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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... "
Robert Burns: A Memoir - Page 53
by James White - 1859 - 100 pages
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The Works of the British Poets: With Lives of the Authors, Volume 38

Ezekiel Sanford, Robert Walsh - English poetry - 1822 - 418 pages
...rustle, Tam did na mind the storm a whistle. Care, mad to see a man sae happy, E'en drown'd himself amang the nappy ; As bees flee hame wi' lades o' treasure,...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...
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The British Poets: Including Translations ...

British poets - Classical poetry - 1822 - 274 pages
...rustle, Tam didna mind the storm a whistle. Care, mad to see a man sae happy, E'en drown'd himsel amang the nappy; As bees flee hame wi' lades o' treasure,...Was glorious, O'er a' the ills o' life victorious. VOL. i. T But pleasures are like poppies spread, You seize the flow'r, its bloom is shed; Or like the...
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The Bardiad: A Poem ; in Two Cantos

Charles Burton - 1823 - 234 pages
...esteemed as one of his dullest performances. The following lines, however, are extremely beautiful: " 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...
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The Edinburgh Magazine and Literary Miscellany, Volume 92

English literature - 1823 - 816 pages
...gear." Honest Tibby, with quaking heart and nimble hand, cuts the /,-itnt. but, as Barns observes, Pleasures are like poppies spread — You seize the flow'r, its bloom is shed : first one covering is taken off, and then another, (for they are as numerous as the grave-digger's...
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New Elegant Extracts: A Unique Selection ... from the Most Eminent Prose and ...

Richard Alfred Davenport - English literature - 1824 - 406 pages
...rustle, Tam didna mind the storm a whistle. Care, mad to see a man sae happy, E'en drown'd himsel amang the nappy ; As bees flee hame wi' lades o' treasure,...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...
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The London Magazine

1829 - 660 pages
...did na mind the storm a whistle. - Care, mad to see a man sac happy, - - - E'en drown'd himself amang the nappy - - - As bees flee hame wi' lades o' treasure,...glorious, -- O'er a' the ills o' life victorious.” 4 - We beg our readers will pay particular attention t¿ this passage, fot' it is that from which the...
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Poems, chiefly in the Scottish dialect

Robert Burns - 1824 - 292 pages
...rustle, Tam didua mind the storm a whistle. Care, mad to see a man sae happy, E'en drown'd himsel amang the nappy ; As bees flee hame wi' lades o' treasure,...Kings may be blest, but Tam was glorious, O'er a' the hills o' life victorious. But pleasures are like poppies spread, You seize the flow'r, its bloom is...
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The British anthology; or, Poetical library, Volumes 7-8

British anthology - 1825 - 464 pages
...aud-rustle, Tain did na mind the storm a whistleCare, mad to see a man sae happy, Kv'n drown'd himself amang the nappy ; As bees flee hame wi' lades o' treasure,...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...
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The Laughing Philosopher: Being the Entire Works of Momus, Jester of Olympus ...

John Bull - English wit and humor - 1825 - 782 pages
...whistle. Care, mad to see a man sae happy, K'en drown 'd himsel amang the nappy ; As bees flee líame wi' lades o' treasure, The minutes wing'd their way 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...
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The Beauties of Burns: Consisting of Selections from His Poems and Letters

Robert Burns, Alfred Howard - Poetry - 1826 - 226 pages
...rustle, Tam didna mind the storm a whistle. Care, mad to see a man sae happy, E'en drown'd himsel amang the nappy. As bees flee hame wi' lades o' treasure,...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;...
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