 | John Aikin - 1850 - 764 sivua
...way wi' pleasure; Kings may be blest, but Tarn was glorious, O'er a' the ills o' life victorious. But leam: and now the purple mists Rise like a curtain ; now the sun looks out. Filling, o' snow-falls in the river, A moment white—then melts for ever; Or like the borealis race, That flit... | |
 | Pliny Miles - 1850 - 372 sivua
...fall, Arts fade— but Nature doth not die. Childe Harold — Canto 4, Stanza 3. BTRON. ROME. 40. — Pleasures are like poppies spread, You seize the flower, its bloom is shed ; Or like the snow fells in the river, A moment white — then melts forever ; Or like the borealis race, That flit... | |
 | John Campbell Baron Campbell - 1851 - 560 sivua
...better, and not a little relieved in point of anxiety by the vote on the Catholic question." " 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 for ever; Or like the Borealis race, That flit... | |
 | John Campbell Baron Campbell - 1851 - 566 sivua
...bstler, and not a little relieved in point of anxiety by the vote on the Catholic question." " 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 for ever; Or like the Borealis race, That flit... | |
 | Thomas Smibert - 1852 - 126 sivua
...the following lines from the Tarn O'Shanter of Burns have not many equals in our poetry: — " 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 gone for ever ; Or like the Borealis race, That flit... | |
 | Choice descriptive poetry - 1852 - 112 sivua
...remains ; There my best friends, my kindred dwell, There God my Saviour reigns. PLEASURES EVANESCENT. 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... | |
 | Henrietta Dumont - 1852 - 330 sivua
...beautiful, but deadly ; like those of the corrupt and treacherous, to be found in every society. 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... | |
 | John Aikin - 1852 - 792 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 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... | |
 | Charles Simmons - 1852 - 564 sivua
...Ib. Pleasure and revenge Have ears more deaf than adders to the voice Of any true decision. Burns. Pleasures are like poppies spread, You seize the flower, its bloom is shed; Or like the snow-falls in the river, Or like the borealis' race, That flits ere you can point their place ; Or... | |
 | Richard Hiley - 1852 - 344 sivua
...care ; Time but the impression stronger makes, As streams their channels deeper wear. Itemarks. 4. Pleasures are like poppies spread, You seize the flower — its bloom is shed. Remarks. 5. Give me the line, that ploughs its stately course, Like a proud swan, conquering the stream... | |
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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... 
