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... Poems, chiefly in the Scottish dialect - Page 197by Robert Burns - 1794Full view - About this book
| Robert Burns, Allan Cunningham - Ballads, Scots - 1834 - 356 pages
...pleasures are like poppies spread, You seize the flow'r, its bloom is shed ; Or like the snowfalls in the river, A moment white — then melts for ever...point their place ; Or like the rainbow's lovely form Evanishing amid the storm. Nae man can tether time or tide ; That hour, o' night's black arch the key-stane,... | |
| Robert Burns - Poetry, Modern - 1834 - 236 pages
...pleasures are like poppies spread, You seize the flowe-1, jts bloom is shed ; Or, like the snow .alls in the river, A moment white— then melts for ever...you can point their place ; Or like the rainbow's Jovely form Evanishing amid the storm. — Nae man can lether lime or tide ; The hour approaches Tarn... | |
| Catherine Sinclair - English fiction - 1836 - 392 pages
...But pleasures are like poppies spread ; We snatch the flow'r, the bloom is fled ; Or like the snow falls in the river, A moment white, then melts for...point their place, Or like the rainbow's lovely form, Evanishing amidst the storm. BURNS. CHAPTER XIII. Yet does one short preparing hour, One precious hour... | |
| John Jacob - Botany - 1836 - 374 pages
...seize the flower, the bloom is shed ! Or like the snow-falls in the river A moment white — then melt for ever : Or like the Borealis race That flit ere...point their place ; Or like the rainbow's lovely form Evanishing amid the storm." Tarn O'S/ianter. Among foreign practitioners an extract from P. Rlueas... | |
| Catherine Sinclair - English fiction - 1836 - 360 pages
...popular. But pleasures are, like poppies spread We snatch the flow'r, the bloom is fled Or like the snow falls in the river A moment white, then melts for ever. Or like the borealis race That flit e'er you can point their place, Or like the rainbow's lovely form Evanishing amidst the storm. 13URN8.... | |
| Samuel Carter Hall - English poetry - 1837 - 448 pages
...pleasures are likft 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...point their place ; Or like the rainbow's lovely form Evanishing amid the storm. — Nae man can tether time or tide ; The hour approaches Tam maun ride... | |
| Samuel Carter Hall - English poetry - 1837 - 438 pages
...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...point their place ; Or like the rainbow's lovely form Evanishing amid the storm. — Nae man can tether time or tide ; The hour approaches Tam maun ride... | |
| Capel Lofft - 1837 - 608 pages
...thoughts are floating in the brain, and probably about to die into nothing, to vanish away for ever, Like the Borealis race, That flit ere you can point their place ; Or, like the snow falls in the river, A moment seen, then lost for ever ; upon that comes this potent interceder,... | |
| Capel Lofft - Self-culture - 1837 - 288 pages
...thoughts are floating in the brain, and probably about to die into nothing, to vanish away for ever, Like the Borealis race, That flit ere you can point their place; Or, like the snow lulls in the river, A moment seen, then lost for ever; upon that comes this potent interceder,... | |
| Robert Burns, John Gibson Lockhart - Scotland - 1837 - 628 pages
...Kings may be blest, but Turn was glorious, O'er a' the ills o' life victorious ! Or like the boreal» race, That flit ere you can point their place ; Or like the rainbow'» lovely form Evnnifchiug amid the stürm. — Nao man can tether time or tide ¡ The hour... | |
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