 | Aeschylus - 1831 - 332 pages
...somewhat similar accumulation of images to illustrate the fugitive nature of earthly pleasures. — " 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... | |
 | Aeschylus - Greek drama - 1831 - 352 pages
...somewhat similar accumulation of images to illustrate the fugitive nature of earthly pleasures. — " 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... | |
 | 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... | |
 | Henry Junius Nott - American fiction - 1834 - 238 pages
...begun to assume a halcyon aspect " But," to make a quotation that we will not mar by retrenchment, " Pleasures are like poppies spread, You seize the flower,...in the river, - A moment white — then melts for ewr ; VOL. I.— B , Or Jike the borealis race, ; That flit ere you can point their place ; J Or like... | |
 | Jeremy Taylor (bp. of Down and Connor.) - 1834 - 364 pages
...taste and genius that blessed the sweet charities of private life by which I was then surrounded^. But pleasures are like poppies spread, You seize the flower, its bloom is shed : Or like the snow-fall in the river, A moment white — then melts for ever. This second edition is published with... | |
 | Catherine Sinclair - English fiction - 1836 - 360 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 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.... | |
 | 1836 - 496 pages
...direction of the pupil upwards, so much so, indeed, as frequently to be lost beneath the upper lid. " But pleasures are like poppies spread, You seize the flower, its bloom is shed : Or, like the enow, falls in a river, A moment white— then melts for ever." These raptures have been known to melt... | |
 | 1836 - 496 pages
...upwards, so much so, indeed, ач frequently to be lost beneath the upper lid. " But pleasures nre like poppies spread, You seize the flower, its bloom is shed : Or, like the snuw, falls in a river, A moment white— then melts for ever." These raptures have been known to melt... | |
 | John Jacob - Botany - 1836 - 374 pages
...beautifully alluded to by Burns : " But 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 melt for ever : Or like the Borealis race That flit ere you can point their place ; Or like the rainbow's... | |
 | Sarah Josepha Buell Hale - Flowers in literature - 1836 - 434 pages
...— there are also two in the Levant, one in Ilarbary, and one in Labrador. EVANESCENT PLEASURE. But pleasures are like Poppies spread, You seize the flower, its bloom is shed. BURNS. SENTIMENT. Time ! Time ! In thy trinmphal flight, How all life's phantoms flee away ! The smile... | |
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Tam was glorious, o'er a' the ills 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... 
