 | Sarah Josepha Buell Hale - 1836 - 434 sivua
...— there are also two in the Levant, one in Ilarbary, and one in Labrador. EVANESCENT PLEASURE. But pleasures are like Poppies spread, You seize the flower, its bloom is shed. BURNS. SENTIMENT. Time ! Time ! In thy trinmphal flight, How all life's phantoms flee away ! The smile... | |
 | Elizabeth Washington Wirt - 1837 - 264 sivua
...sound, Though in my hand struck hollow, as it lay — But quickly withered, like your love, away." Pleasures are like poppies spread, You seize the flower — its bloom is shed ! . . . . Burns. V f PlllDE OF CHINA. MBL1A V/ MM tt u tt DtSSENStON. Alas ! how light a cause may... | |
 | John Aikin - 1838 - 750 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 flower, its bloom is shed; Or like the snow-falls in the river, A moment white—then melts for ever; Or like the horealis race, That flit... | |
 | English monthly tract society - 1838 - 634 sivua
...fleeting and unsatisfactory. At one of these times he penned the beautiful and well-known lines :— " But pleasures are like 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 flit... | |
 | John Aikin, John Frost - 1838 - 752 sivua
...; Kings may be blest, but Tam was glorious, O'er a' the ills o' life victorious. But pleasures arc firm, yet fond adieu, Bome from his leafy hut, his carved canoe, And all h snow-falls in the river, A moment white — then melts for ever ; Or like the horealis race, That flit... | |
 | Sarah Josepha Buell Hale - 1838 - 282 sivua
...rapaver, rnasas. two in &e Levant, ^j one ^ Bar . bary, and one in Labrador. EVANESCENT PLEASURE. But pleasures are like Poppies spread; You seize the flower, its bloom is shed. 1 SENTIMENT. Time ! Time!—in thy triumphal flight, Burns. Fame's meteor beam—and Fancy's ray; They... | |
 | Robert Macnish - 1838 - 502 sivua
...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 shed." So saith Robert Burns ; and, truth to speak, his distich was never more effectually verified than at... | |
 | John Aikin - 1838 - 796 sivua
...wi' pleasure ; Kings may be blest, but Tarn was glorious, O'er a' the ills o' life victorious. But e, For still th' important end of life They equally may answer 5 A man may j Or like .the snow-falls in the river, A moment white — then melts for ever ; Or like the borealis... | |
 | Basil Montagu - 1839 - 404 sivua
...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... | |
 | Samuel Kirkham - 1839 - 362 sivua
...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, its bloom is shed; Or, like the snow-falls in the river, A moment white — then melt forever ; Or, like the borealis race, That flit... | |
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Or like the borealis race, That flit ere you can point their place; Or like the rainbow's lovely form Evanishing amid the storm. Nae man can tether time or tide; The hour approaches Tarn maun ride — That hour o... 
