 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; Or like the borealis race, That flit ere you can point their place; Or like the rainbow's lovely...  Shirley, by Currer Bell - Page 442by Charlotte Brontë - 1853Full view - About this book
 | Samuel Thomas Bloomfield - Bible - 1826 - 664 pages
...of the great Scottish Theocritus, in the following exquisitely beautiful accumulation 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,... | |
 | Robert Burns, Alfred Howard - Poetry - 1826 - 226 pages
...their way wi' pleasure : Kings may be blest, but 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,... | |
 | D R. Thomason - 1827 - 230 pages
...regrets ? The evanescent nature of such gratifications is fully adequate to produce this effect, for 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,... | |
 | General reader - Aphorisms and apothegms - 1827 - 246 pages
...they kindled a fire and received us every one, because of the present rain, and because of the cold." 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 forever; • Or like the borealis... | |
 | England - 1829 - 846 pages
...indeed rallied us upon the occasion ; and I thought Julia never appeared half so beautiful as now. " But pleasures are like poppies spread : You seize the flower, its bloom is shed." So saith Robert Burns ; und, truth to speak, his distich was never more effectually verified than at... | |
 | Thomas Curtis - Aeronautics - 1829 - 810 pages
...alone, generally comes into the world with a heart melting at every fictitious distress. Goldsmith. 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. Burnt. MELTING CONE,... | |
 | Laconics - 1829 - 390 pages
...not the spectacles of books to read nature; he looked inwards.and found herthere. — Dry den. cvm. 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,... | |
 | Thomas Curtis - Aeronautics - 1829 - 832 pages
...Theodonui. Hear how the birds, on every bloomy spray, With joyous musick wake the dawning day. Pope. ߣ "< 1829 Printed for T. Tegg" Curtis Thomas" Thomas Cur Burn». One spot exists — which ever blooms, Even in that deadly grove. Byron. Bride of A bydia.... | |
 | John Timbs - Aphorisms and apothegms - 1829 - 354 pages
...needed not the spectacles of books to read nature; he looked inwards, and found her there. Dryden. cvm. 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,... | |
 | 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... | |
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