| Robert Burns - 1824 - 292 sivua
...Kings may be blest, but Tarn was glorious, O'er a' the hills o' life victorious. 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 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; r 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 like the rainbow's lovely form Evanishing... | |
| 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; Or like the Borealis race, That flit ere you can point their place; Or like the rainbow's lovely form, Evanishing... | |
| 1825 - 668 sivua
...pleasures are not " 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 ; Or like the borealis rare, That flit ere you can point their place ; Or like the rainbow's lovely form, Evanishing... | |
| 1823 - 816 sivua
...gear." Honest Tibby, with quaking heart and nimble hand, cuts the /,-itnt. but, as Barns observes, Pleasures are like poppies spread— You seize the flow'r, its bloom is shed : first one covering is taken off, and then another, (for they are as numerous as the grave-digger's... | |
| Robert Burns, Alfred Howard - 1826 - 226 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 ; Or like the borealis race, That flit ere you can point their place ; Or like the rainbow's lovely form Evanishing... | |
| William Hazlitt - 1826 - 464 sivua
...pleasures are not " Like poppies spread, You seize the flower, the 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 like the rainbow's lovely form, Evanishing... | |
| 1827 - 674 sivua
...pleasures arc 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 ere you can point their place ; ' Or, like the rainbow's lovely form, •... | |
| D R. Thomason - 1827 - 230 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 ; Or like the borealis race, That flits ere you can point their place; Or like the rainbow's lovely form, Evanishing... | |
| Laconics - 1829 - 390 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; Or like the borealis race, That flit ere you can point their place; Or like the rainbow's lovely form Nae man can... | |
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