 | William Banks - 1823 - 462 sivua
...Pleasures are like poppies spread, You seize the flower, — its bloom is shed ; Or like the snow-falls hi the river, A moment white, — then melts for ever ; Or like the horealis race, That flit ere you can point their place ; Or like the rainbow's lovely form, Evanishing... | |
 | Richard Alfred Davenport - 1824 - 406 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...the rainbow's lovely form Evanishing amid the storm. — Nae man can tether time or tide — • The hour approaches Tam maun ride ; That hour, o'night's... | |
 | Robert Burns - 1824 - 292 sivua
...Or like the snow-falls in the river, ••• 1, • / A moment white — then melts for ever ; i " Or like the borealis race, That flit ere you can point...the rainbow's lovely form Evanishing amid the storm. — Nae man can tether time or tide — The hour approaches Tam maun ride ; • A That hour, o' night's... | |
 | Lady Maria Callcott - 1824 - 376 sivua
...moment white, then lost for ever ; Or like the rainbow's fleeting form, Evanishing amid the storm ; Or like the borealis race, That flit ere you can point their place. No man can tether time or tide : The hour approaches, —-we must ride." And so we did. — We walked... | |
 | British anthology - 1825 - 464 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...rainbow's lovely form, Evanishing amid the storm. — Nae man can tether time or tide ; The hour approaches Tam maun ride : That hour, o' night's black... | |
 | 1825 - 668 sivua
...pleasures are not " like poppies spread , You seize the flower, its bloom is shed ; Or like ihe snow-fall in the river, A moment white — then melts for ever...point their place ; Or like the rainbow's lovely form, Kvanishing amid the storm." On the contrary, I think they leave traces of themselves behind them, durable... | |
 | John Bull - 1825 - 782 sivua
...its bloom is shed ; Or lilte the snow-falls in the river, A moment white — then melts for ever ; Oi like the borealis race, That flit ere you can point...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' night's... | |
 | Francis S. Higginson - 1825 - 586 sivua
...flit ere you can point their place ; Or like the rainbow's lovely form, Evanishing amidst the storm ; Or, like the snow falls in the river, A moment white, then fades for ever." BURNS. The attentions of Manderville had now for some time been almost exclusively... | |
 | William Hazlitt - 1826 - 464 sivua
...was childish. Yet I could not keep away from it Some young people came out of a large twelfth-cake, dressed in full court-costume, and danced a quadrille,...moment white — then melts for ever ; Or like the borcalis race, That flit ere you can point their place ; Or like the rainbow's lovely form, Evanishing... | |
 | Robert Burns - 1826 - 288 sivua
...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;...you can point their place ; Or, like the rainbow's lov ;ly form Evanishing amid the storm.— Nae man can tether time or tide ; The hour approaches Tarn... | |
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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 their... 
