 | John Aikin - English poetry - 1850 - 764 pages
...glorious, O'er a' the ills o' life victorious. But pleasures are like poppies spread, You seize the flower, the sun looks out. Filling, o'erflowing with his glorious light white—then melts for ever; Or like the borealis race, That flit ere you can point their place j Or... | |
 | John Campbell Baron Campbell - Great Britain - 1851 - 566 pages
...vote on the Catholic question." " 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 for ever; Or like the Borealis race, That flit ere you can point the place; Or like the rainbow's... | |
 | John Campbell Baron Campbell - Great Britain - 1851 - 560 pages
...vote on the Catholic question." " 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 for ever; Or like the Borealis race, That flit ere you can point the place ; Or like the rainbow's... | |
 | 1852 - 746 pages
...vapid moods, forcibly tells us that " pleasures are like poppies spread, You seize the flow'r — the bloom is shed ; Or like the snow-falls in the river, A moment white — then gone for ever." We do not mean to quarrel with the poet for liis opinion — doubtless he wrote as... | |
 | Caroline Augusta Soule - Sermons, American - 1852 - 410 pages
...O'Shanter;' yet how simple, natural and real are the metaphors employed to express the thought : — " But pleasures are like poppies spread. You seize the...shed ; Or like the snow-falls in the river, A moment while — then melts forever ; Or like the borealis racej That flit ere you can point their place ;... | |
 | John Aikin - English poetry - 1852 - 792 pages
...hame wi' lades o' treasure, The minutes wing'd their way wi' pleasure; Kings may be blest, but Tarn t land ; But when we meet you shall your story tell...Of foreign parts — I bid you now farewell !" Alle flower, its bloom is shed ; Or like the snow-falls in the river, A moment white — then melts for... | |
 | Caroline Augusta Soule - Bible - 1852 - 412 pages
...O'Shanter ;' yet how simple, natural and real are the metaphors employed to express the thought : — "But pleasures are like poppies spread. You seize the flow'r, its bloom is shed ; Or like the snow-fulls in the river, A moment while — then melts forever ; Or like the borealis race, That flit... | |
 | Scottish school-book assoc - 1852 - 322 pages
...drives, elate. Full on thy bloom, Till crush'd beneath the furrow's weight. Shall be thy doom! Pleasures But pleasures are like poppies spread. You seize the flow'r, its bloom is shed ; Or like the snow-fails in the river, A moment white—then melts for ever; Or like the borealis race, That flit... | |
 | Thomas Smibert - 1852 - 126 pages
...not many equals in our poetry: — " 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 gone for ever ; Or like the Borealis race, That flit ere you can point their place ; Or like the rainbow's... | |
 | Caroline Augusta White Soule - Sermons, American - 1852 - 408 pages
...O'Shanter;' yet how simple, natural and real are the metaphors employed to express the thought : — "But pleasures are like poppies spread. You seize the flow'r, its bloom is shea ; Or like the snow-falls iu the river, A moment while — then melts forever; Or like the borealis... | |
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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... 
