 | 1794 - 534 sivua
...pleafures are like poppies fpread, You iVI/c the flower, its bloom is ftied ; Or like the li,ow fill's in the river, A moment white—then melts for ever ; Or like the borealis race, That flit er* you can point their place ; Or like the rainbow's lovely form, Evanifhing... | |
 | Sir Egerton Brydges - 1805 - 908 sivua
...pleasures are like poppies spread; ^ You seize the flower, its bloom is shed; 1 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... | |
 | Robert Burns - 1806 - 468 sivua
...wi ' 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 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... | |
 | Sir Egerton Brydges - 1806 - 416 sivua
...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 their place; Or like the rainbow's lovely form, .Evanishing... | |
 | Sir Egerton Brydges - 1806 - 434 sivua
...pleasures are like poppies spread; Tou seize the flower, its bloom is shedj 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... | |
 | Scottish uses - 1808 - 228 sivua
...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 flow'r, its bloom is shed; Of like the snow-falls in a river, A moment white then melts for ever ; Or like the borealis race,... | |
 | Richard Cumberland - 1809 - 518 sivua
...lines, which deserve the name of poetry in the tru» sense 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 for ever; ******* Or like the rainbow's lovely... | |
 | Robert Burns - 1811 - 416 sivua
...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 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... | |
 | Thomas Garnett - 1811 - 354 sivua
...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... | |
 | Robert Burns - 1813 - 444 sivua
...way wi' 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 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... | |
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pleasures are like poppies spread, You seize the flow'r, its bloom is shed ! Or like the snow-fulls in the river, A moment white—then melts for ever ; Or like the boreulis race. That flit ere you can point their place ; Or like the rainbow's lovely... 
