| Matthew Gregory Lewis - Ballads, English - 1801 - 266 pages
...O'er a'5 the hills 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 ere you can point their place ; Or like the rainbow's... | |
| Robert Burns - 1806 - 446 pages
...way wi' pleasure : Kings may be blest, but Tam was glorious, O'er a' the ills o' life victorious ! i But pleasures are like poppies spread, You seize the flow'r, its bloom is shed ; Or Or like the snow-falls in the river, A moment white — then melts for ever; Or like the borealis race,... | |
| Scottish uses - Scottish poetry - 1808 - 228 pages
...way wi' pleasure j 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 ; O^ like the snow-falls in a river, A moment white then melts for ever ; Or like the borealis race,... | |
| Richard Cumberland - 1809 - 518 pages
...lines, which deserve the name of poetry in the truğ sense of that word. Such are the following: " 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 tor ever ; ******* Or like the rainbow's lovely... | |
| Robert Burns - 1811 - 416 pages
...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...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... | |
| Thomas Garnett - Clyde, Firth of (Scotland) - 1811 - 354 pages
...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... | |
| Wild flowers - 1845 - 110 pages
...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... | |
| William O'Regan - 1817 - 342 pages
...exuberance and profusion. Our works are like to poppies strewn, You seize the fiWr, the bloom is gone : Or, like the snow, falls in the river, A moment white, then melts for ever ; Or, like the Borealis' race, Which flits ere you can point the place; Or, like the rainbow's... | |
| William Hazlitt - English poetry - 1818 - 354 pages
...their way wi' pleasure: Kings may be blest, but Tam was glorious, O'er a' the ills of life victorious ! But pleasures are like poppies spread, You seize the...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... | |
| William Hazlitt - English poetry - 1818 - 338 pages
...O'er a' the ills of 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 ere you can point their place; Or like the rainbow's... | |
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