 | John Aikin, John Frost - 1838 - Страниц: 752
...pleasures arc like poppies spread, You seize the flower, its bloom is shed ; Or like the snow-falls loved — such tears he shed, While each soft scene of summer hea horealis race, That flit ere you can point their place ; Or like the rainhow's lovely form Evanishing... | |
 | Albert Fenton - 1839 - Страниц: 364
...cavalry cantonment of Sultanpore away on our starboard bow. 'Tis gone ! — disappeared like a vision, " Or like the Borealis race, That flit ere you can point their place." And see ! — here is the Fort of Chunar on the rock to our left — Chunar, so celebrated for its... | |
 | Louisa Caroline Tuthill - 1839 - Страниц: 482
...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 race, That flit ere you can point their place ; 'Or like the rainbow's... | |
 | Henry Theodore Tuckerman - 1841 - Страниц: 456
...series of beautiful similes : — But pleasures are like poppies spread, You seize the flovv'r, its bloom is shed ; Or like the snow falls in the river,...the rainbow's lovely form Evanishing amid the storm. Tossed on the waves of an incongruous experience, elevated by his gifts, depressed by his condition,... | |
 | Henry Theodore Tuckerman - 1841 - Страниц: 564
...But pleasures are like poppies spread, You seize the flow.r, its bloom is shed ; Or like the sno tv falls in the river, A moment white — then melts...the rainbow's lovely form Evanishing amid the storm. Tossed on the waves of an incongruous experience, elevated by his gifts, depressed by his condition,... | |
 | 1841 - Страниц: 272
...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...the rainbow's lovely form Evanishing amid the storm — Nae man can tether time or tide. Bunys. LONDON : JOHN WILLIAM PARKER, WEST STRAND. iniM WlEKLT... | |
 | Henry Theodore Tuckerman - 1841 - Страниц: 988
...of beautiful similes : — Bat pleasures are like poppies spread, You seize the flow'r, its bloom a shed ; Or like the snow falls in the river, A moment...melts for ever ; Or like the borealis race, That flit era you can point their place ; Or like the rainbow's lovely form Evanishing amid the storm. Tossed... | |
 | 1841 - Страниц: 908
...flow'r, its bloom is shed ; Or like the snow-falls in the river, A moment white — then melts forever ; Or like the borealis race, That flit ere you can point...the rainbow's lovely form Evanishing amid the storm. Tossed on the waves of an incongruous experience, elevated by his gifts, depressed by his condition,... | |
 | 1841 - Страниц: 282
...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, Thnt flit ere you can point their place : Or like the rainbow's lovely form Evanishing amid the storm... | |
 | Trip - 1842 - Страниц: 466
...the beard." whilst the blank expression of each seemed to refer to Burns' lines — But pleasures are like poppies spread, You seize the flower, the bloom...the snow falls in the river, A moment white, then lost for ever; Or like the borealis' race, That flit ere you can point their place ; Or like the rainbow's... | |
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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... 
