 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...  Littell's Living Age - Page 6551902Full view - About this book
 | Sir Egerton Brydges - Bibliography - 1805 - 908 pages
...poppies spread; ^ You seize the flower, its bloom is shed; 1 Or like the snow-falls in the river, A moment white — then melts for ever; Or like the...the rainbow's lovely form, Evanishing amid the storm : Nae man can tether time or tidej The hour approaches Tans maun ride. * • • ' • * » * Before... | |
 | Robert Burns, Thomas Park - Bookbinding - 1808 - 330 pages
...like poppies spread, You seize the flow Y, its bloom is shed ; Or like the snow-falls in the river, A moment white — then melts for ever ; Or like the...the rainbow's lovely form Evanishing amid the storm. — Nae man can tether time or tide ; The hour approaches Tam maun ride ; That hour, o' night's black... | |
 | Scottish uses - Scottish poetry - 1808 - 228 pages
...like poppies spread, You seize the flow'r, its bloom is shed ; O^ like the snow-falls in a river, A moment white then melts for ever ; Or like the borealis...point their place ; Or like the rainbow's lovely form, Evanishin amid the storm. — • Nae man can tether time or tide ; The hour approaches Tttm maun ride... | |
 | Robert Burns - 1811 - 416 pages
...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...the rainbow's lovely form Evanishing amid the storm. — Nae man can tether time or tide ; The hour approaches Tam maun ride ; That hour, o' night's black... | |
 | Thomas Garnett - Clyde, Firth of (Scotland) - 1811 - 354 pages
...scarcely think it real, so faint a trace has it left behind. 'Tis like the snow falls in the river, A moment white — then melts for ever ; Or like the...rainbow's lovely form, Evanishing amid the storm.* IT seems as if my whole life had been a life of misery, while the swift moments of happiness have scarce... | |
 | Sir Egerton Brydges - 1813 - 350 pages
...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...rainbow's lovely form, Evanishing amid the storm. "s But the charm will be renewed ; and real poetry will always delight, as it re-appears, in spite... | |
 | Sir Egerton Brydges - 1813 - 354 pages
...the snow-falls in the river, A moment white, then melts for ever; Or like the borealis race, ^Thal flit ere you can point their place } Or like the rainbow's lovely form, Evanishing amid the storm." 8 But the charm will be renewed ; and real poetry will always delight, as it re-appears, in spite of... | |
 | William Hazlitt - English poetry - 1818 - 354 pages
...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...rainbow's lovely form, Evanishing amid the storm.-— Nae man can tether time or tide, The hour approaches, Tam maun ride ; That hour o' night's black arch... | |
 | Thomas Campbell - Authors, English - 1819 - 466 pages
...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...the rainbow's lovely form Evanishing amid the storm. — Nae man can tether time or tide ; The hour approaches Tam maun ride ; That hour, o' night's black... | |
 | John Moore - 1820 - 532 pages
...genuine poet beautifully observes of pleasures, has had the fate Or snow that falls upon the river, A moment white — then melts for ever; Or like the...rainbow's lovely form Evanishing amid the storm.* The same fickleness which the French have displayed in a manner so striking, with respect to their... | |
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