 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 snow-fall in the river — A moment white, then melts for ever ; Or like the borealis race, That flit ere you can point...  The Pacific Coast First [-fifth] Reader - Page 1351875Full view - About this book
 | English monthly tract society - 1838 - 634 pages
...fleeting and unsatisfactory. At one of these times he penned the beautiful and well-known lines :— " But 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 ; Or like the borealis race That flit... | |
 | John Aikin - 1838 - 750 pages
...their way wi' pleasure; Kings may be blest, but Tam 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 snow-falls in the river, A moment white—then melts for ever; Or like the horealis race, That flit... | |
 | Robert Macnish, David Macbeth Moir - 1838 - 502 pages
...indeed rallied us upon the occasion ; and I thought Julia never appeared half so beautiful as now. " But pleasures are like poppies spread : You seize the flower, its bloom is shed." So saith Robert Burns ; and, truth to speak, hi* distich was never more effectually verified than at... | |
 | John Aikin, John Frost - 1838 - 752 pages
...; Kings may be blest, but Tam was glorious, O'er a' the ills o' life victorious. But pleasures arc firm, yet fond adieu, Bome from his leafy hut, his carved canoe, And all h snow-falls in the river, A moment white — then melts for ever ; Or like the horealis race, That flit... | |
 | Sarah Josepha Buell Hale - 1838 - 282 pages
...also rapaver, rnasas. two in &e Levant, ^j one ^ Bar . bary, and one in Labrador. EVANESCENT PLEASURE. But pleasures are like Poppies spread; You seize the flower, its bloom is shed. 1 SENTIMENT. Time ! Time!—in thy triumphal flight, Burns. Fame's meteor beam—and Fancy's ray; They... | |
 | John Aikin - 1838 - 796 pages
...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 seize the flower, its bloom is shed j Or like .the snow-falls in the river, A moment white — then melts for ever ; Or like the borealis... | |
 | Basil Montagu - 1839 - 404 pages
...the taste and genius that blessed the sweet charities of private life by which I was then surrounded. But pleasures are like poppies spread, You seize the...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 to teach... | |
 | Jeremy Taylor (bp. of Down and Connor.) - 1839 - 374 pages
...the taste and genius that blessed the sweet 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 iu the river, A moment white—then melts for ever. This second edition is published with the ardent... | |
 | Samuel Kirkham - 1839 - 362 pages
...a demonstration ; and a description in Homer has charmed more readers than a chapter in Aristotle. 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 forever ; Or, like the borealis race, That flit... | |
 | Louisa Caroline Tuthill - 1839 - 482 pages
...peerless enchantments, that gave Nourmahal the proud lord of the east for her slave. PLEASURES.— BURNS. But pleasures are like poppies spread, You seize the flower, its bloom is sped ; Or like the snow falls in the river, A moment white — then melts forever ; Or like the borealis... | |
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