 | Sir Egerton Brydges - 1805 - 908 ページ
...way wi' pleasure : Kings mny be blest, but Tarn was glorious, O'er a' the ills o' life victorious. But pleasures are like poppies spread; ^ You seize the flower, its bloom is shed; 1 Or like the snow-falls in the river, A moment white — then melts for ever; Or like the borealis... | |
 | Sir Egerton Brydges - 1806 - 416 ページ
...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 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, ., ,.:... | |
 | Robert Burns, Thomas Park - 1808 - 330 ページ
...pleasures are like poppies spread, You seize the flow Y, 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 amid the storm. —... | |
 | Scottish uses - 1808 - 228 ページ
...pleasures are like poppies spread, You seize the flow'r, its bloom is shed ; O^ like the snow-falls in a 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, Evanishin amid the storm. —... | |
 | Sir Egerton Brydges - 1809 - 914 ページ
...the charm is gone ; they separate the parts, and find nothing in them. We may say with Burns, Thrse " 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... | |
 | Robert Burns - 1811 - 416 ページ
...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...melts for ever ; Or, like the borealis race, That flit ere you can point their place ; Or, like the rainbow's lovely form Evanishing amid the storm.... | |
 | Thomas Garnett - 1811 - 354 ページ
...enjoyed in this little excursion, I can scarcely think it real, so faint a trace has it left behind. 'Tis 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 amid the storm.*... | |
 | Sir Egerton Brydges - 1813 - 354 ページ
...the charm is gone ; they separate the parts, and find nothing in them. We may say with Burns, These " 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, ^Thal flit... | |
 | Sir Egerton Brydges - 1813 - 350 ページ
...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 amid the storm.... | |
 | Wild flowers - 1845 - 110 ページ
...and drooping kiss the plain. POPE. PLEASURES are 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! BURNS. SLEEP is a god too proud to wait in palaces, And yet so humble... | |
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But 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... 
