 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
 | Henrietta Dumont - Flower language - 1852 - 330 pages
...are beautiful, but deadly ; like those of the corrupt and treacherous, to be found in every society. 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... | |
 | John Aikin - English poetry - 1852 - 792 pages
...their way wi' pleasure; Kings may be blest, but Tarn was glorious, O'er a' the ills o' life victorious. Of foreign parts — I bid you now farewell !" Allen so long had left his nat ; Or like the snow-falls in the river, A moment white — then melts for ever ; Or like the borealis... | |
 | Charles Simmons - Aphorisms and apothegms - 1852 - 564 pages
...Ib. Pleasure and revenge Have ears more deaf than adders to the voice Of any true decision. Burns. Pleasures are like poppies spread, You seize the flower, its bloom is shed; Or like the snow-falls in the river, Or like the borealis' race, That flits ere you can point their... | |
 | Choice descriptive poetry - 1852 - 112 pages
...remains ; There my best friends, my kindred dwell, There God my Saviour reigns. PLEASURES EVANESCENT. 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... | |
 | Richard Hiley - 1852 - 344 pages
...care ; Time but the impression stronger makes, As streams their channels deeper wear. Itemarks. 4. Pleasures are like poppies spread, You seize the flower — its bloom is shed. Remarks. 5. Give me the line, that ploughs its stately course, Like a proud swan, conquering the stream... | |
 | Joseph Warren Fabens - Panama - 1853 - 414 pages
...his left hand, and the bottle in his right, he proceeded, as he thought, to turn out the liquor. " But pleasures are like poppies spread, You seize the flower — its bloom is shed." And so although " the subscriber" held the bottle quite correctly in a horizontal position, nothing... | |
 | William Jerdan - 1853 - 468 pages
...not unpleasing on reflection, they would probably be less interesting to the reader than the writer. But pleasures are like poppies spread, You seize the flower, its bloom is shed. • * * * Nae man can tether time or tide ; The hour approaches Tam maun ride. Hogg's departure made... | |
 | George Johnston, George Tate - Botany - 1853 - 444 pages
...animal pleasure, Burns has strikingly illustrated by the extreme deciduousness of the Poppy : — " But pleasures are like poppies spread, You seize the flower, its bloom is shed ;" whereas the love of flowers endures not only from early morn to dewy eve, — not merely throughout... | |
 | Robert Armstrong (master of Madras coll.) - 1853 - 194 pages
...creatures of fortune. EXERCISES. I. All the world's a stage, And all the men and women merely players. n. Pleasures are like poppies spread ; You seize the flower — its bloom is shed. m. The tear down childhood's cheek that flows, Is like the dewdrop on the rose ; When next the summer... | |
 | Cyclopaedia - 1853 - 772 pages
...PLEASURE. PLEASURES, or wrong or rightly understood, Our greatest evil or our greatest good. Pope. Pleasures are like poppies spread, You seize the flower, its bloom is shed; Or like the snow falls on the river, A moment white — then melts for ever; Or like the borealis race.... | |
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