 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
 | Catherine Sinclair - England - 1838 - 406 pages
...like poojifeaVprQa'd,.' We seize the flower, the bloom is shed ; Or like the snow falls iniSiKrrtdn/ ' 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... | |
 | Samuel Kirkham - Elocution - 1839 - 362 pages
...demonstration ; and a description in Homer has charmed more readers than a chapter in Aristotle. But pleasures are like poppies spread, You seize the flower,...the snow-falls in the river, A moment white — then melt forever ; Or, like the borealis race, That flit ere you can point the place ; Or, like the rainbow's... | |
 | Basil Montagu - Conduct of life - 1839 - 404 pages
...taste and genius that blessed the sweet charities of private life by which I was then surrounded. But 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. This second edition is published with... | |
 | Louisa Caroline Tuthill - English language - 1839 - 482 pages
...enchantments, that gave Nourmahal the proud lord of the east for her slave. PLEASURES.— BURNS. But pleasures are like poppies spread, You seize the flower, its bloom is sped ; Or like the snow falls in the river, A moment white — then melts forever ; Or like the borealis... | |
 | Robert Burns - Poets, English - 1840 - 872 pages
...But pleasures are like poppies spread, You seize the flow'r, its bloom is shed ! Or like the snowfall 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.... | |
 | 1841 - 908 pages
...in a series of beautiful similes : — 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 forever ; Or like the borealis race, That flit ere you can point their place , Or like the rainbow's... | |
 | Henry Theodore Tuckerman - American literature - 1841 - 988 pages
...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.... | |
 | Henry Theodore Tuckerman - Italy - 1841 - 456 pages
...pleasures are like poppies spread, You seize the flovv'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.... | |
 | John D. Post - Readers - 1842 - 314 pages
...in quiet sunlight, without an eddy or a fall to mark the rushing of time towards eternity." 7. " But pleasures are like poppies spread, You seize the flower, its bloom is sped ; Or like the snow falls in the river, A moment white — then melts forever ; Or like the borealis'... | |
 | 1843 - 488 pages
...direction of the pupil upwards, so much so, indeed, as frequently to be lost beneath the upper lid. " But pleasures are like poppies spread, You seize the flower, its bloom is shed : Or, like the snow, falls in a river, A moment white — then melts for ever." These raptures have been known to... | |
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