 | Louisa Caroline Tuthill - 1839 - 482 lehte
...enchantments, that gave Nourmahal the proud lord of the east for her slave. PLEASURES.— BURNS. But pleasures are like poppies spread, You seize the flower, its bloom is sped ; Or like the snow falls in the river, A moment white — then melts forever ; Or like the borealis... | |
 | 1841 - 282 lehte
...virtue, and several domestic comforts, which he was capable of feeling, and therefore deserved to enjoy. Pleasures are like poppies spread, You seize the flower,...— then melts for ever; Or like the borealis race, Thnt flit ere you can point their place : Or like the rainbow's lovely form Evanishing amid the storm... | |
 | Henry Theodore Tuckerman - 1841 - 988 lehte
...pleasures are like poppies spread, You seize the flow'r, its bloom a shed ; Or like the snow falls in the river, A moment white — then melts for ever ; Or like the borealis race, That flit era you can point their place ; Or like the rainbow's lovely form Evanishing amid the storm. Tossed... | |
 | 1841 - 908 lehte
...in a 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, A moment white — then melts forever ; Or like the borealis race, That flit ere you can point their place , Or like the rainbow's... | |
 | John D. Post - 1842 - 314 lehte
...in quiet sunlight, without an eddy or a fall to mark the rushing of time towards eternity." 7. " But pleasures are like poppies spread, You seize the flower, its bloom is sped ; Or like the snow falls in the river, A moment white — then melts forever ; Or like the borealis'... | |
 | 1843 - 488 lehte
...direction of the pupil upwards, so much so, indeed, as frequently to be lost beneath the upper lid. " But pleasures are like poppies spread, You seize the flower, its bloom is shed : Or, like the snow, falls in a river, A moment white — then melts for ever." These raptures have been known to... | |
 | Robert Macnish - 1844 - 490 lehte
...indeed rallied us upon the occasion ; and I thought Julia never appeared half so beautiful as now. " But pleasures are like poppies spread : You seize the flower, its bloom is shed." So saith Robert Burns ; and, truth to speak, his distich was never more effectually verified than at... | |
 | John Holmes Agnew, Walter Hilliard Bidwell - 1862 - 604 lehte
...example of devotion to a fixed object, dating from a period at which literary plans are mostly dreams or " Like the borealis race. That flit ere you can point their place." The pages which he gave to the world, as well as those which remained to be written, were planned by... | |
 | William Hazlitt - 1845 - 512 lehte
...flow'r—its bloom is shed ; Or like the snow, falls in the river, A moment white—then melts forever; Or like the Borealis race, That flit ere you can point their place; Or like the*rain bow's lovely form, Evanishing amid the storm.— Nae man can tether time or tide, The hour... | |
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Tam 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, that flit... 
