 | Henry Southgate - 1875 - 604 sivua
...Pleasures are liki poppiti spread. You seize theflnaer, its bloom is ¡hid; Or like the siioiv/all 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... | |
 | Peter Freeland Aiken - 1876 - 468 sivua
...wi' 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... | |
 | 1902 - 874 sivua
...beauty he challenges a place beside the best of those who have written in English verse alone. But pleasures are like poppies spread. You seize the flow'r, its bloom is shed! Or like the snow-flake in the river, One moment white—then melts for ever; Or like the borealis race That flit... | |
 | 1928 - 430 sivua
...egoism. We speak of sin's pleasures, but unwittingly, not fully realizing that they are passing. For pleasures ... are like poppies spread — You seize the flow'r, its bloom is shed; Or like the snow-fall in the river — A moment's white — then melts for ever; Or like the rainbow's lovely form... | |
 | Ralph Knight - 1959 - 246 sivua
...way wi' pleasure: Kings may be blest but Tam 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 Taylor Coleridge - 1920 - 388 sivua
...a year after Biographia. The Burns quotation often cited by Coleridge is from Tarn o' Shanter: 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. p. 47, 1. 28. apposite. Printed " opposite... | |
 | Samuel Taylor Coleridge - 1984 - 860 sivua
...between "genius" and "talent" see ch 2, above, i 31 n 5. 4 Robert Burns Tam o'Shanter lines 59-62: 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. "I would rather have written one simile... | |
 | William N. Parker, William Nelson Parker - 1984 - 292 sivua
...inhibited colleagues, have found that such ideas, resembling the other pleasures Burns wrote about, ... 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 forever. Surely Rostow has scattered snow... | |
 | Edith P. Hazen - 1992 - 1172 sivua
...pleasure: Kings may be blest, but Tam was glorious, O'er a' the ills o' life victorious! (1. 56-58) 54 But = . snow falls in the river, A moment white —then melts for ever; (1. 59-62) 55 Inspiring bold John Barleycorn!... | |
 | Mary Shelley - 1996 - 476 sivua
...her unalienable beauties—we were, in an empty world, happy. 72 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,... | |
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pleasures are like poppies spread, You seize the flow'r, its bloom is shed ! Or like the snow-fulls in the river, A moment white—then melts for ever ; Or like the boreulis race. That flit ere you can point their place ; Or like the rainbow's lovely... 
