - 206 pages
...beds of pleasaut green, Where never yet was creeping creature seen. THOMSON. CASTLK OF IXDOLEXCK. 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.... | |
 | Charlotte Fiske Bates - American poetry - 1832 - 1022 pages
...stands. •Wizards. 'Dark. » Makes rue weep. • Frothing ale. " Shoemaker. 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.... | |
 | Henry Junius Nott - American fiction - 1834 - 238 pages
...begun to assume a halcyon aspect " But," to make a quotation that we will not mar by retrenchment, " Pleasures are like poppies spread, You seize the flower,...in the river, - A moment white — then melts for ewr ; VOL. I.— B , Or Jike the borealis race, ; That flit ere you can point their place ; J Or like... | |
 | Robert Burns, Allan Cunningham - Ballads, Scots - 1834 - 356 pages
...glorious, O'er sf the ills o' life victorious. But pleasures are like poppies spread, You seize the flow'r, its bloom is shed ; Or like the snowfalls in the river,...— 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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