 | Samuel Carter Hall - English poetry - 1837 - 448 pages
...nappy ; As bees flee hame wi' lades o' treasure, The minutes wing'd their way wi' pleasure : Kings may be blest, but Tam was glorious, O'er a' the ills o' life victorious. But pleasures are likft poppies spread, You seize the flow'r, its bloom is shed ; Or like the snow-falls in the river,... | |
 | Thomas Daniel - 1837 - 162 pages
...with joy the morning dear. But pleasure is of short duration To human kind, of every station. 'Tis " like the snow-falls in the river, A moment white, then melts for ever.-"* A circumstance of woe ensued, Will be by every one allowed ' Burns. 15 Who does pertain to Christian... | |
 | John Aikin - English poetry - 1838 - 750 pages
...the nappy; As bees flee hame wi' lades o' treasure, The minutes wing'd their way wi' pleasure; Kings may be blest, but Tam was glorious, O'er a' the ills...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;... | |
 | John Aikin - English poetry - 1838 - 796 pages
...hame wi' lades o' treasure, The minutes wing'd their way wi' pleasure ; Kings may be blest, but Tarn in fortune's strife, Their fate we should пае censure, For still th' important end of life They equa flower, its bloom is shed j Or like .the snow-falls in the river, A moment white — then melts for... | |
 | John Aikin, John Frost - English poetry - 1838 - 752 pages
...nappy ; As bees flee name wi' lades o' treasure, The minutes wing'd their way wi' pleasure ; Kings cky venture of sage Whittington, When the next village hears arc like poppies spread, You seize the flower, its bloom is shed ; Or like the snow-falls in the river,... | |
 | Henry Longueville Mansel - Bookbinding - 1838 - 128 pages
...by the headlong river, Which flashes in the solar beam — A moment bright, then gone for ever.* " Or like the snow-falls in the river — A moment white, then melts for ever." Burns. 55 PEACE is a phantom of the brain, A charm, the hours of sleep invading : We wake, and stretch... | |
 | Samuel Kirkham - Elocution - 1839 - 362 pages
...more readers than a chapter in Aristotle. 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 melt forever ; Or, like the borealis race, That flit ere you can point the place ; Or, like the rainbow's... | |
 | 1841 - 908 pages
...felt 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...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... | |
 | Periodicals - 1841 - 282 pages
...feeling, and therefore deserved to enjoy. Pleasures are like poppies spread, You seize the flower, its bloom is shed ; Or like the snow-falls in the...— 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 - Italy - 1841 - 564 pages
...felt 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... | |
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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 ere you can point their... 
