 | Robert Burns - Scotland - 1815 - 364 pages
...happy, E'en drown'd himself amang the nappy, As bees flee hame wi' lades o' treasure, The minutes wiog'd their way wi' pleasure : Kings may be blest, but Tam was 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... | |
 | William Hazlitt - English poetry - 1818 - 354 pages
...happy, E'en drown'd himsel amang the nappy; As bees flee name wi' lades o' treasure, The minutes vving'd their way wi' pleasure: Kings may be blest, but Tam was glorious, O'er a' the ills of life victorious ! But pleasures are like poppies spread, You seize the flow'r — its bloom is shed... | |
 | William Hazlitt - English poetry - 1818 - 338 pages
...E'en drown'd himsel amang the nappy; As bees flee hame wi' lades o' treasure, The minutes wing'd cheir way wi' pleasure: Kings may be blest, but Tam was glorious, O'er a' the ills of life victorious! But pleasures are like poppies spread, You seize the flow 'r— its bloom is shed;... | |
 | Robert Burns - Scotland - 1820 - 458 pages
...Care, mad to see a man sae happy, E'eu drown'd himself amang the nappy, As bees flee hame wi' lades o' treasure, The minutes wing'd their way wi' pleasure...poppies spread, You seize the flow'r, its bloom is shed ; U 2 Or Or like the snow-falls in the river, A moment white — then melts for ever ; Or like the... | |
 | Robert Burns - Scotland - 1820 - 470 pages
...hame wi' lades o' treasure, The minutes wing'd their way wi' pleasure: Kings may be blest, but Tarn, was glorious, O'er a' the ills o' life victorious....poppies spread, You seize the flow'r, its bloom is shed ; U 2 Or Or like the snow-falls in the river, A moment white — then melts for ever ; Or like the... | |
 | British poets - 1822 - 274 pages
...Care, mad to see a man sae happy, E'en drown'd himsel amang the nappy; As bees flee hame wi' lades o' treasure, The minutes wing'd their way wi' pleasure:...Was glorious, O'er a' the ills o' life victorious. VOL. i. T But pleasures are like poppies spread, You seize the flow'r, its bloom is shed; Or like the... | |
 | Charles Burton - 1823 - 234 pages
...esteemed as one of his dullest performances. The following lines, however, are extremely beautiful: " But pleasures are like poppies spread, You seize the...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
...Care, mad to see a man sae happy, E'en drown'd himsel amang the nappy ; As bees flee hame wi' lades o' treasure, The minutes wing'd their way wi' pleasure...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... | |
 | 1829 - 660 pages
...to see a man sac happy, - - - E'en drown'd himself amang the nappy - - - As bees flee hame wi' lades o' treasure, The minutes wing'd their way wi' pleasure:...glorious, -- O'er a' the ills o' life victorious.” 4 - We beg our readers will pay particular attention t¿ this passage, fot' it is that from which the... | |
 | Robert Burns - 1824 - 292 pages
...Care, mad to see a man sae happy, E'en drown'd himsel amang the nappy ; As bees flee hame wi' lades o' treasure, The minutes wing'd their way wi' pleasure...Kings may be blest, but Tam was glorious, O'er a' the hills o' life victorious. But pleasures are like poppies spread, You seize the flow'r, its bloom is... | |
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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... 
