 | Henry Theodore Tuckerman - 1846 - 350 sivua
...series of beautiful similes : — But pleasures are like poppies spread, You seize the flow'r, its bloom is shed ; Or like the snow falls in the river,...the rainbow's lovely form Evanishing amid the storm. Tossed on the waves of an incongruous experience, elevated by his gifts, depressed by his condition,... | |
 | Catherine Sinclair - 1846 - 338 sivua
...pleasures are like poppies spread; We snatch the flower, the bloom is fled; Or like the snow-falls on the river, A moment white, then 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. LADY... | |
 | Capel Lofft - 1846 - 528 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 Ihe snow falls in the river, A moment seen, then lost for ever " ; upon that comes this potent interceder,... | |
 | Robert Burns, James Currie - 1847 - 704 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;...place; Or like the rainbow's lovely form Evanishing am'nl the storm — Nae man can tether time or tide ; The hour approaches Tam maun ride , That hour... | |
 | Carl R. Woodring, James Shapiro - 1995 - 936 sivua
...life victorious! But pleasures arc like poppies spread, You seize the flow'r, its bloom is shed; tti Or like the snow falls in the river, A moment white — then melts forever; Or like the boreahs race. That fiit ere you can point their place; Or like the rainbow's lovely... | |
 | Mary Shelley - 1996 - 476 sivua
...Robert Burns, Tarn O'Shanur. "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" (59-62). 73 Coleridge, Kubla Khan, 1816 text. Chan the music of the swinging... | |
 | Jeremy J. Smith - 1996 - 194 sivua
...lasses) (Kinsley 1968:443) lines 59-66: 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 place; Or... | |
 | Ronald Carter, John McRae - 1997 - 613 sivua
...contemporaries with whose work he was familiar. 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. (Tam O 'Sbanter) tradition of Scottish songs and ballads as the basis of many of his lyrical poems,... | |
 | Elizabeth M. Knowles - 1999 - 1160 sivua
...'Tarn o' Shanter' ( 1 79 1 ) I. 57 13 Hut pleasures are like poppies spread, You seize the llow'r, its bloom is shed; Or like the snow falls in the river, A moment white — then melts forever. 'Tarn o' Shanter' ( 1 79 1 ) 1. S9 14 Nae man can tether time or tide. Tarn o' Shanter' (1791)... | |
 | Alex Davis, Lee M. Jenkins - 2000 - 318 sivua
...moralising in a set of variations: But pleasures are like poppies spread, You seize the flower, its bloom is shed; Or like the snow falls in the river,...like the rainbow's lovely form Evanishing amid the storm.56 This same passage surely underpins not the vocabulary but several key images brought together... | |
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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... 
