 | Catherine Sinclair - 1836 - 360 sivua
...universally popular. But pleasures are, like poppies spread We snatch the flow'r, the bloom is fled Or like the snow falls in the river A moment white,...melts for ever. Or like the borealis race That flit e'er you can point their place, Or like the rainbow's lovely form Evanishing amidst the storm. 13URN8.... | |
 | Samuel Carter Hall - 1837 - 438 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...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 black... | |
 | Samuel Carter Hall - 1837 - 448 sivua
...pleasures are likft 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...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 black... | |
 | Capel Lofft - 1837 - 288 sivua
...thoughts are floating in the brain, and probably about to die into nothing, to vanish away for ever, Like the Borealis race, That flit ere you can point their place; Or, like the snow lulls in the river, A moment seen, then lost for ever; upon that comes this potent interceder,... | |
 | Capel Lofft - 1837 - 608 sivua
...thoughts are floating in the brain, and probably about to die into nothing, to vanish away for ever, Like the Borealis race, That flit ere you can point their place ; Or, like the snow falls in the river, A moment seen, then lost for ever ; upon that comes this potent interceder,... | |
 | Robert Burns, John Gibson Lockhart - 1837 - 628 sivua
...Kings may be blest, but Turn was glorious, O'er a' the ills o' life victorious ! Or like the boreal» race, That flit ere you can point their place ; Or like the rainbow'» lovely form Evnnifchiug amid the stürm. — Nao man can tether time or tide ¡ The hour... | |
 | Catherine Sinclair - 1838 - 430 sivua
...already awarded to crowds of more deserving contemporaries. Books are all "like poppies spread, We seize the flower, the bloom is shed ; Or like the...rainbow's lovely form, Evanishing amid the storm." If no works were published but those professedly written for the press, printers might leave off business.... | |
 | John Aikin - 1838 - 796 sivua
...pleasures are like poppies spread, You seize the flower, its bloom is shed j Or like .the snow-falls h poortith hourly stare him ; A man may tak a neebor's part, Yet hae пае cash to spare him. — Nae man can tether time or tide ; The hour approaches Tarn maun ride ; That hour, o' night's black... | |
 | English monthly tract society - 1838 - 634 sivua
...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...rainbow's lovely form, Evanishing amid the storm." Still more affecting and impressive is the manner in which he described his wretchedness when his life... | |
 | Catherine Sinclair - 1838 - 406 sivua
...like poojifeaVprQa'd,.' We seize the flower, the bloom is shed ; Or like the snow falls iniSiKrrtdn/ ' A moment white — then melts 'for. ever: Or like...rainbow's lovely form, Evanishing amid the storm." If no works were published but those professedly written for the press, printers might leave off business.... | |
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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... 
