| John Timbs - 1829 - 354 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... | |
| Robert Burns - 1831 - 484 sivua
...pleasure : Kings may be blest, but 7am was glorious O'er a' the ills o' life victorious. But pleasure» 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 borealia race, That flit... | |
| Denny R. Thomason - 1831 - 212 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... | |
| Denny R. Thomason - 1831 - 218 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... | |
| Robert Burns, Allan Cunningham - 1834 - 356 sivua
...way wi' pleasure : Kings may be blest, but Tam was glorious, O'er sf the ills o' life victorious. But pleasures are like poppies spread, You seize the flow'r, its bloom is shed ; Or like the snowfalls in the river, A moment white—then melts for ever ; Or like the borealis race, That flit... | |
| Samuel Carter Hall - 1837 - 362 sivua
...\vi' 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 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... | |
| Samuel Carter Hall - 1837 - 448 sivua
...Kings may be blest, but Tam was glorious, O'er a' the ills o' life victorious. But pleasures are likt 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... | |
| Catherine Sinclair - 1838 - 430 sivua
...Books are all "like poppies spread, We 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... | |
| John Aikin - 1838 - 796 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... | |
| Henry Theodore Tuckerman - 1841 - 564 sivua
...the transitory nature of human enjoyment, he has told us in a series of beautiful similes :— But pleasures are like poppies spread, You seize the flow.r, its bloom is shed; Or like the sno tv falls in the river, A moment white—then melts for ever; Or like the borealis race, That flit... | |
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