 | Peter Henry Emerson - 1882 - 422 pages
...farewell dinner together they parted, till next term. CHAPTER XIX. "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 flits ere you can point their place." J1HE first of October... | |
 | P R Jackson - 1882 - 184 pages
...traitors eir est benefactor. FLEETING PLEASURES.— Burns. BCT 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 gone for ever : Or likp flip 1-im-pilis! rnr-p * Ur 11K6 tlie DOreallS race, That flit ere you can... | |
 | Johannes Scherr - 1882 - 334 pages
...the transitoriness of human joys : — " 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... | |
 | Johannes Scherr - 1882 - 324 pages
...the transitoriness of human joys : — " 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... | |
 | Harriet B. Swineford - 1883 - 302 pages
...like gathering storm, Nursing her wrath to keep it warm. 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. Tom <f Shanter. Oh wad some power the giftie gie us To see oursels as others see us ! It... | |
 | 1883 - 172 pages
...Tarn was glorious, O'er a' the ills o' life victorious! But pleasures are like poppies spread, You seize the flower, its bloom is shed! Or like the snowfall in the rirer, A moment white — then melts for ever; Or like the borealis race, That flit ere you can point... | |
 | Familiar quotations - 1883 - 942 pages
...victorious. Ibid. But pleasures are like poppies spread, You seize the flower, its bloom is ehed ; Or, like the snow-fall in the river, A moment white, then melts for ever. Ibid. Nae man can tether time or tide. Ibid. That hour, o' night's black arch the keystane.... | |
 | Thomas Morrison (LL.D.) - 1884 - 296 pages
...dreams do fly. — Compare Burns's " Tam O'Shanter " :— " 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." One foot on sea. — The sea has always been the emblem of inconstancy and change. Young... | |
 | John Kennedy - 1890 - 314 pages
...doctor during the early days of the settlement.— Irring. 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. — Burns. His vital Spirit, like the light, pervades All nature, breathing round the air... | |
 | 1890 - 538 pages
...wealth, and then suddenly disappear and are forgotten. ' Their riches are like poppies spread — You seize the flower, its bloom is shed ; Or, like the snow-fall in the rivet — A moment white, then melts forever.' " The comedy that is thus played in our day is the old... | |
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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... 
