 | Cyclopaedia - 1853 - 772 pages
...Pleasures are like poppies spread, You seize the flower, its bloom is shed; Or like the snow falls on the river, A moment white — then melts for ever;...ere you can point their place; Or like the rainbow's iovely form, Evanishing amid the storm. Burns. The youth, who bathes in pleasure's limpid streams At... | |
 | Society for promoting Christian knowledge - 1853 - 644 pages
...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 lovely form, Evanishing... | |
 | Robert Burns - 1854 - 520 pages
...glorious, 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; V Or like the borealis race, That flit ere you can point their place ; Or like the rainbow's lovely... | |
 | Theodore Parker - 1854 - 68 pages
...one after the other, a- wave or a bubble ; each lasts its moment, then dies — past off, forgot ; " Or like the snow-falls in the river, A moment white — then melts forever," while the great stream of humanity rolls ever forward, from time to eternity : — not a... | |
 | Sarah Josepha Buell Hale - 1855 - 610 pages
...Yield a short interval, and ease from pain. Someroille's Chase. Pleasures are like poppies spread, You seize the flower, its bloom is shed ¡ Or like...white — then melts for ever ; Or like the borealis raee, That flits ere you ean point their plaee ; Or like the rainbow's lovely form Evanishing amid... | |
 | Sarah Josepha Buell Hale - 1855 - 612 pages
...interval, and ease from pain. Somemille's Chase. Pleasures are like poppies spread, You seize the fiower, its bloom is shed ; Or like the snow-falls in the...white — then melts for ever; Or like the borealis raee, That flits ere you ean point their plaee ; Or like the rainbow's lovely form . Evanishing amid... | |
 | Theodore Parker - 1855 - 466 pages
...one after the other, a wave or a bubble ; each lasts its moment, then dies — passed off, forgot; " Or like the snow-falls in the river, A moment white — then melts forever," while the great stream of humanity rolls ever forward, from time to eternity : — not a... | |
 | Mary Catherine Jackson - 1856 - 322 pages
...Pleasures are like poppies spread, You seize the flower—the bloom is shed! Or like the snow, falls in the river, A moment white, then melts for ever;...like the borealis race, That flit ere you can point the place; Or like the rainbow's lovely form Evanishing amid the storm." i For there seemed almost... | |
 | Robert Burns - 1856 - 538 pages
...glorious, 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...moment white — then melts for ever ; Or like the borcalis race, That flit ere you can point their place; Or like the rainbow's lovely form. Evanishing... | |
 | John Campbell Baron Campbell - 1857 - 424 pages
...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...like the Borealis race, That flit ere you can point then. place ; Or like the rainbow's lovely form, Evanishing amid the storm : " — Lord Eldon soon... | |
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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... 
