 | Matthew Gregory Lewis - 1801 - 266 sayfa
...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 their place ; Or like the rainbow's... | |
 | Robert Burns - 1811 - 416 sayfa
...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... | |
 | Wild flowers - 1845 - 110 sayfa
...POPPY. FULL-BLOWN poppies overcharged with rain, Decline the head, and drooping kiss the plain. POPE. PLEASURES are like poppies spread,— You seize the flower, the bloom is shed; Or like the snow falls in the river, A moment white—then melts for ever! BURNS. SLEEP is a... | |
 | William O'Regan - 1817 - 342 sayfa
...exuberance and profusion. Our works are like to poppies strewn, You seize the fiWr, the bloom is gone : Or, like the snow, falls in the river, A moment white, then melts for ever ; Or, like the Borealis' race, Which flits ere you can point the place; Or, like the... | |
 | William Hazlitt - 1819 - 484 sayfa
...form. Evanishing amid the storm ; Or like the Borealis race, That shift ere yon can point their place ; Or like the snow falls in the river, A moment white, then melts for ever." But power is eternal ; it is " enthroned in the hearts of Kings." If you want the... | |
 | Lady Maria Callcott - 1824 - 376 sayfa
...separate ; but Burns has made all the reflections one can make on breaking up a pleasant party — " Pleasures are like poppies spread, — You seize the flower, the bloom is shed ; Or like the snow-falls in the river, — A moment white, then lost for ever ; Or like the rainbow's... | |
 | Francis S. Higginson - 1825 - 586 sayfa
...flit ere you can point their place ; Or like the rainbow's lovely form, Evanishing amidst the storm ; Or, like the snow falls in the river, A moment white, then fades for ever." BURNS. The attentions of Manderville had now for some time been almost exclusively... | |
 | William Hazlitt - 1826 - 462 sayfa
...as I think, that pleasures are not " Like poppies spread, You seize the flower, the 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... | |
 | William Hazlitt - 1826 - 464 sayfa
...as I think, that pleasures are not " Like poppies spread, You seize the flower, the 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... | |
 | Samuel Thomas Bloomfield - 1826 - 664 sayfa
...of similes : " 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 Jlit ere you can point their place; Or like the Rainbow's... | |
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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... 
