 | 1909 - 340 pages
...attention and practice." WILLIAM H. KIRBY. EVANESCENT PLEASURES. But pleasures are like poppies spread, You seize the flower, its bloom is shed ; Or like the...snowfall 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... | |
 | 1831 - 334 pages
...smiling at her disappointment, said, But pleasures are like poppies shed, You catch the flower, the bloom is shed ; Or like the snow-fall in the river, A moment white, then lost for ever. " I will promise," said Mrs Grey, as they arrived at the hotel, " that Bertha's pleasure... | |
 | Jeremy Taylor (bp. of Down and Connor.) - 1834 - 364 pages
...charities of private life by which I was then surrounded^. But pleasures are like poppies spread, You seize the flower, its bloom is shed : Or like the...snow-fall in the river, A moment white — then melts for ever. This second edition is published with the ardent hope that it may, in some sort, contribute... | |
 | Basil Montagu - 1839 - 404 pages
...charities of private life by which I was then surrounded. But pleasures are like poppies spread, You seize the flower, its bloom is shed : Or like the...snow-fall in the river, A moment white— then melts for ever. This second edition is published with the ardent hope that it may, in some sort, contribute... | |
 | Robert Burns - 1840 - 872 pages
...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 snowfall 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... | |
 | John William Carleton - 1840 - 532 pages
...world looking upon us : i " But pleasures are like poppies spread ; We seize the flower, the bloom u shed ; Or like the snowfall in the river, A moment white, then lost for ever; Or like the Borealis race, Thai flit ere you can point the place ; Or like the rainbow's... | |
 | Samuel Tyler - 1848 - 238 pages
...poet presents him in the first scene. " But pleasures are like poppies spread, You seize the flow'r, its bloom is shed ! Or like the snowfall in the river, A moment white,—then melts forever; Or like the borealis race, That flit ere you can point their place; Or... | |
 | 1876 - 396 pages
...their happiness in pleasure, but the poet tells us that — ' " Pleasures are like poppies spread, You seize the flower, its bloom is shed ! Or like the...snow-fall 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... | |
 | 1915 - 560 pages
...inanis qui visitur in aquisr momento temporis enascens simul et evanescens," which suggests Burns's Or like the snowfall in the river, A moment white — then melts for ever. A more expanded comparison between a bubble and the life of man will be found in Lucian's... | |
 | Society for promoting Christian knowledge - 1853 - 644 pages
...and much less beautiful than any of its congeners. BUT pleasures are like poppies spread, You seizo the flower, its bloom is shed; Or like the snowfall in the river, A moment white, then melts for ever ; Or like the borcalis race, That tíit ere you can point their place; Or like the rainbow's... | |
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But pleasures are like poppies spread, You seize the flower, its bloom is shed ! Or like the snow-fall 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 lovely... 
