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... Jane Bouverie: Or, Prosperity and Adversity - Page 126by Catherine Sinclair - 1851 - 234 pagesFull view - About this book
| Theosophy - 1909 - 340 pages
...snowfall 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 lovely form, Evanishing amid the storm. ROBERT BURNS. I claim you still, for my own love's sake ! Delayed it may be for more... | |
| Matthew Gregory Lewis - Ballads, English - 1801 - 266 pages
...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 lovely form, Evanishing amid the storm. — Nae man can tether 6 time or tide ; The hour approaches Tam maun7 ride; 1 Rair,... | |
| Sir Egerton Brydges - Bibliography - 1805 - 908 pages
...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 lovely form, Evanishing amid the storm : Nae man can tether time or tidej The hour approaches Tans maun ride. * • • ' •... | |
| Robert Burns, Thomas Park - Bookbinding - 1808 - 330 pages
...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 lovely form Evanishing amid the storm. — Nae man can tether time or tide ; The hour approaches Tam maun ride ; That hour,... | |
| Thomas Garnett - Clyde, Firth of (Scotland) - 1811 - 354 pages
...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 lovely form, Evanishing amid the storm.* IT seems as if my whole life had been a life of misery, while the swift moments of... | |
| Robert Burns - 1811 - 416 pages
...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 lovely form Evanishing amid the storm. — Nae man can tether time or tide ; The hour approaches Tam maun ride ; That hour,... | |
| Sir Egerton Brydges - 1813 - 354 pages
...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,... | |
| William Hazlitt - English literature - 1818 - 354 pages
...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 lovely form, Evanishing amid the storm.-— Nae man can tether time or tide, The hour approaches, Tam maun ride ; That hour... | |
| Thomas Campbell - Authors, English - 1819 - 466 pages
...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 lovely form Evanishing amid the storm. — Nae man can tether time or tide ; The hour approaches Tam maun ride ; That hour,... | |
| John Moore, Robert Anderson - English literature - 1820 - 522 pages
...falls upon the river, A moment white — then melts for everOr like the borealis race, That flit ere you can point their place ; 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... | |
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