 | Thomas Smibert - 1852 - 126 pages
...the following lines from the Tarn O'Shanter of Burns have not many equals in our poetry: — " But pleasures are like poppies spread ; You seize the...the snow-falls in the river, A moment white, then gone for ever ; Or like the Borealis race, That flit ere you can point their place ; Or like the rainbow's... | |
 | Charles Simmons - 1852 - 564 pages
...Ib. Pleasure and revenge Have ears more deaf than adders to the voice Of any true decision. Burns. Pleasures are like poppies spread, You seize the flower,...bloom is shed; Or like the snow-falls in the river, Or like the borealis' race, That flits ere you can point their place ; Or like the rainbow's lovely... | |
 | Oskar Ludwig Bernhard Wolff - 1852 - 438 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, Or like the borealis race, That flit ere you can point their place ; Or like the rainbow's... | |
 | Choice descriptive poetry - 1852 - 112 pages
...remains ; There my best friends, my kindred dwell, There God my Saviour reigns. PLEASURES EVANESCENT. 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 borealis race, That flit... | |
 | 1852 - 596 pages
...Pleasures are like poppies spread — Von seize the flower, its bloom is shed; Or like the snow-fall in the river, A moment white, then melts forever; Or like the borealis race, That Bit ere von can point their place; Or like the rainbow's lovely form, Evanishing amid the storm." By... | |
 | Carl R. Woodring, James Shapiro - 1995 - 936 pages
...pleasures arc like poppies spread, You seize the flow'r, its bloom is shed; tti Or like the snow falls in the river, A moment white — then melts forever; Or like the boreahs race. That fiit ere you can point their place; Or like the rainbow's lovely form Evanishing... | |
 | Alex Davis, Lee M. Jenkins - 2000 - 318 pages
...o' Shanter' modulates into grandly resourced English-language moralising in a set of variations: 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 borealis race, That flit... | |
 | W. Gifford-Jones - 2000 - 278 pages
...tether time or tide." And at the very end, my father offered this verse: "Our lives can compare with poppies spread, / You seize the flower, its bloom is shed, / Or like the snowfall in the river, / A moment white then gone forever, / Or like the borealis rays, / That flit... | |
 | Konrad Lorenz - 2002 - 232 pages
...actually, I suppose I do. In human life all pleasures must be paid for by sorrow, for, as Burns says, 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; and fundamentally I consider the man... | |
 | John Phillips - 2002 - 600 pages
...grief Are mine alone. Robert Burns wrote in "Tarn O'Shanter": A moment white — then melts for ever; Or like the Borealis race, That flit ere you can point their place. Benjamin Disraeli, an architect of the British empire and one of its foremost prime ministers, once... | |
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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 borealis race, That flit ere you can point... 
